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- Key Scriptures: Luke 12:49-59, NASB
- Series: Luke (2025-2027), no. 46
- Date: Sunday, January 18, 2026 (Morning)
- Venue: Central Baptist Church — Lawton, Oklahoma
- Speaker: Jared Byrns
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Moments That Change Everything
Well, this morning we’re going to talk about dividing lines. In every life, we have moments, we have events that separate what came before and what came after, and nothing is ever the same between the two because of the magnitude of those moments. And sometimes we have those as a society. There are certain moments that even as we’re going through them, we know this is going to change everything.
I don’t imagine anybody in here is old enough to remember Pearl Harbor, but for our country, that was one of those moments. What about the JFK assassination? For a lot of you, that was a moment that everything’s different on the other side. For me, it was in high school, 9-11.
It really bothers me that now we deal with kids that are not old enough to remember 9-11. That’s not their fault. Those years went fast. Sometimes they’re smaller and they happen in our individual lives sometimes they’re good sometimes they’re bad sometimes they happen because somebody had a goal in mind and made a decision as i thought about this concept i thought about my dad who did not have the best most stable upbringing my grandparents i love them dearly but they um they were different people by the time i was born than they were when my dad was growing up my dad frequently didn’t know whether he was going to have a home to come home to after school they were not the most responsible people I’m grateful to say they came to faith later in life they both knew the Lord before they passed on but my dad dealt with a lot of challenges growing up and he moved out when he was in high school and said I’m going to do something different and he was going to church and I’m thankful that there were some families in that church that kind of took him under their wing if not into their well, I guess he did all but live in some of their homes.
But he told me about a day when he made the decision, it is not going to be this way for my family. And that was a turning point. Not long after that, he met my mother. And I won’t say that we were rich, but I never was in fear that I wasn’t going to know where to go home to.
Was there going to be a home? My parents still live in the house that they lived in when I came along. My parents raised us in church you can see the legacy because of his decision it’s not going to be like this i’m going to serve the lord and so he raised his children too and we are my sister and i both are raising our children too and it was that dividing line for my dad back in the early 80s saying it’s it’s not going to be i’m going to do different and it’s not going to be this way and sometimes somebody will have a goal in mind where they say, from this point on, it’s going to be different. I’m going to do something that changes everything.
As we come to the end of Luke chapter 12, Jesus is telling anybody who will listen about a plan that he has in place, where he’s going, that is going to change everything, not just for him, but it’s going to change everything for them and for every subsequent generation down to you and me. That what Jesus did and what Jesus came to do was not just a dividing line for people then. It was the dividing line of all of human history. And that’s what we’re going to look at today.
Where Jesus was determined to go and the importance that he placed on this event for those who were listening. We’re going to be at the end of the chapter this morning, looking at verses 49 through 59. So here’s what Jesus says to His disciples. He starts out talking to His disciples.
The Fire He Came to Kindle
He says, I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled.
The Baptism of the Cross
But I have a baptism to undergo and how distressed I am until it is accomplished.
Peace with God, Division in the World
Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you no, but rather division. For from now on, five members in one household will be divided, three against two, and two against three. They will be divided father against son, and son against father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
Missing What God Was Doing
And he was also saying to the crowds, when you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, a shower is coming, and so it turns out. And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, it will be a hot day, and it turns out that way. You hypocrites, you know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time? And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?
Reconciliation Cannot Wait
For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there, make an effort to settle with him so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent, As has been the case with so much of chapter 12, there’s a lot to unpack in a short amount of time. But we need to start with Jesus’ purpose in telling them these things.
Determined to Fulfill the Father’s Plan
Jesus is determined at this point to fulfill the Father’s redemptive plans. The crowds were looking at him as a miracle worker. They were looking at him as somebody who’s going to do signs and amaze the crowd. They’re looking at him as somebody who’s going to feed them.
They’re looking at him maybe as a wise teacher. The authorities are looking at him as a troublemaker, especially the Jewish authorities. I don’t think the Roman authorities really cared at this point until it became an uproar. But everybody’s looking at him for what they see in the moment that he’s doing and what he’s bringing to their lives, whether they like it or not.
