[0:00] Good morning. It's good to be here this morning. And I didn't forget my notes this time.! So now you'll be here forever. Just kidding. It's actually my anniversary today, so I'm not sure why I'm here.
[0:17] Not wedding anniversary or anything like that. But today marks 18 years since I first started the ministry in high level with our First Nations communities out there. It was beginning of June 2007 that I first went out to high level.
[0:37] I'm going to share a little bit about that and kind of the process of getting there. I felt a clear call to go into ministry and for it to be First Nations ministry, but I wasn't sure how to start that.
[0:50] I wasn't sure who to approach or how to go about that. So my prayer was that God would send somebody from the church, elders in the church, or somebody to approach me instead of me approaching them.
[1:03] And one thing I should have known already by then was that God is faithful. And if we pray things and we're honest and serious about that, God answers. And I wasn't quite prepared for him to answer as quickly as he did.
[1:18] It was about a week and a half later. I was in church during the week sometime, and this elder happened to be there at the same time. And he says, oh, by the way, Abe, we've been praying and about starting a native ministry, and your name keeps coming up.
[1:35] Is that something that you would consider? And I said, no, Lord, this is way too quick. But my answer was yes. And after I thought, you know, if he had waited longer, then I probably would have said, no, if God had really wanted me to do that, then he would have answered right away, right?
[1:53] So he answered right away, and that's where it started. And I still, in my mind, I had a different community that I would like to go to, but that wasn't to be.
[2:04] And there was actually the chief at the time from a different community. He was asking for a missionary. He had approached the local radio station. He was asking for somebody to come and teach their people.
[2:16] So that's how I ended up going to where I'm going, or was going. And primarily our work is with the Denida First Nations. They have three communities around high level. And often we kind of, and I've talked about this before, but it seems like every time I talk about it, people are surprised.
[2:34] First Nations person isn't just a First Nations person. We often, we like to throw them all into the same group. There are many different people groups in the First Nations world. In high level, we have the Denida, and we have, that's where my primary work is.
[2:49] I do some work with Little Red River Cree Nation. Totally different people. Totally different language, different culture, different way of life. I don't think there's a single word that's the same from the Cree to the Deni.
[3:01] So farther apart than German and English. Totally different people. They have the same color, and that's about it. And then we have the Beaver First Nations. I do some work there.
[3:11] I've done a number of funerals for them. I've done some studies and some counseling with individuals from there. And then we have the Tall Cree First Nations.
[3:22] So the Tall Cree and the Little Red, they're both Cree, so there's a lot of similarities there. But the Dene, the Cree, the beaver, they are all their own individual people group. They're not the same.
[3:33] They might, between the beaver and the Dene, there are some similarities, some similarities from the beaver to the Cree as well. But they're still their very own people. Yeah, just thought I'd mention that.
[3:45] Because often we throw them all into the same group. And we say, well, the native people do this, or they do it like this. Well, maybe they do it like that over there, but they do it different in another place.
[3:57] So when I first started in 2007, I started by going out for a two-week cross-cultural ministry course in Athabasca. There was a native Bible school out there at the time called Kuwait and Bible Institute.
[4:09] And so I did a two-week course there. And then I went to Missouri for a native youth conference. And there I actually went with a few of the, one of the council members from the Dene, the First Nations, and a few other members from the community.
[4:25] We went out to this conference together to check it out. And then from that conference, they're part of the Ron Hutchcraft Ministries. From that conference, they took a group of youth.
[4:36] And at the time, they actually had two groups. They had one in the U.S. and one group in Canada. They would travel from one reserve to another reserve. Each reserve, there would be three days to do short-term ministry.
[4:47] And so the plan was that we would go to the conference, and that from the conference, that team would come to high level. And they would go through all the Dene communities and Fort Vermillion.
[4:59] And that's what happened. But that's where I started the ministry. So this was a very high-energy ministry. A lot of sports, playing basketball. It was a big thing, some volleyball. And they'd play games, sports, and they'd stop it.
[5:13] And one of the team members would share their testimony. They'd call it their hope story, how they had found hope in Christ. And after that hope story, they'd continue on with the game, and they'd stop it again. And each team member would get a chance to share their hope stories.
