My, aren't you glad you came today? Wow. There's a reason that we teach our children that song when they're little, because it's the foundation of our understanding of scripture. To understand or to read the scripture apart from that concept can be frightening because we know our sin. But to realize that God loves me and His love is not based on my merit, but it's based on His nature and His character. And when little children sing it, they sing it sweetly and purely because they believe that. And they should have no reason not to believe that. Turf you would please to Isaiah chapter 59 to those who are here visiting. I've been preaching from the Old Testament. I've called the series Eternal Truth of Ancient Books. Interestingly enough I'm preaching on salvation this morning from the Old Testament. There is a ignorant view that God in the Old Testament was a God of justice and a God of wrath. But in the New Testament a God of love. Of course there's nothing true about that statement because God is always the same. And in His judgment He always remembered mercy. And I think you'll find this morning that one of the clearest explanations of salvation is given in the book of Isaiah. This morning I encourage you, if you have a Bible, to turn to the passage because we're going to be in three chapters close together in the book of Isaiah. And I would like for you to look at the words with me. There is a Bible in front of you in the pew. If you go to the middle of the Bible, the Psalms, and go toward the back a couple of books you'll find the book of Isaiah. And I think it'll be a help to you this morning. People say, I'm a Christian. Or they say, I'm saved. Some people say, I'm going to heaven when I die. And although that may be clear to many, it is not clear to everyone. and we have the opportunity we're more and more in this age a marginalized group and our vocabulary our words our descriptions are not recognized by many who live in our world today this morning in sunday school brother jeff was talking about the the city of ephesus as he was talking about and very well what was going on there i remembered what it would must have been like in that day where He came into the city, a heathen city, a city of idolatry, a city of wickedness, of immorality. And rather than being the majority, he was by far, the Apostle Paul was the minority there and his words were strange indeed. And he rightly pointed out that even in the church of Ephesus, there was witchcraft and certain things, certainly immorality, those kinds of things that were so prevalent in the ancient world. So the words that he chose had to be clearly chosen. I think we need to be more careful and more descriptive in how we talk about the things that are clear to us. Words that we have grown up with. We use words sometimes and the people we talk to have no idea what those words mean. To some To being a Christian would mean I am a church member. So some people would, if you ask them, are you a Christian? They say, well, I'm a member of, and they fill in the name of the church. To them, that means I'm a Christian. Some might say, well, I've been baptized. And some will say to me, have said to me, I was baptized as a baby, therefore I'm a Christian. Their thinking was, well, I'm not a Buddhist and I'm not a Muslim, so I must be a Christian. It's kind of, you know, this is what everybody is who lives around here. It's kind of being a Christian. Some say, well I was confirmed. We lived in Chicago for 10 years and it was a very Lutheran area and that was one of the favorite things people said when you asked them if you were a Christian. Well, I was confirmed at age 12. So to them that meant, that equated with I'm a Christian. One of the favorite ones today, interestingly enough, is I'm a good person. Well, I would debate that, but you know, I only debate it because I know myself. And as God's standard, I'm afraid I don't qualify any more than you do because we all sin and come short of the glory of God. But sometimes these terms are confusing. I want to hopefully today to be very clear and very plain. I've asked God to help me to cut through some of the misunderstanding and from the scriptures, hopefully right from the Bible, to be able to clarify what it means. First of all, what does it mean to be lost? The problem with many people is they do not see themselves as lost. I'm a good person. I do the best I can. I go to church. They have these terms, these ideas that may or may not be accurate and we'll talk about that a little bit later. Secondly, the second question we will attempt to answer is how does a lost person find God? If men are lost, and men are, then how do we ever find God? And of course, all that rests on the third question. And this one is difficult. How does a holy God forgive sin? God is holy. He has said, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. The wage of sin is death. I mean, those kinds of statements don't leave a lot of room for interpretation. And yet, Jesus loves me, this I know. for the Bible tells me so. And how do we balance? How can we reconcile these two seemingly opposite ideas and words? And the book of Isaiah has some very interesting and helpful passages. The first one is in Isaiah 59. If you'll turn there all of them are right within a few chapters of each other. Isaiah 59. The Lord says, Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. Now some have concluded that everybody's saved. You know, everybody's, well, we're all kind of going the same way. We're just making