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The Significance of Signs 0:00 Amen, amen. How are you guys doing tonight? Thank you guys for coming to church tonight. God has brought you here for a purpose. If you don't know who I am, my name is Gabriel. I'm the associate0:12 director of family ministries here at Patriot Church. Where is my Patriot Kids and Patriot Youth family at? That's my people right there. Those are my people. I'm glad you got we're in0:24 service, but there's still people over there taking care of the kids right now, so you don't need to worry about it. Before we, begin into it, I wanna honor our, pastors here, pastored Adam and Ashley and, and pastor0:35 Nathan and pastor Aaron for giving me this opportunity to speak. I don't take it for granted. I count it in honor. I also wanna honor my wife right now. She's my stylist and she believes in every sermon I ever put to put0:47 to paper and so I I thank her so much, for that. If you have your journals, can you raise them up for me? Your Joshua journals. I love it. I love to see it. Has this has this series been good for you0:59 guys? Have you been enjoying the series going through the book? It's it's been a great time and we've had some amazing sermons. If if you're here for your first time or maybe it's your first time here going through1:09 Joshua on a Wednesday night, I'll encourage you after service, we're selling those journals so that you can write notes in there and follow along. We're only in chapter 4, we're starting chapter 4, tonight, and so1:19 there's not a lot of homework you gotta do, there's not a of recaps you have to do, it's just a few, and so you're still at the beginning and so there's still a lot of time before it's 2, before it just seems1:29 insurmountable. We have 24 chapters in Joshua, we're in chapter 4. So we're really good, we're really at the beginning still, and that's what we're gonna be talking about today, Joshua chapter 4, the first 9 verses1:41 of the fourth chapter. And so, we're gonna read really quick, we're gonna read, these verses, and so if you have your journals, open up to Joshua chapter 4. If you have your Bibles, open up to Joshua chapter1:53 4. We'll have it for you on the screens as well. And so if you can, do me a favor and stand for the honor of reading God's word as we get into it tonight. Joshua 4 starts like2:04 this. When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, take 12 men from the people, from each tribe a man, and command them saying, take2:16 12 stones from here, out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests' feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight. Then Joshua2:28 called the 12 men from the people of Israel whom he had appointed a man from each tribe. Verse 5. And Joshua said to them, pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan,2:40 and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, that this may be a sign among you. Everybody say sign. Sign. When you're2:52 when your children ask in time to come, what do those stones mean to you? Verse 7. Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it passed over the3:04 Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever. 2 more verses. And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up 12 stones3:16 out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the Lord told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.3:27 Verse 9. And Joshua set up the 12 stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant had stood, and they are there to this day. You may be seated.3:40 God, we come before you right now, and we just we just thank you for bringing us here, Lord. I thank you that nobody is here on accident and everybody is here for a purpose, God. I pray that I get out of the way, Lord,3:52 and that you speak right now. People have come to hear you speak, not a man speak. I pray that I'm a good vessel. In your name we pray, amen. Amen. So we're talking about a4:04 sign. We're talking about signs today because that's what the Lord instructed the people to do, to make a sign, a sign to remember what he did for them. And signs communicate a4:15 lot of different things they can. We see signs all the time throughout our days, when we're driving, when we're walking around. There's a lot of different signs. Sometimes signs tell us to do something, like a stop sign.4:27 Maybe they tell us what, there it is, a stop sign, okay. Maybe they tell us what not to do, like, like, I think there's like a do not cross sign, right? Do not, do not cross, don't, don't do it. There's a lot of4:38 different signs. There's advertising signs, that want you to buy something. I've never been to Times Square. I'm assuming there's just a lot of advertisements there. There's these billboards everywhere. They're trying to4:49 get you to buy something. That's what the sign's trying to tell you to do. Maybe you've seen people on the side of the road or maybe