back to indexBerean Community Church Sunday Service 12.31.23
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let us worship our God for his unending faithfulness to us 00:08:15.400 |
Yet our hope remains that even in the darkest of storms, 00:08:23.000 |
as it's promised to us in 2 Thessalonians 3, 3. 00:08:27.200 |
So this morning, would you join us to worship 00:13:04.900 |
I wanna welcome you to this morning's service. 00:13:14.580 |
and announcing is gonna go into effect next week. 00:13:24.460 |
It's going to be 8 a.m., 9.30, and 11.30 a.m. 00:13:29.140 |
Please also make sure, just as it is the first week, 00:13:32.220 |
we typically try and come to prepare our hearts 00:13:38.620 |
So keep that in mind and then come ready to worship. 00:13:49.580 |
and then all the grades for Education Department 00:13:51.980 |
will be available at the 11.30 service, okay? 00:13:56.020 |
With that said, today is going to be a full day. 00:14:05.740 |
and you are allowed to come and spectate and watch as well. 00:14:08.980 |
And then our service in the evening will be 11 p.m. sharp. 00:14:15.860 |
We'll be worshiping, hearing Pastor Peter Kim 00:14:21.020 |
and we'll also watch an end-of-the-year video. 00:14:23.300 |
It's a special video that the media team is preparing. 00:14:28.200 |
The other announcement is for our membership class 00:14:40.360 |
It's eight weeks long covering the foundations 00:14:44.160 |
but also covering the core doctrines that build this church 00:14:49.240 |
You can sign up for that by visiting our website. 00:14:53.680 |
Our welcome members will be able to just direct you 00:15:20.540 |
is that the Jubilee ministry is gonna kick off 00:15:27.180 |
again, the Jubilee fellowship is for those 50 years and over 00:15:31.420 |
and this is gonna be starting from the 1st of February 00:15:39.260 |
reading through the Gospels as a way to encourage 00:15:43.580 |
The sign-up link, again, is on the app and website. 00:15:52.900 |
this morning we have the privilege of hearing 00:16:07.540 |
or you can submit it through the digital form. 00:16:18.940 |
as we come to this service at the end of the year. 00:16:45.460 |
expressing to you just our sweet, sweet appreciation 00:16:52.800 |
as we render to you our service and our worship, 00:16:58.720 |
that we wanna be for you to your good pleasure, 00:17:13.180 |
this would all turn to you in praise and glory. 00:17:41.500 |
As we continue our worship, let us stand together, 00:18:06.420 |
but first, let's take a moment to greet each other. 00:19:57.220 |
♪ I will lift my voice in the darkest night ♪ 00:21:30.340 |
♪ Sing with the angels and the saints around the throne ♪ 00:24:22.940 |
♪ For his love is strong and he calls my name ♪ 00:25:41.160 |
♪ I will watch and wait for the Savior to come ♪ 00:27:21.580 |
I was born into a home where my parents were Christian. 00:27:28.680 |
All of the kids at church lived in the same city 00:27:31.500 |
and were friends already, so I felt I really never fit in. 00:27:35.100 |
I went to church all the way through my junior year 00:27:37.940 |
of high school, and I never really heard the gospel. 00:27:41.500 |
Pastors were preaching, and I can remember hearing 00:27:57.180 |
Where I lived, the school boundaries were set 00:28:11.520 |
a deep-seated desire to fit in and be accepted. 00:28:22.400 |
kind of ditched me in my freshman year in school, 00:28:30.560 |
with lots of buried anger due to the bullying, 00:28:33.160 |
so this led me to join a gang, get into trouble, 00:28:40.920 |
and ended up being prohibited from driving a car, 00:28:44.200 |
and as other events unfolded, God opened a door 00:28:51.280 |
I eventually ended up back in school at community college, 00:28:54.520 |
and then I transferred out to a college in the Midwest. 00:28:57.840 |
I fully engrossed myself with partying, drinking, 00:29:03.120 |
My desire now shifted just to make a lot of money for myself, 00:29:11.740 |
My peers were preparing, were pulling really great grades, 00:29:19.960 |
While everyone else was preparing for new jobs 00:29:28.340 |
and desired in my heart for the riches of this world, 00:29:31.320 |
and I also felt that I had to lie and hide all of this 00:29:43.160 |
because it got so mentally and emotionally exhausting, 00:29:49.620 |
answering my random spiritual questions I had, 00:29:53.720 |
He was in seminary, so he had a lot of resources, 00:30:04.720 |
and it was this night God had planned my conversion. 00:30:07.580 |
