The Door - Pastor Jack Leaman

0:00 I think it's not a far reach to discuss the analogy of doors that would define and help us to determine that there are decisions in our life that need to be made. And uh you're good guys. We I said put enough tilt so it doesn't fall out. All the hot air blowing up here. I think we're If it starts to go, I'll try and grab it. Um You know, the the the fact that we have options and alternatives in our life are is without a doubt um the fact that God gives us decisions that need to be made and

0:45 >> [clears throat] >> there is decisions that are made in scripture that shed light and shine um facts from fiction and allow us to understand that there are some spiritual decisions that can be made and sometimes in in life's journey, it's difficult for us to determine what decision to make. Anyone ever stood at the crossroad of decision and and you were really curious. I you know, I don't know how this is going to turn out. Anyone ever been there? Anyone ever been there? Maybe it's a financial decision, maybe it's a a family decision, maybe it's a whether or not you're going to move into a new house or a new apartment or or maybe it's a location change. I I I don't know. It's just when you sit in those moments of decision. I I wish that

1:30 we had the playbook from the back all the way to the front instead of walking through this journey this way. I wish that we could we could see the foresight the way that we see hindsight with 20/20 vision. I I wish that we could say, you know, here's very you know, here's the clear indicator of what you've got to do, but the reality is is that God places decisions in our life that that have got to be made with his help and by his guidance. We don't have to be in the quandary forever if we are willing to reach out for divine direction, we can have this door of opportunity swing the right way. There are some doors that don't need to be opened in our lives. There are some doors of decision that you should never open and and God very clearly articulates those in scripture. There

2:16 are sin and it's 10 Commandments that he gives us. It's It's all kinds of guidance that he gives us on decisions that should be made and decisions that shouldn't be made. Things that we should do and things that we shouldn't do and and so EVERY EVERY TIME IN SCRIPTURE that we see decision, God doesn't stay silent in those moments. There is an opportunity that God gives us for direction in the doorway that we stand in front of. You You're not supposed to walk through every door that that that you're in front of. Just so you know. I I I like I like to live with an open door policy that when God opens the door, I walk through it, BUT THAT'S ONLY WITH A LOT OF PRAYER and and and that understanding that that unction that urges you through that door. I I I don't think that every time that that there's an opportunity, it just needs to be

3:02 availed of. It doesn't have to be walked through. You need to walk through it with spiritual perception and desire for divine guidance. Someone just turn to your neighbor and say, "I need God's help." There is DIVISION THAT GOD PLACES IN SCRIPTURE. Every door in scripture marks a divine division. God is a god of division. He's a god of unity, but but in specifics in our life, God is a god of division. He starts with our world when he when he went into creation, God separated the light from the darkness. He separated the waters above from the waters beneath. He separated things through scripture. If you'll think with me, he separated Israel from Egypt. He sep- separates the sheep from the goats. He separates the lost from the found.

3:47 God is in the process of sifting things in our life and bringing separation. He separates things and and doors are those things that separate the inside from the outside. Um, I've had a shed built for just about a year now. It's about a this August of last year that I was building the shed and and uh I wanted [clears throat] to kind of build a little different door. I wanted the door to drop down from the shed, kind of like a gangplank into the off the deck into my shed. So, I had to do a little bit of design on that. I had to do a little bit of planning on that. And um I I would be >> [clears throat] >> I wish that it was done last year. I wish the door was finished last year. But it wasn't. I didn't get finished the door until

4:33 just about a week or so ago that that I finally figured out how I was going to build this door and and uh I got the guys to pick up some plywood and and now I've got this door that will drop down, but you know, through the course of the winter I was putting some boards up at times, little a little uh tarp up at times to keep the weather out. I I didn't have the proper door and and I knew that I had left all of my goods open to the entire world. Sometimes the the doorway onto our deck from the back would be open and and uh Kathy said she looked out and our neighbors were staring over across past the garage, looked like they were looking at the shed and they were kind of laughing one day. I'm sure they were saying, "Well, what what good is the shed if it's never going to be shut? There's never going to be

5:19 never going to be a door on it." I I had everything on the inside securely packed quite nicely, but yet the door not there. I don't believe I lost anything. We live in a good neighborhood. Uh for all the thieves that are watching right now, it's securely shut. But there's the door that would divide. It It's the inside from the outside. And um and so we can see it in the natural when we go to bed at night, we ensure that the door is locked. How many are with me? As a matter of fact, we have one of those locks that automatically locks after about 20 seconds. That if you're in the house and the door is not locked, it will lock itself for all the thieves that are watching.

