Well, good morning. Oh, I think the early service did better than y'all. Good morning.

So happy to see you. So happy to be with you church. And I'm Kevin Hornsby. Please meet my wife, JoJo, today. She's the best part of our team.

Wave at us, JoJo. She hates it when I point her out, which is exactly why I do it. And I'm so glad that we got to be with your students this weekend. So, hey, if you're a parent or grandparent of one of the students that you dropped off and abandoned for three days here at the church, can I see your hand? I just want to see who you are.

Okay, super good. Did y'all have a good weekend without your children at home? Yes. Thank you, Crosby and team. Listen, I told the early service.

I am so stinking impressed with this church, I don't know how to act. JoJo and I, we are Survive or Thrive Evangelistic Ministries. We travel all over the Southeast, so we go to a lot of churches, you know, retreats and camps, and we do church revivals, and we try to speak to young people a lot. Although the gap generation gap is getting wider and wider and wider.

I don't know how much longer we can. But I am so impressed with what you're doing here at Ebenezer. And I didn't get to meet the discipleship pastor, but I thought it was Louie Giglio sitting over there. Do you get that a lot, brother? Do you get.

Yeah, I saw your profile, and I said, Jody, Jody! Louie, Louie's here. No, but from what the staff says about you, you're a lot like Louie. So you're on that level. Apparently so, man. Thank God for the staff.

That. And I'm just. Look, I. I was a church staff guy for 20 years, so I get it. I come in and I check things out, and I'm like, mm, yeah, I see that. Oh, yeah.

And, you know, I can't find anything wrong with this church. I'm still looking, though. And I love your pastor. We've had a few conversations this weekend, and, man, I just have a kindred spirit with him. I love you, brother.

I know you're a godly man, and I know y' all glad to get him if you're a guest in this church this morning. I am not the pastor. Say it. Say an amen right there. Please come back and hear the pastor here at Ebenezer and meet the staff.

And listen, there's so many good things happening here, if I lived in this area, I'd join this Church. I'm being serious right now. Look around. Last time we were here, it wasn't this full.

And God is working at Ebenezer. And God is using you in the Toccoa community. I know you already know, but isn't it nice when a stranger recognizes it? And I just have to say that. Parents, I am so proud of your young people.

We have watched them this weekend, love on each other, love the Lord, act crazy, dance, jump around, play games, stay up half the night like we've taught them not to do. And they have had themselves a good time. Students, have you had a good time this weekend? I am so glad.

And my favorite girls, right here on the front row, remembered my birthday. Turned 59 yesterday. They brought me presents and some of the others brought me gifts. I just wanted to let them know it was my birthday just in case. I was going to give my cash app out, but then I forgot to give it out.

So anyway, it's not about me. We're just glad we got to be involved. Isn't that right, Jojo? And thrilled. Anytime we get to stand up and proclaim the gospel. Pastor, it's a little bit embarrassing, but I didn't even give the outline to the early service.

You know that outline that's on the back of your bulletin? Every person that came to the early service walked out of here and it was completely blank. But I'm going to tell you something. I preached that introduction hard.

Never even got to the outline. I told them that it was pastor's fault. He only gave me 35 minutes. The students don't think I can preach for less than an hour. But I'm about to show you I can.

Amen. Amen. Hey, let's pray together. Father, we need you this morning. We're not too proud to admit it, Lord, we don't have the world by the tail today.

Some of us are struggling. The truth is, if we're honest, we're desperate. And we need you today. And God, I pray you'd speak to us. Use us in a mighty way today, Lord, to speak truth to this great church. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.

Hey, if you have your Bible, turn to Matthew chapter five. I promise you I'm going to get there in this service and I am going to give you that outline. But first, I just want to begin by letting parents and grandparents and guardians know that we've been teaching your young people this week on the theme of gravitate.

We started out Friday night and we talked about there's a natural draw of sin the world, the flesh, and the devil, they're all out to destroy us. You hear me? Do you feel the natural draw of sin? Man, I feel it every day. And it seems like when I am really trying to go for God, that that's when the devil attacks me the hardest.

That's when my flesh seems to want to quit and give up and run away and be depressed. I'm telling you, there is a natural draw of sin that will not stop until the day we die. But then Mason came Saturday morning, and he gave the students the good news that it is God that has this gravitational pull and he is drawing us in as well. There is evil present in our world. We are very aware. Yet at the same time, there is good, and if you read your Bible and you read the last book of the Bible, we know that if we are partnered up with Jesus, we win. Amen?

