WEBVTT 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:09.540 Good morning. My name is Matthew Capone and I'm the pastor here at Cheyenne Mountain Presbyterian Church and it's my joy to bring God's word to you today. 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:14.280 A special welcome if you're new or visiting with us. We're glad that you're here. 00:00:15.019 --> 00:00:21.679 And we're glad that you're here not because we're trying to fill seats, but because we're following Jesus together as one community. 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:31.619 And as we follow Jesus together, we become convinced that there's no one so good that they don't need God's grace and no one so bad that they can't have it. 00:00:32.420 --> 00:00:38.640 And so it's for that reason that we're glad you're here, because we believe that God has something to say to everyone in his word, 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:44.799 whether you have been a Christian your entire life or whether you have questions or doubts about Christianity. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:57.559 If you play volleyball, which is something I try to avoid as often as possible, you know that communication is incredibly important. 00:00:58.319 --> 00:01:04.140 It's important to call the ball so that on the one hand, there's two things that can happen, right, if there's not good communication. 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:10.319 No one calls the ball and it hits the ground. Or no one calls the ball and you have two players who come in and collide. 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:16.519 And the ball hitting the ground. As many of you know, I was gone for the last four Sundays, 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:20.659 and we actually had some pretty significant plays happen at this church. 00:01:21.399 --> 00:01:23.500 And the ball did not hit the ground. 00:01:25.199 --> 00:01:27.019 And so I'm here to say thank you. 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:33.839 We have leaders, and I don't just mean our elders and our deacons, although I do mean them, but our female leaders as well. 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:38.199 We have leaders who are eager to call the ball at this church. 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:44.100 When I say that we are a community, one community following Jesus together, 00:01:44.299 --> 00:01:48.740 what I mean by that is that we are one community following Jesus together. 00:01:49.460 --> 00:01:57.260 We are not a group of people who happen to randomly gather together on a Sunday morning to listen to Matthew Capone talk. 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:03.480 Whether Matthew Capone is here or is not here, God's mission continues. 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:11.599 This church is not about any one man unless that man is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 00:02:12.980 --> 00:02:21.219 And so I'm grateful for all of you and for this church that continues to work more and more as one team together. 00:02:21.219 --> 00:02:24.500 It's also important for me to say this. 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:26.139 Some of you have been here a while. 00:02:26.219 --> 00:02:29.819 If you've been here for two or three years, I'd say you fit into the old-timer category, 00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:32.599 since we have so much turnover at this church. 00:02:32.659 --> 00:02:38.240 And if you were here a long time ago, all the way back in August of 2017, 00:02:39.460 --> 00:02:43.639 you knew, no, that was the last time that we had a pastor who was gone for four weeks. 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:47.859 And when our pastor was gone for four weeks, two Sundays later, 00:02:48.119 --> 00:02:51.599 he told us that he was going to another church in another part of the country. 00:02:52.259 --> 00:02:54.679 Because of that history, I'm going to tell you right now, 00:02:55.179 --> 00:02:59.859 next week, I am not announcing that I'm going to another church in another part of the country. 00:03:01.259 --> 00:03:05.219 Whether you receive that as good news or bad news, 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:08.959 consult together. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.580 We're in the book of 1 Peter. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:16.500 And 1 Peter is a letter. 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:20.340 It's a letter written by a man named Peter. 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:25.040 And he writes it to churches in Asia Minor in the 60s A.D. 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:29.400 Asia Minor is a part of the world that is now modern Turkey. 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:34.520 And he writes to these people, as I told you, over and over again, 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:38.360 because they are feeling out of place in the world. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.020 And they are facing opposition from the world. 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:44.520 They're feeling out of place in the world, 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.360 and they're facing opposition from the world. 00:03:46.700 --> 00:03:48.560 And so Peter writes for two reasons. 00:03:48.700 --> 00:03:52.240 He writes to instruct them, and he writes to encourage them. 00:03:52.300 --> 00:03:55.240 He writes to encourage them that Jesus is worth it. 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:58.939 Jesus is worth living and loving for. 00:03:59.460 --> 00:04:02.860 And he's also worth suffering and dying for. 00:04:02.860 --> 00:04:07.340 He doesn't just write to encourage them, but he writes to instruct them 00:04:07.340 --> 00:04:12.460 how they should live in the world as Christians who feel out of place. 00:04:15.020 --> 00:04:19.720 And not just how to live, but also how to respond when opposition comes. 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:24.460 Now, it was back in November that we left off from 1 Peter, 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:28.160 and we left off in this section that addressed a variety of groups. 00:04:28.840 --> 00:04:32.040 These were groups who were, first of all, how to interact with government. 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.020 Second of all, how slaves should interact in the household. 00:04:36.740 --> 00:04:38.120 Next, how wives should interact. 00:04:38.180 --> 00:04:39.900 And finally, how husbands should interact. 00:04:40.980 --> 00:04:43.680 That's where we left off, and we had governing principles 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:47.480 that I mentioned earlier this morning about how each of these people should interact. 