Well, it's my delight to introduce tonight's speaker to us, to all of you. And, of course, he's no stranger here. Mark Mottori has been here many times to speak, and he is, of course, the director of Gospel Fellowship Association and a dear brother in Christ. And it's our privilege to have him speak to us tonight. So, brother, you come. This conference, Paul and I have looked forward to for many reasons. Not because it's at the end of a season of travel. In the last four and a half months, we've been five countries, five foreign countries, five states. I have spoken probably, I've lost count, close to 70 times. The message this evening, of course, the theme, we have the theme up here, the Scripture verse, the passage that he chose is not on here. Let me put that up here real quick. Actually, I added the context to it. The conference theme verse comes from 1 Corinthians 1, verses 23 and 24. By the way, I'm not going to preach from this. I'm going to use this kind of as a springboard for the message. But I want us to look briefly at it. All right, let me read this. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified. Unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Let me just pull those verses, those words out. Paul said, Christ sent me to preach the gospel, to preach the cross, to preach a message that to the world is foolishness, to preach Christ crucified. In that one passage, there's no doubt that Paul's mission His passion was to preach Jesus Christ. It's not wrong to preach other things. I mean, we go expeditionally through the Scriptures. I mean, the topics are there that the man of God may be perfect, truly furnished unto all good works. However, the theme, the central of the preaching is to be the Lord Jesus Christ. To exalt Him, who He is, His work, His attributes, His love, His goodness, His glory. Preparing for this message, my mind went from spectrum to spectrum, thinking about our Savior, Jesus Christ. And thought, maybe I can have a message that would go through and We could talk through the many attributes of Christ and how it relates to our salvation. I mean, I was excited about it. But it got to be about four hours long. I mean, it was just going to be too long. And so I had to focus in on one attribute, an attribute that we find that today the world needs. What can I preach about Christ this evening that we know that we need to tell others about? The theme that was given to me was the Christ whom we preach. And I almost go to Hebrews chapter nine, chapter six, Hebrews chapter six, verse 19, for my message this evening. The book of Hebrews is a book that centers on the person of Jesus Christ, his deity, chapter one. His superiority over the angels, chapter two, that he's, his prophetic ministry also exceeds that of Moses, chapter three, into first part of chapter four. Christ as his priestly work exceeded that of Aaron, chapters four into chapter five. And then how also his priest and king, Christ as king and priest exceeded that of Melchizedek, chapters five through seven. Jesus Christ is the theme of the book. So I thought, I'm going to look in the book of Hebrews and find there a message that would present the Jesus Christ we know that their brother sang about tonight that we have such marvel of. But what is the message that our world needs today? I mean, there's many messages, but I focused on one. Here in Hebrews 6, verse 19, Now let me break this down, beginning with which. The word which in Greek is just a common word for, it could mean who, what, or which. It's used often. Often you have to look at the context to try to determine what the meaning is. But here, which hope? By the way, it's also seen on the bottom at the end of the verse. You see it down over here, the same word. Of course, at the end, it's very clear that it makes reference to Christ Himself, that He is the one who enters into the holies of holies. Well, if we take to the very beginning of the verse, which hope? Which hope? Who? It's a person. It's someone. Of course, the context we know is Jesus Christ Himself. Which hope? Hope, this is His confident expectation. This is the trust. We take those words together. Which hope? That hope. He who is our hope. The author of the book of Hebrews here is emphasizing the Lord Jesus Christ once again and presenting to us He is the hope. Our hope. I'm going to put up here some words. And this pretty much, doesn't this describe our world today? I mean, this just is not South Africa, North Korea. This isn't just these areas in Yemen and parts of the world that are full of corruption, of economic collapse, Venezuela. It speaks to the United States. It's every part of the world. We can see that this describes every part of human nature, of mankind. Wherever you find men, you find these things. You know, Americans, we think of it, we get pretty proud, don't we, sometimes? This week, last week, I've been working with a fellow. I met this guy, a black fellow, long dreadlocks. Gracious kid, really a gracious kid. Paul and I, we met him, I won't go through the circumstances, but, and I really liked this guy. Very pleasant, very polite to talk to. And then the police one night were called out, ended up hauled off in