Great. Good morning, Watermark family. It's wonderful to be back with you. If you are watching us for one of the first times, my name is Kevin, one of the leaders here, and it's really wonderful to be able to serve us this morning as we look at this amazing passage in the book of Philippians.
I wonder if you can join me as we just pray for a few minutes. Let's start our time in prayer before our Heavenly Father.
Heavenly Father, Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, we come before you this morning to this amazing, amazing passage of Scripture, and we really do desire, God, that you will speak to us.
God, we are not here to listen to the opinions of an individual, the opinions of man. We are here because we want to hear your word. We want to hear your voice. We want to encounter the living God.
Father, for those of us that are maybe still on a spiritual journey or wondering what we believe about faith, we want to know whether you are real and whether you still speak.
We pray, God, that today your word will speak to us. Those that are spiritual seekers, those that have been saints for many years, Christ, come and speak to us today, we pray.
Father, as we gather in Hong Kong, we are also just mindful of what's going on in our world. We want to bring our world before you.
We want to pray, especially this morning, for those in Beirut and Lebanon and all the trauma that they've gone through this last week.
We pray for those, God, who have lost loved ones and are grieving that.
We pray for those that are injured and hurting in hospital or elsewhere. We pray that you will be with them and comfort them.
We pray, God, as there's lots of anger and frustration in the streets.
We pray for wisdom, God, and that justice will be done.
But we pray, God, that more bloodshed won't be spilled in that city.
Father, this morning, we want to pray especially for the Christians there, for the churches, for those that are seeking to be salt and light in that city,
those that are wanting to offer forth the good news of Jesus and the hope of the gospel in the midst of this tragedy.
God, won't you give them wisdom, those brothers and sisters whom we do not know and have never met,
and yet we are united to them by a common head of a church, a common father, by Christ our Lord.
God, won't you strengthen them? Won't you encourage them? Won't you be with them today, Father?
So we want to pray for our brothers and sisters there.
Father, we pray all these things in your wonderful name. Amen. Amen.
Well, this morning, as a church, we are continuing to work through the New Testament book of Philippians.
It's an amazing book of the Bible in which Paul writes to these bunch of Christians to encourage them in their faith and their devotion to Jesus.
And what we have in the book of Philippians, amongst many other things, is an incredible description of the Christian life.
I wonder if you've ever wondered about that.
What does the Christian life actually look like?
If you're here this morning and you wouldn't call yourself a Christian,
maybe a friend of yours sent you this link, or maybe someone has invited you to watch this service with them.
I wonder if you've ever given thought to, what does the Christian life actually look like?
Maybe you thought of it as a strict moral system.
Something that says no drinking, no sex, no gambling, anything that sounds like fun is automatically outlawed in the Christian faith.
Maybe you've thought of Christianity as a Western ideology.
Or maybe it's a political system.
Something to impose conservative values on society.
Well, in the book of Philippians, which we're looking at for the next couple of weeks,
gives us an amazing picture of what the Christian life looks like.
And one of the things that we find is that the Christian life, in all of its circumstances,
whether you are wealthy or not wealthy, whether you are suffering or not suffering,
whether you are facing life or facing death,
the Christian life is one that is shaped by the life of Jesus Christ.
And specifically, what it means is laying down your life,
laying down your self-interest and your self-centered ambitions,
maybe even your ego,
that in doing so, we actually find fullness of life and fullness of joy.
And the book of Philippians is all about that.
And Paul, the writer of this book, actually demonstrates that with his own life.
He is constantly saying that in following Jesus, he's chosen to live this life of sacrifice.
He's laying down his life for the well-being of others.
But as he's done so, he's actually found the fullness of life and overflowing joy.
And so this is the big idea for today.
That the Christian life, particularly Christian community,
the communal life of the Christian,
is shaped by the humility and the selflessness of Jesus Christ.
The Christian life, particularly community life,
is shaped, informed by the humility and the selflessness of Jesus Christ.
Now, last week, Chris showed us how Paul writes,
and he says,
I urge you that your lives will follow or be worthy of the gospel.
And he says that has two ramifications.
One, when opposition and persecution come your way,
stand united, fearless.
And secondly, see suffering as a grace gift from God.
God's got a plan for you in the midst of his suffering.
The question is this now.
What happens when the Christian community or a bunch of people
experience division, conflict,
but not out there when it's in here?
