A little commercial, things that can help you know what to believe and how to explain it are some books, like the Personal Evangelism Handbook you can get online for free as a PDF. Then you can get, like, the Declaration of the Gospel. Somebody wrote this that you might know. He's not even listening. And then Gospel Eyes by Greg Steer. These are in the bookstore. And then Gospel Driven Man, somebody you might know wrote this too. So those are some books that you can get to help you understand what to believe and what does it mean to believe. to share the things that you believe that are important. Now, there are things that we believe that are not important, like which sports team do you believe is the best? I believe the sports team on an island next to the island that I was born on is the best. Because I was born on an island that's Not very wide, but it's got a lot of length, so we call it Long Island. And then we have a sports team on the other island. Or, I don't know, is that an island? Bronx. No, that's not an island. But it's next to an island, so that's the Yankees. We have one Yankee here, but we don't have the Yankees. So believing in if that's the best sports team, that doesn't matter. But this does matter. In John chapter 5, in verse 24, We'll start there. I like to use the Schofield Study Reference Bible. It's King James, but it also has a lot of notes in the middle and also on the different sides. I think it's good. This is a wide, this is a loose leaf, so you can take the pages out, add like This is blank pages. You could add notes to it and stick it in, stuff like that. I know a couple of people have wide margin or loose leafs. I think Dr. Arnold has one or a couple. I don't know. I don't know. He stores them up. I think Jesse has one. I got one here. I think they're good resources besides using a computer. But in John chapter 5, I reported on last night, I went with seven other people from ages 8 to 68, I think, to a mall in Clearwater. And we shared the gospel with several dozen people, and I think 49 trusted Christ. And the little eight-year-old girl that got to go around with her dad, she was happy that she got to do that, and it was good to see. Now, did everybody who wanted to listen? No. Did everybody who did listen trust in Jesus? No. But we had a good response. Because I try to focus on talking to teenagers. Most of them were, not all of them. I think some of them were in their 20s. But in John chapter 5, you can't find that page to make it stop on it or no? John 5, 24. It says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life. That means you have, the word hath means right now. So I think that this word, well, I know this word is important. Why? Because the Bible uses it hundreds of times. And for specifically for salvation, I think the book called The Gift of God had a list of 165 times it uses the word for salvation. And what is that word? Pestuo. It's either the noun or the verb. The verb is translated believe and the noun is translated faith. It's the same word. It's putting your trust in, relies upon. It's important because he said, verily, verily, truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life. Yet right now, as soon as you trust in Jesus, you get a new nature, a new birth, a new man that will never die, be never separated from God. And it says, it shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. Somebody once said, you can't know you're going to heaven until you know you can't go to hell. I don't know who came up with that, but I don't know who originated it. I know who said it. Did you originate it? Yep. So condemnation. Do you ever have to fear going to hell once you have eternal life? No, because you can't be lost. You can't be taken out of God's hand. And we can believe it. We can be 100% sure. Not like a belief of, well, I'm not sure. I kind of hope, believe. Like I buy a whole bunch of lotto tickets and I believe I'm going to win. That's just your wishful thinking. This is more like, If you jump up in the air, you know you're gonna come back down. Because you believe that it happens so many times, it's gonna keep on happening. So you have that belief. Something you can be 100% sure of. When a little kid laughs when their dad throws him up in the air, they believe the father's gonna catch him. I think Robert had his baby up in the air a little while ago. And the baby was trusting Robert. If the baby wasn't trusting Robert, the baby probably would be making a lot of noise. Like, ah. But Robert's baby was trusting in his dad. So we need to trust in Jesus. But trust, believe what? What do we believe? Well, it says believe many times. And I want to go over several of the important ones. or the ones that are really clear, plain, showing the simplicity that's in Christ. So let's start a couple, or go back a couple pages to the beginning of John. John chapter one. I guess I could give you the page number if you have a Schofield. It's page 1,114. In John chapter 1, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So the Word, the Logos, that's the Greek word for Word. It says, and all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. So who made everything? God, Jehovah, Jesus. They are the same. They are Trinity. In verse 14, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." Now, he's the only begotten Son of God. He's the only one that is God that came down from heaven. We become a child of God, but we are