Good morning. Time again for moments of melody. Five minutes to help you begin your day. There's a story about that great defender of the faith, Dr. H.A. Ironside. That one day when he was speaking in a certain place, he noticed a man in the crowd writing a message on a card. A bit later this note was presented to him by one of the ushers. It was then that Dr. Ironside discovered that the man who penned it was none other than Arthur Lewis, an agnostic lecturer. The man proposed a challenge, suggesting that they debate the subject agnosticism versus Christianity. He offered to pay all the expenses involved. Dr. Ironside read the talk aloud to the audience and then replied, I will accept on these conditions. First, that you promised to bring with you to the platform one man who was once an outcast, a slave to sinful habits, but who heard you, or some infidel lecture on agnosticism, and was helped by it, and cast away all his sins and became a new man and is today a respected member of society, all because of your unbelief. second, that you agree to bring with you one woman who has lost all purity and goodness, and who can now testify that agnosticism came to her while deep in sin and implanted in her poor heart the hatred of impurity and a love of holiness, and caused her to become chaste and upright all through a disbelief in the Bible. Sir, if you will agree to do this, I promise to be there with one hundred men and women, once just such lost souls, who heard the gospel of the grace of God, believed it, and have now found new life and joy in Jesus Christ, our Savior. Will you accept my terms? It is said that the agnostic looked confused and made a quick but silent departure. Jesus, what a friend for sinners, Jesus, lover of my soul. Friends, I fail me for the same. He my Savior may Alleluia, what a Savior. Alleluia, what a friend. Saving hell. And now we're going to read from St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Now you belong to Christ Jesus. And though you once were far away from God, now you have been brought very near to him, because of what Jesus Christ has done for you with his blood. For Christ himself is our way of peace. He has made peace between us, Jews, and you Gentiles, by making one person out of us, breaking down the wall of anger that used to divide us. By his death he ended the angry resentment between us, caused by the Jewish laws which favor the Jews and excluded the Gentiles. For he died to annul that whole system of Jewish laws. Then he took the two groups that had been opposed to each other and made them parts of himself. Thus he fused them together as one new person and at last there was peace. As parts of the same body their anger against each other disappeared, for both were reconciled to God, and so the feud ended at last at the cross. Yes, Christ Himself is our way of peace. He brings peace into the life of the man or woman, boy or girl that trusts in Him.