What happens when the conflict and the division is not external?
It's not persecution or suffering or opposition.
It's internal.
When there's division or discord or disagreement within the Christian community.
What does the gospel have to say about that?
How does the Christian life look when there's differences of opinion,
conflict, or division within our relationships?
One of the things we know about the church in Philippi
is that it was a culturally and socioeconomically diverse church.
We know this because of the way it started.
In Acts chapter 16, Paul goes to the city of Philippi,
and he meets a bunch of ladies.
And the first person to become a follower of Jesus is this lady called Lydia.
She actually comes from another city 400 kilometers away called Thyatira.
She's a wealthy businesswoman that trades in fine material and cloth.
And she hears the gospel, becomes a follower of Jesus,
and opens up her home to Paul and his companions.
A few weeks later, Paul is in the city preaching the gospel,
and he gets thrown in jail for his work.
And while he's in jail, miraculously he gets released from jail,
and the jailer invites him to his home,
listens to the gospel, and becomes a follower of Jesus himself.
And so here you have the two founding members of the church of Philippi.
This wealthy trader, this businesswoman Lydia from another city,
and this working class jailkeeper coming together to form the early church.
Talk about a church of diversity.
Now, we all know that diversity is a beautiful thing.
It's a wonderful thing.
But diversity also has the ability to bring about disagreements.
You've got different backgrounds, different cultures, different understandings.
Diversity, for all this wonderful gift that it gives us,
also creates the opportunity for conflict.
When Paul writes this letter to the Philippians a couple of years later,
something of this kind of disagreement has taken place in the church.
And Paul is writing to encourage them to deal with the disagreement.
Friends, we live in one of the most divided and fractured times in living memory.
Families, churches, society, groups of friends, sports groups,
all are feeling the effect of a fractured and divided world.
The division that we see out there and we read about in the newspapers and see on the streets
is coming into our homes and into our churches.
People are divided around politics, what's happening in Hong Kong,
what's happening in other parts of the world.
People are divided over opinions around COVID,
how the government should handle it.
Should schools open?
Should schools stay shut?
What about restaurants?
Should those open?
Should those be closed?
Not to mention matters of social justice, race, inequality.
And then there's just normal difficulties that normal people experience.
Families, marriage, parenting, work.
One of the realities of our world is we live in a fractured and divided world.
And one of the reasons for this is because our ideas have become intertwined with our identities.
And so when you disagree with my idea, I don't just take that as a disagreement.
Our world, the day in which we live, I see there's an attack on my identity and who I am.
And everyone feels like a victim.
What does the gospel have to say to this?
Well, look at what Paul says here in chapter 2 of the letter to Philippians.
He says in verse 1,
If there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit,
any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love,
being in full accord and of one mind.
So essentially Paul is saying, since you're in Christ,
since you've experienced the grace of God and the comfort of Christ and the love of God
and you've participated in the fellowship of the Spirit,
I'm asking you to be of one mind, one heart, one spirit, to be united as a church body.
Now, notice a couple of things here.
He uses the word one mind a couple of times.
He actually says it twice here in verse 2 and again in verse 5.
When Paul says, I want you to have one mind,
he's not saying that we should just switch off our brains and all just think the same thoughts.
Christianity is not about switching off your intellect and just believing what somebody tells you to believe.
He's talking about having a common purpose, a common ambition to strive for a common goal,
for our thinking to be aligned and to be heading in the same direction.
Notice also, he says, he's not saying, listen, we all have differences,
but let's just not talk about those things, right?
Let's just keep peace here.
So, anything that's meaningful and that really is on your heart,
don't talk about those things.
Let's just keep the superficial peace.
That's not real unity.
That's just superficial peace.
Paul's not asking them to lay aside their culture or what they believe or where they come from.
Rather, he's asking them to choose, to be one in heart, one in mind,
while they still hold on to their cultures and their backgrounds and even their distinctives.
Now, that sounds good, right?
We all like unity.
Sounds like a good idea.
But how do we actually do that?
Well, Paul gives two really practical ideas.
Look at verse 3 with me.
This is where the idealism gets grounded a little bit.
And Paul writes in verse 3, he says,
Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit,
but in humility count others more significant than yourself.
What's Paul saying here?