6:07 And so we see IT IN THE NATURAL. We have protections built in in the natural. We have this understanding that when we come to someone's house, if I come to Pastor Matt's house, I'm going to knock on the door. If I if I swing by Pastor Alex's, there is I just don't stroll in like I own the place. Now there may be parts of New Brunswick where you do that. Anyone from that part of New Brunswick? Yeah. The door is just for decoration only. That's for the the wreath that determines the season that we're in. The you know, the door is there to walk but but I think for the most part the door would define that that you are only going to go through that door if you know that you're welcome on the other side. YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO GO THROUGH that door with the understanding that I'm moving and I'm transitioning from

6:53 the outside to the inside. That there is there are some things [clears throat] that have been restricted by that doorway. When the threshold gets laid that it's defining a boundary. It's determining that there is a difference between here and there. There is a just a design that's built in with the door to say I'm not going to cross over that threshold until I have the opportunity, until I've been invited, until I have that privilege, until the door is unlocked, until it's open, I'm not going to come through that door. And in our lives we see that in the natural, but we also have to understand that there are doorways in the supernatural. There is one side of our life that is self-rule and then on the other side is a savior's plan.

7:40 There's one side of our life that we walk according to our own will, but God does place a divine door of opportunity in our life that we have got to walk through by our own decision, by our own choice, making our own mind up. We have our own will that gets involved that we're going to step from the natural where we govern our life into the supernatural where God governs our life. I I want to just talk for a few moments about the door that God places here for us to determine when we're going to walk in to a relationship with him. That's why scripture would say our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done. We have got to determine by our own selves and by our

8:27 own admonition and by our own will that we are going to let God rule our lives, his kingdom to come. That God has a plan for us and he does. Someone say he does. The question that we have to ask ourselves, will I cross that threshold when the opportunity for me comes? And before we think that this is just for a brand new guest this morning, I would like our entire church family to understand that God has door doors of opportunity that he places in our life where where we ramp up the decision factor to walk with him in a more real way every single day. There are decisions that we've got to make in spiritual disciplines that define our direction in God's plan and purpose for our life every single day. Sometimes

9:12 more than every single day. Sometimes it's multiple times in every day that we have got to determine God, I'm not going to walk by my own will. I I'm not going to walk by my own way and I just need someone to testify for a moment this morning to say God's been good. When I when I let him bring his kingdom into my life and I excuse my kingdom off the CHARTS THAT THEN GOD WAS GOOD IN MY LIFE. God's been better to me than I ever could have been to myself. He's been the king of kings and the Lord OF WOULD SOMEONE JUST TESTIFY TO THAT FOR A MOMENT? >> [applause] [applause] >> God intentionally marks off what belongs to him. God has his mark on every single

9:58 life, but we have got to decide that we are going to let his mark stand in our life. It was Joshua who stood on the sandy soil and challenged ancient Israel. He said, "Choose you this day whom you will serve." There in the desert sand, he wanted people to understand that there was a door that they had to walk through. With their own will, decide, choose who you're going to serve on this day. You've got You've got to decide who you're going to serve in your life. You've got to walk through that door. God's doors consistently call us into a place of decision and ultimately our obedience to his word. There would seem to be a divine division that God would allow in our lives, a crossroad of divine destiny that he allows us to stand at and he He is

10:45 silent until we decide, "God, I I need your help in this moment. I want to walk your way." I want to walk your way. It's It's God's grace that meets us in that moment. I I just want someone to know the moment that you determine the the the slightest directive toward God, then God reaches for you. I wish that someone would know that the moment that your feet go from your own independent way and you just said, "You know what? I just got to take the next step in Christ. I I got to take the next step and find out what God is drawing in me. I I got to take the next step and figure out what God's plan is for my life." The moment that you turn, can I tell you that God's grace meets you right there in that moment? That God says, "It You don't have to get perfect to get good get to get God. You don't have to get good to get God." In the

