Isaiah chapter 53 this morning. If you ever get here on a Sunday morning and the youth pastor's preaching, that means either a tragedy has occurred or people are traveling, and I'm thankful that people are traveling today. I'm grateful this morning for the opportunity to stand in the pulpit and preach, thankful for every time Pastor Broil gives me the opportunity. I'm thankful for this church family. My goodnesses, 16 years ago I moved here, only knowing a couple people, and you embraced me as family, and I sure am thankful for you, and what a special place this is. This is my favorite Old Testament passage, and it's very similar to my favorite New Testament passage, which is Philippians chapter two. When we get to Isaiah chapter 53, we find Isaiah writing to a crowd that had primarily mocked his preaching and rejected his message. Years before he penned these words, he made other prophecies of Jesus. He predicted the virgin birth. Isaiah 7, verse 14, "...therefore the Lord himself shall give you a son. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and now shall call his name Immanuel." God with us. Then he shared more information on the life of Jesus in Isaiah chapter 9, when he says, "'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.'" What a name! Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. But Isaiah chapter 53, we learn about more than just his birth. We learn about more than just his titles. We learn about his life and the reason that he came to this earth. So let's look now at Isaiah 53, verse number 1. The Bible says, "'Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. Listen to these verses. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs and hath 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, and with the stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers, is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. He made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seat, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the small with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul into death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and bear the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." Have you ever considered what Jesus did for you on the cross? This morning, let's examine Isaiah 53 and look at the reality of the life and death of Jesus and how it applies to our lives. Hallelujah. What a Savior. Let's pray. Lord, we love you today. We're thankful for your love for us. Lord, as I read this passage this morning, I'm reminded of my own sinfulness. Lord, how great a Savior you are. I pray today that you would help us, Lord, today that saints would be encouraged as they look at how great their Savior is. Lord, if there's anyone in here today who does not know you as Savior, Lord, I pray that they would look to you for salvation today. In Jesus' name, amen. Let's look back at verse 3 where it says, Right there at the beginning of the verse, there's a phrase, a man of sorrows. In 1876, while hearing a sermon out of Isaiah 53 entitled, Man of Sorrows, in a prison, Philip P. Bliss began to think about the paradox of Christianity. He thought about how that Jesus was all-powerful, yet this passage calls him the Man of Sorrows. And that day, as he sat in that prison listening to the message, he penned the words to a well-loved hymn, And he sang it at the conclusion of the service. Years later, many prisoners would look back to that day as the day they accepted Jesus as their Savior. Here are the words he wrote. Man of sorrows, what a name, for the Son of God who came. Ruined sinners to reclaim, hallelujah, what a Savior. Bearing shame and scoffing rude, in my place condemned he stood. Sealed my pardon with his blood, Hallelujah. What a Savior. Guilty, vile, and helpless we. Spotless Lamb of God was He. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah. What a Savior. Lifted up was He to die. It is finished was His cry. Now in heaven, exalted high. Hallelujah. What a Savior. When He comes, our glorious King, all His ransom home to bring. Then anew His song we'll sing. Hallelujah. What a Savior. If you do not know Jesus as your Savior today, my prayer is that before you leave this building today, with the saints in this building, you can say, Hallelujah, what a Savior. My prayer today is that if you're in here and you already know Jesus as your Savior, you'll fall in love with Him all over again because there's nobody quite like Him. The first truth we see this morning is that He was the humble servant. He was the humble servant. As I mentioned earlier, Isaiah was not always well-received by his people. The rejection of his message was really a rejection of God. He began this passage by saying, "'Who hath believed?' I report." He points out that his report, his message, the thing that he had preached, has not been heeded. But then he asks an interesting question, "'To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?' The arm of the Lord was an Old Testament reference to the power of God. It's amazing that a chapter that will deal with the death of Jesus begins by speaking of his power. It was the arm of God that was referred to in Exodus as God's people left following the 10 plagues. It was the arm of God that was referred to as they would come to a Red Sea, would cross on dry ground, and then the Red Sea would come crashing down on their enemies. It was the arm of God that was referred to in the Exodus as they were there for 40 years and sustained by God in the desert, and it was the arm of the Lord that sent the Savior to the world." So surely they treated this powerful Savior with great expectancy, right? No. His appearance was really unexpected. Look at verse 2. "'For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.'" I'll tell you, I'm not a gardener. But several years ago, I decided that it was time to have a garden. So