back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 7.30.23
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"Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, 00:14:49.560 |
to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, 00:14:59.400 |
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, 00:15:02.440 |
so that you may prove what the will of God is, 00:15:05.020 |
that which is good, acceptable, and perfect." 00:15:08.360 |
This morning, as we reflect on God's great mercies, 00:15:18.680 |
a reasonable response of true worship to him. 00:17:17.080 |
♪ Wishes and dreams that are yet to come true ♪ 00:19:09.080 |
that's taking place right after this service at 12.30. 00:19:12.080 |
That's gonna be in the other building across the courtyard 00:19:25.080 |
and you kind of want to find out more about the church, 00:19:33.080 |
and some of our members will be there as well. 00:19:47.080 |
how important communion is for the life of the church. 00:19:54.080 |
it is something that's commanded in scripture 00:19:58.080 |
and keep Christ and what he has done for us central. 00:20:04.080 |
so that we would not participate in an unworthy manner. 00:20:23.080 |
because some of the home groups have been so impacted 00:20:26.080 |
we need to figure out if we need to divide it or not. 00:20:37.080 |
plugging you in somewhere where there's space 00:20:44.080 |
because there's more flexibility on Wednesday. 00:21:10.080 |
and you are planning to come to church that Sunday, 00:21:21.080 |
and everything's going to be happening at the retreat 00:21:27.080 |
you're not going to need the shuttle service that Sunday, 00:21:34.080 |
So you can probably just kind of park nearby here. 00:21:37.080 |
So there's no shuttles for service that Sunday, 00:21:45.080 |
Okay, I think that's it for the announcements. 00:21:53.080 |
and give her testimony and we'll be baptized. 00:21:57.080 |
and then we'll give you a minute to give your offering. 00:21:59.080 |
And again, those of you who need a physical box, 00:22:25.080 |
things, Lord God, that we try so hard to hide. 00:22:52.080 |
may it be multiplied for your use in your kingdom. 00:37:52.080 |
If you can turn your Bibles with me to Luke chapter 6, 00:37:55.080 |
we're going to be jumping back into the Gospel of Luke. 00:38:00.080 |
And we're going to be reading from verse 12 through 16 00:38:07.080 |
And I don't know how much longer I'm going to be in this text, 00:38:10.080 |
but we're going to be going at a breakneck speed today, 00:38:13.080 |
and we're going to be counting two instead of one, okay? 00:38:20.080 |
"It was at this time he went off to the mountain to pray, 00:38:23.080 |
and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. 00:38:26.080 |
And when the day came, he called his disciples to him 00:38:28.080 |
and chose 12 of them, whom he also named as apostles-- 00:38:32.080 |
Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, 00:38:35.080 |
and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew, 00:38:37.080 |
Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Aphaias, 00:39:01.080 |
I pray that you would shine your light through the Word 00:39:07.080 |
Help us to learn, glean, and apply the things that you teach. 00:39:12.080 |
May your name be honored, glorified, and exalted. 00:39:24.080 |
but one of the things that always kind of pops up 00:39:37.080 |
significant difference, and the video kind of chronicles 00:39:40.080 |
how they were able to overcome various things 00:39:45.080 |
Or the other way, where you have somebody who's very skinny, 00:39:48.080 |
and then he works out, and about a year later, 00:39:52.080 |
And obviously, those videos are always popular 00:39:54.080 |
because it's inspiring to see people kind of dedicate themselves 00:39:58.080 |
and see the radical transformation physically. 00:40:02.080 |
But what is even greater than the physical transformation 00:40:07.080 |
is when we see people completely change internally. 00:40:12.080 |
As challenging, as inspiring it is to see people 00:40:35.080 |
who is in the practice of sinning to just simply stop sinning. 00:40:42.080 |
And if one thing after living all these years, 00:40:44.080 |
one thing I can testify, and I think you will agree with me, 00:40:51.080 |
You just have a different version of ourselves when we're young, 00:40:55.080 |
and then the way we carry it out, whether you're good or bad, 00:41:00.080 |