[5:27] And at the end of each day, the team leader would do a salvation invitation for people to come if they wanted to receive Christ.
[5:38] And then I still didn't know anybody there. So after they left, there were three days in each of the three communities. Still didn't really know anybody. I'd been shadowing them. Then at the end, I got, I don't know, pages full of names and phone numbers of people that had expressed an interest or had made some kind of commitment or wanted more information.
[5:58] So they were all strange names to me. I had no idea. And I would call them, and a lot of the phone numbers didn't even work. But I'd show up in the community with a list of names that I didn't know that I was now supposed to follow up on.
[6:11] Very overwhelming. I would do a lot of sitting around at the grocery store. They had a little veranda, and they'd be sitting outside in the grocery store, mainly visiting with elders, getting to know them, and their first question would be, they always thought, well, I was a new guy, white guy in the community, so I had to be either a medical worker or a teacher.
[6:37] So they asked me, are you a teacher? And I'd say, yeah, I'm a teacher. I'd say, oh, okay, so what grade do you teach? He says, I'm a Bible teacher. Oh, oh, okay. And so that's how we'd get to know people.
[6:48] And yes, start up conversations. And as they got to know us, one thing that I've learned very quickly and I'll take that out of my face, I found that it was a lot more effective to ask questions instead of giving all the answers.
[7:08] Coming into the community, man, I could have given them all the answers. Man, if you just do this like that, if you just stop doing it like this and start doing it like that, I mean, life would be so much easier and so much better for you if you just do it my way, right?
[7:20] I mean, because our way is obviously the best way. But I found it was a lot more effective in asking questions, and I'll give some examples of that later on yet maybe, but asking questions and getting them to think.
[7:33] Obviously asking questions, steering them in the way where you want them to think, but help them to find the answers in themselves. So what do we do now? We do group Bible studies.
[7:46] We have one group Bible study going on in high level, so we don't have any group Bible studies actually in the communities. We've done some, but they always came to an end pretty quickly, so we do one in high level.
[7:57] That's mainly people living in town, and the Bushy River is just outside of high level. That's one of the three communities. So we do that. The majority of my work is one-on-one, going to homes, sitting with them, counseling, talking with them, doing personal Bible studies.
[8:12] I've done a lot of funerals, a number of weddings, and in all of this, I often tell people that I don't believe in miracles.
[8:29] I don't believe in healings. I don't believe in miracles. But I believe in a God that can perform miracles, and I believe in a God that can heal. I've seen many people coming through the communities, saying, well, if you just have faith, then everything will go well.
[8:47] Just have faith, and then things don't go well. And then one example is a young man, his girlfriend, his common-law, was born with a heart defect. The doctors at first told her that she might live to be 20, but probably not.
[9:03] She'd probably die in her mid-teens somewhere. Well, now she was about 30, and she became very sick. The doctors asked her to move to town where she'd be closer to the hospital. And in the meanwhile, this gentleman, he ran into a group.
[9:16] He said, well, you just got to have faith. You just got to believe in miracles. You got to put your faith in miracles. So he had all the faith that he could get, and she became sicker.
[9:27] She actually got admitted into the hospital. You just got to have more faith. You just got to have more faith. And she was moved into palliative care. Well, you just got to have more faith. And then she died.
[9:38] Well, you didn't have enough faith. The reason she died was you didn't have enough faith because you didn't believe in miracles. Guess what happened to this guy's faith?
[9:51] It was shattered. He hated God, didn't want to have anything to do with God because he had had all the faith that he could get, and God still didn't do what he wanted him to do. So he placed his faith in the miracle instead of in the person of Jesus Christ.
[10:08] And when the miracle didn't happen, his faith was shattered. Of course, I always say, I don't put my faith in miracles. I put my faith in Jesus Christ who can perform miracles if he chooses to do so.
[10:20] If he doesn't, my faith is not shattered because Jesus Christ is still Jesus Christ. He can still do what he wants to do. In that, I have seen him heal.
[10:32] We're talking about this gentleman who hadn't been given much time. There's a lady in the hospital. She was in palliative care. The doctor said she will not live to see the morning.
[10:46] God healed her. In the morning, instead of carrying her out, she walked out. The doctor said she had no liver. She'd spent years on the streets drinking.