different paths. And everybody's saved. Well, God answers that question by saying, it is not that God cannot save. It is not that God does not hear. One of the great blessings of a Christian life is knowing we have a God who hears and answers prayer, and He cares. And not only does He care, not only does He hear, but He can do something. And there's hope there. We're studying the Psalms on Wednesday night and we see David often and other writers, but particularly in the early Psalms, David is writing about the difficulty. And we've just been in the Psalm 22 and Psalm 22. If you know that part of the Bible, it's, it really pictures. And the very words that David recorded in Psalm 22 are the words of Christ on the cross. The description that David gave of his jeopardy are the very descriptions of a man who is being crucified. And yet David found comfort and consolation in his relationship with God. There was hope for him because God heard his prayer and God would deliver him. God is the one who delivers us. So God tells us here, it is not that God cannot hear, or God cannot say, but verse number two, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God. And your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear. Sin separates man from God. Someone has rightly said that sinful man can approach a holy God only through appropriate sacrifice. God hates sin. God is holy. God is separate from sinners. And let me say it this way, we've talked about it on Sunday nights as we've gone through first Peter. If we are to fellowship with God, if we are to walk with him, if we are to have that close personal relationship, we too must be holy. We too must walk apart from sin. We must not walk in the darkness. But God says, the reason I do not hear you, the reason I do not save you is because your sins have separated between you and me. Now we have to understand that mankind, everyone in this room has a need to know God. There is something in all of us, something that God put in mankind. Someone said there is within us a God-shaped vacuum that nothing can fill except God Himself. And men try to fill that vacuum with things, with success, with popularity, with all kinds of things, but find that nothing will fill the vacuum. even Christians try to live their lives in such a way that they can make themselves happy by things or whatever the same way the world does and they find that they're empty inside because God is the answer. God is the one who fills our lives. Man has a desire to be accepted by God. I mentioned I was in a conference in downtown Atlanta a few months ago with some very very brilliant, important scientists. They were heads of science departments at Emory and Georgia Tech. And they boldly proclaimed with some degree of, well, I won't say arrogance, but perhaps arrogance, I'm an atheist. I don't believe in God. And then somewhere down the conversation, we would be talking about something and they would look at me and say, but I'm a good person. Why would they say that? Why was that important? Because there is something in us that even though we are sinners, first of all we want to believe we have a relationship with God. We need a relationship with God. There's something in us that desires that. But they also want to believe that they're basically a good person. They want to be accepted. They don't want to be seen as a wicked person. And by the way, I think that's the reason some people never approach or deal with the matter of salvation because they don't want to admit that they're sinners. They don't want to understand that they fall short of the glory of God. There's also another desire that's in every one of us. And that desire is to go our own way, to choose our own pathway. to be the captain of our own ship, as the saying goes. To make our path pleasing to ourselves, to choose for ourselves what we're going to do. Now, do you understand how those two things are in conflict with each other? On the one hand, inside of me, because God made me that way, I have a desire to know God. I have a desire to be accepted to God. But on the other hand, I have a desire to choose my own way and to please myself. So we find that mankind is caught in a dilemma. How can those things be? What can I do? Now let me say, just cut to the chase and say this, here's what you'll find out. Every person in every age, in every continent worships something. You look at history, you check any civilization you want to check. The city of Ephesus that I just mentioned a while ago had three major temples. All those temples were to different gods. And people came and worshipped those gods. And you ask yourself, why in the world do people do that? Why would they come to a stone idol and worship? Because there is a desiring man to do that. But this conflict comes, but I want to do what I want to do. So many people choose a religion that allows them to do what they want to do to please themselves and still feel like that they have a God who understands and who will allow them to do what they want to do. But the Bible tells us that our sin separates us from God. That that sin that is untaken care of, that is unforgiven, that which closes the ear of God to our prayers and I didn't say that the Bible did that stops the hand of God to help us when we need help because that's what God our sin separates us from God now I think obviously we need to say well what is sin well sin first of all is a transgression of God's law God said thou shalt not commit adultery and people commit adultery. God said