rarely you see a completely different person. 00:41:13.080 |
Either they become so dark, something happened to them. 00:41:17.080 |
They went through maybe a very painful divorce or bankruptcy, 00:41:23.080 |
lost somebody that was very significant to them, 00:41:29.080 |
Or the opposite, there's somebody who's become so bright, 00:41:34.080 |
and there's something completely different about them. 00:41:36.080 |
And usually the question that we ask is, "What happened? 00:41:46.080 |
when you see somebody who's completely transformed 00:41:49.080 |
we know something significant happened to that person. 00:41:54.080 |
Well, in the scriptures, among the disciples, 00:42:02.080 |
but James and John are probably the most obvious. 00:42:14.080 |
And passion could be a good thing or a bad thing, right? 00:42:19.080 |
could mean that he's very zealous for the right thing, 00:42:23.080 |
but it could also mean he has a bad temper, right? 00:42:33.080 |
In Mark 3, 16-17, he appointed the twelve, Simon, 00:43:10.080 |
In this situation, it's just a description, right? 00:43:24.080 |
And so even his logo is him just flying up in the air, 00:43:29.080 |
Or Magic Johnson, I know a little bit outdated, right? 00:43:32.080 |
Magic Johnson because when he was bringing down the ball, 00:43:35.080 |
you didn't know where the ball was going to go, right? 00:43:39.080 |
and back then you had cameras that would follow him, 00:43:45.080 |
so they have to switch the camera to get him. 00:43:47.080 |
And so that's how he got the nickname Magic Johnson. 00:43:55.080 |
The sons of thunder was not necessarily a compliment 00:43:59.080 |
because he saw certain characters of these two brothers. 00:44:08.080 |
and I think it grew as Jesus was headed to the cross, 00:44:11.080 |
there was an argument that kept on breaking out 00:44:13.080 |
among the disciples, like, "Who's the greatest?" 00:44:22.080 |
meaning these innocent children that don't have authority, 00:44:27.080 |
"if you don't humble yourselves like these little children, 00:44:30.080 |
"you will not be able to enter the kingdom of heaven." 00:44:57.080 |
Now, those words in and of itself may seem innocent, 00:45:28.080 |
So within the context, this was not an innocent question 00:45:37.080 |
and says, "He who is not against us is for us." 00:45:40.080 |
So it kind of reveals to us what's going on with John. 00:45:44.080 |
and what caused Jesus to give them this question 00:45:51.080 |
"When the days were approaching for his ascension, 00:45:59.080 |
"and they went and entered the village of the Samaritans 00:46:13.080 |
But just so that you can understand what's going on, 00:46:16.080 |
when the Assyrians came and they conquered the Jews, 00:46:37.080 |
So what happened was the Jews who remained in the area 00:46:56.080 |
so that they didn't have to go to where the Jews were. 00:47:00.080 |
And so the Jews always looked at them as compromisers. 00:47:03.080 |
In fact, they had this hatred toward one another 00:47:06.080 |
that when King Cyrus gives the leaders of Israel 00:47:16.080 |
And they said, "No, you guys are not true Jews. 00:47:25.080 |
and fight against the building of the temple. 00:47:33.080 |
that when an average Jew would travel between Galilee 00:47:38.080 |
and Samaria would be somewhere in the middle, 00:47:51.080 |
to prepare for a festival, him and his disciples, 00:47:54.080 |
and they're just trying to settle in somewhere 00:47:56.080 |
and get a place so that they can settle in and prepare. 00:48:03.080 |
they prevented them, saying, "They can't come." 00:48:05.080 |
So that's the context in which this takes place. 00:48:15.080 |
because this is the Messiah, this is the King. 00:48:41.080 |
And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, 00:48:43.080 |
they said, 'Lord, do you want us to command fire 00:48:55.080 |
He didn't say, "Oh, can you give me the power? 00:48:58.080 |
It almost sounded like they had some sort of power. 00:49:06.080 |
"Do you want us to just get rid of these people?" 00:49:10.080 |
"But he turned, Jesus turned, and rebuked them and said, 00:49:13.080 |
'You do not know what kind of spirit you are of. 00:49:16.080 |
For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, 00:49:19.080 |
but to save them, and they went on to another village.'" 00:49:28.080 |
Literally, if they were left the way they were, 00:49:38.080 |
because that's exactly what they were saying, 00:49:41.080 |
