Go to verse number 12, Philippians chapter number one, verse number 12. But I would you should understand brethren that the things which happen unto me have fallen out rather under the furtherance of the gospel. So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places. And many of the brethren in the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear. Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife and some also of goodwill. The one preached Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I'm set for the defense of the gospel. What then? Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Our Father, I pray that you'd bless us today. I pray that we would think of you, think of your words, think of all that we need to hear and learn and understand that we might apply it to our lives. Guide and direct and bless, in Christ's name we ask it, amen. The book of Philippians is a book about joy, but it's not about some kind of a joy where you're always happy and a joy where everything's always rosy and right and nice and kind and fluffy. It is a joy that still comes in the midst of difficult circumstances. The Christian life is a life of joy. is a life of rejoicing. Again, this does not mean that you will always be happy. This does not mean that you will always be healthy. This does mean that Jesus Christ will be with you at all times and you can rejoice all of the time. Why? Because your sins are forgiven. You have a home in heaven. You have a relationship with God because of what Jesus Christ has done for you. And he has promised you that he will never leave you nor forsake you. Despite your circumstances, whether they are good or whether they are bad, Jesus Christ will never leave. Amen. And with that, we can rejoice. Remember, Paul is under house arrest. He is chained to a Roman soldier as he writes. A true measure of spirituality is what does it take to rob you of your joy? What does it take to remove that joy, that looking up to God in all things? What does it take to do that? What causes you to lose heart and stop trusting the God who promised to take you to heaven and promised to sustain you every step of the way here. Not what takes away your happiness, because happiness is circumstantial. And happiness is a byproduct of good and bad. It's a byproduct of what takes place around us. But Paul reminds us that the attitude of rejoicing can be with us at all times. And it is very important to maintain that attitude in your life at all times. He begins with the words, but I would, you should understand. But I would, you should understand. So what does he want us to understand as he continues on in this verse? He wants us to understand this, that distress can yield progress. Distress can yield progress. Look what he says here again, verse number 12 of Philippians chapter number one. But I would, you should understand, brethren, that the things which happen unto me have fallen out rather under the furtherance of the gospel, so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and all the other places. And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. Now again, he's under house arrest. He's been arrested for preaching the gospel. He's in Rome in his own house, but he's got Roman soldiers there all of the time. You can almost hear him say, I may not be happy about my situation. I may not be happy because I can't leave this house. I can't go where I want to go. I can't get to the synagogue. I can't get to where I need to be, but I can rejoice in that the gospel message is progressing. It is going forth despite my being in this place. It is not a matter of putting on rose-colored Christian glasses. It is not a matter of sticking your head in the sand or denying reality. It is a matter of seeing the bigger picture. Now this morning's message is entitled, Turn the Camera Around. In the selfie world in which we live, there is a bigger picture. Turn the camera around. Amen? Paul is here in prison. He is here in distress. He is here in trouble, in problems. This is not a good situation to be in, no matter how you write it. And instead of focusing on himself, what is he focusing on? He's focusing on God. He's focusing on other people. He's saying, I'm here in prison, but because of my trouble, because of my distress, the gospel's being furthered. What does he do? He turns the camera around. He focuses it not on himself, which we all like to do so often. He puts the camera the other way, makes sure the wide lens is on, and he sees a world without Christ. What happened to me? is no big deal. What I'm going through is no big deal. The problems, the distresses that I am facing are no big deal because the gospel is going further. The gospel is progressing. More people are hearing the word of God preached, more people are hearing the gospel and coming to Christ, and that is all I am concerned about. My distress has led to eternal progress, and in that I can rejoice. Amen. There's where we find our problem in life. It's our attitude toward life. The camera is facing the wrong way. Who do we tend to focus on? I think