not a begotten son of God. We are a child of God or a son of God that started when you trusted Christ. Jesus didn't have to trust Christ because he is Christ. He was from the beginning and he created everything. And in verse 12, it's talking about Jesus again, the word. It says, but as many as received him, Now, if you give up the gospel, could you say, do you want to receive eternal life? You could say that, or like, well, you got to receive Jesus. You could say that, but you kind of, it uses it here, but it also explains it in the same verse. A lot of people like to use that and never explain it, never say the second part of this verse to make it clear. Should you make it clear? Should you make it plain? Should you make it easy to be understood? Should you show people the simplicities in Christ, or should you try to make it vague and hard to understand because you want to make it sound like it's calculus? Do you understand the differentials of those and all those weird symbols that nobody knows what they mean except for calculus people? I know they just came up with a new way to figure out pi, which was like all this calculus stuff. It's like, it's not as easy as pi, but even though it's pi, But here, it's easy because God made it easy. And He explains things very clearly. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God. We're not a child of God as soon as we're born. Do a lot of people say that? Hey, as soon as you're born, you're a child of God. You're in the God's family. No. you become a child of God when you trust in Jesus as your Savior. And we need to share that with people. Many people yesterday had no idea. I think the majority of people we talked to, when I asked a diagnostic question, I said, do you hope you have eternal life? Do you Not think about that kind of stuff. Or do you know 100% for sure you have eternal life? Other people use from like one to 100. What percent do you know you have eternal life? To get them to figure out where you need to go in the conversation. And most of them say, well, I hope I have eternal life. And the ones that say they know they have eternal life, they don't have a good explanation. A couple of them are like, well, I know I have eternal life. It's like, why do you know? What did you do that you can know it? I don't know. So you don't know why you know. So it's interesting they have that kind of answer. I have no idea how to explain why I know. Well, we should be able to know why we know. Why do you believe what you believe? I don't believe I know what to say. Well, we should know. ready to give an answer when somebody asks you of that. To them gave he power to become the sons of God. You're born into God's family, you're born again, like he says later on. It says even, or specifically, that's in italicized letters, so that means the translators put that in there to help make it more clear, but I think it might, it depends on how you use the word even, it could easily be make it less clear, but to them that believe on his name. When I first heard that, Dr. Lindstrom explained it really well. What does it mean, his name? Jesus came from Jehovah, Yahshua, Joshua, or Jesus. So what is that? Jesus Jehovah, the creator of the universe, and Yahshua, Yeshua, saves, keeps, and defends. So you're trusting in his name. This is one that Dr. Lindstrom used. He said if you believed in a guy named Joe Rottengate, you would believe Joe's gate was rotten. So you're believing what the name means. Well, Jesus is God who saves, keeps, and defends. And Christ is Messiah. So you're trusting in what his name means. Like if you believe in a guy named Fred Pilot, you're believing Fred is flying your plane or something. You're trusting in what his name means. So here it says, even to them that believe on his name. Whose name? Jesus. It's a name that you either get people that's like, oh, yes, that's good news, or some people get triggered and go like, you see this hate in their eyes when you say the word Jesus. What in our government system, what word do they not want you to say when you pray? Don't say Jesus. I think Pastor Jesse was told not to say Jesus at a funeral. Don't say Jesus. Well, guess what? He did it anyway. When you're at government meetings, sometimes they say, you can pray, you can say God, but don't say Jesus, because people believe in many gods. I was talking to a father and son at Millennium Mall in Orlando, and they heard what I said about Jesus, but it's like, no. We don't believe, we won't believe in Jesus because we believe in many other gods because they were Hindu. We said, we got like three million gods. I said, I thought you had 50 million. Well, he said, it could be innumerable amounts of gods. So they don't believe in Jesus. And I talked to some other ones, other people, it's like they agreed with the first four points. Because I start with an opening, I try to get them to, To be positive, could I share with you the best news I've ever heard? And it must be good news, because I'm pretty old. Some people could say that with even more emphasis. It's really good news. And if it's the best news I've ever heard in my life, it must be good, because we're old. So a lot of teenagers go, OK, what is it? And I like to use this illustration that I've Invented, no. But I use this one. I don't use the wallet illustration. I use the cell phone illustration. I said, if this is us and this is sin, I'm going to put this on us to show that