there's an arrow telling you which way to go, those kind of signs. You know, there was4:58 a sign that I had never seen before when I was driving, and that's dangerous to never have seen a sign before. It was at it was at night, and so that's my only out is that it was at night,5:10 but there was lights around it, so maybe it's not an out. But, I don't know if you guys have ever seen those signs. It's like a crosswalk in the middle of the street, just a crosswalk, and, like, the pedestrians press a5:21 button and then the lights flash so that people actually stop. I've never seen that sign before and so the Lord had to take over the wheel in the middle of the night and I had to get out of the way and stuff, but so if5:31 you're not walk if if you're walking, make sure I'm not driving and we'll be okay. But I had never never seen that sign before. But signs communicate something to the person who's looking at the sign. And so we're5:42 talking about today sign that the Lord told the people to make, and that sign points to something. That sign puts people in a direction. And I wanna inform you today that you are5:54 all signs. You are all living signs that people look at, and you're gonna give them some kind of direction. You're gonna tell them something about6:06 what to do or what not to do or where to go or where not to go. That's what it is. And so for us as believers, there's many scriptures we could go to that point to us, If you're a believer in here, if you6:18 believe in Jesus, that you're a sign to the world, but I think Jesus says it best in Matthew chapter 5 verse 14. He says, You are the light of the world. A city set on a6:30 hill cannot be hidden, nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand. And it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let6:41 your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven. You are a sign. And so today, we're talking about what6:54 this sign that the that God told the people of Israel to make, a sign to remember what he had done. And there's 3 aspects that we're gonna learn about what a sign is supposed to do.7:06 And there's something we can learn about these rocks because there's 3 things that these rocks are supposed to do as a sign, and we can learn from that because we're supposed to be a sign. And so these are the 3 these7:16 are the 3 aspects we're gonna look at, and I'll give them all to you right now so that you can follow along. Number 1 is a sign rests, a sign reveals, and a sign remains.7:29 And so let's see what we can learn about being a sign from these rocks. But just a little bit of context before we jump into the first verse. Pastor Nathan preached last week,7:41 at the end of Joshua chapter 3 and a miracle happened. The people of Israel were traveling. I mean, it's a long it's a long journey, but multi generational journey because in the book of Exodus with7:53 Moses, and and if you've ever seen the Prince of Egypt or have you seen the 10 Commandments, that's the story that's being referenced there. He delivered his people out of, Egypt. They were slaves there. They were being8:03 mistreated and misused, and God led them out of Egypt by Moses, and then they started complaining. They started grumbling. And so that generation passed it took them a long time to get8:15 where God had promised them a land of their own, the promised land, or that's how what we call Canaan or Israel. And so God was leading them through, and there's now there's a new generation, a new generation that's8:26 about to step into the land, and they're right at the cusp, which is the Jordan River. It's this river that they have to get through before they step into the promised land. And pastor Nathan preached about how they were8:37 looking at this obstacle, this roaring river that's happening right in spring. The snow has melted, and this river is gushing and it's roaring. And how are we gonna get to the other side? And they're looking at this8:49 obstacle for 3 days. 3 whole days, they're looking at what's stopping them from going forward. And God does a miracle that he did before with their with their fathers and9:01 their mothers where he parted the Red Sea. He does the same thing here with the Jordan River and he parts the Jordan River. And so now we're picking up in Joshua chapter 4 where it's still a part of that miracle.9:13 It's still happening because God's almost and and pastor Nathan said this last week where he says, you know, let's try this again. We did it the first time with the Red Sea, and then you guys forgot. You guys started9:25 complaining. You guys started grumbling. But now let's try it again, and I'm gonna make sure you remember. I'm gonna do something to make sure that you remember because this is the land that you're gonna take. And so9:37 we start here, and then we see the first aspect of a sign of these rocks that they're supposed to take, and it's that a sign rests. A sign rests in the first 5 verses.9:49 