WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.080 Well great, we're back in our long series and time in John's Gospel and we come really to a critical part of the Gospel. 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:24.640 We come to a moment of retrospection really, it's a bit like an interval in a movie or in a show, halfway through, John looks back and gives us a summary of the story so far. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:42.200 Now, before we get into the final moments of Jesus' life, so the foot washing and the upper room discourse and the passion narrative, this is one last look at what has happened until now in the ministry of Jesus Christ. 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:48.840 And John tells us here that the story has not worked out how it should have worked out. 00:00:49.940 --> 00:01:05.640 This great story of reunion, of a God who comes down to earth and who knocks on the door of his people to be with them and to bless them forever, but it hasn't worked out like that. 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:11.900 He comes to his own people, but they've slammed the door in his face. 00:01:12.980 --> 00:01:24.099 And we've got a very, very sad summary of how things have worked out between God and his people, the Jews, the Israelites. 00:01:24.099 --> 00:01:29.339 And we've been looking at what it means to believe in Jesus Christ. 00:01:30.039 --> 00:01:37.239 And we see in the story of the Jews a snapshot of the tragedy of unbelief. 00:01:38.859 --> 00:01:43.060 John tells us two things here in this sad conclusion to the story. 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:46.439 John tells us, firstly, they did not believe. 00:01:47.459 --> 00:01:50.539 They did not believe. Look at verse 37 at the top. 00:01:50.540 --> 00:01:57.380 He says, though Jesus had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe. 00:01:58.440 --> 00:02:07.680 In this great story of union between God and his people, their response does not fit. 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:11.780 It isn't right. They did not believe. 00:02:12.659 --> 00:02:15.159 This is the conclusion near the end of the story. 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:25.939 It's the conclusion that the negative attitude that we've kind of seen from the religious leaders and the Jews throughout the gospel is consistent and it's basic to them. 00:02:27.079 --> 00:02:33.400 Just as John starts in chapter 1, Jesus came to his own, but his own people did not receive him. 00:02:33.519 --> 00:02:34.719 They did not believe. 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:41.039 And John is clear that that unbelief was not Jesus' fault. 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:42.199 See what he says. 00:02:42.259 --> 00:02:47.840 Even though they had seen many signs, they still did not believe. 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.859 As if to say that they'd been given plenty of evidence, plenty of proof, but they still didn't. 00:02:54.959 --> 00:03:00.120 It wasn't that Jesus made less of an effort with these people, the Jews. 00:03:00.799 --> 00:03:03.680 Or he was a bit nasty to them, or he was off with them. 00:03:03.939 --> 00:03:07.780 Or they weren't around when he did the signs that showed who he was. 00:03:07.780 --> 00:03:14.199 Actually, the gospels tell us that Jesus came first to the house of Israel, to his own people. 00:03:15.020 --> 00:03:16.699 They were top of the list, if anything. 00:03:18.099 --> 00:03:19.800 But they did not believe. 00:03:21.180 --> 00:03:23.039 And they should have believed. 00:03:23.939 --> 00:03:26.639 They'd seen water being turned into wine. 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:31.560 They'd seen Jesus feed thousands with a few bits of bread and fish. 00:03:31.659 --> 00:03:34.099 They'd seen him raise a dead man. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:36.280 But they did not believe. 00:03:37.780 --> 00:03:45.280 And as John reflects on this unbelief, he wants us, as the reader, to feel sad about that. 00:03:46.379 --> 00:03:49.620 To feel the senselessness of that unbelief. 00:03:49.699 --> 00:03:51.560 To feel how strange it is. 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.219 It is like a fairy story, isn't it? 00:03:55.219 --> 00:04:00.900 When the prince rides on a horse to rescue his bride. 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:07.379 And he comes to find her and to seek her out so that she can be with him in his palace forever. 00:04:08.020 --> 00:04:12.719 And on the last page, instead of happily ever after, she files for a divorce. 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:16.199 It's not how it should have been. 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:22.599 John shows us that this is the tragic conclusion to a long-awaited relationship. 00:04:23.699 --> 00:04:27.759 A relationship that has been through ups and downs. 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.699 He quotes from Isaiah, doesn't he, there, in verse 38. 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:37.180 As if to say, this has been the problem and this has been the issue all along. 00:04:37.180 --> 00:04:39.100 All through the story of the Bible. 00:04:40.180 --> 00:04:43.300 God's people are doing again what they've done before. 