But Jesus had a goal in mind. Jesus is heading somewhere. He didn’t come just to do the things that He’s doing in chapter 12 that were their focus. He came determined to fulfill the Father’s redemptive plans.
And that’s what He starts telling them in verse 49, because up to this point, we’ve seen him get involved in really some petty squabbles even. Right before this is when two weeks ago we looked at a man came to Jesus and said, help us, my brother won’t give me, and we debated, not really debated, but we discussed Sunday night, what is he actually asking for? And either way, he’s still coming to Jesus saying, my brother won’t share the inheritance with me. Won’t you make him share?
Sounds like the things I heard all day yesterday when it was too cold for the kids to play outside, okay? Just these petty squabbles, and this is not what Jesus came to do. And so by the time we get to verse 49, he tells them, he begins telling them what he’s come for. He says, I have come to cast fire upon the earth.
With what Jesus came to do, he intended to kindle of fire. And whenever we see a fire in the Bible, it’s usually symbolic of a couple of things that really overlap each other. It’s usually symbolic of judgment or refining. And those go hand in hand because as God judges us, He refines us.
Kind of like when, I don’t know if you’re on social media and see people working with metal, metallurgy, or is that just me? Because I get these things all the time. They’re melting down metal. They’re combining metals.
It thinks I’m interested in this, and apparently it’s right, because I’ll sit there and watch it. But they will melt these things down. They will put the gold in a furnace and turn it up to however many degrees and burn off the impurities. So as we go through the fire of God’s judgment, it also refines us and burns off the impurities.
When Jesus says He was coming to kindle a fire, He’s talking about the message of God’s judgment against sin. And Jesus says here, I’ve come to cast a fire upon the earth and how I wish it were already kindled. And we might read that and think, well, that doesn’t sound like Jesus. After all, Jesus did talk about mercy.
Jesus demonstrated mercy. The New Testament says that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. How does this square with that? It’s because the good news is the good news because it’s the answer to bad news.
All of the talk about Jesus’ mercy would be meaningless if He wasn’t saving us from something. If somebody says, I’ve come to rescue you, and you’re just sitting right here this morning, they’ve come to rescue you. As a matter of fact, I want you to think about this. You’re sitting here this morning, there’s no obvious threat to you, and somebody that you don’t know rushes in off the street and comes up to you and says, I’m here to rescue you.
Are you going with that person? No, you’re probably thinking that person’s a little off the beam, right? Because there’s nothing, apparently, that you need to be rescued from. The good news that Jesus brings, the gospel, the good news, is good news because it’s the answer to bad news, and that bad news is sin.
So when Jesus is talking about kindling fire on the earth, it’s not just the judgment, it’s that message of judgment, and it’s the call to flee from the judgment and be saved from the judgment. It’s a call really to be reconciled to God. The gospel confronts us with the reality of our own sin, not just so we feel bad about it, not just so we say, oh, woe is me, I’m a sinner, but so that we recognize it in order to do something about it, so that we recognize it in order to take the escape that God has provided to us. And in order for this to happen, in order for the gospel to be proclaimed, in order for judgment to be warned of, and there to be a place for people to flee, something needed to happen.
And this is what Jesus came to do. And so he’s eager for this to happen. He’s eager for the message to go out because we’re already sinners. At this point, the people Jesus is talking to, they’re already sinners.
They already stand condemned before a holy God. The only difference is that the message would go out about judgment and the call to repent. So Jesus is eager for this so that we come to a place where we are able to be reconciled to God. He longed for this fire to be unleashed, but it could only happen after He undergoes the baptism of the cross.
That’s what He’s talking about in verse 50 when He says, I have a baptism to undergo. He’s already been baptized at this point. He is not talking about going back out to the Jordan River and being baptized again in the water. He’s using a metaphor, as He does elsewhere, where He talks about the cup that He’s supposed to drink.
Here He talks about the baptism that He’s supposed to undergo. That is to be immersed in the wrath of God, the judgment of God, that he took upon himself for us. See, Jesus’ plan all along was to go to the cross. That was his entire purpose in coming, was to go to the cross and take responsibility for my sin and for yours.