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:49.580 It was in such a way that they would be priests, right? 00:04:49.620 --> 00:04:53.280 They would represent God to the world by their behavior, 00:04:53.780 --> 00:04:57.080 and that they would proclaim God's excellencies as priests. 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:58.220 That's 1 Peter 2.9. 00:04:58.259 --> 00:05:02.060 And then also that their good works would cause people who accused them to be silenced. 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.960 Those were kind of the categories that we were working through from 1 Peter 2, 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:09.660 that they would live to bring honor to Jesus Christ. 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:13.480 We are picking up right where we left off, 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:16.780 except instead of being one specific group that's addressed, 00:05:16.779 --> 00:05:18.859 Peter's now going to address the entire church. 00:05:18.939 --> 00:05:21.399 He's going to tell us, we're starting at verse 8, 00:05:21.979 --> 00:05:23.179 finally, all of you. 00:05:24.799 --> 00:05:28.079 Now, our principles before were how to give honor and glory to Jesus Christ 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.679 and how to silence opposition through good works. 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.039 We find another principle in this section. 00:05:34.159 --> 00:05:35.519 We're in verses 8 through 12. 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:41.719 How do we behave if we don't just want to bring honor to God, 00:05:42.539 --> 00:05:46.019 but we also want to be close to God? 00:05:48.299 --> 00:05:51.159 Not just bring honor to God, but be close to God. 00:05:51.219 --> 00:05:52.859 This was hinted at when we left off. 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.060 1 Peter 3, verse 7, 00:05:55.060 --> 00:06:12.300 Now that principle is applied not just to husbands, but to everyone. 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:13.160 Verse 10. 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.740 First of all, sorry, verse 9. 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.820 Blessed, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. 00:06:21.840 --> 00:06:25.220 How should Christians behave in order to obtain a blessing? 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:28.300 And then we see at the end, verse 12, 00:06:28.440 --> 00:06:30.580 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.140 and his ears are open to their prayer, 00:06:34.140 --> 00:06:36.780 but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. 00:06:37.900 --> 00:06:40.120 Do you want God's eyes to be on you? 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:46.180 Do you want God's ears to be open to your prayers? 00:06:48.899 --> 00:06:51.639 Peter here is going to lay out the kind of behavior 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.180 that characterizes people who are close to God. 00:06:56.620 --> 00:06:59.699 And so with that, we're going to turn to 1 Peter 3, 00:06:59.899 --> 00:07:00.840 starting at verse 8. 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:02.939 You can follow along with me in your worship guide. 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:03.860 It's printed near the end. 00:07:03.939 --> 00:07:06.720 You can open it up on your phone or on your Bible. 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:08.939 And remember as we come to this, 00:07:08.939 --> 00:07:10.199 that this is God's word. 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.279 And God tells us that his word is more precious than gold, 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:16.899 even the finest gold. 00:07:17.899 --> 00:07:19.519 And it is sweeter than honey, 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.740 even the honey that comes straight from the honeycomb. 00:07:23.819 --> 00:07:26.079 That's why we turn to it now, starting at verse 8. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:49.279 Verse 10. 00:07:49.279 --> 00:08:03.139 Verse 12. 00:08:03.919 --> 00:08:07.779 Verse 12. 00:08:07.779 --> 00:08:23.359 I invite you to pray with me as we come to this portion of God's Word. 00:08:25.799 --> 00:08:31.000 Dear Father in heaven, we thank you that you have given us your words. 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:37.759 We thank you that your Word is not dependent on any one man, but we thank you that your 00:08:37.779 --> 00:08:45.399 pastor, but that you promise no matter what, it will not return to you void, but that your 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:47.659 Word has power in and of itself. 00:08:48.740 --> 00:08:52.899 And so we ask this morning that you would have mercy on us, that you would use the power 00:08:52.899 --> 00:08:59.139 of your Word to go deep into our hearts, that it would shape us and form us in the ways that 00:08:59.139 --> 00:09:04.459 we interact with each other here inside the church, and it would also shape and form the 00:09:04.460 --> 00:09:09.580 way that we interact with others outside the church, especially when they speak against 00:09:09.580 --> 00:09:09.920 us. 00:09:11.100 --> 00:09:15.100 We ask all these things knowing that we don't deserve them, but that Jesus has earned them 00:09:15.100 --> 00:09:16.840 for us, and so we ask them in his name. 00:09:17.800 --> 00:09:18.100 Amen. 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:28.540 I mentioned before that Peter has been giving a lot of different instructions to different 00:09:28.540 --> 00:09:33.300 groups, and now he's going to turn to giving instruction to everyone inside of the church, 00:09:33.299 --> 00:09:37.259 and as he gives instruction about what kind of behavior leads people close to God, there's 00:09:37.259 --> 00:09:38.979 going to be two main categories. 00:09:39.979 --> 00:09:43.899 First, we're going to see behavior inside of the church. 00:09:45.099 --> 00:09:47.219 How do we interact with other Christians? 00:09:47.359 --> 00:09:50.479 Remember, this is a community that's facing opposition. 00:09:50.699 --> 00:09:52.539 How do they function as a community together? 00:09:53.199 --> 00:09:55.259 So how do we interact inside the church? 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:59.279 And second, how do we interact outside of the church? 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:04.279 If we're facing opposition from the world and feeling out of place in it, how do we interact 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:08.839 with people coming in from the outside who want to say bad things and do bad things to 00:10:08.839 --> 00:10:09.100 us? 