Because we're in the right, and they're in the wrong. 00:50:15.080 |
he's basically telling them, "You do not know me. 00:50:25.080 |
The Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, 00:52:27.080 |
If Jesus just kind of left them as they were, 00:52:59.080 |
It doesn't tell us who they were specifically. 00:53:09.080 |
Maybe Andrew kind of took himself out of that. 00:53:36.080 |
They were the ones where Jesus revealed to them 00:53:43.080 |
They were the ones when he was at the Garden of Gethsemane, 00:53:49.080 |
In fact, in the list in Mark chapter 3, 16-17, 00:53:53.080 |
it lists Peter, James and John, and then Andrew. 00:53:57.080 |
In Luke's account, it says Peter, Andrew, James and John. 00:54:20.080 |
Because Peter seems like he has some in with Jesus. 00:54:29.080 |
he's like, "We need to sit on the left and to the right." 00:54:31.080 |
So I think the argument was happening between them. 00:54:47.080 |
they were fishing in their father's boat, Zebedee. 00:54:49.080 |
And they believe that the reason why his name is mentioned 00:54:52.080 |
is because Zebedee is a very prominent businessman, 00:55:09.080 |
but I don't know if he came from a prominent family. 00:55:15.080 |
they thought, "Well, when Jesus gets on his throne, 00:55:46.080 |
"We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man 00:55:48.080 |
will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, 00:55:55.080 |
They will mock him and spit on him and scourge him and kill him. 00:55:58.080 |
And then three days later, he will rise again." 00:56:33.080 |
I mean, we've seen him do some incredible stuff. 00:56:45.080 |
And then he said he was going to rise on the third day, 00:56:48.080 |
and it's almost kind of like they never heard him 00:57:24.080 |
"I'm going to be beaten, killed, and then resurrected." 00:57:52.080 |
and you said you're going to give me that car. 00:58:06.080 |
If I heard that, I would have just smacked him 00:58:31.080 |
James and John are like competing with one another. 00:58:55.080 |
Can you imagine the restraint in those words? 00:59:01.080 |
And then they said, "Oh, can you give me the car?" 00:59:36.080 |
They recruited their mom to speak on their behalf. 01:00:39.080 |
If you just give them and let them kind of lead 01:00:54.080 |
that this was the best time after Jesus said, 01:00:57.080 |
And it's like, "Yeah, this is the time right now." 01:01:03.080 |
But for whatever reason, they come and they ask. 01:01:08.080 |
"So hearing this, the ten began to feel indignant 01:01:14.080 |
And I'm pretty sure Peter was probably the angriest. 01:01:27.080 |
Because he's already angered with these guys. 01:01:29.080 |
These guys are talking about being left up to the right. 01:01:34.080 |
You can see the tension that's being built up 01:01:56.080 |
or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" 01:02:16.080 |
They had no understanding where Jesus was going. 01:02:29.080 |
Jesus spoke to these things and lifting up his eyes to heaven, 01:02:33.080 |
Glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you." 01:03:05.080 |
What they were thinking is sitting on the left and to the right 01:03:07.080 |
when he's on the throne and everybody's coming to him, 01:03:12.080 |
that comes with the King of kings and Lord of lords. 01:03:16.080 |
That if we follow Jesus, we're going to have some of this. 01:03:20.080 |
And Jesus said, "You do not know what you are asking for. 01:03:34.080 |
Just in the recent generation, the last 50 years or 100 years, 01:03:37.080 |
the people that have brought the most glory to God. 01:03:42.080 |
And I'm not talking about mega church pastors. 01:03:44.080 |
I'm not talking about people who've written books 01:03:48.080 |
And everywhere they go, they're treated like celebrities. 01:03:52.080 |
I'm talking about people who gave their lives. 01:03:59.080 |
The reason why he is quoted universally among all denominations 01:04:08.080 |
It's because he gave his life preaching the gospel. 01:04:13.080 |
And so he lives in glory because he gave his life. 01:04:17.080 |
Look at Hudson Taylor, a young man who took his family 01:04:21.080 |
and went into the inner parts of China where there was no foreigners 01:04:25.080 |
and lived a difficult life to bring the gospel. 01:04:30.080 |
He lived in difficulty physically, psychologically. 01:04:54.080 |
"You know, humanly speaking, if I wanted honor, 01:05:03.080 |
As to the law, I was perfect, but all of that stuff became rubbish 01:05:06.080 |
