The rest of us will turn to Luke chapter two. Luke chapter two, it'll be safe to put a ribbon or a marker of a bookmark of some kind into Luke chapter two. We'll be here a bit, but we will not just be in Luke two this morning. I've said this before and I'll say it again. I can promise you one thing for sure this morning. And I hope the sermons helped you. I hope it's a blessing to you. But the only thing I can promise to you is we will not be done at 1130. It's 1109. We will not be done 1130, but we will keep it. We'll keep it reasonable as I know you all have things to do, places to go, people to see. But this is what this season is about. And this is why we're here, is to hear from the Word of God. And so just buckle up, hold on, and be ready to turn in your Bibles this morning, as we want to see what God has to say, right? Maybe? A couple of us? All right. All right. Real good, solid start this morning. All right, let's go. Luke chapter 2, we'll read a few verses, starting in verse number 8. Luke chapter 2 and verse number 8. The Bible says, And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for this day. Thank you for your word. Help us now to take your word as the final authority of truth. Help us to apply it to our hearts and our lives. And Lord, if there's one here today that does not know you as their Savior, Lord, help them to see their need of your forgiveness. Lord, we love you in Jesus and we pray. Amen. In today's message, we are going to be considering this angelic announcement. This announcement from the angels of the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. And in v. 10 and v. 14, we see probably the most important thing about the announcement to be considered today, and that is it is an announcement for all men. It's an announcement for the whole world. Verse 10, And the angel said unto them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Seems pretty simple, pretty straightforward. All people. Verse 14, Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, goodwill toward men. All of them. Just good will towards men to all people. It is a very important thing to understand that God did not just send His Son to die on the cross for some people's sin. He didn't just send His Son to die on the cross for the rich, or for the wealthy, or for the certain stature of people, or for a certain culture of people. or for the certain group that were supposedly pre-chosen. No, He sent His Son to die for all men, because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We all needed it, and He sent it for all. The announcement was for all men. The man in reading the King James Bible in Russia, or in Africa, or in America, can read this and easily say, I fit right in there. I am part of that group. This applies to me. The good news is applicable to me. It's not just some men. It's not just certain people. I am in this group. Just like with John 3.16, God so loved the... World, right? I can fit into that group. I'm part of the world. And so it's a blessing to understand that the message of the birth of the Savior was to and for all men. And the reason I make mention of that, make you aware of that this morning, is for many reasons. First of all, we must remind ourselves of this because there are some out there who believe that it is not for them. They've been convinced by their guilt that their sin is too great, that God's forgiveness could not extend that far, that God could not pick them up out of such a miry pit as their life is. There's been some that have been convinced that unless there are a certain type or a certain descendant, they will not be saved or will not be included. And that's just not true. And sadly, If you are reading God's Word in a modern day English Bible, and I use the word Bible very loosely there, you don't see that the announcement was for all men. It's just not there. They've corrupted it. In the ESV, the NIV, the NLT, the NASB, the Young's Bible, the NKJV, every single one that I looked up, other than the King James, they change v. 10 to say, all the people, instead of all people. And in v. 14, they change it to some rendition of peace among those with whom he is pleased, instead of on earth peace, goodwill toward men. That's a pretty big difference. Considering God said he's angry with the wicked every day in the book of Psalms, and that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, if this message was only for those with whom God is well pleased, I'm pretty sure it's for nobody. I'm thankful that the Word of God, the pure, perfect Word of God for the English language, tells us that this is a message for you, and for you, and for you, and for me, and for all of us. There's no extra stipulation thrown in that, well, you have to be pleasing to God before you can get saved. If you have the wrong Bible, that's what you read there, and sadly, that's what a lot of people believe. I have to get my life right first, and then God will accept me. Well, I got bad news and good news for you. The bad news is you'll never get your life right enough for God to accept you, but the good news is you don't have to. Praise God for that. So first thing we gotta note about this angelic announcement is that it's for all men. Turn with me to 1 Timothy chapter four, and then John chapter one. 1 Timothy four, John one. We're gonna run some references here just to make sure that you are fully convinced that there is no nook, cranny, crack, or crevice where you can slip through and not be included in what God has done for all men. 1 Timothy 4 and John 1. If you've got both of those, say amen. Alright, we're getting there. Good to hear pages turning. Hope you have your Bibles. 