I vividly remember that I had to reread chapter two 00:30:10.240 |
because this was the first time I actually heard 00:30:16.440 |
the verse noted at the beginning of the chapter, 00:30:18.560 |
"For the gate is narrow, and the way is hard, 00:30:23.680 |
Though strange was where the Holy Spirit came 00:30:30.040 |
and in that moment, all the sin that I had committed 00:30:32.440 |
in my youth, in the gang, in my time in college, 00:30:41.560 |
including what I was not even aware of or recollecting, 00:30:45.640 |
and that I had deserved the full wrath of God. 00:30:51.940 |
in rebellion and directly opposing God through all of it. 00:31:05.640 |
He accepted me despite how sinful and messed up I was 00:31:25.500 |
I believed Christ to be the Lord and King over all, 00:31:32.580 |
Immediately after that evening, God transformed me. 00:31:35.980 |
I began to read and meditate on the word daily 00:31:42.540 |
I had a deep urge to make all the wrong things 00:31:47.200 |
I didn't stop these things or just modify my behavior 00:31:52.120 |
Rather, I believed and saw how much God loved me 00:32:12.820 |
and I confessed all of the things I had lied about. 00:32:15.700 |
God gave me this opportunity to share how he changed me, 00:32:36.120 |
but my desire is to be obedient to Christ, so here I am. 00:32:39.660 |
I've come to believe that baptism should express 00:32:53.220 |
have been the most spiritually challenging time, 00:32:58.940 |
that he knows what I've been deeply considering. 00:33:13.100 |
the union that God has forged through the blood of Christ, 00:33:15.360 |
sealed by Christ, is so much more sweet and real to me 00:33:20.760 |
that nothing will ever separate me from Christ. 00:33:23.520 |
This world is withering, perishing, and it won't last, 00:33:26.440 |
but God has given me what will endure forever. 00:33:30.760 |
will be characterized by a sincere and maturing love 00:33:34.360 |
and a daily faithful obedience to Christ and his word. 00:33:58.620 |
Brian, do you understand that through this baptism, 00:34:08.740 |
in the name of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 00:34:39.200 |
let's all take our Bibles and turn over to Hebrews 12. 00:35:10.300 |
So let me take a moment to read to us from the text. 00:35:15.480 |
since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, 00:35:27.320 |
that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, 00:35:33.240 |
who for the joy set before him endured the cross, 00:35:37.880 |
and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 00:35:40.820 |
For consider him who has endured such hostility 00:35:46.140 |
so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. 00:36:05.380 |
we have difficulty continuing to run and follow after you. 00:36:10.280 |
Thank you, God, from the encouragement from scripture. 00:36:14.620 |
would receive the encouragement you have for us, 00:36:22.140 |
This morning, I want us to think about our faith, 00:36:31.220 |
We can think about things we wish we would have done better. 00:36:36.420 |
just in terms of the resolutions we made the previous year. 00:36:43.260 |
We can even think about just how the world does it, 00:36:45.460 |
which is they have a countdown of the major news, right? 00:36:53.660 |
And then they just recount the stuff that happened. 00:36:58.300 |
we want to think about more poignantly our faith, 00:37:11.540 |
He wants our faith to mature, to grow in sincerity, 00:37:16.120 |
to grow deeper in the breath of knowledge of God 00:37:21.900 |
And therefore, that faith being so important in God's eyes, 00:37:29.660 |
Your personal faith is at the number one priority 00:37:47.860 |
Satan attacked his body, struck him with ailments. 00:37:52.140 |
Satan attacked his flock, his possessions, his house. 00:37:55.900 |
Satan attacked his children, his family, and more. 00:38:02.660 |
was he was pushing Job to say, "God is not good." 00:38:10.700 |
Likewise, even when our own Father, God Almighty, 00:38:13.780 |
is tending to us, He is going to be pruning our faith. 00:38:18.500 |
He is going to be ministering to us by emboldening our faith, 00:38:25.260 |
at the agenda of God in this time, in this generation, 00:38:28.860 |
for you and me, God is after our faith, amen? 00:38:36.540 |
we shouldn't be just doing a nostalgic recount 00:38:43.340 |
We shouldn't be doing best of Netflix, top 20 movies. 00:38:58.100 |
And how can it grow even more in the next year? 00:39:01.820 |
