Well, by now you've found your place. Colossians chapter number 1. We've been looking at some of the great words of the Bible. And notice if you would, verse number 14. The Bible says, "...in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins." Let's read that one more time. in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins." I want you to circle in your Bible that big word, redemption. Herbert Locke here in his book All the Doctrines of the Bible said, among the cardinal truths of our Christian faith, None demands our prayerful and intelligent consideration as that of redemption." He went on to write, "...it permeates them all." He said, "...not only is it chief among the doctrines of grace, it permeates them all. It is from redemption that all the rivers of grace flow." Isn't that amazing? It is one of the foundation stones of our faith. It is the cornerstone of our salvation if grace is the sweetest word in the Bible, then friend, I believe redemption is the costliest word in the Bible. I want to talk to you about the costliest word in the Bible, the word redemption. Let's pray and ask God to help us this morning as we look into the pages of His Word. Father, Thank you for the sweet Spirit. Lord, I'm glad that you're not bound by space or time or distance. I'm so glad, Lord, that you're blessing our hearts all over the world in our community as we're watching today. Lord, my heart rejoiced. And Lord, I just believe even though I couldn't necessarily see it, I believe we could sense it that Lord, you were blessing hearts all over as they've tuned in today. And Lord, you've ministered to us and met with us and helped us. Lord, we long for the day that we meet together in the house of God. That we meet with you, Lord, and we worship you together. Lord, help us to never take for granted what you've given us in the worship of God. Help us, Lord, to never put it again as just a prominent part of our life, sort of on a back burner at times when something we deem more important comes up. God, help us to keep your worship together as the people of God preeminent in our lives. Father, I pray you'll meet with us this morning as we look at this wonderful word in the Bible, the costliest word. Lord, it cost us nothing, but it cost you everything. I pray you'll teach us today. Lord, there's someone maybe listening and watching today that they've never been redeemed, or they don't know what it is to enter into redemption. I pray that today they will. Lord, those of us who have been redeemed, let us never get used to it. Let us never lose the wonder of it. God, let us bask in the fact that we have been blessed by God, that we've been redeemed by God, that we belong to You through this great Bible word redemption. A costly word, but yet Lord, such an important, sweet, valuable word. And we thank You for it. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. I want you to notice this morning as we look at this word redemption that it involves a purpose. It involves a purpose. You see, redemption is a word that really is unfamiliar with us in our world today. But those in Paul's day would have instantly and immediately understood that word when they heard it read or when they heard it preached or taught. It was just a common term of that day. As a matter of fact, the Bible word redemption came from the slave markets. It was primarily used of purchasing or buying and selling of slaves in a market, much like a stock sale today. As a matter of fact, human life in the Roman Empire wasn't valued. It was demeaned. There were upwards of six million slaves in that day and it was such a common occurrence that nobody thought anything about it. It would be like going out to a used car lot or a car auction and buying a car or going to a stock sale and buying an animal. It was just a common part of the day. Matter of fact, many of these people that were raiding there in Colossae, they were slaves. They had already stood in that market in a very real and practical way, and they had been on that block. They had been bidded for and bought maybe multiple times, and so they completely understood that word. But really, you're going to find there's much more in the word redemption than just buying a slave. Oh no. When God took that Word and He brought it into the great plan of salvation, it wasn't just buying a slave, friend. It was the idea of buying or purchasing that slave with the purpose of setting them free. It involved a payment. It involved a ransom. But friend, listen, it wasn't so that that person necessarily could own the slave. Oh no, they wanted to free that slave. And friend, I'm just glad today that I've been set free in Jesus Christ. What about you? Biblical redemption refers to the act of God by which He Himself pays the price and purchases us and sets us free. You see, there is a purpose involved. You see, whether we realize it or not today, we were either at one time or you are now a slave. You say, wait a minute, O preacher, you don't understand. I'm not a slave. Oh, listen, every man, woman, boy and girl born into this world is born in bondage to sin and death. We are slaves to sin and Satan. We are sins captive. We are sins slave. Before I was saved, I did sins bidding. I was driven by sin. But thank God, friend, there