You must stop treating Easter as merely a cultural holiday and instead embrace the personal call Jesus makes to your name. Accept the price He paid to breathe new life into you and let His eternal peace replace your fear today. Choose to receive His sacrifice and step into the mission He has for you.
Alright. That was awesome. Okay. Now we have, today, we have a special guest preaching up here, and, I gotta let you know a little bit about this man called Daniel Mannix. Okay?
Daniel
Mannix, small group leader. Daniel Mannix, **child of God**. Daniel Mannix, elder of the church. Okay? We got Daniel Mannix, okay, who was ordained by real church to preach and minister the gospel.
Someone give a shout out for today's guest speaker,
Mannings.
Wow. What an intro. Thank you, brother. Good morning, church. If you didn't know, my name is Daniel Mannix.
And I have the honor of delivering the word today. Thank you, brother. So pastor David and Jerry Hunter, 1 of our elders is actually in Pakistan right now. So pastor said, I need you to preach and pick any topic. You can preach on whatever you want, which I think was a risky decision but in all seriousness, it is an honor and I I take this very seriously.
But I actually spoke with pastor David and Jerry yesterday because I wanted me to give an update to the church about what's going on in Pakistan. For those of you that don't know, this church body here, this hundred hundred and 50 people are part of a global mission of God, bringing his kingdom here on earth. And he's doing amazing things in Pakistan right now. I think it was Friday, they had a revival where thousands of people came to this. There's pictures you're gonna see and hear all about it when they get back.
They get back Tuesday. But he wanted me to tell the con the congregation, he said, tell them that thousands of lives were saved. Tell them that the lame walk, that the blind have sight, and that the demon possessed have been set free. So that's amazing. He gave me 1 specific testimony.
Jerry actually prayed for a little girl that was deaf and mute, and she was healed immediately. And she was able to say thank you to her mother. How amazing is that? It's so cool to be a part of that. So I wanna pray first before I get started here.
I wanna thank God for what he's doing there, and I also want to pray for us here, that we would receive what he has to say for us here. Amen? Let's pray. Lord, we are so humbled and honored to be a part of your mission, Lord, to be soldiers in your army. Thank you, God, for allowing us to be a part of what you're doing in Pakistan, thousands of miles away, where probably none of us will ever go, seeing names and and of people that we'll never know.
But you know them, God. You know every 1 of them by name. And they are your children, and they are now our brothers and sisters, and so the love that we have for them is a reflection of the love that you have for us. We're grateful that your kingdom is expanding. We don't listen to the lies of the media.
The church is expanding, and it's expanding all across the world, and to be a part of that is amazing. We thank you for the hearts of the men that would put their lives on the line to travel over there to a place like that, where there is hostility towards Christians, and it's it's not an easy place to be. There's no public church services that that are condoned by the government, but the hearts of these men are bent toward you God, and they go in obedience saying, yes, Lord. I thank you for the families that have allowed them to go. I pray that you would comfort them as they're gone, Lord, and I pray for protection over Jerry and David.
I pray that you would put an amazing hedge of protection over them. Thank you for using them in a mighty way, God. And we can't wait to hear all the testimonies when they get back. And we thank you God for what you're gonna do here this morning to this congregation, Lord. I pray that people are filled up with your spirit.
I pray that hearts are open to hear what you have to say. Not me, what the Holy Spirit has to say. And I pray that people will be obedient to the things that you have to say. "In Jesus' name", we pray. Amen.
Amen. Okay. So today, wanna talk about Easter. It's coming up quickly, isn't it? I mean, this year is just flying by.
Can anybody tell me how many days there are until Easter? You got it. Whoever said that? Somebody down here did. Oh, right there.
Okay. 1 person out of a congregation of Christians. That's interesting, isn't it? I'm not condemning. It's kinda part of the media though, isn't it?
Like, if you look on Facebook in July, it's gonna tell you there are only 175 days until Christmas. Right? Everybody's excited about Christmas, and I'm not dogging Christmas, of course. I love the decorations and the lights, and of course, the birth of our savior. Right?
Peace on earth among those with whom he is pleased. Christmas is amazing. It's a gift from God that we received, but Christmas doesn't matter without Easter. None of this matters without Easter. If Jesus was just born, lived his life, and then died of natural causes, didn't die for our sin, none of this matters.
