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Mark Zhakevich | "Paul on Mars Hill" | Math3ma Symposium 2024


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00:00:08.000 | My name is Mark Zakevich. I'm one of the pastors at Grace Church and a seminary professor.
00:00:13.000 | And so it's a delight to be here with you this morning, kicking us off with a little devotional.
00:00:17.000 | But before we do that, do you mind if I pray as we start our day?
00:00:21.000 | And then we'll go into Acts chapter 17 for a few minutes.
00:00:25.000 | Lord God, we thank you for another day.
00:00:28.000 | And help us to remember that every single day is a blessing and a gift.
00:00:32.000 | And we are responsible to steward the hours that you give us every single day to the honor of your name,
00:00:38.000 | within the professions and the callings that you have given us.
00:00:42.000 | As we think about this day and this entire weekend, we do entrust it to you,
00:00:47.000 | asking that you would encourage every single person here to be faithful in the place that they find themselves in,
00:00:53.000 | both personally and professionally.
00:00:56.000 | And as they look back on their lives, that they would confidently say,
00:01:01.000 | "It was lived to the honor of your name."
00:01:04.000 | And this morning, as we think about Paul in Athens,
00:01:09.000 | Acts chapter 17, help us to be refreshed by the thought of your sovereignty.
00:01:14.000 | We pray this to the honor of your name. Amen.
00:01:19.000 | Well, this is what I'd like to talk about this morning, as I said in my prayer.
00:01:25.000 | Paul in the book of Acts, in Acts chapter 17.
00:01:29.000 | And I'll have the passage on the screen for us, to kind of get us going devotionally,
00:01:34.000 | so you don't have to look at your Bibles, but you're welcome to, if that's your preference.
00:01:38.000 | And as I begin, there is a man by the name of Samuel Rutherford,
00:01:41.000 | I think some of you may know and maybe even read some of his works,
00:01:45.000 | who's a very famous pastor in Scotland in the 1600s.
00:01:49.000 | He was a pastor, but also a professor.
00:01:52.000 | He wrote many letters, many sermons, many books, devotional and academic works.
00:01:58.000 | He was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh,
00:02:00.000 | where he was asked to become a professor, but declined.
00:02:03.000 | And then he was given a professorship offer at the University of Utrecht,
00:02:07.000 | and even Holland, and also declined.
00:02:10.000 | Ultimately, he became a pastor and a professor at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland,
00:02:15.000 | then shortly after becoming director of that university.
00:02:20.000 | He became one of the four commissioners sent to the Westminster Assembly from Scotland.
00:02:26.000 | So now that gives us an understanding of who he was.
00:02:29.000 | A significant, influential, spiritual leader in Scotland in the 1600s.
00:02:35.000 | And it was said of him, and I quote, "He was always praying, preaching, visiting the sick,
00:02:42.000 | catechizing, always writing, and always studying."
00:02:47.000 | And he wrote letters to his congregants, encouraging them as they wrote,
00:02:52.000 | asking questions on how do you live the Christian life.
00:02:56.000 | And this is what he wrote to a woman that was struggling in embracing God's providence in her life.
00:03:03.000 | And this is what he wrote to her.
00:03:05.000 | "The great master gardener, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ in a wonderful providence,
00:03:11.000 | with his own hand planted me there, whereby his grace in this part of the vineyard I grow.
00:03:18.000 | I dare not say, but Satan and the world," one of his pages whom he sends on his errands,
00:03:24.000 | "have said otherwise.
00:03:26.000 | And here I will abide till the great master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
00:03:33.000 | But when he sees meat to loose me at the root, and to plant me where I may be more useful,
00:03:39.000 | both as to fruit and shadow, and when he who planted pulleth up that he may transplant,
00:03:47.000 | who dare put to their hand and hinder?"
00:03:53.000 | It's a wonderful reminder that where you find yourself in life is exactly where God wants you.
00:04:01.000 | I have no idea what's happening in your life right now.
00:04:04.000 | Maybe you're at the peak of your career, maybe you're just starting,
00:04:07.000 | or maybe you're going through the most difficult season of your career.
