Let's pray together.

Father in heaven, I thank you for Christ, and that he is our rock and our hope and our substitute and our treasure,

and that he's worth selling everything to have.

And so I invite you, Holy Spirit, to come and to magnify him now

and to penetrate into the hearts of all of these young people

and to do a work here that will have a reverberation, a ripple effect beyond anything we've ever

dreamed for this night. Do exceedingly and abundantly beyond all that I've been able to ask or think or anybody else

for the glory of your great name.

I ask this through Christ.

Amen.

God was really very kind to me when I was 17.

Something came alive and something became wonderful, something became weighty that until that time wasn't weighty, wasn't wonderful.

And it wasn't the gospel per se.

I had been a believer since I was six, as far as I could tell.

What was wonderful and weighty was the thought that I had one life and only one to live,

and that all eternity would be shaped and determined by it.

My destiny would be determined by what I did with this life and the way I spent eternity.

And that seemed simply breathtaking to me, just utterly out of proportion, that this one small life,

and then followed by forever, and that that forever would be shaped and determined by this life,

that became very, very heavy. would be shaped and determined by this life.

That became very, very heavy.

In 1964, I was a senior in high school,

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