Let's start with verse number 1. When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua and we're just gonna stop here for literally 1 second just to emphasize something10:01 that I'm sure we've, we've already touched on with this series, but this is how communication works in, the Old Testament specifically, but even through the time of Moses and Joshua, and it's that10:12 God communicates to Joshua and then Joshua communicates to the people. And this is how you see the communication breakdown, and you're able to trace it even within these 9 verses. You're able to trace10:24 how did they do? How did Joshua do with communicating to the people? How did the people do with responding to what Joshua said and does it all connect to what God wanted? We can see this in these 9 verses, but you can10:36 see this throughout the whole Old Testament. How are the people responding to what the prophet says? Because that's the role of a prophet, to speak on behalf of God and not I know Joshua's never referenced as10:48 a prophet. He's like a military general and that's really how he's referenced. But he operates like Moses did as a prophet speaking on behalf of God. And so we'll be able to trace, alright,10:59 Joshua, how good are you doing with these instructions the Lord's about to tell you? And how are the people going to respond? Verse 2, take 12 men from the people, from each11:11 tribe a man, and command them saying, take 12 stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priest's feet stood firmly, and bring them over with11:23 you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight. And this is where we get our first point, which is that a there we go.11:37 Here we go. Right here. Where are we at? Where you lodge, lay them down. Perfect. Stood firmly. Lay them down. Now the first point that we talked about was that assign rest.11:49 And this phrase here, lay them down. This is what the translators are trying to communicate from something in the Hebrew because Joshua was originally written in Hebrew. It wasn't12:01 written in English. And if you ever speak another language, there's never really a 1 for 1 in trying to communicate an idea. You know, my wife speaks Spanish and sometimes there's like jokes, in Spanish and she's12:12 trying to communicate to me what the joke is, but sometimes there's just not a 1 for 1 in English. And And so she's like, sorry. You don't even get the joke. And I'm like, okay. Well, I guess I just have to I'll just12:23 learn Spanish and then I'll get the joke and then and then we'll all be on the same page. And so lay them down is this idea the root word that they're translating from is rest is rest. This is what that means,12:35 rest. It's the word, Nuwa. Everybody say, Nuwa. Nuwa. Now, Nuwa might sound a little familiar because that's where we get the name Noah. Noah's name comes from this variation of the12:47 word which means rest. It means rest. And so God not only commands them, he not only commands them to make a sign but12:59 that this sign needs to rest. And rest is like a theme in the book of Joshua. We've already talked about some of the other themes in the book of Joshua, you know, like being strong and courageous. That's a theme13:11 in the book of Joshua. You'll see that throughout the whole book that the people have to be strong, they have to be courageous. A theme in the in the book of Joshua that that pastor Nathan touched on last week was that13:20 the Lord has to go before them. They have to go at the pace of the Lord and the Lord's gonna fight their battles. That's another theme. And here we see another theme which is rest. Rest. And you will see it in chapter13:30 21, how God will give the people rest from their battles because they're battling and they're fighting people, and the Lord will give them rest. And he also gives them rest from13:42 traveling because they are just sojourners. They've never had their own land, but by the end of this book, they will. By the end of this book, they're gonna have their own place to live. They're gonna be up be able to13:51 set up generations of houses and stuff, and the Lord's gonna give them rest. But I don't know if you know, but that's just a temporary rest. The people of Israel didn't have14:02 rest in an eternal sense. They went back to fighting. They had to go back to fighting other enemies. They had to go back to moving around. They're They're gonna get kicked out of this land eventually if you read the rest14:14 of the book. And so this is just a temporary rest. And God is just setting up something for us here. He's setting up an idea here of something he's just14:26 trying to bring. It it there's a spiritual rest coming. There has to be something more than just this physical rest that you're giving us, God. There's a spiritual rest that he's bringing. There's a spiritual rest that14:38 he has, and that comes in Jesus Christ. And some of us in here have experienced a little bit of that rest