Jesus' Authority over Scarcity

Well, good morning, Cross Church Phoenix. How are you? >> Like, damn. >> Yeah. I'm Pastor DJ. I'm the pastor here at Cross Church Phoenix. If I haven't met you before, welcome. Uh, man, dude, this is awesome. Full house. Love it. This is great. All right. Well, if you would take your Bibles and open them to Matthew chapter 14. And if you don't have a Bible, uh there is one in the seat back in front of you, uh or behind you if you're in the front row. Uh you can make that your Bible. You can highlight it, mark it up, underline. Um that is your Bible. That is our gift to you. We will gladly replace it. Um make that your Bible. And as you're turning, it would help if the pastor did, too. Here. Um as you're turning over there, I want to invite John and Emily up real quick. We're going to embarrass them about as much as we can because we have an announcement to make and it's very sad. No, this is John and Emily. If you don't know John and Emily, everyone say hi John and Emily. Hi, John. Um, they have been faithfully serving Cross Church Phoenix for over three years now. They were here before I got here and they've been uh serving on the welcome team. You see them all the time out there under the uh canopy just welcoming people. Their job has been just find new people you haven't seen and track them down and show them around, make them feel at home. Well, they are leaving us. Can you believe that? >> This is their last Sunday. They are moving back home to Missouri. So, it's for a good reason. But, um you know, I I wanted to invite them up here. Thank you guys for all that you have done and uh your part in Cross Church and uh our prayer. pray for them as they find a new church. I told them, "Hey, you need to find a Bible believing, Bible preaching church and can make sure that that happens." Uh, and they will bless uh wherever you end up, I'm sure. But uh I wanted to pray for them as well as we send them off to the next chapter of their life and and thank them. So, let's uh if you would, if you don't mind extending your arms out, we will uh we'll pray for uh John and Emily. Father, we thank you for John and Emily. We pray for uh just guidance and protection, safe travels as they uh move on to the next chapter in their life. Lord, we thank you for just such a blessing that they've been to Cross Church, a blessing to me uh coming here. Lord, it's been wonderful to have them and we're going to miss them, but we know that you have uh called and led them elsewhere and uh we pray your blessings upon them in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you guys. You can sit down. Yeah. So, bother them about as much as you can before they go. Try to get them to stay. So, just tell them how badly you're going to miss them. Start weeping. Um you know, all that stuff and see if you can convince them to stay cuz I couldn't. So, uh but thank you, John and Emily. Well, I hope that you're at Matthew 14 um by now. And I also wanted to say a quick word and express my gratitude and thanks uh to those of you who may have family members, friends um who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms that we have in this country uh this Memorial Day. If you have or know anyone uh who who gave their life serving in the armed forces, uh I want to extend my gratefulness and thankfulness uh to those uh of you who have family members or friends who've given their lives. We love you. We pray for your comfort and peace uh this Memorial Day weekend. Well, last week, Pastor Jackie uh preached from Matthew 12, and it was the healing of the man with the withered hand. The main controversy behind that miracle was not the healing itself. They actually would tell Jesus, if you read through the gospels, the Pharisees would who have an issue take exception to Jesus. They would say, "Why don't you heal on another day, not the Sabbath day?" The controversy behind that miracle was the fact that it was done on the Sabbath. That is very important. Remember, the point of the miracles has never been the miracles in and of themselves. The miracles are great. It's cool to see the storm come uh or to see, I don't know, Gyrus daughter come back to life or to see many of the other demons cast out, all these wonderful things. But all of them pointed to the bigger truth. The healing of the man's hand in Matthew chap 12 comes right after Jesus makes a polarizing statement. He says the son of man talking about himself is lord of what? The Sabbath. And then the healing of the man happens. Now think about it for a second what that means. Jesus claimed to be Lord, meaning have authority over one of the ten commandments. Only God has authority over any of the ten commandments or I should say all of them. He wrote it. Remember in Exodus when God gave Moses the ten commandments at top mount si it says it was written with the finger of God. So if you say I am Lord Jes when Jesus says I am Lord I have authority over the Sabbath he's saying he's God. Oh, and then to show you the miracle is evidence of the truth that Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath and therefore God. So the healing pointed to a bigger truth. Well, now we find ourselves in chapter 14. And if you recall, uh if you if you going if you were reading through