And with that said, the passage to us tells us, 00:39:08.260 |
that therefore, since we have so great a cloud 00:39:11.900 |
let us lay aside every encumbrance and the sin, 00:39:20.580 |
that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus. 00:39:25.580 |
What an exhortation and command for us in the upcoming year. 00:39:31.500 |
that the thrust of the sermon, the thrust of this passage, 00:39:42.780 |
to stay faithful, to stay loyal, to not get distracted, 00:39:47.100 |
and all the analogies that come with running a race, 00:39:59.980 |
Don't be silly and show up in huge sweatsuits 00:40:02.980 |
and big down coat jacket because it's cold outside. 00:40:06.180 |
Run, run free, run hard, run for the long haul, yes? 00:40:23.220 |
which is, well, so long as I'm in the race, I'm okay. 00:40:42.300 |
But if your picture of your Christian life is, 00:41:02.220 |
when Apostle Paul in other passages of Scripture says, 00:41:10.740 |
I wanna finish and I don't wanna be disqualified. 00:41:19.260 |
Now, my body, for me, when I picture myself running, 00:41:25.140 |
Just recently, I was hanging out with my nephews. 00:41:31.660 |
man, I'm so jealous, your body is so athletic. 00:41:37.620 |
and your wingspan big for like, good for basketball. 00:41:41.860 |
And they're like, what are you talking about? 00:41:58.580 |
I don't picture myself in some kind of majestic stride. 00:42:02.100 |
I picture myself doing the do-do-do-do-do-do-do, right? 00:42:07.020 |
But I want you to picture somebody in full stride. 00:42:15.380 |
They've got those lightweight running shorts. 00:42:19.940 |
They've got those, you know, sweat-wicking shirts, 00:42:25.260 |
I want you to picture somebody in full stride, 00:42:29.420 |
running hard, because we shouldn't settle for less, amen? 00:42:43.780 |
but also to think about the host of witnesses before us 00:42:51.420 |
So the first exhortation is, in order to run hard 00:43:01.740 |
We are encouraged as fellow witnesses of God. 00:43:08.740 |
This passage, chapter 12, comes actually as a big section, 00:43:13.740 |
starting from chapter 10, where it talks about, 00:43:25.700 |
but rather we endure even through the hardship. 00:43:28.420 |
And then chapter 11, please turn your Bibles over there, 00:43:31.560 |
chapter 11 gives to us the examples of the faith 00:43:36.220 |
in the patriarchs, the prophets, and the mighty people 00:43:44.060 |
When you think about their faith, how do you see them? 00:43:49.060 |
Well, as you turn there, I wanna remind to us 00:44:01.680 |
For by it, the men of old gain their approval, 00:44:05.980 |
by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared 00:44:08.980 |
by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made 00:44:16.060 |
The people before us that are going to be listed 00:44:23.140 |
and these are the mighty cloud of heroes, superheroes. 00:44:33.580 |
These are the mighty cloud of the mighty men of God, why? 00:44:38.580 |
Because these individuals were not built different 00:44:41.660 |
from you and me, but rather we should be encouraged 00:44:50.820 |
Because the scriptures calls them the cloud of witnesses. 00:45:00.760 |
Martyrs are not just simply ones who died for the faith, 00:45:06.340 |
but rather the literal term for martyrs actually means 00:45:10.320 |
one who has a witness because they have information to tell. 00:45:18.660 |
If we have a witnesses, that individual better have 00:45:35.980 |
or because they had biceps and muscles made of gold. 00:45:50.500 |
And that is not something that is so far and different 00:46:27.060 |
for year upon year and his faith had to keep at it, 00:46:39.260 |
Abraham, who was called out of the Uruk-Haldeans, 00:46:53.820 |
Because he was so sure exactly where he was headed. 00:46:58.280 |
No, no, he was so sure about the one who called him. 00:47:17.580 |
he refused to be called the son of the Pharaoh's daughter, 00:47:23.640 |
rather to endure ill treatment with the people of God 00:47:29.660 |
considering the reproach of Christ greater riches 00:47:42.100 |
but the point that I'm making is see and consider 00:47:49.060 |
And that faith is something every single one of us 00:48:05.900 |
This cloud of witnesses is an encouragement to us 00:48:12.540 |
because that is exactly what is capable for us. 00:48:26.940 |
that we should kind of stop because it gives, 00:48:32.260 |
that the faith that God has given to us is so powerful, 00:48:37.960 |
that we've just become comfortable with failure, 00:48:41.660 |