the word selfie explains it all. Who do we tend to focus on? Me. What I'm going through. What's happening to me? What's taking place in my life? What's going on in my circumstances, my situation? It is all about me and my distresses. That's our problem. The camera's facing the wrong way. Turn the camera around. You see, when we focus on distress, and he kinda says here, I want you to understand this, that the things which happened unto me, that's where most of us stop. I want you to hear about the things that happened unto me, me. Let me share some secret with you. There's no such thing as a problem-free life. Did you hear me? There is no such thing as a problem-free life. If you believe that, it's because you're not reading the Bible, or you're listening to a charlatan who tells you that everything's gonna be rosy, everything's gonna be great, you can live your best life now, and everything will be wonderful if you just come to Christ, and oh, by the way, send me a lot of money. That's not what the Bible says. There's no such thing as a problem-free life. It doesn't exist. We're all going to have problems. It is going to happen. What do we need to do? We need to turn the camera around. Turn the camera around. Stop focusing on self. Stop focusing on me and see what God is doing for his honor and his glory. And sometimes he does that in the middle of our problems. Let's look at some passages of scripture. Go to John chapter number 15, John chapter number 15. John chapter 15, look at verse number 18. John chapter 15, verse number 18. If the world hate you, You know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own, but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my sayings, they will keep yours also. What is Christ saying? This is not gonna be a fun road all the time being in this world. You're gonna have people who hate you. You're gonna be persecuted. Things will go wrong. John chapter number 16, verse number 33. John 16, verse number 33. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. You're gonna have tribulation. You're gonna have distress. You're gonna have problems. You're gonna have troubles. They are going to come. These are from the words of Jesus Christ. He didn't whitewash anything and say come to me and everything's gonna be rosy and great and wonderful. He told you the truth. There are going to be problems. But you can rejoice because I've overcome the world. and you're gonna have peace in and through me. Amen. Go to 2 Timothy chapter number four. 2 Timothy chapter number four. 2 Timothy chapter number four, verse number 12. 2 Timothy 3, 12, excuse me. 2 Timothy chapter three, verse number 12. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. How many? All that are godly in Christ Jesus. One more, go to 2nd Peter. 1st Peter, chapter number four. 1st Peter, chapter number four. Verse number 12. 1st Peter, chapter four, verse number 12. These are just a sampling of the verses. The Bible tells us there will be trouble. There will be persecutions. There will be distresses. We will go through problems. There's no such thing as a problem-free life. but to the Christian, you've got Christ. First Peter chapter four, verse number 12. Beloved, think it not strange, considering the fiery trial, which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. But rejoice in as much as you are partakers of Christ's suffering, that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye. For the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you. On their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. God said, you're gonna have trouble in this world. It's going to happen. Go to Romans chapter number eight, Romans chapter number eight. Romans chapter number eight, verse 35. Romans chapter eight, verse number 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword. He acknowledges these things are gonna be in your life. These tribulations, these persecutions, these distresses, these bad things, these hard times, they will come into your life, but will any of them separate you from the love of Christ? I mentioned to you before, verse number 36, you kind of wonder why it's there. He says, as it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. What he does here in verse number 36 is he quotes from Psalm 44, verse number 22, where the psalmist is saying, God, where are you? God, I don't see you. God, I don't understand. God, what is going on that you're not helping us right here, right now, in changing these circumstances? We're killed all the day long. We're counted as sheep for the slaughter. And what does Paul answer that as he uses that? He answers it in verse number 37, nay, no. No, that's not what's taking place. God has not ignored you. God is not away. God has allowed these things to happen in your life. But in all these things, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I'm persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Nothing's gonna take you away. and in that you can rejoice, amen. He's already said in this same chapter that we know that God works all things for good, amen. He doesn't say all things are good. Never said that. We're gonna have tribulation, we're gonna have distress, we're gonna have trials, we're gonna have bad things happen. Turn the camera around. That's what Paul does here. It's not on me. It's on Christ. God is for me. God loves me. He never said he'd remove the trials. He said that he loves me and that nothing will ever separate me from that love. Amen. Now remember, The chapter divisions in verses were not in the original. They're not inspired by God. They were added for our benefit so we could read closer. What does he say right after he says, nothing's gonna separate me from the love of God? What does he say? Look at chapter nine, verse number one. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not. My conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart for I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. Did you get this? He said through all the bad things that have happened to us, to me in my life, I don't focus them on me. I turn the camera around and I look up to a God who said nothing will ever separate me from his love and I look out to a world that needs to be saved. He's saying in verses one through three of chapter number nine, I would go to hell to see my brethren, the Jews, Israel, saved. Wow. I'd be willing to be accursed. I'd be willing to be separated from God for eternity that other people might be saved. Wow, what a statement. That's not focusing on me. That's on Christ. On others. turn the camera around. He said, my distress is leading to progress. He said, the things that happened unto me, and he doesn't stop there in Philippians chapter one, verse number 12. He says, they've happened unto me for the furtherance of the gospel. So the gospel message will continue. So the gospel message will get out there. People are still witnessing. People are still preaching Jesus Christ. And in that, I can rejoice. He said, I'm stuck here. But the gospel is progressing. I'm stuck here in this house with this Roman soldier. They change all the time, but I'm still stuck here with a Roman soldier. The gospel is spreading. It is going in every direction. He uses the word in the palace here, in the palace. The Greek word is praetorian. Some commentators take this as a reference, not just to the palace, the palace courtyard, but literally to the praetorian guard. The Praetorian Guard was originally composed of 10,000 hand-picked soldiers, started by Caesar Augustus. You know him. He was the Caesar that ruled when Jesus Christ was born. He picked these soldiers to guard the city of Rome. They were there in charge of keeping the peace in Rome, of keeping the peace there and from outward invaders. Tiberius increased their numbers, he built a special fortified camp to house them, and there's perhaps one of these guards that's being chained to the Apostle Paul 24-7. Oh yeah, they twitch, but Paul's there writing, Paul's there speaking to people, because guests can come in, and they hear the gospel message from Paul. And guess what these soldiers are doing? They're trusting Christ as Savior. You know what they do then? When their shift is over and they go back, they're witnessing to other people. He's gonna go on to say later on in the book, many people, even of Caesar's household, have come to trust Christ as their Savior. Wow, why? Because I'm stuck here. Because I'm imprisoned here. because I can't get out here, but the gospel is going forward. Boy, that's amazing. How many of us get stuck in a circumstance, get stuck in a predicament, get stuck in some kind of trouble, and we just stop. Head goes down, heart swoons, and we shut down. Paul said, no, I'm gonna do what's right. I'm gonna witness to those that are with me. I'm gonna still give out the gospel message. I'm gonna write letters. I'm gonna be busy doing for God because while I'm stuck in this place, while I'm in this distress, the gospel can still progress and in that I will rejoice, amen. What does he do? He turns the camera around. He doesn't focus on me. He focuses on what God is doing outside of him. Amen. Understand this. It's not me. It's Christ. It's not me. It's the gospel. Turn the camera around. There's an Old Testament illustration, very clear of this, a guy by the name of Joseph. Do you remember Joseph? Joseph had a dream that one day his mother and father and brethren would all bow down before him and he didn't know what it was all about, but he told it to them and that was probably not a good idea. He let him know this dream and they hated him. They hated him for all kinds of reasons. They hated Joseph. One day his brothers sold him into slavery. And what does Joseph do? He goes and he sits on a bench, he lowers his head and he cries out and he just, it's over, right? No. He turns the camera around. I don't like being a slave. But I'm going to serve God. I'm going to do what's right. You read Genesis 39, the Bible says, and the Lord was with Joseph. Is he with you when you go through your problems? Yeah. He said he'd never leave you. He'd never forsake you. And Joseph would