in light of knowing the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ." 01:05:15.080 |
And he lists all these apostles telling me that I'm not an apostle. 01:05:21.080 |
He lists how much he suffered, how close he came to death 01:05:28.080 |
he doesn't say, "Epaphras comes from pedigree. 01:05:34.080 |
He says, "No, think how many times Epaphras came so close to death 01:05:42.080 |
See, the glory that Jesus is referring to was leading to the cross. 01:05:47.080 |
The glory that James and John was referring to is honor, 01:05:53.080 |
just like everybody else, except you're using the channel of the church. 01:05:59.080 |
How much of the corruption in the church happens for this very reason? 01:06:05.080 |
How much of divisions within the church happens for this very reason? 01:06:12.080 |
We want people to understand and know and give us credit. 01:06:17.080 |
And yet the glory that he's referring to is going to the cross. 01:06:23.080 |
"The cup that I drink you shall drink, and you shall be baptized. 01:06:26.080 |
And the baptism with which I am baptized," he says, 01:06:29.080 |
"the suffering that he's referring to you will have 01:06:38.080 |
James is the first to give his life for the gospel. 01:06:43.080 |
And then John wasn't technically martyred, but he lived. 01:06:48.080 |
He was the last one to die, but he probably wished that he died earlier. 01:06:54.080 |
James is the only one that's mentioned in the book of Acts 01:06:59.080 |
He was the first one. He's the only one mentioned. 01:07:04.080 |
So we don't have a lot of information about James because he died early. 01:07:08.080 |
He said, "You want glory? I'm going to the cross. 01:07:10.080 |
Are you able to drink this cup of suffering?" 01:07:16.080 |
Some people may say, "Well, John, he didn't die. What happened to him?" 01:07:20.080 |
John, they tried to kill him. They put him in boiling oil. 01:07:29.080 |
Remember when Apostle Paul, when he was bitten at that island by a scorpion, 01:07:33.080 |
and they said he must have done something for him to be-- 01:07:36.080 |
after surviving a shipwreck, and he's going to get bitten by a scorpion. 01:07:40.080 |
But when he didn't die, remember what they said? 01:07:42.080 |
There must be some kind of anointing upon him. 01:07:44.080 |
He must be a god, and they started worshipping him. 01:07:48.080 |
Because he didn't die, they thought there was some sort of anointing upon him, 01:07:52.080 |
and they were afraid if they killed him that some curse was going to come upon them. 01:07:56.080 |
So what ends up happening is they banish him to the island of Patmos 01:08:04.080 |
Can you imagine the suffering that he went through to survive an oil burning? 01:08:10.080 |
And it is while he was in this island he was writing the book of Revelation. 01:08:24.080 |
They said, "Okay, you'll get this, but this be sitting on the left or to the right. 01:08:31.080 |
We don't know a whole lot about John or about James, 01:08:37.080 |
because John writes more than any other apostle outside from Luke and Paul. 01:08:45.080 |
He writes 1, 2, 3 John, and he writes the book of Revelation. 01:08:50.080 |
If Jesus left them where they were at, the sons of thunder, 01:08:55.080 |
in the name of righteousness, they would have just destroyed cities. 01:08:59.080 |
They would have put everybody under judgment. 01:09:02.080 |
They would have had the Word of God to stand behind. 01:09:08.080 |
In his epistles, 45 times in his writing he mentions the word truth. 01:09:15.080 |
But in those same epistles, the word love is mentioned 80 times. 01:09:21.080 |
And so I think many of you guys already know that Apostle John, 01:09:25.080 |
one of the sons of thunder, isn't known at the end as a son of thunder, 01:09:39.080 |
It's interesting because in 1 John 2, 15-16, you guys know this passage well. 01:09:44.080 |
You probably memorized this if you ever memorized Scripture. 01:09:47.080 |
"Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. 01:09:49.080 |
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 01:09:52.080 |
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 01:09:55.080 |
and the boastful pride of life is not from the Father, but is from the world." 01:10:00.080 |
Now if you read this outside of the context of who wrote it, 01:10:04.080 |
it's still a powerful verse reminding us of not loving the world. 01:10:09.080 |