is a release from those sins. Isn't that a blessing today? I want you to look, if you would, please, the two words in verse number 14, in whom? In whom? You see, redemption is found in somebody. It refers to none other, I believe, than the Lord Jesus Himself, our blessed Redeemer. Jesus Christ came into this slave market of sin that He might redeem us and purchase us and that He might set us free. The Bible says in Mark chapter 10 and verse number 45, for even the Son of Man for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but minister." You know what he said? He didn't come to have slaves. He came to be a slave. That's what he's saying. He didn't come to be served. He came to serve and listen to this and to give his life a ransom for many. That word ransom means redemption price. And we're going to talk about that in a minute. You see, our redemption, your redemption today, was not an afterthought with God. It was a forethought. Friend, listen. God knew that men would sin. God knew that we would be sins captive. He knew that we would be sins slave. And He had already provided the way that He could redeem us and buy us and set us free. You see, the redemption of mankind was conceived in the heart of God long before Christ ever paid our ransom on Calvary. You see, long before He ever hung a star in its place. Long before He ever put a planet in its orbit. Long before He ever scooped out the seas, the oceans, and heaped up the mountains. Friend, in the dateless eons of eternity past, think about it, God in love planned a way for you and me to be delivered from our sin. I tell you what, we ought to just stop and say, Amen, Hallelujah right there. He is, Revelation 13, 8, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. May I say today that Calvary was not an accident. It was an appointment. You see, it was appointed for man once to die. It's appointed for men to die. But friends, thank God there was an appointment that the Son of God delivered us from the bondage of death. Isn't that a blessing today? Acts chapter 2 and verse 23. The Bible said Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. You see, God knew beforehand. God had already planned. God had already made a way. God had already provided a way for us to be redeemed. You see, we were slaves and thank God He had already determined how He was going to set us free. Can I say this? God is a God of redemption. The Bible that you hold in your hand is a book of redemption. From the very beginning pages of the Bible, the drama of redemption begins to unfold. From the very outset of man's sin, we see the unfolding drama of redemption. Our first parents there sinned in the garden, born in a state of innocence. And as they're there in the garden, that God said you can eat all the trees in the garden freely, any tree, every tree, but there's one tree I don't want you to eat of. You say, Preacher, what kind of tree was it? It doesn't matter. It wasn't the point whether it was an apricot tree or an apple tree or a pear tree or whatever kind of tree. It didn't matter. God said, don't eat of the tree. That was the test of man to determine whether or not he in his free will would obey God or whether he would live and serve himself. And in that day, you know that the serpent Beguiled Eve, she ate, gave to her husband Adam who ate with his eyes wide open. knowingly aided the tree. And at that moment, man became a sinner. Man became a slave to sin. He became in bondage to sin. At that moment, man needed a Redeemer. God comes down. The Bible said, I read it afresh this morning, that He took coats of skins and He clothed Adam and Eve. For Him, the first price there was pictured in those two animals that were slain to clothe our first parents. We're going to fast forward and I see an aged man and a son making their way up a mountain called Mount Moriah. I can see them as they're going up in my mind's eye up that mountain. And the son, look, they're going to worship. They're going to sacrifice. And the son, Isaac, looking at his father Abraham, and he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where's the lamb? Thank God. Thank God that God had a lamb in mind. Isn't that a blessing? Isn't that a joy? And we know there on Mount Moriah that there the drama of Calvary unfolds before our eyes as there a father was willing to sacrifice his son. And we know that God stayed Abraham's hand. stopped him before he took Isaac's life. Friend, listen, can I tell you, Isaac wasn't the payment. Isaac wasn't the one that could redeem us. His greater Son, the Lord Jesus, the promised seed, it was He that would come and God would plunge the knife, so to speak, into His own Son who would give His life so that you and I could be saved. We fast forward and there are families huddled in houses. There's a plague coming out of Egypt. The firstborn of all Egypt would die and God made a provision. God said, I want you to take a lamb and I want you to kill it and I want you to catch its blood. I want you to sprinkle it over the doorposts and the lentils and I just want you to know that when the death angel passes through, I'm going to pass over. has the idea of hover or brood over, has the idea of God hovering over that house to where the death angel, that plague, couldn't enter in and