Bibles, it's on page 1011. So if you've got a church Bible that's looking really clean and fresh,
then it's the new church Bible and that's on page 1011. If it's the old one, then I don't know what
page it's on. It's probably very similar, 1010 or 1012. So Mark chapter 8 verses 22.
They came to Bethsaida and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spat on the
man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, do you see anything? He looked up and said, I see
people. They look like trees walking around. Once more, Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes.
Then his eyes were opened. His sight was restored and he saw everything clearly. Jesus sent him home
saying, don't even go into the village. Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around
Caesarea Philippi. On the way, he asked them, who do people say that I am? They replied, some say John
the Baptist, others say Elijah and still others, one of the prophets. But what about you? He asked,
who do you say that I am? Peter answered, you are the Messiah. Jesus warned them not to tell anyone
about him. He then began to teach them that the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected
by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after
three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. Get behind me, Satan, he said.
You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns. Then he called the crowd to him,
along with his disciples and said, whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves,
take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it. But whoever
loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the
whole world yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? If anyone
is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the son of man will be ashamed
of them when he comes in his father's glory with the holy angels. And he said to them, truly I tell you,
some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God has come with power.
Thank you, Ken.
Thank you, Alex.
We'll just have a moment of prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you for your precious word.
Thank you that through your word we can see and hear your precious son, Jesus.
We ask you that you would bless your word to us this morning, that we may see and hear your
blessed son ever more clearly and so form us to be ever more like him in his image.
As for those who do not know your son, we pray that you would bless them with eyes to see and ears
to hear him this morning. In the name of your son, we pray. Amen.
Well, for those of you who weren't here last week, I was. And unfortunately, I had a scheduling
conflict and I didn't realize I was down to preach this week, not last week. So everybody
made sure to say to me, make sure you come back now next week. So I understand it's a very rare
privilege for a visiting speaker to be asked to speak again so quickly. So I'm glad that
you've honored me in this fashion. So here I am, I suppose, in my other good shirt.
And anyway, so this passage of scripture is one that I suppose when I was young in the faith,
I didn't really, especially this opening section with the miracle, I just didn't get what was
going on here. It's going to seem to be a bit of a strange one. So let's read through
just those first few verses again. I'll read them through and we'll see what happens exactly.
We'll just get a crisp grip on this scene again. So the disciples, they came to Bethsaida
and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand
and led him outside the village. When he spat on the man's eyes and put his hands on him,
Jesus asked, do you see anything? He looked up and said, I see people and are they trees walking
around? Once more, Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes and when his eyes were opened,
the sight was restored and he saw everything clearly. And Jesus sent him home saying,
don't even go into the village. Well, just to kind of give you a grip of where I'm coming from,
Rachel and I actually were recently in Killarney and we stayed in a B&B that we like. It's kind
of near the town centre and it's not the most glamorous place in the world, but it's clean
and pretty well appointed. And we enjoy chats with the hosts who are very nice people and very down
to earth. And during our last visit, they told us an interesting story. And as you know, anyone who's
been to Kerry knows that all the stories you hear down there are entirely true.
So apparently, once upon a time, and the host swears by this, there was a church, a local church nearby
and they had this depiction of, a stained glass depiction of the Madonna and child. And we've all
seen these, right? We're living in formerly Catholic Ireland. You could hardly throw a stone in any village
in Ireland without hitting one. So this was a depiction of the Madonna and child, Mary and the infant Jesus.
But there was something different about this little baby Jesus. And specifically, the difference was
that this little baby Jesus had a big, black, beautiful beard. So people were kind of amused and
confused by this. Nobody knows how this picture came to be there. Nobody knew what the origins of this
particular artwork was. And, you know, they were thinking, of course, like this, the artist is
clearly trying to say something. He's clearly trying to teach something through this depiction
of a bearded infant. You know, people thought it was some sort of metaphor, perhaps. Maybe this was
supposed to kind of jar our minds into thinking of Jesus as the eternal Christ and that he was once a
baby. Now he's a man and all this kind of thing. There was all sorts of theories and speculations
about this. And then one time, apparently, there was a man with some expertise in the area of stained
glass and churches and all that sort of a thing. And he decided to take a look for himself because
this had become almost a minor draw all on its own. So he approached the image and he looked at it and
he considered it for a moment. And then he took a handkerchief out of his pocket and proceeded to wipe away
the black marker that some joker could have put there 20 years previously.
