WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.779 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all who with unveiled faces 00:00:08.779 --> 00:00:18.719 contemplate the Lord's glory are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:24.460 which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. That comes from 2 Corinthians. 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:36.000 And here, right at the beginning of our new series, as we look at our reading and our study on Colossians, 00:00:36.620 --> 00:00:41.299 let's get the question right out there, right at the beginning. No messing. 00:00:42.100 --> 00:00:50.060 Do you have confidence in Jesus Christ? I'll say it again, just in case we're not sure. 00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:59.160 Do you have confidence in Jesus Christ? A lack of confidence manifests itself, as we know, 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:05.420 in various different ways in life, and especially in the Christian life, because Satan loves nothing 00:01:05.420 --> 00:01:12.640 better than to instill in us a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence in the gospel, a lack of 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:18.320 confidence in the church, in the power and sovereignty of Jesus in our lives, and a lack 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:25.419 of confidence in prayer, and the power of the Holy Spirit. And then, as we know, lack of confidence 00:01:25.419 --> 00:01:33.079 is often then manifest and borne out in that insecurity in who we are as Christians, in our 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:40.619 calling, in our ability to shape the culture of the community around us, and then to pray with 00:01:40.619 --> 00:01:46.280 confidence for others to stand secure in who we are in Christ, in Christ in us. 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:54.780 You see, the importance of this question, as we start our new teaching series, is, do we have 00:01:54.780 --> 00:02:05.520 confidence in Jesus? As you know, I love film, and I can watch a film, and I see the gospel of life 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:15.900 being lived out, often in a very, very raw way. Frank Abiganali Jr. is seeing the breakdown of his 00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:23.760 mum and dad's mum and dad's marriage. He's only 16, and in order to impress his dad, and in some weird 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:32.980 warped way, hopes to get the family back together as mum and dad, he goes on this amazing, notorious, 00:02:33.980 --> 00:02:44.560 and ingenious way of making money. He starts making and writing fraudulent checks. It's a true story. 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:51.439 Immortalised in the film, if you've seen it, catch me if you can, between the late 60s and early 70s, 00:02:51.759 --> 00:03:00.479 Frank Jr. successfully lived out life as an imposter, and made millions and millions of dollars 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:07.620 as the FBI pursued him across the world. He lived his life as an imposter in many ways, 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:15.520 as, first of all, as a doctor, then he pretended to be a lawyer in the Attorney General's office, 00:03:16.259 --> 00:03:24.099 and then a professor. And in this little clip, we see him as Frank, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:33.300 marvellous in this film, as he evades the FBI as posing, no less than a pan-American airline 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:40.180 recruiting officer, and then takes on the role of a pilot. You can sing along, if you like, 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:41.920 in the life that he lives. 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:45.920 Aileen Anderson. 00:03:52.920 --> 00:03:55.640 Miggy Acker. 00:03:59.180 --> 00:04:02.580 Deborah Jo McMillan. 00:04:02.580 --> 00:04:10.580 Andy Heskin. 00:04:11.320 --> 00:04:16.319 Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:24.819 If you can use some exotic booze, there's a bar in far Bombay. 00:04:24.819 --> 00:04:29.699 Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. 00:04:29.699 --> 00:04:36.699 Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru. 00:04:36.699 --> 00:04:45.699 In Lama Land, there's a one-man band, and he'll toot his flute for you. 00:04:45.699 --> 00:04:50.599 Come fly with me, let's take on in the blue. 00:04:50.600 --> 00:05:05.680 It's a great clip. Frank lived his life as an imposter and took other people in. He was very convincing. 00:05:06.340 --> 00:05:13.720 Being honest as a Christian requires of us, especially as we look at this series, we start with a reality check. 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:21.000 It's easy to calm people, and it's not a surprise that Christians are easily calmed. 00:05:21.140 --> 00:05:23.100 It's Satan's task to do that. 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:25.360 That's what he wants to do. 00:05:25.820 --> 00:05:29.480 And say to the world, I'm fine, I'm secure, 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:37.720 yet so often, as we know in Christians, it's the smallest thing, isn't it, that diverts us, 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:43.140 that takes us away from that essence of having our confidence in Jesus. 00:05:43.420 --> 00:05:45.040 I've seen it so many times. 