We're going to show a video here in just a second, but first I wanted to introduce ourselves. And before that, I want to say thank you. So we are very thankful for all you guys do for us, for your faithfulness. I know we haven't met most of you, and several of you have already said you're praying for us, and we're very thankful for all that you guys do for us. I do have my family, Christy, and then Sam is next to her, and Nick is over there by himself. I don't know if he's mad or what, but he's over there a little farther over. But make sure you get to say hey to them this evening. And our video that we're about to show, it is a couple years old, but it will give you a good idea of what God's been doing up until that point. And then when the video's over, I'll give a more recent update. So if we could go ahead and show that video, please. After serving with my father-in-law in Mexico for eight and a half years and learning the Spanish language, we felt God leading us somewhere where there was no other independent Baptist church or no other independent Baptist missionary. And that's how I feel like God led us here into my life. For the first few months, it was just the boys and Kristi and I on Sunday mornings. We started to slowly bring people. We got CESO saved. And that first Sunday, I remember we took on our first missionary. And the mission was very important. We started soul winning every week. And about two years after being here, Mr. Daniels and me came to the desktop, came to work with us, and we had the new classroom. It's time to make a difference. It's time to make a difference. A little over a year ago, we decided to start looking for another building. We had brought to three services due to COVID. And we brought some complaints from neighbors with all the noise on Sunday mornings. And our rent was continuing to increase. And so we decided it was time to start looking for another building. We just assumed probably renting another building as by a year is impossible. And so we found the option of a rent to own. But the catch was we would need $30,000 to get into that building, along with a good amount of money to remodel it. So we started praying, and Jason and I decided that we would start calling our supporting churches and just see what God would do with this opportunity. Eventually, this opportunity fell through, but God continued to send money for the building, and money just kept coming in and kept coming in. Eventually God led us to a building right in the middle of town, and we got a really big deal on it, and we were able to pay cash for it, and also to have money to start the remodel. During all of this, my family, as a personal prayer request, we were praying that God would send money to pay off the debt that we had incurred on the very first remodel of the building that we were renting, and it was about $20,000. Long story short, we ended up having a church send us exactly $20,000. And during this whole process of being able to pay cash for a building, God also sent us enough cash to take care of our own family and personal accounts as a paying off this debt. On June 26th, we will finally be able to have our building inauguration, and it just lined up right with our third anniversary. And God willing, we're going to see three people get saved on that same day. Pray with us as we go back. We have had a company that's been driving 45 minutes every Saturday for so many. Sunday to come to church, it's completely across the island. And as of now, we're the only independent Baptist church on the island. And so we feel like God is leading us to start a church in the city of Monticore, where they are coming from, where they have family that we believe will come to church. And so, pray for us as we head back, and we are super excited to see how God will continue to work, continue to do the impossible in our race through this year. But we've been there now for six and a half years, and we just celebrated our five-year anniversary at the church back in June. And in those five years, if you didn't catch it there, God provided all the money for us to pay cash for a building and to fully remodel the building. And it was about $250,000 that God provided for us. And so we are debt-free right in the middle of town, and that was a huge miracle. In October, we ordained the first young man out of our church and he and his wife are raising support right now. If y'all pray for Carlos as he's trying to raise support, but he can't come to the States because they are of a refugee status from Venezuela. And so because of their refugee status, they can't leave the country. but pray for Carlos as we try to raise his support and he's already started one Bible study out on another area of our island and he's looking to start more in the future and so we are on an island out in the Mediterranean Sea and so if in your mind you'll picture with me an island in the Mediterranean Sea It's a little more beautiful than what you're imagining. It's a wonderful place to be. But for gospel-wise, it's a dark place. It's a hard place. And we have about a million people on the island. And so pray for us as we are there. And we know you're praying for us. You already told us. And some more recent things that have happened in the last two months or so. We're not a big church. We run about 35 normally or so at this point. Over the last two months or so, we've had almost 30 first-time visitors. A lot of those are tourists. As I mentioned, it's a beautiful island, so this year we're projected to have about 30 million tourists come through on this year. So people come