11:32 moment that you decide that the moment that you determine that you want to walk with God, God's grace meets you right there. And thank God it does because it's usually in that moment that we know we're not perfect. We're we don't have it all together, but by the grace of God, but we can sing that song, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me." And we can we can ECHO THE SONG WRITERS and the scriptures to say that grace is able to reach us at our deepest place of imperfection. And God will bring us closer than he ever has to himself, but all we've got to do IS DECIDE THAT WE'RE GOING TO WALK THROUGH THAT DOOR. It's divine division that God shows us through scripture. God-guided decisions that that we have to make. How how do I

12:19 know? How I I've I've I've been known [clears throat] to delay decisions. I've been called a procrastinator. Not unfairly. I've been told that sometimes I wait for better opportunities to show up. Not really, but it's just the delay of decision sometimes is is a mark in my life. I I've had to live with the consequences of delayed decisions. Minimal hotel opportunities at times. Um poor rental car options. Higher priced items. But maybe worst of all, not much left in the mall on Christmas Eve. That's in the natural realm. But in the spirit realm, I truly believe

13:06 that with eternity on the line, that we have got to not delay our spiritual decisions to follow him. And you say, "Well, Pastor Jack, I I'm I'm on that journey. I'm here in church on Sunday mornings. It's after 11:00 and I'm I'm I'm hearing the message and I've heard the singing and I've I feel that tug in my life. I feel that tug in my spirit to draw close to God. Can I Can I tell you that God won't leave you empty-handed in this decision. He He will let his voice speak. Before every great decision, God will always allow revelation. And if you'll stay with me just for a few moments, I'll I'll bring you some examples. God is never silent. The word that became flesh, the voice that spoke creation into existence, is not silent in your moment of decision.

13:54 He's never silent. God will continue to speak. He will not be silent in your life. Long before Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, long before Eve made the decision, God's voice had already spoken, "DON'T EAT OF THAT TREE." HE HAD ALREADY given instruction. He had already helped them make the right decision. Now, she made the wrong decision, but but God had not been silent. You can't say that that God didn't say, "I didn't know." God had clearly indicated that when it comes time to that point of decision, here's the instruction. And you never made the wrong decision? Amen. We're all here. So, Adam and Eve, they had that revelation. They had that understanding, even though they may have made THE WRONG DECISION. GOD GOD'S NOT GOING TO BE SILENT IN THE decisions that determine your eternity.

14:40 He's not that kind of God. GOD is going to speak. If you will listen, God will speak. If you will ask him, God will speak. IF YOU WILL INQUIRE OF HIM, GOD WILL SPEAK. IF YOU'LL PAUSE TO PRAY, GOD WILL SPEAK. GOD IS NOT GOING TO LEAVE you in those moments of decision. HE'S NOT GOING to let you make a decision in the dark. The light that came into our world is going to shine light on those decisions that you've got to make spiritually and help you in those moments. With With sin at work in the world after Adam and Eve's fall, God set the precedent with Cain and Abel. And in the process of time, scripture said that it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the Lord. Abel also brought the firstling of his flock and of the fat thereof, and the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering, but

15:27 unto Cain and his offering he had not respect. Cain was very wroth. God accepted Abel's offering, but he he told Cain, Cain, there's something wrong with your offering. There's something wrong with your sacrifice. It's not rooted in the right place. It's coming from the wrong perceptive perception. It's coming from the wrong origin. It's coming from the wrong decision. You're You're coming with the wrong attitude, Cain. Your Your Your attitude's out of order. And Cain was very wroth, the Bible said, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance falling? HE SAID, IF THOU doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? SO, GOD'S INSTRUCTION COMES TO CAIN in that moment of decision. CAIN'S GOT TO DECIDE WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO. HE'S HE'S DISAPPOINTED THAT HIS SACRIFICE HAS NOT

16:14 BEEN ACCEPTED. HE'S DISAPPOINTED that he's done everything that he knew to do, but God said, not yet, Cain. You just need to make an adjustment right here WITH YOUR ATTITUDE. WHY ARE YOU WROTH? WHY IS YOUR COUNTENANCE FALLING? BUT IF YOU WILL DO WELL, SHALT THOU NOT be accepted? And if thou doest not well, here's what he said, sin lies at the door. THAT AT THE DOOR THEN AND AND AND GOD brings this analogy of the door to us in scripture in Cain's life. He The first time that the door is mentioned, it's referencing Cain having to stand at the doorway of decision. AND GOD SAID, CAIN, ON ONE SIDE is your right attitude. On one side is your right decision, but on the other side sin is lying at the door. Sin, the Bible said, is crouching. When you look at the word lying, it's