And I suppose, really, this, I suppose, is just to illustrate that our imaginations or depictions
of Jesus are prone to error. They're so often wrong sometimes. And how we conceive of Jesus and how we
think of him is perhaps even vulnerable to deliberate distortion by jokers and charlatans.
Now, it's a silly story. And whether it's true or not, please be true.
But questions over who Jesus was were rife at the time of this particular section of Mark's Gospel.
Speculation as to who he was was something that people were engaged in.
So, if we just go back to our text for a minute, we have this kind of strange miracle,
this kind of strange two-stage healing that's taking place.
We have this blind man. And how often do we read of blind people being healed and deaf people
being given hearing?
But people brought this blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him, begged him to heal him.
So, Jesus takes him away from the village, away from the crowds.
And he touches him and he's given partial sight.
And he asks him, do you see anything? And he said, I see people, but they're like trees walking.
That's kind of strange, isn't it? I mean, that's not your typical kind of,
how you would conceive of a healing.
Here's this blind man, being given partial sight.
Then Jesus lays hands on him again.
And this time he's healed completely. He can see perfectly.
And, I mean, this is kind of odd.
You know, this is kind of a strange, like, when I read this when I was young in the faith,
I didn't have a clue what was going on.
I mean, you know, your instinct, of course, is to kind of say, well, Jesus obviously meant to do this.
He wasn't, like, distracted halfway through or anything like that.
But Jesus' miracles were always meant to teach.
There were never, there was nothing incidental about them.
Jesus' miracles, and the New Testament words are actually signs and wonders,
are very deliberately performed.
There was nothing accidental about them.
They all revealed something very important.
Jesus' miraculous signs, they point to something.
I mean, these astonishing wonders are meant to teach us something.
And in this surrounding section of Mark's Gospel,
something about Jesus himself, rather like the sight being given to this man,
has gradually been revealed to the people.
But there's one other detail here at the end of this story.
Once Jesus had healed this man, what did he command him to do?
He sent him directly home.
And he told him to keep quiet and to avoid the village.
Jesus apparently wanted him to say nothing about this to anyone.
At least for the time being.
And there's a reason for this.
But in a moment, he's actually going to do the same thing again.
So we'll take a look at this secret aspect to Jesus' work,
and we'll get to the bottom of it in a little bit.
But for the time being, let's just read the next few verses.
Verse 27.
Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi.
On the way he asked them,
Who do people say that I am?
They replied,
Some say John the Baptist.
Others say Elijah.
And still others, one of the prophets.
But what about you?
Jesus asked,
Who do you say that I am?
Peter answered,
You are the Messiah.
And Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
So, after this two-stage healing of the blind man,
Jesus journeys on to Caesarea Philippi.
And on the way he asks them,
Who do people say that I am?
And,
if we actually had been reading through Mark's Gospel from the beginning,
we would have seen that in chapter 6,
that there had been speculation about who Jesus was,
and we would know what the disciples are about to tell him.
Spike,
the speculation as to Jesus' true identity had been rife.
I mean,
it was obvious to everyone who had heard this man speak,
or seen him do his works,
that this was not your typical rabbi.
And here,
Jesus' disciples pass on the gossip that we would have already read.
They tell him that Herod,
who had just executed John the Baptist,
believed that Jesus was somehow John the Baptist again,
kind of,
almost kind of come back from the dead to haunt him.
Other people said that he was the returning Elijah,
as promised by the prophet Malachi,
or perhaps one of the other prophets.
In any case,
Jesus doesn't let them run down these kind of rabbit trails for too long.
He immediately makes it personal and pointed for each of them.
He asks them again,
but who do you say that I am?
And Peter's next few words,
they immediately enter history,
don't they?
You are the Christ.
And he was right.
So what was Jesus' response?
Was it a congratulation?
A pat on the back and a little rolled up diploma from Munster Bible College?
