Are All Your Sins Forgiven When You Accept Jesus Christ? | Romans: Part 5 | Pastor Alex Himaya

carrying more than people can see. The things we wish we could take back. The questions we don't know how to ask. The feeling that we should be doing better by now. So we try harder, we hold on tighter. But through Jesus, God invites us to come close. His grace is a gift. And today, we come with openings. So today we pray, Father, help us trust you with what we're carrying. As we open your word, give us the courage to be honest and the faith to respond. Let your grace shape our hearts, our relationships, and the way we live when we leave this room. We're here. We're listening. Speak, Lord. - Well, good morning church. So great to be with you today. In the house of the Lord last week, I preached at Ted Cunningham's church in Branson, Missouri. And we had so many people saved. In fact, we're about 60 adults last week were saved in Branson. Can you celebrate with me what God is doing everywhere? Just like he's doing something. He's in gathering people all over the world. And Josiah on our staff team traveled with me to Branson. And while we were ministering there,

leading people to Jesus, his son, four-year-olds, four-year-olds son was here at Gospel Sunday at our church receiving Jesus. And he came home and told his daddy, "Daddy, I received it." And I know, I believe it and trust it today. And we actually have a little video of him testifying of his new relationship with Christ. You guys come up here, play that video if you would guys. - Three. - Jesus is in my heart and he forgive me. - And what else? - God is in my heart. - Let's celebrate, come on. We give God glory for that. I want us to pray together. The three of us are gonna pray. Josiah is gonna pray in Spanish. And I want you to pray for TCEs. If this is Tony, he needs no introduction around here. Tony leads all of the ministry in TCEs which has reached thousands and thousands of people now. In fact, Tony and Vonda and I had probably 10 hours of meetings this week. And what is gonna come out of those meetings I believe is gonna be God-sized. And it's gonna be very, very, very significant that we will take the Gospel out of Egypt like Isaiah 19 promises into the whole Middle East.

So I want you to pray for that. And then I want you to pray in Arabic for our Hispanic, very first Hispanic worship and prayer night tonight, right here at 6.30 if you speak Spanish or you know people who speak Spanish, come on and bring them tonight in this place. We believe God's gonna birth something special in this place. And then I'll pray in English for the message today, okay? - Do you extend your hands forward and would you pray with me? (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) - Father, today we pray that each of us would take advantage of the access we have via the Holy Spirit, into the very throne room of God. And today, Holy Spirit, take us there and would you use the Bible, Romans 5 today to teach us, your kids, but not just teach us, change us. And speak a word from your word to each of us, a personal word, a life-changing word, a life-altering word. And for that, we will give you all the glory

what God is doing here, there, and everywhere? He's big. He's big, he's big, he's big, and he's doing more than we could ever ask, think, or imagine. Today in Romans chapter 5, we're going to pick up where we left off. If you've got a Bible open it to Romans 5 and Paul begins this chapter this way, he says, therefore, say therefore. Simple Bible reading tip, when you come to a therefore, you ask yourself, what's it there for? And it is always attaching what he's about to say to what he just said. I actually don't like it that they divided chapters with their force. It should not be divided that way. And by the way, there were no chapter numbers or verses here, but this is certainly attached to everything that he has said before, therefore. And when we see this therefore, it is one of two huge therefores in the book of Romans. This one here in Romans 5, and the one we're going to get to in a few weeks in Romans 8, do not miss the week of Romans 8. Maybe the best chapter in the whole Bible, right? But not only are these so big in Romans, these are two of the most significant therefores in the entire Bible. And what Paul is doing when he gets to chapter 5, he's making a turn in the book. And if you view the book of Romans like a boat, think of it as a huge boat. Like it is a tanker, an aircraft carrier. It's big. That's how big this boat is. Romans is a theological magna carda. And so it is going to take Paul a bit to turn this big boat. But before he does, let's review where he's been in the first four chapters. In chapter 1, we said the gospel is powerful. Amen? Let's try that again. Like it's actually powerful. Like it's changed your life. Like you're grateful to God. The gospel is powerful. Amen? Amen. And this whole book is about the gospel. Romans is all about the gospel. In fact, some people call Romans the gospel according to Paul. And so it's the story of how and why Jesus saved us. And what makes good news good is the presence of bad news, right? And so Paul gets to the bad news very quickly and he says the wrath of God is coming. The wrath of God is being poured out on sin. In chapter 2, Paul says, hey, knowing the truth does not make you good. It does not. It's because the law demands perfection, which is something you and I can never, ever accomplish. Listen to me, Church, just knowing that sin is wrong won't save you. Because the law is weakened by our flesh. And where will our flesh get us? In chapter 3, Paul tells us we've all sinned. Every one of us have sinned and all of us fall way too short of the very nature of God or the glory of God. And the only way to get to that is through grace, right? By