17:00 crouching just like a predator waiting for Cain to come through the door. And God's saying, Cain, don't make the WRONG DECISION. CAIN, DON'T WALK THE WRONG WRONG WAY. CAIN, DON'T OPEN THAT DOOR AND STEP OUT INTO THAT PRECIPICE OF UNCERTAIN DISASTER. DON'T DON'T MAKE THE DECISION YOU'RE ABOUT TO DO. DON'T CAIN. The sin is lying outside THE DOOR. AND GOD WOULD TELL US TODAY TO STEP THROUGH THE door in the RIGHT DIRECT. DON'T COME OUT WHERE SIN IS WAITING TO take hold in your life. Sin is the wrong decision. And everyone in the church said amen. Sin will take YOU DOWN THE WRONG ROAD. SIN SIN IS CROUCHING WAITING FOR THAT DOOR JUST TO SWING OPEN AND YOU TO STEP OUT BECAUSE IT WOULD LOVE TO DESTROY YOU. SIN LIES AT THE DOOR. BUT YOU DON'T

17:45 HAVE TO GO OUT THE DOOR. THE WHOLE MESSAGE IN THE IN THE STORY OF CAIN IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO TAKE AND MAKE THE WRONG DECISIONS. WE CAN WALK IN CONFIDENCE WITH GOD'S PLAN. WE CAN LET GOD CORRECT US. WE CAN LET GOD COME ON, DIRECT US. WE CAN LET GOD COME INTO OUR LIFE AND SAY GOD, I [screaming] UNDERSTAND THAT REVELATION IS FOR ME RIGHT NOW. I'M NOT GOING TO STEP INTO THE PLACE OF SIN. I'M NOT GOING TO GO THERE. I DON'T WANT TO WALK through that door. In that moment God offers that analogy of the door to help us determine our decision today. God was saying, Cain, you're standing at a threshold. Sin is crouching at the door, but you don't have to open it.

18:31 The doorways that define decisions continue through scripture. God always speaks before destiny is decided. Before Jericho fell, Rahab heard from the spies the opportunity for salvation and she took advantage of it. I think we need to understand that God is not looking for He's not a God that is looking for someone to judge. God is looking for someone to save. The whole message today isn't one of certain pending doom. The message this morning is that God is saying, "If you will make the right decision and come into relationship through that door, then I am the savior that would desire to bring salvation in your life." God doesn't look for opportunities to condemn. God looks for opportunities to save. That's why he left 99 sheep to go

19:18 find the one. He is a searching savior. He is a looking savior. He's not looking for to for condemnation purpose. God is looking for salvation purposes. That's the way that God works. It was Noah who found grace in the eyes of the Lord. For one man, God institutes a full battle plan for salvation. There is a boat building project with plans provided, but it has this one critical design element. Genesis chapter 6:14, God told Noah, "Make an ark of gopher wood rooms make in the ark. Pitch it within without." This is the fashion. This is the length. This is the depth. This is the height. He said in verse 16, "A window shalt thou make in the ark and in the in a cubit shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in

20:05 the side thereof with a lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it." That door was open to all of the levels of the ark. But there was a door. Someone say a door. We can come back to the music this morning. >> [snorts] >> Noah preached. Noah prayed. And Noah built. But one day the time came when the decision to walk through the door had to be made. They that went in, the Bible says they went in male and female of all flesh. All the animals went in. And God as God had commanded, Noah and his family went in. And the Bible says this, it makes this statement, and God shut him in. God shut the door and and I would say today that that the opportunity for spiritual decision can't last forever. But it is ours today.