it, um I want to give you some context. Uh we are skipping. Chapter 13 is full of parables which we will come to in our parable series. But Jesus speaks in parables in chapter 13. Then we come to 14. And at the beginning of chapter 14, we learn that John the Baptist has been beheaded by Herod. John the Baptist stood for righteousness and surprise surprise was hated and murdered for it. It's when Jesus hears the news about Herod and John the Baptist. John is beheaded and Herod uh thinks that now that Jesus's ministry and his population is is expanding, Herod thinks Jesus is John the Baptist reincarnated. And so it is at that that Jesus withdraws from the crowds only to be f found by them once more. Well, let's pray. Father, we thank you for this morning. We thank you for your word. I pray that you would help us right now, God. Whatever is going on in our lives personally, that you would give us rest from it. That you would help us to not just be hearers of the word, but doers also to see the truth of the text and to apply it to our lives. I pray that you give us eyes to see, ears to hear what the spirit has to say to the church at Cross Church Phoenix in Jesus name. Amen. Well, if you are able to, let's stand in honor of God's word. If you are unable to stand, that is fine. If you would stand with us in spirit, um we do this in reverence to God's word and you can do that seated as well. We are going to read Matthew 14 13- 21 and it goes like this. When Jesus heard about it, John the Baptist and Herod, he withdrew from there by boat to a remote place to be alone. When the crowds heard this, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore, he saw a large crowd had had compassion on them and healed their sick. When evening came, the disciples approached him and said, "This place is deserted and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves. They don't need to go away. Jesus told them, "You give them something to eat." "But we only have five loaves and two fish here." They said to him, "Bring them here to me," he said. Then he commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples. And the disciples gave them to the crowds. Everyone ate and was satisfied. They picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces. Now, those who ate were about 5,000 men besides women and children. Amen. Thanks. You can be seated. If you have a handout this morning, uh if not, they're in the back if you want one. If not, they'll be up here. You'll see the title of the sermon is Jesus authority over scarcity. Scarcity is a cool word, right? Um I like that word. It's fun to say. Scarcity. Um and that is 100% true. Jesus has unlimited resources to meet the physical needs of the people. in this case, hunger, the hunger of thousands of people when there's little to no food. But at the same time, and as we've been stressing throughout this miracle series, is there's something bigger going on. So, I'm going to go in a slightly different direction this morning. And I want you to see, yes, the miracle feeding the 5,000. 5,000 at minimum, right besides women and children. So, it's possible that there was upwards of 15 to 20,000 people, including women and children. They will be fed, but there's more going on. This miracle, feeding the 5000, is the only miracle aside from the resurrection, of course, that is documented in all four gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John all put this one in. And I believe that there is a very specific reason for it. Not just to show Jesus meeting physical needs, but foreshadowing Jesus provision of spiritual needs. So, our main heading uh we're going to work under is this previewing Christ's provision at a picnic. That was my attempt to be illiterate. Not illiterate, um to alliterate. That's my attempt at alliteration. It's not good. But hey, previewing Christ's provision at a picnic, the first thing I want us to see is simply the compassion of Jesus for his people. For the people, the compassion of Jesus for the people. If you look at a broad view of Jesus ministry, he spends extensive time with people, ministering to people, healing and teaching people, pouring himself out to them. And then you'll see this cycle where he'll withdraw from people from the crowds to spend time with the father alone and to spend time with his disciples in a more private setting. Well, verse 13 is one of those times where Jesus desires to be alone. One of the other gospels mention that he wants to he desires to be alone. his cousin John the Baptist was just murdered and Jesus popularity had led Herod as we mentioned uh to believe that he's John the Baptist reincarnated. So he's going in back into some seclusion for a time. He's seeking to be alone and yet lo and behold what happens? The crowds follow him and find him once more. Now, Jesus could have said, "Leave me alone. I'm tired of healing. I'm tired of teaching. I'm tired of dealing with y'all drama." Right? But he doesn't. He has compassion on them. As he looks out to the crowds, Mark includes, he says, he says, "Jesus has compassion on them because they're like sheep without a shepherd. These are lost little sheep who don't know what they're doing or where they're going. Uh Luke mentions that alongside healing them that he taught them