God is drawing our hearts from the day we were born. He's drawing us to himself. Will you give in? And that's what we have asked the students to do. We've asked them to break away from some things in their life that are keeping them from being drawn in to God and his purposes for them. And we talked about social media. Do you believe that? We actually talk to teenagers about what they're addicted to. Oh, it's quiet in here now.

And you know what? They responded very well. And some of these students came up here last night and laid their phone on the altar. Now, they did pick it up and took it back with them because they didn't want to get in trouble by their parents, but just symbolically laying it down and saying, hey, I know that there are stuff. This used to be something I control, but now it's controlling me.

And listen, parents, some of them are going to bring you their phone or their device, take it from them. Some of them are willing, and they're at a point where God has drawn their heart, to a point where they are finally willing to say, this is a problem, and this is keeping me from being who God has called me to be, and I need help with this. Sometimes our teenagers need help with stuff like that. Take it for 30 days, lock it away. Don't answer those texts that come through.

Set it aside until they can walk with Jesus long enough. You say, well, they need their phone. And I understand that because it is a long leash for us as parents. If you don't take the phone or they give you the phone, then at least have them delete the apps. There is no social media on my phone.

You mean you're not on Insta. No, I'm just not cool like that. You with me? You mean you don't have Snap Splat?

Are you kidding me? You're not on TikToxic? How in the world are you living and breathing, huh? No, not on there. Never been on there. Never been on TikToxic. I've heard it's too toxic.

Get that stuff off your phone for a while. I know some good can come of it. I wish every one of our Christian teenagers in the world would post ten times a day about how good God is.

I wish they'd share the gospel at least once a day on some platform on social media. Most of the time they don't. Why? They're too distracted by the garbage that's on there. Come on.

I'm gonna preach this morning, so just get that stuff off your phone. You can still call mom and dad. They can still find you on Life360. Could I get a witness in here? They know where you're at.

You're at the movie theater and you said you were going witnessing at the church. Come on now. You can still do that. But listen, at some point we gotta figure out. And these young people are so smart.

These young people, I asked some of them, how will social media affect your life? It's garbage. It's trash. But that trash tastes so good. That trash smells so good.

And they're so enamored with it. And if they don't get on it, they're pressured by those who are on it. Did you see this? Did you see that? And the whole culture is sucking them in.

It's drawing them in. And I'm telling you there's a better way. There's a better way. And listen this. This morning, what I really want to talk to you about is how we can draw others to God. Man, He's drawn us in. He's done a lot for us. Amen?

And before I get to the real outline, I want to give you a couple of things that I think will help us and encourage us. Oh, church. I just want to encourage you today.

You may never see us again. They may never have me back again. I'm always concerned about that. You may never see us again. But this morning I want to be an encouragement.

Just know that there's an evangelist and his wife and we are burning up the roads. And everywhere we go, we just want to be an encouragement to God's church and we want to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hey, let me tell you something. You may already know this, I'm going to tell you anyway. You have access. Write it down. You have access. This would be the time to take out your phone and open the notes section--I'm talking to the students--and write down, "I have access".

You have access to Almighty God. The Bible says I can come boldly into his throne room and I can make my petitions known to him in my time of need. I have no excuse. Students, are you hearing the loud, white, big lip preacher? You have access to Almighty God.

You have access to his spirit. If you are God's child, his spirit is indwelling you. The day that you confessed Christ as your personal savior, he deposited his spirit inside of you and he is speaking to you. Sometimes I wish he'd be quiet. I mean that respectfully.

He is talking to me all the. Don't do that. Don't say that. Don't go there. See that guy right there across the aisle of you in Walmart? You need to go talk to him.

Come on. My flesh don't want to hear it all. But listen, when I obey the spirit, the most fulfilled I ever am in my life is when I'm obedient to the one who indwells me. And that's the spirit of Almighty God.

You have access to his word. What you're holding in your lap, hopefully you have a copy of God's Word. You have access to the truth. I think sometimes we've forgotten. It rides around in the floorboard of our car until the next Sunday when we need it again and we dust it off and carry it proudly under our arm.

But are we reading it? Are we memorizing it? Are we meditating on it? Oh, I'm gonna preach today. Come on, now.

You have access. You have access to the church.

And y', all, we really have no excuse because you have access to one of the greatest churches in this area. As far as I can tell, they going and blowing up in here. They got it going on. They done hired so many pastors. I'm going to tell you something.

