Let's go to the Lord and give thanks before we open up the Word of God together. Father, we have just sung the greatest truth in all the universe. Thank You for the gift of music. Thank You for the gift of the Gospel. Thank You, most of all, for the gift of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now as we come to see from your precious, authoritative, inerrant, and sufficient word this message of the gospel, give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts that would be willing to receive this truth. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen. Famous last words. Famous last words. Words that are spoken right before a person passes into death. Words uttered at the very end. Famous last words. There are no important last words in all of the universe than the words that were spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ. Right before, with hope and confidence, He gave up His Spirit. Words that were said right before, He said, Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit. Our Lord Jesus Christ announced certain last words to all of those who stood by His cross, and these were words that were meant to be heard. These were words that were meant for others to contemplate, and John captured them in his account in John chapter 19 and verse 30. Therefore, when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, it is finished. It is finished. And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. And the parallel account in Mark's Gospel makes it pretty clear that these last three words were offered to heaven as a shout. This cry was not the despairing cry of some helpless, dying martyr. Samin, if you could turn it down just a tad. But, a victory cry. A shout of triumph. Now there's three words in the English, it is finished, but in the Greek text, it's actually one single last word. One powerful, earth-splitting, veil-tearing word from the mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now notice that John doesn't explain what that word meant. In fact, For over 2,000 years, Christians have attempted to expound and to unlock the magnitude of that pronouncement by Jesus, but I believe we haven't even scratched the surface of the depth of all that is contained in the last words of our Lord Jesus Christ. The last word, it is finished. It is one drop of language. It is one single word in an ocean of significance. And so this morning, we're going to all take a dive in. We're going to plunge, by God's grace, in a few minutes, into the significance of Jesus' last words. I want you to turn to the book of Colossians 2. Colossians 2. If you don't have a Bible with you, in the bulletin there is a handout with a copy of today's scripture on it, so I'd like you to pull that out so you can follow along as we go through the message. Colossians chapter 2, and I want you to find verse 8 of Colossians chapter 2. Colossians chapter 2 and verse 8. Now, Paul's writing and he says to the church in Colossae, He says, see to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. And so the Colossian church was under an attack by a false gospel, a false good news. A gospel that proclaimed that Jesus Christ was not enough for them, for salvation. That you needed Jesus Christ plus your own good works. Jesus Christ plus your own completion of the law and the ceremonies. A false gospel that combined the suffering of Jesus with your own suffering, that combine Jesus' perfect life with your own efforts, to compile them together to offer to God for salvation. Combine the work of Jesus with your sincerity, or the work of Jesus with your own efforts. But Paul calls this Jesus plus works message philosophy and empty deceit. He calls it human tradition. And instead, he wants us to be absolutely captivated, not by that, but by our Lord Jesus Christ. Why? What's so special about Him? Verse 9. For in Him, that is Jesus, in Him all the fullness of deity, that's God, all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form. Jesus is fully God and fully man. His person is enough for us. Verse 10, And in Him you have been made partial, No. And in Him, you have been made complete. And He is the head over all rule and authority. And so not only His person is enough, but His work is enough. And He makes us full. Same word. Complete. His death is enough. His life is enough. His righteousness is enough for me. He says, be captivated by the perfect person and the complete, sufficient work of Jesus Christ. Why? Why is His work complete and sufficient? Paul goes on to explain this, and Paul's going to say if you're incomplete and you have a complete Christ, you need to be in Him. You need to be connected to Him. And he's going to say it's not by your baptism, even though baptism is a picture here, it's by faith. Watch for that word faith. Verse 11. And in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of flesh by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead." And so Paul kind of summarizes in this whole salvation in verses 11 and 12, he says, we've been united to Jesus by faith alone, We are completed by sharing in the circumcision of