Take your Bibles this morning and turn with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 9. We'll be reading one verse, verse 15. 2 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 15. Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift. Let's pray. Father, we thank You today for Jesus Christ, that unspeakable gift. We thank you, Lord, for sending your son to this earth to die for us. And then, Ali, he came to this earth, but he willingly did what you told him to do, and that is went to the cross, paid for our sin, was buried, and then rose again the third day. We thank you, Lord, for that. And I know all that began, at least on the earth, it began at Bethlehem many years ago on that first Christmas. And I pray that you'd help us as we talk about that gift today, and I pray if there's someone here who has never trusted Jesus as their Savior, that they might do that before it's eternally too late. Give enablement to bring the message, bless each person here as you would see fit, and we ask in Jesus' name, amen. The Christmas season is upon us, as all of you are very well aware of, and the A very prominent part of Christmas, of Christmas celebration is gift giving. You might say that this part of Christmas celebration is very appropriate. It's very appropriate to give gifts because the birth of Jesus Christ is all about that. God gave to us the greatest gift and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. So it's really appropriate that we celebrate Christmas by giving gifts to people, by being a giver like God is. He is a giver. John 3.16 says, 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. Romans 6 verse 23 says, The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So Jesus is the gift from God, and the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. And the Bible says in 1 John 5 verse 12, He that hath the Son hath life. So if you want eternal life, you have to have the Son. If you have the Son, you have eternal life. So if you have, like say this is God's greatest gift, And the Lord says that greatest gift is Jesus, I believe. But if God takes his son, let's say this ribbon here, I use that as a marker, is Jesus, or rather eternal life, and he puts it in Jesus Christ, then the only way you can have that is if you have this. Eternal life is found in Jesus Christ. And so Christmas is about Jesus giving us, God giving us the Lord Jesus Christ. God gave Jesus, and if we receive His gift, then we have eternal life, which goes with Jesus. At Christmas, we'll give all kinds of gifts to people. And I'm sure that many of you have already purchased gifts that you're gonna give to people, and we enjoy that. People will give clothes, jewelry, beauty aids, small appliances, gadgets, tools, toys, sports items, gift cards, money, and so much more. I looked up on the computer, I put in most expensive Christmas gift. I was hoping that they would come up with the most expensive one they ever heard of, but didn't get any of that. All they got was a list of good gifts, and the first one on the top of the list was a drone. So I don't know if you're getting a drone for Christmas or not, but it wouldn't matter if they said the most expensive gift was this gift that somebody gave his wife and it cost $2 billion. If that was true, I would be able to say I received a gift far more expensive than that when I received Jesus as my savior. Now, God gives us all kinds of gifts. Life is a gift from God. All of us here today are alive and that life came from God. Health comes from God. If you have health, you need to thank God for it. If you lose your health, you need to ask God to give it back to you because it comes from the Lord. It doesn't come from a doctor. Middle abilities come from the Lord. Do not ever make fun of a person who's not as mentally alert as you are, a person who's limited. They had nothing to do with that. And that comes from the Lord. So if you're very smart, don't you dare be proud of that because God gave you that and He can take it away in a moment. And so those come from the Lord. Talents come from the Lord. Some people have talents to do things that nobody else has, or other people don't have. And music is one of those, being able to sing is one of those. So lots of different talents that people give. Some people are talented just to work with their hands. And some people, they couldn't do that no matter how hard they tried. They would not be good at working with their hands. God made us the way we are. Those gifts come from God. God gives us sunshine, that's a gift from God. God gives us rain, God gives us oxygen to breathe. God gives us food to eat, every food comes from God. God gives animals to enjoy and plants and all the beauty around us, that all comes from God. But of all of God's gifts, his gift of Jesus Christ is the greatest gift by far of all of them. There are not enough words to describe how great the gift of God is, Jesus Christ. That's why this passage says, but thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift. Unspeakable, I think, means that words cannot adequately describe Him. It's unspeakable. Use all the words you can to describe how great the Lord is, how great this gift is, and you'll still fall short. I looked at other translations of this word, and in different versions, I read some of these. One of them was indescribable. That's a good translation. Another one was inexpressible. That's a good translation. But then there was a paraphrase that I read, which was also good. Sometimes paraphrases get it right. And this paraphrase said this, too wonderful for words. That's pretty good, isn't it? Jesus is too wonderful for words. He's indescribable. He's unspeakable. That's how great He is. So this morning, I want us to consider that subject and think about five things that make Jesus the unspeakable gift. Five things that make Jesus the unspeakable gift. First of all, the plans and preparation made before giving the gift. You know, when you give a gift at Christmas, You make some plans. Maybe you did some shopping. Maybe you did some