So he’s going to be plunging himself into that sin and plunging himself into the wrath of God that was poured out on him and being punished in our place. He said there’s a baptism to undergo and how distressed I am until it is accomplished. And while in the flesh, absolutely nothing about that baptism would be pleasant. I don’t think when he says here that I’m distressed, I don’t think he means, you know, I’m really nervous about the crucifixion.
And I would really like to find a plan B because I’m very anxious. I think it’s that distress you feel when there’s something really important to you that you haven’t finished yet. The other day, I was in the middle of telling Charla something that I needed to do, and she thought I was done and she started, we started talking about a schedule for another day and I said, I was still in the middle of that and now my brain itches because I haven’t got this out before I forget. I don’t know if anybody else experiences that, but when something that matters and it’s undone, it’s unsaid and your brain gets itchy, you feel that stress, that anxiety, I think that could be what he’s talking about here.
I’m not suggesting his brain was itchy, That’s my terminology. But there’s that desire, there’s that drive to do the thing that you know is important. That’s what he came here to do. And so he says, every minute until it’s accomplished, I’m on edge because that’s what I came to do.
He was distressed until it was done, not because he was unwilling to go, but because he was eager to fulfill the Father’s plan. And we already read back in Luke chapter 9 that it says he was determined to go to Jerusalem. Not because Jerusalem is the happiest place on earth, but because that’s where he was going to be crucified. And that’s what we need to understand as Jesus is talking about this eagerness to set loose a fire.
And this eagerness to undergo baptism. What he’s talking about is going to Jerusalem to fulfill the Father’s plans by dying on the cross. That is what he came to do, and it’s what’s going to change everything for you and me, for everybody throughout history. It’s going to change it for all of us, but we can’t lose sight of what that meant for him and what he was going to suffer, and we need to understand that so great was Jesus’ concern for you and for me.
So great was his concern for us and our relationship with God and our eternal destination. He cared that much about where we stood with God and about where we would spend eternity. That not only did he come willingly to die on the cross, but he was not going to be satisfied until he had. And so he tells them I’ve come to set the world on fire I’ve come to unleash this fire I’ve come to undergo this baptism not the stuff that we’re doing here is secondary it’s leading me toward what I actually came to do and what he came to do was going to change everything And it changes things for us because it puts us in a place where we can’t not respond to God.
A Work That Demands a Response
Look with me at verses 51, 52, and 53, and we see that Jesus’ redemptive work requires a response. See, when Jesus came what He did to do, it didn’t automatically make life easy. His death challenges each of us to respond. Jesus didn’t come to die on the cross to make our lives easy.
He came to reconcile us to God. And that message, the reason why in our flesh we are so resistant to that message at times is because in order to be reconciled to God through the cross, we have to admit there’s something wrong with us. And we don’t want to admit that. I saw a pastor on Facebook talking about, oh, we’ve misunderstood the Bible.
You are not broken because it’s going to hurt our self-esteem to think we’re broken. We all are broken before a holy God. And I don’t say that to destroy our self-esteem. It’s just reality.
Even when you’ve got life all together, even when you’re doing well, it doesn’t mean you live up to the standard of a holy God. So that’s not meant to be insulting to say that we’re as sinful and as broken as we possibly could be, but we need to understand the Bible does teach that there’s a wrong in our lives that we cannot overcome. The gospel confronts us with that the reason jesus if there was something other than jesus and his sacrifice that could get us to heaven if there was any action on our part that could do it then the cross was a huge mistake jesus could have just saved himself a lot of trouble and said just get yourselves together the gospel confronts us with the fact that we can’t that’s why he says in verse 51, do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you no, but rather division.
There’s going to be a dividing. There’s a place where each of us are confronted with the truth of the gospel, and we are compelled to respond. We’ve been told by God Himself through His Word, through His Son, through the apostles speaking by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, telling us that we have sinned against God and can only be made right through Jesus. That compels us to respond, either to accept it and believe or to reject it, but even to sit there and say, you know, I’m not going to deal with this, I’m not going to think about it, is to reject it.
It compels us to some kind of response. He says, I came to bring division rather than peace. Now, don’t misunderstand. He brings us peace within.
This is not a contradiction with anything else said elsewhere in Scripture. When the angel sang, peace on earth, he will bring peace on earth one day. One day. And when he told us, I leave you my peace, He meant it.