Christ, that is His death, and the resurrection life of Christ by faith alone. And then Paul says, okay, that was kind of confusing. I know all that. To summarize that, let me explain. And so he goes on to do that in verse 13. He says, how does that work? And then we come into our text, and we're going to try to unpack verses 13 through 15 specifically. Paul explains, and notice the resurrection theme continuing. Verse 13, when you were dead, When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him. The text says that we are dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of our flesh. Dead. Not a popular word. to describe all of us as dead. When Paul says dead, spiritually dead, of course we're not dead physically yet. We will be. He's speaking of spiritual death here. When you come to the Word of God, we see that spiritual death is defined as being separated from God who is life. Separated from Him. As far as the east is from the west, an eternal chasm, a great grand canyon has separated us from God. And he tells us what has caused that death. Our transgressions and this uncircumcision of our flesh has separated us from God. Now, the word transgression is a kind of a fancy word for sin. We've all heard the word sin, but that word for transgression I like because it emphasizes that while we are spiritually dead, that is, we're separated from God, we're very much alive to sin. Very much alive to sin. That's the nature of that word transgression. In other words, we deliberately sin. What does sin mean? Well, we willfully disobey God's Word. We disobey His holy law. We disobey Him in act, in attitude, and even by our very natures. That's who we are. Now, the Jews had the Old Testament. They still do. The Christians have the 66 books of the Bible, which you may or may not have read, which declare God's word, His holy law. But all of us, whether we've read the Bible or not, have that law of God, the Bible says, written upon our hearts, upon our conscience, and so that we know, we know that we are rebelling against God. Before God saved us, we consciously and deliberately sinned in rebellion against God's holy law. God's Word says, do not lie. And it says, do not steal. It says, do not take the name of the Lord in vain. Do not look upon a woman with lust. Do not covet. God's Word tells us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength. And we all know good and well that we have fallen short of the glory of God. And you know what's even worse? In our spiritual dead list, you know what we say about all this? We say, and perhaps even now we're saying, so what? So what? And we do it anyway, and we enjoy it. And this spiritual state is described as dead in transgressions. And it's permanent. Because apart from Jesus, we live in the uncircumcision of our flesh. That is, we're in bondage to our old nature. We have a bad heart. We have a sinful heart. And so Paul comes and he says, you are dead in trespasses and sins. And I'm telling you, on the authority of Scripture, that's a bad place to be because if you're spiritually separated from God and you die that way, you'll be spiritually separated from Him forever. And that by definition, away from His presence and away from His life and away from His glory can only be utter darkness in a place called hell that we talk about in our common language. All the time. Separated from God. Destined for final separation. That's the bad news. But the good news is you're here today and you don't have to remain dead because of sin. Because the text goes on to say, He made you alive together with Him. The question I have for us this morning is how can dead sinners who are rebels against God, enemies against God, pass out of death and into life. How is that possible? Jesus told us when He said three words in English. He told us. It is finished. Resurrection life with Jesus Christ is only possible because of God's triumph through the cross of Jesus Christ. And at the cross of Christ, God triumphed over our two greatest enemies. That's our simple outline. God triumphed at the cross over sin, and God triumphed at the cross over Satan. Let's look at it in verses 13-15. First, at the cross, God triumphed over sin. Now, there are two ways God triumphed over sin described in the second half of verse 13 and 14. The first, He triumphed over sin by forgiving our trespasses, the text says. It says, having forgiven us all our trespasses. Now, this is past tense, and so at the cross of Calvary, at the cross, Something happened there where our forgiveness was finalized. Our forgiveness was finished at the cross of Christ. You say, well, what is forgiveness? Well, pictures speak better than words sometimes, so let me just read some Old Testament passages that describe what forgiveness of sins is. Just listen. Psalm 103 verse 8. The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His lovingkindness towards those who fear Him. Now watch this, for as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. That's forgiveness. The prophet Micah in chapter 7 and verse 18 said, who is a God like you who pardons