Easter, the resurrection of Christ, is the single most important day in the history of the world Of the world. Of any event that's ever happened. It is the resurrection alone that justifies any man. Amen? So Easter origins, I'm gonna get my teacher hat on here, so please excuse me.
Easter was a pagan festival, actually. It was celebrating a pagan god that happened around the time of the Passover. And the Passover is when Jesus was crucified. So Christians adopted this pagan festival and changed it into a celebration of the resurrection of Christ, which is our story, right? That we would take something that celebrates death and turn it into something that celebrates life.
And we are indeed 21 days away from from this celebration. I'm I'm not necessarily gonna tell you that Jesus died on that exact day, but it's a day that we recognize and remember what he did and the importance of what it is. Now, I'm sure pastor Dave is gonna talk about Easter on Easter Sunday, of course. But as many of you know, Easter and Christmas are the 2 days a year that some Christians that don't normally come to church will come. Right?
It's the the c and e Christians, we'll call them jokingly. But we really shouldn't despise that, you know, because some of these people, they're not gonna hear the gospel any other point of the year. This might be the only time. So we should not look down on that. We should look at it as an opportunity.
I mean, there might be future generations that say, wow, they had a great opportunity to "fish for lost souls". Right? Fish in a barrel, really. I mean, they came into your house and you could speak to them, that's amazing. Right?
There might even come a generation that says, what a luxury to have church in a public place in this country. Right? Let's be faithful with with what God has given us. So before we get into the passion of the Christ, I wanted to talk a little bit about prophecy. The prophecies of of Jesus' not only coming, but also of his resurrection.
Spoiler alert, Jesus was not God's plan b. Okay, guys? It's not like he expected Adam to be perfect, and then he ate of the fruit, and then it was like scrambling to figure out what to do, and and what am I going to do now? Oh, crap. Jesus was always God's plan a.
It's written in the beginning of creation. It's actually written in the names of the first 10 men that were created. I wanna go through that with you. The first creation was Adam. The name Adam means man.
His descendant was Seth, which means appointed. After him was Enosh, means mortal, and then Kenan, means sorrow. Mahalalel means the blessed God. His descendant was Jared which means shall come down. Enoch means teaching, who gave his wife gave birth, Enoch did not give birth.
To Methuselah, which means his death shall bring. His descendant was Lament, which means the despairing, and finally, Noah, which means comfort or rest. Now, if you put all of that together, this is what you get. Man appointed mortal sorrow. The blessed God shall come down teaching.
His death shall bring the despairing comfort or rest. How amazing is that? It's literally written in creation. Right? Come to me all you who are weary and "heavy laden" and I will give you rest.
Right? Jesus was God's plan a. We hear the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis-22 where Abraham is to sacrifice his son Isaac. Now Isaac, which is kind of apropos since Isaac was dedicating the baby today, I didn't even think about that. But Isaac was a type and shadow of Christ.
You see, Abraham is known as the father of faith, and Isaac was his only son, legitimate son. And just as Jesus is the only legitimate son of God the father. Right? So God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son in Genesis-22. And they travel 3 days to a place called Mount Moriah.
In verse 6, says, and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, so they went both of them together. Isaac wore the wood, carried the wood on his back just as Christ carried the wooden cross on his back to his sacrifice. And Isaac said to his father Abraham, my father, and he said, here I am my son. He said, behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Abraham said, God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.
So they went both of them together. So they go to this place. Abraham has it in his heart and full faith that he is actually going to *sacrifice* his son. This is the son of promise that God told him specifically, your descendants are going to be as numerous as the stars, and he has to wait till he's about 100 years old, and he has this first son. He finally gets it, and God says, I want that.
Give that to me. And Abraham faithfully says, yes, Lord. And he's actually about to sacrifice his son, where the angel of the Lord comes to him and says in verse 12, do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
God provided a sacrifice instead of his son. But the sacrifice that was provided was a ram. Right? Didn't God say that he would provide a lamb for sacrifice? He would, a few thousand years later.
What's the first thing that John the baptist says when he sees Jesus? *John-1:29*, behold the "lamb of God" who takes away the sin of the world. Jesus is that lamb of God, that God would faithfully deliver. But how would he do it? We're gonna go through a lot of scripture today, guys.
I hope you got your bibles ready. We're going to Isaiah-53. It's hard to do this with 1 hand. Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at him and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And as 1 from whom men hide their faces. He was despised and we esteemed him not.