00:04:44.220 --> 00:04:45.120 And he quotes Isaiah. 00:04:45.780 --> 00:04:47.019 Let me paraphrase. 00:04:47.280 --> 00:04:51.819 He says that hardly anyone has believed what God had said. 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:54.960 And proved by his almighty power, by his arm. 00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:57.439 Even though God has shown himself. 00:04:58.280 --> 00:05:00.180 And proved himself in powerful ways. 00:05:01.180 --> 00:05:02.699 They don't believe. 00:05:02.699 --> 00:05:07.159 And it's a little snapshot of the tragedy. 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.139 And the senselessness of unbelief. 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:17.639 There is nothing more tragic, is there, than a happy story that ends with a 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:19.259 It shouldn't have been like this. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:21.939 With a nasty twist. 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:24.980 That ends with a could have been. 00:05:25.699 --> 00:05:26.719 Or a should have been. 00:05:28.039 --> 00:05:30.419 And we've got to feel sad about this response. 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:39.460 But in this snapshot of the Jews, John cleverly shows us here a portrait of ourselves. 00:05:40.780 --> 00:05:46.740 He shows us as he pictures them where I am heading and where you are heading. 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:48.400 Unless God intervenes. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.700 That God can give me all the evidence that I ask for. 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.000 For his existence. 00:05:54.780 --> 00:05:57.200 But the truth is, I still wouldn't believe. 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:58.680 If it was up to me. 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.879 He could give me sign after sign after sign of his love. 00:06:03.420 --> 00:06:04.220 And his care. 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:06.379 And my need for him. 00:06:06.500 --> 00:06:08.439 And I would still slam the door in his face. 00:06:09.860 --> 00:06:11.860 He could come in the flesh. 00:06:12.579 --> 00:06:14.360 To mend a broken relationship. 00:06:14.620 --> 00:06:16.019 But I'd still turn him away. 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:20.439 And my life would end with a could have been. 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:22.340 Or with a should have been. 00:06:22.579 --> 00:06:24.319 It's the tragedy of my unbelief. 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.599 John here. 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:28.639 He is like the ghost of Christmas future. 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.099 And he says, this is what we are like. 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:34.439 They did not believe. 00:06:36.019 --> 00:06:39.040 Those words should fall off the page like a lead balloon. 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:47.660 Because the whole project of the Bible story has been for God to win these people. 00:06:47.900 --> 00:06:48.280 Isn't it? 00:06:48.860 --> 00:06:49.640 The Jews. 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:52.400 For God to be with them. 00:06:53.379 --> 00:06:54.720 God speaks to them. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:55.560 The Israelites. 00:06:55.740 --> 00:06:57.340 He comes near to them in the wilderness. 00:06:58.340 --> 00:07:00.060 He gives them kings and prophets. 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:02.399 He calls them back. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:03.920 Time and time and again. 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:05.699 And finally he comes to them. 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:08.240 To his own people in the Lord Jesus. 00:07:09.019 --> 00:07:10.579 And so this people particularly. 00:07:10.780 --> 00:07:11.879 They've been primed. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:13.120 And they've been prepped. 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.220 They've been softened through exile. 00:07:17.620 --> 00:07:19.220 And still they don't believe. 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.060 And so if the story was written with them in mind. 00:07:24.060 --> 00:07:26.379 We think, well, what hope do we have? 00:07:27.060 --> 00:07:28.899 Of making the fairy tale ending. 00:07:30.339 --> 00:07:32.439 It's a sobering picture of them. 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:36.839 Sobering because it shows a portrait of me and of you. 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:39.560 And of your friends and of your neighbours. 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:42.060 Of the basic response to Jesus. 00:07:43.379 --> 00:07:44.420 Of unbelief. 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:46.480 Unless God intervenes. 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:49.000 So they did not believe. 00:07:50.459 --> 00:07:53.379 Secondly though, John tells us they could not believe. 00:07:53.779 --> 00:07:54.920 Look at verse 39. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.340 Therefore they could not believe. 