00:04:11.000 | And that can apply to a personal life, or perhaps to your spiritual life.
00:04:15.000 | But whatever's happening now, we're not faulting God for the problems in our lives,
00:04:20.000 | but we are trusting that God has us exactly where he wants us.
00:04:27.000 | And if we trust that kind of a theology, then life becomes a bit more enjoyable,
00:04:34.000 | and I think our stewardship becomes a bit more fruitful.
00:04:39.000 | Because instead of pushing back and praying against God's providence, we embrace it.
00:04:44.000 | I think that's Samuel Rutherford's intent in encouraging this woman
00:04:50.000 | to embrace whatever God has given to her in this season of her life.
00:04:55.000 | Now as we think about providence, our pastor, Pastor John, has defined worship as reflecting God's providence.
00:05:05.000 | So I'm trying to make a link for us between worship and providence.
00:05:08.000 | And if you read the book of the Psalms, you know that the Psalter frequently does that.
00:05:13.000 | His worship is in response to his reflections and meditation on the providence of God in his life or in the universe.
00:05:22.000 | And so as he trusts God's sovereignty and embraces it, he responds in worship.
00:05:29.000 | So as we look at Acts chapter 17, we know the story a little bit contextually.
00:05:35.000 | In chapter 16, Paul is chased out of Philippi.
00:05:38.000 | Chapter 17 opens up with Paul being chased out of Thessalonica and Berea,
00:05:43.000 | and so he finally makes his way to Athens.
00:05:47.000 | And as he lands in Athens, he ends up on what we call the Areopagus,
00:05:52.000 | a place where all the philosophers were theologizing about the different deities that they were worshiping in their pantheon.
00:06:00.000 | And so Paul finds an altar to the unknown God.
00:06:03.000 | This is the actual altar to the unknown God, a picture from Rome, one of the museums in Rome.
00:06:10.000 | And as he enters that arena, he is trying to find a way in, an on-ramp, into evangelism.
00:06:20.000 | How do we speak to these individuals about the unknown God?
00:06:25.000 | And so this is what he does, and I'm going to read for us this passage beginning in verse 22 to kind of get our hearts set.
00:06:35.000 | So Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects.
00:06:43.000 | For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription to an unknown God.
00:06:51.000 | Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
00:06:55.000 | The God who made the world and all things in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth,
00:06:59.000 | doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything,
00:07:05.000 | since he himself gives life to all people and breath and all things.
00:07:10.000 | And he made from one man every nation of mankind to inhabit all the face of the earth,
00:07:16.000 | having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation.
00:07:20.000 | That they would see God, if perhaps they might grope for him and find him, though he's not far from each one of us.
00:07:27.000 | For in him will live and move and exist.
00:07:30.000 | Even as some of your own poets have said, "For we are all also his offspring."
00:07:36.000 | Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone,
00:07:41.000 | an image formed by the craft and thought of man.
00:07:45.000 | Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent,
00:07:52.000 | because he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness.
00:07:58.000 | In righteousness through a man whom he had determined, having furnished proof to all by raising him from the dead.
00:08:07.000 | So you can imagine Paul not attacking their religions, not criticizing, not mocking,
00:08:15.000 | but finding a connection by saying, "You're very religious."
00:08:20.000 | Thereby understanding that God made every single person to be a worshiper.
00:08:26.000 | Now they are worshiping the wrong things and we know that, but Paul's approach to evangelism is to say,
00:08:32.000 | "I recognize that deep down you are a worshiper and I'm going to appeal to that desire, but I need to redirect it."
00:08:40.000 | As you find yourselves in your professional environments, I hope this gives us an example on how to evangelize.
00:08:46.000 | Sometimes we are so aggressive in our love for Christ, so committed, that sometimes we come across as a little bit hostile.
00:08:56.000 | Let's be honest about it, especially when we just get saved, right?
00:08:59.000 | We're so zealous that everything is important all the time and we have to make sure that the person believes everything in the Bible immediately.
00:09:07.000 | I've been there, trust me on that.