Surely, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted, but he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Notice how that 1 is present tense. We are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray. All. All. We have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
By oppression and judgment, he was taken away, and as for his generation who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people, and they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death. Although he had done no violence and there was no deceit in his mouth, Jesus was innocent. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him. He has put him to grief. When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring.
How is that possible? He shall prolong his days. The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of the anguish of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied by his knowledge, shall the righteous 1, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, to be the firstborn among many brethren. Amen?
And he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors. Yet, he bore the sin of many and makes intercession for the transgressors. That's us. This was written over 700 years before Jesus' birth.
This is in the Old Testament, and there are Jewish people to this day that will not tie this to Jesus. I find that very difficult. Let's fast forward to the Garden Of Gethsemane in Luke-22. Jesus has done his ministry, he's getting close to the cross. Now we're getting into the to the tough stuff, things we don't like to read about.
I was speaking with a brother yesterday about this. It's difficult, but it's important for us to remember. Jesus is in this garden and he's about to be captured to go to the cross. And he's starting to feel the weight of everything. The weight of the sin of the world.
Can you imagine that? You know the the guilty conscience you get when you do something wrong? Can you imagine the entire weight of the sin of the world, past, present and future, bearing down on you as a man? The bible says that Jesus fasted for 40 days in the wilderness, and that he was tempted by the devil 3 times, and he actually overcame the temptations of the devil. Unlike Adam, who couldn't do it in the luxury of the garden, Jesus did it fasting, not eating and drinking in the wilderness for 40 days.
And it says that the devil left him for a more opportune time. I believe this was that opportune time when the devil is coming to him and speaking things to him and tempting him. Look at what Jesus says in verse 42. *Luke-22:42*. Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not my will but yours be done. And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him, and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Do we pray more earnestly in agony? When When you're actually suffering, do you pray more earnestly? That's what Jesus did.
And his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. He's literally **sweating blood**. He is being pressed. The word Gethsemane actually means "oil press". There would have been olive trees, and and that's where they would have pressed those olives into oil.
And Jesus is being pressed by the weight of sin. It's heavy. Jesus is captured cowardly at night, in the in the darkness of night. And he's presented in front of the Sanhedrin, which is the Jewish leaders. They smack him around a little bit, and they prosecute him, they question him, and then they take him to Pontius Pilate, who actually tries to free him.
Pilate says, I don't see any wrongdoing in this man, and he wants to exchange Jesus for another prisoner. There was a tradition that they had once a year, I believe, where they would exchange prisoners, and he wanted to exchange him for a murdering rebel named Barabbas, which is a whole another sermon. But the people don't want it. The people want to see Jesus dead. They want his blood.
Read what they say in Matthew-27. I wanna give us several different perspectives of what's going on here. Under old Jewish law, it was important to when you were ever prosecuting somebody, when you were coming up with a case against somebody, when you were talking about eyewitness accounts, it was important to have more than 1. You needed at least 2. So it's no mistake that there are 4 gospels relating to the same story of Jesus.
So, 27, look at verse 24. So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd saying, I'm innocent of this man's blood. See to it yourselves. And all the people answered, his blood be on us and on our children, exclamation point. Thank God that Jesus' blood is over us and over our children.
Amen? Yeah. That's our perspective. Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified. Now that that word there does not do it justice, scourged Jesus.
Scourge refers to a really severe beating, a punishment that had a multi lashed whip, And in that whip were embedded fragments of bone and metal. And so, when they whipped Jesus, those fragments of bone and metal would rip into his body, and then as they would pull it off, it would pull off skin and fat and digging down to the muscle and down to the bone. I mean, that alone would be enough for death. I mean, can you imagine that pain? Isaiah talks about prophesies in Isaiah-52 that he would be beaten to the point of not being recognized as the children of man.
Meaning, you couldn't even tell that he was a human. Not that it wasn't Jesus, but that he wasn't even a human. That's just the beginning. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters and they gathered the whole battalion before him. A battalion is 600 men.
And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him saying, hail, king of the Jews. And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him. So they they take thorns and they make a crown out of it, right, mocking him.
And they stick it on his head. I mean, we live in Florida, I'm sure a lot of us have stepped on sand spurs before, or you've been poked by a rose thorn before. Can you imagine having thorns pressed into your head? And then they take basically a stick and smash them on the head, and they're pounding the thorns into his head. Let's go to John-19.