take the life of that firstborn. Friend, listen, that lamb gave its life so that those in that house could have life. And friend, listen, I'm going to fast forward in the message. Thank God, 2,000 years ago the Lord Jesus Christ gave His life so that you and I could have life. Isn't that a blessing? He died to redeem us. Did you notice in every place there's a substitute? Every instance. All those sacrifices and all the thousands of lambs slain on Jewish altars point with a finger of anticipation to the Lamb of God, God's Lamb, the Lord Jesus. Oh, we fast forward to the Jordan River. There's been a man. He's a rough and tumble kind of guy. He's been subsistent off of locusts, grasshoppers, and wild honey. He's come out of the wilderness preaching, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He's been baptizing a man by the name of John the Baptist in the Jordan River. He has some followers standing by and one day a man walks by and he said, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away... There he is. Aren't you glad that he came? Isn't that a blessing today? All of the Old Testament sacrifices were a foreshadowing of the one supreme sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Friend, there our blessed Redeemer purchased our redemption. I just want you to get this, friend, in a very true and real way. When He was on the cross, you was on His mind. What a blessing. to know that we were in the mind and the heart of God in that moment. I see, friend, that redemption has a purpose. It's to buy and to set free, but notice secondly, it has a price. It has a price. Look again at verse number 14, We have redemption. Now watch these next three words. Through His blood. What a phrase. Have you ever thought about what those three words encompass? Matter of fact, John Phillips in his book wrote this. He said, to secure our redemption, Jesus had to leave the glory of heaven. enter human life by means of the incarnation, live a perfect life, and then die. He had to suffer the agony of crucifixion, the heartbreak of rejection, betrayal, and abandonment, the sting of ridicule and shame, the horror of being made sin, the torment of God's wrath, and the indignity of death. His blood had to be shed. That. was the price. Wow. Powerful. Powerful. Through His blood. There was a number of years ago a preacher that made the statement and wrote a book and he made the statement that it wasn't the blood of Jesus but the death of Jesus. That Jesus could have been stoned or strangled or died any other way and would have still purchased our redemption. Friend, do you know that's not true? The Bible said without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Friend, you couldn't strangle the Lord. No, His life's blood had to be shed for Him that God allowed wicked men to devise the most cruelest instrument of execution known to mankind. It was called the cross. And it was there that the Son of God was nailed. It was there that His blood was shed. For it was there that the price was paid. I want you to look with me, if you would, in I Peter chapter 1. I just want to look over there real quickly. Would you turn over I Peter chapter 1? Find with me, if you would please, verse number 18. Excuse me. I Peter chapter 1 and... Yes, find verse number 18. Notice the Bible said, "...for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold." That's money. You can't buy your way into heaven. You can't earn your way into heaven. You can't work your way into heaven from your vain conversation received by tradition from your father's religion. Can't get you to heaven. You see, here at Calvary, we're not paddling religion, friend. We're offering a relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ. My kids refuse and my wife refused to play Monopoly with me. I haven't played in years. I remember the last time we played, the kids were small. We lived back in Lenore and we were going to play Monopoly with the kids. And I think they got it for Christmas or one got it for... I don't even remember all the details, but it's the only time I've ever really been rich and owned everything. I mean, you know, I was ruthless. I wanted to be the tycoon. I bought every piece of property I could buy, every hotel. I mean, it was to the point that if you landed anywhere on the board, somebody was giving me money. It was great. They were so mad that they refused to ever play. I thought that was the purpose of the game. I didn't know we were playing for fun. I thought we were playing to win. And to win, you owned everything. I mean, you broke the money. I had so much monopoly money, I didn't know what to do with it. But you know what I learned with that monopoly money? I couldn't pay my mortgage. I couldn't pay the power bill. As a matter of fact, I couldn't even deposit it in the bank and go buy something I wanted with it. You know why? Because it was worthless. And I just want to tell you, anything that you or I humanly do to save or redeem ourselves is like monopoly money. I don't care how good you are. I don't care how religious you are. I don't care how sincere you are. Friend, the Bible said it's not of works. The Bible said, you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold. You see, friend, there is absolutely not one thing that