iniquity? and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of his possession. That's forgiveness. Pardoning a passing over of sins. He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in unchanging love. He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities underfoot. Yes, you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. and the prophet Isaiah. In Isaiah 1, verse 18 says, come now, and I would ask you to please come now and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool. That's the forgiveness of sins. I don't know about you, but verse 13 is one of my favorite verses in all of the Bible. because of one word in verse 13. Forgiven us of some. Forgiven us all. All our sins. All our sins. How many of our sins have been forgiven? All of them, past, present, and future sins have all been taken away at the cross. And listen to me. This is absolutely essential. Verse 13 is clear. All of our sins must be forgiven before we can have resurrection life. This is why Christ had to say, it is finished. He had to absolutely and perfectly finish the work on the cross before he could be raised from the grave. Let me ask you a question. If Jesus Christ had one sin on his account in his life, could he have risen from the dead? No, he'd still be dead today. In the same way, All of our sins, past, present, and future, must have been paid for at the cross if we're going to be given the gift of resurrection life with Him. All of them must be gone. And so when Jesus said, it is finished, He had paid the just punishment for all of your sins, believer. And so at the cross, the cause of our spiritual death, that separation, that sin that separates us from God, that cause of spiritual death is done away with, all of it, so we can be given the gift of new life and we can be brought near to God and fellowship with Him. And so God, the Holy Spirit, in our lives and time, has come to us who are believers and raised us up into newness of life. And He could never have done that if there's one single sin, one single white lie, one single bad thought left to our account unpaid for by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. So brothers and sisters, let me tell you some good news. Your sins are all gone. All of them. Every single one of them. Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. Some people find their greatest pleasure and happiness in money and things. and hobbies. They find their greatest hope and joy in vacations and recreation and success and pleasure. But let me tell you, as one who has tasted and seen that the Lord is good, nothing makes you more joyful than knowing for certain that all of your sins are gone. Nothing compares to the joy of forgiveness. David, when he knew he was forgiven of his sin with Bathsheba and brought back, as it were, into fellowship with God, he said in Psalm 32, how happy is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. How happy is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity. And if I wondered for even a minute, if I was worried that one sin was left unpaid for, that I had to work harder or somehow earn and pay back even one little sin my whole life, I would live my life in abject misery and anxiety, worrying if it was done, if it was finished. But that's not the gospel. The gospel of Jesus Christ is that Jesus has paid for every one of my sins. He's forgiven all of my sins, and He leads me to a place of rest, to a place of peace, because that forgiveness is final, full, and forever. There is no such thing as unforgiven sin for the Christian, because Jesus said, it is finished. Now, you say, but how? I've heard people say at least, I've even read in the Bible that this God that you're speaking of is holy. He can't be in the presence of sin forever. He can't sweep sin under the rug. So how? Can God forgive a sinner like me? Is He just blind? God triumphs over our sin through the cross in forgiveness of sins, but He also triumphs over sin by canceling our certificate of debt. Let's dig into this. By canceling our certificate of debt, He's triumphed over sin. Verse 13 again, when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him. Reason number one, how can he make us alive? Having forgiven us all of our transgressions. Second way, having canceled this out, the certificate of debt, consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us, and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Let's find out just how certain this forgiveness is. Notice that this certificate of debt actually exists. Now, there's not an actual physical piece of paper. This is a spiritual reality. There's a spiritual certificate of debt. But what a powerful picture of the truth. You say, well, what is this certificate of debt? Never heard of this before. The certificate of debt is a handwritten document, a signed statement. It's a handwritten note of indebtedness. It's a promissory note to pay God back for violating His law. You see, all people are bound as God's creatures to keep God's laws, to obey His word, and to satisfy His righteous demands. To break His laws is to sin, and when we sin, we're piling up debt before God because