Psalm 90 As you just heard on December 7th, 1941, it was a
quiet Sunday morning. Americans woke up to what would
be one of the darkest days in our nation's history.
At 7:55 AM, exactly 84 years ago, Japanese planes attacked
the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and in less
than two hours, battleships were sunk, planes were destroyed, and
2403 Americans lost their lives. The next day, as you just heard,
President Franklin D Roosevelt went before Congress and began
his speech with those famous words yesterday, December 7th,
1941, a date which will live in infamy.
And he was right. We still remember it.
Even though most of us were not alive, we remember it.
It was a day that that changed the course of the war.
It was the day that changed the course of a nation, that changed
the course of the world. But this morning, I want to use
that phrase to point us to an even greater reality.
December 9th. December 7th, 1941 is a day that
we'll live in infamy. A day that was America was
suddenly attacked. It was a day of unexpected
death. It was a sobering wake up call
to a nation that quite honestly, I think felt impenetrable.
And the same is true in our lives.
Every life has days that mark and define it.
And there are days of tragedy. There are days of decision.
There are days of surrender. There are days of rejection.
There are days of hurt and heartache.
There are days of victory as well.
But there's a day that stands out above all of those moments.
It was a day many years ago just outside the gates of Old City
Jerusalem, a day at the center of human history.
It was the day that Jesus Christ suffered on the cross for your
sins and for my sins. And it was a day of unimaginable
suffering. But he did it for you and he did
it for me. The question before us this
morning is this. What will be your defining day?
I think December 7th was a day that reshaped the nation.
You could probably say the same thing about September 11th.
It was a day that reshaped the nation.
But there are spiritual days that reshape a soul.
And what I want to do this morning is turn our hearts to
God's word. And I want to look at a few
things under this title this morning.
A day that will live in infamy. A day that will live in infamy.
I want to reference what happened on December the 7th,
1941, but I want to help us understand the sobering
implications for our spiritual lives as well.
Let's pray and then we'll get into God's Word.
Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us.
We thank you for an opportunity that we have to be here together
this morning. We thank you for the sacrifice
that was made by those soldiers who were there on the island of
Pearl Harbor. And God, we thank you for their
willingness to die and many of them who did.
God, we thank you for their sacrifice, but we thank you so
much more for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary.
God, may we never forget that. May it be a day that that we
never let out of our minds. And for those who don't know
Jesus Christ as their Savior, may this be the day that they
accept him. May this be the day that they
come to know Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior.
May you use the message in our hearts this morning.
We thank you again for all you do for us in Jesus name, Amen.
First thing I want you to see in in, in this message this morning
is the reality of life's uncertainty.
The day of infamy reminds us that life can change.
Suddenly, You know, the attack on Pearl Harbor came when many
of them thought they were safe. It was a Sunday morning.
Who attacks? Who attacks a military base on
the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean, so far away from
Japanese, the Japanese homeland on a Sunday morning.
And yet that's exactly what they did.
Many of them are. Many of the sailors were were
eating breakfast. Some were just getting up.
Many of them were still in their beds when the attack happened.
Nobody got up that morning thinking this is the last
sunrise I'm ever going to see. Life can change very quickly.
One phone call, one, one test result from the doctor, one
accident, 1 moment. As a chaplain, I meet people who
are going through that day of their life often.
It's a very difficult thing that people deal with.
It's a it's a very difficult thing that they endure.
The Bible says in James chapter 4, keep your finger there in
Psalm 90, you don't have to turn to James, but he says in James
chapter 4 and verse 14, whereas you know not what shall be on
the Morrow for what is your life?
It is even a vapor that appears for a little while and then
vanishes away. Life is short and it can change
very quickly. You ever watched a cloud in the
sky? You're driving down the road,
and I know you've done this many times.
I did it not all that long ago. A couple months ago, I was, we
were driving down the road and there was this just a massive
cloud formations. And I started seeing things in
the clouds and almost as soon as you see them, those things
change. It's vapor.
It's there one second and it's gone.
Life changes very, very quickly. Many people, even Christians,
live as if they have all the time in the world.
How dangerous that is, especially for somebody that's
not saved. And I'm not under any illusion
that in a crowd this size, everyone is sure that they are
saved and on their way to heaven.
