WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:10.060 Let's just pray. Lord, may the words of my mouth and meditation of all our hearts be ever acceptable to you, our Lord, our strength and our Redeemer. Amen. 00:00:11.620 --> 00:00:23.960 Matt Lucas created an extraordinary number of hits with this clip and perhaps summed up the conflicting information that many of us experienced over the last 19 months. 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:35.160 I think it's really interesting when we start getting conflicting advice and the renewals came and went seemingly conflicting advice at times. 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:41.719 Maybe like me, you heard the words that people said, oh, you know, people are making it up as we go along. 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:53.859 In our serious, confident Christianity, we have to be clear and confident that those who are seeking to lead aren't making it up as we go along. 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:57.060 Very important in a Christian setting. 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.700 And clearly this was prevalent in the early church. 00:01:00.980 --> 00:01:10.579 That's why Paul, who was sat in prison at this time, I often wonder for us, if we were sat in prison, what would the sort of thing we'd be writing to everybody else? 00:01:10.859 --> 00:01:12.540 Would it be, oh, woe is me? 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:27.600 Here is Paul actually encouraging a church, an embryonic church, the Colossian church, to actually deal with this false information that they were beginning to get. 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:34.919 And clearly Paul is getting a little bit hot under the collar with this in his teaching. 00:01:35.579 --> 00:01:41.179 Because this is where I have to mention the word circumcision. 00:01:41.180 --> 00:01:51.860 Now, I've joined a few clubs in my time where you've got to fill in a form, even maybe you've got to pay a subscription. 00:01:51.859 --> 00:02:00.359 But actually when it gets to the point where actually I have parts of my body having to be removed in order to join this club, 00:02:00.780 --> 00:02:09.740 maybe you can understand the reticence of some of the Gentiles who were beginning this false teaching of the Jewish leaders at the time, 00:02:09.740 --> 00:02:16.080 saying you can't be in our club unless you're actually physically circumcised. 00:02:16.659 --> 00:02:19.219 And this was the message that was getting back to Paul. 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:22.360 And he said, so where is this message coming from? 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:25.640 Because this isn't the message that Jesus gave. 00:02:25.740 --> 00:02:36.660 For the Jewish converts to Christianity, it was no problem, obviously, because they didn't have to jump through that place as others had to. 00:02:36.659 --> 00:02:46.419 But I think probably if I was a Gentile at that time, I think I would probably really have been really pleased to have received Paul's letter, 00:02:46.699 --> 00:02:51.219 to think that I don't have to go through this in order to follow Jesus. 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.960 It's easy to make it up as we go along. 00:02:55.960 --> 00:03:02.000 I don't know if when you were young you made up clubs when we were little. 00:03:02.259 --> 00:03:04.280 We sort of made up a club, didn't we? 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:09.960 And what the thing of that club was is that all the people we liked joined it, 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:14.819 but maybe the sole thing was for the people we didn't like couldn't join it. 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.379 And so here we have classically what is happening here. 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:22.680 And nothing changes really. 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:30.259 Look at some so-called fraternal organisations that preclude different people from joining them. 00:03:30.259 --> 00:03:34.639 Paul is saying to this new church and its leaders, 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.340 we don't need these past human traditions. 00:03:38.379 --> 00:03:39.699 This is a new beginning. 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.439 This is a fullness of Christ. 00:03:44.179 --> 00:03:48.139 Because yes, it was the old law, but things changed at the cross. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:53.459 Things changed dramatically as the cross, as Jesus died for each and every person. 00:03:53.460 --> 00:03:59.659 And I can sense many of the Colossian Gentiles converts being really encouraged by this. 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:06.580 And as it says, see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:13.680 which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world, 00:04:13.819 --> 00:04:15.240 rather than on Christ. 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:18.139 And we can all make up rules and regulations, can't we? 00:04:18.139 --> 00:04:23.279 As we join, and Paul is saying, what's the most important thing here? 00:04:23.620 --> 00:04:30.699 Made up rules and traditions, or the fullness of a life-giving and life-saving relationship with Jesus Christ. 00:04:31.099 --> 00:04:33.219 That is the most important thing. 00:04:33.579 --> 00:04:35.120 Life in all its fullness. 