his gracious gift. And we said, remember a few weeks ago, we are saved by grace through faith, right? So grace is the source of your salvation. Faith is the pathway of that salvation into your life. Faith is saying, I'm putting my trust in and on God. It means to lean on or to rely upon. Last week, Tony used the illustration, Tony Nolan, used the illustration of the guy that was going to push the wheelbarrow across the tightrope. And he asked, how many of you have faith that I can do this and they all raise their hands. And then he said, we'll get in the wheelbarrow, right? And that's what faith is. And last week in our church, we saw so many men and women and boys and girls exercise that faith and lean on the grace of God to save them. In fact, last Sunday, 132 men and women and boys and girls gave their lives to Jesus Christ right here at Battle Creek Church, 132 people. And six of those 132 people gave their life to Christ at Allen Gamble at our campus at the Correctional Fellowship there. We love what God is doing in your hearts and in your lives. And now, chapter five, Paul is going to show us what happens when we put our faith in the grace of God. What are the results of that salvation? And he's going to start answering that question. He says, therefore, since we have been justified through faith, by the way, through, not by, some of your Bibles actually say, by here. It's not in the Greek. It's through. We have peace, say peace, with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. And I want us to look at this word "peace" for just a second. And I want to remind you that Paul is writing Romans. He's writing it in Greek. Hebrew is his first language, not Greek. And the word behind this Greek word for peace is the Hebrew word shalom, say shalom, shalom. Shalom does not just mean the absence of conflict or the end of a war, it's the beginning of something. And the word shalom can be translated peace, but it can also be translated as wholeness. And that's the picture. It's a picture of something that was broken that is now fixed. It is something that was in pieces

is now backed together again. And that's what the word shalom primarily means. It is that when God made this peace between us and him, it is about our identity. It is about him making us whole. He did not just justify us by clearing the record. It's not like he waves some magic wand and ignored all of our sin. It's that he fundamentally changed our identity. And that's what so many people get wrong about the grace message. Listen, God did not change the rules so that now he's okay with your sin. He changed you so that you are not okay with your sin. In other words, he did not just change the terms of the relationship. He changed you to fit the terms of the relationship. And that new identity gives us access to God and a new confidence. Now look at what he goes on to say in verse two, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith. That don't get snagged by these words by faith. What is it that we have by faith? Access, right? Meaning what? Faith is the pathway. It's the access into what? The source, well, what's the source? Into this grace in which we now stand.

In other words, we can stand on God's grace. We can stand in his presence. Why? Not because he overlooks our sins, but because he forgave them and wipe them all away. And in doing so, church, he changed us. Now I'm gonna come back to verses three, four and five, remind me in a few minutes, but first I wanna pick up on this train of thought that Paul is building here, because he's going to tell us why we need this in the first place, why we need this whole thing, and why is it that we need to be made right with God? Why do we even need peace with God? Because maybe you're here for the very first time, or you're here, and that's the first time you're hearing this, peace between us and God. And maybe your thought is, well, why do I need peace with God? I don't have a problem with God. Does God have a problem with me? Well, Paul talks about it. Look at verse six. He says, "At just the right time, "when we were still powerless, "Christ died for the ungodly." Now, what does he say about us? He says two things. Number one, that we are powerless. Powerless to do what?