[10:57] And the doctor said she had no liver left to heal. Everything was dried up. There's nothing left to heal. There's no way. She should be dead right now. There's no way she can live beyond the morning.
[11:09] In the morning, she walked out with a perfectly healthy liver. Nothing wrong with her liver. No spots on it. Nothing. She had a perfectly healthy liver. Why? Because God healed her.
[11:20] Why? Because God healed her. I have seen greater miracles than that.
[11:34] I have seen people who were on the street cursing God to praising Jesus. And that, in my mind, is the absolute greatest miracle that we can ever see.
[11:46] There's one gentleman a number of years ago already. He always bragged about himself. He was the worst of the worst. He ate out of more dumpsters than anybody else. Slept on the street more than anybody else. Ate more garbage than anybody else.
[11:59] And he went from that to praising Jesus. And then a few years later, he died of cancer. And he asked me, I said, Why now? I said, Why didn't God take me back then when I was...
[12:12] I didn't care about God. But why now? Why do I get sick now and it looks like I'll be dying? He said, Why now? And he thought about it a little bit and he said, Well, at least if I die now, I'll go be with him.
[12:26] And they said, Exactly. He said, God is not willing that any man should perish, but that all should come to repentance. That he had been patient with him for all these years that he was living on the street, living in sin.
[12:37] God had been patient with him. But now that he knew the Lord, he said, Now you're ready to go. And he died, I think it was two weeks after he was diagnosed, he was gone. He was with the Lord.
[12:47] But in 2007, it would have never crossed my mind when this group of teenagers from the U.S. came to our communities, it would have never crossed my mind that my son would ever be part of that team.
[13:07] Last summer, I think last time I was here, I was talking about the possibility of my son maybe going to join them. Some of you may remember that. Last summer in June, end of June, my son and I, that's our foster son, but I just, he's my son, we went out to that same youth conference, they've changed locations, it's in Illinois now, we went out there, and he had an amazing time, but he signed up to join the team traveling across the U.S.
[13:38] for the month of July, sharing the gospel with different people and different reservations out there. After that, he came home for a short time, and then he went to a one-year training program with the same ministry in Arkansas.
[13:52] So he just came back home a few weeks ago. He spent all year out there getting discipled by First Nations teachers out there in a school.
[14:02] Absolutely incredible, amazing to see what God is doing in his life, and we were planning to go back to that conference again, and right now, as we speak, he is working with a few of the youth in one of our local communities that he is wanting to take with us to the community because he has seen what God has done in his life, and he wants the same for these other people.
[14:22] So that's something that you could pray for. A number of people that had wanted to go, I mean, Arkansas is a long way from here, or sorry, Illinois is where we're going. That's a long way from here.
[14:32] A lot of them have never really been outside of their community much. A lot of them to come to Grand Prairie is a big thing. So for them to pack up and to go on a trip to Illinois, that's a long way from home.
[14:43] So pray that those that God wants to go, that they will go, and that God will have his way and that he would do a work in and through them. But if you have any more questions about our work that we do in high level with the First Nations, feel free to talk to me later.
[15:04] But we heard in 2 Corinthians 5, 18 to 21, being read to us. But I want to back up just a few verses just to get a clearer picture of who this is written to.
[15:18] And I'll be reading it from the NLT, so it might be a little different than your translations. I don't know what you have. But in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 15, it says that Jesus died for everyone so that those who received his new life will no longer live for themselves.
[15:32] Instead, they will live for Christ who died and was raised for them. I'll read that again. Jesus died for everyone so that those who received his new life will no longer live for themselves.
[15:48] Instead, they will live for Christ who died and was raised for them. I want to pause here a little bit. Now, I don't know if you do that here in church ever, but sometimes we ask people to stand if they want to receive Christ.
[16:05] We'll do a gospel presentation or something. We'll ask people to stand, raise their hand, come forward, or go to the back or something. We'll ask them to do something if they want to receive Christ. I'm not going to do that.
[16:15] But I, this morning, I would like to ask those of you who have already received, as the Apostle Paul put it, Jesus' new life.
[16:29] If you have Christ, if you know that if you were to die today, you'd be with the Lord, I'd like you to stand. Now, for those that have remained seated, I want you to look around.