To the believer, he brings peace within. Peace with God, peace with one another. But it doesn’t mean that at this point he brought peace to the world. One day he’ll bring peace to all of creation.
Right now he brings us peace within and peace with God. But for now his death and his gospel, they stand in conflict with the world. The world doesn’t want to hear about the holiness of God. The world doesn’t want to hear that, you know, maybe some things need to change in our hearts.
The world doesn’t want to hear that. And so it puts the gospel at odds with the world and it brings us into conflict with the world. Now, to be very clear to anybody watching on the internet, I don’t mean armed conflict, but I mean we are not on the same page with what the world believes about itself. Because to come to Christ, we’ve already acknowledge that we’re sinners. His gospel divides the world.
Division Even Within Families
Verses 52 and 53, he says, the members of one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. Had to laugh about this the other day. Charla and I took the kids to the dentist at the same time, and that always turns out to be the worst day of my life. It is awful.
And I looked at her and I said, is there a reason why we’re doing this all at the same time. And she said, well, I thought it was easier. I said, it’s not. So we started talking about the next time in six months.
Okay, I’ll take these three, you take these two. Are you sure you want to divide them two and three and three and two? It’s biblical. It’s right there.
I’m preaching on it Sunday. He came to divide. He’s telling us the answer here, the way forward. But the point he’s making is that even within our own homes, even within our own families, the gospel will create division.
Now, is He teaching us to hate one another? No, He’s not. But there’s something that happens when we come to Christ and He becomes our greatest love. We suddenly have less in common, even with our own flesh and blood, if they don’t love Jesus.
Because our lives are oriented around different things, and it leads to division. Even if you love that And this was something that they needed to understand because we are a much more individualistic society. You know, you are in our culture more than most, you are welcome to think what you want and go a different way. And it doesn’t necessarily affect your standing with your family.
I don’t know the way things are polarized today that may be changing. But in their world, everybody followed the same religion. Everybody had the same culture. Everybody had the same customs.
Everybody spoke the same language. And if you changed any of that, you might be out of the family and ostracized by everybody you knew. And Jesus is telling them that’s not a bug. That’s a feature of the gospel.
That we are supposed to be separate from the world. And if there’s a relational cost involved in following Jesus, then just understand that up front. That’s part of it. Be willing to pay that cost.
But it divides the world, and there’s no middle ground. He talks about the families being divided. So why is there no middle ground? It’s because the gospel is not just an addition to our lives.
It becomes the center. Now, does that mean that I, as a believer, that’s the only thing I ever talk about is the gospel? No, I talk about other things. But my entire way of seeing the world is centered around the gospel.
There’s a worldview behind each of us and everything we believe. And if you’re a believer in Jesus Christ, that center has shifted for you. And we can’t just kind of believe. The gospel is not something that we can make an accent to our life.
There’s a story, maybe some of you heard it this week, about a famous cartoonist who passed away. And not having met him in person, I don’t want to be very quick to judge. I can only go by the public statements. But he’s a well-known artist, and he was dying from cancer.
And he said that, I’m not a believer in Jesus Christ. He said, but I’ve done the math here. If you’ve ever heard of Pascal’s Wager, it says if you believe in Jesus and it’s not true, when you die, you haven’t lost anything. But if you’re not a Christian and you die and it’s true you’ve lost everything and so Pascal argued that well really it’s just the smart thing to do is to become a Christian well this guy basically embraced Pascal’s wager and he wrote I have not become a believer but I think it only makes sense and so I will say now that I accept Jesus as my savior I look forward to seeing him in eternity and I can’t remember the exact quote I’m paraphrasing a long paragraph here but that was basically the gist of it I hope that’s enough to get in and that broke my heart I mean maybe he wrote that a day or two before and maybe something changed but it was that statement at the very beginning I’m not a believer but you’re so close you’re so close but you have to believe who he is and accept it it’s not enough just to believe it even Satan believes who Jesus is but accept him as your savior that’s why the scriptures say that if we believe in our hearts that God has raised him from the dead and if we confess with our mouths we will be saved there’s believing and there’s confession and we can’t just kind of believe we either believe who jesus is says he is and we believe wholeheartedly that he can forgive our sins or we don’t believe it at all anything else is not the gospel and i’m not talking about you having periodic doubts or questions.