1 Timothy 4 v. 10 Bible says, for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men. especially of those that believe." I don't want you to get confused here. It's very simple. The Word of God is telling us that He is the Savior of all men, and that is true because He is the only means whereby any man anywhere can be saved. There is no other name given among men, given among heaven, whereby we must be saved. It is Jesus Christ alone. Jesus Christ said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me. So He is the Savior of all men. But He's especially the Savior of them that believe because they've actually believed and been saved. He's the Savior whether you've accepted Him or not. But if you have, He's really your Savior because you actually have a relationship with Him. So don't get confused by the wording there. It's just a blessing to see that He is the Savior of all men. The Bible says in Titus 2.11, for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. John 1, if you're there, say amen. Alright, most of you got there. John 1, v. 29. The next day, John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. That's all of us. John 6, v. 33. The Bible says here, "'For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world.'" Verse 51 of the same chapter. "'I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever, and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.'" Seems pretty clear. that Jesus Christ came not just for some and not just for those that were good enough. None of us were. He came for the world. He came and was born and died for you because you are part of the world. 2 Peter 3.9, the Bible says, "...the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." In 1 Timothy 2, verses 3 and 4, we read, "...for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the church." The desire of God stated in His Word is that He desires all men to be saved. God does not desire any man to die in their sin and go to a sinner's hell. He doesn't desire that for anybody. He sent His Son to the whole world. He desires that the whole world will believe on and trust in Jesus Christ. Romans 10 v. 13, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That whosoever, that's all. That's anyone. There's no stipulation whatsoever. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Hebrews 10.10 By the witch will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Regardless of your past, your sins, your faults, your failures, regardless of any imperfection, God sent His Son to bear your sin. And Christ's birth meant true joy was now within reach for you. The peace of God which passeth all understanding is available to you, and it is all through Jesus Christ. " That angelic announcement was for the whole world and was for all time. All men everywhere, we are all invited to be saved. We all have the choice to either accept the truth of the gospel and believe, or reject it and refuse to believe. And that choice is ours. God gave us that choice when he gave us his son. And it is a blessing to know that salvation is not just for some, not just for a few, not just for the goody two-shoes, but for all. It's important that we consider, I know there are those that convince themselves that they can never be good enough for God. And that's true. Aside from Jesus Christ washing our sins away, we cannot. But they let that keep them from knowing God and keep them from trusting Christ, and that's backwards. Turn with me in your Bibles to Ezekiel. As he was singing the special, we threw this in here, so thank you, Jacob. You gave me some time to add something to the message here. Ezekiel, chapter number, oh, let's see, 18. We do meet people still who will say, I'm not good enough. But I think, sadly, in our nation today, it's changed quite a bit. And most people now that we meet that don't think salvation is for them isn't because, well, they're not good enough. It's because they think they're too good. They don't need salvation. They don't need the birth of Christ. They don't need the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ because, well, I'm good enough. God's going to let me in. And I've got bad news for you. Ezekiel 18. This is, of course, speaking of the nation of Israel, but the premise that is given here should be a very good, clear warning to anyone today who thinks that they're just going to impress God so much that He's going to let them in of their own merit. Ezekiel 18. Start in verse 20 with me. Great passage here. The Bible says, "...the soul that sinneth, it shall die." If you're unclear of what that means, if you've ever sinned, that's anything that breaks the law of God. That's not just actions, that's the thoughts and intents of your own heart. If you've ever sinned, you'll die. And that's not just a physical death, that's a spiritual death, a separation from God for eternity. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The Son shall not bear the iniquity of the Father, neither shall the Father bear the iniquity of the Son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon Him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon Him." You're not going to get to heaven on somebody else's coattails, and you're not going to get blamed for somebody else's sin. You will stand before God for yourself. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him in his righteousness that he hath done, he shall live." That's a blessing. It'd be even more of a blessing if we could actually do it. You see what verse 21 said? He's got to keep all the law. Well, the Bible says in the New Testament that man can't do that. That by the law shall no flesh be justified. Why? Because if we sin in one point, we're guilty of all. And we're a sinner. And so this is great, but it doesn't work if I'm the one responsible. My only hope is the one person who ever lived that did keep all the law, and that is Jesus Christ. And so through his righteousness, I can stand before God and be clean and be righteous. Verse 23, "...have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should return from his ways and live. But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned. In his trespass that he hath trespassed, and his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die." What this passage reminds us is there is no scale in heaven. There is no my good versus my bad and which will outweigh and which will win the day. I just think I'm better than this person, so I've got to make it in. The Bible says you're not on trial for your good works, You're on trial for your sin. Your good won't even be mentioned. Is this person a sinner? Yes, because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And then the only question after that is, has this person trusted Christ as his Savior? Because if you have, you've been redeemed and you've been washed in the blood of the Lamb, and you can stand before God in His righteousness. We get to stand before God essentially hidden by the righteousness of Christ. If you've not done that, if you've rejected the gospel, if you've not believed on Christ, then you stand before God in your own righteousness, which is not enough. And so that's why it's important to understand that the angelic announcement was for all the world because all the world needs it. There's not one single person alive today or throughout history, aside from Christ himself, that did not need forgiveness, that did not need redemption. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Whether we'll admit it in our pride or not, whether we'll agree to it to be the truth, or whether we'll say that's just fairy tales, that's just for weak-minded people, whatever it is you might want to try to say doesn't change the fact that it's true. God said, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And so because of that, he sent his son for all. So the blessing is that there's no one here today, there's no one anywhere today that does not fit into the category of someone that Christ came for and that Christ died for, that Christ rose again from the dead for. So that's a blessing. Now, the angelic announcement, first of all, of course, it was for all. But the second thing I want you to notice is the announcement was to shepherds. Shepherds. Now we think about the Lord and of course it's very easy to, I hate to even say it this way, to get bored with the story. Because if you've grown up in church, if you are 50 years old today, you've probably heard the Christmas story 10 times a year for 50 years. And so this is probably the 500th time you've heard it. Does that kind of make sense? Many of us grew up in church. That's a great thing. But we run the risk of losing the majesty of it all. Losing the awe and losing the wonder of it all. The fact that God put on flesh and was born and lived and died for sinners. It's a blessing, but then also to go beyond that and say he didn't just get born into the king's throne, he was born into a manger, and the announcement of his birth wasn't to all the nations of the world, and it wasn't to prophets to share the news, it was to shepherds. Shepherds. Now, we have a shepherd behind our church. Some of you have stepped in. the presents that the sheep leave for us around the property sometimes. And he's done a pretty good job keeping them over there lately, but these animals are wonderful to look at and to use as sort of an illustration, and that's about it. You get close to them, they stink, and they're dumb. Anybody know much about sheep? Yeah. What's the main thing that you know about sheep? They're dumb. They will get lost in a corner. They will. They will stand in a corner, they will get lost. Our pastor in Michigan years ago, he visited a sheep farmer and the farmer said, if that sheep that's stuck in the corner, he pointed to one that was just standing there buying in the corner, he said, he is lost. If I do not turn him, he will stand there and starve to death. He's just that dumb. That may not be true of every sheep. Maybe he had the extra dumb sheep. To be a shepherd wasn't the highest achievement in life. It wasn't, oh man, I hope I grow up to be a shepherd one day. That's an important job. Somebody has to do it, and of course, the Lord is our great shepherd, so there's no shame in being a shepherd, but boy, there's not much majesty there, not much glory there. We have a couple of goats at our house, and all I have to do is go feed them, and when I come back in, my wife's like, you stink. And I hope she's talking about the goat smell. Maybe not, but it's not a very glorious thing. And yet the announcement of the birth of the Messiah for the whole world is given to shepherds. Just local shepherds doing their job. It's a blessing because what the angels were doing, they're sent by God to make an announcement, but really what they're doing is they're planting a seed. They're planting a seed of information, and the shepherds are the ones who are going to go, and as Luke 2.17 says, they make known abroad the saying which they received of the angels. So the angels gave a message knowing whoever we give this message to, they're responsible to take it and spread it. And still, it went to shepherds. Not kings, not great orators, not prophets. Shepherds. You ever had an important message that you need to relay to somebody through somebody else? That's never the way you want to go, right? You want to just be able to have a direct line of communication. Not always the case. My dad's here today. We used to work together. He works on industrial heat treat furnaces, which if you don't know what they are, they're big, and they get really hot. And he would go inside them and work on them. And we were at a shop one time, and he's inside the furnace working away, and the shop lost its air pressure. And so the several hundred pound door shut and sealed him inside the furnace. And he just, he didn't care, he was just working, you know, he's not the one, he's not a panicky guy or anything like that, but I'm out there as his son and his official watcher, and I saw the door go down and I was like, hmm, I have no idea how to fix this. No clue what to do, but I knew I had some information that needed to be relayed to the proper source, and so I started just kind of telling everybody around me like, uh, Anybody know what's going on? Like, dad could have got crushed by this dropping door and somebody needs to open it at some point. We got to, you know, got to let him out. And so I had to relay some information. Thankfully I found the right person and they figured it out and they got there and he, obviously he made it out of the furnace because he's here today. My couple weeks ago, I was working on our furnace, our residential furnace. Thank the Lord for Brother Good and people who have knowledge and are willing to sit on the phone with me while I try to figure things out. But I was working