[16:59] All those who are standing, all of you who are standing here, are testifying to the fact that you no longer live for yourselves. your life is not about you, that you now live for Christ.
[17:16] I was sitting in the last little part of Sunday school, talking about the pearl of great price, where a man found a pearl in the field, and he went and he sold everything that he had to buy that one pearl.
[17:27] You're testifying to the fact that you have sold all of your pearls in order to purchase this one pearl of great price. You have given up life for yourself.
[17:40] Life is not about you, but about Christ. You can be seated. Now, some of you probably wish that you hadn't stood, because it's a high calling.
[17:54] If you actually think about it, for all of you who stood, when you go out in the community, what you're saying is, I know Jesus, and my life is all about Jesus.
[18:08] I live for him. So if you look at me, you will see what Jesus is like. It's a serious call. And sometimes I think we forget about it. And we often hear testimonies of people how they come to know the Lord, and they have no problem going into great detail in how they lived for the devil before they knew the Lord.
[18:33] It can go into all kinds of detail in all the bad things that we used to do. And then one day, I found Jesus. I gave my life to Jesus. Now, most of the bad things, I don't do anymore, and I go to church most Sundays.
[18:48] But that's kind of where the testimonies end often. But my question then is, you know, that's a great testimony. If you got saved yesterday, or last week, or two weeks ago, but if we've been saved for a number of years, my question is, what has God been doing in your life since you got saved?
[19:11] Now, if you have this new life in Christ that Paul talks about in Corinthians 5, 15, where life is no longer about myself, but about Jesus, then Jesus must have been doing something in and through us since we got saved.
[19:31] Now, this is a high calling. And I think there's something wrong.
[19:42] If our testimony ends, if we've been saved for a long time and our testimony ends with, I gave my life to the Lord and I got saved, and that's it. I think there's something wrong.
[19:53] We are missing out and the world is missing out. Because obviously, if that's where our testimony ends, then the people outside in the community, they can't see. If God hasn't been doing anything in and through us since then, then the people won't see that if we're in uptown.
[20:09] They will not see that we're different. Now, I don't for a minute believe that every one of us is called into full-time ministry. Not all of us are called to be missionaries or to be pastors or even to hold some official position in the church.
[20:24] But if we keep reading in 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 16, starting with this thought that we have received, as believers, we have received new life in Christ, it says, so we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.
[20:41] At one time, we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know Him now. This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old is gone.
[20:51] A new life has begun. And all of this is a gift from God who brought us back to Himself through Christ, and God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him.
[21:04] For God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people's sins against them, and He gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. Now, Paul is not talking to missionaries.
[21:16] He's not talking to pastors. He's talking to every single person that stood here this morning. He has given us, all of us, who have received new life in Christ, He has given us the message of reconciliation.
[21:35] If you have been reconciled, if you have been made right through Christ, then you have been given the task of telling others how they can be reconciled.
[21:46] basically what this means, that everything we do or don't do should be a testimony of our reconciliation to Christ.
[22:01] And 1 Peter 3.15 says that when we live like this, people will have questions. And when they have questions, we should be ready to give an answer to why or why we don't do certain things.
[22:13] for example, after a funeral service one time, not a Christian service and not one that I officiated, obviously, a gentleman approached me saying that he had noticed that I never put money in the offering at a funeral.
[22:31] I found it kind of interesting that he had noticed that. He says, I've just noticed that every time at the funeral they pass the offering plate and you never put money in there. And I said, you're right.
[22:44] And I said, why? Why don't you? And coming back to asking questions rather than giving answers, I could have given him so I don't believe in that, which is the very short answer.
[22:58] Not that I don't believe in giving money, but instead I asked him, I said, what is the offering for? Why do they pass the plate at a funeral? What's the reason behind it? And he said, well, it's a sacrifice for the deceased.
[23:12] I said, exactly. It is. I said, now what is the Bible? And this was a person he, I'm not sure if he knew the Lord or not, but he knew, I'd met him a number of times.
[23:25] I said, what does the Bible say? What is the sacrifice for us? And he thought about it for a little while and said, well, Jesus?
[23:37] I said, yes. I said, so what does it mean then if I give money as a sacrifice? What does that say? Oh, I said, I guess it would mean that you don't have faith in Jesus.