To save ourselves, or to keep from sinning, right? And if you lived one day in your body, you know this is true, right? And then he calls us ungodly, which we don't like that at all, right? Because when we think of ungodly, we think of evil. And I'm like, I'm not evil, right? Even before I came to God, I wasn't evil. And ungodly, what that word means is without God. It means with no regard for God. You don't consider God. In other words, you're trying to live your life without help from the one who actually gave you your life. And your life is powerless when you are ungodly. You are powerless to save yourself. And what is needed is a savior, or a propitiation, which we talked about a few weeks ago, right? Now, look at the next verse, verse eight, it says, "But God," by the way, I love this. We should do a series on these two words that appear together often in scripture. Ta-da-da-da, but God, right? But God, and by the way, God is the subject here. And this is the verb, you remember when we would do this? He demonstrates his own love for us, say for us. In that while we were still sinners, Christ, subject again, died verb for us. Meaning he did this in our place. In other words, the punishment that we deserved, he took upon himself.

Now, I want you to notice this. These two verbs in this one sentence, this one is in the present tense. He demonstrates, or is demonstrating, his own love. How does he demonstrate that? By what Christ has done, he died. present tense. If we were grading him on grammar, he would get a red mark here. This is a no-no, even in the Greek you don't do this. But the point he's making is that he is demonstrating present how, by what he has already done, which begs the question, how does God demonstrate past tense, a present tense? What he already did, past tense, through your life, through my life, through our lives in Christ Jesus, after we are saved, he is now demonstrating that through our lives. And notice what he says, he says, watch this, while we were still sinners. Anybody got questions about that? I got a lot of questions about that. Like how was I a sinner when Christ died? He died in 33 A.D. Some of you look like you're that old, but you're not that old, right? None of us in here are that old, right? We're not alive when Jesus died. So how can the Bible say we were sinners when Christ died for us? That doesn't make any sense. The way that makes sense is that our sin or our sin nature was decided years and years and years and years ago. Now let me show you. Paul explains this. Look at verse 12. Sin, say sin, entered the world through one man. And you ought to write this in your notes, in your Bible. That one man he's talking about is Adam, right? One man through Adam, sin entered the world, and death entered the world through sin. And in this way, death came to say it. All people, why? Because all sin, in other words, and this is important theologically, God does not look at individual lives, individual lives accounts, since Adam, to see if there's sin in our individual accounts. Totally unnecessary. Why? Because of what happened in Adam. Are you following? What he's saying is, is that because his sin, we all have sinned. And by the way, he goes into great detail about this in chapter 6. So if you've got questions about this, come back next week. We're going to answer. Paul's going to deal with those very questions. But the truth is this, even if you and I somehow, from birth, all the way to death, never sinned. We would still have a sin nature, and therefore we are sinners in need of a savior. And in the second Adam, this is a theological truth. First Adam,

second Adam, that Paul explains here in this passage, watch what he says in verse 14. Adam, who is a pattern, some of your Bible say type, who is a pattern or a type of the one to come. The second Adam, who is Jesus. And Paul is basically saying, look, it's not that Adam sinned, and we're all paying the price for it. That's not what happened. He's saying when Adam sinned, it altered humanity. And we are all like Adam. And our identity at birth is like Adam's, with a sin nature. Sin entered the world through Adam's sin. We know that. It's because of the first Adam that we have sinned. Not just we do, we have sinned. But what about the second Adam? What about the second Adam, Jesus. And I want to show you, and I'm going to make you a chart, and I suggest you write the chart down. And this should be the last Sunday that you don't bring something to take notes on. Because I'm giving you something very, very helpful. And if you would write this down, stick it in your Bible. You can look at it next week and recognize the truth. And so get a lipstick, a mascara, a pen, something you can write with, and write this truth down so that you can see this. What is it? Because Paul's going to show us what we get in Adam's sin under that umbrella. And what we get in Jesus' gift, both before and after we accept the very grace of God. Because look at verse 15. Verse 15 says, "The trespass of Adam only gave death, but God's gift in Jesus gives us so much more." And I want to look at how that plays out. Because the first thing that happened to us is Adam's sin. Watch this. Adam's sin makes us sinners. That's verse 12. And by the way, the word sinner does not just refer to someone who's sinned. It is about our nature. It is that we have a sin nature. But what does the second Adam or Jesus do? He makes us saints. That's verse 19. Do you know that when you come to Christ and receives a gift of grace in Jesus Christ, you are no longer a sinner. And if you don't know that truth, you need to know that truth. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2, In other words, our identity is not a center saved by grace. Sometimes I hear believers say that. I just center saved by grace. No, no, no, no, that's demeaning to who you are. That's so much less than what Jesus said about you. It's true that we are all sinners saved by grace. But that identity is beneath the identity that Jesus gave us. He calls you a saint.