Lamblance, drugs, I didn't realize he was so heavy into drugs, and working this week to get him into a, I don't know, over at Miracle Hill, to go through their Overcomers program, which he went through before, and he was kind of like a success story, came out of that, got a job. But I met some of his friends, and you step a little bit out of our sanitized bubble. Friends, it doesn't take us very far, too many steps outside of that bubble until we find out that really, we really live a blessed life. We marvel at it all. We marvel at the grace. Where we could have been right now. But that's where the world lives. I mean, isn't it great? I've loved being, every time we've come to be in your church, I'd say that honestly. I love the closeness. I love the way you sing. I don't get much chance to hear your pastor preach though, because I end up coming to preach. I'll sneak in, all right, we'll sneak in. But you know, friends, we get outside of this bubble. That's what's out there. And you know what? They have no hope. Dealing with some of the, I mean, don't go into details. There were some situations where we're gonna get a little tense and we thought we're gonna have to call the cops out. I mean, there were some things going on. And I'm like, I go home and I think, wow. The world This describes the world outside of we who know Jesus Christ, who is the power of salvation, who is our hope, our joy. They lack hope. These words describe the condition of our world today, but Christ, the Christ whom we preach, is the world's only hope. He's our hope. The hope will never be found in religion, I looked up on the internet this week and there was, they estimate some 4,200 different religions in the world. 4,200? Actually, I say there's only two. There's the one that says man redeems himself by his works and all the other religions define what those works are. So that's, every religion has a different definition. There's another one that says it's only through Jesus Christ. We're saved by grace through faith alone in Jesus Christ. So there's only two religions. But the other, 4,199, just define what that works, what the works are that make you somehow redeemable. It'll never be found in human government. Again, it'll never be found in human government. Enough said. Here we find 1 Timothy 1, 1 says, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, which is our hope? Jesus Christ is our hope. Colossians 1, 27, 28, to whom God would make known what is the richest of the glory of his mercy among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He's our hope. He's the hope of the world. We sang what we sang in moments ago with Brother Walker here, because we've entered into that hope and our hearts rejoice. But then Paul says, Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we preach. We preach hope to men. We give them salvation, the message of salvation, which is hope of eternal life. He's our hope. That moves on now to the next section of this verse as I broke it down here. He's our hope. And then I say, he's our message. He says, we have an anchor of the soul. We have something to tell people, don't we? That there is an anchor. There is something that we can be sure of. This poor fellow who claims to know the Lord is, and you know, he told me, he said, I've made the wrong decisions. This has been my fault. I need to get back to Christ. He had experienced at one time that anchor. But here we find, and the author of Hebrews uses a wonderful analogy, an anchor. An anchor. I mean, describing that which will stabilize the soul of man that's been tormented by the ravages of sin. In ancient times, an anchor was used by the believers. By the way, Christians, I don't know if you knew this, a lot of time they talk about the fish. You know that an anchor was also used? Not as popular, but it was used as a symbol of solid hope. When I was preparing for this, I wanted to find out something about anchors. We're talking about anchor. There's got to be some kind of an illustration. There's got to be some sort of way that I make application of this. We have an anchor to the soul. And interesting, I'm not a seaman. What do I know? You know, there are dozens of different types of anchors. Depends on how deep the sea is. It depends on if it's a sandy soil bottom, if it's mud, if it's weeds, if it's rocks. I mean, I didn't realize, anybody here know about that, that there was all these different anchors? Oh, okay, there we go. Are you a seaman, brother? I know you. Well, let me put up here, okay, this is typically what we think of when we think of an anchor, isn't that correct? And that's what comes to my mind when I think of an anchor. You know, that is used primarily for this type of scenario. It's most common anchor. It's more when you're close to shore. Relatively calm sea, you can have some, but you have a relatively calm sea. But this standard anchor can destroy or sink a ship in open, deep, treacherous seas. Because if you're anchored solid, if you got the wrong anchor, man, what's going on there? It holds the bow down, and the wave just bashes it. I never knew that. I never even thought about this. By the way, what I'm giving, this has little to do with the sermon. I just