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:38.180 In Christ, you have been brought to fullness. 00:04:38.599 --> 00:04:40.599 He is the head over everything. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:47.360 Slave or free, we are all accepted, loved, and welcomed. 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:56.080 Don't make up the rules and the regulations and add to the saving work of Jesus. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:57.199 You can't do that. 00:04:57.280 --> 00:04:59.780 It's already been done on the cross. 00:05:00.259 --> 00:05:03.060 He made the perfect sacrifice for sin. 00:05:04.220 --> 00:05:05.699 We don't need to add things on. 00:05:05.939 --> 00:05:10.620 So why is Paul getting a bit miffed with all these so-called leaders who are saying, 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:14.759 in order to be a follower of Jesus, you need this sign? 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:19.099 Well, I have to show you a dream that I had once. 00:05:20.459 --> 00:05:25.139 The dream is that we were going to a fancy dress party. 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:30.139 Now, Mandy will tell you, I really detest fancy dress parties. 00:05:30.659 --> 00:05:31.860 It's just not my thing. 00:05:32.039 --> 00:05:35.860 Unless, of course, I'm going to the cathedral, in which case to an ordination, 00:05:35.980 --> 00:05:37.399 and you all go in fancy dress. 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:42.659 But it's this thing of, you know, so I'm talking about fancy dress, 00:05:42.819 --> 00:05:46.579 sort of SpongeBob SquarePants, you know, Superman, 00:05:46.939 --> 00:05:49.839 all those sort of things that people dress up at. 00:05:49.939 --> 00:05:55.079 Anyway, as I arrive in my dream to this thing, here I am in fancy dress, 00:05:55.679 --> 00:05:58.120 it is the poshest gig you've ever been to. 00:05:58.659 --> 00:06:03.120 Everybody there is in bow ties, suits, lots of sparkly dresses. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:04.540 You get the idea. 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:05.740 Very, very. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.040 And I have to spend the whole evening wandering around dressed as 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:15.939 a human traffic cone. 00:06:17.340 --> 00:06:21.019 Now, if there's anybody here who's a psychologist that can help me with that, 00:06:21.340 --> 00:06:22.480 please drop me an email. 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:24.899 I'm sure there's a reason for it. 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:26.519 I probably need some therapy. 00:06:26.899 --> 00:06:28.680 It's a bizarre dream. 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:36.060 But in this dream, maybe you get the idea of what it must be like to feel the odd one out. 00:06:36.840 --> 00:06:41.579 And clearly, that's Paul writing to a group of people, the Gentiles, you and me, 00:06:41.660 --> 00:06:43.759 saying, you shouldn't feel left out. 00:06:44.379 --> 00:06:46.439 You are totally included. 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:51.399 What I have done, what Jesus has done on the cross, is for all of us. 00:06:51.660 --> 00:06:54.019 I think we can lose that when I've had enough of my dream. 00:06:54.019 --> 00:07:03.039 The way of life which showed us at the cross, we don't have to add anything to that at all. 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.719 Whatever the roots of a particular way of life or the peculiarities of a tradition, 00:07:09.539 --> 00:07:17.039 never let it undermine the sole purpose and work of Jesus receiving that fullness. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:25.760 It didn't surprise me that people were queuing around the corner only a few weeks ago to fill up their tanks. 00:07:26.939 --> 00:07:31.640 People knew what it was like to look at that gauge and know what fullness meant. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:33.100 It meant confidence. 00:07:33.980 --> 00:07:35.879 It meant I can go wherever I like. 00:07:35.939 --> 00:07:39.300 I can do whatever I do because I've got a tank full of fuel. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:41.400 I'm not going to be worrying on the journey. 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:47.079 What we're talking about here is receiving that fullness for each and every one of us. 00:07:48.299 --> 00:07:54.099 And this thing that Paul is saying to them, Paul warns the early church, 00:07:54.459 --> 00:08:00.779 the danger of adding earthly trappings that gets in the way of the have and the have-nots. 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:05.479 I give so much thanks for the screens behind me. 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:13.240 In fact, should we give a round of applause to our tech team that week by week do an amazing ministry for us? 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:18.280 Because I remember years and years, and I've been around church a few times, 00:08:19.080 --> 00:08:25.160 and yeah, different places, but to be presented at the door with a book. 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:29.200 Imagine if you'd come to church for the first time. 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:32.519 You are given a book that you have never looked at before. 