you and I can do to offer to God to pay the price to redeem us. Listen, I've got good news for you. You don't have to. It's already been paid. Isn't that a blessing? Notice if you would verse 19, "...but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest, made known in these last times for you." What a blessing! It's precious blood. That's the price. It's precious blood. That means of inestimable worth or value. You know, there's a lot of things in my life that I would consider that are precious. They're very valuable to me, my wife, my children, relationships and friendships that I have. But friend, I'm going to tell you, when you think about what's precious to God, God said that the blood of His Son is precious. The price of our redemption was far beyond our human reach. Oh, precious is the flow that washes white as snow. No other fount I know nothing but the blood of Jesus. I want you to know His blood is precious. It's pure. It's pure. Hebrews 9.14 says that Christ offered Himself without spot to God. Notice the Bible says here that He's of a lamb without blemish and without spot. It's as if the Holy Spirit took it to another level and said, listen, it's not that there's not just any sin or no defect. There's no blemish. There's not even a spot. It's perfect. Perfect. Can I tell you the blood that stained the cross was spotless, sinless, stainless. His blood was pure, free from the taint of sin. Judas who betrayed the Lord in Matthew 27 verse 4 said, I have sinned and that I betrayed the innocent blood. Every one of us watching by way of live stream, We have a sinful nature flowing through our veins, inherited from their father that was inherited from their father and on the line down to Adam. You see, God said He's made of one blood, all nations. This idea of races is such a misnomer. God didn't make all that up. No. Matter of fact, He said we're of all one blood. One blood. All of the human race is connected together. One blood. nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, and that one blood was Adam's blood. It was a blood that was contaminated by sin, but you remember the Lord Jesus was born of a virgin. He had an earthly mother, but He had no earthly father. The sin nature is passed from the father to the child. The virgin birth is not incidental. It's essential to our redemption because it was through the virgin birth that the Lord Jesus bypassed the sin nature of Adam. He's the only totally innocent person to ever be born into this world. Had He not been innocent, He could not have died for my sins and your sins. He would have had to have died as a criminal for His own sin. But the Bible said He did no sin. He knew no sin and in Him was no sin. A perfect sacrifice for sin. I Peter 3.18, you can turn over two chapters to chapter 3 and look at verse 18. The Bible said, I Peter 3.18, For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, one time the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened, made alive by the Spirit. There was no other good enough. to pay the price of sin. He only could unlock the gate of heaven and let us in. Friend, it's only in Jesus Christ. It's not a preacher. It's not a pope. It's not a priest. It's not a church. It's not an organization. It's Christ. Friend, I'm thankful for the day I met Him. His blood, the price is precious. It's pure. And let me give you this. It's powerful. It's powerful. Through His blood. Hebrews 10 verse 4 said, For it is not possible, it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin. You know all the blood of the animals shed on Jewish altars couldn't pay the penalty of our sin, couldn't purchase our redemption. No, it was man that sinned. It was man that would have to pay the price. And Jesus Christ left heaven to become a man in order to die for every one of us and pay the redemption price. Listen to Hebrews 10 and 12. But this man, after he offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God. That denotes a finished work. You can't add to it. You can't take it further, friend. It is done. Aren't you glad? Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. You see, redemption has a purpose. It's to buy slaves and set them free. It has a price. It costs. It's the costliest word in the Bible. Friend, it costs the Son of God His precious blood in order to redeem us. Friend, listen. Don't take it lightly. Don't take lightly what Jesus has done for us. Don't take lightly the blood that was shed for us. Friend, listen. When you think about all that Jesus Christ has done for us, How? How can we not give ourselves freely back to Him? When we think about all that He's done for us, how can we not give Him the place of preeminence and love Him and worship Him and be faithful to Him? You see, if our salvation, our redemption really sets in, it'll change how we live our lives. Oh, I'm free. I'm free. I don't have to. But when I think about everything you did for me, I want to. I want to. You see, redemption has a purpose. Redemption has a price. Look at Colossians chapter 1 and verse 14 again. Redemption has a promise. Has a promise. Look if you would again, Colossians chapter 1 and verse number 14. Colossians 1.14, in whom we have redemption, there's the purpose. To be purchased and set free through His blood, there's the