enjoyed studying anchors, OK? But here's the type of anchor they recommend for this type of sea. All right, so here's a boat being bashed. Now, you don't want to be anchored to the bottom of the sea. Interesting. But here's the anchor that they use. It looks more like a parachute. Anybody ever seen this? This was new to me. And actually, I found a seaman's manual, a training manual, teaching how to use the different anchors. And here's what they showed. Let me get a, if I can get this laser pointer up here. Okay, see, you see what this says up here? It says, 45 foot breaking wave. And I thought, here, the first class, seamanship class 101. Here's a freshman seaman. He comes into class. We're going to teach about anchors today. First day of class, and they show him this picture. Here's his boat. This is an actual drawing. Look. I couldn't stop laughing. I thought that first day of class, I'd say, I'm out of here. I'm going to go take up basket weaving, something. What would you think? If you're that boat, and here's this big old wave But in a sense, it illustrates. Because here is the sea anchor over here. All right. By the way, it's on the other side of the wave. See, I started drawing some applications here. This is great. That anchor is able to maintain that ship in the proper perspective to a wave to keep it from being capsized or tossed or turned. Wow. What do you think? That's cool, yes. So Christ is the anchor who will sustain and protect us no matter the size or ferocity of the waves or the direction and strength of the winds that blow against us. Amen. There's the hope, you understand? This anchor of our soul that we know, it's steadfast, it's sure, it's not gonna move. It will not be overcome. He's our message. It's the message of that anchor. Titus 3, 7 says that being justified by His grace, we should be heirs according to the hope, there's a hope of eternal life. There's security in this. There's a message that they will be able to become heirs of eternal life through that hope. 1 Peter 1, 3 through 4 says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to His abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope." Again, hope. The message of hope. And He's given us a lively hope. That anchor of the soul. Now, last part of this verse, I'm going to move that up here, okay? We'll just pull this up. And notice what he says. As he finishes in verse 4, We are given this message of an anchor, but it's to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away, that's reserved. You see, all of these verbs describe the effect on the soul that Christ has as an anchor. You're undefeatable. You will survive. This is salvation. You will not be overcome or overturned. It is a surety. And this leads to the next point. It says, He's our hope. He's our message. And then it goes on and says, He's our assurance. Or we could say, He's our certainty. He's our unmovable. Unmovable, is that even a word? Inmovable-ness. I like inviting, inventing words. There we go. Unmovable-ness. He's our assurance. And what does it say? He's our anchor, both sure, the word sure there, means unable to make weak or ineffective. Nothing will weaken that message. It is sure. But it almost seems redundant to say sure and steadfast. They almost seem like they would be words that you will use one or the other, but why both? Well, the word steadfast, by the way, maybe we would think of that as being immovable, completely immovable. But it's not. Sure is unalterable. You will not change it. Steadfast can imply an unalterable change in direction while moving forward. We use that term. The army's advance was steadfast. Doesn't mean they were standing still. No, they were unalterable. They were moving, but not deterred. So follow this through. He's our anchor of the soul that is sure it will not be altered. And he's steadfast. You will not be deterred as you move forward. But taking those both together, sure and steadfast, actually is a phrase in ancient English that was used in a way, in ancient language. These two adjectives together created an expression that established the unmovable nature of an object in relation to everything else around it. Tests or opposition. Hence, it is secure against all attempts to hinder, stop, or destroy its advance. So steadfast and sure isn't just standing still. What used to be one of the things that Bob Jones used to have, still standing but not standing still, something like that. That's the idea. Sure and steadfast. Unalterable. And folks, we need to be unalterable. But not standing still. And this is seen in Scripture in two areas. First of all, is our assurance this is steadfast and sure. Our gospel message is steadfast. It doesn't change. It does not change. The message of Christ that the Apostle Paul preached is the message we preach today, or at least we ought to preach today. There will be those who would alter it, but it really is to be unalterable. Titus 1.2 says, in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, God cannot lie, this will not change. This is steadfast, all right? Promise before the world began. So in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. And just pulling those words, okay, in hope of eternal life, which God promised. It's unalterable. It is sure, it is steadfast. We can, another verse here in Hebrews chapter six, verse 18, which actually is the previous verse to what we're using here as the text, that by two immutable things, two, what are these immutable things? You follow the context? It implies the two immutable things. It talks about the covenant. It's not in here. I guess in verse 17 it names the two things. Is it His covenant and then His oath. His word and His oath. By two immutable things, His word will not change. and his promise will not change." All right, so the gospel message will not change. It is sure and steadfast. It is impossible for God to lie again, it says. And we have a strong consolation that is confidence. Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Again, the hope, Jesus Christ. Just break this down, that by two immutable things lay hold upon the hope set before us. The message is unalterable. It is sure. It is steadfast. Then also we talk about the ministry. We have an assurance of the sureness and the steadfastness of the ministry itself. 1 Corinthians chapter 15, 58 says, Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding." Hear that? Steadfast, unmovable, always abounding. But wait a minute. If you're unmovable, how can you be abounding? Again, see, sure and steadfast. There is a consistent walk, a direction you're taking. It's not standing still. You're abounding. But you're steadfast, unmovable. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." We have an assurance of the ministry. Tomorrow morning when I speak to the men, I want to talk about the most exciting trip we've made in 25 years. And it's just a report to go back to see what God did after 36 years since we left Mexico and the little thing we got started and how it abounded. God will do his work. It will be sure and steadfast. It is not altering, but it will move forward without change. So it says here, Matthew 16, 18 says, I say also unto thee, I will build my church. This is the promise to the church. I will build my church. And what? The gates of hell will not prevail against it. I mean, the gates of hell will not be able to resist our advancements. Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. Here we find the progress of the church. I have set before thee an open door. By the way, what do you do with an open door? You go through it. See, there's the advancement. You're moving forward. And no man can shut it. There's an assurance of the gospel ministry. Sometimes it doesn't look like that, does it? We labor, we work. But friends, we need to take hope. That's steadfast and sure. We stay faithful. 2 Timothy 2.9 says, Wherefore I suffer trouble, As an evildoer, Paul says, as though I was a violator of the law. I'm treated as a criminal. He says, even unto bounds. But the word of God is not bound. This is the persecution of the church. So we find in the gospel ministry, there's the promise of the church, I will build. There's the progress of the church, there's an open door, keep going through it. But then there's the persecution of the church. None of these things stop. The progress, the surety, the steadfastness of the gospel ministry. Remember this, February 2015? Wow, we were all shocked. The horrible beheadings of 21 young Christian Egyptian men in Libya. By the way, we don't know for sure how many of these men were genuine believers. But there is a report that quite a few of them were genuine believers in Jesus Christ. You know, there actually are believers and Christians in Libya and in Egypt. God's Word's not bound, by the way. You know, as soon as the Egyptian Christians heard this, I heard this horrible news. Did you know they went on a massive counterattack? Have you heard about the counterattack they went on? 36 hours after that, they went on their offensive. Guess what they did? They wrote a gospel tract. Less than 36 hours later, a gospel tract called Two Rows by the Sea was sent to the printer. Since then, more than 1.6 million copies have been distributed in churches in Egypt. This has been the largest gospel literature campaign in the history of the American Bible Society. Folks, I will do, in spite of persecution, I will do this. There is a surety, there is an assurance of the gospel ministry. I will do this, friends. We can be encouraged with what God is doing, even right here on this flat rock. He will do it. You see, we need to apply the same hope to our salvation and have the same hope in the message of the gospel, not the message, but also the ministry of the gospel. I will do this. Isn't that phenomenal? These believers over there, their counterattack against the persecution against them was the publishing and the proclamation of a message of hope. You can look this up, and you can actually read it. Sure, I'm sure you could order copies if you want to, but it was the largest gospel literature distribution campaign in the history of the American Bible Society. You know what, when we are terrorized, you know how we respond? The message of hope. Folks, let's, in the changing world around us and the years up to come, in the weeks and the months coming, who knows what's going to come? Let's be messengers of