John-19:17. So they took Jesus and he went out bearing his own cross to the place called the "Place Of A Skull", which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. Golgotha is actually the same area where Mount Moriah is. Mount Moriah is where God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, and where he said he will provide a lamb for himself for sacrifice, thousands of years later. God's plan a.
There they crucified him, and with him 2 others, 1 on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross that read, Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. Go down to verse 25. But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clopus, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, woman, behold your son.
Then he said to the disciple, behold your mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own home. Jesus was not focused on his own suffering. He's in the middle of the most torturous most torturous death that you could receive, and yet, his focus was on the suffering of his mother and of the disciple. For the moms in the room, I'm I'm sure it it pains you to see your child suffer.
Can you imagine seeing your son on that cross? This is not inflammatory language, folks. I'm trying to give us an understanding, a realization of what he did for us. After this, Jesus knowing that all was now finished, said to fulfill the scripture, I thirst. A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, **it is finished**. It is finished. When that guilty condemnation tries to come against you, when you feel ashamed, when you feel like you've gone too far for God's redemption, read these words of truth into those words of lie. And say, Jesus said, it is finished. And that's what I believe.
And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Since it was the day of preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a high day, remember, it's it's Passover. The Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
But 1 of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear. I mean, the guy's already dead and they're still torturing him. And at once, there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness. His testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth that you also may believe.
John thought it was important to tell us. For these things took place that scripture might be fulfilled, not 1 of his bones will be broken, and again, another scripture says, they will look on him whom they have pierced. I will also add going back to Isaiah-53. I'm sorry, not Isaiah-53, when when we read the story of the first Passover in Exodus-12, that the angel of death would destroy, kill all of the firstborn of all children of of man and of animal. And the Israelites are protected because they slaughter a lamb, and they put the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and the thresholds of their houses.
Kinda looks like a cross. Right? Blood on a cross. Their houses would be passed over, passed over. And they would eat that lamb inside the house, and they were not to break any of its bones.
Now, is big because almost everybody who was crucified, their legs were broken. Because here's the reason why, here's the gory reason why. When you're crucified, you're expanded so much, your your arms are stretched out, your feet are are nailed in, right? You're you're all nailed in. You can't breathe.
The only way to breathe is to push up. So you have this this force on your hands, right, the weight of your body, and then you have to push up to be able to breathe, and you get the force then on your feet, right, with this peg in your feet, that allows you to breathe. Well, if you break their knees, they can't push up, and so they'll suffocate to death. But that didn't happen for Jesus because the *scripture* had to be fulfilled. And so, he was dead.
They beat my Jesus, they pierced him, they spit on him, they mocked him. And when I think about this stuff, you know, I might be getting emotional here, but the number 1 emotion that runs through me is anger, to be honest with you. I wanna I wanna beat the crap out of these people. I I don't know about you guys. But it's in those moments that I have to humble myself and say, they are me.
I did this. I did this to him. It's it's my sin that he had to pay for to go on that cross. It's very fitting that when we do communion, we break the bread in our fingers, the little wafer. Right?
Because his body was broken by us. He had to do it for us. And he gladly did it for the joy that was set before him. After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him permission.
So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also who earlier had come to Jesus by night came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes about 75 pounds in weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now, in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden and then in the garden, a new tomb in which no 1 had yet been laid. So because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
This also fulfilled *scripture*. What we read about in Isaiah-53 that he would be counted with the wicked, that he would be buried with a rich man in his death. Joseph of Arimathea was a rich man. So prophecy, weaved all throughout this. This is God's plan a.
And so he's dead. He's buried. It's the most heinous act that's ever happened in the history of the world. It's the actually, it's the only bad thing that's ever happened to a good person. Did you know that?
Non believers will ask us questions a lot. I don't know if you've gotten these, but I've gotten these. Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? My response is, God has only allowed 1 bad thing to happen to 1 good person in the history of the world. *Romans-3, Paul makes it very clear, all have fallen short of the glory* of God.
All have sinned. None seek after righteousness. None are good, not even 1. Jesus himself says it when he's talking to the rich young ruler. The rich young ruler calls him good teacher.
He says, why do you call me good? Only God is good. It's the only bad thing that's happened to a good person. Those must have been some dark days. But it wasn't over.