is when we get so encouraged by people's failure 00:48:48.860 |
in our Bible study in Galatians is studying and thinking, 00:48:56.540 |
he is like the leader of the Jerusalem church 00:49:01.340 |
but he too, he too succumbed to the pressures 00:49:06.780 |
The Jewish people, the false teachers were like, 00:49:20.040 |
I remember actually writing on my notes like, 00:49:28.800 |
I'm so encouraged that he's crazy just like me, you know? 00:49:32.360 |
I'm so encouraged that these are all just men, 00:49:39.580 |
You're not supposed to sit there and be like, 00:49:50.020 |
I'm not saying that you shouldn't share your failures 00:49:54.180 |
and you're opening up the opportunity for sympathy, 00:50:12.740 |
I'm gonna walk out because he who promised me is faithful. 00:50:17.980 |
I'm gonna not participate in the luxuries of Egypt 00:50:21.580 |
because he said there's something better for me. 00:50:35.860 |
This job is killing me and it's totally taking away 00:50:38.940 |
from a sustainable relationship with God and my family. 00:50:45.000 |
Some of you guys were in a compromising relationship. 00:50:48.320 |
You were failing and you're crossing boundaries 00:50:50.080 |
you never should have and you said, you know what? 00:50:51.600 |
Forget that, I'm gonna stay pure for God, amen. 00:50:59.420 |
It's not encouraging to sit there and calculate everything. 00:51:07.840 |
and what if this is gonna turn out for our worse 00:51:11.880 |
and what if this and then how is that gonna provide me? 00:51:14.160 |
And then you sit there overthinking everything 00:51:16.280 |
and then you squat on a decision for the Lord. 00:51:25.080 |
when somebody simply goes from God said I was convicted 00:51:39.540 |
run hard, run long and endure and stuff like that 00:51:55.460 |
that profoundly, that decisively for the Lord 00:52:08.720 |
like I don't wanna speak in front of 400 people. 00:52:12.620 |
I still get nervous standing in front of you guys. 00:52:23.500 |
And I pray that when we think about running forward 00:52:26.880 |
that you think more and more how can I simply move 00:52:30.920 |
from conviction to action because the Lord has said 00:52:36.600 |
And that's why we can even say it's also good 00:52:39.820 |
for you to look back and see the work that God has done 00:52:51.760 |
I loved and we were so encouraged by the testimony 00:52:56.480 |
He said when I was convinced, I said forget that, 00:53:06.760 |
I didn't think about it, I just did what the Lord desired. 00:53:15.180 |
It challenges us, what do you think strong faith is? 00:53:27.300 |
Sometimes actually the experience of the world 00:53:29.560 |
messes you up because you have worldly wisdom 00:53:35.840 |
But strong faith says, no I hear what the Lord has said 00:53:42.480 |
and if this pleases my God, he's gonna take care of 00:53:50.000 |
And so likewise in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 32, 00:53:57.880 |
Hebrews 10, 32, but remember that the former days 00:54:07.000 |
Do you have to be a 15 year old veteran Christian 00:54:14.080 |
No, it can happen the moment you become Christian. 00:54:19.560 |
I remember a young Christian saying the moment 00:54:22.480 |
they became Christian, within the first six months 00:54:31.480 |
We're running towards Christ and it's gonna feel like, 00:54:39.000 |
But take a look, it says, there was a great conflict 00:54:41.920 |
of suffering partly by being made a public spectacle 00:54:51.280 |
All they had to do was like, mm, I don't wanna be 00:55:07.640 |
And so with that said, the host of witnesses, 00:55:21.120 |
Free to sacrifice, free to run, free to leave the world 00:55:24.880 |
and free to run in the kingdom of the Lord doing his work. 00:55:34.680 |
to run with endurance, we do need to lay aside 00:55:37.800 |
every encumbrance and sin that is in this world. 00:55:57.160 |
That's something God expects you to wisely think 00:56:14.880 |
An encumbrance is something that's just simply a hurdle, 00:56:17.680 |
some kind of impediment to you running freely. 00:56:21.760 |
As a matter of fact, it's a little hard for me 00:56:33.840 |
as to be like, you know, you and your sports, 00:56:49.120 |
Because you have to feel the weight of what's happening 00:57:01.640 |
So it's really, really silly for a marathon runner 00:57:29.440 |
but another use of this term is like a tumor. 00:57:47.460 |
If you guys have ever had a really gross cyst, 00:57:52.900 |