hope. Tertullian, which was a Christian historian, he said, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. You know, throughout the history of the church, I mean, the 200 years of the American history has been an anomaly for Christians. People say, well, the Lord's got to be coming back soon. I mean, look what's happened to America. I'm going, do you think the Lord is so interested in just America? Man, He has allowed us to play for 200 years while the rest of the church has suffered. You know, it's time that we lay hold of the sure and steadfast anchor of Jesus Christ. And we proclaim this hope to the world around us. Hebrews chapter 11 gives a great list of heroes of the faith. Here's a picture of a drawing of Roman Colosseum. You know what they used to do? They would take a church, like a congregation, here we are. They'd have the assigned day that the entire church that was arrested, they would take the church, all the members down to the Colosseum. First of all, they would turn the children loose. And the beasts would attack and devour the children. They did it that way to cause the horror of the moms, the mothers, and the fathers to see their children. Then they would release the wives to torment the husbands. Then the husbands and the pastor would stand there and have to watch his entire congregation destroyed in a violent way. And then turn the pastors loose. What do you think? That's the history. But you know what? If that happens to our country, you know what we need, folks? The message of hope. Hope. By the way, I mentioned about the anchor and the symbol of it. This here is actually a picture on one of the tombs in the catacombs in Rome. You see these, the various styles of these things, but they put them, a lot of these believers, they wanted an anchor. to symbolize, no matter what happened, my soul was anchored. This did not move me. It was sure. It was steadfast. My life, my belief, all that I gave myself to was an anchor. What a message. The lives of these people, willing to give themselves, not deny their Lord. They want people to know, We had an anchor that keeps the soul steadfast and sure while the billows roll. And last of all, here's our mission. This hope and the message we have because of that hope of that anchor, And the assurance of that message, and the assurance of the ministry of what we're doing is not in vain. That cries for a mission. He is our mission. And which, again, the which, the same basic word but referenced to Christ, entereth into that within the veil. That's a little awkward. for our English to read that. It's a little bit awkward, but it's wonderful. He entered within the veil, into the veil. The veil talks about the Holy of Holies. He was the one entering into that mercy seat, that place of atonement and reconciliation of man to God. He left heaven to come to earth on a mission to go within the veil. Ephesians 2.16 says that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. I read this verse, you know, Christ was not slain on the cross. He wasn't slain, he was the slayer. Having slain the enmity thereby, he came on a mission, and that was his purpose. He came to do this. John 10, 15 says, I lay down my life for my sheep. John 10, 18, no one take it away from me, but I lay it down myself. There was that mission. But it becomes our mission. It says, to whom? God would make known what is the riches of His glory, riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Our mission is to preach the hope of glory. Jesus Christ, the Savior, But it says, we are to make known among the Gentiles Christ, the hope of glory. There it is. There is our mission. Christ. Who do we preach? The Christ whom we proclaim is the hope of glory. We know these verses, John 20, 21. Then said Jesus to them, as my father had sent me, im so send I you. My father sent me to come give my life a ransom that others be saved. Now I've given you hope. I've given you a living hope. I've given you the assurance that this is not in vain. You can stand in the Coliseum, let them turn loose their wildest beasts. That wave will come at us, but you know that sea anchor is on the other side of the wave. And that's what gives us the hope that we can go through whatever storm comes at us. And we'll be safe. So send I you, the word send there, basic Greek word, pempo, is to bid a thing to be carried to another. I think I pulled that off. In Strong's definition, I got it right, in Strong's definition, to bid a thing to be carried to another. So he says, as my father sent me, so I send you. I bid you now to carry the same thing to another person. There is a mission. So go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel of hope. unto every creature. The Christ whom we preach, it begins with a hope. It's propagated by a message, that anchor of the soul. It ensures a certainty, it gives us an assurance. Christ guarantees the message will be sure and steadfast. Your work for the Lord will be sure and steadfast. It's also a mission. Let me ask you something. Do you know the Savior? I'm assuming that all of us here this evening know that hope, have that hope. Have that anchor of the soul. Are you trusting the anchor? No matter what comes your way, have