00:09:09.000 | I remember for the first time believing in the sovereignty of God and I was going to take on the entire Russian Baptist Union,
00:09:15.000 | all the pastors who were Armenians.
00:09:18.000 | I had my stack of sovereignty of God books and I was ready to battle anybody.
00:09:22.000 | I was 18, I knew everything.
00:09:25.000 | I remember that year.
00:09:27.000 | I'm so glad nobody took me on.
00:09:30.000 | But I think we sometimes evangelize that way and I have as well.
00:09:34.000 | And then we look at Paul and Paul says, "Hey, there is something inherently embedded by God in each person to worship."
00:09:43.000 | You just don't need to worship the right God.
00:09:47.000 | Because our understanding of God will ultimately frame our entire life.
00:09:56.000 | It was Tozer who said, "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
00:10:04.000 | The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion.
00:10:10.000 | And man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
00:10:18.000 | Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.
00:10:24.000 | For this reason, the gravest question before the church is always God himself.
00:10:30.000 | And the most pretentious fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do,
00:10:36.000 | but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.
00:10:40.000 | We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
00:10:48.000 | That is, we frame our lives and our thoughts to our understanding of God.
00:10:56.000 | So since that is true, Paul says, "Let's begin with the sovereign God."
00:11:02.000 | That's where it all starts.
00:11:04.000 | And so as we think about the beginning of worship and the foundation of worship
00:11:12.000 | being a grasp and an embracing of the sovereignty of God,
00:11:18.000 | we then understand it will frame our entire life.
00:11:23.000 | And so Paul in Acts 17 does exactly that.
00:11:26.000 | He said, "Let me introduce you to the sovereign God."
00:11:30.000 | And God's sovereignty is manifest and really expressed in your life in three ways.
00:11:37.000 | The first one is that Paul presents him as the author of your life.
00:11:43.000 | Verse 24 said, "The God who made the world and all things in it,
00:11:47.000 | he's Lord of heaven and earth."
00:11:50.000 | In verse 26, he says, "He made from one man every nation of mankind
00:11:53.000 | to inhabit all the face of the earth."
00:11:56.000 | And he doesn't need man to serve him because he gives life to all people, breath, and all things.
00:12:04.000 | Paul says, "He is the Lord of heaven and earth."
00:12:07.000 | Everything that's above you and everything that is below you.
00:12:10.000 | And Paul uses the word cosmos.
00:12:12.000 | Ultimately saying we're talking about the entire universe.
00:12:16.000 | We're not just talking about an aspect of creation.
00:12:19.000 | The entire creation is in Paul's mind when he says that God is the author of life.
00:12:26.000 | In Psalm 50, this is what God says.
00:12:28.000 | In verse 10, "Every beast of the forest is mine.
00:12:31.000 | The cattle in a thousand hills.
00:12:34.000 | I know every bird of the mountains.
00:12:36.000 | Everything that moves in the field is mine.
00:12:38.000 | If I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you.
00:12:41.000 | For the world is mine and all it contains."
00:12:44.000 | Can God be more dogmatic?
00:12:46.000 | It's all mine.
00:12:49.000 | And I don't need you to feed me.
00:12:52.000 | That's God's assessment of his sovereignty.
00:12:55.000 | It's all mine.
00:12:58.000 | So Paul says he doesn't need a temple to dwell in.
00:13:02.000 | Because he isn't served by human hands.
00:13:04.000 | Because, verse 25, he gives life and breath and all things to all people.
00:13:11.000 | I think that's what we need to embrace and recognize.
00:13:13.000 | That our life, that's why I prayed at the beginning.
00:13:15.000 | Thank you for this day.
00:13:17.000 | This passage has been in my mind so it's appropriate to reflect that way.
00:13:20.000 | Thank you for allowing me to wake up today.
00:13:23.000 | And whatever the day holds, thank you for at least letting me get out of bed.
00:13:28.000 | And to move and to breathe.
00:13:31.000 | And God gives life to all things.
00:13:33.000 | And Paul says, in case you missed it, let me repeat it in verse 28.
00:13:36.000 | "For in him we live and we move and we exist."
00:13:41.000 | Literally, we are.