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.180 I've experienced it so many times. 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.620 Everything is going swimmingly well. 00:05:49.620 --> 00:05:54.519 And then all of a sudden, it's one thing that takes us away. 00:05:55.019 --> 00:05:59.720 The one person you can't calm is Jesus. 00:06:00.840 --> 00:06:02.939 And that's why we have our confidence in him. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.759 And we will learn from the series in Colossians that Jesus is our confidence. 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:13.980 And in this morning, Paul is writing to Colossae, and they are a newly formed church. 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:16.459 There are no masks to hide behind. 00:06:16.459 --> 00:06:19.579 Paul is writing from prison. 00:06:19.899 --> 00:06:24.359 He says, we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:27.699 because we have heard of your faith in Jesus Christ, 00:06:27.939 --> 00:06:30.439 and of the love you have for all God's people. 00:06:30.819 --> 00:06:33.879 Paul is saying he has heard about their faith in Jesus Christ, 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.159 which is authentic and real for everyone to see. 00:06:39.259 --> 00:06:40.159 It is out there. 00:06:40.539 --> 00:06:41.199 There is nothing. 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:42.939 It is the real deal. 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:44.560 Is that true for us? 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:51.780 Is that what people see when they see the church and us in the everyday? 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:58.060 Each year as a nation, we spend billions of pounds, billions of pounds, 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:07.360 on clothes, image-changing body surgery, products and items to make us feel more confident. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:09.920 Look at books on a shelf. 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:16.480 People have written books that they are encouraging us to be more confident in the workplace, 00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:18.900 in our careers, in our lovemaking. 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:24.400 People are making millions as they seek to make us more confident. 00:07:24.580 --> 00:07:31.280 Yet we know that statistically and from evidence that we know that that doesn't work. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:39.819 Because a third of British teenagers in 2020 said that they felt ashamed of their body. 00:07:40.259 --> 00:07:47.299 The imagery of idealised bodies on social media is driving their insecurity insane. 00:07:48.739 --> 00:07:54.719 31% of 13 to 19-year-olds feel ashamed of their body, according to a YouGov survey. 00:07:54.720 --> 00:08:03.060 In addition, 35% of respondents worried about their body often or every day. 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:11.140 37% said they felt ashamed about their bodies. 00:08:12.380 --> 00:08:17.960 Two in five said pictures that they had seen on social media have made them worried too. 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:20.680 Where's the confidence? 00:08:22.400 --> 00:08:24.400 Where do we place our confidence? 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:29.280 I don't need to tell you that in our Western society, 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:33.100 it's increasingly become obsessed with celebrity. 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.899 People are led to believe that success and confidence is defined by the number of people 00:08:39.899 --> 00:08:42.240 who follow you on social media. 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:44.820 And people compare. 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.779 People compare not only their bodies, they compare their homes, their cars, their churches, 00:08:50.779 --> 00:08:59.139 their online presence, or seeking to enhance their own confidence in themselves. 00:08:59.139 --> 00:09:07.559 It's right back to Pauline teaching where he's writing to Corinthians who are an older church 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.639 and are making the mistakes. 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:11.500 You know, what does it mean? 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.580 I mean, one of you says, I follow Paul. 00:09:14.740 --> 00:09:16.840 Another says, I follow Apollos. 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.879 Another says, I follow Cephas. 00:09:20.019 --> 00:09:21.980 Another says, I follow Christ. 00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:23.259 Is Christ divided? 00:09:23.259 --> 00:09:23.320 Is Christ divided? 00:09:23.860 --> 00:09:24.460 Paul says. 00:09:25.539 --> 00:09:27.620 Was Paul crucified for you? 00:09:27.940 --> 00:09:29.779 Were you baptized in the name of Paul? 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:31.360 It still goes on. 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.259 Anything to erode our confidence. 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.500 I follow this particular minister's teaching online. 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:41.600 I go now to this particular church because I like their worship band. 00:09:41.940 --> 00:09:43.460 You know, things don't change. 