20:53 Today is the day of salvation. Today is the day of divine decision. Today is the day that marks eternal salvation or damnation, but we get to pick the salvation opportunity today. I wish that we all could have endless opportunity. But scripture emphatically declares that there is an end date on spiritual decision. It was the Passover in Exodus chapter 12, 10 plagues that seemed like an unending process. For Israel to watch God work out all of the gods in Egypt, the final plague was going to make the difference. The Lord speak into Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, "This month This month shall be unto you the

21:39 beginning of months." He said, "I'm about to change everything in your life, Israel." I want someone to know that today can be a brand new life. Not just a brand new day, that God can define the rest of your life. The Bible The Bible says that God told told Moses, "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. I'm about to do something new. I'm about to begin something brand new in your life. This is the doorway of opportunity that I'm springing open. Moses, get ready because I'm about to do something." He said, "Speak into all the congregation of Israel saying, 'In the 10th day of this month thou they shall take unto them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb for a house and if the household be too little for the lamb,

22:25 let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish." He gave them specific instructions. Here's how Here's how you prepare for the last plague that I'm going to bring Israel. He said, "Take the lamb. You shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats and and you shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in one evening. There's going to be this massive and it sounds gruesome and it sounds horrid but God was saying here's how you here's how you prepare to walk through this door of opportunity that I'm giving you.

23:13 They shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door posts of the houses wherein they shall eat it. Here here is the doorway of decision. Israel, you've got to determine this door. We've got to allow the blood to be painted on the door. The blood that's going to be applied to the life of Israel. The blood that's got to be applied over the families that were there. The the the house that that lamb was going to be eaten in. It had TO BE IDENTIFIED. NOT NOT BY THE ABILITY of someone on the inside. Not not by the weight of the lamb. Not by any of that. It was by the blood of the lamb. Said eat the flesh in the night roast it with fire unleavened bread bitter herbs. Eat it not raw nor sodden at all with

23:59 water but roast it with fire and his head and his legs with the pertinence thereof and he said just allow the fire to touch it all. And of that which remaineth of it until the morning you shall burn with fire and and thus shall you eat it with your with your loins girded and your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand. Why? Because God was about to do something brand new in Israel's life when they prepared to go through that door in a way that they never had before. I just want someone to know today that there was a door of opportunity that God is presenting that you may never have had before. You say oh no I've walked through these doors before. I've walked through my door before. Well, I'm asking today that we take the blood and we apply it to the door.

24:46 And that's going to change some things because the enemy would love to to kill and God has this plan of salvation where the blood has got to be applied in our >> [music] >> life. It's got to be applied. The blood has got to be applied in our life and and he gives Israel this instruction and it's reaching into the future and it's reaching into this morning, August 20 August 2nd, 2026. Prepare for what's about to happen, Israel. I was looking through some pictures this morning. I I sent few pictures around. Um Patrick Black and Justin and myself, Josh, you were there.

25:32 We were in Halifax 10 years ago. Can you believe that? Prepping the entry for the church. I sent it to Pastor Justin this picture. We slept in the church that week. Not because they had accommodations. Just took some pink insulation, covered it with vapor barrier, and that was the bed. Had Had a lot of fun that week. But it was to prepare the entrance for what was coming next in that church. As a As a As a matter of fact, they still have the doors from the old sanctuary entrance here at CCC. And there isn't anything super spiritual about that other than the fact that

26:18 that doorway is still there and that opportunity still exists. And I want someone to know that there was a door of opportunity that still exists in your life right now. And that God prepared this place for this moment for somebody today. That the glass doors that you walked through and then the double wood doors that you came into the sanctuary through. They're all barriers in some people's lives that you just walked through to create opportunity that God is presenting to you. Those are all man-made doors. Those are all doors made by companies that build glazing and wooden doors, but there is a door of opportunity in the supernatural realm that God wants someone to see very clearly today. I hauled this out of the garage. This may be a delayed decision right

27:04 here. Sometimes that happens. It's supposed to be in the house, but it's not. It was still in the garage. >> [laughter] >> Pressure's on now. Um but in your life, I would say today the opportunity by this door here represents a spiritual opportunity of decision. And God's pulling. I I felt this call in my spirit for the last week that God is challenging. I didn't know who was going to be here. I didn't know who was planning on being here this morning, but God knew exactly who was going to come through those doors to make a spiritual decision about that spiritual door in your life that you need to walk through.