00:13:43.000 | There's no we are apart from God's sovereign care of us.
00:13:49.000 | This is the first truth that Paul says, embrace the God who is sovereign because he's the author of your life.
00:13:54.000 | But secondly, because he is the architect of your life.
00:13:57.000 | And that's the focus of verse 26.
00:14:00.000 | "He made from one man every nation of mankind to inhabit all the face of the earth."
00:14:05.000 | "Having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation."
00:14:10.000 | And so what I think Paul is doing here, is he says, God determines your last name.
00:14:15.000 | He determines every nation of mankind.
00:14:19.000 | The idea being, he places you in a specific nation.
00:14:23.000 | You were born where you were born because of God's design.
00:14:26.000 | In that specific nation and then you get granular in that specific family.
00:14:31.000 | God is the reason why you have the last name that you have.
00:14:34.000 | I'm talking about before you get married.
00:14:39.000 | But, God also does determine your last name in that case as well.
00:14:45.000 | Because if you believe in providence, he also has a play, a role to play in that, doesn't he?
00:14:50.000 | So, the first thing that we see of God as the architect of our life is that he determines our last name.
00:14:58.000 | But he also determines the length of our lives.
00:15:01.000 | That's why Paul says, he determined their appointed times.
00:15:06.000 | Their appointed times when they live and how long they live.
00:15:12.000 | Where they live and when and how long.
00:15:15.000 | And third, he says in verse 26, the boundaries of their habitation.
00:15:20.000 | That's the location of your life.
00:15:22.000 | So, now we begin to think about God moving people from place to place.
00:15:28.000 | From city to city, whether it's for school or for work or for ministry.
00:15:34.000 | But God uses circumstances.
00:15:37.000 | Sometimes it's dire circumstances.
00:15:39.000 | Sometimes immigration that takes place is out of deep poverty.
00:15:42.000 | Sometimes it's for a specific purpose.
00:15:45.000 | Where you can be more useful because God is transplanting you from one continent to another.
00:15:50.000 | From one country to another in order to make you more fruitful.
00:15:55.000 | God is the architect of our lives.
00:15:57.000 | Super intends all the details.
00:16:00.000 | And I think here we find comfort.
00:16:04.000 | Whatever is happening, it is God's perfect and just and loving plan for you right now.
00:16:13.000 | Because he's behind the scenes setting it all up.
00:16:18.000 | If there's a medical issue in your life right now, God is bringing that into your life.
00:16:23.000 | Ultimately to refine you, to conform you into the likeness of Christ.
00:16:27.000 | But also to remind you that in him, you are.
00:16:31.000 | You exist because of his goodness.
00:16:35.000 | Now you can interpret this as God is in control and I'm just a pawn in his hand.
00:16:42.000 | Just a robotic entity.
00:16:46.000 | Or you can think about it from the perspective of an architect.
00:16:49.000 | Whenever an architect designs a house and he follows certain regulations.
00:16:53.000 | And in LA is the worst because there are too many regulations.
00:16:57.000 | If you've ever tried to remodel your house.
00:17:00.000 | But generally speaking outside of Los Angeles, it has good intent.
00:17:04.000 | They're trying to be safe and to protect you from the roof from collapsing on you.
00:17:10.000 | And so there is an element of safety and care and protection implied when the architect designs a specific building.
00:17:17.000 | Much more so with God.
00:17:19.000 | God is a personal and loving God.
00:17:22.000 | He's not just trying to control as much as express his love for us.
00:17:27.000 | And so God's care is demonstrated through him being the architect of our lives.
00:17:33.000 | Meaning he's engaged in every detail.
00:17:37.000 | Psalm 139 reminds us that God has protected us from the top, from the back, from the front.
00:17:42.000 | And he's holding our hand as we move through this life.
00:17:48.000 | God in those moments of weakness that we have isn't afraid or isn't ashamed to come and encourage us.
00:17:56.000 | I love the picture of Jesus.
00:17:58.000 | And so many stories in the Gospels coming and actually physically touching those who are ostracized.
00:18:08.000 | The lepers and the sick and the blind.