I went to the store, and I bought little packs of seeds. And I went to the backyard, and I poked a hole in the ground. And I put the seed there, and I covered it up. And I watered it and did all the things that I thought were the right things. And guess what happened? Absolutely nothing. I don't know how some of you people do it. You amaze me. Nothing happened. I mean, a little bitty thing would come up, and then it withered away. And I don't think we got anything out of the garden that year. I got smarter this year. This year, I went to the store, and I bought the ones that are already in the little pots. You know what I'm talking about? Dug the holes. We had the kids out in the backyard, and we planted them. And we're seeing little fruit, little vegetables. It's amazing. And that's the idea here. They're just tender plants. The arm of the Lord, the creator of the universe, the powerful one, did not come into the world with pomp and circumstance. He came into this world as a tender plant. As one that needed to be nourished. He came as a little baby. 700 years before he would walk the earth, Isaiah penned these words, as a root out of a dry ground, he hath no form nor comeliness, and we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He did not arrive in royal fashion. If I were the creator of the world and I was coming to save my creation, I can promise you I would not have come to the earth this way. My introduction would look radically different than the introduction of Jesus. I probably at least would have given myself rich parents. But that wasn't the case with him. He came to this world to poor parents. He was born surrounded by livestock. Can you imagine that? Would you want your kids to be born in a barn next to the cows? Wrapped in the clothes that the animals would be taken care of with? and his cradle be a trough." But that's exactly how he came. For hundreds of years, the pens of the prophets had ceased, and it seemed that maybe God had forgotten his people. They'd been conquered by the Romans, and their worship of God had turned to nothing more than a religious formality. It seemed that all hope was lost as they waited for their Messiah, and they waited for their Messiah, and they waited, and it seemed that he would never come. but God didn't forget his people. Galatians 4, verse 4, Although he was born in the legitimate bloodline to be the king, his family had long been forgotten. His earthly father was a lowly carpenter, his mother just a young lady, and they had nothing that anyone would desire. Imagine that. The arm of the Lord, the creator of the world, comes to earth as a baby in seemingly insignificance. His appearance was unwanted. Look at verse 3. He is despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. You know he was unwanted then. This word despised. It means to be viewed with utter contempt, to be despicable, insignificant, vile, or worthless. And when it talks about the Creator of the world coming to this earth to be born to save us from our sins, it says that He was despised. And it says he was rejected. That's the idea of to be forsaken. John chapter 1 verse 10 says, He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came into his own, and his own received him not. Then comes that phrase, a man of sorrows. This word sorrow gives the idea of emotional or physical pain. Suffering. He was a man who suffered. He was a man who knew what it meant to not have all these things and to suffer and to struggle. He knew what it meant to be faced with difficulties. He knew about grief. So how was he thanked for leaving heaven to save us? We hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Have you ever noticed that we don't hide our faces from things that we want to see? I'm not going to go into any detail, but you ever see these sports injuries on TV, and you see it happen, and then they show the replay, and you just, you can't look? You turn away? We hide our faces from things that we don't want to see, things that will make us feel uneasy. Well, that's exactly what happened to Jesus. He made them feel uneasy. They hid their faces from Him. He was absolutely unwanted in His time. But he's also unwanted now. Have you noticed that? Many people reject him today. We're surrounded by a world that has every opportunity to say yes to him, and they keep saying no. Have you ever noticed that few names bring utter contempt, like his name? People won't mind you saying it if you just want to casually mention His name. But you go into the break room tomorrow and you begin to mention Jesus and what He's done in your life and what He wants to do in their life and you see how it's received. You begin to live the life that He told us to live and you see how much people like it. Although nearly 50% of people attended church weekly as a child, only 20% attend weekly as adults, according to a recent survey by Gallup. Are you hiding your face from Him today? Are you avoiding Him? Are you doing everything in your power not to take Him too seriously? Well, can I tell you that today, He wants to be your Savior. We see that He is the humble servant, but then we see that He is the innocent sacrifice. Look at verse 4, "'Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.'" So what did He accomplish for us? What was it that He came to this earth to do and how did He accomplish it? Well, we see that He lifted our burdens. Look at what He did for us. It says there, "'He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.'" This word born means to lift up. One verse above, we were told that he was acquainted with grief. He understood what it meant to grieve. And now it tells us that he's bearing our grief, that he's carrying the difficulties in our life, that he is willing to be everything for us that we need him to be. He lifts our burdens. But then look at what it says. He carried our sorrows. The word carry here is the idea of supporting a heavy weight, but not just to pick something up that is heavy, but to carry something long term. This word carry is actually the same word that is used for a woman who is expecting. The idea of carrying and laboring and going through the difficulties of that. I've watched the process as it gets further and further and closer to birth, and you begin to see the struggle. You see the difficulty of just getting up each day and doing the normal tasks of life. And we see that He carries our sorrows. Psalm 55, verse 22 says, "...cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." 