And I think there's a number of reasons that people put off
accepting Jesus Christ, but I think it's often because they've
made such a show that they're saved for so long that they
cannot humble themselves enough to truly come and meet Jesus
Christ at the cross. I've, I've given the illusion to
people for so long that I'm a Christian that what are they
going to think if I come and, and, and, and, and, and, and,
and say that I don't know Jesus Christ as my savior, say that I
don't have those things settled. Brother Ryan just came on Sunday
last week and he said, Pastor, I need to talk to you.
He said I made a profession of faith when I was 12 years old.
He said, but I don't really remember.
It didn't have anything to do with repentance.
It didn't have anything to do with faith.
And nothing in my life changed. In fact, it changed in the
opposite direction. I ran away from the Lord.
I lived my life for myself for many, many years.
And I started coming to this church back in 2022.
And I'll, and I'll be honest with you, when he came in, he
had a testimony of salvation. He had, he had he, he had me
convinced that he knew Jesus Christ as his Savior, but he
knew what was going on in his own heart.
And he came to me and he said, Pastor, I need to get this
settled. I'm tired of doubting my
salvation. I'm tired of not knowing for
sure that I'm on my way to heaven.
I want to get it settled once and for all.
Let me tell you what the gospel is so I can make sure that I
understand it. And for two or three minutes, he
gave me the plain gospel laid out as clearly as it could.
And I said, I wouldn't explain it any differently than what you
just did. And he bowed his head right
there in my office and he prayed and he accepted Jesus Christ as
his Savior. That takes humility.
It takes, it takes humbling yourself before God to say, I
know that everybody thinks that I'm saved, but I don't know that
I'm saved. And I'm tired of playing this
game. And I don't want to die and
spend an eternity in hell because I played a game and
convinced everybody else that I was saved when the King of
Kings, the Lord of Lords, my judge knows that I'm not.
And I think that's the reason why so many people will sit in
church for 20, thirty, 40-50 years and never come to know
Jesus Christ as their savior. They're putting it off because
they're afraid of what other people are going to think.
We put off getting right with God.
We assume that there's always going to be another Sunday.
There's always going to be another altar call.
There's always going to be another chance.
But hell is full of people who plan to get saved someday.
If you're not saved, today is not the day to gamble with
eternity if you're not saved. But if you are saved, but you're
backslidden, this is not the day to say, I'll do it later, Lord,
I'll get it right with you later.
If December 7th taught us anything, it's to tell us that
You are not promised tomorrow. Psalm 90 and verse #10 The Bible
says the days of our years are three score years and 10.
And if by reason of strength they be 4 score years, yet is
their strength labor and sorrow, For it is soon cut off, and we
fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine
anger? Even according to thy fear, so
is Thy wrath. So teach us to number our days
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Numbering your days means treating every day as if it
might be your last opportunity to serve God.
Brother John just prayed that in his prayer during the offering,
he said, help us to live as if you could come back today.
And Jesus Christ, he might, He might come back today, and I
hope he comes back today, but this might be the last
opportunity that you have to live for the Lord.
You don't know if you're, you don't know if you're going to be
here tomorrow. You don't know if you're going
to be here next week or next month or next year.
Life is uncertain. If you're not saved, don't wait
until it's too late to accept Christ.
Death comes like a thief in the night.
It comes at a moment when you least expect it.
It sneaks up on you. Death often comes in a moment
when you are least prepared. I've seen that happen over and
over and over and over again as a chaplain for our Police
Department and, and showing up. And I know Brother Kevin done
the same thing as a forensic detective showed up in, in, in,
in places when obvious. It's very obvious that people
were not expecting that they were going to take their last
breath. You know that you need to get
your life right with the Lord. Don't wait because you may not
get another opportunity. The day of infamy reminds us of
the reality of life's uncertainty.
But I also want to tell you this.
It's the remembrance of Christ's sacrifice.
Turn over to Romans chapter 5. The day of infamy this December
7th, 1941 calls us to remember the cost.
We remember December 7th because of the sacrifice.
Young men died in minutes on the USS Arizona and other ships.
Families received telegrams that shattered their world.
Blood was shed so that freedom could be defended and ultimately
preserved. And we have a day at the center
of our faith that must never be forgotten.
That's the day that Jesus Christ went to the cross and the day
that the sinless Son of God was attacked.
In a sense, He was mocked, He was scourged, He was, He was
beaten. He was crucified for you and for
me. It was not by surprise.