[23:54] I said, exactly. So it's much easier to pass a plate and just put in a little bit of money for the sacrifice, and if you give enough, the thinking was if you give enough sacrifice or big enough sacrifice, then the journey would be short for that person to get to heaven.
[24:12] So me putting money into the plate, though I have no problem giving money to the church if I know it's going for a good cause and I know it's being used well, but if I'm giving money as a symbol that this person's journey is supposed to be shorter, going to heaven, well, what am I saying?
[24:27] I place my faith in my money, not in Jesus. Jesus isn't enough. So asking questions instead of giving answers. But continuing in 2 Corinthians, verse 20 says, we are Christ's ambassadors.
[24:47] We are Christ's ambassadors. And that's what I want to focus the rest of this morning on. And I know we won't have time to fully explore what this all means, but we are Christ's ambassadors.
[24:58] What does it even mean? And Paul goes on to say, and I believe this explains the idea of being an ambassador very well, he goes on to say, God is making His appeal through us.
[25:10] We speak for Christ when we plead, come back to God. For God made Christ who never sinned to be the offering for our sins so that we could be made right with God through Christ. God is making His appeal through us.
[25:25] We speak for Christ. Who is us? Who is we? Every single person that stood here this morning. You are the us. You are the we. That God is making His appeal through.
[25:38] God is pleading through you to other people, come back to God. You know, if you look up an ambassador, what an ambassador is, and we often think of ambassadors for different countries, or maybe you have the Canadian ambassador to a different country or whatever.
[25:59] An ambassador is an accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country. An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat.
[26:13] So, if I, me as a Canadian, the Canadian government sends me to China, for example, I go to China to represent Canada, meaning that everything I do in China, all my work there is to represent Canada.
[26:36] I'm not there to do whatever China does, I'm there to represent Canada. Canada. An ambassador, they act on the country that the sending countries wishes, and they are their official representative.
[26:52] An ambassador is the face of their nation to the host country, representing the government's interests and policies. They uphold the country's values and principles, promoting them with the host country.
[27:07] The ambassadors work to build and strengthen the relationship with the host country. They participate in negotiations and discussions to address bilateral and multilateral issues.
[27:18] They help to shape foreign policy, ensuring the country's interests are represented in international forms. Ambassadors work to facilitate trade and investments between their home country and their host country.
[27:30] They promote their country's economy and encourage businesses to invest abroad. Ambassadors are responsible for the safety and the well-being of their country's citizens residing in the host country.
[27:42] They provide counselor assistance, such as issuing visas and helping citizens who are facing difficulties. Ambassadors often organize cultural events and programs to promote their country's culture and history within their host country.
[27:56] They help to foster understanding and appreciation of different cultures. And you know what I find amazing? Ambassadors, an ambassador, he has something, he has a very special, a very privileged honor, I guess.
[28:13] You ever heard of diplomatic immunity? So if we have an ambassador from China in Canada, he doesn't live under the Canadian law. He's not obligated to follow the Canadian law.
[28:26] He lives under the Chinese law. He has diplomatic immunity, or the laws here really mean nothing to him. A little scary in some ways to think about it.
[28:37] But us too, as ambassadors, we've been given diplomatic immunity, and I'll get to that a little bit later. So in essence, an ambassador is the key player in an international diplomacy working to build bridges between nations and advancing their country's interest on the global stage.
[28:59] The ambassador is the highest ranking representative to a specific nation representing their home country.
[29:13] An accredited diplomat. It can't just be anybody. It's somebody that has been given, that has been evaluated, and has been found that he's actually worthy of that position.
[29:25] He's been an accredited diplomat sent by a country. And how does that apply to us? If Paul says that we are ambassadors for Christ, how does, what does that mean?
[29:39] How does that apply to us? As a born-again believer in Jesus, being born again gives you the accreditation that you need. Becoming born again, as a born-again believer, you are accredited diplomat sent by Jesus to be his official representative in a foreign land.
[30:02] meaning the world that we now live in is a foreign land. This is no longer our nation. This is no longer our world. In John 9, verse 5, Jesus said, While I am in this world, I am the light of the world.