from all over the world. But that's, so we've had about 30 first-time visitors. We've had four people get saved over the last couple months. We've had two baptized, seven that have finished discipleship. And so God is doing something and we're just trying not to mess it up. Amen. We're just trying to keep moving forward and let him do what he does best. And so we thank you all for having a part in that. We thank you for just everything you do and for being faithful to us, even though I know Most of you we've never even met, including the pastor. This is the first time we've been able to meet him as well, and so we are very appreciative of what you guys do for us. As I mentioned, we're a tourist island, and that brings one of my favorite aspects of being there, and that is that we are very multicultural in our church. So this morning, I talked to the man who's filling in for us while we're gone, And there was a group of eight people from the Netherlands that were at our church this morning. And our church, we have Filipinos, and Venezuelans, and Colombians, and Americans, and Chileans, and Peruvians, and I can't even remember everybody that we have, but it's very exciting. in our church and even here, there's got to be some variety, right? But I kind of noticed that we're all different. Every one of us, we're all different. We might come from different places. Maybe we come from the same place, but we're still not the same. In our church, we come from different continents. We speak different languages. In fact, we are a bilingual church. I preach a phrase in English, and I translate for myself into Spanish, and then I go back to English and Spanish. And that's because we have a couple from the Philippines and a couple from Sweden. that the man only speaks English and the wife only speaks Spanish, but they each speak their own language, Tagalog or Swedish that they communicate. And so we're all different in many different areas in our church. But in another sense, we're all the same. In many senses, we're all the same. In Psalm chapter one, if you'll turn with me to Luke 10, that's where we're gonna be this evening, Luke chapter 10. But in Psalm 139, 14, it says, I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well. So I got good news for you, you are wonderfully made. You knew that, right? Yeah. I try to remind my wife of that all the time, that I'm wonderfully made, but we all have that in common. Why? Because we are creations of God and so therefore we are fearfully and wonderfully made. There's a little bit of bad news in Romans chapter five, verse 12, it says, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin. And so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. So we all have that in common as well. We're all wonderfully made, but we have all sinned. And so we have a lot of things in common. And if we take aside race and language and culture and different types of food that we like and all those things and set those to the side, We are all the same. We have a lot in common. We are fearfully, wonderfully made. We are made in His image. We're all sinners, right? We all deserve to go to hell. We have a lot in common. So I was thinking about this and I was thinking, so then what makes the difference? Why do some people react some ways and other people react certain ways and different ways? And I think it boils down to our choices. Our choices. The choices that we make are what makes us different one from another. when we are tired or when we feel lonely or we're going through trials or whatever, what we choose to focus on, how we choose to react is what makes us different one from another. For example, The world, when they are feeling some of these feelings like tired or loneliness or they're in trouble, trials and tribulations, they may turn to alcohol and get drunk, right? I think we probably all know people or at least have heard of people that would say they turn to alcohol when they're in a hard time. Maybe they might hurt someone. We all, maybe, I don't know if you've heard it, but I imagine most of us have heard the saying that hurt people hurt people. And when someone is hurt, they tend to react by hurting someone else. Some people in the world might react by committing suicide. And there's all different kinds of reactions, and how we react to our situations, to our feelings, that is what makes us different. A Christian, on the other hand, may turn to some of those things as well, but hopefully not. But a Christian might choose to just maybe kind of give up on God. God, I'm lonely, you said you would be with me and you're not with me and so I'm just done, right? Or maybe they choose to just maybe quit coming to church. A Christian might, as opposed to looking to God for help, they might look to the world for help, right? Many times we're guilty of that if we have a problem or a feeling or an emotion and as opposed to turning to God, many times we turn to people. A Christian might, I think a lot of us might fall into this one. Maybe we get distracted. Right? We're feeling lonely. We're feeling sad. We're feeling tired. We're going through this trial, and nobody understands, and we just get distracted. To get our mind off of those things, we maybe get distracted by our hobbies. Where we live in Mallorca, as I mentioned, I don't know if I mentioned, it's a beautiful place. Did I tell you that yet? But it's a beautiful place, and people come to have fun, to have a good time. And so, hobbies are very important. In fact, if someone asks you what you do, for example, somebody says, hey, Marky, what do you do? I don't say I'm