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:14.139 So we're going to simply focus on those two things this morning, inside and outside. 00:10:14.319 --> 00:10:18.379 Peter begins with his instruction inside of the church right off the bat with this fire 00:10:18.379 --> 00:10:19.779 hose in verse 8. 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:25.259 Finally, all of you have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble 00:10:25.259 --> 00:10:25.539 mind. 00:10:25.580 --> 00:10:27.819 And we could summarize these in two categories. 00:10:28.980 --> 00:10:30.740 By the way, if that felt like a lot, that is. 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:31.419 Take a deep breath. 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:36.519 Verse 8 just gave you, I think, about five different things that we're supposed to do 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.679 together, all of us in the church. 00:10:39.899 --> 00:10:43.559 Category number one, sympathy, brotherly love, and tender heart. 00:10:44.220 --> 00:10:47.179 In other words, treat each other like a family. 00:10:47.179 --> 00:10:56.259 Treat the other people in the church as if they are your mothers and fathers and brothers 00:10:56.259 --> 00:10:57.679 and sisters and cousins. 00:10:58.599 --> 00:11:00.639 These are people you're related to. 00:11:02.179 --> 00:11:08.120 You know if you are someone who has resources, you think differently about requests that come 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.539 to you for assistance from family members than you do from anyone else. 00:11:11.539 --> 00:11:17.519 You might say something like this, normally we wouldn't step in, but this is family. 00:11:20.659 --> 00:11:24.480 Peter is telling these people to treat each other like a family. 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:27.639 Put the good of the community above your own good. 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:32.939 That's the sympathy and the brotherly love and the tender heart. 00:11:33.099 --> 00:11:35.279 Second, don't just treat each other like a family. 00:11:36.219 --> 00:11:40.480 Put the common mission above your own preferences. 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:44.300 Put the good of the community and what it's doing over your own good. 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:46.480 Have unity of mind. 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:48.100 Have a humble mind. 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:51.120 Those two aren't coincidental, by the way. 00:11:51.180 --> 00:11:53.200 It takes a humble mind to have unity of mind. 00:11:53.539 --> 00:11:57.159 You actually have to recognize that maybe you might not be right about everything, 00:11:58.019 --> 00:12:02.539 and maybe some of the things that you feel strongly about are secondary issues that aren't 00:12:02.539 --> 00:12:05.440 going to help contribute to the church and its mission. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:09.540 We talked about this several times before in Philippians chapter 2. 00:12:10.620 --> 00:12:13.940 We talked about being question people rather than answer people. 00:12:14.580 --> 00:12:16.740 And this was back in the fall of 2018. 00:12:18.040 --> 00:12:22.440 Remember, I encourage you all then to go and figure out what the needs are of other groups 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:22.940 in the church. 00:12:22.940 --> 00:12:28.260 So if you're a widow, figure out what the needs of the homeschool families are. 00:12:28.760 --> 00:12:32.640 If you're a homeschool family, go and figure out what the needs of the young singles are. 00:12:33.420 --> 00:12:37.580 The goal is for us to be seeking the good of each other rather than pushing for our own 00:12:37.580 --> 00:12:37.940 agendas. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.140 We saw this again in Nehemiah chapter 3. 00:12:41.280 --> 00:12:44.240 I told you about coffee pot people versus K-cup people. 00:12:45.920 --> 00:12:49.580 K-cup, if you are unfamiliar, you can go back and listen to Nehemiah chapter 3. 00:12:49.580 --> 00:12:53.440 I'm not going to rehash all of it, but remember, K-cup people are interested in their own 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:53.920 preferences. 00:12:55.660 --> 00:12:59.639 They want a specific drink, even if it's not being brewed for anyone else. 00:13:00.680 --> 00:13:05.100 Coffee pot people recognize there's only one thing being brewed, and that's where we're 00:13:05.100 --> 00:13:06.080 going as a community. 00:13:07.180 --> 00:13:11.120 It's not about our individual preferences, but our one mission together. 00:13:11.300 --> 00:13:14.560 That's what these people need as they're feeling opposition from the outside. 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:20.719 Not to be torn up by disagreements about things that matter less, but to be unified about what 00:13:20.719 --> 00:13:21.559 matters most. 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.799 They need to have unity of mind and humble minds. 00:13:28.739 --> 00:13:34.619 I warned you, by the way, in Philippians chapter 2, that we were going to have a test coming 00:13:34.619 --> 00:13:34.919 up. 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.359 If you're an old timer, you were here back in 2018. 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:44.519 And you knew that the test was we were going to be talking about a worship service change 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:44.879 time. 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:47.019 And you know what happened? 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:53.500 We had a worship service change time, and you all were 1 Peter 3 kind of people. 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:59.200 We had one leader who said something like this, this change is actually not good for me and 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:00.519 my individual family. 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:06.179 But I also recognize that this change is good for us as a church in our mission, that it's 00:14:06.179 --> 00:14:08.819 going to help us to make and grow disciples. 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:11.439 And so I'm 100% behind it. 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.819 We had another family in our church who took Philippians chapter 2 to heart, and as they 00:14:16.819 --> 00:14:21.779 thought about the worship time service change, they went and thought and asked different groups 00:14:21.779 --> 00:14:23.120 in the church how it would affect them. 00:14:23.139 --> 00:14:28.159 And then they wrote the elders a letter about the ways it might affect different groups, not 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:32.659 their group, and what they thought the time should be as a result of that. 00:14:33.939 --> 00:14:41.219 We have Philippians chapter 2, Nehemiah chapter 3, and now 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 8 kind 00:14:41.219 --> 00:14:42.419 of people in this church. 