and I still have a big scar because I was stubborn 00:58:00.940 |
and then you go, nope, I'm not going to the doctor. 00:58:26.980 |
What is a go-to thing that you regularly go to 00:58:29.780 |
where it's become such a pattern that it's a time killer? 00:58:34.100 |
It's all kinds of not so good for the runner. 00:58:37.700 |
I took some time to meditate on this for myself 00:59:24.300 |
And my wife would look at me like, what are you saying? 00:59:55.260 |
And then you imagine yourself saying the words 01:00:03.140 |
And then, and it all goes right from there, right? 01:00:14.940 |
my mind, my heart, and my emotions belong to God. 01:00:32.900 |
to pray for the things that God's heart is for. 01:00:47.080 |
God, this scenario, I want you to make it right. 01:00:50.860 |
This person, you have to give them their just desserts. 01:01:08.740 |
And so, I was doing my devotions in 1 Samuel, 01:01:12.580 |
and I was genuinely encouraged by the saints of old. 01:01:17.340 |
who could have been filled with embitterment. 01:01:28.120 |
Young David, the only thing he did was he succeeded. 01:01:34.620 |
and then he was killing the thousands and 10,000s, 01:01:37.140 |
and then he also happened to be very handsome, 01:01:44.660 |
and he wanted to spear him and put him on the stake. 01:02:04.760 |
"The Lord is gonna judge me if I put my hand on you, 01:02:31.900 |
Why do I need to redo a fight in my own head? 01:02:34.460 |
Why do I need to live in any kind of regret of like, 01:02:52.020 |
and if you, like me, carry a burden of weight, 01:02:56.620 |
and, "Damn, you don't understand what they did," 01:03:01.140 |
trust the Lord, trust the Lord, trust the Lord, amen. 01:03:14.240 |
there's a passage in Hebrews 12, verse 15 through 16, 01:03:18.660 |
"See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God." 01:03:21.780 |
Coming short of the grace of God, what do you mean? 01:03:25.780 |
That no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble. 01:03:35.700 |
And I want us to be able to see and catch those things. 01:03:39.580 |
So I ask you this question again as a focal point 01:03:58.460 |
and then for you, it's the next item you wanna collect 01:04:09.020 |
The more you collect, the more you are exactly 01:04:16.700 |
and decided, "I need a barn for all my stuff." 01:04:21.140 |
he decided, "I need a bigger barn for all my stuff." 01:04:24.500 |
But he didn't know that his life would be required of him. 01:04:34.140 |
What's more, for you, are your regular distractions 01:04:39.620 |
You thought, you know, I'm just gonna watch a few shorts, 01:04:42.620 |
short videos, as they say, and it's so quick, so easy, 01:04:49.940 |
and this is your regular habit of distraction and rest? 01:04:53.460 |
Don't you know by faith that the rest that you seek 01:04:56.900 |
in the distraction, and sometimes you just wanna 01:04:59.060 |
turn off your brain and rest after a hard day's work, 01:05:08.900 |
Sometimes for me, there are statements in my mind 01:05:30.700 |
You see, one of the things I wanna say to you 01:05:34.500 |
is this passage tells to us lay aside the encumbrances 01:05:39.700 |
Well, the sins that entangle us are our disbelief. 01:05:56.700 |
If you live the year, if you have lived the past years 01:06:00.660 |
beginning, getting to be more and more pessimistic, 01:06:08.540 |
And some of the things I realize in my embitterment, 01:06:14.980 |
there are just these thoughts that start to well up, 01:06:57.300 |
to live a life that's entirely different from the race, 01:07:05.500 |
So all of these thoughts that we have in the past year, 01:07:11.220 |
when I say, let's evaluate them according to our faith, 01:07:29.700 |
And because 2020, 2021, 2022 were really oddball years 01:07:33.820 |
with a lot of discouraging things happening in the world, 01:07:36.380 |
and yes, if we start to recount and do a video montage, 01:07:46.700 |
in our church, we actually had a lot of people 01:07:57.060 |
that you lose sight of the great God who is good, 01:08:03.620 |
these maybe even subconscious conclusions of disbelief, yes? 01:08:09.580 |
But the hall of faith that's been given us, told us, 01:08:17.700 |
but what she did was, yes, she was led to bear a child, 01:08:21.260 |
but she trusted the one who is faithful, who he promised. 01:08:29.860 |
for you to trust the one who is promised, amen? 01:08:43.580 |
this race that is before us, fixing our eyes, 01:08:47.700 |
who for the joys that before him endured the cross. 01:08:53.220 |