That's what Jesus has to say about you. And he gets the final word, amen? It's your identity. And by the way, it's not based on how well you act either. It is based on who you are underneath the second Adam, Jesus. And so the second thing that the first Adam curses you with, according to Romans 5, it is judgment. That's verse 16. Verse 16 says that God's judgment followed one sin, the sin of Adam. And it brought condemnation, right? That's what it says, which means we are judged by who we are and what we do unless we accept the gift of the second Adam, which is what? The gift is justification. Romans, that's 516. And here's a good way to remember. He uses all of these five syllable words, like a lawyer would. And it's hard to understand at times, but justification. Here's an easy way to remember the theological term justified. Justified means just as if I'd never sent. And it is a legal action. It is a spiritual truth in the spiritual realm, where our status is now changed. Our nature is now changed. We go from guilty to cleared of all punishment. Now, what does condemnation or judgment mean? Well, it means death, right? That's verse 17. It's a death sentence. It's not that we got a traffic violation or a speeding fine,

and we have to pay the fine. And it's not that we just feel guilty or have a guilty conscience. Condemnation is a death penalty, thanks to the very first Adam, for every sin that has ever been committed. But under the second Adam, he gives us life. But verse 17, again, says, "Through the trespass of one man, the first Adam, death reigned throughout the world and down to us." But Paul goes on to say, "How much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace, listen, rain in life?" In other words, in sin, the first Adam, death reigns over all of us. But through Jesus, the second Adam, we get life, and life more abundant, and life eternal. And life actually gets a chance to rain. And that doesn't mean just life after death. That means more life and a better life here and now. The first Adam messed everything up. He cursed the whole world. But the second Adam, Jesus, and what did he do? He loved us. In fact, Paul says, "He loved us to death." Romans 5.8 again, God demonstrates how great his love is by sending his son to die for us when while we were sinners. Now, let me go back and show you something. I forgot to point out in verse 6 this, "At just the right time," circle that into your Bible, "at just the right time." I want you to see this phrase, "at just the right time." I've taught you this before that there are two Greek words for time. The first one is the word "kronos," and the second one is the word "kyros." "Kronos" is where we get our word "kronological."

What does that mean? It means time in order. It's five o'clock, it's 10 a.m., in 15 minutes. It's November 1st, it's New Year's Day. All of that is kronos. You follow? In fact, we set our clocks back today. How many of you are sick and tired of all of this? Like we elected people to solve this. You can't even solve this one thing. You've got to bring peace to the whole world. Just set the clocks straight. We don't need daylight in the morning. That's for farmers. None of us are farmers anymore. In fact, the farmers have GPS tractors that they can send out in the dark. We need daylight in the afternoon when we can play golf, right? [APPLAUSE] Look, so we set our clocks back today. What is that? That's kronos. That's kronos. But here, Paul's not using the word "kronos" at just the right time. He's using this word "kyros." And "kyros" is defined as "significant moments." They cannot be measured in seconds or minutes, but are measured by weight of importance.

Kronos is time we change. "kyros" is time that changes us. In other words, we had the time of our lives. "Kronos" is Jesus died on Friday, April 3rd, Kairos is Jesus died at the right time, at the right moment, at this point in history where he changed all of history. And how many of you know that God operates outside of Chronos time, meaning he's not bound by time in the same way that you and I are bound by it. So when it says that Jesus died at just the right time, it means that he intersected our time and changed all of time. And what's the application of that? The application of that is that your salvation is not just an event with these subsequent events in your life. It is a moment that changed everything for you, your past, your present, and your future. In fact, let me ask you the question. How many of your sins were forgiven when you accepted Jesus' gift? All of them. And what does that mean? That means past, present, and future sins. Now, how does that even work? Come back next week, we're gonna talk about it, right? But how can I be a Christian and still sin? You ever wonder that? If I'm in Christ, why do I keep screwing up?