we violated His laws, we've transgressed His laws, and all of that's being recorded on a certificate of debt for each one of us, as it were. Paul tells us in Romans 3.23, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and so we all have this handwritten certificate of debt, which is a legal document, which is proof that we have violated God's commands by our actions, by our heart motivations, and by our very natures. And the point is this, God keeps an accurate record of our debt. He's not an idiot. Not one sin, not one violation is missed. And this document, this note, is written with one's own hand. It's in your own handwriting. It's proof of obligation to God. It's a signed acknowledgement of your debt before God. It's a sinner's I owe you to God. If I wrote you a note, let's say we made a business transaction, I, Jeff Rich, owe you, Paul Fuller, $1,000. Signed, Jeff Rich. Let's put this in the spiritual realm. I, Jeff Rich, on 6-25-77, stole from a store. On another date, I lusted. On another date, I lied and took the name of God in vain. I owe eternal punishment for these violations of an eternal God's holy law. I must be condemned forever, signed Jeff Rich in my own handwriting. Certificate of debt. And I don't know about you, but it's quite a long document. Every sin recorded. Every transgression recorded. And I have to pay in full, and the text says it stands as a silent testimony against me. In fact, it's a witness, the text says, hostile to me. Hostile enough to condemn me to judgment in hell. There's an act of hostility against us. We are cursed for breaking God's law. Paul wrote in Galatians 3.10, For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law to perform them. That's kind of tough. All things written in this book? Who's done that? None of us. have obeyed God's law perfectly. There's only one who has, and his name was Jesus, is Jesus. My IOU is legal evidence documenting my sin, and so I stand condemned and guilty before a holy God. The certificate of debt is damning evidence against me, and so in my own strength, there is absolutely no hope. The wages of sin is death. Eternal separation from God forever. Paying for this eternal debt in a place called hell. So this certificate of debt spiritually is a reality. But I've got some good news for you. Because the text says that the certificate has been destroyed. It's been destroyed. Look at it in verse 14. Colossians 2, verse 14. Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us. And here's the main verb. He has taken it out of the way. How? having canceled it out, and secondly, having nailed it to the cross. And so there's some amazing pictures here of how we can be forgiven of all of our trespasses, and how we can have a decisive and permanent removal of the certificate of debt. First, Paul says by being canceled. Think of that piece of paper. with all the list of sins. It's been cancelled. Now, our pieces of paper soak in ink, so the picture doesn't hold as well, because that word for cancelled actually is erased. But back in that day, they had skins, vellum, and sometimes parchment. But because the ink did not have acid on it, it didn't sink in and become permanent, even with that paper and even with that animal skin. And so you could easily take a wet cloth and you could wipe away that animal skin and get rid, as it were, of all of the evidence. And so the picture is, Through forgiveness, he's wiped off that certificate of debt. That's what that word cancelling means. It's erased. But you say, well, what if just a little bit, a little residual of ink is left? And that's why he goes to the second way that he's taken this debt out of the way, by nailing the certificate to the cross of Christ. It's been erased, but he goes on and says it's been nailed to the cross of Christ. The cross of Jesus Christ. What happened here? To deal with this certificate of debt which records our sin. What happened? Well, Jesus Christ, we know that We know that He was beaten. We know that a crown of thorns was shoved onto His head and He was beaten with rods. He was scourged. We know that He opened up, not His mouth, like a sheep that is led to the slaughter. And we know that physically, He carried His own cross and He took the spikes into His hands, His wrists actually, and in His feet. And we know that He died in a horrific Roman torture device. And not many debate that historical point. What people tend to not understand is that the physical side of the death of Christ is really just the picture. Like the certificate of death is just the picture of the reality behind it. Something greater, something far worse was happening. For at the cross, for six hours, in the first three hours, Specifically, Jesus called the hour of darkness in the sense that all the forces of hell and darkness, all the devil and his demons were, as it were, poured out to torment the perfect Son of God. The Father had turned His back on Him and He was alone. And the sin of all the world was put upon His back. And it only began at that point as the accusers pestered him with that truth. But then in the last three hours, something