saving to be able to afford it. Whatever it was, you made some plans. God made plans for the greatest gift that was ever given, the unspeakable gift, Jesus. The Bible says that God planned to give this before the foundation of the world. God planned before he ever made the earth that he was going to send Jesus as this wonderful gift. The Scripture says in Revelation 13, verse 8, the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the earth. In other words, in God's mind, He knew what was going to happen. He knew that man would sin. God knows everything. So God knew that, but God, before the foundation of the world, before He ever made anything, He had this plan that his son would come and die for our sins. The lamb that was slain in God's mind from the foundation of the world. Before Adam's sin, God planned to meet that need that he would have as a sinner. In other words, grace is older than sin. Grace is older than sin. Galatians chapter four, verse four says, but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made under the law. So the plans that God had, also preparation to give that gift. This is seen through pictures pointing toward the gift. Back in the book of Genesis, when Abraham was told to offer his son Isaac, God was making a picture there. And so Isaac was... Abraham was the picture of the father. Isaac was the picture of the son. And so he said, you've got to slay your only son. You've got to kill your only son. And so in obedience to God, he went about to do that. And it was a perfect picture, father being willing to sacrifice his son, God being willing to give his son, Jesus. But then right before the knife came down, God stopped him. Why did God stop him? He had to, because Isaac was no picture of Jesus dying. He was a picture of the father giving the son but not of him dying because Isaac was a sinner. And so God said, no Abraham, don't kill your son. He stopped the knife and Abraham looked over and he saw a ram caught in a thicket. That ram was an innocent animal, had no sin. And God made that ram as the substitute for Isaac and he sort of changed the picture, but the ram died in the place of Isaac. God was showing us, I'm gonna send my son and he's gonna die for the sins of the world. And the Passover lamb, you remember when they came out of Egypt, the Lord had them kill the Passover lamb. The Passover lamb had to be spotless and had to be a lamb that had no blemish whatsoever. And they killed that Passover lamb and said, now you apply the blood of that lamb over the doorpost and on the sides of it, and when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. God was showing them, I have it all planned. I'm preparing that, and I'm preparing you to see that. And He makes that preparation so they can see that there's going to become a substitute to die and shed the blood for us. And so that Passover lamb was God's preparation, getting ready for that. And then throughout the Old Testament under the law, the Old Testament sacrifices. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 1 says, For the law having a shadow of good things to come. It was picturing good things to come. And yet in Hebrews 10 verse 4 it says, For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin. Even though this is picturing good things to come, the blood that was shed during those sacrifices were not capable of taking away sin. It was showing what God was going to do. And then in Hebrews 10, verse 10, it says, We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So those lambs, those sacrifices, those bulls and goats, they were sacrificed as a picture. God preparing the way because He was going to send His greatest gift. And then there were the prophets that told. Preparation again. The prophets told of the gift. The first prophet was God Himself. God is behind all prophets, of course. They wouldn't have anything to say unless God told them what to say. But God was the first prophet because in Genesis 315, He says that the seed of the woman is going to crush the head of the serpent. bruised the head of the serpent. And that was a prophecy that God was going to send the seed of the woman, that would be the virgin-born son of God, to crush the head of Satan. Isaiah 7, 14, another prophet, and says, Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. God was making preparation for this gift. Isaiah 9 verse 6, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. And that was Jesus. Isaiah chapter 53, it tells us about that as well. A prophet, Isaiah telling about the coming of Jesus. It says in Isaiah 53 verse 6, verse 6, for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry ground, and he hath no form nor comelessness, and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid it as it were our faces from him. he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. That's a puzzle to Jews. They don't even like to read Isaiah 53, because even they have to admit, that sounds like Jesus. And if they're not willing to accept Jesus, they sort of shy away from Isaiah 53. But Isaiah 53, God was telling through the prophet that that promised gift is coming. He's going to pay for the sins of the world. And then Micah chapter 5, Verse 2, But thou, Bethlehem, Ephrathah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth that shall be ruler. And it says, His goings forth have been of old, from everlasting. So this promised one who has always lived, the Son of God, is going to come to a place called Bethlehem. and it prophesied the birth, the place of the birth of Jesus. So all this preparation was made. But you know, in the midst of all those preparations, God knew what he was going to be sending this gift. He knew also there were going to be attempts against this gift. And by the way, God plans all that, too. God knows all that. He gives man the freedom to make his own choices, but God overrules in all of it. And so Satan set out to stop God's plans and God's preparations. And the Bible tells us in Genesis chapter 4, I think it all began when Cain killed Abel. Abel, that godly seed, and Cain killed