just get into this mindset, get into this vision, 01:08:57.700 |
then all the things that feels like you're running, 01:09:08.180 |
And a doctor has said, I have this vital organ, 01:09:13.420 |
And that hospital with that patient needs it, 01:09:25.700 |
but now you're checking the GPS like 15 times over. 01:09:37.740 |
You're not gonna just get distracted with like, 01:09:39.540 |
ooh, but that Netflix show was on at that time. 01:10:24.820 |
We are, yes, think about all the analogies of the Bible. 01:10:30.860 |
We're, yes, in the enemy territory here on this earth. 01:10:34.900 |
We are servants of God being used for his mighty cause. 01:10:47.900 |
I will tell you, though, as I reflected on this passage, 01:10:54.140 |
that my heart, in some sense, was filled with defensiveness. 01:11:01.260 |
"Pastor Mark, you need to run with endurance," 01:11:12.540 |
Now, if somebody who is, you know, my senior, 01:11:37.660 |
This passage to people who are already suffering, 01:11:42.340 |
"In this run, not only do I not want you to give up, 01:11:52.540 |
And we should realize, like, this is God's will for me. 01:11:58.220 |
And I accept the fact that I'm going to regularly feel, 01:12:21.420 |
None of the analogies and metaphors of our Christian life 01:12:25.020 |
in the Bible has with it some idea that, like, 01:12:35.820 |
But truth be told, God did give us, in His sovereignty, 01:12:57.740 |
Are you busy running around doing, incredibly, 01:13:22.020 |
The moment when it is not is when I'm not sober 01:13:28.380 |
I'm just doing stuff because I just like doing stuff. 01:13:41.660 |
I'm focused in on the spiritual needs of the flock, 01:13:43.980 |
and I'm also focused in my own spiritual need. 01:13:47.100 |
Do you have any idea what a blessing that is? 01:14:01.540 |
And I want you guys to have that exact same sentiment, 01:14:10.300 |
In Philippians chapter three, verse 12 through 16, 01:14:16.700 |
"but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which 01:14:27.820 |
"but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind 01:14:30.220 |
"and reaching forward to that what lies ahead. 01:14:43.260 |
"that if in anything you have a different attitude, 01:14:47.660 |
"However, let us keep living by that same standard 01:15:04.140 |
And that theme kinda sounds like a motivational speaker. 01:15:08.860 |
A lot of it has to do with a, like a, in summary, 01:15:31.300 |
our efforts doesn't really amount to nothing. 01:15:36.300 |
You know, we know that we can't and we can't and we can't. 01:15:39.620 |
That kinda sentiment was really evident, okay? 01:15:45.860 |
I don't want us to get used to disappointment, 01:15:55.380 |
and then also concluding, therefore we can't, why? 01:16:06.700 |
Your justification is a work of Christ done, period, yes? 01:16:43.180 |
Now, know that the scriptures is not telling you 01:16:50.820 |
You don't have to be as strong, as fast as somebody else. 01:17:05.580 |
but you be sober in the things and endure hardship. 01:17:09.420 |
Do the work of an evangelist and fulfill your ministry. 01:17:12.780 |
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering. 01:17:38.740 |
So, you may not, you may not be in a position 01:17:48.780 |
to be a youth group teacher or to work with children. 01:18:01.060 |
God called every single one of us to be a witness. 01:18:09.020 |
to pray, to devote your life to praying for the leaders, 01:18:18.460 |
and just simply apply what you're convicted of. 01:18:50.260 |
I pray, Father God, that you would tend to us 01:18:56.620 |
Sometimes, God, because of our feeble bodies, 01:19:08.140 |
And sometimes, God, just the disappointments, 01:19:23.260 |
is not having everything fixed, everything rectified, 01:19:30.260 |
But Lord, the faith you have given us in you, 01:19:39.740 |
all of that, God, is such an encouragement to us. 01:19:42.620 |
So I pray to your glory and to your exaltation, 01:19:50.620 |
- Let us stand together for a little closing praise. 01:22:05.700 |
♪ Your love, O wise, my joy travels onward bounding ♪ 01:22:10.700 |
♪ Your faithfulness, my refuge in the light ♪ 01:22:51.100 |
♪ My guilt and cross laid on your shoulders ♪ 01:23:03.140 |
♪ O Lord, the grave and death are conquered ♪ 01:23:18.580 |
♪ O Lord, the grave and death are conquered ♪ 01:24:10.620 |
the way that we make decisions about even the mundane, 01:24:28.220 |
especially in the proclamation of the gospel, 01:24:40.820 |
as the time goes by, but so purposefully unto you.