on my furnace and I had a couple of wires. held in a specific spot very safely, trying not to get electrocuted, and had to give some instruction to Michelle, who was upstairs, and my daughter, which I won't say which, my daughter was the one to relay the information, but apparently she did not hear, you're gonna know who it was, I should have just said my child, Apparently she did not hear properly what I said for her to do. And so what she told my wife, Michelle told me this morning, she said exactly what she said was, dad needs you to... And Michelle said, what? And she said what like three times. Essentially what happened was she didn't understand the last part of the message. So she just kind of... made up a word to fill in the blanks. Needless to say, that didn't work, and I had to, you know, stop what I was doing, go find her, and deliver the message in person. Delivering a message through somebody else is always a risky thing, especially when that somebody else is, you know, a small child with an attention span that was inherited from me. But it's never the ideal, but here the angels didn't just, you think about what God could have done, The angels could have just surrounded the earth and made the proclamation to every single living being at one time. Is there anything in the Bible that says that couldn't have happened? I mean, the stones themselves could have cried out and said, hey, he's born, he's in Bethlehem, go get in line, take your turn, see him. But no, the angels showed up to one field, one group of shepherds, gave them the most important news ever come to mankind, and then those shepherds were trusted to get that news to everybody else. That's a pretty big responsibility. Imagine you being that person. The angel shows up, tells you that message, and now you know, I've got to not only, I've got to figure this out if this has happened, or what has come to pass, and I've got to tell other people about that. That's a big deal. You look back with me at Luke 2. These shepherds, they obeyed the message. They believed it. They acted upon it. Verse 15. It came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, let us now go back to sleep. I'm tired. No, that's what some people said this morning when the alarm went off for church. I'm kidding. Obviously I'm not talking about any of you. You're here. It's okay. I'm allowed to say stuff like that. It's all right. I'm fully licensed. Came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherd said one to another, let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherd. shepherds, but Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart and the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen as it was told unto them. These shepherds they hear the news and they go to see, they go to verify. We've heard this has come to pass, we've been given this information, let's go see it for ourselves. So often, most of you, if you weren't brought to church as a child by your parents, most likely somebody told you about Jesus Christ and at some point you were invited to just come see for yourself. Whether they showed you in scripture so you could see for yourself that God's Word said what you said it was, or whether they'd said, let me bring you to church and show you what this is all about. Show you what we believe so you can see for yourself. There's a whole lot of falsehood all over the place today, and a lot of people are looking for truth. Many of you are here today because somebody said, I know Jesus Christ, he saved my soul, and he'd like to save your soul, and you said, yeah, I've heard this information, but I need to see if it's true, and you came to church, or you went to their house, and they discipled you, and they opened the Bible, and they showed you, and you investigated the news that you heard, and you found it to be true. And that's a blessing. Some people don't investigate. They hear the news. I mean, you think about today. How many people this year have you told about Jesus Christ? I'm not saying that to guilt anybody. I'm assuming you have. How many people this year have you told about Jesus Christ and how many of them said, I'd love to know more. Please let me know more. Please let me come to church with me. I'd love to know more and more. Not everybody investigates the good news. The shepherds get the news, of course, they get it in a pretty spectacular way. And they go and they say, let's see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known unto us. I always challenge people if they're kind of on the fence about church, if they're kind of on the fence about the Bible or about Christ, I just say, come and see for yourself. Come see what it's like to be a part of the family of God. Come see what the Bible actually says. Come do some investigation. It's your soul that's on the line. It's worth checking it out. It's worth hearing the gospel message, not just saying, well, I don't think that's right, but investigating to see whether it's true. So maybe you're here today and you've heard the message, but you've never actually investigated whether it was true. You just go along to get along with your Christian family or friends or with whoever brought you to church today, and you're just here because, well, it's not a bad thing to do. I can endure some preaching. I can enjoy some singing. But you don't truly know the Lord as your Savior. Today we don't have to go to a specific spot in Bethlehem to meet the Lord. You don't have to leave this place because you heard the news and you want to see for yourself and you're going to buy a ticket and fly to Tel Aviv and drive to Bethlehem. That's not how it works. Thank the Lord. Today you can meet Jesus Christ right here. You can meet Jesus Christ driving home. You can meet Jesus Christ waiting for your food at the restaurant this evening. Anytime, anywhere, you can bow your head and meet with God. You can put your faith and trust in the gospel message, the truth of the coming of Christ and why he came so that he could be our offering for sin for us. The truth that you need a savior. The truth that he is that only option. The wonderful truth that he loved you enough to die for you. You