It was God's plan of redemption for all of eternity.
And that's why it's hard to call it an attack.
But that's exactly what it is. The sacrifice, though, was no
less great. In fact, the Bible says in
Romans chapter 5 and verse #6 For when we were yet without
strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet for adventure,
for a good man somewhat even dare to die.
But God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us much more than being now
justified by his blood. We shall be saved from wrath
through him. You, you, you see what he's
saying here. Oh, there's not very many people
that would die for somebody who was a great person.
There's not very many people who would say, I'll, I'll, I'll give
my life in exchange for the president of the United States,
a great man, a great person, a great position to hold.
But my life is is very precious. There might be some people who'd
be willing to give their life for the president of the United
States, but not a lot. And there might even be a few
people, the Bible says, who would give their life for a good
man. But the assumption here is that
nobody would give their life for somebody who was rotten and
worthless. But God commendeth his love
toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Jesus didn't die for good people.
He didn't die because we deserved it.
He died while we were still in rebellion.
He died while we were still fighting Him.
He died while we were still lost in sin.
Pearl Harbor reminds us that freedom is not free.
And I'll tell you this, the cross reminds us that
forgiveness is not free. Jesus paid that price.
Our sin demanded judgment, and Jesus took that judgment on
himself. All over the United States, we
put up memorials so we can remember things that have
happened. And all over the place, there's
World War 2 memorials, there is memorials for Vietnam and all
kinds of different memorials. We put up memorials so we can
remember, and I've never been there, but I've read that
there's a memorial over the sunken USS Arizona in Pearl
Harbor. People stand in silence as they
look down and remember. They stand over the watery grave
of more than 900 men who never survived the bombing of that
ship. Of the 87,000 men that were
stationed on Oahu that day, only 12 of them are still alive, all
of them over 100 years old. None of them are capable of even
traveling to Hawaii. Every year in December 7th they
have a memorial ceremony and as many as are able they bring them
over to Hawaii and include them in the ceremony. 2 attended last
year. None were able to make the trip
this year. The last remaining survivor of
the USS Arizona died last year at 102 years old.
It's said, though, that in this place, at this memorial, there's
reverence in the air, as there should be.
But how lightly we sometimes treat the cross, how casually we
speak of Calvary, how easily we forget that the Son of God, the
King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, suffered more than any
soldier, suffered more than any sailor, suffered more than any
hero of the world ever has. Sure, Pearl Harbor reminds us
that freedom isn't free. But the cross reminds us that
your forgiveness is not free. And yet how often after you're
saved for 5/10/15 twenty years, the cross just becomes
commonplace to us. Oh, you think about what
happened on 9/11. Lives were changed after 911.
I remember exactly where I was when 911 happened, and I can
still remember everything that happened in our country after
that. Flags flew everywhere, Never
forgotten. We will never forget.
And still years later, people say that on on Patriot Day,
September 11th, we will never forget.
And now here we are electing Muslims and putting them in
positions of high authority in our country.
We've forgotten. We've forgotten because time,
time gets away from us. And the next thing you know, the
things that we say, we will never forget, we do.
And how sad that that's happened, that that happens with
so many Christians. Jesus Christ died in the cross,
and you came to him and you knelt down there at the cross.
And you realize that you can let your burdens go.
You can realize that He would take your sin and He would put
his righteousness in its place. You realize that he would wash
away all your sins and he would put them as far away from as
Him, as the east is from the West.
He would bury them in the deepest part of the sea.
And what a wonderful day that was for those who came to know
Jesus Christ as their Savior. I'll never forget what Jesus
Christ did for me. The five years goes by, 10
years, 1520 years goes by and the next thing you know, you're
living your life the way that you want to live your life.
You're doing what you want to do with your life instead of what
He wants you to do with your life.
Oh, you said that you would never forget, but the way that
you live your life proves that you have.
Oh, the cross of Jesus Christ should remind us that
forgiveness is not free. By the way, God also gave us
from memorials. That's what the Lord's Supper is
all about. That's what we're going to do
tonight. It's a reminder so that we don't
ever forget the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made.
Oh, most, most of the memorials around the country, they'll have
a ceremony there every year, December 7th.
They're having a ceremony out in Hawaii today to remember the
sacrifice at Pearl Harbor. He told us to do it often, Do it
often in remembrance of me. Don't forget the sacrifice that
Jesus Christ made, that Lord's Supper was instituted so that we
would never get over what he did for us.