It's so good. It's so good. And men with experience and godly men and women who love the Lord and want to serve and give and gather people up so that they can grow, so that they can go. Amen? Sounds like I've been reading the walls around here.

Oh, church. You have access. Man, I got to hurry up and tell you this. You have access.

Romans 5:1-2 says, Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into his grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. You not only have access, you have the ability. This is not the outline. Stop trying to fill in those blanks. You have the ability.

God has given you the ability. We have no excuse. Second Corinthians 9:8 says, and God is able to make all grace abound toward you so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, he didn't leave any. Anything out. Let me find the end that you may abound in every good work.

You have the ability. Stop saying you can't when God's already said you can. You have access. You have the ability. You have the authority. You have the authority.

Pastor Kevin, how can you stand up in front of a whole bunch of strangers and yell and scream at them?

It's easy, because I have the authority.

Ooh, some of y'all looking at me like a calf at a new gate.

How. How can I stand up here and shout this? Not only like I believe it, but like I know that I know that I know that it's true.

I have the authority, and you have the authority. In the word of God, you have the truth. If you got a small pocket Bible and you carry it in your back pocket, you have the cure to cancer, which is sin. Are you hearing me? You have the authority.

And Jesus said in Matthew 28:18-20, and Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. So go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.

Jesus had authority from the Father. Jesus gave that same authority to his disciples, and it's on us today. We have the authority to share Christ and to draw others to Christ.

And I'd say also, you have an assignment. You have an assignment. Don't get lazy now. Let's don't be spiritually lazy.

Some of us in here have accomplished a lot of things, and we've accumulated a lot of things. And by the world standard, we are very successful. Don't fool yourself, though. God still has an assignment for you. Woooo, I am going to get thrown out of this church.

The lake house is important. The 401k is important. The boat is kind of important, but it is costing you a lot of money. Am I right? Yet, at the same time, see, if I'll align my life with God, he will give me an assignment.

Alignment determines assignment. If I never align with him, I can go my merry way. I won't have the joy, peace, and contentment that I long for in my life. And. But I can accumulate a lot of stuff, and I can accomplish a lot of things, and I can have the American dream.

Yet at the same time, I will miss my assignment from God. Listen, you have access.

You have access. You have the ability. You have the authority. You have an assignment, whether you have said yes to it or not. What are we waiting for?

What are we waiting for? Hey, would you look with me at Matthew, chapter 5, beginning in verse 13? I'm going to preach now.

The Bible says you are the salt of the earth. But if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It can. It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

Verse 14. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand. And it gives light to all in the house in the same way. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

So here's the outline on the back of your handout. You're welcome. Number one. You are God's salt. You are God's salt.

I'm not telling you anything new. I'm just reminding you, and I want to encourage you, church, that you are bringing flavor to the world's table. Sometimes Jojo makes me watch a little show called the British Baking Show. Oh, y'all know that show? Umm, I don't like it.

Jojo's hiding behind you. She's hiding behind you right now. Sometimes you'll say, oh, I just want to watch this. And then we end up watching, like, binge watching, like, nine episodes. It is fun around the holidays, but sometimes when those contestants bring their culinary masterpieces to the judges, the judge will say, the raspberry cream is not coming through.

What are they saying? They're saying it lacks flavor. Oh, God forbid that we as Christians would lack flavor and be tasteless in this world. I didn't say this. The Bible says this.

You are God's salt. You are bringing flavor into a tasteless world. See, some of these young people, and especially their generation, they say that they're going to be the most religious generation the world has ever known. You know why? Because they've seen it all. They've heard it all. They've tasted it all and it did not satisfy them. Am I right?

They've seen it all. They got that quantum computer in their pocket. They've seen it all, They've heard it all. They know about things you and I didn't know about till we were in our 40s because they see it all the time, right there as they scroll.

Listen to me, church. We are God's salt. We're bringing flavor to the table. Not only are we God's salt, we are God's light. You knew that's what it was going to be. Most people live in a pretty dark place on the inside. Well, those people are in ministry. Their lives are perfect.

Let me laugh out loud at that. Have you ever watched somebody's life from afar and you thought that their life just must be perfect? And then you got to know them and you saw some of the dark that they were walking through in their life, just like you.

Listen, struggles are not exclusive. Everybody has them. Everybody. We could go around the room this morning. Everybody has struggles. And the truth is everybody you meet needs Jesus on some level.

They might need him for salvation. They might need him to come back into their lives because they walked away from him. Everybody needs Jesus. Bank on it. Bank on it.