we all have sin. And I try to get them to understand what they need to believe. This is the foundation of what they need to understand. What's the purpose? Why do I need to believe something? So I show them the why. God loves us, but he hates our sin because it separates us from God. And I always like to say, I'm a sinner. I've done wrong. Are you a sinner? I always like to start with me first. This time I think it's good to be me first because I'm saying negative things. I don't want to say, hey, this is you and this is your sin. You're a sinner. I don't want to do it that way because it sounds like you're their judge. And here we're making it inclusive of all of us. We're all a sinner. So I'm not like being the judge and saying you really bad sinner, and you need to stop doing that. That's not a good way to get them to have a positive view of you. So I'll say, I'm a sinner, you're a sinner, we're all sinners. Do you agree? And usually they say yes. But sin separates us, and the penalty of sin is death and hell forever. I don't want my penalty. Do you want that penalty? And what do they say? No. If they're not listening, I've had people say yeah. But then I'm saying, you really want to go to hell? And they go, wait a minute, what? Then you can see that they're not paying attention to you. Because I was talking to like six kids yesterday. And I could see about two of them, I was losing their attention. So I had to make sure I asked questions that got responses. And then I picked the ones that aren't paying attention the best. I picked them to answer to get them back into the conversation. I know one kid. When I came up to him, there was like six of them, and I said, hey, can I share with you guys the best news ever? He looks at me, he goes, no, and he runs away. But the other five stood there and started listening. And they said, hey, he's bad. But he did come back after watching me talk to his friends for a couple of minutes, and then he came back. He said, I thought you were selling something. So I continued, and I think most of them trusted Christ. I think one of them was actually a Muslim who said he trusted Christ. But the penalty of sin is death. And I like to ask interactive questions where they participate. And I like to put no questions in there. Because sometimes when you're talking to people, if they're not paying attention, they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And are they listening to you? No. Because they're just agreeing. What did I just say? I have no idea. I just said, yeah. So I want to make sure that I have their attention. Attention, attention. I want attention. So we have a problem. Point one, we're all sinners. Point two, the penalty of sin is death. Point three is heaven's not good. Heaven's perfect. I'm not. I always say, I'm not perfect. Are you perfect? I ask another interactive no question. Because 99.9% of the time, they say, no, I'm not perfect. I did have a couple of girls say, yes, I'm perfect. So we had to go over that. I think somebody told me that he had somebody say they were perfect on an airplane. He said, take a pencil and erase it. Oh, you made a mistake. You're not perfect. So not everybody's perfect. In fact, nobody's perfect. And just about everybody agrees with that. And good works, if I put good works on top, even if I put a well-written book on top of the sin, does it get rid of the sin? No, still there. So good works don't get rid of sin because the penalty is death and hell forever, not good works. So I'm teaching in a church this morning. Does that pay for anything? Nope. So we can't pay for this sin. We can't get rid of it. We can only get punished from it. And it never gets finished, because that's why it's eternity in hell. Because it never actually gets paid in full. You're getting the punishment. It's like if you get punishment for killing somebody, and you got life in prison, you never actually pay for it. You're just getting punished for it. Well, the only satisfactory payment is the fifth point. Let my right hand represent Jesus. He came down. He died on a what? Just about everybody knows that, but we've had people respond like, I don't know, because there are people out there that have no background in it. Well, Jesus died on a cross to shed his blood to be the sacrifice for our sin. I like to throw in other attention grabbers. I was like, you guys know each other? I did this last night. You guys know each other, but would you die for one another? But I like to say, don't answer because you might get mad. And they laugh. So they are more interactive and more involved in what I'm saying. Well, Jesus actually did die for you and you and you. One guy, when I started, he was like, I don't really want to pray. I said, I'm not here to, my purpose is not to get you to pray with me. I want you to understand the best news ever. And at the end, he thanked me, shook my hand and stuff. And there was four of them. One of them walked away, but three of them listened and said they would believe. Jesus took our sin, paid for it on the cross. Three days later, he rose again. And then I said, do you want to receive the free gift? And I show him verses. Like, if you looked in here, it says, but as many as received him. Well, how do you receive eternal life? If we were in the mall, if you want to receive that free chicken nugget they give you when you go around the food court, you've got to take it. Because if they hold it