1 Peter 5, verse 7, "...casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you." According to a recent poll by Gallup, the percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime has reached 29%. That's 10 percentage points higher than just a couple years ago in 2015. The percentage of Americans who currently have or are being treated for depression has also increased up to 17.8% of Americans, or seven points up from the period of 2015. Our society is filled with unhappy people who are suffering, and carrying loads, and dealing with anxiety, and facing all kinds of issues that are just too heavy to carry, and we don't know what to do, and we don't know how to handle it. And Jesus says, come unto me, all you that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Hallelujah, what a Savior. So how was he thanked for a willingness to bear our burdens? How does he thank for a willingness to come alongside of us when we grieve? Yet, we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Stricken is to strike violently. Smitten, obviously, is to strike dead. We see what he accomplished for us. We also see that He forgave our sins. Look at verse 5. But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. It's more than just our burdens. I'm thankful that He carries my burdens. I'm thankful that I can lay in bed at night and rest because He's taking care of things. I'm thankful that I can cast my burdens on Him, but much more than any burden He's ever borne for me physically or mentally or emotionally, He has borne the weight of my sins. It was wounded for our transgressions, our rebellion, our sins, our trespasses. Have you ever stopped to think about the dirtiness of your sin? Think about the worst thing you've ever done on the worst day of your life. He died for that. Think about the sins you committed this week. He died for that. Think about the thoughts that you think that nobody else knows about. He died for that. Think about that secret sin you have that nobody knows about, maybe not even your spouse. He died for that. What a Savior. It was our sins that nailed Him to the cross. 1 Timothy 1, verse 15. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. For some reason, there's this idea that God is this grouchy old man in the sky, standing there with lightning bolts, ready for somebody to sin so He can zap them. But that is not what the Bible teaches us here. It tells us that He wants to bear our burdens. He came into this world, it did not say to save church members. It did not say to save people who are philanthropists. It did not say that He came into this world to save amazing people. It says that He came into this world to save sinners. You say, but you don't understand how bad my sin is. It did not say He came into the world to save good sinners. It said He came into the world to save sinners. You think about the Apostle Paul, this man who would torture Christians, this man who would put people to death for worshiping Jesus. I think he was a pretty bad guy. As a matter of fact, he was a downright terrible guy. And Jesus died for him. If Jesus died for him, He died for you, too. He knew that we would sin. He knew that we would fail Him. He knew that we would mess up. He knew that we would not do the things we were supposed to do. And in spite of that, He says, I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you so much, I'm going to die for you. I love you so much, I'm going to give my life for you. I love you so much, I'm going to leave heaven and come to earth and suffer and be the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Not because of me, but because of you. And He's looking at you today. And He loves you. And He cares about you. And it does not matter how bad you've been. It doesn't matter how wrong you've been. It doesn't matter how many people you've hurt. It doesn't matter that you've hurt Him. He loves you today. Hallelujah! What a Savior! He was bruised for our iniquities. The word bruised is the idea of crumpling, literally to beat to pieces, to break into pieces, or to crush. He was not bruised for his iniquities. He was not bruised because of the bad things he had done. He was beaten beyond recognition for me, for you. Our sins are bad. They're awful. If you've ever needed a reason not to sin, this is it. But then we see the healing He provided. Look at verse 5. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. This is not a physical healing, this is a spiritual healing. And today you can have peace with God, you can have the right relationship with God that He intended you to have because of what He did on the cross for us. We see what he accomplished, but then we see what he endured. The fact that we haven't treated him well is evident. So what has he faced for us? We've already looked at the fact that he's borne our griefs, he has carried our sorrows. We've seen that he was wounded, he was bruised. But then look at verse seven. He was oppressed. Oppression is a huge talking point today. You hear about it all over the place. But imagine the Savior of the world subjecting Himself to oppression. Matthew 8, verse 20. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. End of verse 7. He was afflicted. It gives the idea of being emaciated and frail. He was the creator of the world. And he came to this earth as a weak man. Not the idea that he couldn't work or he didn't have strength, but there was no beauty we saw that we should desire him. But then look at the end of verse seven. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter as a sheep before her shearers is dumb. This idea and the next thing I'm gonna share, they blow my mind. He had legions of angels at his disposal. With one snap of the fingers, the captors could have been killed. He allowed himself to be brought to a place that he would be killed. He is brought. It says, "...brought as a lamb to the slaughter." He was marched to the butchers who would torture and kill him, and he did so willingly. Think of John, the great foreigner of Jesus who would introduce him. And as Jesus came down the hill to the river that day, John said, Behold the Lamb of God. He was a lamb that was from the foundation of the earth headed to the slaughter. Look at verse 8. Not only was he brought, he was taken from prison and from judgment. He was taken from false trial to false trial in one night. Then Isaiah asks this incredible and thought-provoking question for we as Christians. Who shall declare his generation? Can I ask you a question today? Will you declare Him? Will you share what He's done for you? The world looks at Him and they turn their face away. The world looks at Him as somebody who's ashamed. But we as Christians, it is our job to declare Him. It is our job to share Him. It is our job to tell the world around us what He's done for us. I mean, surely if He can bore our sorrows and carry our griefs and die for our sins, we can tell people about Him. End of verse 8. He was cut off out of the land of the living. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. Cut off. The idea of his life being cut short. He was murdered at the age of 33. Why was his life cut short? For our transgressions. Do you notice what we keep saying? We keep saying that He did great things because we did terrible things. We're guilty. Notice up to verse 6. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity or the sins of us all. We've all followed the bad advice and followed our heart. done what we wanted to do, done our own thing. We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. We've all lived beneath a load that we couldn't carry with an impossible standard. But He has promised to take our sins and to get rid of them forever. Look at verse 9. The Creator of the universe went to the grave for me, and He made His grave with the wicked. I wouldn't have come into the world the way He did, being born between barn animals. But I sure, if I was the Savior of the world, would not have died between two thieves. But He made His grave with the wicked. Then we see what He avoided. Look at verse 7. It tells us at the beginning of the verse and the end of the verse that He opened not His mouth. He was betrayed by Judas. He appeared before Annas, and he refused to defend himself. From Annas he went to Caiaphas, and guess what he did? He refused to defend himself. From Caiaphas he goes to Pilate, and guess what he did? He opened not his mouth. Pilate sent him to Herod. If you remember, Herod was the one who had taken the head of John the Baptist for calling out sin. And it's really interesting when we find he goes before Herod. Luke 23, verse 8 tells us about it. It says, So Herod, this sinful, adulterous murderer, is excited about Jesus. Then he questioned him in many words, but guess what Jesus did? He answered him nothing. And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him. And Herod and his men of war sat him at naught, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate. Pilate sees him a second time, and Pilate looks at him, and Pilate questions him, and Pilate says, I find no fault in this man. Pilate was ready to let him go, and the Jews said, no, don't let him go. Release Barabbas instead. Release the murderer instead. Release the horrible criminal instead. If the FBI would have had a top 10 list in that day, Barabbas would have been number one. He was a terrible guy, an awful sinner, and guess what Jesus did that day? He took his place. He opened not his mouth. Think about it. The words that said, let there be light, and there was light. I mean, just out of nothing comes everything. The God who creates the world with the words of his mouth is standing there that day, and he doesn't defend himself. We like to defend ourselves. I know I do. So why did He not defend Himself? Why was He silent that day? Why did He not open His mouth? Because He knew the reason that He had come to this earth. He knew what was ahead. He knew how sinful we were. And He could have opened His mouth, He could have saved Himself from the cross, He could have stopped it all, but that would have stopped our salvation. And He was not willing to do that. Verse 9 says, "...because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth." Notice the fact here that he died in spite of the reality that he had never sinned. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21, In other words, he took our place, although he had never sinned, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. He had never sinned, but he died for sin. He had never committed any injustice, yet He died for injustice. But it was not His, it was ours. Hallelujah, what a Savior. We see finally today, number three, He's the exalted Savior. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, verse 10 says. He shall put him to grief, when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, the pleasure of our Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities. We see here in verse 10 and 11 that he pleased the Father. Jesus was an obedient son. I think of him as he's praying in the garden just before he would be betrayed. He cries. He begins to sweat drops of blood. And he says, Father, not my will, but thy will. He lived a life that pleased the Father. Can I ask you a question today? Is the Father pleased with your life? When He looks at us as the one who sacrificed His Son for us, how are we doing? It's important that we live a life of gratitude and give back to Him so much for what He's given to us. But then look at verse 12. He conquered the enemy. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoiled with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul into death, and he was numbered with the transgressors." We see a beautiful picture painted here. Imagine a conquering warrior, and he's riding out of battle with the spoils of war. He's conquered the enemy, he's gone into defeated territory, and he's taken everything he wanted. That's exactly what we find here. He went to the cross. He died for us. But He did not stay dead. He arose on the third day. I love the song we sing at Easter. Up from the grave He arose, with a mighty triumph o'er His foes. He arose a victor o'er the dark domain, and He lives forever with His saints to reign. He arose. And that's exactly what we see here. That He rides out, and He's got the victory. What is the victory? Well, the victory is our salvation has been secured. Hallelujah! What a Savior! Philippians 2. I couldn't stay out of my favorite chapter this morning. Verse 8. Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. The worst death a person could die. wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. That's exactly what we see here. That He humbled Himself. He became obedient to death. The death of the cross. And because of that, God has highly exalted Him. And one day every knee will bow. The atheist knee will bow. The agnostic knee will bow. The Muslim knee will bow. Every person who's not accepted Him as Savior will one day bow before Him and admit you are King of Kings and you are Lord of Lords. He is the conquering Savior. But then we see at the end of verse 12, he finished his task. And he bared the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors. That day as he hung on the cross, his nearly lifeless body that had been crushed and beaten beyond recognition was suffering. That day he mustered enough energy to push himself up off the nails that were going through his feet, and he forced out one more phrase. It is finished. Can I just pause and say, Hallelujah, what a Savior. The word that he would have uttered that day was the Greek word, tetelestai. It does not just refer to the end of something, it refers to the completion of a task. A painter would finish his masterpiece and he would look at it and he would say, tetelestai. A runner would finish his race, he would look back at the finish line and say, tetelestai. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 12 says, but this man, after it offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down on the right hand of God from henceforth, expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he had perfected forever them that are sanctified." It is finished. He came to this earth from heaven to live a lowly and humble life, a perfect life. He went to the cross and he died and he rose again the third day for our sins. I believe that we get to every message and we have to ask this question. So what do I do with this? How can I take this message home and apply it to my life? I want you to turn to Acts chapter number eight with me this morning. In Acts chapter eight, God had been blessing the church in a great way. I mean, people are being saved left and right. People are daily meeting from house to house. God is just blessing in a way that has not been seen since. But God comes to Philip and says, Philip, I want you to leave this amazing revival that's going on, and I want you to go out to the desert. If I'd have been Philip, I probably would have said, Lord, I'm not sure about that. But he goes to the desert. There he finds a powerful African servant who's reading a book. God sends him to that Ethiopian, and he hears him reading something. Let's look at Acts 8, verse 30. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah. It says Isaiah's there. And said, Understandest thou that thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. And the place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb done before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth. And his humiliation, his judgment, was taken away. Who shall declare his generation?" Does this sound familiar to you, by the way? "'For his life was taken from the earth.' And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this, of himself or of some other man? And Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him, Jesus. That day, the Ethiopian eunuch hears the same passage you've heard this morning, and that day he accepted Jesus as his Savior. But what an opportunity Philip had. Philip that day was able to take this passage and to preach Jesus and to see this Ethiopian eunuch accept Jesus as his Savior. So today you're in one of two camps. You've either accepted Jesus as your Savior or you've never accepted Jesus as your Savior. If you're here today and you've accepted Jesus as your Savior, your goal should be to be like Philip. to go out and to share the gospel with every person you can, preach Jesus to them, and help them see their need for Him so that maybe one day they can be in heaven with Him. But if you're in here today and you've never accepted Jesus as your Savior, hope that you'll have the same ending here that this Ethiopian eunuch did. That today, you'll hear about Jesus. You'll hear about His death on the cross. You'll hear about His perfection. You'll hear about His love for you. And that today, your heart will be broken and that you'll accept Him as your Savior. Hallelujah. What a Savior. Let's pray. Lord, we love You today. We're thankful for Your love for us.