00:18:10.000 | Those who were deemed to be cursed by God because of their physical ailment.
00:18:15.000 | And yet Jesus comes and lays his hand upon them.
00:18:20.000 | And heals them and encourages them.
00:18:24.000 | Why is God so concerned about our lives?
00:18:30.000 | Well because ultimately he's the authority over us.
00:18:33.000 | I think that's what Paul is ultimately going after.
00:18:35.000 | If you embrace God as a sovereign God over the universe and over your life,
00:18:40.000 | then you recognize that there's something looming for every single person that God is trying to protect you from.
00:18:48.000 | That's where Paul ends this section.
00:18:52.000 | God is the authority of our lives.
00:18:54.000 | In verse 28, verse 26 rather, he said he set the boundaries of their habitation.
00:19:01.000 | In similar language, imaginatively speaking, where Job writes that God told the sea thus far you shall go and no further.
00:19:10.000 | We know that passage towards the end of Job.
00:19:13.000 | Where God controls the sea and the waves and they stop where he tells them to stop.
00:19:18.000 | In the same sense, he controls the habitation of our lives.
00:19:23.000 | But there's a progress toward intimacy in Paul's passage.
00:19:28.000 | He starts out by God as the creator of the universe.
00:19:31.000 | Then he moves to your life.
00:19:34.000 | And then in verse 28 he says we are all his children.
00:19:39.000 | Now it becomes very personal and very intimate.
00:19:42.000 | Where now God sees you as a child that he has created and is caring for and is protecting and is leading with his hand.
00:19:52.000 | What he's doing here I believe is he's trying to use general revelation to pull us toward special revelation.
00:20:01.000 | Because in verse 27 he says God did all this that they would seek him.
00:20:06.000 | Perhaps they would grope for him and they would find him though he is not far from each of us.
00:20:12.000 | That is to say God is right there.
00:20:15.000 | And God is using general revelation to pull people toward himself so they would become worshippers.
00:20:22.000 | The worshippers of the true God.
00:20:25.000 | But as the author and the architect he now is the authority because of what we read toward the end of the passage.
00:20:33.000 | And that is in verses 30 and 31.
00:20:35.000 | God is commanding man that everyone everywhere should repent.
00:20:40.000 | Because there is a fixed day when he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom he determined having furnished proof to all by raising him from the dead.
00:20:51.000 | In John 5 it says that there is only one judge and God has entrusted all judgment to Jesus.
00:20:58.000 | In Romans 2 verse 16 it says God will judge the secrets of man through Christ Jesus.
00:21:06.000 | And that's the authority aspect that ultimately God will judge.
00:21:10.000 | It reminds me of Job's cry back in Job 9.
00:21:14.000 | In verse 2 he says how can a man be made right before God?
00:21:18.000 | Verse 15 he says though I were right I couldn't answer.
00:21:22.000 | I would have to implore the mercy of my judge.
00:21:25.000 | In verse 28 in the same chapter he says I know that you will not acquit me.
00:21:30.000 | Verse 29 I am wicked.
00:21:32.000 | Verse 32 he's not a man as I am that I may answer him that we may go to court together.
00:21:38.000 | Verse 33 there is no umpire between us who may lay his hand upon us both.
00:21:43.000 | Do you see the desperation and the hopelessness in Job's cry?
00:21:48.000 | I wish there was somebody who could actually stand next to me and defend me before God.
00:21:54.000 | Because I am not his peer.
00:21:56.000 | There is no social parity between the two of us and I can't just show up to him or with him.
00:22:03.000 | There is no umpire between myself and God.
00:22:08.000 | And that's what I think Paul is picking up here.
00:22:11.000 | He says there is a looming dark cloud of judgment coming.
00:22:18.000 | I'm trying to rescue you from that moment.
00:22:22.000 | And so what Job was crying out for Paul answers in 1st Timothy 2 when he says there is one God.
00:22:31.000 | One mediator between God and man.
00:22:34.000 | The man Christ Jesus.
00:22:36.000 | That's the answer to Job's request.
00:22:39.000 | And this man Paul calls in 1st Timothy 1.1 our hope.