But when you understand the personality behind, 01:10:12.080 |
the karma behind the person that God used to write this text, 01:10:16.080 |
the lust of the world, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, 01:10:23.080 |
Do you think maybe when John was writing this that he's convicted? 01:10:31.080 |
Do you think he was thinking through how he spent so much time 01:10:37.080 |
Do you think how he kind of manipulated and secured his mom 01:10:41.080 |
to get an end to it so that he can be exalted and taste some of that glory? 01:10:45.080 |
Do you think that John possibly while he was writing this 01:10:53.080 |
Yes, the Holy Spirit is the author, but the Holy Spirit used the personalities 01:10:57.080 |
and the experiences and the education of the writer 01:11:09.080 |
And then in 1 John 4, 7-12, look at how many times, just in these 4 or 5 verses, 01:11:17.080 |
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God, 01:11:21.080 |
and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 01:11:27.080 |
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son 01:11:31.080 |
into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, 01:11:35.080 |
not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 01:11:39.080 |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another. 01:11:47.080 |
If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us." 01:11:55.080 |
is the same guy who wanted to bring thunder and kill the Samaritans? 01:12:03.080 |
So we ask the question, "What happened? What happened to him? 01:12:11.080 |
In fact, you know what's really interesting is John 19, 26, 27, 01:12:23.080 |
to take care of his mom. So this is what He says, 01:12:27.080 |
"When Jesus saw his mother, and knowing that he's about to leave, 01:12:31.080 |
and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, 01:12:35.080 |
He said to his mother, 'Woman, behold your son.' 01:12:39.080 |
Then He said to the disciple, 'Behold your mother.' From that hour, the disciple took her 01:12:43.080 |
into his own household." Now there's two things I want to highlight here. 01:12:51.080 |
John is writing this. And John, as he is writing this, 01:12:55.080 |
he describes himself as the disciple whom he loved 01:13:03.080 |
Now, we may look at that and say, "Man, this is arrogant. 01:13:07.080 |
Like Jesus didn't love the other people." I'm the 01:13:19.080 |
Sometimes we can read it and maybe say, "That's kind of arrogant." 01:13:27.080 |
Or, "The other ones he didn't love." In fact, he uses that same 01:13:31.080 |
description of the one Jesus loves in John 13, 01:13:39.080 |
20. Repeatedly, over and over again, he describes himself 01:13:43.080 |
in his own letter as the one that Jesus loved. 01:13:47.080 |
If you don't know the context of why he's saying that, who is saying that, 01:13:51.080 |
the drama that he went through, before his radical 01:13:55.080 |
change, if he was to write this letter, he probably would have said, "John, the one 01:13:59.080 |
who sits at the right hand of Jesus. John, who stands 01:14:03.080 |
for truth and righteousness and will not compromise. John, who is 01:14:07.080 |
honored above the others because he didn't forsake Jesus. 01:14:11.080 |
John, who is the head of the other disciples." That's probably what 01:14:23.080 |
Of all the things that he could have said of himself, 01:14:31.080 |
used to describe himself is the one that is loved. 01:14:39.080 |
Not the one that is exalted, not the one that 01:14:43.080 |
stood for righteousness, just the one that is loved. 01:14:47.080 |
Isn't that exactly what Jesus says when the disciples come back and we saw 01:14:51.080 |
the heavens open and we cast out demons and praise God for this. 01:14:55.080 |
Jesus says, "Great, and you will see greater miracles, but be careful. 01:15:03.080 |
The greatest joy that you have is that your name is written in the 01:15:11.080 |
Not because you did great things, not because you were talented, 01:15:15.080 |
not because you had honor, not because you brought so many people to Christ, but the 01:15:19.080 |
greatest thing that you have is you are loved. 01:15:43.080 |
What happened? What happened to him? What was the difference? 01:15:51.080 |
What happened? The cross was not in the picture. 01:15:59.080 |
So even when Jesus talked about the cross, they heard it and they said they were afraid to ask Him 01:16:03.080 |
because they kept on asking dumb questions and Jesus kept on rebuking them. So they just kind of 01:16:07.080 |