00:09:43.620 --> 00:09:50.500 Comparison is often manifesting itself above or below the surface of our Christian life 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:55.980 and is a flaw, not only in membership, but in leadership too. 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.799 It destroys confidence in the one who is central to our faith. 00:10:03.379 --> 00:10:06.159 We are not immune from avoiding the question, 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:11.159 do you have confidence in Jesus Christ? 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:18.120 And if so, how does it manifest itself in our life, in our everyday discipleship? 00:10:19.199 --> 00:10:23.600 In our reading this morning, we're looking at Paul writing to this newly found and growing church. 00:10:23.740 --> 00:10:26.620 They haven't had the opportunity to make the mistakes yet 00:10:26.620 --> 00:10:30.879 because they are establishing themselves. 00:10:31.259 --> 00:10:35.419 And Paul always suggests writing to a church that is in the throes of maturing. 00:10:35.419 --> 00:10:38.559 And isn't that where we should be as Christians? 00:10:39.079 --> 00:10:41.339 Maturing all the time in faith? 00:10:42.259 --> 00:10:45.479 Many will, maybe it's a long time back for you. 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:47.319 It certainly is for me. 00:10:47.599 --> 00:10:53.179 But remembering those days of going through teenage years and through puberty, 00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:56.479 I mean, it was a rough time. 00:10:57.479 --> 00:11:01.939 And it's no different from maturing Christians and disciples. 00:11:02.179 --> 00:11:04.059 We can be easily subverted. 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:08.899 We can be easily diverted to trade honesty and humility with Jesus 00:11:08.899 --> 00:11:13.339 and place our confidence and trust in the trappings of those things around us, 00:11:13.459 --> 00:11:16.899 of society and church with a very small C. 00:11:16.899 --> 00:11:19.860 We doubt who we really are. 00:11:20.139 --> 00:11:22.000 We struggle to find our identity. 00:11:22.899 --> 00:11:27.179 And maybe at school, you remember those awkward years looking at the popular kids 00:11:27.179 --> 00:11:28.879 that were in your class? 00:11:29.340 --> 00:11:32.519 Maybe the pictures of them still come to mind. 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:38.659 It's that much power that they had of thinking what they had and what I didn't have. 00:11:38.659 --> 00:11:43.699 And yet I would suggest as many Christians, we never ever grow out of that insecurity 00:11:43.699 --> 00:11:47.039 of who we are in Christ, in Christ in us. 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:53.379 And therefore we struggle to come to that full fullness of Christ, which we all seek. 00:11:54.419 --> 00:11:57.620 And I would venture indeed be bold enough to say that it's a barrier 00:11:57.620 --> 00:12:01.159 to the fullness of our relationship with Jesus. 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:03.299 Ask me, I have been there. 00:12:03.299 --> 00:12:11.259 So welcome to the series as we look at Jesus and Jesus is my confidence 00:12:11.259 --> 00:12:18.039 so that we can confidently say as we explore this that Jesus is my confidence. 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.959 Paul knows this new church needs reassurance. 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:21.620 We all do. 00:12:22.419 --> 00:12:27.399 And so Ephesus, who Paul has sent to them, is doing a brilliant job. 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:28.779 He's teaching them. 00:12:28.979 --> 00:12:29.859 He's building them up. 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:30.919 He's growing them. 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.120 They're building faith, building in confidence. 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:35.199 And Paul continues in the same way. 00:12:35.500 --> 00:12:38.459 The gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world. 00:12:38.819 --> 00:12:47.859 Just as it's been doing amongst you since the day you heard it and truly understood God's grace. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:54.679 You learned it from Ephesus and our dear servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf. 00:12:54.899 --> 00:12:57.859 And who also told us of the love in the spirit. 00:12:57.860 --> 00:13:03.080 Paul is hearing and therefore writing to a church that is seeking to be authentic. 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:07.240 Authentic to the gospel. 00:13:08.659 --> 00:13:15.840 What are they hearing and starting to live out is an image-driven, isn't an image-driven copy of anything else. 00:13:16.180 --> 00:13:18.919 This is something new and alive to them. 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:23.799 Denomination hasn't yet been invented and therefore they haven't been divided. 00:13:24.319 --> 00:13:25.539 They didn't know anything else. 00:13:25.539 --> 00:13:32.879 What they experienced was a pure, undiluted, a vision of church that was beautiful and was full of Jesus. 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.479 Don't you just long for that? 00:13:36.379 --> 00:13:37.519 I certainly do. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:45.819 Clearly, through him and through the growing followers of Jesus, they saw a life that was starting to be lived out. 00:13:46.100 --> 00:13:47.439 It wasn't an imitation. 00:13:47.819 --> 00:13:48.860 It wasn't a facade. 00:13:49.259 --> 00:13:50.759 No people were putting on masks. 