00:14:42.620 --> 00:14:45.100 And that is the kind of congregation we want to be. 00:14:46.219 --> 00:14:50.100 A congregation that has unity of mind and a humble mind. 00:14:50.100 --> 00:14:53.920 What do we need? 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:58.480 What do we as a congregation need to pursue our one mission together? 00:14:58.580 --> 00:15:01.420 What is good for everyone in the community? 00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:06.340 How can we fight for the interests of each other and not just our own interests? 00:15:09.220 --> 00:15:14.840 One of the things that I do when I have time off is I increase the wattage on my reading. 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:21.720 And one book that I dived into was the book Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:23.899 Goodwin, which tracks four different presidents. 00:15:24.060 --> 00:15:26.660 If you're familiar with her, you know she's a presidential biographer. 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:32.480 And so this book covers both Roosevelt, Lincoln, and also LBJ. 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:38.180 And she tells the story of Abraham Lincoln trying to get the Emancipation Proclamation passed. 00:15:38.179 --> 00:15:43.899 In doing this, and also to unite the Union, right, the struggle of the entire Civil War, 00:15:43.959 --> 00:15:46.299 but she focuses on the Emancipation Proclamation. 00:15:47.459 --> 00:15:51.159 Now Lincoln had assembled a group of men who were all Republicans, 00:15:52.019 --> 00:15:55.399 but outside of that, about as diverse as they could get. 00:15:55.479 --> 00:15:57.539 They were diverse in their viewpoints and their preferences. 00:15:57.779 --> 00:16:01.039 They represented a variety of groups within the Republican Party. 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:03.139 He didn't choose yes men. 00:16:03.139 --> 00:16:09.340 In fact, he chose people who had been his rivals as the ones to accompany him on the journey. 00:16:09.460 --> 00:16:13.659 He had one mission, however, with them together. 00:16:15.620 --> 00:16:18.519 And so what did Lincoln do with this diverse group of people? 00:16:18.580 --> 00:16:20.100 By the way, sounds a little bit like the church. 00:16:21.199 --> 00:16:22.319 They were all Republicans. 00:16:23.100 --> 00:16:25.439 All kinds of thoughts about all sorts of different things, right? 00:16:25.460 --> 00:16:26.120 They disagreed. 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:28.120 We're all Christians. 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:31.919 All sorts of thoughts about all sorts of different things. 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:33.139 We disagree. 00:16:34.659 --> 00:16:36.379 If you want to find a disagreement in the church, 00:16:36.459 --> 00:16:38.360 just find any two people and start talking to them. 00:16:41.620 --> 00:16:46.339 Well, Lincoln had sympathy, a brotherly love, and a tender heart. 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:53.139 Goodwin talks about the ways in which he acted to build thick relationships with people on his team. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:59.799 His Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, he would go and he would hold hands with him in the telegraph office. 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:04.359 And they would wait together to receive updates from the battlefield. 00:17:07.419 --> 00:17:08.899 He forgave quickly. 00:17:09.919 --> 00:17:13.240 Lincoln had people on his team who had publicly insulted him. 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:20.720 And because his mission was so important and because he had a humble mind, 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.000 he didn't care who was on the team as long as they were on the mission with him. 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.240 And so he invited them to come join him. 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:33.000 He shared meals with soldiers in the Civil War, eating their beans and their hardtack. 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:40.240 There were times when teenagers would face a death sentence because they had been conscripted. 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.339 Maybe they were 16 or 17 years old and scared. 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:45.440 Maybe too young to be facing war. 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:46.480 They'd run away from battle. 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.720 And as a deserter, they were facing the death sentence. 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:51.180 Lincoln would often pardon them. 00:17:51.180 --> 00:17:55.799 In fact, they began to call him Father Abraham. 00:17:57.900 --> 00:18:03.940 Because he had, we might say a fatherly love, but a verse 8 kind of love for them. 00:18:04.660 --> 00:18:06.200 He had a brotherly love. 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.340 He wasn't just a hard charger with a mission, didn't care who got in his way. 00:18:11.339 --> 00:18:17.740 But he was leading them as one community together, as a family. 00:18:18.699 --> 00:18:22.220 And so it's that way that he began to be recognized as their father. 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.799 We see the same thing and long for the same thing in this church. 00:18:27.399 --> 00:18:30.059 Some of you have seen that happen in your small groups. 00:18:30.179 --> 00:18:34.399 You've built relationships with other people who have come alongside you in suffering. 00:18:35.919 --> 00:18:39.659 People who've come alongside you in need. 00:18:39.659 --> 00:18:41.179 They've had sympathy and compassion. 00:18:41.339 --> 00:18:42.240 You had a financial need. 00:18:42.619 --> 00:18:43.779 They came and helped you out. 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:45.480 Maybe the deacons never even knew about it. 00:18:46.819 --> 00:18:51.179 Some of you have found this kind of community in our Band of Brothers Bible study on Saturday mornings. 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.279 You've found that you learn more than just about the Bible together. 00:18:54.779 --> 00:18:58.079 That group, if you don't know, begins not by studying, but by praying together. 00:18:59.179 --> 00:19:02.339 They're sharing their lives, helping each other out as they can. 00:19:02.579 --> 00:19:04.799 Some of you have found that in our women's Bible studies. 