up, and you look at it, it gets free, and you look at it and walk away, do you have it? No. There's not very much other free stuff in the mall, because you can't get free pretzels or something. They're kind of expensive, even though they come from your aunt, Auntie Anne. But nothing's free. You don't have to get your temples there. Nothing's free. Well, very little is free. But heaven is a free gift. It says it in Romans chapter 5, Romans chapter 6, Ephesians chapter 2. even to them or specifically them that believe. So to get the chicken, you got to reach out and take it. But to get eternal life, you got to believe it. And I give this illustration. I give a couple of different ones. But if they're teenagers, I said, hey, when you get in a school bus, you're believing who's going to get you to school? The bus driver. Now, do you hope you're going to school, or do you know you're going to school? Just about all of them say, I know I'm going to school. Some might have had a bad bus driver, so they go, oh, I don't know. But if they have a problem with their bus driver, I said, OK, if your mom's taking you to school, do you know you're going to school or you hope you're going to school? Most of them are like, I'm not going to disrespect my mom. So yeah, I know I'm going to school. So we trust people all the time. I think somebody named Betty was trusting her life to the driver of this large vehicle with driving down the road many hours. her life on the line with that kind of trust. So that same kind of trust, we have to trust Jesus to get us to heaven. And I give different illustrations. It depends on how much I think they're absorbing and understanding. And I want them to understand what they need to believe. Would you believe that Jesus is your Savior because he died, shed his blood on the cross, and rose again? three days later, for your sin. And I like to say, you can't believe for you. You can't believe for you. You have to believe it for your what? Yourself. You can tell if they're not paying attention because they just look at you with a blank stare. I wasn't really listening to answer your question. So you got to keep them involved because it is the most important thing. It is the best news ever. So it says, even to them that believe on his name. What does his name mean? God who saves, keeps, and defends. How did he do it? On the cross, when he shed his blood, when he took those nails and the spear and all the torture he went through, he did it for us. Like one kid last night was like, why are you going to heaven? Because I follow Jesus. OK, so you're trusting in what you're doing to get you to heaven. Yes. So let's go over that. At the end of the conversation, he said, it's not by what I do. We went over that, and I said, who are you trusting? Are you still trusting in your following Jesus? He said, no. I said, who are you trusting? Jesus. So we went over why you don't trust yourself, because then you're giving yourself credit. Who gets to praise, honor, and glory? You. because you do so wonderful. Look at what I'm doing. I'm going to the Philippines to give out free medicine in a couple of weeks. Does that pay for any of my sins? Does that pay for even one lie? Because that would only get rid of half of my lives, because I'm only told two. But our works don't get rid of our sin. We have to trust in Jesus. We have to believe. It says believe 165 times the word Pestuo for salvation, and more than 100 more times in other... that's just in the New Testament. Then you got a bunch in the Old Testament, like Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. You need to believe. Why do some people take the word believe out and get rid of it or change it to make it add works? Like one famous person said, Believe means to belive. They take the E out. Like, ooh, isn't that tricky? Or it is tricky. It's deception. Belive, how you live, is if you believe. Now, I can believe things without living it. I can believe exercise is good for me. But does that mean I'm going to exercise? No. I believe it's good for you. I need to do more. I believe eating right is good. But do I always eat right? when that eclair is looking at me. And it's like, ooh, I shouldn't eat that. But sometimes what we believe doesn't always translate into what we do. So we can believe in Jesus and not do what we should. It doesn't mean we didn't believe it. requires believing in him for salvation. Now, for service, for fellowship and things like that, that requires following Jesus and stuff. If you want blessings and you want God giving you praise, honor, and glory, like it says in 1 Peter, those are the things you need to do. So you should do it out of gratitude for a free gift. Now, when you get the free Christmas gift, Do you, when your mom gives you a free Christmas gift, do you take some money out and say, hey, I'll give you five Brazilian dollars for that free Christmas gift? No, you don't pay for it. Brazilian money. I got Brazilians in puns. So you don't pay for a gift. But do many people think about it that way? I've got to pay for it. I've got to deserve that free gift. No, it wouldn't be a free gift. You receive it by believing. John 1, 14. John 5, 24. And let's look at the most famous verse. It's on my tie. It says, you could look here, or you could look in your Bible, because it's on both places. John chapter 3. In fact, in John chapter 3 it says believe several times. But he starts out giving him a question