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:40.879 And in that book, and there is words, but not necessarily all in the right order, if you know. 00:08:41.980 --> 00:08:47.779 And I used to stand there and cringe when I saw a new person who had come to church, 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:55.659 stood there opening a book, and someone with the best will in the world would step over and say, 00:08:56.019 --> 00:08:59.139 it's that page you should be on. 00:09:00.819 --> 00:09:02.379 Praise God for screens. 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:05.460 We're all in the same boat together. 00:09:06.539 --> 00:09:07.879 Nothing is kept. 00:09:09.059 --> 00:09:14.079 We make up rules in order to raise our own significance. 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:21.220 My gran used to love to wear a hat to church on Sundays. 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.460 I'd never ever see her in church without a hat. 00:09:24.460 --> 00:09:32.720 I'm not really sure that she felt that that added anything to what she did. 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:40.139 But what she loved to do was criticize everybody else that didn't wear hats on a Sunday. 00:09:40.139 --> 00:09:44.679 I think what Paul is getting at here, 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:51.259 therefore, do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or even in the way in which you behave. 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:58.199 Clearly, there is a judgmental spirit that is rising up in this early church that Paul has heard about. 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.780 And as soon as you start getting a judgmental spirit in the church is bad news. 00:10:04.460 --> 00:10:06.740 Paul identified it really early. 00:10:06.740 --> 00:10:13.240 They have lost connection with the head from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, 00:10:13.560 --> 00:10:15.820 grow as God causes it to grow. 00:10:15.820 --> 00:10:22.680 He wants us to be Jesus in all our fullness and of what he can be. 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:25.860 What marks you out as a follower of Jesus? 00:10:27.520 --> 00:10:28.780 Is it what we wear? 00:10:29.400 --> 00:10:30.280 I don't think so. 00:10:32.040 --> 00:10:34.140 Is it maybe something we... 00:10:34.140 --> 00:10:35.879 I think it's our character. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:38.240 That's what marks it out. 00:10:38.300 --> 00:10:40.560 And that's what Paul is saying to this early church. 00:10:41.160 --> 00:10:44.600 Mark yourselves out, not by what you do, not by what you wear, 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.840 not by what you do to your body, but by your character. 00:10:48.040 --> 00:10:50.659 Put on the fullness of Christ. 00:10:51.019 --> 00:10:56.180 Beware of the veneer of Christianese that maybe other people want you to put on. 00:10:57.100 --> 00:11:01.279 Be who God has called you to be in all its fullness. 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:06.100 And Paul knows that that is so easy to twist the good gifts of God 00:11:06.100 --> 00:11:11.100 and to make it into something that points to us rather than points to him. 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:17.960 This warning, I think, is as fresh to us today as it was to the early church. 00:11:18.680 --> 00:11:24.320 To receive that fullness that all of God has for us to share with other people. 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.639 We've heard part of that story this morning. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.019 What a difference it makes when somebody comes in the fullness of Christ 00:11:31.019 --> 00:11:34.920 to share what they have and make a difference in the world. 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:38.579 And you see, the false teaching is damaging 00:11:38.579 --> 00:11:43.719 because when you start to deviate from the word of God, from Scripture, 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:46.879 then it's like a boat without a rudder. 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.479 It goes all over the place. 00:11:50.259 --> 00:11:52.099 Come back, St. Paul. 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.000 Come back to what is important. 00:11:54.579 --> 00:11:55.539 Hold to Scripture. 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:56.679 Hold to that. 00:11:58.379 --> 00:12:01.240 Many years ago, I spoke to a lady. 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:04.000 She dragged herself to an 8 a.m. communion. 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:06.879 She could hardly stand up. 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.379 She was as laudable as it was that she'd actually come. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:11.940 She was sweating with a fever. 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.019 She was unsteady on her feet. 00:12:15.419 --> 00:12:20.080 And she'd been told, when I spoke to her, 00:12:20.139 --> 00:12:22.039 I said, you just don't need to be here. 00:12:22.180 --> 00:12:23.799 Please, please go home. 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:32.839 And she'd been taught that if she didn't take communion on a Sunday, 00:12:33.659 --> 00:12:36.579 if anything happened during that week, 00:12:37.259 --> 00:12:40.679 she wouldn't receive the blessings of heaven. 