No.
Mark says,
he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
And there it is again,
this command to keep silent about who he was.
It's kind of baffling.
You know,
as New Testament Christians,
2,000 years on,
in being,
what I suppose could be categorized as evangelicals,
telling people about Jesus
is or should be second nature to us.
But here we have Jesus giving explicit commands
to keep quiet,
keep stum.
But he won't keep us in suspense much longer
because
he immediately starts to
reveal something more about himself.
So let's go back to verse 31.
He then began to teach them
that the Son of Man must suffer many things
and be rejected by the elders,
the chief priests,
and the teachers of the law,
and that he must be killed,
and after three days,
rise again.
He spoke plainly about this
and Peter took him aside
and began to rebuke him.
But when Jesus turned
and looked at his disciples,
he rebuked Peter.
Get behind me, Satan,
he said.
You do not have in mind
the concerns of God,
but merely human concerns.
Now that Peter has identified him,
Jesus begins to tell everything
to his closest followers.
He now tells them
for the first time
of the grim fate
that lay ahead of them
as his,
or laid ahead of him
as their Messiah.
He gives them the awful news
that he was to be rejected
by the Jewish establishment
and executed
like a criminal.
And this is too much for Peter.
And now,
we begin to see
why Jesus
had been telling people
to keep quiet about him.
You see,
Peter,
almost like our blind man earlier,
was gradually beginning
to see Jesus
for who he really was.
And it's almost as if
you're looking up at the sky
and it's kind of a
partially clouded day
and then the sun comes out
from behind the cloud
and it's just too intense.
That's where Peter was at.
Because Peter,
like almost all of his fellow Jews,
had expected this
all-conquering Messiah.
One who would appear in glory
and swat Israel's enemies aside
in an overwhelming display of force.
But this
submission unto death thing
just
didn't compute.
Didn't work.
And Peter was
capital O
offended
by this.
and he takes Jesus aside
and begins to tell him off.
And Jesus' response
is very grave.
Get behind me,
Satan,
he said.
You do not have in mind
the concerns of God
but merely
human concerns.
Ouch.
I mean,
Peter had simply spoken rashly.
hadn't he?
Peter is famously impulsive.
And he just couldn't contain
his disbelief
that Israel's Messiah
could die
such
a shameful
death.
Cursed is anyone
who hangs on a tree.
And with hindsight,
we know,
of course,
that Jesus was right
to rebuke him
but to say this,
to say,
get behind me,
Satan.
Why would he say that thing?
Well,
James says
in the third chapter
of the epistle
that
if you have
bitter jealousy
and selfish ambition
in your hearts,
do not boast
and be false
to the truth.
This is not the wisdom
that comes from above
but is earthly,
unspiritual,
demonic.
And we also read
in Luke chapter 4
how when Satan
had finished his temptations,
he departed Jesus
to return at a more
opportune time.
And you know,
truth be told,
many of us,
and I would count me
as somebody
who would probably be
on the hot-headed side
by nature,
are probably more like Peter
than we would like to admit.
I mean,
we would much rather
take part
in an all-conquering
Christianity
that allowed all of us
to look like
spiritual heroes
as we accomplished
great feats for God
in luxurious comfort
and, you know,
while looking amazing
the whole time
while doing it,
you know,
with the Instagram account
and the Facebook followers
and all the rest of it.
But this is a self-exalting attitude
and it does bear
a dreadful resemblance
to that of the
Prince of Darkness.
That particular attitude
is not healthy.
It is not good.
Now, I mean,
while our impulses
can be for good,
Jesus' rebuke of Peter
is frightening.
And it does show us
that our impulses
and our instincts
and our inclinations
can also be
much darker spiritually
than perhaps we realize.
And this is why
Jesus simply could not
let people going around
yapping excitedly
about the arrival
of the Messiah.
I mean,
a little knowledge
is a dangerous thing,
isn't it?
To have only
a partial picture
is to have a
distorted picture.
And this is kind of
what is behind
what is happening
in our text.
Jesus is always teaching
throughout his ministry
with both words
and actions.
He is both showing
and telling
who he is.