27:49 So, I would call with God to say sin lies at one door. Don't walk through that door. But a door of salvation and opportunity is what God is extending [music] today. And that door, I would say open it with full confidence. Walk through it with intention, without doubt, without hesitation. I would challenge you this morning, come through the door. The door needs to be painted with the blood. That's what the blood was all about. This The sacrifice that was made, the lamb whose blood was shed opened the opportunity. But that's what happens for each one of us today. That's the power of the cross, the blood that was shed. It was shed so that we could repent of our sins and turn toward God to walk through that door. It covers us in [music] in baptism. And the baptismal tank is warm, ready, and

28:37 we've got robes for anyone that wants to take place in baptism today. It's your decision. You've got to walk [music] through that door. You You've got to step through that door, but that opportunity is yours. Someone say today. We're ready for baptism today. WHY? IN CASE SOMEBODY UNDERSTOOD, I'VE GOT TO WALK THROUGH THAT DOOR. I WANT MY SINS WASHED AWAY. I WANT I WANT MY PAST TO BE GONE. I WANT TO RISE AND WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE. AND THAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY THAT BAPTISMS GIVE GIVES YOU, BUT BUT YOU'VE GOT TO TAKE THE BLOOD AND APPLY IT TO THE DOOR OF YOUR LIFE. YOU'VE GOT TO APPLY IT IN REPENTANCE AND AND SAY, "GOD, I'M TURNING THIS AROUND AND I'M WALKING in a new new direction." YOU'VE GOT TO APPLY THE BLOOD IN BAPTISM. AND MAKE THAT DECISION, I'M COMING

29:23 THROUGH THE DOOR. AND THEN God will fill you with His spirit. The blood in the Old Testament was carried all the way through from the brazen laver all the way through into that Holy of Holies. Why? Because God's blood is applied at every single part of our life, every part of our family, every part of our home God allows us to touch with the blood. I wish that you'd stand together with me. God said, "For if I see the blood," he said, "I'm going to pass through the land of Egypt this night and I will smite the firstborns in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt." That's his intention. He said, "Well, I execute judgment." He said, "My intention is AGAINST ALL THE GODS THAT WOULD OPPOSE, NOT AGAINST MY

30:08 PEOPLE. SO, I'M GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DOOR TO OPEN FOR MY PEOPLE TO SALVATION, but you've got to apply the blood. The blood has had to be applied. And he said in verse 13, "And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. He said, "Remember, this is going to be a brand new day." Israel, but you've got to come through the door. You got to You've got to apply the blood on the door of your life.

30:54 Can I challenge you this morning? Can I Can I implore? I I I don't know how strong of the language to make this more. I don't know how how to to beg you. I don't know how to encourage you. I But I would say that you need to apply the blood to your life. To escape the judgment that God would desire to bring against his enemies, against sin, against all that, but the blood. If you'll If you'll apply the blood. If you just If you just take time and and repent of your sins. If you'll take time and be baptized in his name. If you'll If you'll take time and apply the blood and let the spirit come into YOUR LIFE AND FILL you to overflowing, THEN YOU DON'T NEED TO LEAVE THE WAY THAT YOU YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK INTO THE PLACE WHERE SIN IS WAITING. You walk into a place of salvation.

31:39 The blood. The blood. This day, he said that to them, he said, "It's going to be unto you for a memorial." I would love for today to be a memorial in somebody's life. It may just be a decision today. Maybe it's not baptism yet, but maybe it is. There is no delayed baptisms in scripture. The Bible tells us it over and over and over again, they were baptized that same hour, that same day. Look at all the baptisms. Walk through and study baptism in the book of Acts. Walk through it and study how it was done, when it was done, why it was [music] done, and you'll find that there are no delayed baptisms in the Old Because God doesn't say today, you've got to apply the blood today. He [music] didn't say, "Now, when you get through the new members class and you understand uh this level about No,

32:27 no, no." He just said, "You need to apply the blood on the doorposts of your life." Someone shout today. This day. This day shall be unto you for a memorial. The blood covered door divided life from death. The same death angel passed every house, but it was the blood that made the difference in their lives. Can someone just say the blood made the difference? The question is not whether or not God will deliver, he will. The question is whether or not we will apply the blood. The door of opportunity is there.

33:13 The door of opportunity, I know it's a a strong challenge on a New Brunswick Day weekend, but I I I challenge you today. I I'm encouraging you because there isn't a sin that can stop you from making that decision. There isn't a sin The sin is still on the outside of the door. You get to walk past into the door of salvation because Jesus said, "I am the door." So, he he refuses to resist your advance. John 10:7, Jesus said unto them again, "Verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep." I am the door, verse 9. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture. That opportunity is ours today.