that's been promised here in the Old Testament. You know, the the author of the book14:50 of Hebrews in the New Testament, he has a whole a whole, a whole argument here where he's talking about this rest, this idea of rest, this this spiritual15:02 rest that Jesus brings. And the book of Hebrews is all about how Jesus is better, how Jesus is better than what, what the Jews were following, what the Jews were practicing, that15:14 Jesus is so much better, and he's talking about the rest that you have in Jesus. And in Hebrews four:eight, he references Joshua. He says, for if Joshua had given them rest, God would15:25 not have spoken of another day later on. We have a spiritual rest in Christ right now and in the future. We we we know that there's gonna be an eternal15:37 rest. Right? We're gonna have an eternal rest. We're not gonna have to worry about anything physically in eternity with Christ. That's that's a promise that we have. But we can experience a little bit of that in certain15:49 aspects in our life. Maybe you've experienced that peace that surpasses all understanding, that comfort that you have, that wisdom that you're able to get. That's all from Jesus, that's all from Christ, and that's16:01 a, that's a part of that rest. And so if we're supposed to be a sign, a living sign to the world, are we resting in Christ?16:13 Are we putting our worries on Christ? Are we putting our anxieties, our inadequacies? Are we giving that all to him? Are we holding on to it? We're keeping this for ourselves for some16:25 reason. We have to rest and not just sleep. We're not talking about something physical. We're talking about something spiritual because that's a rest that won't run16:37 out. That's a rest that won't run dry. We need to rest. Verse 4. Then Joshua called the 12 men from the people of Israel whom he had16:49 appointed a man from each tribe. And Joshua said to them, 'Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder17:01 according to the number of the tribes of Israel.' Now let me just emphasize this really quick, cause it's really nice when you're reading it, but did you notice this? Upon their17:12 shoulders, these aren't little rocks. Like, I know I don't know if you if you have your your baggie in here. We're gonna get to it, don't worry, just keep it to the side. But these rocks, they had to17:24 put them on their shoulders. These were big rocks. They weren't little pebbles that they were gonna put in their pocket and keep it pushing. They were big. They were heavy. They had to put them on their shoulders. They17:36 may have been annoying to move. They may have been burdensome. Joshua, why do we have to pick up these boulders? Do we have to pick up these rocks and take them over here? Can't we just pick a little stone? Can't we pick17:47 a little rock? No, we have to pick these ones, like, why do we have to do that? And if you notice, these rocks go through the same journey that the Israelites go through by going through the Jordan River and17:59 passing before the ark of God. These stones are doing the same journey that the people have to do. And sometimes it's burdensome to be a sign, to be a living sign18:11 and point in the right direction. It can be annoying to want to have to do that, for people to look at you all the time and for you to have to always point them in the right direction because18:23 you don't wanna point them in the wrong direction because we're talking about eternity here, and eternity is forever and ever and ever. And if we're living signs, that's a lot of pressure.18:36 And sometimes, I don't feel like being a sign to somebody. Sometimes, I like to point to myself sometimes. Sometimes, I like to point at other people. Sometimes, I like to point at my phone18:48 or I like to point at the TV. I like to point anywhere else because sometimes it's just too much and it's too heavy. But God wants to do a miracle.19:00 God wants to do a miracle, and he wants you to remember that miracle. And so we need to remember that we need to rest in Christ even when we don't feel like it, even when it's hard, even when19:12 it's troublesome. The second aspect here is a sign reveals. A sign reveals. Verse 6, that this19:23 may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, what do these stones mean to you? Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the coming of the Lord. When it19:35 passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever. And so these stones were to19:47 be a sign to the next generation. Right? He says in verse 6, when your children ask in time to come what do these stones mean to you. So the19:59 ideal, it's generational. These stones are not for necessarily for them right now, but it's for for those to see, and then you tell them what it's about. And what's interesting is these stones almost beg a20:10 question to be asked about them. The children are are walking around seemingly and they see the stones and they ask the parent, what do these even mean?20:23 And so my question is for us, are we living in such a way that people are asking a question about us? Are they asking us, why are you20:35 you coming to church on a Wednesday night? Why do you keep praying? Why don't you cuss that person out when when when they did that to you? Why didn't you do them dirty? Why why are you20:47 doing are we living in such a way that's begging a question to be asked of us? Because these stones were built in such a way that it just begged a question to be asked.20:59 And maybe the questions being asked aren't great. Maybe we need to turn them turn the questions different. Maybe we need to act different so that the questions change as well. But I wanna make sure that21:11 we don't lose you here. Can we pull up the a b c d? You'll see what it is right now. Alright. A b c d. Oh, it's kind of off to the side. That's alright. So I don't wanna lose anybody. This I I need we need we need to21:22 dial in here. We need to lock in here. Pastor Sammy touched on, 1 of something that looked like this in chapter 2. But I'm gonna explain what this is, and this is really a tool for you guys to use in your own Bible21:33 reading. Raise your hand if you went to the Bible sprint in here. Alright, that's great. That's awesome. The Bible sprint is what we had here at Patria, where we just gave everyone practical tools on how to study the21:42 Bible on your own. When you go on practical tools on how to study the Bible on your own. What when you're when you go on your own and you're studying your Bible, how how how do you do that and what are the tools that you21:50 can use? This is 1 of this is an additional tool that you can use, and that's a chiasm. Everybody say chiasm. Chiasm. That's what this is and that's what Pastor Sammy talked about22:02 on, Joshua chapter 2. It's very poetic. It's basically a literate, a a a type of, I don't even know what word I'm looking for. It's22:14 just a literary tool that an author uses to try and emphasize something. If you notice when we were reading this section, it seems super repetitious. Seems like the author's22:26 being redundant. They keep saying the same stuff kind of over and over again in different ways, but that's what it's supposed to do. And so if you see the a, the a, the content of the a lines up with the content of the22:36 other a at the end of the verse. Right? We've put we've structured it in a way so that you can see it. You know, the b the b is the same content as what's in the b. The the c and the c and the d and the d, it's all the22:48 same kind of content. And it's called a chiasm, because it, it makes an x. It makes an x. Now that's our letter x but the Greek letter is key. That's the letter we get our x from. So it's it's a23:00 key. And so this is the chiasm and just like a like if you're reading a treasure map, x marks the spot. What's being emphasized is in the middle. In the middle. And so we see right here,23:11 what's being emphasized? The Lord. So this is supposed to be a sign, not only of what the miracle that the Lord did, but that the Lord was at the center of it. That he's the 123:23 who did it. And so I don't know about you, but are we pointing people to the Lord being the central point in our life? Is anything being asked about us, we're pointing them23:35 straight up. I do this because the Lord did this for me. It's not a whole long story about everything I did. It's not a whole long story about what this person did for me. It's that the Lord brought me23:47 through a crazy time. The Lord did a miracle in my life. The Lord was at the center of it. That's what the point is. A sign reveals to others what23:59 the sign is for. The stop sign tells you to stop. The green light tells you to go. These are all signs that we see and signs that we can see in our own lives.24:11 And just because God instituted a sign here doesn't mean we can't learn from it as we are also signs. Let's do this last 1 here. A sign24:23 remains. A sign remains. Verse 8. And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded. You see how we can trace24:35 it? God told Joshua, Joshua told the people, and now we see how the people did. The people did just as Joshua commanded and took up the 12 stones out24:47 of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the Lord told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them24:59 down there. And Joshua set up 12 stones in the midst of the Jordan, in a place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood, and they are there to this25:11 day. You see, a sign remains. These stones, even from the writing of this book, he emphasizes right at the end of verse 9, they are there to this25:22 day. You can go, Israelite, after reading this book, and you can go and see those stones right now. You can see those that sign that God instituted a25:34 generation ago and you can go see them right now. A sign last. This sign had endurance. It stood the test of