to get him to think before he gets to the believing part. In John chapter 3, a guy named Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, so it was Nick at night, came to talk about What is going on? You're doing these miracles. So he wants to know information from Jesus. And Jesus said, except a man be born again, he can't see the kingdom of God. And Nicodemus is like, what? What are you talking about? How do you go back into your mom's womb? And Jesus said, that which is born of the spirit is spirit, or that which is born of the flesh is flesh. And then he gives an example of a Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that's in verse 14, even so the Son of Man should be lifted up, but in verse 15 on page 1,117, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. We broke up into four groups, and there were eight of us, and we said, would you believe that Jesus is your Savior, so you can not perish. You won't get that penalty of hell, but you can get the free gift of eternal life. Would you accept that free gift by believing? Would you receive that free gift by believing? And most of the people, because I target the ones that listen well, if I talk to people my age, it's a lot harder because they don't want to listen to you. You've got to be a lot older than them. Not everybody is older than everybody to get them to listen. Some people are, but I try to talk to younger people. But I talk to people my age, it's harder. At least I haven't figured out how to reach. I know when my mom was 91, she'd go up to people in the hospital or when we go to the doctor's office. go up to the 80-year-old and say, you need to read this. You whippersnapper. And they're like, oh. And they listen. Oh, OK. We've got to listen to our elders. She's 10 years older than me. So I was like, I'll let my mom talk to the octogenarian or whatever. But here, Jesus is talking to a Pharisee. And he says that if you believe, you have eternal life. And in verse 16, for God so loved the world, just like he lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, you looked and you lived. Well, Jesus would be lifted up. And when people looked in belief, they get eternal life, not just using that as a comparison. There's a lot of pictures, types, and foreshadows of Christ in the Old Testament. There's probably hundreds of them. And here's one where Moses put the serpent in the wilderness. We got to go there, a place called Mount Nebo. I went with Dr. Arnold. We were there. We saw Mount Nebo, saw a model of this where there was a big stick with a serpent on it on the top of Mount Nebo where Moses was. It says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever, it's not only certain people, anybody, everybody has this option. But some people say no. I had people say no yesterday. Even though we had 49 say yes, we had people say no. And I'm not going to believe it. And it's their choice. God doesn't force anybody. You should not perish. You eliminate the fact that you're going to hell. You should not perish, but have everlasting life, eternal life, life without end. And we need to believe. That is a key word, believe. I don't understand why so many people want to leave that word out. They want to replace it. with commit, ask, invite, and things like that, instead of the word believe. Why are you going to take a word out of the Bible that's used 165 times for salvation and replace it with a word that's not used at all for salvation, like ask? Ask is never used for salvation. It says believe. Ask is used for other things, like answers to prayer and stuff, but not for eternal life. We need to believe it. And that's the good news that we need to get out. Don't leave out the word believe. I know there's a song that's got like 60 something million views about believe. It says, I believe in the red, how do you put it? Red words or red letters. Well, I don't believe in just the red letters. I believe in all of it. But you also need to make it clear. I think throughout that song, they don't mention the word Jesus. they just kind of allude to it. We should say what we mean and mean what we say, because it's important. Is the message of the gospel clear to the world right now? Is it simple? Is the simplicity of Christ out there open? And do they teach doctrine clearly? Like it says in Job 33.3, does the world know clearly what they're believing and what they're not believing? Or is it more like it's a fog? They don't understand it. And if it's not us, if the people who know it aren't saying it, if it's not us, then who? If not now, then when? I don't know who came up with that. That phrase has been around for a long time. If not us, who? If not now, when? I mean, I've heard that. since the year started with a one. Been around, so we, we need to get it out. We need to go to, well technically we are on the other side of the world from where that was said about go to all the world. We're on, that was in Jerusalem. We're going, we're in Florida, and I'm going the other way to the Philippines in a couple weeks. So you can pray for my trip there that we get a lot of the gospel. clearly shown to many people. It won't be Brazilians of people, it'll be Filipino, I don't know, Philippine people. Can't figure one out of that one. But I think we're stopping in Hawaii too, so I gotta tell them to change their dinner name to Louie instead of Luau. And I changed the name of the city to Honolulu. It's not Honolulu. But hopefully