Unlike our blind man earlier,
Peter could see a little,
but he couldn't
really see clearly.
He understood
who Jesus was,
but he was
utterly clueless
as to Jesus' mission.
And today,
remembering
our bearded baby
from earlier,
how many times
do we see
partial or distorted
pictures of Christ
around us?
Jesus as just
a great teacher.
Jesus as merely
a great moralist.
Jesus as,
it would seem,
exclusively only
our problem solver.
A wise man,
a political radical,
a Jesus who will
heal every disease
and solve any problem
by spellcasting his name
like some magical incantation.
What does Jesus
look like
in the lives of people
who profess him
as saviour,
but is not,
as far as anyone can tell,
their Lord?
Now,
I'm certain that
Jesus was quite aware
of the speculation
surrounding him
before he asked
that question
of his disciples,
and at that stage,
nobody had clear sight
of who Jesus is.
They could see
partially,
but they could not
see clearly.
this was all part
of the plan.
Jesus was granting
Peter and the other
disciples
spiritual sight
in stages.
And now,
in one of the most
famous passages
in the New Testament,
who he is
and what this means
for their lives
and means for ours
is going to become
crystal clear.
So,
following this rather
pointed exchange
with Peter,
Jesus doesn't waste
an awkward moment.
He uses it
to teach his disciples
and press the truth
home.
Let's just look
at the next few verses.
Verse 34.
Then he called
a crowd to him,
along with his disciples,
and said,
whoever
wants to be
my disciple
must deny themselves
and take up
their cross
and follow me.
for whoever
wants to save
their life
will lose it,
but whoever
loses their life
for me
and for the gospel
will save it.
What good is it
for someone
to gain
the whole world
and yet
forfeit
their soul?
Or what can
anyone give
in exchange
for their soul?
This is the
crucial moment
for us here
today,
this afternoon,
when we start
to piece
all of this
together,
because it is
here
in our text
with these words
that Jesus
starts to give
his followers
a clearer
and clearer
vision
of who
he really is.
And not only
that,
he was now
making this
personal
for each
of them.
describing
to each
one
the true
cost
of following
him.
First of all,
he tells them
that his
identity as
Christ,
the Messiah,
meant that
following him
was even
more important
than their
own lives.
I mean,
whoever loses
his life
for my sake
and the
gospels?
Serious
stuff.
Then he goes
beyond even
this,
to say
that even
if one
could acquire
the whole
world,
it would
not compare
to losing
their own
soul.
Try and
comprehend
that for a
moment.
Jesus is
not merely
talking about
the globe
that we're
on,
but the
entire world
has always
existed from
his eternal
perspective.
All its
creatures,
all its
ages,
its aeons,
its history
and its
future,
vast as
all that is
in its
breadth and
its scale
and its
scope,
it is all
as nothing.
When compared
to the
fate of
one human
soul before
God.
That's
staggering.
Like our
stained glass
image earlier,
the distortion
is being
wiped away.
Like our
blind man
earlier,
Jesus'
followers are
finally starting
to see him
with unclouded
eyes.
In our text,
it was Peter
who saw him
first,
but even
then,
he couldn't
make up
the whole
picture.
Now Jesus
is revealing
himself to
all his
followers
explicitly,
whereas before
he had been
actively hiding
his true
identity,
and his
identity had
real consequences
for them,
and has
consequences for
us too.
But this
begs the
question though,
why not
simply just
tell them all
this right
from the
start?
I mean,
all this
speculation
about who
Jesus is,
all this
kind of
hiding of
identities,
and gradual
revelations,
and moving
in the shadows,
the astonishing
miracles,
and then the
secrecy that
came after it.
No wonder
people were
confused about
him.
I mean,
perhaps you're
maybe a bit
confused yourself,
right?
But if you
are,
your mind
has actually
been opened
up to my
point,
or rather
a subtext
of Mark's
gospel up to
now.
that when
people are
unable to
see Jesus
for who
he is,
they're also
unable to
hear him
clearly.
I mean,
how many of
Jesus' miracles
are ones
where he
grants sight
to blind
people,
hearing to
deaf people?
How many
times has he
raised the
dead?
His works
set the
stage for
his words.