You are the light of the world. You're God's light. Listen, when we and teenagers are bad about this, they'll walk into a room, let's talk about them like they're not here. Y'all want to. They'll walk into a room and what are they doing? They're surveying the room to see who they can go attach themselves to because they feel uncomfortable and they feel like they're going to be rejected maybe and they feel a little insecure.

So when they come into a room, instead of surveying the room and looking around and saying, who can I be salt to? Whose life needs some seasoning up in here? How can I come in and bring light into a very dark place?

See, when we walk in the room, rather than taking the temperature like a thermometer does, maybe we should be the thermostat and we should set it. We should set the temperature in the room.

Man, if these young people right here, they're beautiful, they're smart, they're young, they have everything they need to do what God has called them to do. If they went down here to the public school or in some of these other places where they go and work part time job, if they went in there and they were the salt that this World is desperate for that they don't even know they need.

And they'd be the light. When someone's groping in the darkness and they're trying everything, drugs, alcohol, sex, social media, anything they can find to try to satisfy the void in their life. And your young person walks in and they're the light of the world. You hear me?

And they simply see that there's a difference in their life.

Students, listen to me. I know y' all tired of me. I'm tired of myself. Listen to me. You can do this. You can do this. Break away from the distractions, the things that have been holding you down and holding you back, and be the salt and be the light that God has called you to be. You can do this.

You can set the atmosphere in your locker room. You can set the temperature in the break room. I'm telling you, you can do it. You can do it. You can do it.

And parents, grandparents, let's encourage them to do it. Hey, parents and grandparents, let's do it. Let's us do it. Let's set the example for them.

And I'm gonna tell you, every Walmart run is an appointment. Amen. Now, some of y' all may not like Walmart, so don't be offended, but I go there a lot. And the older I get, sometimes I just go to thumb through the men's section, and it's always the same. Nothing ever changes.

They have the same shirts and the same. Same pants and the same shorts every time I go. But I'm gonna tell you, every time I go, God, put somebody in front of me that I need to talk to. I have an appointment at Walmart when we get back. I have no idea who with or what time.

I just know I have one. We've been witnessing to a young girl named Rachel for about two years, and she's precious. And she's been working for Walmart. She ought to be running the place. As far as I can tell, she's one of the hardest workers I know.

We built a relationship with her. She didn't know us from Adam. We didn't know her. Every time we see her, she drops what she's doing. She comes and hugs our neck.

She asked me how Jody's doing on her cancer journey. She's interested in what's going on in our lives. We've invited her to church many times. We talked to her about Jesus and she said, well, me and God are not on speaking terms right now, and I respect that. But we're going to keep on inviting and we're going to keep on having those appointments with Rachel until we see her come to church and see her come to Christ.

That's what I'm talking about. See, most people that come into Walmart and they see Rachel, she's in their way because she's one of those people pushing a cart around and she's picking groceries for you guys that are too lazy to go buy your own groceries. Huh? Who am I talking to? I done gone to meddling in here now, and she's in the way.

Sometimes I will count 15 Walmart workers trying to get your groceries ready so you can come by and pick them up.

But when we come by, we say, Rachel, what's happening, girl? How's your daughter doing? Almost fell off the stage. And she's like, oh, I missed y'all. How are you doing?

You say, that's strange. She's a total stranger. Not anymore. Listen, everyone will remain a stranger if we don't take the initiative to say hello.

We came in here on Friday. I'll talk bad about the youth. Can I say something bad about y'all? We came in here on Friday.

We sat down at a table in the gym, and I know we're old people and they don't know us. Not one student said hello to us.

Not one. See, I love that. I like being the one that I know is going to be the preacher and just kind of sitting back and watching and observing and just see who interacts. I spoke to some of them and they didn't speak to me. They looked at me like I was some kind of crazy, strange old man.

And why are you in our gym? I'm just being honest with you now. As soon as I preached, after I preached, they inundated us. They came over. Listen, some of these kids came over and laid hands on me and prayed for me.

They said, we know you don't have cancer, but your sweetheart has cancer. And we know you need prayer, too. How thoughtful of them. Precious. We love you for it.

Thank you. Y' all ain't mad at me, are you? Yet at the same time, I think a lot of us adults are like that, too. We take off and we gotta get our stuff done and we gotta check our to do list off and we forget about every human being we come in contact with along the way. And God said, whoa, what you bought at Walmart ain't near as important as the one you bought it from.

Could I get an amen? See, we can draw people to Jesus. If you're drawn to Jesus. Listen, somebody Cared about you. Somebody knocked on your door.