rejoice in the Lord. Oh no, not happy about the circumstances, but he would rejoice in the Lord and do what's right. And would God use him? Well, eventually he's going to prison. Eventually he'll be forgotten about in prison. Eventually he'll end up rising to the second in command to the most powerful nation on the planet at the time. And God will use him to save the nation of Israel, saving us. Because Christ came through the nation of Israel. His distress led to what? Progress. In reality, the furtherance of the gospel. Because Christ came. Can God do that for you? Yeah. 17th century England, there was a preacher by the name of John Bunyan. He was such a powerful preacher and such a popular preacher that the Church of England imprisoned him to silence him. Well, refusing to be silent, he began to preach in the jail courtyard. Well, the prisoners would come hear him. People would gather outside of the walls of the jail to hear John Bunyan preach and give out the gospel message. Well, the Church of England really didn't like that. They stuck him in a dungeon in the middle where he could not be heard. You know what John Bunyan did? He wrote a book. entitled The Pilgrim's Progress. And for a while, there was no better selling book, other than the Bible, than The Pilgrim's Progress, in which through analogy, he outlines the Christian life and coming to Christ and serving Christ. What he went through, his distress, led to the gospel progressing. He could say, with Paul, what happened unto me happened unto the furtherance of the gospel. For while he couldn't preach for a few years, his book went to the ends of the earth. Can God do that for you? Yes. But what you need to do in order for that to happen, turn the camera around. Turn the camera around. Paul says here in Philippians chapter number one, things that happen unto me are no big deal. because the gospel is going further. The brethren have been emboldened to preach the gospel more. They're doing great. They're preaching the gospel. The lost are being saved. The word of God is going forth and it is great. What does he do? He doesn't focus in on himself. He doesn't take that selfie of himself in prison, crying, sulking, wondering where is God in all of this. No, he says, God's with me. I'm still going to do what's right and God will bless. Amen. Number two, detractors can yield proclaimers. Detractors can yield proclaimers. Look back at Philippians chapter one, verse number 15. He's just said the gospel is being preached, the brethren are being emboldened, good things are happening, but then he says in verse number 15, some indeed preach Christ, even of envy and strife, and some also of goodwill. The one preached Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I'm set for the defense of the gospel. What then? Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached. And I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice." Again, we find another example of Paul's ability, or rather his attitude, of being able to turn the camera around. Get it off of me and on to where it should be. On to Christ and who he is and what he has done, and on to people who need to hear about Jesus Christ, that they might be saved. In prison for the preaching of the gospel. He had people actually disparaging him and speaking unkindly of him to say the least. He had detractors, he had people saying bad things of him because he's now in prison for preaching the gospel. He says in verses 15 and 16, some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife. He says in verse 16, the one preached Christ of contention. There's detractors, disparagers, those that are saying bad things about him. Envy. Some people preaching Christ have envy. Now envy is the idea of wishing others didn't have what they have. You know, it's kind of like jealousy. Jealousy is the idea of wishing I had what you have. Envy is wishing you didn't have what you have at all. That's envy. And they were envious of the Apostle Paul, and they preached Christ that way. People with the camera facing themselves. One illustration. I should be them. That should be me. They don't deserve that, I do. And on and on we go. These were preachers of the gospel. This is kind of astounding, but it's a fact. These were preachers of the gospel who were theologically correct, but because the focus of their lives was on self and not Christ, they disparaged the apostle Paul in his hour of need. He's in prison. They could have helped him. They could have prayed for him. They could have visited him. Instead, they said bad things about him. Oh, they were preaching Christ. They were doing the right thing that way. But their envy of the Apostle Paul caused them to say bad things about him. Strife. Strife is unchecked envy. is what it is. It is unchecked envy, and it leads to a malice of thought, a malice of word, and malice of deed. If I don't think you should have what you have, then I start to get angry about it. I don't check that envy. I'm going to get mad at you for having it. That's what's going on here. And yet they're still preaching