Jesus had
to show
before he
could tell.
And now
he has just
told them
that following
an apparently
doomed Messiah
was more
important than
even their
own lives.
And this
is why he
didn't lay
the whole
truth on
them right
away.
The
consequences
for their
lives would
have been
too crushing
to bear.
Only once
they had
caught enough
glimpses of
him,
of who he
really was,
could they
then have
the confidence
in him
that was
necessary to
each bear
the individual
consequences for
following him.
And let's
only know in
our passage
for today that
Jesus doesn't
just reveal who
he is, but
also what he
had come to
do.
He was to
be the
crucified and
risen Christ
who raises
the dead,
opens the
eyes of the
spiritually blind,
gives those
who are deaf
the ability
to hear God.
and calls
those who
confess him
as Lord
and profess
him as
saviour to
follow him
down that
same road
of cross
bearing.
I mean,
that's a
glorious truth,
but it's a
heavy one.
But to
return to our
text for a
moment,
back to
verse 37,
he now makes
those words
bind on all
those who
would follow
him, not
just the
disciples
present in
that moment.
Sorry,
verse 38,
excuse me.
If anyone
is ashamed
of me and
of my
words and
this
adulterous
and sinful
generation,
the Son
of Man
will be
ashamed of
them when
he comes in
his Father's
glory with
the holy
angels.
Jesus knows
that we're
tempted to be
ashamed of
his words.
he knows
that many
of us,
me
included,
especially
me,
I find
it's hard
to read
even as I
speak it,
have that
tendency to
be a little
gun shy
when an
opportunity to
share the
gospel presents
itself.
What sort
of feelings
do we
experience in
some of
those moments?
some people
are gifted
evangelists,
I'm not
one of
them.
I feel the
way of this
even as I
speak to
you.
The urge
to gloss
over the
confrontational
aspects of
the gospel,
it can be
overwhelming.
The urge
to skate
around the
number of
issues is
very,
very powerful.
I feel it.
I'm sure
that on some
level we
all feel it,
but we
cannot yield
to it.
You know,
I'm not
trying to
offend,
I'm just
simply pointing
to what
Jesus is
saying,
or else
why would
he have
said it?
Jesus
makes it
clear that
submission to
him will
mean that
we will
endure some
degree of
disgrace for
him.
This is
where I'm
grateful for
Connor last
week.
that was
his first
sermon,
preaching
about
wives
submitting to
husbands and
husbands laying
down lives
for wives.
Not okay in
our cultural
context.
But what
is it that
is so
offensive about
Jesus'
message?
Well,
back in the
first chapter
of Mark,
for one
example,
what is the
message that
opens his
ministry?
There's no
need to
go there.
I'll read
it to
you.
The time
is fulfilled.
The kingdom
of God
is at
hand.
Repent
and believe
the gospel.
There it
is,
repentance.
That's
the problem.
As fallen
creatures,
apart from
Christ,
as sinful
and rebellious
humanity,
we love
our sin.
We,
nowadays,
identify
ourselves by
our sin.
We don't
want to
change our
minds about
sin.
Because that's
what repentance
means.
We want to
live apart
from Christ,
as fallen
people,
our lives
on our
terms,
deciding for
ourselves,
our own
level of
commitment and
comfort and
so on.
At least that's
who I was
before I became
a Christian.
We want to
set aside
God's law
and decide
for ourselves
what right
and wrong
are.
And this
was the
problem in
the garden,
wasn't it?
When you
eat that
fruit,
your eyes
shall be
opened.
You should
be like
God,
knowing good
and evil,
or in other
words,
deciding for
yourself what
good and
evil are.
And,
friends,
I don't know
everybody here.
and if you
haven't heard
this message
of repentance
before,
we pray
you would
hear it
now.
We pray
that you
would be
given ears
to hear
it,
eyes to
see Christ
for who
he is
and where
he stands
in history
as Lord
of everything,
everything.
Not
merely as a
wise man,
or as we
see in so
many church
buildings,
kind of
frozen and
time as
some mutant
powerless
child on
his mother's
lap,
but as
the creator,
the king,
the messiah,
the one
who in
love and
in perfect
obedience to
his father
sought to
rescue us
from eternal
separation from
God because
of our sin,
took the
criminal's
punishment,
which is
death,
that we
all deserve
for a
rebellion
against God.