you ought to take God's name in vain. And people do it all the time. The Bible says honor thy father and thy mother and some people just ignore that. Even Christians do. And that is a transgression of the law and that is sin. That separates us from God. Choosing my way as compared to God's way is a sin. God has a right to point our way. God has a right to choose our path. And when I choose my own path, I have sinned because I have disobeyed what God wanted me to do. Failure to worship God is a sin. Failure to worship God is the greatest sin. For God deserves our worship. God demands our worship. And when we do not worship Him, and then we say, well, what is worship? Singing songs and closing your eyes and swaying back and forth. Is that worship? No worship is Acknowledging God's ownership. It is acknowledging who God is It's acknowledging my own sin and it is being willing to submit myself to that one who deserves my submission So in that definition there are many many who attend church every Sunday who do not worship God and We call it a worship service, but are we in fact worshiping? And many times it is not that we don't understand who God is, or that we don't understand who we are, but we aren't willing to submit ourselves to this God who deserves our submission. So when a person fails to worship God, he said in the Ten Commandments, doesn't have no other gods before me. A God is that which determines your path. That might be success, it might be family, it might be popularity, it might be anything, but something takes the place, something sits on the throne of your heart. It might be your own self, just pleasure. But God says you're not to worship anybody but me, you're not to make any graven images. In Ephesus, in Corinth, those ancient cities are filled with idolatry. In a few weeks we'll walk up to the Parthenon. From the Agora in the valley to Mars Hill halfway up to the Parthenon was a pathway. The guides will tell you that along that pathway from the Agora up to the Parthenon which is the highest point of Athens there were over 1,000 shrines to 1,000 different gods. And when Paul saw that road and saw that pathway, he said, I perceive that you're all too superstitious. There are just so many gods. And he says, I'm here to speak to you of the real God, the one who made heaven and earth, the one who is coming back again to judge man. That's a God I'm talking about, not these gods along the pathway. Wrong priorities are sin. The Bible says seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. When we choose to choose our own priorities then we are sinning because we are not doing what God tells us to do. Failure to love others as we should is sin. They asked Jesus when He was on the earth what are the two greatest commandments? He said the two greatest commandments are to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love your neighbors yourself. So either one of those, when we do not do that, we are sinning. Therefore, our sin separates us from God. And I wanna show you in the scriptures in this chapter, what does sin look like? I think we need to, you know, we need to understand that we have a unique ability to justify ourselves. The way that happens is we compare ourselves with others. Many times we compare ourselves with those who are like us and we say, well I'm better than they are, I'm just like they are, so therefore I'm not too bad. But I want you to see how God describes sin. Look at verse eight, chapter 59, you're there. The way of peace they know not. There is no judgment in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whosoever therein shall know no peace. Whosoever goeth therein shall know no peace. Sin looks like crooked paths. We'll get to that in a little bit. Crooked paths and no peace. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. I mean, the fact of the matter is a sinner, a person whose sin has not been forgiven does not know any peace. There is no peace in their heart. Oh, it doesn't mean they don't look like they're peaceful or they put on a peaceful appearance, but in their heart of hearts, when they are alone, there is no peace. Verse nine. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us we wait for light and behold obscurity for brightness and we walk in darkness you see men people humans look for light they look for understanding and they find none the more they look the more things seem obscure to them it's what the verse says we seek for light instead of light we find darkness Bible says they have much learning but never come to the knowledge of the truth. They constantly try to seek out things that are real and they can't find them. Verse number 10, very descriptive. We grope for a wall like the blind. We grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night. We are in desolate places as dead men. picture of a lost man who's just stumbling around looking for something trying to he says it's like it's like I don't have eyes I can't find it I'm feeling my way along and I just can't I can't find any satisfaction I really can't find where I'm going I don't I don't have any peace about it. Look at verse 12 our transgressions are multiplied before thee our sins testify against us for our transgressions are with us and as for our iniquities we know them." Wow. Sin. Here's what that looks like. If you get it, it's a very descriptive picture. Our transgressions are multiplied before Thee. Our sins testify against us. That's lying in the bed at night thinking about your life and your sin. It is