34:00 That door of opportunity. Someone say the door. Would you lift your hands? I'm finished. But I would like for someone I'm praying that [music] God would just give you a very clear understanding of that door, what it means what it means to the season saint this morning, what it means to the brand new guest that's here in the room. Father, I pray that we would have a clear understanding of the opportunities [music] that lie inside and outside of the doors that you are presenting in our life. God, the door of salvation is here for everyone this morning. I pray that someone would determine in their heart and in their life that they're going to walk from sin.

34:45 God, that they're going to walk from the thing that would desire to destroy them, that they're going to turn their back on an enemy that would invite them. And God, that they would walk through that door of salvation this morning. That the door, God, would be open to them and and Father, that as that blood is applied in repentance, as they turn from sin and and God, they call out your name, I pray that you would meet them exactly where they are. God, I pray for someone to take that step. God, with courage through the door and be baptized today. I pray that someone would take that step and allow your spirit to fully flood their life, God. That you would fill them to overflowing. God, let tongues come from their lips that you have given to them. God, let that language of

35:30 >> [music] >> of the spirit begin to flow in their life because of this door of salvation this morning, I pray. I wonder if you'd just pray with me. I'm going to invite you to the altar. It's normal. I'll just pause for a moment and tell you it's very normal for all all of us to come around the front to pray together. It's a sign, just like many things are, of our intention and our dedication. That God, we're not going to leave the same way that we came when we come to this altar area to let God know and let God work in our lives. So, I'm wondering if you'll pray with me a simple prayer of repentance, but then I'm asking that church family, if you would all join me. And many that are making decisions this morning, if you would desire to be

36:16 baptized, you can meet meet any of our team right here at the very front. If you have that desire this morning, we're prepared. But I'm wondering if someone would just determine that you're going to turn from sin, that that sin that's lying waiting outside the door that you would leave it behind and that you would walk into salvation plan through the door that God would prepare for you. Jesus, I thank you for every life. Thank you for every ear that's hearing what the Spirit is speaking to the church today. I thank you for clearly God communicating to someone that your intention and your desire for their life is not destruction, but it is very much salvation today. So, God, we turn toward you.

37:03 God, we turn from sin. We turn from our wicked way. We turn from our own agenda, [singing and music] our own idea. God, we turn to you this morning. God, we turn to you and we would desire [music] that you would use our life. That this door of opportunity, divine destiny that's attached to that decision today would would be made and that you would bring us, God, closer. God, that you would allow your kingdom to come and work in our life. And God, that your purpose, [music] plan, and will would be accomplished in us. We ask that. We pray it in the name that's above every other name. We call it out over every person. God, we we plead the blood over every life this morning.

37:50 >> [music] >> In Jesus' name, we ask it. Would someone just pray that prayer briefly in your own way? Would you just determine that you're going to live for God? Would you make that decision that you're going to turn towards him? >> [music] >> If you know how to pray, go ahead and lift your voice. But if you're still learning how to pray, it'd be all right if you just told God, "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY THE RIGHT WORDS, BUT GOD, HERE'S WHAT I DO KNOW. I WANT TO LIVE for you today." >> [music] >> I'm wondering if you'll leave your seat. I wonder if every person that is capable and able, if you would just come to the front this morning and let God know I don't know which level you're on, I don't know which level of decision you're at. You may be at that second level, third level, I don't know where

38:36 you are, fourth level. I I don't know where you are in your relationship with God, but I wish that SOMEONE WOULD SAY, "GOD, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT I NEED TO LEAVE behind and there's some things that I need to walk [music] into." It's beautiful what I'm seeing right now. It's like a river flowing. If you would just come as close as you can to the front, we want to make room for every heart, every life, EVERY PERSON THAT'S DECIDING and determining this morning. Come on, come a little closer. Then would you come from the back? Would you come from the [music] balcony? We're going to pray together. We're going to call on the name of the Lord. We're going to pray that the blood [music] would cover every sin and wash it away. God, I thank you for the power of repentance in somebody's [music] life. WE PLEAD THE BLOOD IN THIS place today,

39:23 the blood of the lamb [music] of Calvary. God, the blood that was shed for every life and every heart, the blood that turned it around, the blood that's going to give someone a brand new beginning [music] THIS MORNING. WE CLAIM THAT BLOOD THIS MORNING. >> [music] >> Come on, let's hear your voice out. There's conviction in the room right now. There's direction in the room right now. [music] There's revelation in the room right now. God's giving you understanding about decisions [music] you're making. It's