Jesus is
the one who
lived a
sinless life
on our
behalf so
that he
could give
us his
righteousness.
If we
would only
believe that
this was
so,
see our
desperate
need,
confess our
sinfulness and
our helplessness
before him and
submit to him as
lord of our
lives.
We pray that
Jesus opens your
ears to hear his
word to you
today.
Dear friend,
you need to
change your mind
about who is
right and who
is wrong.
You need to
change your mind
about your
sin.
And that's
where the
rest of us,
the professing
believers here,
you know,
it would be
much easier
to, you
know,
to achieve
great things
for God
and have
the world
on a
string as
well.
But that's
not how
it works.
And I'm
sure,
even for
those disciples
who were
there with
Jesus,
as he said
those words,
these truths
landed on
them like a
ton of
bricks.
But Jesus,
however,
reminds them
and us,
it doesn't
end there.
The ultimate
glory is yet
to come.
First verse
of chapter
nine.
Truly I
tell you,
some who are
standing here
will not
taste death
before they
see that the
kingdom of
God has
come with
power.
Will not
taste death
before they
see that
the kingdom
of God
has come
with power.
Jesus is
coming back.
Next time
though,
he won't
be the
submissive
servant.
Next time
though,
it won't
be a game
of shadows.
He will
be the
crowned
king of
heaven and
earth,
coming to
bring his
people to
glory and
to judge
the world.
Next time
he won't
be merely
before me,
healing
miracles,
he will
bring about
a universal
resurrection.
And having
reminded his
disciples of
this future
event,
which is
coming,
he simply
didn't leave
them hanging
at this
point.
The next
event immediately
after our
text is
his
transfiguration.
And he
reveals himself
in his
full glory
to his
closest
followers.
They are
given eyes
to see
him.
and given
ears to
hear the
father saying,
this is my
beloved son.
Listen to
him.
They
miraculously
see and
hear who
Jesus is,
perfectly in
line with the
teaching signs he
has been
performing
throughout his
ministry and
with the
healing of
our blind
man today.
So,
how do we
hear from
Christ today?
How do we
see him
perform his
works?
Well,
Peter
tells us
how.
Peter,
who was
sorely
rebuked in
our passage,
tells us
how we can
do this.
And if you
want to turn
to 2
Peter 1
16.
That's
page
12222
in the
New
Bible.
2
Peter
1
16.
For we
did not
follow
cleverly
devised
stories,
only told
you about
the coming
of our
Lord Jesus
Christ in
power,
but we
were eyewitnesses
of his
majesty.
He
received
honour
and glory
from God
the Father
when the
voice came
to him
from the
majestic
glory,
saying,
this is
my son
whom I
love,
with him
I am
well pleased.
We
ourselves
heard this
voice that
came from
heaven when
we were
with him
on that
sacred
mountain.
We
also
have the
prophetic
message as
something
completely
reliable,
and you
will do
well to
pay attention
to it,
as to a
light shining
in a
dark place
until the
day dawns,
and the
morning star
rises in
your hearts.
Above all,
you must
understand that
no prophecy
of scripture
came above
by a prophet's
own interpretation,
for prophecy
never had its
origin in
human will,
but prophets
through human,
though human,
spoke from God
as they were
carried along
by the Holy
Spirit.
Peter is
saying,
and don't
miss this,
that we
see and hear
his works
today in
in this
book,
your Bible,
which Peter
says is
something even
more certain
than seeing
the transfiguration
occur before
your own
eyes.
That's
astonishing.
What a
blessing God's
word is to
us today.
We understand
that these are
heavy truths,
but at the
same time,
our ultimate
hope is not
just in Christ
who was
2,000 years
ago.
Our ultimate
hope is Christ
as he is
now,
Christ as
he will
return.
We pray
that this
portion of
scripture is a
blessing to us
today.
Amen.
Our closing
hymn, I think,
is In Christ
Alone.
In Christ
Alone.
So we'll sing
this together.