 I thank you all for coming and stopping this important day for those of us who are getting baptized. This is no small thing, it's not a small event. We're celebrating a powerful, regenerate work of the Holy Spirit in our lives who open our eyes to the truth of His Word and the gospel of Jesus Christ. So here's my testimony. So, returning to the US for my roughly half year study abroad in Spain in fall 2018, I thought everything was on an upswing. I had just gotten reused to speaking English and had gotten plugged into the two churches, got re-plugged into the two churches I was attending at the time. And one of them was a Hispanic kind of gospel church that I had previously attended. Neither one was a biblical church. I think I'll make a second week back in the country. So on a Thursday in January of 2019, I left the networking event for an engineering group on campus and ran a class of two men walking to their cars. These are my two wipers. The wife walking to their cars after meeting at some sort. These two men will pass for Mike. That's my wife over there. And they're returning from their Tuesday night Bible study at UCF. They looked heavy-birded, carrying a couple pizza boxes. And from leaving the college too, I thought I'd help them out. And I asked them for a piece, not knowing what I was getting myself into. So yes, I am the infamous pizza guy from Pastor Mike's evangelism, Justin Bunny. So I asked him about the cross he was wearing on his neck. And I said that I was also a Christian. So we talked about that. I can't remember all that we discussed, but two things stuck out from that conversation. And they were, who has got it? And is God angry? I was originally taught, and this is the only thing I knew about God. In a conversation with Pastor Mike, I mentioned a statement. God's crazy about you. How can God be wrathful and loved at the same time? That's what Mike helped me understand. The love of God in the context of the justice of God. Because God is a just, holy, and lovely God. He hates sin. God is a holy and just wrath toward all men and women who have sinned against him. This is why the word of God says in Romans 6.23, for the wages of sin is death. This means that the same way you get wages for 40 hours of work, if you have lived your whole life sinning against God, then God will pay you what you deserve. That's right. And your earned wages will be death. So therefore, because God is just, holy, and loving, anyone with sin will not enter into heaven when they die, transgressing God's law. Sin is not a slip-up, not being perfect because nobody else is perfect. Sin is an undeniable part of our fallen nature, speech, and actions. It is an attack on God's holiness. After a few months after the conversation with Pastor Mike, this truth became more evident in my life. While I was living in Spain, I had been a slave to sexual immorality and pride. I had blasphemed the name of God and demonstrated a complete disregard for his holiness with a superficial zeal for him. For God served as a cover for my sins. I used his grace as a credit card that I could swipe at any time without ever having to worry about the death. But this was not just limited to that time. This was a pattern in a practice of my life. That went back years before going out of the country. My pattern of life had nothing to do with Christ. And I'd like to show that with what John 1-6 says, if we say we have fellowship with him, Jesus, and yet walk in the darkness living in and practicing sin, we lie and do not practice the truth. In chapter 2-6, the first John says, the one who says he abides in him, Christ, ought himself to walk in the same manner as he walked. John also commands us do not love the things of this world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. So if you're consumed by such things as work, money, school, then you're not consumed with living for the glory of God. These truths show that what I clung to as faith was worthless, completely vain. I saw that my life was not found in Christ, but in my love for sin and the pleasures of this world. The God that I worship was a false God that allowed me to do what I wanted to and not feel bad because I was told that the grace of God covered all my sins. Last summer, the Holy Spirit eyes, and I noticed a growing hatred toward my sin. By the grace of God, the Lord showed me that when I faced my judgment day, because I have broken all of his commandments, I deserve to be punished eternally for every single one of my sins. Understanding this reality, I respond to the gospel by repenting that my sins of turning to Christ went to the cross and died to pay for the sins of those who would repent and put their trust in him. So I have an admonition and encouragement for those of us who are here. I'm very happy to see my friends and family who support me on this very special day. I would also like to direct the following to all the friends and guests of our church family. Maybe you claim to be a Christian because you grew up in a church and even when one point asked you to send your heart, and maybe you can send yourself a good person compared to others. The real question is this. If you died today and God asked you, I'd like you into my heaven, what would you say? Would you say that you deserve to go into heaven because you asked Jesus into your heart? Would you say that you deserve to go to heaven because you live a moral life in comparison to others, you know? Or would you say to God that you should enter into heaven because overall you've done good works and you've tried your best? Notice, if God would let you into heaven for any of those reasons, then Jesus Christ died in vain. Why do I say this? Think about it. If you do any work that will get you into heaven, the death of Christ would not be needed for the forgiveness of all your past, present and future sins. The reality is that no one can go into heaven based on their good behavior or good works. The only people who will ever enter the kingdom of God are those who place their trust in Jesus Christ by responding to the gospel in repentance and faith. Amen. Dear friends and family, if you think you are saved because of everything, because of anything you've ever done, let me say that you are deceived in the danger of the judgment of God. Praise God that you're here today. God wanted you to know that your only hope is in Christ Jesus. He lived a perfect and sinless life. The one that you and I, the same Jesus Christ later went to the cross and died between two guilty thieves, though he was without sin. This Christ who died on the cross paid the penalty for those of us who time and time again have sinned against the holy God. The only biblical response to this message of love and hope is to turn to Christ in repentance and faith. If you have any questions, please come see me or any one of the brothers or sisters here. Don't leave that clarity on that. Your eternal life is at stake. I love you and I thank you for being here and have a special thanks for a couple of people in particular here. I'd like to thank Pastor Mark. Pastor Mark, thank you for faithfully preaching God's work Sunday after Sunday which the Holy Spirit used to convict me in my sin and show me who God truly is. Thank you for that pizza pizza. Thank you for the pizza. Let's get to him. Chase. Chase, there you go. Chase. I've been sharing all those Paul Watcher sermons with me which the Holy Spirit used to convict me in my sin, God's holiness. We're talking with me for hours and hours on the phone. Jesus Christ. I can't begin to describe how Lord has used you to shape my understanding of the gospel for me in Christ. Just that the church has encouraged me to pour it into my life. That the Lord may lead me to salvation. I'm going to take this line because I think it's important, but don't let me stray from Christ and go back into my sin including to preach the gospel. That time you praised the Lord for your salvation having turned from your sin to put your faith in Jesus Christ for salvation and based upon your commitment to follow him as a member of Cornerstone Baptist Church. We baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Very good. Very good, Christ. Amen.