00:13:51.100 --> 00:13:54.079 No people were arriving at their meetings and saying, 00:13:54.379 --> 00:13:55.360 Hi, good morning. 00:13:55.539 --> 00:13:56.039 How are you? 00:13:56.100 --> 00:13:56.720 I'm fine. 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:58.079 Thank you so much. 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:04.740 When actually underneath, I am feeling rotten to the core and I need confidence in Jesus. 00:14:08.379 --> 00:14:09.860 Martin Luther said, 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:20.240 Faith is living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:28.080 Paul must be overjoyed when he's hearing about this embryonic church that is authentic and is real. 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:29.500 Jesus is their confidence. 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.879 What is the science of this confident, Christ-focused church? 00:14:33.180 --> 00:14:35.419 One, they have acknowledged Jesus. 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:39.820 You may think that's strange. 00:14:40.620 --> 00:14:43.360 We are a church that acknowledge Jesus. 00:14:44.220 --> 00:14:47.659 But so often in congregations, we don't. 00:14:47.659 --> 00:14:54.620 We don't acknowledge the fullness of all that Jesus is for us and with us and for the community we seek to gain. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.019 They have acknowledged Jesus. 00:14:56.219 --> 00:15:00.980 They have seen his purposes through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.199 When do we experience that as a church? 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:08.480 The people are drawn to us because they experience that, the power and presence of God amongst us. 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:21.740 They have started to experience what an authentic Jesus-focused life is like in serving, sharing, worship, sacrifice, giving, caring, loving and forgiving. 00:15:21.740 --> 00:15:29.419 No pretense, no pretending, no falseness to be something that they aren't. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:36.139 And in fact, he goes on to say in 9 to 14, then there is a word here that leaps out. 00:15:37.019 --> 00:15:43.980 Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience. 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:51.639 In joy and patience, or do we shift when we hear those words when the going gets challenging? 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.879 When things don't go our way. 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:01.019 And giving joyfully thanks to the Father who has qualified you. 00:16:02.060 --> 00:16:09.139 Qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 00:16:10.180 --> 00:16:11.240 Qualified you. 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:11.320 Qualified you. 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.980 Some manuscripts say qualified us. 00:16:16.139 --> 00:16:19.899 I like qualified you because it becomes personal. 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:22.299 It becomes personal to us. 00:16:22.539 --> 00:16:24.519 It's between us and Jesus. 00:16:25.460 --> 00:16:30.019 Do you write, do we write our own qualifications as Christians? 00:16:30.779 --> 00:16:32.820 Do we grade ourselves against others? 00:16:33.820 --> 00:16:36.980 Do we judge other churches against our own? 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:38.539 No. 00:16:38.539 --> 00:16:42.500 We are qualified through no rights of our own. 00:16:42.500 --> 00:16:47.459 We are qualified through the sacrifice, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:16:47.980 --> 00:16:50.919 Jesus is our confidence. 00:16:52.719 --> 00:16:54.919 And yet sometimes we try to rewrite that. 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:56.740 It doesn't end there. 00:16:56.740 --> 00:17:05.960 If we are qualified, and we are, we should have confidence in, dare I say it, courage, confidence and humility in doing the work of the Father. 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:14.539 First, disciples, as we know, were cowering in fear and despondency after the cross. 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:16.400 Gathered together. 00:17:17.380 --> 00:17:19.799 Then they encountered the risen Jesus. 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:30.940 And in their overflowing joy of being united with the risen Christ, their disciples were jumping, dancing, leaping up and giving each other high fives, I guess. 00:17:30.940 --> 00:17:32.940 It was great excitement. 00:17:32.940 --> 00:17:35.160 It was great excitement, but they needed to calm down a bit. 00:17:36.420 --> 00:17:38.720 Because Jesus says, peace be with you. 00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:46.799 And then Jesus told them the main point of what that was all about, was as the Father has sent me, I am sending you. 00:17:47.180 --> 00:17:53.360 They are given faith-filled confidence in the risen Christ. 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:55.539 Death is beaten. 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:57.599 The price of sin has been paid. 00:17:58.199 --> 00:17:59.919 Satan is no more hold over us. 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.139 Jesus is our confidence. 00:18:03.139 --> 00:18:16.079 How can we truly, how can any truly committed follower of Jesus look at the cross, look at the empty tomb, and not proclaim that, Jesus, my confidence is in you? 00:18:17.919 --> 00:18:19.459 I'll end where I started. 