you learned to trust Him? We want things to go easy, don't we? And that's natural, that's human. But is that realism? I mean, again, I said these last 200 years in our country here has been an anomaly. We don't know what's gonna happen. One of the candidates terrifies me. The other one just greatly worries me. No one say it, would you? Folks, we have something that's sure and steadfast. It doesn't matter. Well, it does matter, but you understand, when it comes in regards to our faith, it doesn't matter. We have that anchor and know the world around us needs this anchor. If the bottom falls out of our own country, we need lighthouses that can give out that anchor and give that message to the world around us. Let's go into the world and preach the gospel of hope. Turn people to Jesus Christ. Show them that indeed He will anchor them. But are we faithfully doing that? Are we faithfully doing it? I told you about the situation we got into this week. My initial reaction, to be very honest, what's with these people? And when I drove the fellow, what morning was it? I lost track now. Got up early to take him to the rescue mission to get him signed up. He's already been there. He wanted to go back. And there was the Overcomers program there. And got there at 7.30. They said, get there because there's usually others that want to try to get into the rescue mission. So they kind of line up. And I got there. And I look at, drove up in my nice car. I had to go back yesterday, take some more things back to him. That parking lot where they line up is just full of trash. And this, I'm going. I was smitten, though. I thought, we get so proud. We forget. We forget. how we were, or where we would be without the hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And I left there. I drove into the parking lot. No wonder these, how many of you ever thought that? No, no, I'm gonna ask. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Because we live in this sanitized bubble, and I mean, You know, if they would just, you know what? But they're not in the bubble. I had to take some certain items into the facility there. And I came out, and there was guys sitting on the steps. And I stopped, and I greeted them. I got in my car and began to weep. Who am I? Who am I? These are the ones Jesus... He didn't die for the righteous. I feel so righteous. This is what He died for. These men have no hope. We are to be messengers of hope, Jesus Christ. We preach a wonderful message, and it's a Christ that brings men into the veil, to the holies of holies, become reconciled to God, and we bring them into the bubble. And I say that not as though now the bubble is where we ought to stay. We need to find ourselves stepping outside that bubble, getting into our community, right here, right here, folks. There's a missions conference. I've been to some mission conference. They turned into revivals of that local church. Let's stop going. Instead, let's weep. and go, but for the grace of God, we would be there. But someone, someone stepped outside of the bubble for me. Going to public high school, Michigan. I wasn't looking for him, I wasn't. He stepped out of the bubble. I raced motors, I was motocross. I raced motocross. I mean, there's a culture, there's a lifestyle that goes along with that. Someone stepped out of the bubble and showed me the message of hope. Amen. Folks, let's all be messengers of hope. Amen. Let's be those who also proclaim Jesus Christ, the hope of glory. Let's pray. Father, pray that you will work in our hearts as we all need to be convicted. Father, we get so self-righteous, and that self-righteousness often will cause us to isolate from those around us. We're called to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. Father, we're not to exclude or ignore or isolate ourselves from the world right at our doorstep. I ask that you will do a work this evening, challenges for the work overseas, but here at home, that we might speak of the Christ and proclaim his name, his salvation, the hope of glory. Pray this now in Jesus' name. Amen. That image of the anchor and the boat and that huge wave, that's going to stick with me. Really going to stick with me. And I think about the different types of anchors. I think about the anchor that the unsaved world has anchored their soul to. false religions, good works, things that are not going to save them from an eternity in hell. They've anchored their soul to the wrong anchor. And it's only if you've anchored your soul to Christ that you can be delivered, delivered from the flames of hell. That's what's at stake. And so I'm thankful for that image that's gonna stick with me and just be a reminder to me of the unsaved world out there, they're going down, they're going under. What they've anchored their soul to is gonna pull them under and ultimately condemn them forever. And so we, the ones who have anchored our soul to the Lord Jesus Christ, we who have that hope, need to tell them, we need to warn them. We need to warn them of the peril of their soul. And then we need to lead them to Christ so that they can share with us in that hope. So thank you, brother. That was really, really just a very vivid message for us tonight.