a pastor. They're not asking what my job is. Like in the States, if I say, hey, what do you do? You might say I'm a plumber, I'm a nurse, or whatever. I say I play basketball. I tell them what my hobby is. Eventually, we get around to the pastor part, but they're very big into their hobbies. And in fact, we invite our neighbors to church, and one of them told me, He kept kind of putting it off, and he's like, Markie, you know I go kayaking every Sunday. I'm not going to miss kayaking. And another one, our landlord told me, I ride my bike every Sunday. And he rides 60 kilometers. That's about 40 miles every Sunday. I don't even understand why anybody would want to do that. But I could run up and down a basketball court all day, but on a bicycle, I wouldn't make it up the hill, right? And so hobbies. And many times, us as Christians, we get distracted by our hobbies. And not all hobbies are bad. In John chapter 21 and verse 3, Jesus had died, and Peter's sitting there talking to his friends, the other disciples, and what's he say? I am gonna go fishing. I'm gonna go fishing, right? Is there anything wrong with fishing? If you do it the way I do it, there's something wrong. Because I'm not very good at it, and I can sit there for hours and not catch anything. But there's nothing wrong with fishing. There's nothing wrong with your hobbies, if they're healthy hobbies to do. But if we get distracted by them, There's a problem. Sometimes it's not our hobby, sometimes it's money, right? In Acts chapter five, I think of Ananias and Sapphira and they literally did something good. They sold their land and they gave a portion of the money to God. That's good, right? Except they lied about it and said that they were gonna give all their money and didn't give all the money and so, Of course we know they died, right, because they lied to God and they died right there on the spot. But we can many times allow money to distract us and I think here in the United States this is a big issue. In Spain it's not so much the money, it's the lifestyle and the hobbies and here I was just with some family members and my cousin. I was talking to him and he works his job five days a week and then he works another section of his job on Saturdays. And then sometimes he has to work all of Saturday. And I appreciate that he still takes time for his family and to go to church and things like that. But many times we can get distracted by that, right? Sometimes we get distracted by even good things. Look at me in Luke chapter 10. I gave you plenty of time to get there, right? We're there? Luke chapter 10 in verse 38 through verse 42. Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word. But Martha was comforted about much serving, and came to him and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but One thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Obviously, there's nothing wrong with serving others. There's nothing wrong with working. We ought to do those things. But Jesus Christ says here to Martha, he says this phrase in verse 42, one thing is needful. One thing is needful, and that was what Mary was doing was the title of my message this evening is going to be press into God. Press into God. And that's the one thing that is needful. When we feel lonely, when we feel tired, when we are going through a trial, we need to make sure that we press into God. We have a long introduction today, and Pastor didn't tell me what time I had to be done, so that's good. But I preach in two languages normally, so I would guess we won't be long. And there's pizza after, so I'm sure we won't be long. But I do want to take some time to read some verses. We'll go to the first few together, and then I just have some typed out I want to read, because I think these are just going to be kind of like a reminder. There are things that we know. but things we don't always act like we know, right? We don't always live like we know them. So go with me, Matthew chapter 11. Matthew chapter 11. Verse 28. Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. We talked about maybe you feel tired. What are we supposed to do? We're supposed to press into God. We're not supposed to look for it in alcohol. We're not supposed to look for it in our hobbies. We're not supposed to look for it in serving and doing more. We're supposed to press into God. Psalm 34, 18, what about if we're lonely? Psalm chapter 34 and verse 18. Lonely or sad, the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. You feel lonely or you feel sad today? Press into God. Don't look for comfort or company in other places. Press into God. John chapter 16 and verse 33. John chapter 16 and verse 33. What about when trials come? What do we do then? John chapter 16 and verse 33. These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. What about when trials and tribulation come to our life? Pressing to God. You guys getting it? Yeah? Pressing to God. I'm gonna read some more verses if you'll allow me to. I have them typed out here. We won't turn to all of them for sake of time. Romans 8.15, for ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. What happens when we're afraid? We should press into God. Revelation 3, 20, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him. Deuteronomy 4, 29 through 31. But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek with all thine heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God and shalt be obedient unto his voice, For the Lord thy God is merciful God. He will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which you swear unto them. Psalm 56, three and four. What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word. In God have I put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. We're not bored, right? This is the Bible, we're okay for a little bit? All right, I'm gonna read some more then. Isaiah 40, 28 through 31. Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary, there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might, he increaseth strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint. Psalm 9, 9, the Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Psalm 55, 22, cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be removed. Psalm 46, 1, God is our refuge and strength. very present help in trouble and I have some more we can go on and on and on and the Bible tells us hey if you're tired press into God hey if you're lonely press into God hey if you have trials press into God and then trials come and emotions come and feelings come and we like hey we like look for it everywhere else Right? I don't know about you guys, but if I could just be a little open and honest right here tonight, which is probably good to do from the pulpit, right? If I could be open and honest, many times trials come into my life and the first thing I do is not get down on my knees and pray. Many times the first thing I do is, oh, I got to fix this. What do I need to do? How am I going to take care of this until I realize I can't and then I go to God and maybe Well, no maybes about it. I should just press into God from the beginning, right? We're still in our introduction, but we're good, right? We're okay? All right. I'm using this term press into God, and I want to take three stories from the Bible, and we're going to define what I mean by press into God. And our definition is going to have two parts, and you'll see it all, I mean, yeah, we'll see it all here as we go through these stories. But if you'll turn with me to Mark chapter 2, Mark chapter 2 and verse 4. I think it's good to use the Bible. It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what I have to say, right? We're trying to see what God's word has to say tonight. Mark chapter two and verse four. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the what? Press. They uncovered the roof where he was, and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. You guys know this story? The man was sick of the palsy, and luckily he had some good friends, right? And they said, hey, there's four of us. We can each get a corner of the bed. Jesus is in town. And so we're going to go take our friend, and we're going to see Jesus. Jesus can heal him. And they got there, and there was no room. And if you know the story, these men, however they did it, climbed up on the roof, took apart the roof, and lowered their friend down, and Jesus saved them and healed them. Another story that we are familiar with in Luke chapter eight. Go with me to Luke chapter eight. We'll start in verse 43. Luke 8, verse 43. And when all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude thronged thee and pressed thee. And saith thou who touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me, for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. And we can stop there, but once again we see, we know the story, what happened? Jesus healed the lady of her issue of blood. Let's go over to Luke chapter 19 and see one more story, and then we'll see, we'll make our definition of press. Luke chapter 19, verses one through five. I think we all know this story, right? Most of us have probably sung about this story in kids' class or something. Luke 19, one, and Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus, who he was, and he could not for the press, because he was of little stature. And he ran before him and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him. before he was to pass that way. And Jesus said, hey, come down, for I'm going to your house today, right, as we know the song. All three of these stories, we see this word press. And we're gonna take a two-part definition from these three stories. We see the two parts in all three of these stories. And when we see this word press, it is the idea that nothing else can fit. There was no room at all, right? In all three of these stories, there was no room. And so when I'm talking about pressing into God, I'm talking about pressing in so hard that there's no room for anything else. Why? Because when we let room for other things in our lives, when we make room, the Bible says, neither give place to the devil, right? And when we make room for other things in our lives, that means there's less room for God, right? You put something in, you gotta take something out. And so when we're talking about pressing into God, I'm talking about so tightly that there's no room for anything else. But then also, I think of the idea of all three of these stories, and we're going to make this the second part of our definition, if you'll bear with me here. I know it's a long introduction, but the second part of our definition is that all three of these stories, the four friends, the lady and Zacchaeus, they all did whatever it took to get to God. Some of them tore apart a roof. One lady pressed through the crowd just to touch the hem of his garment, and Zacchaeus actually climbed a sycamore tree. It's not just a cute little song we sing, he actually did that. Whatever it took. And so we're gonna talk tonight about pressing to God, and when we think about these three words, pressing to God, I want us to think, to do whatever it takes to get to God, and then to press into him so tightly that nothing else fits. You with me? So we understand all this, so now we're gonna get to our message, which is shorter than the introduction, all right? We're gonna make an application here. First of all, we have three points this morning, this evening, I'm sorry. First of all, we need to press into God purposefully. Press into God purposefully. Jeremiah chapter 29, Jeremiah chapter 29. We'll start in verse 12. Jeremiah 29, 12. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart, and I will be found of you. And we're gonna stop there. But these verses tell us we have to do our part. We have to seek him, we have to search for him with all of our heart. It needs to be done on purpose. There are so many things that pull us away from God. So many things that even good intentions sometimes, right? We talked to a friend who's going through something very difficult. And I can imagine all the different advice they're getting from all different directions. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to talk to this person. And really they just need to press into God. but it's gotta be done on purpose because everything else is pulling us away from God. Everything the world tells us, everything we see on TV, hey, do what feels good. No, don't do what feels good, press into God, right? But it's gotta be something we do on purpose. It's not something that necessarily comes naturally. So first of all, we press into God purposefully. But second, we're gonna see this evening that we need to press into God permanently. Permanently, we press into him purposefully, but it also ought to be permanently. John chapter 15, if you will, John chapter 15. Verses four through six. John 15, four through six. It says this, abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me you can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned. This word abide, has the idea of all the time, right? We have in our backyard, on our island they grow a lot of almonds and olives and things like that, but in our backyard we have a lemon tree. And it produces a ton of lemons. Like we're giving bagfuls away just from this one tree. And once in a while I have to trim it. I have to cut some of the branches off. And I've noticed that those branches that I cut off, they don't have lemons anymore. You guys know that's how it works? Why, because they're not pressed into the tree, if I can say it that way, right? And many times, as Christians, we go through a hard time, and we press into God, and it gets better, and we quit pressing into God. But it's gotta be something that we do permanently. It's not a Sunday thing. It's not a when the hard times come thing. It's an all the time thing. We need to press into God permanently. I've noticed that many of the trials that come in my life are because maybe I'm not as pressed into God as I should be, right? He wants me to get closer to Him. He wants me to rely on Him. He wants me to trust Him. And I wonder, like I don't know the answer, but I wonder how many trials, how many troubles I could have avoided had I just been pressed into God from the beginning. If I was just already, you know, like Enoch and was walking with him all the time, right? I wonder sometimes what I could have avoided had I just been pressed into God permanently. And so we must press into God permanently and purposely, but then I want to take this third point and take it a little bit of a different direction. I'm gonna assume on a Sunday night that most of you are saved, that most of you know Christ as your Savior, but if you're not saved, this point's for you. If you don't know for sure you are gonna go to heaven, if you have doubts, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, this is for you. We need to press into God's, press into God's pardon. Press into God's pardon. I already mentioned to you that you're a sinner. I'm not judging, I'm a sinner. Right? Everyone in here is a sinner. The Bible makes it clear. The verse I read in Romans 5, Romans 3, 23 tells us that we've all sinned, right? We're all sinners. And the only way to be forgiven of our sin is to ask forgiveness for our sin. Romans chapter 6 and verse 23 tells us, for the wages of sin is death. Okay wait, so we're all sinners and the wage, what I deserve for my sin is death. That doesn't sound very good does it? For the wages of sin is death. And the Bible actually isn't necessarily speaking of a physical death here. It is appointed unto man once to die. More bad news for you, but one day you will die. Maybe in a hundred years from now, I don't know, but one day we will die. The Bible here is referring to the second death. What the Bible refers to as the second death, and that is an eternity in hell. So if you'll allow me to say it, for the wages of sin is to spend eternity in hell. Ooh, that sounds rough, right? But the rest of the verse says, but, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So the bad news is you're a sinner and because of that you deserve to go to hell and the good news is that you don't have to go to hell. Because for God so loved the world, for God so loved you, that he gave his only begotten son. All we gotta do is believe on Him, the Bible tells us. If we'll put our faith in Him, repent of our sins and put our faith in Him. When I'm talking about pressing into His pardon, that's what I'm talking about. If you go with me to 1 John 1, verses 8 and 9. 