his brother. And then it's in Genesis chapter 6, we read the story of the flood. And the Bible says the devil had his way in mankind so much that he almost filled the world with ungodliness. And every thought of their heart was evil continually. But out of all the world, there was only one family that stayed true to God, and that was Noah and his family. So Satan really had done a number. He's trying to stop God, what he's going to do. And he just saturates the world with sin, rebellion against God. But there was a remnant, there was one family that did not obey him. Also, the devil didn't give up, because in Exodus 1, verses 6 and 22, it tells us that Pharaoh tried to kill all the male children in Egypt. Why? The devil was behind him, and he was trying to stop this promised child that God was preparing that man needed so badly. And then in Esther chapter 3, we find that Haman devised a plan, and here were his words, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the 13th day of the 12th month. He devised a plan to kill all the Jews. Why would the devil want to do that? He knew that through the Jews, God was going to send this special gift that he was preparing for mankind. And he tried to stop it. And then he wasn't finished because Jesus did come to this earth. And the Bible says he was born at Bethlehem like God had said, but the devil wasn't going to give up. And the Bible says in Matthew chapter two, verse 16, that Herod slew all the children. You remember Pharaoh said all the boy children. but Pharaoh said all the children. So when Pharaoh sent out the decree to kill all the children, the Bible says that there was bloodshed, even though Old Testament prophesied it. And he sent out this decree that all the children two years old and under would be killed in Bethlehem and the surrounding area. The devil's attempt trying again to stop God's plan and God's preparation to send this unspeakable gift. But then the next thing we see is not only the plans and preparation, but the price paid in order to give the gift. This is the greatest gift. This is the unspeakable gift. So what was the price paid to give this gift? The Bible says, first of all, the Father gave the Son. John 3.16, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. God so loved you and me that He wanted to take care of our sin and pay for our sin for us, which we could not do ourselves, and so He sent His Son to die for us. That's what Christmas is all about. God sent His Son. Galatians 4, verse 4, in the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son. God was giving His Son. Also, not only God gave the Son, but the Son gave Himself. Jesus willingly came. He willingly came. The Bible says in humility. He became a man. In John chapter 1 verse 14 says, The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. In Philippians chapter 2 verses 6 through 8, He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Jesus said to the Father, Yes, I will do that. I will come to this earth and I will humble myself. I will become a man. Can you imagine that? God becoming a man. God stooping down to become a man and limiting the independent exercise of his attributes, and he only did what the Father told him to do. And Jesus, God, became a man. That's amazing. But he did that. The Son of God was willing to give himself. And then not only the humility that he experienced, but also the horror of becoming sin. God became sin for us. And Jesus took upon himself all of our filthy sin. Now, probably we have some really good people in here today, but you're really not that good when you compare yourself to God. And then if you take all the really, really bad people, all over the world, and you just say, everybody is a sinner, and everybody's sin was laid on Jesus. Jesus was willing to do that. What a price. What a price to pay. 2 Corinthians 5, 21 says, 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. 1 Peter 2.24, who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree. You remember the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus thought about that. He was thinking about what he was going to do. And he cried out, my God, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will would thine be done." He was thinking of that cup that he was going to drink, that wrath of God that he was going to take upon himself for our sins. And the Bible says it was such an agonizing thing for him as he thought about that, as he sweat, as it were, great drops of blood. They tell me, you know, if you go through a really serious time of tension and that your body can react that way and blood can actually come out of the pores of your skin. And Jesus did that just to think about what He was going to do, what the price He paid to give us this gift, this unspeakable gift. And on the cross, and you remember he was experiencing on the cross, he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He was experiencing what we deserve, to be forsaken by God for eternity. He experienced that for us. and then He shed His blood on the cross of Calvary. He gave His life that He might be our Savior. 1 Peter 1, verse 19 says, We're redeemed with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. We're redeemed by His precious blood. 