about the kingdom of God. So he's spending this is an all day event. Hours are passing by. And though he wanted to be alone, instead of avoiding the crowds, he embraced them and he had compassion on them. The word compassion means being moved in your inner being. You know, we talk about the heart, right? Like not a literal heart, but like your heart, right? Like if you say, "I love somebody with all my heart," or, "I love I love basketball with all my heart," or he really that person plays with a lot of heart. Um, we're talking about how like just like they're they're they're passionate about it, you know, that kind of thing. Well, in the Bible, it is actually like your gut, your bowels that is the seat of the emotions. And this word actually means that he has this inner um deep sympathy and compassion for these lost people. Not that he just simply feels sorry for them. Oh, it's sucks to be those guys, you know. No, no, it's more than that. Is it is a deep compassion. They're like lost little sheep. Have you ever just wanted to be alone, but there's one more need to meet? Or one more person in need of compassion, one more person in need of your care. Remember Jesus, yes, he's fully God, but he's fully man. He experienced being tired. He experienced being hungry. He experienced being exhausted from meeting needs too. But will we be like Christ and have compassion for people even when it's inconvenient? It can be inconvenient to have compassion sometimes, right? It doesn't fit into our schedule sometimes. But here we see Christ's compassion for the people. The second thing we see is the helplessness of the disciples to provide. The helplessness of the disciples. Now, John's version of this miracle is fascinating. Don't make get me wrong. They're all awesome, right? But John's interesting. John says that Jesus is sitting with his disciples. He lifted up his eyes, saw the large crowd coming toward him, and he looks over at Philillip, one of his disciples, and he turns to Philillip and he says, "Where are we to buy bread so that these people might eat?" Don't you love that? And this is when the crowds are coming toward him. So before they even arrive, Jesus plants the thought into Philip's head. Hey bro, where do you think we're going to feed all these people? Keep in mind now all of the disciples have witnessed to this point, right? Calming the storm, casting out demons, healing a paralytic, uh bringing Gyrus's daughter from the dead, and who knows how many other miracles, right? And yet yet it never occurs to any of the disciples that Jesus can feed them if he wants to. In John it says this. He asked Philillip to test him for he Jesus knew what he was going to do. Jesus knows all along he's going to provide food for thousands of hungry people. But he says, "Hey, Phillip, how you think we're going to do this, man? That's a lot of people coming. You see all that? If you saw 15,000 peopleish coming towards you, how you think we're going to feed all these? Check this out." Right? But the disciples only consider what is physically possible, not what Jesus can do. Philip's response in John is basically um Lord you know we have 200 dinari but that's not enough to buy food for everyone. Andrew is the one who comes up and says there's a boy here with the five loaves and the two fish. Uh but that's nothing for so many people. Both of them are looking at only what is physically possible. If you look here in Matthew, it's all the disciples, right, are saying,"Lord, send them away to go buy food for themselves." The word send uh in verse 15 is also a command. So, the disciples aren't like suggesting like, "Jesus, you might want to send them away." No, this is like Jesus, send them away. Like, it's getting late. Send them away so that they can get food from themselves. The disciples aren't asking Jesus to send them away. They're telling him to. And then Jesus turns it right on them. It's fascinating. He just turns it on them and says, "You give them something to eat." And the word give is a command in Greek. The disciples try to command Jesus. Jesus turns and commands the disciples, "No, no, no. You give them something to eat. you feed them. Now remember Jesus already got Philip's mind rolling. The rest of the disciples, everyone is considering every option but Jesus. Think about that. Every option but Jesus. And Jesus confronts them headon about it. You do it. And the disciples know they're helpless on their own, right? They can't do it. And that's the point. They can't. You think Jesus doesn't know that? Of course he does. They can't. The disciples know they don't have the provisions and they can't go buy them. So the underlying point is here you here is the disciples, you don't have it and you can't buy it. They're completely helpless, unable to do anything, and they have no control over the situation. So, let me ask you this. What do you have left? If you put yourself in the sandals of the disciples, what do you have left? I'll tell you what you have left. Surrender to Christ's plan. That's what you have. You have obedience to what Jesus told you to do. surrender in spite of your helplessness. Jesus is telling me to feed them. I can't, but he keeps telling me to. I'm going to need his help. Exactly. Right. Exactly. And this leads me