00:07:58.339 --> 00:08:00.679 For again, Isaiah said. 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:02.399 He has blinded their eyes. 00:08:02.719 --> 00:08:04.119 And hardened their hearts. 00:08:04.219 --> 00:08:05.439 Lest they see with their eyes. 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:07.279 And understand with their hearts. 00:08:07.779 --> 00:08:09.859 And turn and I would heal them. 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.039 And we want to ask really, don't we. 00:08:13.159 --> 00:08:16.219 As it comes to this part of the gospel. 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.659 Why has the story ended in this way for the Jews? 00:08:19.660 --> 00:08:20.960 Why don't they believe? 00:08:22.280 --> 00:08:26.840 And it turns out that the problem is a little bit more complex than first meets the eye. 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.920 It is more complex than a simple choice of free will. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:37.680 Because not only is there an unwillingness to believe in Jesus. 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:42.139 There is an inability to believe. 00:08:43.379 --> 00:08:50.320 And shockingly, John tells us it is God himself who has caused that inability. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:55.420 Now this needs several weeks to get our heads around this. 00:08:56.680 --> 00:09:01.820 But what is clear here is this unbelief is not a choice of free will. 00:09:03.140 --> 00:09:07.940 It is not a choice where people have the liberty of indifference. 00:09:07.940 --> 00:09:13.880 As if people are indifferent to the gospel and to Jesus Christ. 00:09:14.100 --> 00:09:18.900 And can choose with unbiased preference whether to believe or not. 00:09:20.520 --> 00:09:22.160 Why couldn't they believe? 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:27.300 It wasn't because they picked the wrong side of a 50-50 decision. 00:09:27.640 --> 00:09:29.520 Believe or not to believe, that's the question. 00:09:30.520 --> 00:09:35.180 It wasn't that they flicked a coin of belief and it landed the wrong side up. 00:09:35.179 --> 00:09:43.339 It was, John tells us, because they were moved in that direction of unbelief by God himself. 00:09:44.459 --> 00:09:47.879 Who blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts. 00:09:49.359 --> 00:09:53.599 God kept them from being able to believe. 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:59.539 And so they had hard hearts and blind eyes when he came to them in Jesus. 00:09:59.539 --> 00:10:05.459 And soberingly, that is true for many, many people. 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:12.259 So that even though people have plenty of evidence, they cannot see it. 00:10:12.839 --> 00:10:13.480 They just cannot. 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:20.959 And even though God speaks to people in creation and in his words. 00:10:21.439 --> 00:10:23.459 And he shows himself to them. 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.779 People's hearts are hard and they cannot feel him. 00:10:26.860 --> 00:10:27.459 They just cannot. 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:37.620 And the big question is then, how can people who do this be blamed for not believing in God 00:10:37.620 --> 00:10:40.580 when he has caused that unbelief? 00:10:41.460 --> 00:10:44.540 When God made them unable to believe? 00:10:46.420 --> 00:10:49.320 I think this is where we need to bring in other parts of the Bible. 00:10:49.320 --> 00:11:02.840 What we see is here that God's hardening and blinding of these people is not some random arbitrary thing like picking names out of a hat and you just happen to be the unlucky ones. 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:13.320 But actually it is a confirmation and a giving over to what these people want deep down. 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.980 It is not a blinding of people who really otherwise wanted to see. 00:11:19.820 --> 00:11:21.980 And God has unfairly put this upon them. 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:28.540 But it is a giving over to a mind and heart that is decidedly against God already. 00:11:30.020 --> 00:11:35.540 So when God blinded and hardened these people, it was a punishment. 00:11:35.539 --> 00:11:42.659 It was a punishment on people who were refusing to use their eyes and soften their hearts. 00:11:44.259 --> 00:11:49.839 And so whilst they can't believe, they willingly can't. 00:11:50.199 --> 00:11:50.559 Do you see? 00:11:51.779 --> 00:11:57.000 In a sense, God merely gives these people what they ask for and what they most deeply desire. 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:11.220 The most terrifying response God can give for anyone who rejects Jesus is to confirm a person in that rejection of him and to push that boat further down the river. 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:21.159 So that a person continually rushes with the current of their own hatred of God more and more and more away from him. 00:12:22.139 --> 00:12:24.980 That's what Paul says in Romans chapter 1, isn't it? 00:12:24.980 --> 00:12:30.580 That God's anger, his wrath, is revealed when he does this. 00:12:30.860 --> 00:12:35.320 When he gives people over to their desire to reject him. 