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:44.059 What a cruel teaching. 00:12:45.139 --> 00:12:46.359 And she was 82. 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:52.700 We have to be so careful what we slap on people 00:12:52.700 --> 00:12:56.860 that is of us, the church, 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:00.620 rather than everything that is of God, 00:13:00.779 --> 00:13:05.279 which is of love and blessing, forgiveness, hope, 00:13:05.659 --> 00:13:07.500 and all the other things that he brings. 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:10.019 Jesus in all his fullness. 00:13:10.019 --> 00:13:16.179 Paul is writing again to a people who he wants to see thrive. 00:13:16.819 --> 00:13:19.319 And he says this verse, 00:13:21.980 --> 00:13:25.439 the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:30.399 I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:38.059 I think that's an interesting verse that we would do well by 00:13:38.059 --> 00:13:40.740 because Paul knew that this false teaching, 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:42.679 these man-made rules, 00:13:43.079 --> 00:13:47.039 diminished the fullness of Jesus in us and our mission. 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.000 And you say, how does that work? 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:53.860 I found this, which I found really helpful. 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:59.699 You see, when deceptive ideas are placed into our mind, 00:13:59.700 --> 00:14:01.520 it's a slippery slope. 00:14:02.100 --> 00:14:05.220 It's a slippery slope that we get this false teaching 00:14:05.220 --> 00:14:10.640 and then that is ordered to play out in our own desires. 00:14:11.560 --> 00:14:14.000 And that gets lived out in our life. 00:14:14.400 --> 00:14:17.340 And then that moves through that is normalized, 00:14:18.060 --> 00:14:20.220 normalized in society. 00:14:20.900 --> 00:14:24.340 So it says, this is okay to make up these rules. 00:14:24.540 --> 00:14:25.759 We make up these rules, 00:14:26.040 --> 00:14:28.940 then it plays into our own desires. 00:14:28.940 --> 00:14:30.440 It focuses towards us. 00:14:30.800 --> 00:14:32.660 And then as we know too well, 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:35.200 it's played out in the world in the everyday. 00:14:36.580 --> 00:14:37.140 Thank you. 00:14:37.800 --> 00:14:38.640 Jesus came. 00:14:39.700 --> 00:14:42.120 Jesus came to make sure 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.820 that actually we would have the confidence 00:14:44.820 --> 00:14:46.660 in who we are in Christ 00:14:46.660 --> 00:14:48.300 to break the chain. 00:14:49.820 --> 00:14:51.940 I just want to encourage us this morning 00:14:51.940 --> 00:14:54.200 through Paul's writing to us 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:56.480 is to receive that fullness 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.420 of everything that he has for us. 00:15:01.060 --> 00:15:04.220 And the questions I would want to ask is, 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:08.680 what is the lies that's been spoken to you 00:15:08.680 --> 00:15:10.040 over years, 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:11.460 and over me as well, 00:15:12.060 --> 00:15:14.180 that actually diminishes that fullness 00:15:14.180 --> 00:15:15.320 of what we have, 00:15:15.640 --> 00:15:18.560 that confidence to share with other people? 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.239 What is it where we don't think 00:15:22.239 --> 00:15:24.739 that we carry the Christ lights 00:15:24.739 --> 00:15:26.279 into the communities, 00:15:26.500 --> 00:15:27.799 into the places we have? 00:15:28.059 --> 00:15:31.500 Where is it that we hear that voice 00:15:31.500 --> 00:15:33.739 that we need to buzz out to say, 00:15:34.199 --> 00:15:35.679 oh, you shouldn't be doing that here. 00:15:36.059 --> 00:15:38.019 You shouldn't be saying that here. 00:15:38.459 --> 00:15:41.459 You shouldn't be stepping into that situation here, 00:15:41.839 --> 00:15:43.759 bringing the hope and love of Christ, 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.159 the fullness of everything that we carry 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:47.559 into situations. 00:15:49.980 --> 00:15:53.319 Maybe the things where we've been diverted 00:15:53.319 --> 00:15:55.659 by putting on religious airs and graces, 00:15:56.259 --> 00:15:59.120 this isn't proper worship 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.379 because we don't do it this way. 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:03.460 Well, who said we did it this way? 00:16:05.439 --> 00:16:07.319 Isn't it about the fullness of Christ, 00:16:07.419 --> 00:16:10.299 of us receiving and coming to worship, 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.399 bringing and being full, 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:14.779 and taking away with us 00:16:14.779 --> 00:16:17.399 that joy into the world this week? 00:16:19.459 --> 00:16:21.500 Maybe there is a fresh confidence 00:16:21.500 --> 00:16:23.659 that we need in the gospel. 00:16:24.740 --> 00:16:25.639 And maybe again, 00:16:26.139 --> 00:16:28.139 you don't have to read your Bible. 00:16:28.659 --> 00:16:32.519 Just tune into some radio station. 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:34.759 Maybe leave your Bible on the shelf. 