filed it away because they didn't understand the cross. 01:16:11.080 |
That when He said He was going to head to glory, all they saw was Him sitting on the throne. 01:16:35.080 |
the greatest connection with Christ, the greatest place of glory, 01:16:39.080 |
the greatest place where we recognize who God is, is at the cross. 01:16:47.080 |
for any Christian, any pastor, any missionary, 01:16:59.080 |
He's going to take care of my children, pay my bills, get a better job, have a great family, 01:17:11.080 |
And the question that He will ask is, "Where is the cross?" 01:17:15.080 |
Didn't I tell you, "He who finds his life will lose it"? 01:17:19.080 |
Didn't I tell you that? Didn't I tell you that if you want to come after me, 01:17:23.080 |
you must pick up your cross and deny yourself? Didn't I tell you that? 01:17:27.080 |
Didn't you see the examples of the disciples? Didn't you see the examples of the 01:17:31.080 |
apostles? That if you want to find true life, 01:17:39.080 |
You're not going to find life through Christ. 01:17:43.080 |
You're going to find life in Christ, and the Christ of the cross. 01:17:51.080 |
comes is because we are looking past the cross 01:17:55.080 |
and looking at the throne. That we want our version 01:18:03.080 |
For ourselves, for our children, for our family. 01:18:07.080 |
And how much of our frustration isn't because we're following Christ. 01:18:11.080 |
How much of our frustration is coming because we're following the Christ that 01:18:27.080 |
"He who believes in me, even when he dies, shall live." 01:18:31.080 |
It wasn't until he encountered the resurrected Christ and the 01:18:35.080 |
Holy Spirit comes upon them and they realize their life 01:18:47.080 |
I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, 01:18:55.080 |
But if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, 01:18:59.080 |
and he who hates his life in this world will keep it 01:19:23.080 |
"True life is found when we pick up our own cross and follow 01:19:35.080 |
our testimony? Are we finding a different version 01:19:39.080 |
of life through Christ? Or is it really Christ? 01:19:47.080 |
to simply make us a better version of ourselves. 01:19:51.080 |
He didn't come to save us from family problems so that we can 01:20:03.080 |
"Your old self dies." Whatever ambition, hope, 01:20:07.080 |
joy that you may have found outside of Christ, 01:20:11.080 |
he says, "They're to die, but Christ lives in me. 01:20:15.080 |
In the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith 01:20:19.080 |
in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up 01:20:27.080 |
So much of our struggle is reflected in James 01:20:35.080 |
even as we serve, even as we teach, even as we 01:20:43.080 |
to the left or to the right. What Christ called us to do 01:20:59.080 |
ambition, my reputation, my desire, my security, my 01:21:07.080 |
That a new life may be established in Christ, 01:21:15.080 |
you will see the joy in other people. You will be able to testify 01:21:19.080 |
about the testimonies of other people, but it will never become your 01:21:27.080 |
life, and to give this life abundantly." And this life comes 01:21:35.080 |
deny ourselves, that he may be exalted. I pray 01:21:39.080 |
that that may be our passion and our joy, and it 01:21:43.080 |
would be our pursuit. That the people who have known us in the past 01:21:47.080 |
will meet us and say, "What happened to you?" And when they ask us that question, 01:22:07.080 |
You know how easily distracted we are. You know how 01:22:19.080 |
word would truly judge the thoughts and intentions of our heart. 01:22:23.080 |
That our life, Lord God, may be from you and you alone. 01:22:31.080 |
is hope. As you've given us a mission, Lord God, 01:22:35.080 |
to be the light, to be the salt of this earth, 01:22:43.080 |
And as Paul was crucified, I pray that you would 01:22:47.080 |
challenge us to know what that means for us. That we may 01:23:03.080 |
We thank you for your patience. We thank you for 01:23:15.080 |
your suffering. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:27:05.080 |
and the fellowship and the indwelling and the interceding of the Holy Spirit 01:27:34.860 |
All that we have hope for, all that we have labored for, 01:27:39.120 |
help us Lord God to build upon the foundation of Christ. 01:28:13.800 |
Send us that we may be the aroma of Christ wherever we go.