Of course, it's an opportunity for us to get our lives right
with him. But the way that we remember,
the way that we truly remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is
to live in a way that's pleasing to him, to live in a way that is
holy and righteous and godly, so that we proved that we didn't
forget that what he did for us was a great sacrifice.
What a sacrifice he made for us. Has the cross become common to
you? Are you more moved by earthly
stories of heroism than by the eternal sacrifice of Jesus
Christ? December 7th, 1941 should grip
us. But the day that Christ died on
the cross for us should break us.
It should make us want to be everything that we can be for
Jesus Christ. The day of infamy reminds us of
the reality of life's uncertainty, reminds us of the
remembrance of Christ's sacrifice, but it also reminds
US number three of the requirement of personal
response. Turn over to Hebrews Chapter 9.
See the day of infamy demands a decisive response.
December 7th demanded a response from America.
The very next day, December 8th, as you heard in that speech by
Franklin Roosevelt, he asked Congress to declare war.
And Congress responded almost unanimy, unanimously.
Nobody could remain neutral. You are either going to face the
enemy or you were going to surrender.
And I will tell you this, the cross of Christ demands a
response from every person as well.
You cannot remain neutral about Jesus Christ.
You can't. You either receive Him or you
reject Him. There is no middle ground.
You cannot stay neutral and there's a lot of people who
wanted to stay neutral. Don't get involved in the war.
Don't, don't, don't do this. Don't do that.
You cannot stay neutral when it comes to Jesus Christ.
You either bow to Him now as your Savior or you face Him
later as your judge. Hebrews Chapter 9 and verse #27
The Bible says this. And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once, so
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.
And unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time
without sin unto salvation. See, every life has a day of
decision, A day when the Holy Spirit deals with your heart in
a special way, a day when you know God is speaking to me.
This message is for me. That day may not be famous in
the history books, but in heaven's record, it can be.
The day that your eternity changed.
For that, for those who are saved, for those who know Jesus
Christ as your Savior, that's the day that you accepted Jesus
Christ. The day your sins were forgiven,
The day your name was written in the book of life.
But for those who are still lost, those who don't know Jesus
Christ as their Savior, there will be a day of infamy for you.
It could be today. If you die without Christ, The
day that you rejected Jesus Christ as your Savior will be a
day of infamy for all of eternity.
It'll it'll be a day that will live in your mind forever.
It'll be a day that lives in your mind for all of eternity.
It'll be a day that you play over and over and over and over
in your mind. I had the chance to accept them,
and instead I rejected Jesus Christ.
If only I could go back to that day.
But there will be no chance for you to go back to that day.
You'll remember sermons. You'll remember this sermon if
you reject Jesus Christ and die without him.
You'll remember the invitation. You remember the tug in your
heart that you resisted? A man once told a pastor, friend
of his, his pastor had shared the gospel with him.
In fact, he had shared the gospel with him on more than one
occasion. And he kind of chuckled and he
said one day, one day I'll accept Jesus Christ as my
Savior. Just not now.
I've got a lot of things going on in my life.
I've got a lot of things that are going on with my business
and everything else. I'll come to church one of these
days, and one of these days I'll get everything right with God.
I'll accept Christ as my Savior one day.
He said that for years. And one night, that pastor got a
call. A man had suffered a heart
attack and died instantly. He never got his one day.
That one day never came. Turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter
2. Sorry, chapter 6.
Your eternity does not hang on what you plan to do one day.
Your eternity hangs on what you do with Christ today. 2nd
Corinthians chapter 6 and verse #2 For he saith, I have heard
thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I
suckered thee. Behold, now is the accepted
time. Behold, now is the day of
salvation. Your eternity does not hang on
what you plan to do one day. Your eternity hangs on what you
decide to do today. The day of infamy reminds us of
the reality of life's uncertainty, the remembrance of
Christ's sacrifice, the requirement of a personal
response, but lastly reminds us of the resolve of a transformed
life. I've been speaking mostly to
those who are not saved this morning, but let me speak to
those who already know Jesus Christ as our Savior.
That's most of you in this room. As I said already, I'm not under
the illusion that everybody is saved.