time. It lasted through generations. It didn't wither away.25:47 We need to be durable as signs. We need to be steadfast as signs. We need to be able to get through hard times as being a sign to the25:59 world. How do we do that, though? How are we able to stand the test of time? How are we able to stand against all of these things that could be coming at us?26:11 Well, there's a lot of scriptures we can go to, but I think the simplest is emphasizing obedience and faithfulness through trials through26:23 trials. James chapter 1 verse 2 says this, Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, verse 3, for you know that the testing of your26:34 faith produces, what? Steadfastness. It produces durability. It produces whatever word you26:46 wanna use. But your faithfulness through a trial, your obedience through a trial is what is gonna produce you being durable. It's gonna produce you26:58 being steadfast. It's gonna produce you being there to this day as it says about these stones. It's not just something that's here today and gone the next because the the weather changed,27:11 because it got hot outside. Okay, we gotta change it up. Oh, there's too much water here. There's too there's too much rain. These stones didn't think any of that. There were stones. And so they were there to27:23 be there through the test of time, and we need to do the same through these trials, and it's hard. I don't know what trials you have gone through, are going through, or will go27:35 through. I don't know any of that. We don't know what trials we will go through. But all we do know is that if we remain faithful and27:47 obedient to God through that trial, it's gonna produce something out of us because that's what God wants to do. He wants to produce something out of you. He wants to27:59 make you durable. He wants to make sure that you're gonna be here for the next generation. He wants to make sure that you're gonna be here for the future. And not just you physically, but your faith,28:11 your faith in Christ. It's not a fickle thing. We have to stay with it. We have to stay durable, and we have to lean on God for that. You remain durable through28:23 your obedience and faithfulness, but we need to remember what God has done for us to begin with. You know, you could try, you could be faithful, you could28:35 be obedient through a trial, but if you forgot about what God's done for you, you're gonna be like the old generation in the book of Exodus, The generation that just28:47 started complaining after God parted the Red Sea and freed them from slavery. They got hungry and then they forgot about that miracle. They needed some water, they were they were thirsty and they28:58 forgot about what God did. And so for us, we need to remember what God has done for us so that we can remain faithful through our trials. You29:10 know, we do crafts in Patriot Kids. I don't know if you have any kids and have checked them in there and maybe they've come out and they've said, Look at what we did today. Look what we did today. And you know what I29:21 thought? I thought, Man, why don't we ever get that here? Why don't we ever get a craft? And so that's what these are. We're we're gonna do a craft. And so after, when you pick up your kids right now and paint your29:33 kids, you can say, look what I did today. Look look what I did today over here. So we have our we have these bags here. We have the the rock and, and a marker. Hopefully, you didn't throw it29:45 away or whatever it is. If you don't have 1, maybe just raise your hand and we'll try to get 1 in your hands. Now these rocks are different sizes, so I cannot tell you which how, what the size of your rock is. But what I29:56 want you to do with this rock is just try and think about 1 thing, 1 thing that the Lord's done for you in your life, A miracle He's30:08 done for you in your life. Something He's brought you through. Maybe you just put a name on there. Maybe you just put a word on there. Maybe a30:20 date. Whatever you put on there for you to remember what he's done for you. How far he's brought you. Yes. What he's done in your life.30:33 Because I'm sure it's been miraculous. And I don't know what that looks like for you. So you can take some time and write that down, but I'm gonna pray over us and pray over30:45 these rocks so that we can put, I don't know if you wanna keep it in your car or put it at home or wherever you wanna keep it, so when you look at it, you can remember what God's done for you30:57 just like these Israelites did. You know, we're participating with Israel right now and making our own signs, our own signs to remember what God has done. God, we thank you,31:09 Lord. We thank you for your word and everything that can be learned from it, God. We pray for these rocks right now, Lord. That you would always31:21 bring to remembrance what you've done in our lives. The miracles that you've done in our lives. Where you've brought us out of, Lord. What