to point number three that I want to camp on. The provision of bread from the bread of life. The provision of bread from the bread of life. Look at verse 19. Who does Jesus give the bread to? The disciples. He's God. He's done many miracles. He could have just said, "Wow, and bread and fish could be at the lap of everyone, right? He had them sit down on the grass in groups of 50 and 100." The other gospels tell us Jesus could have just made bread appear at the lap of everyone and said, "Tada, eat. Let's all just have fun." But he doesn't do it that way. He's he's making bread out of nothing and he's passing it to the disciples. You give them something to eat. What was impossible a few minutes ago, they're doing now. Passing out bread. I love that Jesus includes them in the miracle and bread and fish flow to thousands of people, right? The disciples like Jesus is like, "You feed them. We can't." No, no, no, no. Seriously, you feed them. As he just starts passing it out, right? It's awesome. They didn't know what Jesus was going to do, but Jesus challenged them to obedience in the face of their inability. You see that? We've got a lot to learn, right? From the disciples perspective, will we obey and trust Jesus even if we don't understand or know what he's going to do? Will we obey the New Testament commands Christ gives to us to be his witnesses and to make disciples of all nations to spread the gospel even if we don't see the end result? You don't need to. What if I share the gospel with my friend or family or coworker and they reject it? You're called to obedience, not to know the outcome. Paul taught the same thing to the Corinthians. I planted and Apollos watered. Neither of them gave the growth to anything. God gives the growth. You may plant a hundred seeds and water 100 seeds and only one of them grows. Congratulations. You didn't make it happen. God did. But you were obedient in sharing the gospel with those hundred people or pointing those hundred people to Christ each time that you did. That's obedience. You can't save anyone any more than the disciples can make bread. But you are called to share the gospel with them out of obedience to his command. Imagine what this was like for a second, right? I'm guessing it would take hours to pass out bread and fish to this many people, right? You're not passing out bread and fish to 15,000 people in like 10 minutes. It's going to take a while. And every minute, every second, every piece of bread or every fish given would be a reminder to the disciples of the fact that what they couldn't possibly do, Jesus is doing. And so he gives so much that they have 12 baskets left over, more than what they started with. And I really I just tried to put myself in in Philip's shoes particularly this week. I was thinking like what would it have been like to be Philillip? Philillip is the first one that Jesus turns to you know and he's like hey Philillip how are we going to feed all these people? I I don't know. We don't have enough money to what do you want us to do Lord? And then passing out bread and fish for an hour or two maybe. Who knows? And then you come back and there's a basket for you. Just a few hours ago, Jesus was challenging you on how you're going to feed everyone. And a few hours later, you're walking away with a basket full of bread yourself. What a blessing. Now, I want you to see something very important. Look at verse 19 again. And if you're an underliner or a highlighter, I would encourage you, you can if you want to highlight the words took, blessed, broke, and gave. Took, blessed, broke, and gave. Other translations might say, taking and blessing, same difference. Here's what the writers are getting at. He took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it. Does that sound familiar to you? The formula is exactly the same in Mark and Luke and almost exactly the same in John. John says he distributed it. Same difference. Here's what's even more interesting. This is the exact same wording Jesus used when he institutes the Lord's supper in the upper room with the disciples. when he was in the upper room with his disciples before he was arrested, Jesus takes the Passover and makes it about him. Matthew 26 26 says, "Now as they were eating, Jesus what? Took bread and after blessing it, broke it and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat. This is my body." Mark 14:22. And as they were eating, he took bread and after blessing it, which blessing and giving thanks uh to God is the same in scripture, he broke it and gave it to them and said, "Take this is my body." Luke 22:19. And he took bread. What do you think he did with it? He gave thanks. He blessed it. He broke it and he gave it to them saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." What does Paul write in first Corinthians? For I receive from the Lord what I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread. When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body which is what? For or given to you. Do this in remembrance of me." The this whole miracle where Jesus is providing physical sustenance to a crowd of thousands of people is a preview of his ultimate provision spiritually through his death and resurrection on the cross. His broken body, his blood shed for us, we