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:07.379 If you were at Elaine Bevel's memorial service yesterday, 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:10.939 you heard many people share about her presence, 00:19:10.940 --> 00:19:13.940 not just in our church, but in previous churches. 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:17.720 Being a strong and important part of the community. 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:21.620 Lifting people up and caring for them. 00:19:21.619 --> 00:19:27.599 We also need to have unity of mind and a humble mind. 00:19:28.199 --> 00:19:30.879 Lincoln, as I mentioned before, brought in people who disagreed with him, 00:19:30.959 --> 00:19:32.559 people who he knew disagreed with him. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:36.379 He accepted the suggestions and the critiques of others. 00:19:36.479 --> 00:19:40.639 He brought multiple drafts of the Emancipation Proclamation before his team, 00:19:40.679 --> 00:19:41.579 and they would give him feedback. 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:43.479 Sometimes they'd tell him, you need to change this. 00:19:44.500 --> 00:19:47.519 Lincoln had a humble mind, and so sometimes he would. 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:50.440 He didn't just start out from the beginning saying, 00:19:50.539 --> 00:19:52.099 well, this is going to be my way or the highway. 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:54.920 Clearly, I am the smartest person in the room. 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:58.859 I won the election, so I have a mandate to do whatever I want. 00:20:00.700 --> 00:20:03.639 Instead, he went to his brothers asking for input. 00:20:05.940 --> 00:20:07.700 After success, he said this. 00:20:07.779 --> 00:20:08.819 He refused to take credit. 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:10.339 He said, I have only been an instrument. 00:20:10.339 --> 00:20:16.059 It's the anti-slavery people of the country and the army that's made this happen. 00:20:18.379 --> 00:20:21.000 This is John 3.30 kind of language. 00:20:21.159 --> 00:20:23.619 Remember, John the Baptist speaking about Jesus says this, 00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:27.059 he must increase, but I must decrease. 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:32.720 He must increase, but I must decrease. 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:39.100 The Christian community should be one in which people are so convinced 00:20:39.100 --> 00:20:43.160 that Jesus is the one whose honor and glory is of greatest importance, 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:47.180 that they are uninterested in their own ego and ambition. 00:20:47.500 --> 00:20:52.120 Nothing else matters except our one mission that God has given us together, 00:20:52.120 --> 00:20:54.220 that we would make and grow disciples, 00:20:54.339 --> 00:20:58.420 that we would baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 00:20:58.420 --> 00:21:02.200 and that we would go on to teach them everything that Jesus has commanded. 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:05.140 That is what matters. 00:21:06.420 --> 00:21:07.960 And then we could say, like Lincoln, 00:21:08.100 --> 00:21:10.140 when we see God give fruit to our efforts, 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:12.220 we have only been an instrument. 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:19.079 That's what it means to have a humble mind and to be of one mind together. 00:21:21.220 --> 00:21:24.140 Peter then tells them, not just verse 8, but verse 9, 00:21:24.259 --> 00:21:27.759 do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:31.559 but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called. 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:36.940 Lincoln modeled this as well as he led this group of people. 00:21:37.100 --> 00:21:42.460 He wrote letters expressing how angry he was at certain people. 00:21:44.620 --> 00:21:46.740 And then he would file them and never send them. 00:21:46.740 --> 00:21:50.759 And when his files were opened many years later, 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:52.240 they would find these letters at the bottom. 00:21:52.339 --> 00:21:55.259 It would say, never signed, never sent. 00:21:57.740 --> 00:21:59.779 An angry man came to him at one point, 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.880 Edwin Stanton, who was his secretary of war, 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:02.720 I mentioned him earlier, 00:22:03.120 --> 00:22:04.460 so angry at one of the generals. 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:07.460 And he said, I'm going to tell him exactly what I think. 00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:10.279 And Lincoln said, no, you're not. 00:22:11.859 --> 00:22:12.500 Write a letter. 00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:14.599 He came back with the letter. 00:22:14.700 --> 00:22:15.640 He said, I'm ready to send it. 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:17.980 And Lincoln said, don't send it. 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:18.880 Just file it away. 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:21.599 It did you a lot of good. 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:27.819 Another one of Lincoln's cabinet members, Montgomery Blair, 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:30.640 wrote a letter that was public, that criticized Lincoln. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:35.960 He came to offer his resignation letter in hand 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:40.000 when it became public and offered to resign. 00:22:40.100 --> 00:22:43.060 And Lincoln said he had no intention of reading the letter 00:22:43.060 --> 00:22:43.920 that had become public. 00:22:45.500 --> 00:22:49.580 He had no interest in taking revenge on this man. 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:52.860 And he said to him, forget it 00:22:52.860 --> 00:22:55.860 and never mention or think of it again. 00:22:55.859 --> 00:23:01.839 He didn't repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, 00:23:02.579 --> 00:23:03.839 but instead blessed. 00:23:05.099 --> 00:23:08.219 He told his cabinet members that they could disagree among themselves, 00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:10.059 but they could never disagree publicly. 00:23:12.099 --> 00:23:15.559 And he said, I would be wrong to me and wrong to the country. 00:23:19.379 --> 00:23:19.859 Why? 00:23:19.859 --> 00:23:26.839 Because in Lincoln's words, it was a challenge too vast for malicious dealing. 00:23:28.500 --> 00:23:32.039 What they were up against was too important and too great, 00:23:32.419 --> 00:23:36.000 too significant to have any kind of squabbling. 