I think if anybody in this room tells you, you know what, I’ve been saved for years and I’ve never had a doubt or a question, I don’t want to say they’re lying to you, I’ll say they’re misremembering. But faith is putting our entire trust in Jesus. We’re not just spreading the eggs in multiple baskets because it’s the smart play. We’re saying, you know what, I trust Jesus fully.
He is plan A, He is plan B, plan everything through Z. He is the one and only plan. If Jesus is wrong, then I’m completely messed up because I put all my trust in Jesus. Have you ever tried to partway sit in a chair?
Doesn’t work. Doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. When you sit in a chair, you’re supposed to put your entire weight in it and trust that it holds you up. That’s what faith in Jesus is like.
We’re putting our entire weight of what we believe about eternity in that chair. And Jesus has offered forgiveness, and each of us is called to respond. And our family can’t respond for us. Our spouse can’t respond for us.
Our neighbors, our church can’t respond for us. Each of us is called to account for what we believe about Jesus. And then we come to verses 54, 55, and 56. And he begins to talk to them about the weather, but he really hasn’t changed the subject here.
What he’s talking about is their ability to parse and interpret what’s going on in the weather. And their blindness about what God is doing right in front of them. And the point he’s trying to make here is that to miss him, to miss Christ, is to miss God’s plan. He turns in verse 54 and it says he was also saying to the crowd so he’s no longer just talking to his disciples he’s speaking to them and he’s speaking in front of them they were a crowd of people who knew the scriptures now were there some who knew the scriptures better than others i’m sure there were but in their culture everybody as a child was supposed to memorize certain parts of the Scripture, they knew Scripture, and they’d been taught.
They should have been able to understand the signs of His deity that were right in front of them, right in front of them. All the things that He had done, even the authority that He taught with, all of this was on display for them to understand who He is, that this is God in the flesh standing right in front of them, and that this is the Messiah, that He’s fulfilling all of these signs. And the point He’s making to them in these three verses is that they’re not stupid. They were bright enough to be able to understand signs in the weather.
He says in verse 54, when you see the winds and the clouds coming from the west, you know that there’s going to be rain. When you know the wind’s coming from the south, you know it’s going to be a hot day, and apparently that’s still the way it works. If there’s any moisture, it’s coming from the Mediterranean, so it blows in from the west. When the wind is out of the deserts in Arabia, it’s going to be hot.
This is the way it’s always worked. And he says, you know how to interpret what the day is going to be just from these signs around you. And his point is that God is working right in front of them. God is doing signs.
God is doing miraculous things through Jesus. They could interpret the weather, but they were missing what God was doing right in front of them. And so he says, you hypocrites. Again, if you remember back several weeks I told you, that means there’s an intentional disconnect between the internal and the external.
Outwardly, oh yeah, we understand all this stuff going on. Inwardly, they know who Jesus is. They had to have known who Jesus is, but outwardly they’re not professing it. They’re not believing it.
God was at work right in front of them and Jesus is the center and the fulfillment of God’s plans so Jesus is speaking to a crowd of people who who should have known what God was up to a group of people who were convinced they knew God and knew what he was doing but they missed everything that he was doing right in front of them because they missed sometimes intentionally who Jesus is because when Jesus is talking about the work of God going on right in front of them, he’s talking about himself. When he says you’re missing the signs, when he says you don’t analyze this present time, you’re not aware of what’s going on right in front of you, he’s talking about what God is doing by having sent him. And this is still true today, that to miss Christ is to miss God’s plan. If you’ve ever watched a history channel documentary back when they used to have actual history documentaries if you’ve ever watched a history channel documentary about anything vaguely related to the bible you have probably seen one of these people who have a lot of education they may have phds in theology but it sounds like they’ve never actually seen a Bible.