Why you screaming? Because I get excited when I'm talking about us reaching people for Jesus. Listen, Charlie Kirk said we gotta flood heaven with people. We gotta make heaven crowded. We gotta fill it up so there's not enough room. Are you excited about your assignment in the Great Commission?

And then number three. I know it's 11:18, 11:25, right? JoJo? She's my helper. She's my little helper in the car. Some of y' all seen that video.

And then number three. We are God's glory. We share in God's glory. I love this because I get to go and show people the glory of God. Now, I'm not perfect, and you're not perfect.

And sometimes we mess up, make mistakes. Listen, I'm not talking about being someone who's faking it and someone who's trying to be ultra spiritual. I'm not spiritual at all. If you see me in my flesh, I'm as wicked as anybody around.

But if I walk in the spirit, then I don't have to fulfill the lust of my flesh, the Bible says. And he can empower me to do some good in this world. And listen, if you'll be different, you can make a difference. How can you make a difference if you're not different? Students, if you're just like the kids that don't know Jesus, why would they need your Jesus? Huh?

See, we got to be different. And we have to allow God to draw people to us. And when they're drawn to us, they may just be drawn to your God, too. Now, there'll be some who will walk away from you because they're not interested in God or spiritual things. And that's okay, too.

That's okay, too, man. You have influence. Use it for the glory of God. Amen?

People like you. Students. Look at me.

They're on their phones, but they're taking notes.

People like you.

I told somebody last night. Oh, I think it was you. I said, you're the leader, aren't you? Remember that conversation? Boy it was so clear to me that you're the leader.

And all them girls sitting there beside you, they're watching you. No pressure now. Is that what I told you last night? No, no pressure. But they're all watching you and they're listening to what you say, and they like you.

Why are we wasting our time on people we don't know and people we know don't like us when we have a whole hoard of a posse that likes us and we Won't give them the time of day. What's wrong with us adults? We do it too. We try to win the hearts of those that are never going to like us and impress those who can't stand us when we've got people that we could help and walk with throughout this life. And I'm telling you, man, God will use you in this life.

You have influence. If you're willing to say no to evil things consistently, God will draw people to himself through you. When we respond correctly to a difficult situation, when we refuse to take advice that goes against God's word, don't just agree. Students. Don't just agree.

When somebody's telling you something that's contrary to God's word, that's your opportunity to speak truth in love. Oh, I am preaching this morning. Yeah, that's your opportunity to say, oh, no, no, let me help with that. And tell them what the Bible says. Don't just sit there and say, uh huh and turn around and say, she crazy.

That helps no one. It doesn't even help you. When we stand up for the oppressed and the vulnerable, when we serve and give to our local church, when we are faithful to share the gospel with friends, when we look for opportunities to share what God has done in our lives, don't just have a testimony, be a testimony. Share your testimony.

When we show hospitality to strangers, you never know, there might be an angel. I've been living with one, living with an angel for 37 years. It's not easy.

When we admit we're wrong and ask for forgiveness. Oh, my stars. When we smile and speak for no other reason except to show kindness to a stranger, when we prioritize human relationships over virtual ones, when we refuse to join in on gossip and bullying. Oh, I could go on and on. People will start to wonder why you're different.

First, people will reject it, count on it. Then people will question you about it. Then people will respect you for it. Then you'll be the one that they come to when they have a prayer need. You hear me?

I'll close with this. I got two minutes. Told you.

When I got hired at Delta Airlines, I was right out of a Christian school. And the ramp at Hartsfield Jackson Airport was, what I like to say, a cross between prison and the military. It was pretty bad out there. And the men that were out there on the ramp, no women at the time. And it was hard, you know, from day one.

And I never told anybody I was a Christian. I didn't want them to know. You know why? Because I was running from God because instead of going to Bible college and then on to seminary, I got a job with Delta Airlines because I was chasing that girl back there and I knew I needed a good job, needed to buy a house so we could get married.

And they immediately started calling me preacher. And I'd get mad and I'd say, I ain't no preacher. But God was just using the wicked to speak prophetically into my life. My mama said, when you grow up, you're going to be a preacher. Oh, it used to make me so mad.

I ain't never going to be a preacher. I don't even like preachers. Sorry.

I certainly didn't want to be one. And I could go deeper into that. And if you knew my story and the abuse in my life, you'd know why I don't like preachers. But it's ironic that God will allow you to become one and he'll use you in a way he never could have.