I get to share the gospel in Taiwan. I got to get another one of these when I go to Taiwan, because I get one Thai in Taiwan. But that's some of the stops. Because when you're traveling on the other side of the world, you've got a lot of airplane terminal stops. So I want to use those as opportunities, too. I want to be a CIO Christian. What is a CIO Christian? Contact is opportunity. Somebody said that, I don't know how long ago. I heard it in the 70s down in a camp. I don't know who originated that, but he doesn't want Secret Service Christians. He wants Christians in the battle. We need to go tell that good news. You know a lot of people that other Christians will never meet. We need to get the gospel out, that good news. Like it says in John 5, 24, John 6. John chapter 6, in verse 47, on page 1,123. I don't know what page it is in yours, Tom. But John chapter 6, in verse 47, verily, verily, truthfully, truthfully, I say unto you, Jesus is talking, he that believeth on me, hath. That means you got right now. Just like right now. Dr. Arnold has a tie on. He's not going to get a tie. He has one on. I think. So that same kind of, we can know, we have, right now, eternal life, if you have believed in Jesus as your Savior. If you have, don't keep it a secret. Tell it to your friends and family, because it's the best news ever. I still need to tell some of my extended family, like my niece or nephews, or maybe even a nephew. I'm probably going to see some in the Philippines when I go over there. Hopefully, I get to see some that I haven't met. other relatives that haven't come to understand how much God loves them, that they can know they have eternal life if they would believe in Jesus. It's a free gift. Why turn down a free gift? The only thing you can do is believe that Jesus is your Savior, that He died for you. Stop trusting in your own pride and good works. Trust in the one that already paid for it. When He was on the cross, He said, it is what? Finished. It's paid for. It's completely paid for. The only thing left for us to do is believe. We need to believe it. And it's simple, and the more excited you are about it, the more somebody's going to listen to you. If you're not excited about it, let me share with you some news about eternal life, and you're all sad-sounding. Like if somebody just won the lotto, and they'd probably be, hey, I got some awesome news. And they're sharing it with their family. Well, we need to have that same kind of zeal, same kind of enthusiasm, same kind of happiness and joy when we share the gospel. Because is there any better news? If the Seminoles win, is that better news? No. It might be good news. It used to be better news. Or your favorite sports team? Some people, do they get excited when their sports team wins the Super Bowl or some other championship? Are they jumping up and down? Well, we should have that same kind of joy when it comes to the gospel. When we leave somebody to the Lord, we need to have fellowship in the gospel. That's why I try to get out people to go with us witnessing. I don't know, we've had maybe 30 something different people over the years come out sharing the gospel. So wherever you go, I got to be blessed by sharing the gospel in Jerusalem with Pastor John up in Georgia. We were there, and we were walking around Jerusalem sharing the gospel. I talked to a 17-year-old, and he trusted Christ. And John saw that, and he goes, what? You got two? Or you got one, and I don't have one yet? So he went out and talked to these two guys that were having coffee, and he doubled what I had. So he got two. So two Jewish guys on this, where they have a table on the sidewalk, went up to them. And I was talking to some other people, but I gave the gospel out, but they didn't get to the point where they would believe it. But we need to keep giving out the gospel, keep throwing the fishing line out, because we're fishers of men. How many fish have I caught with a fishing line? Zero. Never caught a fish on a line. Only fish I caught is in a box in a freezer at Publix. And I think I caught a couple in the aquarium. But please give the gospel up. It's our responsibility. It's our right. It's our privilege. And we have a great door and a festival that's open unto us. But there are many adversaries. Pray the Lord of the harvest that he would send laborers into the harvest. So if you haven't trusted Christ as your Savior, you can do that right where you're sitting, right where you're standing, wherever. God knows your thoughts. Just believe that Jesus is your Savior to be the sacrifice for your sin, and that He rose from the dead. And don't trust in your good works, trust in Him. You do good works because you're thankful for the best free gift ever. Let's close with a word of prayer. Father, thank You for this time where we can look at Your Word. Help us to understand how important the word believe is, and that we need to believe in you and in your word and in giving out the clear gospel and doing it faithfully. Help the ones that have been doing it to keep doing it, and the ones that haven't, help them to get motivated to share the best news ever, the best free gift ever, and help the ministries here in all the different ways that we give the gospel out. And help us always to give out your word your way. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Thank you. Hopefully you believe that was something you needed to give out. Thank you.