00:18:19.460 --> 00:18:35.579 Because as we move into this series, basically the gospel, the good news from Genesis to Revelation is that God loved the world so much that in time he sent his son to save us. 00:18:37.220 --> 00:18:40.579 Jesus is our confidence. 00:18:40.579 --> 00:19:10.559 Jesus is our confidence. 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:17.139 Today, this is asking us personally in our relationship with Jesus. 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:27.839 You and him, King Jesus, this is the one-to-one moment to say, Jesus, you are my confidence. 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.460 Maybe to say that afresh for the first time. 00:19:33.379 --> 00:19:36.119 Maybe to say that as we move into this series. 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:46.419 Jesus, Jesus, I place my confidence in you because you have every confidence in me because you have given me that confidence. 00:19:46.420 --> 00:19:55.180 I'm going to invite you now if you'd like to stand with me as we move into our next hymn. 00:19:55.259 --> 00:19:56.720 Would you like to do that? 00:19:57.720 --> 00:19:58.580 If you're able. 00:20:00.539 --> 00:20:12.440 And as we do that, to acknowledge that the Lord has created us as his temple, us personally, in which the Holy Spirit dwells and is active. 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:21.000 So maybe as we consider that of Jesus, you are my confidence. 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:25.700 Not saying that to anyone else, but saying that to him, to affirm that. 00:20:25.700 --> 00:20:30.900 That we pray, come Holy Spirit, we pray. 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:40.240 And fill each and every one of us with that strength, that confidence that comes from you. 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.080 From nowhere else, Lord, but from you. 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.299 Holy Spirit, may, would you come. 00:20:50.419 --> 00:20:55.359 Maybe as you say those words just personally to him now. 00:20:56.859 --> 00:20:59.139 Jesus, you are my confidence. 00:20:59.140 --> 00:21:15.240 And in saying that, Lord, Holy Spirit, would you come and would you break the deception and lies that Satan has spoken into many lives that we are not qualified. 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:22.059 Hear the Spirit, filled in God-breed words of the gospel to you today. 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:32.180 Thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 00:21:32.259 --> 00:21:34.620 Jesus, you are my confidence. 00:21:38.620 --> 00:21:42.059 Maybe you've not acknowledged that for some time. 00:21:42.059 --> 00:21:45.720 You've been a Christian for a few weeks, a few days, a few decades. 00:21:46.700 --> 00:21:55.279 And through circumstances and insecurity, Satan has sought to crush your confidence in Jesus and his power and sovereignty in your life. 00:21:55.579 --> 00:22:00.659 Today, in the reassurance of the cross and the power of the Spirit, hear these words. 00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:02.539 You are qualified. 00:22:04.139 --> 00:22:08.440 And we can say, Jesus, you are my confidence. 00:22:08.619 --> 00:22:10.980 Christ in me and me in Christ. 00:22:10.980 --> 00:22:13.799 A new chapter in my discipleship. 00:22:14.740 --> 00:22:17.960 A renewed confidence in your teaching and in your living. 00:22:18.259 --> 00:22:20.599 A new confidence in sharing my faith. 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.000 A new confidence in all I do. 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.860 I invite you, maybe if you are saying that afresh today, 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:30.000 maybe for the first time, 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:34.500 you sense the lies of the evil one peeling off you 00:22:34.500 --> 00:22:39.599 to stand renewed and refreshed in the confidence that only Jesus can bring. 00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:45.299 Maybe you'd like to acknowledge that by raising your hand. 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:47.599 Nobody's going to look around and see you. 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.859 But maybe there is something in you today where you are saying, 00:22:51.859 --> 00:22:58.779 yes, Lord, I want that fresh confidence that you have in all that I do. 00:22:59.419 --> 00:23:01.099 Put down a marker today. 00:23:03.219 --> 00:23:05.759 Because brothers and sisters, we are qualified. 00:23:06.659 --> 00:23:09.019 We are saved in the blood and power of the cross. 00:23:09.019 --> 00:23:11.799 Jesus is our confidence. 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:18.779 And as we worship, we're just going to hear those words that Isaiah said way before. 00:23:20.379 --> 00:23:23.240 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:27.759 When you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. 00:23:28.019 --> 00:23:31.079 When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. 00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:33.799 The flames will not set you ablaze. 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:36.960 Jesus, come, Holy Spirit. 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:41.960 Send us out in the power of your Holy Spirit. 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:48.639 Because Jesus, you are, you are my confidence. 00:23:50.220 --> 00:23:51.619 Jesus, thank you.