can believe on that and be saved anytime, anywhere. Thank God for that. Now today, if you know the Lord is your Savior, the lesson we can take from this is the shepherds. They get the news and it spurs them to action. They go and they see, and then they go and they tell. And the people that heard, they wondered about the story from the shepherds. It wasn't just, it makes it seem as though they told the story with a little bit of excitement. Right? Now, to be fair, most of us, we have a little more spring in our step for the gospel message. If the way we heard about Christ was from angels showing up and singing in front of us from heaven and making a declaration to us, we'd probably have a little more spring in our step too. But it's no less magnificent for those of us, I mean, we have something better than the shepherds have. They didn't share the message because they got saved, they shared the message because they saw angels. That's a blessing, but how much better is it to share the message because we've had it happen to us? To be able to say, Jesus Christ can save your soul and I know it because he saved mine. Jesus Christ can give you peace that passes all understanding and I know it because I've got it. Jesus Christ can give you joy that no politician or sickness or whatever can take away from you because I have it. And I don't have it because of any good thing that I did. I could never do good enough and neither can you. You need to know Jesus Christ. You need to believe the gospel and be saved. Let's be like the shepherds. We'll get the information from God, from his word, and we'll share it. And we'll just try to make people wonder at that message we've told them. Not even necessarily wonder in awe, but just wonder I wonder if this is true. I wonder if what Brother Fred told me about Jesus is actually true. Where can I find some answers? People start wondering about the Lord. They start investigating. The Holy Spirit can really do a lot of work on that heart that's willing to hear more. Maybe that's you this morning. My Bible's closed. I'm done. We'll have an invitation in just a moment. I hope today you've heard this story a hundred times. I hope you've heard the whole story of the birth of Christ and the life of Christ and the death of Christ, the resurrection of Christ. I hope you know all of it and I hope you believe all of it. If you do, then I hope you have just as much fervor and joy about telling that story to others today that you did when you first got saved. Sometimes it wanes if we're not careful. I hope you still have a message to share. because you still have the salvation that you were given. But if you're here this morning and you don't know for sure that Jesus Christ is your Savior, you don't know that your sins have been forgiven, you don't know that you have a home in heaven, you're not sure what to think of it all, I can tell you from this passage, the message is to you. that God has sent His Son to die on the cross for your sins, that you have access to the Father through Jesus Christ, the Son. You have access to forgiveness of sins through the offering of the shed blood of Jesus Christ. That's the only way you can ever be saved. But it is a way that is open to you. You just have to believe. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. The Philippian jailer comes in and cries out, sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the message. It's not believe and do good works, not believe and join a church, not believe and be baptized, it's believe. Your body, soul, mind, your heart, just believe with everything you have and with everything you are. It's not about repeating a prayer. It's not about saying a certain thing. It's about what do you believe in your heart? Can you honestly say this morning, I believe what the word of God says? If you can't say that, then you don't have salvation. You don't have forgiveness of sin. So I believe the parts that I like. We might not say that out loud, but some people surely seem to live that way. I believe the parts I like, and I don't believe the parts I don't like. This is not a buffet line. You don't get to pick and choose. You have to eat the vegetables that are in here, not just the mac and cheese. You can't say, I love and believe this verse, but I'm not sure about this verse. It's all the Word of God or none of it's the Word of God. It's all worthy of your trust or none of it is. We believe the Word of God is perfect, inspired, infallible. There's nothing wrong with this book, and we can trust it. So I hope today you agree. I hope you're saved. I hope you have a relationship with Christ that when people want to know the story of the Savior, you can tell them, and you can tell them with some excitement. All right, let's pray. Lord, I thank you for this day. God, we thank you for sending your Son. We thank you for this angelic announcement and what we can learn from it, Lord. Help us to be announcers in our own right of the birth of your Son. Lord, help us to spread the news like the shepherds did. Help us to do our best to show others that Christ has come, and more importantly, to show them why he came. Lord, and for those that may be here today that are unsure of their salvation, that don't know what it means to be forgiven, to be saved, to be justified and redeemed, Lord, I pray please make clear in their hearts this morning that they need you. Lord, there are many that have a false sense of security from some action that they did, some work they performed. Lord, I pray you please help them to understand that that will not be enough, that they must believe in their heart that you sent your Son, that He lived a perfect life and died on a cross for their sins and rose again for their justification. Lord, your Word tells us what we need to do to be saved, and it's so simple. God, help us to believe and help those of us that believe to share it like the shepherds did. Lord, we pray that you please move upon hearts as you see fit in this time of invitation. Jesus, let me pray. Amen. All right, as the piano plays, the altar is open. I encourage you, if you don't know that you were saved this morning, don't wait to get that settled.