He's saying the key to this countercultural uncommon unity is for each member of the community to,
in everything they do, do their best to remove the selfish ambition,
that means putting your own desires or your own interests above those of others,
and to remove what he calls empty conceit.
That means a sense of superiority, a sense of self-importance,
and rather to consider others more significant, better than yourself.
Now, that doesn't mean that we go around saying,
Woe is me.
I'm so insignificant.
I'm such a loser.
I'm so unworthy.
Woe is me.
Right?
Because what are you doing if that's our attitude?
Well, we're still just thinking about ourselves.
Remember, C.S. Lewis famously said,
Humility is not thinking less of ourselves.
It's not thinking how lowly and insignificant and unworthy we are.
Now, true humility is just thinking about yourself less altogether.
It's about forgetting about yourself and being more interested in the lives of those around you.
In fact, that's exactly what Paul says in the next line.
He summarizes it in verse 4.
He says,
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Now, again, Paul is not saying here that our interests or our concerns are illegitimate or that they're not even real.
And he's not saying that you're not really entitled to them.
It may be that we really are entitled to them.
We really do deserve them.
But what he's saying is that the kind of humility that is involved in disarming division, in diffusing conflict and animosity,
is the kind of humility that doesn't insist on what you are rightly entitled to or what you deserve is rightly yours.
And if you think about it, very little conflict really occurs in the world because somebody is just trying to be unreasonably difficult.
Most conflict happens because somebody really does believe that what they're saying or what they want is rightly theirs.
They're entitled to it.
I may feel like I really do deserve that apology and I'm not going to forgive you until I get it.
I may really feel that I'm entitled or deserved to be treated a level of respect.
And if you don't show it to me, that's the end of our relationship or friendship.
Paul's not saying that we should put aside only the things that we're not really entitled to.
Sometimes the humility that's required to disarm the conflict means willing to lay down, willing to give up,
even that which is rightly ours or we rightly entitled to.
Notice that Paul is not just saying that this kind of unity is a matter of personality.
Someone says, you enjoy serving others.
I enjoy being served.
We're going to get along just fine.
It's not a matter of resources.
Someone might say, look, you've got a lot of resources.
I need a lot of resources.
It's a match made in heaven.
We're going to get along just well.
It's not a matter of common interests.
You say, I like Japanese food.
You like Japanese food.
We have the same heart, same mind, same stomach.
We're going to get along just well, right?
No, what Paul is talking about here is a unity that's not based on personality, not based on common interests.
It's a unity that is based on a humility, on a hard attitude that says, I'm not here to insist in my way.
I'm here to think about your interests over and above mine.
I'm interested in your desires, your concerns as much as my own.
Now, on the one hand, this is really not rocket scientist.
You don't need to be a genius to work this out.
And yet at the same time, our world is so fractured.
There's so much division, so much conflict.
How do we take this really simple idea and actually get it to be a reality in our lives?
How do we become the kind of people who neither fight over our own ideas or points of view, but also the kind of people who don't just retreat into the community that agrees with us and just thinks like us?
How do we become the kind of people that really can have friendship and opinions and community with those that have diverse opinions and backgrounds and cultures and those who even disagree with us and yet still have a commonality, a unity of heart?
The answer is actually found in the life and the death of Jesus Christ.
And so look at the second thing that Paul says.
Look at what he says here in verse 4 to 11.
He says,
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Okay, we looked at that.
Then he says,
Have this mind amongst yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.
And now he's going to describe this Christ Jesus.
He says,
This Jesus Christ who, verse 6,
Though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.
That means, though Jesus was God, he didn't demand or insist upon his right to be treated as God, nor did he exploit his godness, his status as divine.
Rather, verse 7, he emptied himself.
He poured himself out and took on the form of a servant.
Jesus taking on the form of a servant.
And what did he do taking on this form of a servant?
He came being born in the likeness of humanity.
Think about that.
We just spoke about earlier that the way to disarm division and disunity is to find the kind of humility that doesn't insist on what I'm entitled to,
doesn't insist on my rights, but is willing to give that up for the sake of others.
Jesus, though he was God,
didn't grasp or demand or exploit his godness, but gave it up, poured himself out, taking on the form of a servant,
coming in the likeness of humanity.
And coming as a human being, what would he do?
Was this a form of brilliant espionage?
Coming as a human to then destroy his enemies, to overthrow those that oppose him?