we used to do, God, that you've rescued us from, Lord.31:33 I pray that we're not like the old generation that just forgets about it, Lord, but that we can remember, that we can remain steadfast, that we can remain durable through trials because we can remember31:45 what you've done for us, Lord. We thank you, God, and we praise you. In your name we pray, amen. Amen. Now I don't wanna take31:57 it for granted for who's in this room and maybe hasn't heard about Jesus before or hasn't heard about this God we've been proclaiming or or what the Israelites are even doing and and what that all32:09 means. But I have a rock here and you can't you probably can't see it, but I wrote sin on that rock because that's what God has done for everybody, is32:21 that he sent Jesus to die on the cross for your sins. And that and that's the bad news is that we have sin32:33 and sin is that thing that keeps us from spending eternity with God. I don't know if you noticed, but when you walked in that building, into this building, on the top of the building it says, where32:45 will you spend eternity? And eternity, like we talked about before, is forever and ever and ever. Because we are not here forever on this earth.32:57 We will all die 1 day and we are either gonna spend eternity with Jesus or without Jesus. And it's all because of sin.33:09 And so Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins, to pay for our sins so that we can spend eternity with him instead of eternity without33:21 him. And so if you're in this place and you wanna have a relationship with Jesus, this is what we tell all the kids in Patriot Kids, it's as easy as ABC.33:34 All you have to do is accept Jesus as your Lord and savior. To believe that he died on the cross and rose again for your sins and that you confess your sins to him because he'll be faithful and forgive33:45 you. If you're in this place, we're all gonna close our eyes and bow our heads and we're all gonna say a prayer together. And this prayer doesn't save you, but this prayer just confirms what the Holy Spirit's33:57 already doing in your heart. It confirms what you already believe, but we're gonna pray together right now. Say dear Lord Jesus. Dear Lord Jesus. I accept you. I accept you. As my Lord and savior. As my Lord and savior.34:10 I believe that you died on the cross and rose again for my sins. I thank you, God, for forgiving me.34:22 I praise you and I thank you. Amen. Amen. If you said that prayer for the first time, we just wanna show you some love. We have a number that you can34:34 text to get more information or a website, my apologies. You're gonna grow. Faith. That's your next steps. Hey, now that I said that prayer, now that I believe in Jesus, what do I34:46 do now? What's my next steps? If you go to that website, we have a book for you by our founding pastor that just outlines how to walk out your faith and what to do from now on. Amen. Hey, well, I'm gonna34:58 pray for you guys 1 more time, and then we'll be dismissed. Our prayer team will be available up here at the front. If you're in, in need of any additional prayer, they would love to pray with you and believe God with35:09 you for whatever you're going through or anything like that and so let's pray right now. Lord, we we thank you for bringing us here today. We pray for traveling mercies as everybody's going back to their own homes and35:20 destinations, God. We pray that we remember today, Lord. We remember what you've done and that we don't forget it, Lord. So that you can continue to do miracles in our lives.35:32 Continue to change us. Continue to make us durable. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. We'll see you guys on Sunday.35:48 My watch says we've gone 3 miles. This app is like having a personal trainer.35:52 Yeah. But those apps collect a lot of your personal data. Aren't you worried?35:55 Really? That's creepy. How do I stop that?35:58 You should go to privacy dot c a dot gov to learn about your privacy rights and get on the best path to protect your privacy.36:03 You think they could help us get up this next hill?36:06 1 step at a time.36:09 Californians have the strongest privacy protections in the country. Go the extra mile to protect your information. Learn more at privacy dot ca dot gov.36:20 My watch says we've gone 3 miles. This app is like having a personal trainer.36:24 Yeah. But those apps collect a lot of your personal data. Aren't you worried?36:27 Really? That's creepy. How do I stop that?36:30 You should go to privacy dot ca dot gov to learn about your privacy rights and get on the best path to protect your privacy. You think they36:36 could help us get up this next hill?36:38 1 step at a time.36:41 Californians have the strongest privacy protections in the country. Go the extra mile to protect your information. Learn more at privacy. Ca dot gov.In this video 0:00 The Significance of Signs
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