have eternal life in Christ. And you say, DJ, that sounds like a stretch. Tell that to Jesus because in John chapter 6, that's exactly where Jesus goes with this. In John chapter 6, which is the chapter on this feeding of the 5000, the next day, this isn't like 6 months later. The next day, the same crowds who ate and had their fill before. The same crowds are looking for Jesus and they find him. And Jesus looks at them and says, quote, "You are looking for me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled." In other words, you're looking for me, not because you see the signs I'm doing that point to the fact that I'm the Messiah, the Christ, but because you got free bread yesterday. You're coming to me not because you love me, believe in me, and want me. You're coming to me for what you can get from me. Like Jesus is some kind of cosmic vending machine. I show up and he gives me free stuff, right? Jesus is confronting people who use him as a means to an end. That's what he's doing. Yes, he blessed them yesterday, but he knows they're following him for all the wrong reasons. They want Jesus not for who he is, but what they think they can get from him. Like you come and you show up and you listen to him teach, you might say a prayer and then he's supposed to give you what you want. And Jesus rejects that kind of thinking. So then the people ask, this is all John 6, you can read it yourself. The people are like, "Okay, okay, okay, okay. What can we do then to perform the works of God?" In other words, how can we do what you're doing? Um, okay. Um, you know what? C could like how do I get God to grant me the ability to make bread um the way that you're doing it? You know, make bread and fish out of nothing. And Jesus says this is the work of God that you believe on him on the in the one who he has sent believing me. The work of God is you believing in me but they don't. And then they say okay well what sign will you do that we may believe in you? Hello. >> Did you forget yesterday? Because you see what they say is, well, you know, Jesus um Moses gave our ancestors mana in the desert. What can you do? I just gave you thousands of you bread and fish in a desert place. And so what Jesus does is he confronts this headon. Jesus hits them with the hard truth. He says, "Moses didn't give your ancestors bread from heaven. I did. I did. I am the bread of life. If you come to me, you won't hunger or thirst again." Because here's the bottom line. They ate bread made from God yesterday. Probably the best bread ever, right? If God made it, it's got to be good bread. They ate the best bread and fish ever and are hungry again the next day, right? Physical sustenance, but they're hungry again. And Jesus is pointing them to himself and saying that you must eat of his flesh and drink his blood to have eternal life. Now, what he's talking about is believing in him and communing with him. they would know it doesn't it's not literal because the Old Testament forbade drinking blood he they're not take what Jesus is saying is that he is the source of spiritual sustenance that is far more needed than any physical sustenance and when Jesus says he's the bread of life everyone scatters Right? Everyone starts leaving him when he starts saying hard things. He had thousands of followers yesterday. Jesus should have started First Baptist Church of Capernium. He'd start with like 15,000 members. It'll be great. But he knows, understand this, that at no point was Jesus ever impressed with how many followers he had because he knew that when he dropped hard truths, many of them would walk away. And they did. Free food, all kinds of people show up for that, right? Hard biblical truth, people leave. And that often happens in church, right? When all those people turn away, Jesus turns to the disciples and asks if they're leaving, too. And Peter, who puts his foot in his mouth, often didn't this time. Jesus says, or I'm sorry, Peter steps up and says those beautiful words, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life. And then he says, "We have come to believe and know that you are the holy one of God." Remember what Jesus said earlier. This is the work of God. Believe in me. And here's Peter. We've come to believe and know you're the holy one of God. Jesus, where else are we going to go? All these thousands of people just left you because you said you're the bread of life come down from heaven. We're sticking with you. And Jesus knew. Judas didn't believe. But that's another sermon, right? This miracle is both a blessing and judgment. A blessing, a confirmation for the believer in Jesus, for those who believe in him. But this miracle is also judgment on those who reject Jesus Christ. This miracle previews Christ's spiritual provision on the cross where his body is broken and his blood is shed for us providing spiritual sustenance for all eternity. The question is this. If you're listening to my voice, you got to answer this right yourself. Do you just want bread from the bread of life or do you want the bread of life? Here's a difference. Do you want Jesus for who he is? Do you love Christ because of who he is? Not cuz you want him to get rid of your headache. He might. We have blessings from God, right? We have blessings. We have roof over our heads and food in the pantry or drinks in your fridge and all that stuff. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Yes. But come to Christ because you love him. Not so that you can press a button and try to get a blessing out like he's a vending machine. Jesus is not a means to an end in your hand, a tool in your hand to use however you want. No, he's God and you come to him because of who he is. That's what this miracle is all about. And I want to invite the worship team up as we uh move on to our our baptisms, which is a glorious glorious um time of of showing this truth of those who are coming to Christ for who he is. So I want to invite uh Beth McDonald, Scott Cunningham, Atrau Reinhardt, and Area uh Johnson down here with me. If you guys just want to come up to the front here. Perfect. This is Beth. Everyone say hi, Beth. Hi, Beth. Uh, Beth, let's see. Now, you first came to church, what, couple months ago now. She came in for the first time. She sat in the back and I forget what sermon it was, but she come up to me afterwards and she was just like, um, now's the time. What do I do? How do I do this? I want to receive Christ. I want to turn my life over to him. I don't know how. And we were able to pray right back there, right in the I said yes corner uh by the lamp over there and pray to receive Christ and and uh it's been wonderful since. And you've been meeting with Donna and doing just some disciplehip, growing in your walk with the Lord. What do you say we baptize you, Beth? All right. If you want to take your sandals off, Ken, and just get All right. All right, Beth, just a couple questions for you. Is Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior? >> Yes. >> Do you believe that he died on the cross for your sins personally and that he rose again on the third day, showing his power over sin and death, and that he has authority over your life? >> Yes. >> Well, upon your profession of faith, it is my honor to baptize you, my sister, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. For we are buried with him by baptism into death and raised to walk in newness of life. >> I got you. >> All right, we'll have Area come. We'll do ladies first here. Okay, so Area, everyone say hi. Hi. This is Area and her uh fiance Atrau. Uh they are getting married here in a couple months. We're doing some premarital counseling. Uh both of them I met with them. They came to Christ a year and a half ago um in Ohio, right in Ohio. And uh were never baptized and so they wanted to meet with me to discuss baptism. So we we talked together about the gospel and about what baptism is, what it's not. And they said, "Yes, that is us. We believe in Christ. and we want to do things God's way. So, we say yes and amen to that. Area, do you believe is Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior? >> Do you believe that he died on the cross for your sins personally and that he rose again on the third day, showing his power over sin and death and that he has authority over your life? >> Yes. >> Well, upon your profession of faith, it's my honor to baptize you, my sister, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. For we are buried with him by baptism under death and raised to walk in newness of life. Amen. And then to tray you, you want to hop on in. The water's freezing cold, by the way. I'm just kidding. It's warm. It's warm. He's like He's like, "Oh, dang, bro. I'm out of here now." All right. All right, betray you. Same couple questions, brother. Is Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior? Yes. >> Do you believe that he died on the cross for your sins personally and that he rose again on the third day, showing his power over sin and death, and that he has authority over your life? Well, it's my privilege uh to baptize you, my brother, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. For we are buried with him by baptism into death and raised to walk in newness of life. Amen. And this is Scott. Everyone say hi Scott. >> What's up, Scott? Um Scott is one that did want to to say a few words. Did you want to um here you can hear >> I just had a short thing to read. Uh Jesus Christ has saved me by his grace. has forgiven my sins and called me to follow him. Today I am being baptized because I trust him with my I trust him as my Lord and Savior. >> Amen. >> Scott and I had a a few meetings together which were absolutely wonderful. And uh Scott did not make the decision to follow Christ lightly. Uh he did a ton of his own research and his own um looking into the um trustworthiness of the gospels and of the resurrection. And uh I look forward to seeing what God does in your life. Scott, is Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior? >> Yes, he is. >> Do you believe that he died on the cross for your sins personally and that he rose again on the third day to show his power over sin and death and that he has authority over your life? Yes, I do. >> Well, upon your profession of faith, it is my honor to baptize you, my brother, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. For we're buried with him by baptism into death and raised to walk in newness of life. I got you. I got you. You There's an extra one here. All right, let's stand and sing our last song together.