The very thing that the enemy tried to use as a sword to kill me with, he put in my hand. And now I can sit across the table from another teenager. I can tell them, yeah, I've been through that, too. But look what God did in my life. I like to tell people, man, from the trailer park to the pulpit, just look at me now, and I'm not all that and a bag of chips.

I know. I'm just simply saying, look at God. Look what God did. They started calling me preacher, and I was anything but. After 10 years at Delta Airlines, I stopped running from God and I said, okay, I give up.

And God opened the door for me to work for a tree service, Garrett Tree Service. And it was so neat because I knew I needed to go to Bible college. I knew a call to preach was a call to prayer. And the guy that owned the tree service, he said, if you'll climb trees for me for a living, I'll pay you $300 a day.

That was good money back then. That's decent money now. And every time I went to pay for my college, which I climbed all day long, went to college three nights a week and kept my wife up with pillow talk, telling her all I had learned. He paid for my four year degree, Bible degree.

I want to tell you something, young people. If you're willing, there's a way. If you sense... A young lady came up to us last night and talked to us about the call of God on her life for missions. I'm going to tell you something. It may not look exactly like you think it's going to.

I never thought I'd be doing this right here. Never. Never. But if you're willing, he will make a way. And you'll look back and say, listen, I can't believe how many places in the world I have had a chance to travel and share the gospel with people.

I am a trailer park hick. I am a zero with the rim knocked off. I am nothing. I am. People say, well, have I ever heard of you before? No. No. You ever write a book? No, never wrote no book. You got a website? I think we do, but I don't think I've ever been on it.

No, I'm. I'm a nobody. And yet if we're just willing. If we're just willing church, are you willing? Are you willing? You say, well, I could never. Stop saying that. You know why? Because you have access to almighty God and because he's given you the authority to do what he's called to do you to do. And it is time for me to shut up.

Let's pray together. Father, we love you. Thank you Lord for the opportunity to rehearse your word. It's the truth of your word that matters. It's you that said we are the salt of the earth.

It's you that said we are the light of the world. It's you that said that we are to show forth your glory to other people so that our good works would lead people to Christ. Oh God, help us to walk away from this amazing weekend knowing that it's not just for us to do better and be better, but God, that you have an assignment for us to go out and reach people with the gospel of Christ. Oh God, thank you. Thank you Lord.

In just this very short moment of invitation, I ask you to be with us. Give people courage to make a decision. And this moment in Jesus name with every head bowed for just a moment. This morning in the early invitation, a young lady sitting right in the middle of this middle section raised her hand and said, I gave my life to Jesus. I think she came up and talked to the pastor afterwards.

Listen to me, church. I am not going to assume that everybody in here, even though you're a good looking crowd, that you all know Jesus. Somebody may have come in here, maybe even off the street this morning. You'd never been in this place building before and you don't know Christ. Listen, God loves you and Jesus died for you and he took care of your sin debt so that you could have peace with an amazing God and you can put Your faith and trust in him right now.

You say Pastor Kevin, how do I do that? Just simply talk to him. Tell him, Jesus, I believe in you. Jesus, help my unbelief. I believe that you died on a cross to pay my sin debt.

Tell him. If you mean it, tell him. Jesus, forgive me of all of my sin, past, present and future. Jesus, come into my life and be my Lord and my Savior and my king and. Well, I'm just asking this morning, if you just prayed that prayer with me just now, and you gave your life to Jesus in this moment, and you meant it with all of your heart, could I see your hand so that I could pray for you? I'm not going to call you out. I'm not going to call you up.

Can I see your hand? Just put it up high enough for me to see it long enough for me to say thank you. I gave my life to Jesus. I see you. I see you. I see you. Thank you, dear. Somebody else. I gave my life to Jesus.

Hey, Church. I hope. I hope that you walk out of here stirred up enough. Stirred up enough in your spirit that you cannot help yourself when you get to Walmart or to the restaurant or to a co worker. And God will give you holy boldness to proclaim how good he is.

And listen, there's not going to be room enough to hold all the people y'all about to go get. You're gonna have to go to three services. The staff doesn't mind. They have nothing else to do.

Y'all hear me this morning? Hey, let's stand together. And as we sing this hymn of invitation if God has moved your heart, will you move your feet? We tell the young people all the time, don't just stand there. You always just stand there. Don't just stand there. Move. You need to talk to pastor. You need to talk to staff member, man. They're everywhere.

Move. You need to talk to someone. You need to come and pray at this altar, man. Move. Move. If God moved your heart, you move your feet.

Thank you for listening.