realizing that our pathway has displeased the Holy God. It realizes the distance between us and God. It might be when you pray and there's no answer there. There is no peace there. There is no hope there Again, I say in the psalms one of the great lessons of the psalms is david pours out his heart and many times He is desperate many times things are not well many times. He is in jeopardy of his very life But then he comes to the place where he calls out to god and there's hope For he knows that God cares and God hears him. That's why a song like Jesus loves me. This I know is so important because God is not forgotten. And over and over again, as we read the Psalms, we see the hope that comes with the knowledge of God. But this description of lost people is they just deal with it. They can't get sent off their mind. Our transgressions are with us. Our iniquities, we know them. Face your sin, realize what it's like. The things that I've only read a short list here, there's so many things that constitute sin in the sight of God that separate us from God, and that's what you have to understand. Sin separates from God. Verse 13 says, in transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing away from our God. Turning away from God. You know at some point, at some point making the choice to go your own way. At some point deciding that following God is not important. Or I'm just not ready. At some point turning away from God. That's what sin looks like. And boy this is an amazing verse, verse 14. And judgment is turned away backward. Justice standeth afar off. for truth is falling in the street and equity cannot enter." I wrote down, our value system is in shambles. I've tried to figure it out. I've tried to make up my own ethics, my own rules, my own morals, and it's a mess. Everything is falling. It's all falling apart. I cannot live the way I'm living. I realize that my system isn't working. Everything is falling in the street. That's what sin looks like. no peace, a crooked path, choosing my own way, departing from God, living with conviction of sin. And then the next question, of course, hopefully, if you're here this morning, you're asking this one, then how does a lost person find God? If all that's true, and of course, it's in the word, it is true, how does a lost person find God? Well, turn back if you would to chapter 55, four chapters back. And let me just give you the short version before we get into the chapter. You don't find God. God finds you. Now understand what I'm saying here. Look if you would at verse number one. Isaiah 55. Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. He that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat. Yea, come and buy wine and milk without money, without price. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. God calls out to you, why are you living the way you're living? Why are you wasting your life chasing things that will never satisfy? That's what those two verses say. You're spending your money on things that don't bring you any satisfaction. You're living a life that doesn't give you peace. And God said, don't live that way. Turn away from that pathway. And God is reaching out to you. If you're lost today, yes, you are a sinner. All the things that are said in chapter 59 are true. But this God who loves us, for the Bible tells us so, reaches out to man. I want you to look at verse, please, verse number six. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call ye upon Him while He is near. It's a short little verse, but there are two important ideas that you need to understand here. And this is important. Sometimes God is near. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. If that is true, then the converse is also true. There are times that God is not near. Now, put that in your computer. Here's what it says. There are times that God reaches out to you. And there are times that He does not. And the Bible is full of examples of that. Because I called and you refused. And I stretched out my hand and no man regarded. Then will I laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. Proverbs chapter 1. God does not always strive with man. There are times when God does call. There are times when God is near. Isaiah says that. But there are times when God is not near. And he said you had best respond when God is near. Call on him while he is near. Seek the Lord while he may be found. God calls out and reaches out to sinners. God has wants you to turn away from those things that do not satisfy and turn to Him. And the book of Jeremiah is a very fascinating verse. The prophet Isaiah, under the inspiration of God, is talking to the Jews. Here's what he says. He says, you have rejected me, God, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn for yourself cisterns which hold no water. In other words, they turned away from the God who could give them life and turned to that which has no life. In 2 Peter, when Peter's talking about false prophets, he says, these false prophets are wells without water. If you've ever been to Israel, Middle East, you know that water is a precious commodity. Many people walk many miles to find water and water is a very sacred a very special thing over there So you can understand a thirsty person a person who is who is Desperate to find sustenance to find water and he comes to this place and there is no water there And Peter says that's what false teachers are like You come to them to listen and to find out the way. In fact, there's no water there. There is