interesting happened. Darkness covered the land. Do you remember? And in the last three hours, the first three hours too, but in an accumulating sort of way, the Heavenly Father poured out upon His one and only Son, the just, righteous, eternal punishment for the debt of sin that we owed. Not that He owed, He was sinless. And Jesus willingly, while He was there, the Father turned His back on Him and He absorbed in His own eternal God's soul, but as a man, He absorbed the eternal hell you deserve in your place. He consumed the wrath of God for you. That's what was happening on the cross of Calvary. The nails were a picture of it, but the horror of it is unimaginable. And that is when Jesus had finished paying the last drop of your sin. When He said, it is finished. Does that mean something now? He was done. He had paid all of your debt. Every single last penny. And that is what it means. Now, there wasn't a piece of paper, a certificate of debt, a piece of paper that was nailed to the tree that day. Jesus Christ became your certificate of debt. He was nailed to the cross. And in Him, sin was wiped clean. In Him, sin was obliterated. And He paid it back, not in your handwriting, but in His own handwriting. He wrote across it, finished in His own blood. He accomplished your redemption. Jesus triumphed over sin at the cross of Calvary. by forgiving your sin, and going even deeper how that happened, by wiping and destroying the certificate of debt against you. Jesus destroyed sin. And He also, secondly, triumphed over Satan. Look at verse 15. This gets really good. Verse 15. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him." Or through the cross. It would be a good translation of that last pronoun. Through the cross. And so, the text says the cross was the death blow to Satan and his hosts. Satan and his demonic hosts. Satan, I mean, he must have been laughing. He must have thought, aha, I have him. This is the hour of my victory. The Son of God dying on the tree, right? He was wrong because he struck Genesis 3.15. He struck the Son of God upon the heel. But at that very moment, at the cross, Jesus Christ struck Satan upon the head, the text says, thousands of years before it happened. He crushed his head. Well, how did he do it? How did he triumph over Satan? The text gives us two ways. He triumphed over Satan through the cross by disarming Satan first, and then by displaying Satan. He disarmed him. God the Father disarmed the evil principalities and powers, Satan and his hosts, of their dignity, of their might, and their authority through the cross of Jesus Christ. Disarmament. Now that means if I came up to Phil and I disarmed him, that means I found his knife or his gun and I took it away from him. I disarmed him. So what does it mean that Satan was disarmed? Well, think about it. What's the context? What is the weapon that Satan might hold to your head all your life? The certificate of debt. That is the best weapon that he has. We are kept in the grip before salvation because of the possession of the documented evidence of our just condemnation, Satan, for you, used to hold the handwritten evidence. And Satan says, see, I have this evidence against you. You are mine. And day and night we were kept in the grip of Satan due to this damning indictment. And you know what? Satan, he likes to take a fake piece of paper, that he scribbles something on it that's fake, and he still holds a piece of paper to your head as a believer. And he's still dumb enough to be the accuser of the brethren. And we believe him. He's the great accuser of the brethren. John wrote in Revelation 12.10, and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down. which accused them before our God day and night, and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb." As John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. The devil had previously held us captive as slaves to sin. With him as our master, holding a weapon to our head, the certificate of dead, but at the cross, the reason for accusation has been wiped away. It's been nailed to the cross, and Satan has been disarmed by the cross of Calvary. You know, Martin Luther, many years ago, Martin Luther experienced the reality of this truth. He had a dream. And in this dream, He was visited by Satan at night. And Satan brought to him that certificate of death, that record of his own life, written with his own hand. The tempter said to him, is it true? Did you write this? Is this your signature? And the poor, terrified Luther had to confess it was all true as scroll after scroll after scroll was unveiled and unrolled before him. And Satan wrung out of him the same confession again and again and again. And when it was over, And when the dream was over, Satan, with his arms folded at length, took his leave of the terrified and trembling Luther in the depths of misery. And suddenly, as the tempter was about gone, he said, wait! And he said to the tempter, and he said, hold on a second, it is true, every word of it, but right across it all, The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. And the devil is disarmed. Brothers