[30:17] So while Jesus was walking on this earth, he said, While I am here, I am the light of the world. But later on, in Matthew 5, verse 14, he says, Now you are the light of the world. While he was here, he was the light of the world.
[30:30] But now when he is gone, he says, That is now on you. All of you who stood here this morning, you are the light of the world. Colossians 1.15 says, Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
[30:45] In John 14.9 says, Anybody who has seen me, Jesus talking, anybody who has seen me has seen the Father. In John 5.19, Jesus said, I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself.
[30:58] He does only what He sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. And now as a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are His ambassadors.
[31:09] We have been appointed to do the same. We are now the visible image of Christ. Jesus is no longer walking in this earth in the flesh, but He has given that to us where we are now the face of Christ to the people around us.
[31:23] He is making His appeal through us. We now speak on His behalf. As a born-again believer, you are now the highest-ranking diplomat representing the kingdom of God.
[31:41] And Scripture says at one point you'll even be judging angels. You are now the highest-ranking diplomat. You now act as Jesus' official representative. As ambassadors of Christ, you are the face of Jesus representing His interests and His ways.
[32:02] As ambassadors of Christ, you are now required to uphold the values and the principles of God's heavenly kingdom, promoting them within this broken world. You are no longer to be ruled by this world.
[32:14] You have diplomatic immunity. You are now being ruled by a much higher law, which is the law of Christ. As ambassadors for Christ, we now work to build and strengthen relationships, leading people to Jesus.
[32:37] As ambassadors, we are now required to participate in negotiations and discussions, talking to people, sharing our faith with them, leading them to Christ.
[32:49] as ambassadors, we are responsible to look out for the safety and well-being of fellow believers, checking up on them. How are you doing today?
[33:00] You know, life is tough. As was shared, we have family members, we have friends that are sick and dying and stillborns, checking up on family.
[33:13] How are you doing? Encouraging them. As ambassadors, we provide counselor assistance, sitting down with them, counseling them, teaching them, coaching them, discipling them, showing the way for others to join the kingdom of heaven.
[33:31] As ambassadors, we might need to organize events and programs to promote the kingdom of heaven. This could be done through Bible studies, through evangelistic meetings, revival meetings, inviting people to come join you in church, talking to your neighbor.
[33:52] As ambassadors of Christ, talking to every single person, again, every person who stood this morning is what He's saying to you. You are now the face, the one that Jesus is pleading through when He pleads, people, come back to Christ, come back to God.
[34:14] we no longer live for ourselves, but we live for Christ. As 2 Corinthians 5.15 said, Jesus died for everyone so that those who received His new life will no longer live for themselves, instead they will live for Christ who died and was raised for them.
[34:34] So I'd like to encourage us not to think that this is for the pastors, this is for the elders in the church, this is for the missionaries, but this is something that we've been, each and every one of us been called to on a daily basis, to the neighbor across the street, the people that we work with, people that we go to school with, the friends that we, that we know, and I don't think you need to ask if anybody here knows somebody that doesn't know the Lord.
[35:06] I think every single one of us, if we stop to think for two minutes, we could think of somebody who doesn't know the Lord. And if you know the Lord and you know somebody who doesn't, like Ron Hutchcraft,!
[35:23] Hutchcraft Ministries that I was just sharing about, said, if you know the Lord and you know somebody who doesn't, you have been given a life or death mission to share that.
[35:34] And that is what Paul is saying. As ambassadors of Christ, He has given us the message of reconciliation. You know how you were made right with God.
[35:45] Share that with the people around us. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank You. We thank You for Your patience with us.
[36:01] Lord, some of us, it took longer. I can only think of myself. Lord, I thank You for everyone here this morning that stood testifying that they have received a new life in You.
[36:16] So Father, I pray that You would give each one of us the courage and the strength to live it out on a daily basis. That we would live out our calling as ambassadors. that we would be true representatives of who You are.
[36:29] Lord, we know that people look at us. If we claim to be Christians, they look at us to see what we are like and help us to live our life in a way that when they see us, that they would see the true image of who You are.
[36:43] Because that is what ambassadors do, Lord. So Father, I pray that You give us the courage to not back away from this, but to embrace it fully in Your strength and Your power and for Your glory.
[36:56] Amen. Amen.