Amen? Amen. On the third day, *John-20* verse 11. The reason why any of this matters. But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb, and as she saw 2 angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, 1 at the head and 1 at the feet, they said to her, woman, why are you weeping?
She said to them, they've taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him. Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, sir, if you've carried him away, tell me where you've laid him and I will take him away.
Jesus said to her, Mary. Jesus called her by name, and she immediately knew who he was. Jesus calls all of us by name. She turned and said to him in Aramaic, rabboni, which means teacher. The greatest moment in the history of the world.
Why did Mary think that Jesus was the gardener? Was he wearing gardener's clothes? Not likely. It's probably because Jesus was doing things that a gardener does. When God created Adam, where did he put him?
What was the first thing God instructed Adam to do? To tend the garden. Jesus, the last Adam, second man, is fulfilling and doing what the first Adam could not do. He is making all things new. He is rebirthed, starting a new track, a new line for all of us to fall into.
That we would not be under the first Adam anymore, that we would be under the last Adam. Jesus. We are now in Christ. When you die to self, you die to Adam. You are raised to new life in Christ.
Jesus is the gardener. Verse 19. On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them among them and said to them, peace be with you. When he had said this, he showed them his hands in his side. Then the disciples were glad what they when they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again, peace be with you. As the father has sent me, even so I am sending you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit. I don't think it's a coincidence that when Jesus first says, peace be with you, he simultaneously shows them his hand and his side. What he's saying is, look at these scars.
Look at the price that I paid. Peace be with you and God. Peace be with you. I bought this piece. I paid the price.
There's no reason to be afraid. Now, by these stripes, you are healed. This is the price I paid for my bride. This is what I went through. And he still wears those scars to this day and forever.
Don't believe me? Read Revelation-5. Revelation-5, John, same guy who wrote this gospel, talks about being in heaven, seeing the future, being in the throne room of God with millions and millions of heavenly beings, angels, worshiping God. And he says, and I saw standing in the midst of the throne a lamb that looked as though it had been slain. Jesus still wears the scars.
They are eternal because your salvation is eternal. The peace you have with God is eternal. The healing you have is eternal. The deliverance you have is eternal. It's forever.
And the second time when he says, peace be with you, he says, out of as the father has sent me, so I am sending you, and he breathes on them. Just as God breathed initial physical life into Adam in the garden, Jesus breathes life, new life, spiritual life into the disciples and says, I send you. This moves you in the direction of God, of becoming more like Christ, of seeing his kingdom come here on earth. This is what all of us have. If you don't have that, if Jesus has not breathed the Holy Spirit in you, if you if you have not received what he has done for you, do not delay.
This is not a joke, And this is not hyperbole, and this is not inflammatory, this is reality. "Choose today". Choose today. Let's pray. God, I can't believe that you would do that for me.
I'm not worth it. But you didn't choose me because of what I have done or have not done. You chose me because you loved me first. And everyone in this room that has received new life, you have done the same. That you would be the first among many brethren, that you would conquer hell, death, the grave, that you would overcome everything that we could not, that you would take on a punishment that we can't even think or read or watch.
You actually did for the joy set before you that you would be the firstborn among many brethren. I thank you for my brothers sisters in this room here today. I thank you for the brothers and sisters in Pakistan right now, Lord, that are experiencing that new life for the first time. I want everyone to experience that new life. If you're in here today and you have not made that decision and Holy Spirit is speaking to you right now, calling you by name as Jesus called Mary by name, I want you to raise your hand on the count of 3.
Don't worry about anybody else. I promise they're not gonna be standing next to you when you approach a holy god. On your day of judgment, is Jesus gonna be there to say, I got this 1. This 1 was mine. Or is he not?
It's the only way. Jesus made it very clear. It's the only way to the father. There's no other way. It's not religion, it's just fact.
There's just no other way. I don't care how good you think you are, you are not. Only God is good. 1, 2, 3. Thank you, brother.
That's amazing. I want everybody here to pray this prayer at the same time with our newest brother who was "called by name" and Jesus knows your name. Let's pray this. Let's say, Jesus, I receive your *sacrifice* and the "price that you paid" on Calvary. I give you my life knowing that in you is only is the only way to real life.
I give you my filthy rags and receive your righteousness in return. Breathe the Holy Spirit into me, Jesus, and send me to do your father's will. In Jesus' name, amen. God bless you guys.