00:23:37.339 --> 00:23:40.259 But instead, this diverse group of people had to be united 00:23:40.259 --> 00:23:42.979 around their one purpose and their one mission. 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:45.559 That's what Lincoln used to unite these people. 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:51.779 Brotherly love, unity of mind, and a humble mind. 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:58.259 Now, Lincoln's mission was critical to the history of this nation. 00:23:58.639 --> 00:24:00.619 It's not without great significance. 00:24:02.700 --> 00:24:06.500 God has given us an even greater mission. 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:10.720 That is of significance to the entire world. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:17.960 How much more important is it, brothers and sisters, 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:25.799 that we have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, 00:24:26.140 --> 00:24:28.120 a tender heart, and a humble mind. 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:34.400 We cannot repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, 00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:36.180 but we must bless. 00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:44.080 And that's where we're told Peter tells us that that's where God puts his blessing. 00:24:45.740 --> 00:24:48.620 He blesses those who bless, verse 9. 00:24:50.299 --> 00:24:52.799 And for those who bless, his eyes are on them, 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:55.299 and his ears are open to their prayer. 00:24:55.299 --> 00:25:06.079 We must have humble minds, sympathy, brotherly love, tender hearts. 00:25:12.539 --> 00:25:16.500 Now, I promised you, not just inside the community, 00:25:16.879 --> 00:25:18.720 but outside the community as well. 00:25:18.819 --> 00:25:22.680 If you remember Jesus' words, in Matthew chapter 5, he says this, 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:27.620 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? 00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:31.200 Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:36.360 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? 00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:39.380 Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:46.180 Peter's instruction here for them is not just that they would be a good community 00:25:46.180 --> 00:25:49.940 where people could find relationships, although it is. 00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:52.140 It's not less than that, but it's more than that. 00:25:52.140 --> 00:25:54.240 Remember, they're priests to the nations. 00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:58.060 They would be a people that help others know God. 00:25:59.320 --> 00:26:03.759 And others would know God because of the way that they act in the world, 00:26:03.840 --> 00:26:05.060 the way they act differently. 00:26:06.860 --> 00:26:11.040 I gave you verses 8 and 9 for inside of the community. 00:26:12.380 --> 00:26:15.240 10 through 12, by the way, just is supporting material. 00:26:15.360 --> 00:26:19.480 It's a direct quote from Psalm 34, which we read earlier this morning, 00:26:19.560 --> 00:26:20.740 so you might think about it this way. 00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:23.120 Why are verses 8 and 9 true? 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:26.579 Peter's giving his citation here. 00:26:27.620 --> 00:26:29.839 Verses 8 and 9 are true because, guess what? 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:32.420 Churches in Asia Minor because of Psalm 34. 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:34.220 If you don't believe me, believe David. 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:40.920 Verse 8 applies to just the community of the church. 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.099 Verse 9 is both the community inside and the community outside. 00:26:45.099 --> 00:26:50.219 And so if we interact with each other by treating each other like family 00:26:50.219 --> 00:26:54.459 and putting others' interests above our own, 00:26:55.119 --> 00:27:00.719 we interact with those outside very simply by verse 9-ing, 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:03.099 by blessing when they curse. 00:27:03.099 --> 00:27:08.799 Now, I could give you a long explanation, but there's really nothing else to be said. 00:27:10.439 --> 00:27:15.439 When others speak ill of us, when they do evil things against us, 00:27:15.939 --> 00:27:20.059 the way we respond, and we read part of this too in our preparation for worship, 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:22.119 the way we respond is blessing them. 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.699 People speak evil about us, we speak good about them. 00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:33.339 When people do evil towards us, we do good towards them. 00:27:34.139 --> 00:27:37.519 Love your enemies and bless them when they curse you. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:43.339 Now, we have some opportunities to practice that now, 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:49.279 but we have a lot to learn from the church historically and geographically 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:52.379 when it comes to blessing enemies because we live, as I mentioned, 00:27:52.819 --> 00:27:56.940 when we began 1 Peter, in a place where the church faces very little persecution. 00:27:58.220 --> 00:28:02.779 You may remember we don't even make the list of the top 50 most persecuted nations in the world. 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:07.220 In fact, this is the easiest, one of the most comfortable places to be a Christian. 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:12.299 However, that's certainly not true in other places and other times. 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:18.299 If you're familiar with the history of East Germany, the history of communism, 00:28:19.139 --> 00:28:22.019 the name Erich Honecker may sound familiar to you. 00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:26.839 This was a man who came up with the idea of the Berlin Wall, 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:31.579 and after he came up with the idea, he was actually the one who led the effort to build it. 00:28:32.700 --> 00:28:34.000 This was in the 1960s. 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:39.220 In the 1970s and 80s, he rose throughout the communist ranks very quickly 00:28:39.220 --> 00:28:43.660 and ultimately became what some call the most powerful man in East Germany. 00:28:44.099 --> 00:28:46.420 He was the leader of the Communist Party. 