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:44.460 And so blindness and hardness of heart and unbelief, if I'm doing it, it is always my fault. 00:12:45.259 --> 00:12:46.080 Not God's. 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.680 It is an inability to believe, but it's a guilty inability. 00:12:52.820 --> 00:12:54.720 It is a willing inability. 00:12:55.659 --> 00:12:56.980 I'm unable to believe. 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.860 God hardens a heart, but only because I'm not willing to be able. 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:09.240 And there is a sense here that if there was a willingness and a humility and a humbling before God, 00:13:09.580 --> 00:13:11.420 and God wanted to heal them. 00:13:12.460 --> 00:13:17.560 Hear how he says in Isaiah that they might hear and understand and sing and I would heal them. 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.699 I'm not reluctant to do that. 00:13:19.699 --> 00:13:26.139 I don't delight in the death of the wicked, he says in Ezekiel, in hardening these people. 00:13:26.599 --> 00:13:28.419 But this is the tragedy of unbelief. 00:13:28.419 --> 00:13:32.839 They can't believe because they can't believe. 00:13:32.839 --> 00:13:36.979 And they won't believe because they can't. 00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:39.240 They didn't believe. 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:40.279 They couldn't believe. 00:13:41.800 --> 00:13:42.879 So that's them. 00:13:43.620 --> 00:13:44.500 What about us? 00:13:46.019 --> 00:13:50.800 The ghost of Christmas future in them shows us a little picture of ourselves. 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:55.079 And, sorry, it's a bit heavy, isn't it, this week? 00:13:55.459 --> 00:13:56.839 Pretty heavy, all of this. 00:13:57.979 --> 00:14:04.419 But it's a picture of people who are so unwilling to receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour, 00:14:04.419 --> 00:14:11.379 they subject themselves to a condition that is irretrievable unless God intervenes. 00:14:12.199 --> 00:14:17.219 That no matter how many signs God sends them, and how many sermons God lets them hear, 00:14:17.620 --> 00:14:22.779 and how many lunchtime talks God lets them go to, and how many questions God lets them ask, 00:14:23.439 --> 00:14:28.219 they are led down by God, down the river of their own rejection of Jesus Christ. 00:14:28.220 --> 00:14:35.700 And John, the master evangelist, then, has us on the ropes, doesn't he? 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.399 He wants us to feel sad about this. 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.920 And he wants us to feel fearful about this. 00:14:44.040 --> 00:14:48.660 And to ask for ourselves the what should have been and the what could have been. 00:14:49.920 --> 00:14:54.759 You know, they call him the evangelist, don't they, out of the gospel writers. 00:14:56.300 --> 00:14:58.120 And don't forget John's agenda. 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:00.700 What does he say at the end of his gospel? 00:15:00.860 --> 00:15:05.300 I'm writing these things so that you may believe. 00:15:06.620 --> 00:15:08.540 And that includes John 12. 00:15:10.420 --> 00:15:14.300 John's intention here is that when we hear about their hardening, 00:15:15.019 --> 00:15:16.580 that we are softened. 00:15:17.940 --> 00:15:20.340 That we are not hardened like this. 00:15:21.100 --> 00:15:22.300 Like the Jews were then. 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:28.180 That we would not end up in the same situation that they did at the end of the story. 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.399 And so he's got to get us to the point of desperation. 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:33.379 And he does that. 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:35.360 And if you look at verse 42. 00:15:36.300 --> 00:15:38.180 And this is typical of John. 00:15:39.180 --> 00:15:41.779 Because he kind of gives a little positive note, doesn't he? 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.200 There's a big nevertheless in verse 42. 00:15:45.460 --> 00:15:48.300 Nevertheless, and we're thinking finally, a breath of fresh air. 00:15:48.740 --> 00:15:51.000 Many of the authorities did believe in him. 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:53.320 You're thinking finally there's some hope. 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.020 But, he says, for fear of the Pharisees, they didn't confess it. 00:15:58.460 --> 00:16:00.440 So they wouldn't be thrown out of the synagogue. 00:16:00.640 --> 00:16:03.620 They love the glory of man rather than the glory that comes from God. 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:05.700 They won't and they can't. 00:16:05.700 --> 00:16:07.320 And John doesn't let up here. 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:15.180 Because he wants us to see just how difficult and how remarkable true belief in Jesus actually is. 00:16:15.740 --> 00:16:16.660 When it does happen. 00:16:16.659 --> 00:16:23.459 Even when people do believe, it's a signature move of John, isn't it? 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.939 That many forms of belief are flawed counterfeits. 