Coming hidden as the form of a human so that he could destroy anyone that disagreed with him?
No, verse 8 tells us,
This section of scripture is an incredible portion of scripture.
It's called the Christ hymn.
And it's a passage of scripture that many scholars have written hundreds of books about,
exploring the depth of richness and meaning in this passage.
It's obviously an incredible piece of writing.
But it's also a passage that is laden with Old Testament imagery and analogy.
And one of the references in the Old Testament is to the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3.
You'll remember the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
They are made as God's image.
They are given a unique status, his image bearers.
They are given a unique calling and commissioning to steward God's creation on behalf of God.
They are to work with God, closely with him, looking after creation for the glory of God.
And they are in the garden, but they are tempted.
And remember the essence of the temptation.
Satan comes to them and says, God's really holding out on you.
He doesn't really want you to be happy.
If he wanted you to be happy, he would let you have whatever you want in the garden.
But the reason God isn't letting you have everything you want is because he knows that if you eat this fruit,
you will become like God.
Satan comes to Adam and Eve and says, if you have this, you will become like God.
He offers them God-like status.
And when you see the temptation, it's not just fruit.
It's the desire to be like God.
And they say, we want it.
And as they pursue it, the world enters into a fallen state.
Sin enters the world.
Conflict enters the world.
Sin, death, destruction, heartache enter the world.
And the consequences for the sin entering the world is that that heart becomes our natural disposition.
And if you think about it, almost every difficulty, almost major problem that we have in our lives
is because someone in the world, either ourselves or someone else,
has acted like Adam and Eve, grasping for God-like status,
grasping for their own selfish ambition, grasping for their own desires.
But contrast that with Jesus, who though he really was God,
didn't grasp or exploit his God-like status,
didn't grasp at his God-ness,
but rather he offered it up.
He laid it down.
He took the nature of a servant,
not serving himself,
but serving others.
And unlike Adam,
who in disobedience grasped for the status
which was not rightly his,
Jesus laid aside his majesty
and was resolutely obedient
to the Father's wishes and desires.
Obedient to the point of death.
And where Paul writes and says,
obedient to the point of death,
even death on the cross.
Dan alluded to it a little bit earlier,
but the Philippians would have known
exactly what Paul was talking about.
You see, the great horror of the cross
wasn't just how painful it was,
though of course it was excruciatingly painful.
The great horror of Roman execution
was that it was the ultimate sign of shame
and disgrace and rejection.
For the Jewish people,
someone like Jesus,
who was crucified in Jerusalem,
the cross was the ultimate sign
of God's curse and rejection on you.
God was utterly displeased with you
and so led you to be crucified on a cross.
For the Romans,
crucifixion was too barbaric
to do to their own citizens.
They only crucified foreigners,
servants, slaves, or outcasts.
You were considered not human
if you were crucified on the cross.
But here is Jesus,
such as the humility
and the God-centeredness of Him,
that though He was God,
in all His glory,
unrivaled majesty,
divine perfection,
He lays it aside,
took on humanity,
embraced His Father's will,
surrendering Himself
to Roman crucifixion.
Friends, why did Jesus do this?
Why did Jesus do that?
He didn't do it just to be an example
of humility and selflessness.
He did it to heal
the greatest discord
and division
and conflict
in the history of the world.
He did it to bring
restoration and healing
between the division that occurred
between God and man,
to bring reconciliation
between a holy God
and sinful humanity.
In Colossians chapter 1,
Paul writes,
and he says this,
You who were once alienated
and hostile in mind,
doing sinful deeds,
He has now reconciled
in His body of flesh
by His death on the cross
in order to present you
holy, blameless,
above reproach before Him.
Jesus died on the cross
to make those who were
alienated and hostile,
to heal the division
between this holy God
and sinful man,
to reconcile us
because Jesus went to the cross.
Friends, that's the gospel.
That's the message of the Bible.
That's what the Bible
is all about.
Jesus didn't come just to give us
a good example of humility,
but in humility,
He did what He was rightfully
didn't need to do.
He laid aside what He's entitled to.
He laid aside His divinity
and took up the cross
that we might be reconciled to God.
That's not all the Scripture says.
Because look at verse 9.
The second half of this Christ hymn
says this.
Christ, being found in human form,
humbled Himself further,
becoming obedient to the point of death,
even death on the cross.