Maybe you have a testimony. Maybe you have something that
you're hanging that on. I, I've, I'm, I'm sure I've told
you this before, but I, I remember a young man that
graduated from, from high school and they would always, the
school would always put together a little video of when did you
get saved? What are you planning to do with
your life? Where you going to college?
What are you going to study? All of these other things.
Just a short little interview and they asked this young man,
when did, when did you get saved?
What's your salvation testimony? They said, well, I, I can't say
that I really remember, but my mom told me that I got saved
when I was three. That's not a salvation
testimony. That's, that's, that's hanging
your eternity on something that somebody else told you happened.
If you don't know for sure you're saved, and there's a good
possibility that you're not saved, if you're doubting your
salvation, there's a good possibility that you're not
saved. Now you might be, and the devil
might just be putting things in your mind.
There's always that possibility, but you better get it settled.
You better know for sure that you're on your way to heaven
before it's too late. From that day of infamy came a
purpose and a resolve. As FDR was closing his speech on
December 8th, he said this, and you heard him say it.
With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding
determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable
triumph. So help us God.
Men and women lined up to enlist.
The nation gathered around, and they they united around the
purpose. The Second Corinthians chapter
5, just a page or so before, where you just were out of the
cross, should come and resolve in the life of a believer,
Because He died for me, I will live for him.
Second Corinthians chapter 5 and verse #14 says this.
For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus
judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead, and that He
died for all. That they which live should not
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them
and rose again. Because he shed his blood for
me, I will not waste my life. Because He bought me.
I belong to Him. Perhaps after you've been saved,
you have a day that will live in infamy.
Maybe you have a day that you're ashamed of, a day that you fell
into sin, a day that you walked away from God, a day that you
broke your family's heart. The devil loves to replay those
days over and over and over in your mind.
That's who you are. That's what he'll tell you.
Look, look at, look at how you repaid the one who died on the
cross for you. What a wonderful life.
Oh, what a what a wonderful testimony.
What a wonderful thing you've done.
You can never do anything else for God.
Look how you've repaid his sacrifice.
But that doesn't have to be your final story.
Jesus said that's who you were. Let me give you a new day.
Let me give you a new heart. And in Jesus Christ, God can
turn a day of shame into a testimony of grace.
You think about Peter. Peter had a day of infamy like
that. Oh, he followed Christ very
closely for 3 1/2 years. He was part of the inner circle.
He was there on the day when Jesus was transformed in front
of him. He was there on the day when
when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane and was praying that
that, that the cup would pass from he was there with Jesus in
all of the, the close, the intimate moments.
He was there. He was there when they came to
arrest Jesus. In fact, he pulled his sword out
and he cut the high priest servant's ear off and he watched
Jesus pick that ear up and put it back on his head.
And he said, though everybody else forsake you, I'll never
forsake you. Everybody else can leave, but
you can count on me. I'll be here.
And within minutes of uttering those words, he denied Jesus
Christ three times. That rooster crowed.
Peter remembered that Jesus had said that that was going to be
what happened. And all of that remorse and all
of that regret and all of the, the, the emotions that came
along with that just flooded over Peter.
Could you imagine if that was the end of Peter's story?
Could you imagine if that's where Peter just decided to
leave it all, go back to fishing and just be done with it?
Oh, yeah. Jesus rose from the dead.
I knew that he said he was going to, but he'll never accept me
again. He doesn't want me.
I denied him only a few days ago.
I said just a few few less than a week ago that I'll never, I
will never leave him. And I left him and he had to die
alone and he had to suffer on that cross without me there
because not only had I turned tail and ran, but I denied him
three times. He doesn't want me back.
There's nothing that God can do with me now.
But that's not where Peter's story ended.
Oh, you think about the the grace and the mercy that Jesus
Christ showed not to just everybody else, but to Peter.
Oh, Judas betrayed him, but Judas never got it right.
Judas went out and hung himself. But if that failure had defined
Peter forever, then we never would have seen Pentecost. 3000
people that accepted Christ and was were baptized and joined the
church. Few days later 5000 more people
that came and accepted Christ. That never would have happened
if that was the end of Peter's story.
Never see him strengthen the early church.
Never see him write Scripture. If Jesus Christ can restore
Peter, then he can sure restore you.
Oh, you might have denied Christ.
You might have denied him once, twice, 3 * 10 * 50 times.
But the same mercy that he extended to Peter is the same
mercy that he'll extend to you today.