Christ. They're still preaching Christ, that envy, that strife coming out against Paul. It is one thing when the world persecutes you. It is one thing when the lost says bad things about you. It is one thing when those who don't know Christ will disparage you. But when your detractors are supposed believers, oh, that's painful. When those who are supposed to love you, those who are supposed to pray for you, those who are supposed to be on your side, on your team, moving things forward, they're the ones that are striking out, lashing out against you, that is painful. He said they're preaching Christ out of contention. And the word means selfish ambition. I want what's mine and I'm going to get it. And they thought that by their preaching the gospel, they could hurt the Apostle Paul in prison. Wow. Absolutely amazing. What does Paul do? What does he do? Let's read it. Verse 17. Verse 16, the one preached Christ of contention, not sincerely supposing to add affliction to my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I'm set for the defense of the gospel, what then, notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. He turns the camera around, and he said, It doesn't matter if they're saying bad things about me. They're preaching Christ. And I'm happy about that. I can rejoice in that. Wow. Now, I'm not on social media. at all, and you know that, I don't do that. My wife is, and she takes care of that kind of stuff, and every now and then she'll show me some of the things that are on there, and some of them are really funny, and some of them are really sad, and some of them are crazy. One of the ones that I've seen is kids, somehow something bad's happened to them, and most of the time the thing that has happened to them that's so awful is they've had their phone taken away. And what are they doing? They've got a phone focused on themselves and they are crying into this phone camera. And you see them just bawling into this phone about how bad they have it. Think about the Apostle Paul right now. He's in prison. He's attached. by a chain to a Roman soldier. He's got the world hating him for preaching the gospel. Now he hears about preachers who are saying negative things about him in prison. What would we do? We'd get that phone out. We'd focus in on ourselves. Now, not literally, figuratively, and we would start thinking about how bad I have it. This is horrible. I'm stuck here. Where's God? It stinks. Now I got these people talking bad about me all the time. This is awful. This is horrible. I might as well just give up. What does he do? He turns the camera around. I don't care what they say about me. As long as they're preaching Christ, I'm rejoicing. Wow. Wow. Can we have that same attitude? Yeah, we can, but we got to work at it. We've got to foster it. We've got to do it. Paul would not cry into the camera, so to speak. He does not focus on the fact that he is in prison. Doesn't focus on the fact that he is being disparaged. He focuses on the fact that Jesus Christ is being preached. He's focusing on the fact that people are hearing the gospel and coming to know Jesus Christ as Savior. It doesn't matter if people with wrong attitudes are preaching him, they're still preaching him. Jonah did that. He preached repentance to the city of Nineveh with a bad attitude. And the city of Nineveh repented. And Paul said, Christ is being preached. And in that, I am rejoicing. Amen. You will have problems. You will have distresses. You will have troubles. No one gets through this life without them. Turn the camera around. You will have detractors. You will have people say bad things about you, even when you do what's right. Because as the old adage puts it, no good deed goes unpunished. People will say bad things about you. It is just going to happen. Turn the camera around. Stop focusing on yourself. There's no joy when it's focused on you. There's none whatsoever at all. You cannot rejoice in Christ for all that he has done for you when it's focused on you and all of the things that you are going through. When God wants to use you even in the middle of that, turn the camera around. Look into God's word. He's got a whole lot to say about people and use people, give us examples of people who went through horrible things and still remained faithful and God used them for his honor and glory. Amen. He can do that for you. Yeah, you'll have problems. Look into God's word. Find out what he says about it. Look up. to the living word. Did Jesus Christ suffer that you might be saved? He took your sin penalty and he paid it in full as the father poured out his wrath against sin on Christ. And if you go through something, he's already gone through it. and he knows how to comfort you. Look to him. He said he will never leave you nor forsake you. He said that nothing will separate you from his love. Amen. Turn the camera around and look out to a lost world that needs Jesus Christ. This world needs Christ. There are people around us everywhere that need to be saved. And if we focus in on me and how bad I have it and how awful life has been to me, we'll never see that bigger picture. Turn the camera around and see that people need to be saved. Amen. What you have in Jesus Christ will always outweigh this world's issues. Always. What you can do for eternity is far greater than what's happening to you right now. Again, let's go back to 2 Corinthians chapter number four and read the Apostle Paul's words again. 