1 Peter 3, 18, For Christ also at once suffered for sins the just He was just. He was pure. For the unjust, why? That he might bring us to God. What a price. What a price that the Son was willing to pay for us. And so the price paid for that, to give us this gift, is really unspeakable. How can you really describe it? I've tried to, but I fall short of describing how great the price was. But then the power displayed to secure the gift, Think about the power of God displayed to secure the gift. First of all, the power of God to make Mary, without the help of a man, conceive and have a son. God the Father could only do that. Only God could do such a thing. And God made Mary, who was a virgin, and made her conceive a son, and it was the power of God who did that. Remember, she said to the angel, how shall this be, seeing I know not a man? She knew that she couldn't be a mother without a man. And God explained it like this, and the angel said, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. And then that which is born of thee shall be called the Son of God, for with God nothing shall be impossible. Nothing's impossible with God. And so God, the power of God to have her conceive and bear a son. Also the power of God to allow Jesus to live on this wicked earth with a sinless life. The Bible says he was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin. You know, the Bible tells us that God will not allow us to be tempted above that we are able, because we have limitations. But Jesus couldn't sin. And so the temptation came at him more than we would ever even imagine because he was not able. So the devil could just throw everything at him. And it was real temptation, I believe that. but he remained true and he never sinned. 1 Peter 2.22 says, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. 1 John 3.5, and ye know that he was manifest to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. So Jesus could take our sins because he had none to take upon himself. And so he became our substitute to die in our place. The power of God to demonstrate through Jesus a sinless person. There had never been a sinless person upon this earth, but Jesus was that person. And then the power of God to the payment of the sins. You see John chapter one, verse 29 says, John saw Jesus coming and says, behold the Lamb of God. Or he said, behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. I mean, nobody could do that. I can't take away your sins. I couldn't die for you. I have my sins to die for if I was to die for them. And this is an impossibility for somebody to take your sin, not only just yours, but everybody in the whole world. But the Bible says, John said, Behold the Lamb of God. He's going to take away the sin of the world. I mean, that's impossible. But the power of God can do that. Isaiah 53, verse 6, we read it a while ago. The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. John 4, verse 34, Jesus said this, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me and to finish His work. What was His work? Jesus. was to come to this earth and take our sin and pay for it. That was his work. And he says, my will is to do that, to finish the work of the Father. And then on the cross of Calvary, after those three years of darkness on the cross, what did he cry? It is finished. Wow. The power of God to deal with all of our sin in a moment of time, in three hours of time on the cross of Calvary. Jesus took all that we deserve, He bore our sin upon Himself, and He said, it's finished. As I've said many times, ancient manuscripts have those words on the ledger of when people are owed something, and on the top of that ledger, if it was paid, it would say, paid in full, the exact words, it is finished. Jesus paid it all. Only Jesus could do that. And the power of God is seen there. But then there's the power of God in the resurrection. We know from Ephesians chapter 1 that it took the power of God to do that. Only God could raise Jesus from the grave. And he did that. And so the power of God rose Jesus from the grave. So what was behind acquiring for you the unspeakable gift? The very power of God was needed to do that. You couldn't do it, only God could do it. So it's definitely the greatest gift that's ever been given is the unspeakable gift of Jesus. But then let's talk about the provisions in that gift or of that gift. Jesus is the unspeakable gift because of what he can do for us. Now what does that gift do for you? We get received gifts at Christmas and lots of times we enjoy it for a season but then we put it aside because it's either broke or we get tired of it or it went out of style or whatever. But there's no gift that anybody gives you that's just going to last forever and ever and never lose its appeal. But Jesus' gift does. It lasts forever and ever. It never loses its appeal because of what it provides for us. What does this gift provide? Well, the Bible says it provides forgiveness of sin. Can you imagine that? to be forgiven of your sins. I mean, you can't pay for them. You know the things you've done, and only God and you know some of those things that you've done, and you want to keep it that way. There's no reason to tell other people about what you did. If only you and God know about it, tell him about it. Don't tell anybody else. But God knows all those things. And the Bible says that He provides for us forgiveness of sin. That only comes one way. It's not for you appearing before God and arguing your case. You won't do that. It's not for you appearing before God and saying, Lord, I'm better than that person. That won't do it. The only way is for God to forgive you. Sin is against God, and so God's the one that has to forgive. And God forgives us when we trust Jesus as our personal Savior. Ephesians 1, 7 says, In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Another provision he has is that he provides reconciliation to God. You see, sin separates us from God. So if God forgives us, then he says he reconciles us. In other words, he takes us in and he gives us a hug, you might say. He says, you're mine. I love you. And God reconciles us to him. Our sin no longer is a barrier between us and God. God reconciles us to himself, 2 Corinthians 5.18, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. Also, he provides righteousness before God. Romans 10, verse 10 says, for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. How do you get righteousness before God? Only one way, belief. Not through doing good deeds, not through doing things that please God. Righteousness is something that God gives you, and you get it through belief. Not through works, but through belief. Believing what Jesus did for you on the cross of Calvary. 