We just read that.
Verse 9.
Look at how it ends.
Christ's resurrection
of His shameful death
is reversed.
It says,
In this passage,
Paul is quoting Isaiah 45,
a very famous passage
in the Old Testament,
which the Philippians
would have probably been familiar with.
It's a passage that describes
how all creation
comes to realize
that the God of Israel
is in fact
the one true God,
the Lord of all.
And all creation
is drawn towards Him,
bows down on their knees
before Him,
and everyone
from every nation
and tribe
and language
and tongue
confesses
that the God of Israel
really is the one true God,
the Lord of all.
Now look at what Paul
is doing here.
What he's saying
is almost blasphemous.
He's applying that passage
in Isaiah 45
to the person of Jesus.
And what he's saying
is that in Jesus
we discover
the death
and the resurrection
of Jesus
shows us,
tells us,
that the one true God
of all creation
consists of
God the Father
but also
the Lord Jesus Christ.
This Jesus
who though He was
by worldly standards
lowly
and discreditable
and despised
and rejection
He's actually
the Lord of all creation.
And one day
every single person
is going to bow down
before Him
and every single person
is going to have
to acknowledge
who He really is
the fact
that Jesus is Lord.
Friends,
you see how
Paul can now say
do nothing
out of selfish ambition
or vain conceit
but in humility
consider others
more significant
than yourselves.
Look not only
to your own interests
but also to the interests
of others
knowing that in Jesus
we have the ability
to do so
because Jesus Christ
the one who was God
laid aside
His majesty
and divinity
to con the nature
of a servant
died the death
we should have died
and rose again
to glory.
Now,
let's conclude
with this.
In this passage
Paul asks
the Philippians
to do three things
three practical things
really quickly.
Firstly,
he calls them
to remember
the gospel.
What does he do
when there's conflict
and division
in the church
in Philippi?
Well,
he doesn't just tell them
to pull themselves together.
He doesn't pull
on their emotional
heart strings
and say,
after all I've done
for you,
really?
This is how you treat me?
This is how you repay
my kindness to me?
He doesn't manipulate them.
He reminds them
of the grace of God
towards them.
Of the humility
of Jesus
which purchased
their healing,
which purchased
their restoration,
which removed
the enmity
between them
and God
and reconciled them
to God the Father.
In effect,
he's saying,
friends,
the offense
between you
and God
has been removed
by the humility
of Jesus.
Don't you think
you can lay aside
the offense
which you feel
rightly entitled to?
Friends,
isn't this true
for us?
Some of us
have been offended.
Some of us
have been hurt.
Some of us
are holding on
to unforgiveness
and that unforgiveness
is legitimate.
We've been rightly
hurt.
But in Jesus,
in the gospel,
we're able
to lay those
things aside
because of
who we have
in Christ.
Friends,
to the degree
to which you
and I see
and understand
who Jesus is
and what his death
on the cross
was all about,
to that degree
we'll be able
to let go
of offense
and unforgiveness
and hurt
in our lives.
To that degree
we'll be able
to let go
of the things
that caused
conflict
and division
in our lives.
Many Christians
once knew
the gospel,
once believed
the gospel
and now
just assume
the gospel.
It's there
in the back
of our minds
but it's no longer
vivid,
it's no longer
real,
it's no longer
beautiful
and informing
our lives.
Paul says
remember the gospel.
Let it shape
your life.
Second thing
is this.
Paul says
be resourced
by the gospel.
He's not just
saying,
he's not just
holding up Jesus
as an exalted
example
and then saying
go and be like him.
pull yourselves
together,
look within yourself,
be the best version
of yourself you can
and be like Jesus.
What he's saying
is that as you
dive into the gospel,
as you meditate
on the gospel,
as you remember
the grace of God
towards you,
let that be the power,
the resources,
the motivation
to help you
live this kind of life.
Look at what he says
in verse 1.
He says,
if there's any
encouragement
in Christ,
any comfort
from God's love,
any participation
in the Spirit,
then complete my joy
by being of the same mind,
having the same love,
being in one accord
and of one mind.
He's saying that
this kind of agreement
and humility
is possible
because you've
experienced Christ,
because you've
experienced the love
of God,
because you've
participated
in the communion
of the Spirit.
He's saying
that in the gospel,
God gives us
the resources,
the motivation,
the strength
to do this.