price. even the forgiveness of sins. There's the promise in that wonderful... What a word! That word redemption. There's a purpose. God had a purpose. It's not arbitrary. It's not frivolous. It's essential. No, God... Listen, do we realize the God of the universe? And this word redemption said, my mission, my purpose is to redeem people that I love, that I created, that I made. You see, friend, listen, we may be lost through sin, but thank God we're found through redemption in Jesus Christ. Notice this word forgiveness. That word forgiveness speaks of a release. The word forgiveness speaks of the blessed release from the guilt of sin. Do you realize that when we receive Jesus Christ as Savior, we stand redeemed? At that moment, our sins are canceled. They're washed away. The guilt is gone. Friend, listen. I just want to tell you there's times that our minds go back or maybe even the devil reminds us and we remember things we may have said or done in our past life before we were saved. Maybe even things we've done recently in our present life. But I'm just going to tell you, friend, the good news is in Jesus Christ they're gone. They're canceled. We're released. I'll never face those sins again. John 1.29, the Bible said, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. That word take away means to lift up. It speaks not only of a release. I've been set free from sin and its bondage and its power. But now watch this. It's been removed. It's gone. It's been washed away. Psalm 103 verse 12. Listen to this. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. We can travel north and you'll find a north pole. You travel south and you find a west pole. But you don't go east or west and find an east pole or a west pole. Matter of fact, friend, it's infinite. It stretches out into eternity. God said, that's how far I've removed your sin. What a blessing that is. Listen to Isaiah 44 verse 22. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins, return unto me, for I have redeemed thee. I thought about that return unto me. Probably somebody is watching that you've been away from God in your heart. You're saved. You're redeemed. You've trusted Jesus Christ, but the truth be known, you're not as close to God as you one time were. You were hit and miss in church attendance when you could come. Hit and miss in your service to God. I'm not saying that you didn't love God. I'm not saying that God wasn't important in your life, but He wasn't where He needed to be in your life. I'm talking to somebody that probably you've been out in sin. Your heart's been far from it. You've been out in what the Bible called the far country. God said, I've redeemed you. God said, I've blotted out your sins. God said, I've canceled your guilt. Return to Me. Come back. You know, the Bible says, aren't you glad that redemption is a one-time transaction? It don't have to be repeated. You see, I don't have to get saved all over again. But you know what I do need to do? I do need to confess the defilement of sin in my life. The Bible said, if I'll confess my sins, He's faithful and just to cleanse me of my sins and to forgive me of all unrighteousness. Maybe you need to confess that you've been away from God. Maybe you need to confess that through this God's gotten your attention. Maybe in a moment when we give invitation, you need to kneel right before in your living room or wherever you're at or bow your head at your kitchen table. You need to say, God, I'm sorry. God, I haven't loved you like I ought to. God, I've discounted the blood that you've redeemed me. I haven't took in the price that you paid and I've been living for me to please me. God, I want to return to you today because He's redeemed you. Micah 7.19 says, Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. The world's three largest oceans are the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean respectively in that order. The deepest part of the Indian Ocean is what's known as the Java Trench. It's 4.8 miles deep. Then the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean is the Puerto Rico Trench. That's 5.3 miles deep. And the deepest spot in the Pacific Ocean is the Mariana Trench. and it's 6.8 miles deep or right at 7 miles deep. God said, I'll cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. That word cast means to throw. It means to hurl. It's the imagery of somebody taking an object and with all of their strength and might throwing it as far out into the ocean as they can throw it and then letting it sink to the bottom. That's the picture. Isn't that amazing? Now I don't believe that God took our sins literally and put them nearly seven miles down in the deepest ocean. I believe when God said He cast our sins into the depths of the sea, He means that when God forgives our sins, our sins are so far removed that we'll never face them again. You see, somebody said that God threw it in the depths of the sea and put up a no fishing sign. You need to quit fishing. You need to quit living in past guilt and live in present glory. That's what you need to do. You need to realize that if you're saved today, you've been released from that guilt. You need to live in God's grace. You need to rejoice in that. You say, well, preacher, the devil keeps reminding me of my