And even though you might have a day of infamy, a day that you
regret, a day that you wish you could go back and change, maybe
a period in your life that you wish you could go back and
change, you can't change the past, but you can change your
future through Jesus Christ. So the real question this
morning is not about American history, but about your
spiritual history. When FDR said December 7th,
1941, a day which will live in infamy, he meant that the world
would never forget what happened.
But let me ask you this morning, is there a day in your life when
you came to Christ for salvation?
Not a day that you went to church.
Not a day that you made a decision that you were going to
start attending church regularly.
Not a day when you said a prayer that somebody else was praying.
Not a not a day when you tried to do better, but a day when you
personally accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior.
A day when you repented and in faith you came and accepted that
gift of salvation. If not, this could be your day.
Not a day that lives in infamy, but a day of eternal rejoicing.
You don't know what tomorrow holds.
And I know that most of us just go on living our lives.
We just expect that we're going to wake up the next morning and
we're going to go about our day and we're going to live to be 70
or 80 or 90 years old, and we're going to have the time to live
our lives the way that we want to live them.
But you are not promised tomorrow.
You don't know if you'll ever sit through another sermon.
You don't know if you'll ever feel the tug of the Holy Spirit
on your heart towards salvation ever again.
Don't let this become the day that you remember in eternity,
the day that you walked away from the Savior who loved you.
If God speaking to your heart, would you come?
Would you let somebody open the Bible and show you how you can
know for sure that you're saved? For those who are saved?
Do you need this to be the day that you surrender?
A day of coming back to God, a day when you stop coasting in
your Christian life and start living on purpose for Christ?
I think the danger for so many of us, especially if you've been
in church for any length of time, especially for those who
grew up in church, who have been, who have been surrounded
in it. I was born in church.
I don't know anything other than church.
I don't know anything other than being in in church every single
Sunday and every single Wednesday.
I don't know anything other than that.
And there's a lot of people who are in the same category in your
life. The danger is that you just
coast through your Christian life because this is what you've
always done. And it doesn't matter if you
start to get away from the Lord. It doesn't matter if you start
to grow cold in your relationship with him.
It doesn't matter if you're just indifferent to the cross and,
and, and, and what he did for you and his sacrifice for you on
the cross. You know how to play the game.
You know how to live your life to make everybody around you
think that you're a decent Christian.
You could be the farthest thing from that and nobody would ever
know because you know how to play the game.
Maybe today is the day that you need to be done playing and get
back to living for Christ on purpose because He loves you and
you love Him and you'd want to do something for Him that counts
for eternity. Maybe you have days of regret or
failure or shame. Bring those to the cross.
Let this be the day that lives in your memory.
Memory as the day that you fully surrendered to God.
Maybe you're defining day is in a Pearl Harbor moment.
Maybe it's just that you've drifted.
Maybe that's just that you've allowed your love for him to
grow cold. Maybe it's just that you've left
your first love. Come kneel at the cross again
and get those things right with God.
Let today be the day that changes everything.
Won't you do it? Let's pray.
Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us.
We thank you so much for the fact that you died on the cross.
I think it's important for us to remember things like Pearl
Harbor and the sacrifice that was made by those soldiers.
But that pales in comparison, pales in comparison to the
sacrifice that you made for us. Oh, we're thankful.
We're thankful for the sacrifices, the human
sacrifices, the the lives that people were willing to lay on
the line. Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
But the life that you laid down was perfect.
It was sinless, it was holy, it was God.
We thank you for that. God.
I do pray that if there is somebody in here this morning,
maybe somebody that's never even professed to know Christ as
their Savior, that they would come to you.
Maybe there's somebody in here who's been pretending to be a
Christian for a long time. May they come to you.
Maybe there's somebody in here this morning.
God, you know every heart. You know where we are in our
relationship with you. Maybe there's somebody in this
morning who's just allowed that relationship to grow cold.
Maybe they've forgotten the sacrifice that you made for us.
God, may we get those things right with you today.
Thank you again for all that you do for us in Jesus name, Amen.
If you'd stand at your seat through the heads bowed and your
eyes closed as the piano plays the invitations open, you come.
If you need to come talk to me about how to be saved, you come.
I'll take the Bible and show you how you can know for sure that
you're on your way to heaven. But if you need to get some
things right with God, this is the day to do it.
Come, come get those things right with you as the piano
plays invitations open.