00:28:46.420 --> 00:28:53.860 And not only was he the leader of the Communist Party, but his wife was in charge of the education ministry. 00:28:55.060 --> 00:29:00.660 And together, they were ultimately responsible for much of the persecution that happened to Christians during that time. 00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:06.860 There was also a man named Uwe Holmer who was a pastor living in East Germany. 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:10.880 And he suffered under the rule of Honecker. 00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:16.320 He, eight of his ten children, were unable to attend higher education 00:29:16.320 --> 00:29:21.160 because at that time, the policy, Honecker's wife, education policy, 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:23.800 was that pastor's children could not have a higher education. 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:28.680 And so he and his family directly suffered from the policies of this man. 00:29:30.419 --> 00:29:34.680 Of course, in the 1980s, the late 1980s, communism began to fall, 00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:39.700 and Honecker quickly found himself not the most powerful man in East Germany, 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:41.740 but actually the least powerful. 00:29:43.019 --> 00:29:50.099 He was kicked out of office in October of 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, 00:29:50.099 --> 00:29:52.679 and he found himself quickly homeless. 00:29:54.339 --> 00:29:56.759 His daughter would not take him in. 00:29:58.619 --> 00:30:02.099 The Communist Party had no interest in taking him in. 00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:06.539 And in fact, the people of Germany hated him. 00:30:07.959 --> 00:30:10.139 And so he was at risk for his life. 00:30:12.539 --> 00:30:15.179 Who took Eric Honecker into his home? 00:30:17.919 --> 00:30:19.379 Uwe Holmer, the pastor, 00:30:20.099 --> 00:30:23.719 who had suffered under this man's persecution, 00:30:24.639 --> 00:30:28.099 decided that his obligation, out of obedience to Jesus, 00:30:28.980 --> 00:30:32.759 was to take this man into his home and care for him. 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.939 And I'm going to read a little bit now from a book called Candles Behind the Wall, 00:30:38.419 --> 00:30:41.000 which tells the story of the church and communism, 00:30:41.639 --> 00:30:45.779 but also tells the story of Eric Honecker and Uwe Holmer. 00:30:45.779 --> 00:30:51.019 It says that his wife stood behind the decision to take in the Honeckers, 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:52.859 but their children were skeptical initially. 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.899 Remember, these are the children who were denied education by this man's wife. 00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:01.119 At first, their chins just dropped to the floor, his wife reports. 00:31:02.500 --> 00:31:03.740 That's totally crazy. 00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:07.259 The very people who couldn't stand the church, one of them erupted. 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.019 But when they thought it over, they realized that their parents were right. 00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:15.160 It's clear that if you've been asked to do it, then you should. 00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:19.400 At this point, you might be thinking that this is going to be a very sentimental story. 00:31:20.299 --> 00:31:23.200 Honeckers are going to convert to Christianity, and the nation's going to love them. 00:31:24.339 --> 00:31:25.680 You could not be more wrong. 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:27.920 Neither of these things happen. 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:32.580 In fact, the Holmers begin to be hated by the people of Germany for taking in this man. 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:36.140 Word got out immediately, and the public was outraged. 00:31:36.620 --> 00:31:41.060 Crowds of angry people swarmed in front of the Holmers' house from the day the Honeckers moved in. 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:43.420 The telephone rang incessantly. 00:31:44.300 --> 00:31:47.800 Letters poured in, 3,000 in all, over the next months. 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:54.680 All the pent-up resentment and hatred for the abuses and inadequacies of the entire communist regime 00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:56.560 was focused on this one man. 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:00.539 And as far as the average person on the street was concerned, 00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:05.140 anyone who would take him in was either collaborating with the communists or insane. 00:32:05.840 --> 00:32:09.539 So here's this man who was persecuted under communism, 00:32:09.980 --> 00:32:12.500 takes in his persecutor into his house, 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:15.880 and receives not thanks from the community around them, but hatred. 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:21.500 Who would be so crazy as to love our enemy in this way? 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:28.099 They should have taken Honecker out and put him up against the wall and shot him, 00:32:28.180 --> 00:32:31.019 just like in Romania exploded a man from the neighboring village. 00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:33.599 I would have gladly shot him myself. 00:32:34.259 --> 00:32:36.920 I don't understand why they did that for such a pig. 00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:39.779 He is the worst kind of scum there is. 00:32:41.460 --> 00:32:45.680 It goes on to chronicle that crowds gathered outside their house every day protesting. 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.660 The family received five separate bomb threats, 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.640 and the police told them they could not protect them. 00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:59.019 And yet the Homer family continued to shelter this man who had persecuted them. 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:04.440 When we are convinced by God that what we do is right in his eyes, 00:33:04.660 --> 00:33:06.840 then there is nothing that can shake us. 00:33:07.220 --> 00:33:12.000 This is Homer explained when asked how she and her husband responded to the bomb threats. 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:18.940 Public outrage became so great that Uwe Homer finally wrote a public letter 00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:22.039 explaining why it was that they had taken in their enemy. 