2 Corinthians chapter number four, verse number eight as we close. We are troubled on every side yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Cast down, but not destroyed. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. Jump to verse number 17. Here's the camera being turned around. for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. What's he saying here? It doesn't matter what I go through here in this life, it is Temporary. Temporary. I am serving God for the eternal. For eternity. People are being saved. They're eternal. Good things are happening that's eternal. And I am looking to that. Our problem is we look at the things that are seen. We got our life camera out, our phone out, and it's focused squarely on me. And we wonder why there's no joy? We wonder why we don't see things the other way? Turn the camera around. God will use you for eternity if you'll let Him. Our Heavenly Father, thank you for all that you've done. Thank you for Christ and for salvation and the time we've had to look at the Apostle Paul and how he did just that. Lord, circumstances were not good, were not great from a worldly perspective, but Lord, you allowed them and you furthered the gospel through them. Lord, I pray we'd understand that same thing. That no matter where we are in life, no matter what we are going through, we need to be faithful to you, we need to trust in you, and we need to serve you. So Lord, I pray that we would do just that. Determine, we're gonna have that attitude not of the selfie, but of looking to you and looking to the world around us that needs you. Guide and direct us as we make decisions. I pray that you would speak to each one of our hearts and help us all to say, yes, that's how I'm going to live. guide and direct and bless in this invitation, we'll thank you and we'll praise you for it in Christ's name we ask it, amen. With every head bowed, every eye closed, no one looking around. Has God spoken to your heart? Let me ask you. I don't mean literally, I mean figuratively. Are you living in a selfie world? Where your concern is about self and what's happening to you and what's going on in your life and you, you, you. Can you turn the camera around and say, God wants to use me now for eternity. And if something happens, I'm going to trust him and do what's right. If people disparage me, I'm going to trust him and do what's right. I'm going to look to Christ and see what he's doing and what he wants to do. And I want to be used of him in that effort. You say, pastor, pray for me. First of all, let's begin. Pastor, I'm saved, I know it. I've trusted Jesus Christ as my savior, and I'm going to heaven. Put your hand up as a testament of that fact. You're saved, you know it, put your hand up. Amen, God bless you, amen, that's great. You put your hands down, amen. Christian, has God spoken to your heart? Where's your focus? Which way is your lens pointing? You say, Pastor, pray for me, and I need to look to Christ. I need to look to others. Pastor, pray for me. Anyone like that, put your hand up, put it back down. Amen, amen, God bless you, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Anyone else, just slip your hand up, put it back down. Pastor, God's spoken to me. Amen, God bless you. Maybe you're here, you've never trusted Christ as Savior. You don't know you're going to heaven. You don't know your sins are forgiven. You don't know Christ. Pastor, pray for me. Anyone like that, put your hand up, put it back down. I don't know that I'm saved. Pastor, pray for me. Our Father, thank you for this time that we've had to spend together in your word. Thank you, Lord, for applying it to our hearts and lives. Now, I pray that we would do something about it and that doing something is saying yes to you and leaving here determined we're gonna live it out. So, Lord, help us to do that. If there's anyone here who has never trusted you as their savior, show them that's their greatest need. Convict them and draw them to you. Lord, work right now in every decision, every heart, every life, and help us, Lord, to focus on you and this lost world that needs you. Guide and direct and bless. In Christ's name we ask it, amen. Let's all stand, grab a hymn book right in front of you, turn to page 388. 388, as we sing this verse of invitation, we invite you to respond. Talk to God, what does he want you to do? What decision does he want you to make? Do it as we sing this first verse. You need to be saved, I'll be waiting for you right down front. You come, I'll have someone take a Bible and show you how you can know that Jesus Christ is your savior. Talk to him, pray, trust him, sing, and be drawn closer to God right now during this invitation.