and sisters who are in Christ today, stop being miserable. Tell Him that there's therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For at the cross, God triumphed over Satan by disarming Satan, and secondly, by displaying Satan. He made a public display of them, putting them to shame in verse 15. How? Triumphing over them through the cross. This public display is a picture of a Roman general. You know, Rome fought lots of countries. They conquered a country. The Roman general would come into Rome. and there would be great, raucous crowds and pomp and circumstance, and he would drive the captives in with all the treasure, and the servants would be there of the foreign nation, and the children and their families would be right behind them, and then would come the king, and he'd be dressed in black, and his mouth would be shut. and they'd come in and they'd be waving their hands and asking for mercy. This is the display that Paul is writing about. They would be defeated but not yet died, but their execution was sure to come. And in the same way, brothers and sisters, God parades these powerless evil principalities in Satan and his host and makes it plain to all the magnitude of his victory. Satan has been disarmed and Satan has been displayed in shame through the cross of Jesus Christ, and his final doom, his final execution is sure. Yes, and they exist. They're still alive now. They oppose us, but they cannot finally harm the person who is in Christ, and their final overthrow is sure and certain through the cross of Calvary. What did Jesus mean when he said, it is finished? It meant this, Jesus triumphed over my two greatest enemies. He triumphed over my sin, and he triumphed over Satan. The great accuser of the brethren is weaponless, defeated, and shamed. And his final destruction is sure. And if that has happened, Right? Then being dead in trespasses and sins, as horrific as that really is, that has been killed, that has been conquered through the cross of Christ so that Jesus Christ can come to you and raise you to newness of life. And it happened to me at age 27. When I finally saw my sin, I was pacing back and forth in my townhome, tired of the hypocrisy, having finally seen my sin, having it showed to me by a friend who was willing to tell me the truth of the gospel. I wept before my mom, who thought I was going crazy, and I came to understand that this is who I was, but that Jesus was my only hope. And I put all my good works in a pile of And I put all my sin in a pile and I turned from it and I turned to Jesus Christ and I said, only you can save me. Do you remember that day? Do you remember that time when God was doing that in your life? Has that happened to you? That is what this means, this transfer out of death to life. It's faith alone, it's not you working for it. You can't pay that debt. It's saying, Christ paid that debt and I received His perfection. And I'll tell you what, you say, well, I'm not certain that you're right. How can we be sure that He actually finished it? How do we know that He's right? How do you know? I'll tell you why. That's why we're here today. We know the proof that your purchase, that your redemption is finished, is that Jesus Christ is alive. That's the proof of your purchase. The proof that victory over sin and Satan has been accomplished, is that He rose from the dead because death could not hold Him. And so we can say with Paul in 1 Corinthians 15, oh, death, and we can mock death in its face. Oh, death, where is your victory? Oh, death, where is your sting? Now, the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. So hear me this morning. This is as we close. There is no salvation by you trying in your own efforts to somehow pay back an eternal debt of sin. You can't do it in 30 years. God is not going to weigh your good and your bad and see which one is heavier. If you've got one thing written on that certificate of debt, you're in big trouble for all eternity, and you can't fix it. But Jesus can. You know, God the Father, God, He's a just judge. He's a really good accountant. Really good. And the fact is, the certificate of debt is written in your own handwriting, And there's no salvation by balancing the records. There's only salvation by canceling the records. It must be wiped out. It must be blotted out. It must not be balanced. It must be blotted out. So what should you do if you can't blot it out? Cry out for mercy. Believe that it's true. Turn from your sin, turn from your good works, and turn to Jesus today. Come to Him. And He says, come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take your yoke upon Me and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. He says, come to Me. And He meant it. For he who comes to Jesus will in no wise be cast out. And I will tell you today, don't let the devil whisper in your ear that this is a lie. Don't sleep a wink tonight until you get right and clean before God through the cross of Christ by simple faith alone. Today can be the day of your salvation. Amen? Today. Paul, can you come up and lead us as we sing about this great Gospel as we close?