00:16:26.940 --> 00:16:30.440 Because you cannot just flick a coin. 00:16:31.020 --> 00:16:32.920 You cannot just choose to believe. 00:16:33.640 --> 00:16:36.160 If you could, they of all people would have done. 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:40.360 And since they don't, how can anyone? 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:43.380 And that is the point here. 00:16:45.020 --> 00:16:49.360 John says, before I get into the last portion of Jesus' ministry, the conclusion is, 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:54.560 Jesus came and we are unable and unwilling to receive him. 00:16:55.860 --> 00:16:57.379 Unless God intervenes. 00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:01.460 You will not and you cannot believe. 00:17:03.139 --> 00:17:06.839 Belief cannot come from your ordinary faculties. 00:17:07.579 --> 00:17:08.680 From stuff you can do. 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:10.740 Do you remember what he said in chapter 1? 00:17:10.860 --> 00:17:12.579 We are born not of blood. 00:17:13.360 --> 00:17:15.240 Not of the will of the flesh. 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:17.079 Nor of the will of man. 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:18.379 But of God. 00:17:19.699 --> 00:17:22.079 We need to be born from above. 00:17:23.439 --> 00:17:24.779 God must intervene. 00:17:26.439 --> 00:17:28.539 And this is where Jesus is heading. 00:17:28.899 --> 00:17:31.199 In the next section, which we'll look at next week. 00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:33.519 As he begins to speak about himself. 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.980 As witness, as the one from the Father. 00:17:37.919 --> 00:17:39.359 As the one from above. 00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:41.839 Because God must intervene. 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.059 As we finish. 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.119 It is a tragic conclusion to this part of the story. 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:49.659 It is a sad end. 00:17:50.539 --> 00:17:51.980 And it is very sobering. 00:17:53.199 --> 00:17:55.339 Because they of all people did not believe. 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:57.740 And they could not believe. 00:17:59.299 --> 00:18:01.379 One writer comments on this passage. 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:02.159 He says, 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:04.320 The dark things in the Bible. 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:07.080 Are spoken for the sake of light. 00:18:08.140 --> 00:18:10.960 The ugly things are spoken for the sake of beauty. 00:18:11.840 --> 00:18:14.660 The painful things are spoken for the sake of comfort. 00:18:15.360 --> 00:18:17.860 And the sorrowful for the sake of joy. 00:18:19.580 --> 00:18:21.720 And we're not beating around the bush here, are we? 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:23.820 This is a really difficult subject. 00:18:24.380 --> 00:18:26.560 Of God hardening people. 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:31.720 But the hardening is spoken for the sake of your softening. 00:18:32.779 --> 00:18:36.359 And the blindness is spoken of for the sake of your seeing. 00:18:37.299 --> 00:18:39.759 That you might call out to him. 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:43.359 And realise that you need more than anything his intervention. 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:45.980 And to say to God. 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:48.839 I do not want my story to end in the same way. 00:18:48.940 --> 00:18:49.759 With a should have been. 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:51.440 Or with a could have been. 00:18:52.679 --> 00:18:54.899 And the only way that is going to happen. 00:18:54.899 --> 00:18:56.500 Is if God intervenes. 00:18:57.500 --> 00:19:00.539 And so we need to lose all hope in ourselves. 00:19:00.980 --> 00:19:01.539 All hope. 00:19:02.579 --> 00:19:03.960 And to cry out for him. 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:05.159 To him for help. 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:07.399 And when we do that. 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:09.440 When we realise our need. 00:19:10.379 --> 00:19:12.759 And to come to him humbled. 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:15.319 And for help alone. 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:16.480 Even then. 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:17.559 To do that. 00:19:18.460 --> 00:19:20.639 We begin to believe, don't we? 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:22.359 In the way that God wants us to. 00:19:23.619 --> 00:19:25.139 And as we do that. 00:19:25.140 --> 00:19:27.800 He promises that then. 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:30.020 We will see with our own eyes. 00:19:30.120 --> 00:19:31.860 And we will understand with our hearts. 00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:33.800 And he would turn. 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:35.120 And he would heal us. 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:38.439 And so let us do that now. 00:19:38.779 --> 00:19:39.939 As we close in a prayer. 00:19:39.939 --> 00:19:40.739 Let us pray.