1 John 1, 8 and 9. This is a beautiful verse. So the Bible tells us we're all sinners, but here in this verse it goes even a little farther. It says in verse 8, if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. But verse 9, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What a beautiful verse. I want you to pray for a man in our church. His name, I guess you would translate it, Isaiah, would be the closest thing. God's been working on his heart. His wife got saved a couple months ago, and it's actually Carlos' brother. And we've been talking to him about salvation, and I had a meeting with him right before I left, and he says, I just don't feel like I'm good enough to get saved yet. And he doesn't understand that God cleanses us from all unrighteousness. We don't have to be good enough to get saved. We can never be good enough to get saved, right? But we can put our faith in him and what he did on the cross when he died for you so that we can be saved. And that's the only way, if you're not saved today, if you don't know for sure you're going to heaven, I want you to, talk to somebody. I don't know how we're going to close the service, but you can talk to me. You can talk to pastor or I would guess just about anybody in here that you don't know, you could probably talk to them. And they could take the Bible and show you how you can know for sure you go to heaven. Not that you hope you go to heaven. We are in a place that's full of Catholicism. In Catholicism, we talk to them, we talk to the Catholics, and we say, hey, are you going to heaven? And they say, man, I hope so. I'm doing this, and I'm doing this, and I'm doing this. And the Bible says you can't do this, this, or this. It doesn't matter. You have to put your faith in him. But you can know that you go to heaven. You don't have to hope. You don't have to think. You can know. If you don't know for sure, if this is your first time in church, if this is your hundredth time in church, or your millionth time in church, if you don't know for sure, talk to somebody. Because the only way to get to heaven is if we press into God's pardon. The only forgiveness, the Bible says that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. If we don't ask his forgiveness, we can't be forgiven of our sins. And therefore, if we do not do that, we spend eternity in hell. If we will press into his pardon, if we'll repent of our sins and ask him to save us and put our faith in him, that's pressing into God's pardon, and you can go to heaven. Whenever it is that you do die, I don't know when that will be, neither do you, but when we do die, if we've done that, we get to go to heaven. So in conclusion this evening, I ask you this. Have you pressed into God's pardon? I don't know you. I don't want to assume that everyone in here is saved. If you have not been saved, if you don't know, you're going to heaven. Today is the day to press into God's pardon. The Bible says now is the time of salvation. Today is the day of salvation. And talk to somebody. But what about you, Christian? Are you pressed into God? I'm talking about like so tightly nothing else can get in there. You do everything you can to get the guy. We all feel tired sometimes. We all feel lonely sometimes. We all have trials and troubles and you don't know mine and I don't know yours and I wouldn't trade mine for yours and you wouldn't trade yours for mine. But the answer is not our friends. I've got a great family. That's not the answer. I can talk to them. But that's not the answer. The answer isn't alcohol. The answer isn't quitting on God. The answer is the opposite of that. It's pressing into God. I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I mean, I think if I asked you to raise your hands, we'd all raise our hands and say, yeah, I'm having a hard time with something. Right? If not, come talk to me. I need to figure out the secret, right? But I think we could all raise our hands and say, hey, yeah, I'm having a hard time in this. I'm going through this trial. I feel this way today. I urge you, I challenge you, press into God. And one more time, if you're not saved, I urge you, I beg you to press into God's pardon. Let's pray. Dear Lord, we thank you for this day you've given us. We thank you for the opportunity to hear your word tonight, Lord. May we as Christians learn to press into you for all of our needs through all the hard times and through all the good times. And Lord, I do pray that if someone in here is not saved, if they're not 100% sure they'll go to heaven, Lord, I pray that they will talk to somebody this evening. I don't know how we're gonna close this service, Lord, but I know that your Holy Spirit can work in any way he sees fit, Lord, and so I pray that you'll do that tonight. We love you, Lord, and Jesus and I pray, pastor. Thank you, brother. Pressing into God, that's a good message. Thank you for that. pressing into God's pardon, pressing into the Lord, where we could all do a better job of just learning to just get closer and closer to the Lord and lean into the Lord instead of so many other things, so many other things, including our own wisdom or our own solutions. And I like what you said, we try it ourselves till we realize we can't, and then we go to God. We'd save ourselves some heartache if we just learned to press into the Lord Appreciate the message brother. We're gonna go ahead and have a time of invitation give you a chance to respond to the message Whatever the Lord is working on in your heart whether you don't know the Lord is your Savior or whether you do but you just need to Spend some time in prayer to this evening. We want to give you that opportunity. So as she plays I would encourage you you can use the altar you can use your pew Take some time and just have some fellowship with the Lord this evening