All right I want you to turn to two passages of scripture, Joshua 5 and Zachariah 3.

Zachariah is the next to the last book in the Old Testament.

So if you're new and we were all new at some point to the Bible,

the best way is to, you can go to Matthew and then go left. You'll see Malachai and then

Zachariah. So that's going left by the way. So we'll begin in Joshua chapter 5 and

we're ending our series on Amazing Grace this weekend but I'll actually kind of tie it into Christmas as we begin this season

going forward and looking forward to Christmas.

The title of this message is Amazing Savior.

Amazing Savior.

And I was praying and asking the Lord

how you wanted me to end this series that a couple of weeks ago

during worship at the South Lake campus we sang the song Blessed Assurance.

And we got to this line that said I in my Savior am happy and bless. And I thought to myself, that's right. That's why I'm happy is because I have a Savior and I'm not sure whether people

understand how great our Savior is and how much we needed saving and how much we still need

saving and how wonderful the Savior is when you talk about amazing grace it's because we have an

amazing Savior. So let me give you an illustration before we get in the word

what if you were drowning and someone you didn't know how to swim and someone saved you.

And you're now standing on the shore, you're out of the water, you're safe, you've got a blanket around you. You've been saved. You were drowning. You thought

your life was in them. Would you be happy? Sure you would.

But let me give you a little more to help us understand how happy we should be.

What if this Savior said, I want you to understand too, you never have to fear drowning again?

Because I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I will be I will be with you every moment of every day for the

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