Paul's gonna answer that in the next two chapters. Be here in the next two chapters. In fact, bring somebody who's a sinner in your life. If you know somebody who has a problem with sin, bring them the next two weeks because Paul's gonna address the whole issue. I don't suggest you invite them that way, but just invite them. The point is this, how big is God's love? It's huge, that's what Paul's trying to say. It's big enough for you to forgive every one of your sins that you have committed, every one of your sins you are committing, and every one of the sins that you might commit in the future. It's that big. And what Paul is getting at here is that the second Adam, Jesus, changes everything. Now, not only does he change everything as it relates to our nature and our sin and our status, but it also changes everything as it relates to how we view our circumstances in life. Now, go back to verse three. You thought in my ADD, I was gonna forget all about it, didn't you? Go back to verse three. And take a look at what Paul says there. Now, remember, in verses one and two, he says, "Jesus made peace." Say, "Peace, between us and God." And consequently, we now stand in this new grace

or this hope of glory. And that is not just about heaven, some day hope. It is about hope for every day between now and heaven. Look at verse three, what Paul says. Tell them I'm busy, I'll call them back. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, why? What sufferings, why? Because we know that suffering produces perseverance and perseverance character and character, say it, hope. You see what Paul's doing here? It's a progression. This is clearly an advancement. And if you want to advance in your journey with Christ, there are some necessary steps to take. And how many of you know that the path to hope is not a straight line? Anybody know that? These are often, by the way, uneven steps. Steps that you feel unsure about. Some are high and some are low. There's a zig and a zag, there's an up and a down. It feels unstable. And it's not because God makes everything great again. He doesn't. But he's able to make the bad stuff in life and lead to greater things. So let's all look at this, okay? And I wrote this in my Bible like this. I draw the picture of stepping stones. What I view this as is stepping stones to hope.

That's where we're going, right? It is to hope. And the first step is peace. That's verse one, justification. When you come to Christ by grace through faith, does God give you peace or suffering? (congregation laughing) The answer is yes. (congregation laughing) Right? The answer is yes. And we don't need to get into the theology of, did he give it to you or did he allow it? It doesn't matter. If he allowed it, you got it to deal with, right? And so peace is step number one, suffering is step number two. And there's all kinds of suffering in the world today. Ranging from the water heater broke and now I'm out a few grand to, I didn't get the job to, your spouse said it's over and I'm out. And everywhere in between, right? Those moments of suffering, here's what Paul's saying. You can give God glory. Why? But because suffering for those who follow me, And perseverance, you could write this in your Bible, is an active verb. It's not a passive verb, let me remind you what that means.

Passive means it happens to you, so you experience suffering. Active means we do it, like we get moving, we are persevering. This is not some passive resistance to a bad day. This is our active response to the circumstances and trials in our life. Do you know that if you take a potato and an egg and you drop them together in the same boiling water, the same crisis, the same heat? What happens is very different to each of them. One of them through all of the heat gets softer and one of them gets harder. And when we do this, perseverance actively in Christ, all of the trials of life and all of the heat of life makes us more humble, makes us softer, makes us more teachable, makes us more pliable. And when we do it the wrong way outside of Christ, it makes us harder and harder and harder. But we can persevere. Why? Because we know that it leads to, according to Paul, character. Another level of integrity, another level of maturity. And by the way, the Greek word for character here means that which has been proven by trial. That's pretty interesting because you don't know if you have character unless it's been tested through a trial, right? And in other words, what Paul is saying is in Christ, how you come out of this suffering means you will be a better version of yourself than you were when you went into it. And that's why life is so much better for believers, right? It's not because how somehow you can avoid all the problems of life. It's that somehow in Christ all the problems can actually shape you into something better. And what happens when we walk through all of this is we end up with, say it, hope. Our hope increases. Not hoping ourselves, not hoping our job, not hoping our finances, right? But hoping the one who knows us, God, the second Adam, hoping Jesus, the one who loves us.