00:22:44.000 | And the way he says it in the original is Jesus is the embodiment of hope.
00:22:50.000 | Christ Jesus our hope.
00:22:53.000 | He wants us to understand that our hope is actually contained in Christ.
00:22:58.000 | Which is why in Hebrews 6 we read it is impossible for God to lie.
00:23:02.000 | We who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.
00:23:08.000 | This hope we have as an anchor of the soul.
00:23:11.000 | A hope both sure and confirmed and one which enters within the veil.
00:23:16.000 | Where a forerunner has entered for us Jesus having become a high priest forever.
00:23:23.000 | That's ultimately where hope is found.
00:23:26.000 | So as we embrace God as the author, the architect and the authority of our lives.
00:23:30.000 | We do that first of all for ourselves.
00:23:33.000 | Every single day in whatever is happening.
00:23:36.000 | But I would say secondly as you so faithfully are at the forefront of a very difficult environment.
00:23:44.000 | Yesterday I got a text from a friend of mine who is a fireman here in LA.
00:23:48.000 | And he said his superior told him to fly the gay flag today.
00:23:52.000 | I just got a text a few moments ago right before I walked in.
00:23:56.000 | He said because it's drizzling they decided not to raise the flags.
00:24:00.000 | And he begged me please pray.
00:24:04.000 | Have people pray for me.
00:24:06.000 | That's God's answer right isn't it?
00:24:08.000 | I hope we don't just say well that's coincidental.
00:24:10.000 | No there is an answer where God protected my friend from having to wrestle in his conscience.
00:24:17.000 | What do I do?
00:24:18.000 | And he did for at least 24 hours.
00:24:21.000 | But that's where you are.
00:24:24.000 | I'm sure you have your own stories where God is leading you and you are in moments of difficulty.
00:24:30.000 | Trying to make decisions about faithfulness at work and faithfulness to God.
00:24:35.000 | But if we embrace God as the sovereign one we can trust him.
00:24:40.000 | That everything is coming from his good hand.
00:24:42.000 | Which is why I would like to end this from a prayer from the Puritans.
00:24:46.000 | The prayer is called the God who is the source of all good.
00:24:50.000 | The heavens, oh Lord God who inhabits eternity.
00:24:54.000 | The heavens declare your glory.
00:24:56.000 | The earth thy riches.
00:24:58.000 | The universe is thy temple.
00:25:00.000 | Thy presence fills immensity yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life and communicated happiness.
00:25:07.000 | Thou has made me what I am and given me what I have.
00:25:10.000 | In thee I live and move and have my being.
00:25:12.000 | Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation.
00:25:15.000 | And wisely administers all my affairs.
00:25:18.000 | I thank thee for thy riches to me in Jesus.
00:25:22.000 | For the unclouded revelation of him in your word.
00:25:25.000 | Where I behold his person, character, grace, glory, humiliation, sufferings, death and resurrection.
00:25:35.000 | Give me to feel a need of his continual saviorhood.
00:25:39.000 | Subdue in me the love of sin.
00:25:42.000 | Let me know the need of renovation as well as of forgiveness.
00:25:47.000 | In order to serve and enjoy thee forever.
00:25:50.000 | Impress me deeply with a sense of thine omnipresence.
00:25:55.000 | That thou art about my path, my ways, my lying down, my end.
00:26:01.000 | That should be our prayer.
00:26:03.000 | If we embrace God who is sovereign over every detail in our lives.
00:26:09.000 | I'll pray to that God now.
00:26:11.000 | Thank you God for being sovereign.
00:26:14.000 | Thank you that we can embrace every detail trusting you that you saved us.
00:26:20.000 | And you are sustaining us.
00:26:22.000 | And so we appeal to you even now as we start this day.
00:26:25.000 | That you would continue to bless every speaker.
00:26:28.000 | Every session.
00:26:29.000 | Every conversation.
00:26:31.000 | So that as we are encouraged and equipped.
00:26:35.000 | We would be more faithful in our environment to the honor of your name.
00:26:39.000 | Amen.
00:26:40.000 | [BLANK_AUDIO]