past. Won't you remind him of his future? Hebrews 10, 17, And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Can the omniscient God forget? The God who knows everything all the time. Doesn't have to learn anything. Can't be taught anything. He knows everything all the time. Can He forget? The reality of it is God didn't say He'd forget them. He said, I'm choosing not to remember them. That's a whole different picture. You know what? God's saying it'll never be brought up again. Do you know that when I meet Jesus, He's not going to talk about what I've done? He's not. That's gone. I've been released. I've been set free. My sin's been removed. You think of the unclean nature of our sins, the uncompromising nastiness of our sins, and the uncountable number of our sins, and then sing with me that song. My sin not in part, but the whole, is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Oh my soul, what a blessing. redeemed, how I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, redeemed through His infinite mercy, His child and forever I am." What a wonderful, wonderful truth. The costliest word in the Bible, redemption. Do you know that God has paid the price of your redemption today? He has. When Jesus died on the cross, He didn't die for some people's sins. He didn't die for many people's sins. He didn't die for most people's sins. He died for every person's sins. He did. That means He died for your sins. That means that He paid the price that you and I deserve to pay. That means that He suffered the penalty that you and I should suffer. Can I just be kind and honest today? and say that if you and I were to pay for our sins, we'd pay for every one of them eternally in the lake of fire forever. Do you realize we have to come to that realization in order to be saved? That my sins have a penalty. They do. There is a payment that has to be made. If I pay for it, it's forever what we call a place called hell. I was going there for 17 years of my life. We don't like to think about it. We don't like to admit it. But that's the admission that we have to make. God, I'm a sinner. And if I die without you, I'll spend eternity forever in the lake of fire. That's the first step of being saved. It is. Is that recognition, that realization? And then to realize that Jesus has paid the penalty for your sin. He's redeemed you. Two thousand years ago He cried out on the cross, It is finished. Paid in full. What a joy. You can't add anything to it. He paid in full the price of your sin and mine. He suffered in our place, the just for the unjust. He might bring us to God. I have to admit I'm a sinner. I realize that without Jesus Christ I'll spend eternity apart from Him in a place called hell. But in faith I realize that He paid the penalty for my sin. And I trust Him and Him alone to save me. Not Him and me doing something. Not Him and being baptized. Not Jesus and joining the church. Not Jesus and doing the best I can. Not Jesus and trying to be religious. Not Jesus and trying to be a better person or stopping doing this or stopping doing that and start doing the other. All of those are good things. But remember, you can't be redeemed by things like that, like silver and gold and material things and things we can do. It's monopoly money. No, it's only what Christ has done. Christ alone. and I by faith receive Him as Savior. You see, faith is the hand that receives the gift of salvation. You see, the Bible says that we believe it in our heart that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, Thou shalt be saved. For with the heart, right here, man believeth unto righteousness. With the mouth confession is made unto salvation. You see, when I pray and ask God to save me, I was just voicing the faith of my heart. That's all I was doing. Prayer didn't save me. The words didn't save me. No, what saved me was faith in Christ. Jesus saved me. That was it. That's the difference. The heart man believeth with the mouth, for whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." You can be saved right now by praying a simple prayer like this, voicing the faith of your heart. Lord, I can't save myself. Lord, I can't take myself to heaven. You've paid the price of redemption. I right now want to receive you as my Savior by faith. You can pray a simple prayer like this. You could follow along with me praying it to God. Dear Lord Jesus, I know I'm a sinner. I won't go to heaven. But I believe that you died for my sins and rose again. I right now ask you to save me. Forgive me of my sins. Take me to heaven. Thank you. If you pray to receive Christ, there's going to be a number going to come up on your screen. Would you contact us? We want to help you. We have some materials to give you to help you in your newfound faith in Jesus Christ. We want you to grow in grace. You see, friend, if you called on the Lord, Romans 10, 13, for whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. If you called on the Lord out of an honest heart today, you want to be saved, He saved you. He changed you. He redeemed you. Friend, there's nothing greater than that right there. I trust you have. Will you let us know that? I'm going to ask everyone now to bow your head. Would you do that? Maybe you say, Preacher, I've been redeemed today, but I'm not.