Now, Paul goes on to say in verse five, I love this phrase, "Hope does not disappoint." Hope does not disappoint. The world will disappoint you. People will disappoint you. Adam disappointed us. God does not disappoint. And look, here's the truth. Nobody wants to hear what you're facing is bad, but it's building you. Nobody wants to hear that. Even when it's true and even when we know it's true, right? I tell God all the time, God, please build me through good circumstances. But God knows in his wisdom that difficulty is often the best tutor we have. And our hope is not that we have an easy life. It's that we have a significant life because of Jesus' significant work. And here's what's true every single Sunday at this church. This church is so big that every single Sunday, this is true. Every single Sunday, this is true. That people walk in here in different conditions. Some of you today walked in and you're doing great. Your family's doing well, your marriage is good, your health is good, your kids are doing well. You've got a lot to celebrate. And here's what the Bible says about a faith family. We celebrate with you. We rejoice with those who rejoice. That's Romans, right? And we mourn with those who mourn. And do you know that this very Sunday and last Sunday and next Sunday and every Sunday, there will be people who will walk in here carrying something that nobody else in this room knows about?

You've got a diagnosis that you did not want. Marriage is hurting, a child who's far from God, a loss you still have not figured out how to live with. A prayer you've been praying for years and years that hasn't been answered yet. And on those Sundays, if you're honest, you would look at your circumstances and wonder, "God, where are you in all of this?" And here's what Romans 5 tells us, "Your circumstances do not determine your identity. Your suffering does not determine your destiny. Your pain does not determine your future." Listen, because you are living no longer under the first atom, you are now living under the second atom. And the second atom has already secured your future. I cannot promise you your diagnosis will disappear. Your marriage will immediately heal. The person you've been praying for is coming home tomorrow. I can't promise you any of that, but I can promise you this. If you belong to Jesus, your suffering is never wasted. Never. God can take what was meant to break you and use it to build you. He can take what was meant to destroy your faith and use it to actually deepen your faith. He can take what brought you to your knees and use it to teach you to stand in His grace. And one day, when your story is finally finished and you see the second Adam, Jesus, face-to-face, you will be fully aware he has done more than enough to overcome everything that the first Adam brought into this world. And why we have hope, not because life is easy, not because we have all the answers, but because Jesus is alive, Jesus is Lord, and Jesus is the final word, amen. Let's pray together. At every campus, heads bowed and eyes closed. And if you're here today and you've never trusted Jesus as Lord and Savior, by grace and through faith, we're so glad you're here.

And today, I would love to lead you in a prayer helping you receive the very grace of God. Amazing grace. And I'm going to lead you in a prayer one phrase at a time. People are going to pray all around you. But if that's you, you want to come into relationship with Jesus, would you just pray and say, Dear God, I know I'm a sinner. Today I ask you to forgive me for all of my sin. Jesus come into my life to be my Lord, my Savior, my forgiver in the best way that I know how. I turn my back on my sin and I trust you alone, Jesus, to save me. Thank you for saving me. Now if you just prayed that prayer, congratulations. We want to know about it today. Work that card. Drop it in the bucket on the way out. Just mark that box that says, Pray to receive Jesus today so that we can encourage you in your faith. But before we close, I want all of us to take a step towards hope. And in a moment, we're going to stand and sing at every campus. In fact, with your heads bowed and eyes closed, just stand at every campus if you would. Just go ahead and stand to your feet. And as we think, if you've been walking through suffering, I want you to sing louder, louder as a declaration, not because everything is okay, not because you understand everything, not because the pain isn't real, but because your hope is bigger than your pain. And sometimes the greatest declaration of faith is not when you sing because everything is going well, it's when you sing when you don't know what is happening and you are declaring to God, I don't understand what you're doing, but I know who you are. Let's declare our hope today at every campus in the person of Jesus. In Jesus' blood, it righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest phrase, but holy trust in Jesus' name, come on sing my hope, my hope is fixed on nothing else, in Jesus' blood and righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest phrase, but holy trust in Jesus' name,

come on lift your hands and sing, Christ as long, corners long, we may strong, in the world, in the world, in the world, in the world, in the world, in the world, in the In every heart and story game My anger hold within this My anger hold within the day, again Christ of love, calling us on, we today strong, the Savior's love, to the Lord of love. Oh, Christ of love, my Lord of love, calling us on, we today strong, the Savior's love, to the Lord of love, He is God, He is Lord of love. Oh, Christ of love, calling us on, we today strong, the Savior's love, to the Lord of love, calling us on, we today strong, the Savior's love, to the Lord of love. Come on, give Jesus a big shout of praise, say, "Hallelujah!"