1 Corinthians 1 verse 30 says, Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness. You see, righteousness calls us to experience what the Bible says, that He is our propitiation. Propitiation means God's satisfied. And the only way God will be satisfied with you and me is if we have His righteousness. God will never look at you and say, oh, I'm satisfied. I mean, you were a deacon, you were a Sunday school teacher, you led somebody to Jesus, you did... I'm satisfied. No, God will never do that. God's only satisfied with one thing, and His righteousness. And if you accept Jesus, you have His righteousness applied to your account, and God is satisfied. Another provision is God gives us everlasting life, not part-time life, but everlasting life. John 3.16, for God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life, never ends. You have it right now, and you'll continue to have it throughout eternity. Also, he provides a home in heaven. John 14, in my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you into myself that where I am there you may be also. Who's he talking to? He's talking to people who believe in him. And he says, you know, you have a home in heaven if you trust Jesus as your Savior. What a gift. I mean, no wonder the Lord says it's unspeakable. All these things are involved in the gift that God offers you through Jesus. And also he provides a guarantee of a brand new body. Do you know that your body will never be able to enter into heaven the way it is? The Bible says this incorruptible's not gonna have a place in heaven. You can't go to heaven like you are unless God changes you. And so God says he'll give you a brand-new body. Now, if you die before that rapture, you're going to leave your body here, and you're going into heaven. He'll give you an intermediate body, I believe. But then there'll come in the day that he's going to have you have a body, a flesh, and it's going to be the Lord taking this body and changing it and making it a brand-new body. And 1 Corinthians 15, behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we which are alive, the scripture says, are gonna be changed, and we're gonna have a brand new body. All this wrapped up in this gift of Jesus Christ. The provisions found in Jesus are not found anywhere else. All things of lasting value are found in him. All things of lasting value are found in Him. The things we value, maybe our house, our car, our possessions, whatever it might be, they're not lasting. You will leave them. When you die, you leave it all behind. And the answer is, how much did He leave behind? It's always true. He left it all. He left it all. And so, these things are lasting and they're only found in Jesus Christ. And if you don't have Him, you don't have anything of eternal value. And then finally, this unspeakable gift is unspeakable because the personal invitation is given to everybody to receive it. I mean, just imagine that. Jesus is the unspeakable gift because He is offered to everyone. You go out from here today and you look for the worst person you can find, the person that's been deceived by sin the most, the person that's their life is destroyed. They're at the very bottom. You find the worst person and you can go to them and say, I have good news for you. God loved you, sent his son to die for you, and you can be saved and made a brand new creature, and you can be assured of a home in heaven and a brand new body someday, and you'll be God's child and God's servant. God can change you immediately because this is unspeakable, that God would do that for me and God would do that for you. But the personal invitation goes to everybody. The Bible says in John 3, 16, whosoever believeth, Whosoever, John 1 to 11, he came into his own, his own received him not, but to as many as received him. All you got to do is receive him. To them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. All may have the gift, but you must believe and receive. And it's true that you won't believe until you repent. That means you recognize who you are. I mean, you come to the realization that you are a sinner in deserving hell, and you say to God, Lord, I'm a sinner. I know I'm lost. I know I need you. And then you believe in what Jesus did for you on the cross of Calvary. And so you won't believe until you repent, and you won't receive until you believe. You won't receive him until you believe in him. and you recognize who you are, and you recognize what He did for you, and you believe that, and you call out to Him to save you, and the Bible says He will save you. God's gift of Jesus is so wonderful. It is indescribable. As that paraphrase said, it's too wonderful for words. If you have all of the gifts, but you do not have Jesus, you're poor. I mean, if you're the wealthiest man on earth, whether it be Elon Musk or whoever it might be, if you're the wealthiest person on earth and you don't have Jesus, you're poor. But if you have no other gifts and you do have Jesus, you are rich. 2 Corinthians 8, 9 says, For we know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich. Yes, five things that make Jesus the unspeakable gift. The plans and preparation made before giving the gift, the price paid in order to give the gift, the power displayed to secure the gift, the provisions of the gift itself, and the personal invitation to receive that gift goes out to everybody. I ask you this morning, have you received the greatest gift, the unspeakable gift, Jesus Christ? Let's pray. Father, thank you today for reminding us of this wonderful gift, Jesus. Lord, I thank you that you sent him to this earth. That's what Christmas is all about. And they came for the purpose of paying for our sins so that we could have eternal life and live with you. Lord, I ask today if there's a person here who has never yet trusted Christ, that you'd help them not to turn away the greatest gift, the Lord Jesus. Bring conviction to their heart, bring them to the place where they will admit who they are, and bring them to the place where they'll believe that Jesus paid for everything that they've done, everything they will do that's wrong. It's all paid for, but they must receive. Help them to do that today, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.