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:37.960 Those things where we need 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:39.519 maybe to get back into scripture 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:41.559 to say, what is the truth of this? 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.379 What are you teaching me, Lord? 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.740 We are called to grow in confidence 00:16:47.740 --> 00:16:49.720 because of the fullness that Christ 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.399 dwells with us in the Holy Spirit. 00:16:54.980 --> 00:16:57.159 If you're queuing to fill up, 00:16:57.699 --> 00:16:59.699 fill up this morning. 00:17:01.199 --> 00:17:03.240 If you feel as though you've been running on 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:06.119 half empty with the fullness of Christ, 00:17:07.139 --> 00:17:08.160 fill up this morning. 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.920 If you feel that something has been missing, 00:17:13.460 --> 00:17:15.300 then leave from here this morning 00:17:15.300 --> 00:17:17.480 knowing in the confidence 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:19.960 of all that Christ has for you, 00:17:20.300 --> 00:17:21.820 in you, and through you, 00:17:21.820 --> 00:17:25.080 because nobody gets left out. 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:30.740 should we just pray together? 00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:37.379 I just pray this morning, Lord, 00:17:38.019 --> 00:17:40.519 that you would come in the power of your Holy Spirit 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:44.259 and we would know the fullness 00:17:44.259 --> 00:17:46.220 of everything that you have for us. 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:49.680 I pray for those, Lord, 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:50.480 that have been 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:53.259 maybe diminished 00:17:53.259 --> 00:17:55.980 or ground down at any time 00:17:55.980 --> 00:17:57.880 by rules and regulations 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.400 that have been placed on us by others. 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:06.360 I pray for areas in our lives 00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:09.840 where suddenly our understanding of you 00:18:09.840 --> 00:18:13.420 has been warped or contorted 00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:18.080 in a way that wasn't meant to be 00:18:18.080 --> 00:18:21.800 and we haven't seen or fully grasped 00:18:21.800 --> 00:18:23.440 or been able to grasp the fullness 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:25.420 of all that you have for us. 00:18:25.420 --> 00:18:28.500 I pray, Lord, 00:18:28.940 --> 00:18:31.279 for a freedom for those this morning 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.900 who maybe through time 00:18:34.900 --> 00:18:37.580 have lost confidence in you 00:18:37.580 --> 00:18:41.120 and in your power that dwells in us. 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.080 Restore that confidence this morning, I pray. 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:51.279 And I pray for those, Lord, 00:18:52.439 --> 00:18:54.079 who maybe have lost confidence 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:56.079 in sharing faith with others 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.879 that you would give us that fullness, 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:00.179 give us that words 00:19:00.179 --> 00:19:01.439 and the power of your Spirit 00:19:01.439 --> 00:19:03.319 to share with those 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:05.480 in whatever situation that we may be in, 00:19:05.679 --> 00:19:07.960 in our homes, our schools, our work, 00:19:08.299 --> 00:19:09.319 wherever that may be. 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:12.859 So, Holy Spirit, would you come? 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.980 Would you fill us afresh, Lord, 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.599 with the confidence of knowing you 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:21.359 and all you have done for us on the cross? 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.279 Would you lift us, Lord, 00:19:23.879 --> 00:19:25.500 into a fresh place 00:19:25.500 --> 00:19:28.019 of confidence of walking with you? 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:31.960 Lord, for your church, 00:19:32.399 --> 00:19:34.359 would you restore your church, Lord, 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:37.720 to the fullness of all that it is, 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:39.439 of all that it should be 00:19:39.439 --> 00:19:40.879 and all that it can be 00:19:40.879 --> 00:19:43.759 with you as our head 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:44.939 and as our sovereign? 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:48.539 Lord, we thank you, 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:49.319 we praise you, 00:19:49.379 --> 00:19:50.319 and we bless you. 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:52.720 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:52.879 Amen. 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:53.240 Amen. 00:19:53.300 --> 00:19:53.680 Amen. 00:19:58.020 --> 00:19:58.320 Amen. 00:19:58.360 --> 00:19:58.980 Amen. 00:19:58.980 --> 00:19:59.240 mb