Sounds like they don’t have an understanding of who God is or who Jesus is and you think how can they know so much and still know so little? Listen, we can understand a lot of things. We can have a lot of head knowledge about God but if we don’t know who Jesus is if we don’t know him and believe him and trust him as he presents himself then we completely miss what God is doing today I don’t care how much a person knows about theology I don’t care how well versed they are in this obviously I care about those things but I don’t care how much they know about theology or how well-versed they are in Scripture. If they don’t recognize that Jesus is God in human flesh, the second person of the Trinity who became a man so that he could come to earth, take responsibility for my sin and yours, and be nailed to the cross and shed his blood to bear the entire wrath of God, the entire weight of God’s judgment against sin on your behalf and mine, so that we could be forgiven, and that three days after he died, he rose again to prove that he could do what he said.
If they don’t understand that and they don’t believe that, they have completely missed God’s plans and everything that God is doing in our midst. By the same token, somebody can sit in church for decades and know a lot of stuff, But if they’ve missed Jesus, they’ve missed what God is doing. If we miss who Jesus is, we will miss God. If our thought is, you know what, I understand God wants me to live a good moral life, so I’m just going to do that and it’ll all come out in the end.
You’ve missed who God is. You’ve missed what God’s doing. And you’re going to miss God in the end. We can only come to Him through Jesus.
And he tells us in verses 57 through 59 that reconciliation with God cannot wait. Jesus came to change the world, to change the way we relate to God, to change our understanding so that we see our sin and our need for a Savior. He came to be that Savior, and he calls us to respond. He tells us don’t dare miss what he’s doing because we’ll miss out on what God’s doing.
But as he calls us to respond, he teaches us that the time to do so is now, not later, not well when I get some things worked out today. The book of Hebrews says that today is the day of salvation. These verses, 57 through 59, they call us to get right with God while there is time. He says, why do you not even judge on your own what is right?
And he tells a story. If you’re in a dispute with somebody, as you’re on the way to court with them, don’t you try to settle it out of court. Don’t you try to work it out because you’re afraid you’re going to walk in there and the judge is going to hand you over to the jailer. The jailer is going to throw you in jail and you’re going to stay there until you’ve paid everything.
He says, no, you try to deal with the person and you try to make things right before you ever step into the courtroom so that you’re not stuck there until you’ve paid every last cent. In other words, Jesus is warning them, get right with the one who’s trying to judge you in court before you ever step into the courtroom. There’s a judgment day coming for us, and it’s going to be too late to deal with it then, because the sentence will be handed down. He says, make peace on the way.
And for you and me, there is one way to make peace with the Holy God. And it’s not to come to Him and say, look at all the good things I’ve done. Look at how moral I’ve been. Look at how I’ve served at church.
Look at all that I’ve done. Because the book of Isaiah says that in God’s sight all of our good deeds are just filthy rags because they’re tainted by sin. We don’t want to come to Him and present our good deeds. We want to come before a just and holy judge robed in the righteousness of Christ.
That’s why Jesus came, to endure the baptism of the cross, to suffer on our behalf, so that our sin could be put on Him and He could be punished in our place. Our slate could be wiped clean, and He takes His righteousness and puts it on us, so that if we trust Jesus and Jesus alone is our Savior, we stand before God and He doesn’t see the sin. He looks at us and chooses to see the righteousness of Christ. And that can be ours.
If we believe who He says He is and we trust Him and ask for that forgiveness, that can be ours. But He warns us not to put it off. He warns us to agree and make peace before we get to the courthouse. Today while there’s an opportunity if you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior.
Please do so. Before you leave here today, I don’t say this is a scare tactic. It’s just with the urgency that Jesus himself spoke. Do it today.
Don’t put it off. We are not promised tomorrow. I’ve heard people say, I’ll come to Christ when I get my life straightened out. You will never get your life straight enough.
Well, I’ve got a few irons to get out of the fire. What iron is worth your eternal destination? Deal with the Lord now. As a matter of fact, He’ll help you deal with Him once you come to Him.
But this morning, it is as simple as understanding you’ve sinned against a holy God, acknowledging that you can’t do enough to fix that relationship. And so acknowledge that Jesus had to die in your place to bear your punishment and that he did it and he rose again three days later to prove it and ask for that forgiveness, believing you’ll have it and you will. Right where you are this morning, you can trust Christ as your Savior. You can ask for that forgiveness.