When we see
what Jesus did
for us
and who He is,
it melts our hearts
to become the kind
of people
that want to extend
that same kind
of grace
to others.
Look what he says
in verse 5.
Have this mind
amongst you,
which is yours
in Christ Jesus.
In fact,
throughout the rest
of Philippians,
everything Paul
is going to say
is going to come
back to this passage
as the motivation
and the resources
and the power
to live the kind
of life
that He calls us to.
Finally,
and lastly,
this.
Paul calls
Christians in Philippi
and God calls us today
to imitate
the life of Jesus.
Friends,
one of the biggest
mistakes that we can
make as Christians
is that because
the gospel
is by grace alone,
because Christians
are saved,
not by our own
moral performance,
our own good works,
but because of
Jesus' work on the cross,
because in the gospel
we discover that
God loves us
and accepts us
for who we are,
not because we've
pulled our lives together,
one of the mistakes
we can make
is we can think
that God is disinterested
in our moral lives
or our conduct.
But notice what
Paul's argument
is here.
Paul says that
the Christian life,
and in this case
Christian community,
is shaped
by the radical
humility
and selflessness
of Jesus.
Paul's argument
here is
let your life
reflect
the life of Jesus.
Paul's urging them
and God's calling us
to imitate
the person of Jesus.
In other words,
the Christian,
having been forgiven
by grace alone
because of Jesus' death,
is someone
who's learning
to model our life
on the life
of Jesus.
that the humility
of Jesus
becomes the humility
of his followers.
That the mercy
of Jesus
becomes the mercy
exhibited by his followers.
That the compassion
and the kindness
and ultimately
the grace
and the forgiveness
of Jesus
becomes the compassion
and the kindness
and the mercy
and the grace
that his followers
extend to others.
One of the things
that Paul's going
to show us
is that like Jesus,
that's going to mean
dying to ourselves.
It means laying aside
our own selfish ambition,
putting aside
our own self-interest,
maybe even dying
or laying aside
to our dreams,
maybe even our rights
or the things
that we are entitled to.
And at times
that may feel
like death.
But Jesus Christ
promises us
and what Christians
throughout the ages
have discovered,
that when we follow Jesus,
when we lay down
our lives,
ultimately that always
leads to overflowing joy
and fullness of life.
Have this mind amongst you
which is yours in Christ,
who though he was
in the form of God,
did not count
equality with God
something to be grasped,
but emptied himself,
taking the form
of a servant.
And being born
in the likeness of man,
he humbled himself,
becoming obedient
to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
Therefore God
has highly exalted him
and bestowed on him
the name that is
above every name,
so that at the name
of Jesus,
every knee should bow
in heaven
and on earth
and under the earth
and every tongue
confess
that Jesus Christ
is Lord
to the glory
of God the Father.
Amen.
We're going to end
our sermon
a little bit differently.
Before we sing songs
of worship
and devotion to Christ,
we're going to end
at the time of prayer.
And normally I would
pray for us,
but I want to urge you
and encourage you
to take a few minutes
and pray in your home
or where you are.
If you're with
some other people,
turn to the person
next to you
and spend a couple
of minutes in prayer.
Maybe if you're watching
by yourself,
why don't you
phone a friend,
phone somebody,
a family member
and spend two minutes
on the phone
just praying
with the person
next to you
or someone on the phone,
another brother
or sister in Christ.
And here's what
I want us to pray about.
What has God
been saying to you
in this passage?
What would it look like
to respond in prayer?
Maybe you want to
respond in worship
or adoration,
just praising God
for who He is.
Maybe this passage
is calling you
to a prayer
of confession
or repentance,
acknowledging that
you've lived
for yourself,
you've maybe
held on to something
that you felt
entitled to,
but it's causing
division in relationships.
Maybe you want to
just pray a prayer
of thanksgiving,
just thanking God
for His goodness
and His grace
in the gospel.
let's take
three or four minutes
and spend some time
in prayer.
And then after that,
will you stand with us
and we're going to sing
songs of worship
and devotion to Christ.
Let's do that together.
for the whole time.
Come with us.
Before I go to
Caleb snow got
about it now.
In my fold,
to incredible
how do
you know
you'll go to
and have
will you
fill in
you
and
for that
Rafael
and
I
in
a
time
Amen.