no help there and But God himself is the fountain of living waters. God is the one who provides that which satisfies, and we are to follow him to reject those things that are false and to turn ourselves to him who has the answer. But we're to do that when God calls to us. Let me say it this way. When God calls, we must respond. When God is near, we must come unto him. Say that to warn you that you say well, I'll get saved when I want to I will get saved when I'm ready No, you won't You will respond to God when God calls or you will not respond at all For God will not always strive with man Then how does God call us? Well, he did in this passage He called you to leave those things that don't satisfy and seek him that does satisfy alone and God calls us through his word. God calls us to come to him. He asks us, he invites us, come, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He calls us through the preaching. First Corinthians, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe. Sometimes in a service, if you're unsaved today, your heart begins to beat and you begin to realize what the preacher's saying is true. That's the Holy Spirit. Saying to you. Yes, what that man is saying is really true and he's talking to you. That's what you need God speaks to us. God calls us by the preaching god calls us through our conscience through conviction of sin Acts 2 says now when they heard this listen carefully they were pricked in their heart And said unto peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren. What shall we do? There's desperation there They were pricked in their hearts. The men were talking. Peter was talking and talking about crucifying Christ. And they said, what do we do? What do we, how do we fix this? Conscience and conviction. God calls us through the witness of a friend, Andrew and John chapter one. God calls Andrew to salvation. And Andrew, the Bible says first finds his own brother, Peter, and brings him to Christ. You see, sometimes a friend can witness to you. A friend can point out to you the need of salvation. So God calls us and we must respond. So the question is, then what does our response look like? If God calls, I'm a sinner, God calls, what does my response look like? How does that, what do I do? Look, if you would, in this chapter, you're in chapter 55, look at verse seven. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous manage thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Boy, those ought to be sweet words. Notice the way he says it. Let the unrighteous, let the wicked forsake his way, That's things people see. That's the outward things. That's the kind of sin that people can see. It is the way you live. It is the sins, plural, that you do. The things that you feel guilty about. And the unrighteous man, his thoughts. That's what nobody sees but you. That's the motivation of your life. Those are those things you ponder in your own heart. Those things that you think about. Those things that guide your decisions. So the first step toward responding to God is repentance. In Acts chapter 20, when Paul was talking to the Ephesian elders, he said, I preached unto you two things, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. So the first thing is turning away from your sin. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, realizing that sin displeases God. And I've got to confess to God that that is my life. That's the way I've been my outward sins my inward thoughts And that's not the way I want to live Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts there is a forsaking here That's what repentance looks like But there's something else there's faith Let him return to the lord And he will have mercy So there is a turning away from sin, confessing your sin, turning away, forsaking it, and also then turning to God. We're asking Lord not for justice. We're not asking for what we deserve. We're asking for mercy. I don't want you to treat me the way I deserve. I know the way I deserve to be treated. Lord, I'm asking for mercy to accept. Let him return to the Lord and he will have mercy. By the way, what we need is pardon. And now we come to the last question. Then how does a holy God pardon, forgive sin? If he hates sin, if sin is an affront to him, if sin is against him, if sin separates us from him, how does the holy God then forgive it? he just turn his back and say, well I'll just pretend I don't see it? No, because God sees it all. Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53 one of the most wonderful and picture perfect chapters of all the scriptures if there is such a thing. Verse 4 Isaiah 53 and verse 4, He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we do esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Now ask yourself the question, why was Jesus afflicted? Why did He bear our griefs and carry our sorrows? How'd that happen? What was that about? Why did He do that? We did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. He was wounded for, what's the next two words? Our transgressions. He was bruised. for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we're healed. Let me show you something that will almost shock your sensibility. Look down at verse number 10, same chapter. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. And then when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, whose sin? My sin. It pleased the Lord. Now think about that statement. It pleased the Lord to bruise Him. Why? Because there was no other way. Because God was a righteous and is a righteous God and sin has to be punished. Let me explain. He was wounded for our transgressions. We deserve to be wounded. He was bruised for our iniquities, and we deserve to be bruised. It says, He has borne our griefs. We deserve to grieve because of our sin. He hath carried our sorrows. We deserve to live in sorrow and sadness, but He bore those for us. Do you see what happens? Well, what happens is God provided a perfect sacrifice. And there was only one. And we learned tonight in 1 Peter, if you come back tonight, that this decision was made before the foundation of the world. Adam's sin did not surprise God. And he designed that though man would be a sinner, a sacrifice would be offered, and that sacrifice would be the perfect Son of God. Him says there was no other good enough To bear the price of sin. He only could unlock the gate of heaven and let us in So we see here. How can a holy god forgive sin because he punished his righteous son and it pleased god to do so To make his soul his son so an offering for sin Try to get your mind around that understand that he punished him instead of us He bore our sorrows instead of our bearing our sorrows. He carried our grief so that we would not have to carry our griefs. The word wounded. I looked up those words because I knew there was a lot there. He says He was wounded for our transgressions. It literally means, now listen to these words. Listen carefully. It says the word wounded, that Hebrew word means to defile, to profane, to pollute that's what it means it wasn't we think wounded he was beaten and he was and he he was were kind of born yes he was but that's not what these were that's what their word means he was profane he was defiled he was polluted why he bore our sin it was not his pollution it was our he was bruised For our iniquities, that word means to break in pieces, to crush. There's no way we can imagine that, but simply to believe it by faith. When my eyes don't see, help my heart believe that he was crushed. He was bruised. He was wounded. He took my iniquity with his stripes. His stripes means blue wounds, bruised, those things. Now how then does God forgive sin? Verse number six, same chapter. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. Now let me stop right here and say that choosing our pathway looks different for everybody. Sometimes going our own way means open gross sins that people wouldn't recognize as sin. Sometimes choosing our own way means just to live with a stubbornness about God and not turning to God, not being willing to worship Him, not being willing to bow before Him. So don't think that turning our own way has to do some horrible thing that other people would consider sin. It's whatever keeps you from God, that sin that blocks God from you. So we turned everyone to his own way. We're like sheep. But notice the last part, but the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. How does God forgive sin? How does God forgive a sinner? By putting that sin on Christ. Yes, we've turned our own way. Yes. We've chosen our own pathway. Absolutely. Yes. And that pathway may look horrible. It may look horrible to everybody. It may only look horrible to us. And the conviction may be overwhelming to us, or it might just be in our heart when we are alone, when we think about what I've done and who I am. But God puts on Christ the iniquity of us all. 2 Corinthians 5 21. And he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Can I read it one more time, please? 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. Now, we're gonna close the service this morning in a different way. I told Pastor Rob, I wasn't sure what I was gonna do, but I am sure about this. There's a hymn recently written that pictures this message so very, very well. For those of us who know Christ today, I want you to sing this song with understanding, with contemplation, with thanksgiving, with joy of what this song means. It capsulizes what we talked about this morning. I'm going to be at the front. If you, as a Christian, feel the need to come and pray at the altar for whatever reason, if God has spoken to your heart, if there's a need and you want to just come and pray, do that. Certainly this morning if you're not saved and you you may be a church member You may have been a Berean Baptist Church for 20 years I don't know where you are, but you know where you are And if God is saying to you, you need to you need to trust me. You need to believe me You need to return from your sin Turn to me Trust in me I'll be at the front. I'll be glad to help you know what to do to be saved Revelation 320 says behold I stand at the door and knock If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and sup with me, with him and him with me. Now listen carefully. Don't sing this song just as a matter of repetition. Don't just stand there and hope it's over soon. Think about what you're singing. Think about the words. Let the song picture what we've talked about today. Let that song send us out of this room understanding more about what Christ did for us. So Brother Rob, you come, we're gonna sing his robes for mine. He took our robes stained with sin and he gave us his robes of perfect righteousness. And somebody say hallelujah. Hallelujah. So let's sing it as praise to God. Let's worship him with our songs now. Can we stand please together? Would you sing along with me and would you let God speak your heart? If you need to come, I'll be at the front. You come as we begin to sing. Brother Rob.