00:33:23.900 --> 00:33:25.200 And we'll end with this. 00:33:26.259 --> 00:33:32.160 It has become clear to us in a new way that to forgive is not an easy thing. 00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:35.420 Injustice is a reality, 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:39.299 and the remembrance of it grows easily in our hearts, 00:33:39.299 --> 00:33:42.659 turning to bitterness and dividing us from one another. 00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:45.720 And here he begins to preach. 00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:50.819 In light of that, God's forgiveness becomes even greater for me. 00:33:51.899 --> 00:33:55.240 It was not easy for him to forgive either. 00:33:56.619 --> 00:34:00.559 His holiness demanded fair justice and punishment for our sins. 00:34:01.740 --> 00:34:03.899 To make forgiveness possible, 00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:08.019 he laid our sins and our punishment on Jesus, his son. 00:34:08.019 --> 00:34:11.679 Only then was the path to forgiveness cleared. 00:34:12.780 --> 00:34:15.559 Forgiveness is granted to everyone who asks for it, 00:34:15.980 --> 00:34:17.259 every single person. 00:34:19.179 --> 00:34:21.259 The Homers did not take the Hunnickers in 00:34:21.259 --> 00:34:23.539 because they were good, moral, religious people. 00:34:25.300 --> 00:34:27.099 They took them in because, 00:34:27.219 --> 00:34:28.219 and only because, 00:34:28.380 --> 00:34:32.500 they knew how much God in Christ had forgiven them. 00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:36.039 And they were able to bless their enemy 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:39.159 because they knew that they had been enemies to God, 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:42.059 and God had taken them in. 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:44.079 It was because, 00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:45.920 and only because of the gospel, 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:48.920 and because of Jesus' death and his resurrection, 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:51.840 that they were able to love their enemies in this way. 00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:54.199 He goes on, 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:55.899 In recent days, 00:34:55.899 --> 00:34:58.239 it has become apparent to me in a new way 00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:02.259 how much it cost God to forgive my sins. 00:35:03.439 --> 00:35:05.839 The joy of this gives me the strength 00:35:05.839 --> 00:35:07.460 to forgive other people. 00:35:08.919 --> 00:35:11.119 The Lord has charged us to follow him 00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:14.199 and to take in all those who are troubled or burdened, 00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:17.259 to follow his commandment to love our enemies, 00:35:17.260 --> 00:35:20.880 and to live by the prayer he taught us in these words, 00:35:22.460 --> 00:35:23.820 Forgive us our trespasses 00:35:23.820 --> 00:35:27.800 as we forgive those who trespass against us. 00:35:28.900 --> 00:35:32.480 We want to live by Christ's example. 00:35:33.860 --> 00:35:35.180 Brothers and sisters, 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:38.940 we want to live by Christ's example. 00:35:39.780 --> 00:35:41.820 We live by Christ's example 00:35:41.820 --> 00:35:44.400 when we love each other as family. 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:46.440 And even more, 00:35:46.539 --> 00:35:47.880 we live by Christ's example 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:49.099 when we love our enemies. 00:35:50.019 --> 00:35:53.119 And we do it because his example was his sacrifice, 00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:55.780 that he loved us 00:35:55.780 --> 00:35:57.360 when we were his enemies. 00:35:58.619 --> 00:36:00.700 And so that's how we can bless those 00:36:00.700 --> 00:36:01.940 who curse 00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:03.780 and seek peace 00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:04.880 and pursue it. 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:06.820 Please pray with me. 00:36:08.720 --> 00:36:10.019 Dear Father in heaven, 00:36:10.260 --> 00:36:10.500 we 00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:13.800 are overwhelmed by your love 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:14.539 if we know it 00:36:14.539 --> 00:36:16.000 and understand it. 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:18.760 We're much worse than we think. 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.160 We deserve even greater punishment 00:36:23.160 --> 00:36:24.180 than Eric Honaker. 00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:27.280 And yet we've received 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:28.940 even greater love through Jesus. 00:36:30.560 --> 00:36:32.180 We ask that you would help us 00:36:32.180 --> 00:36:33.280 to know and understand 00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:34.900 that forgiveness more and more, 00:36:35.180 --> 00:36:36.420 that it would change our hearts, 00:36:37.260 --> 00:36:39.680 that we'd be willing to give up 00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:42.180 our agendas for the sake of our community, 00:36:42.179 --> 00:36:45.119 and we'd be willing to give up our comfort 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:45.819 to bless 00:36:45.819 --> 00:36:47.579 those who curse us 00:36:47.579 --> 00:36:49.599 because that's what Jesus has done 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:50.440 first. 00:36:50.739 --> 00:36:51.899 And so we follow him in it. 00:36:53.139 --> 00:36:54.419 We want to live 00:36:54.419 --> 00:36:55.919 by Christ's example. 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:58.480 And so we ask these things 00:36:58.480 --> 00:36:59.039 in his name. 00:36:59.759 --> 00:36:59.980 Amen. 00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.119 Amen. 00:37:00.919 --> 00:37:01.299 Amen. 00:37:01.299 --> 00:37:01.919 Amen. 00:37:01.919 --> 00:37:02.299 Amen. 00:37:02.299 --> 00:37:02.359 Amen. 00:37:02.359 --> 00:37:02.419 Amen. 00:37:02.419 --> 00:37:02.919 Amen. 00:37:02.919 --> 00:37:03.419 Amen. 00:37:03.419 --> 00:37:04.039 Amen. 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:04.419 Amen. 00:37:04.419 --> 00:37:04.480 Amen. 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:04.539 Amen. 00:37:04.539 --> 00:37:04.559 Amen. 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:04.599 Amen. 00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:04.619 Amen. 00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:04.639 Amen. 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:04.679 Amen.