WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.359 Turn with me in your Bibles to the first 16 verses of John 11 so that we can pick out the 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:19.920 motivation of Jesus. There are three themes that we find in these 16 verses that will recur 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:24.940 through the rest of the chapter, and they are in a very real sense interconnected. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:34.320 So, first of all, we see the love of Jesus. So, we meet in the first three verses a family, 00:00:34.660 --> 00:00:41.920 Mary, Martha, Lazarus, who is ill, and we discover in verse 3 that Jesus loves his family. Lord, 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:51.420 the one you love is ill. John tells us in verse 5, now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 00:00:51.420 --> 00:01:00.780 which leads to a very surprising, indeed some might say a shocking turn of events. Jesus loves, 00:01:01.780 --> 00:01:07.500 so when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was two more days. Jesus loves, 00:01:07.939 --> 00:01:13.400 and Jesus delays going. And we need to ask ourselves, why is that? 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:20.420 It takes us to our next theme that we see here that motivates Jesus. Verse 4, 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:22.420 Jesus said, 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:30.219 this illness will not end in death, no, it is for God's glory, so that God's Son may be glorified 00:01:30.219 --> 00:01:36.780 through it. What motivates Jesus' whole life, his ministry, and this moment is the glory of God. 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:44.420 So, this is going to become another one of those signposts. Jesus is going to act in such a way 00:01:44.420 --> 00:01:51.240 that it will bring glory to God the Father and glory to himself as the Son of God. That this delay, 00:01:51.379 --> 00:02:01.099 this loving delay, is going to make absolutely clear to everybody that Jesus must be the Son of God, 00:02:01.099 --> 00:02:10.359 God. And that Jesus is so powerful that he is even Lord over death, so that we have good reason 00:02:10.359 --> 00:02:17.780 to put our trust in him. So, there is love and there is glory. That takes us to our third theme, 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:23.519 which we see run through the whole chapter, and that's the idea of believing, belief. So, in verse 00:02:23.519 --> 00:02:29.120 11, Jesus said to his followers, the disciples, Lazarus has fallen asleep, 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:35.340 and I'm going to wake him up. And they think, oh, great, sleep means rest, means recovery. We know 00:02:35.340 --> 00:02:41.819 this if we have an illness or a virus, rest is good for our bodies. They misunderstand. So, Jesus 00:02:41.819 --> 00:02:51.400 speaks plainly in verse 14, Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you 00:02:51.400 --> 00:03:01.740 may believe. So, Jesus loves and he delays, so that he can show his glory, so that the disciples might see 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:06.599 more of that glory, so their faith might be strengthened, that they might have more confidence 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:15.259 in the one that they are invited to believe in. So, we put this all together, we can say that the most 00:03:15.259 --> 00:03:23.379 loving thing Jesus can do for anyone, for Lazarus, for the disciples, for you and me, is to show the 00:03:23.379 --> 00:03:31.859 glory of God to us, so that we might believe and we might have eternal life. Specifically here, 00:03:32.959 --> 00:03:40.000 it is the love and kindness of Jesus to show his glory over death, that he is Lord over death, 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:47.939 that he will defeat that great enemy, so that we can gladly believe in him and have confidence 00:03:47.939 --> 00:03:56.539 in eternal life. Now, where we might struggle, I think, is precisely because we are distanced from 00:03:56.539 --> 00:04:04.280 death as people. We don't typically think of death and we don't typically think of eternity. 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:09.740 So, when our focus is on now and what is immediate, we might think, well, do you know what? 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:15.420 The most loving thing Jesus could do would be to fix this sort of immediate pressing need, 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:22.980 whether that's my health or my finance or a relationship. We forget too easily eternity, 00:04:23.819 --> 00:04:30.620 and so we place all our importance on what's happening now. And John 11 and the ministry of 00:04:30.620 --> 00:04:36.879 Jesus wants to remind us of life and death and eternity. So, ask yourself the question, honestly, 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:44.159 what's the best thing you think God could give you? What's the most loving thing God could do for you? 00:04:46.339 --> 00:04:56.540 If we put it in a family setting, children, children love toys, gadgets, presents, birthdays are exciting, 00:04:56.540 --> 00:05:05.939 but it's recognized by children and it's recognized by scientists and people who make observations that the 00:05:05.939 --> 00:05:14.080 most important thing, Martin Luther King said it, is the presence of a parent being there, not the presence, 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:21.860 not the gift. The most important thing that a child can receive from a mom and a dad is their active 00:05:21.860 --> 00:05:28.860 involvement, being around, having that strong bond that's built, that physical touch that's needed in 00:05:28.860 --> 00:05:34.199 a time of sadness. And so, when we think about it in a family setting, then we pull back to think about 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:41.860 God the Father, the greatest thing God can give is Himself. And that's what He's done in the sending 00:05:41.860 --> 00:05:53.379 of Jesus. Jesus comes to be Emmanuel, which means God is with us. Jesus is God with us. And as God with us, 00:05:53.639 --> 00:06:03.420 in love He has come to conquer sin and death. Our great enemies, those realities that would separate us 00:06:03.420 --> 00:06:10.480 forever from our good and loving God, Jesus comes to deal with them so that by faith we might know and 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:20.600 enjoy life with God forever. So, what we need, just as it was with the disciples, is to believe in Jesus. 00:06:22.300 --> 00:06:29.120 So, there's the motivation of Jesus, and we'll see those themes reappear through our text, but we need to move 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:38.140 now to the ministry of Jesus. And if you look with me at verse 17 to 19, you see that the action moves forward. 00:06:38.139 --> 00:06:46.399 Jesus is now moving towards Bethany, and He's discovered that Lazarus, we find that Lazarus has 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:53.699 already been in the tomb for four days. And we also discover that Jesus now is moving towards a funeral 00:06:53.699 --> 00:07:02.699 scene, a scene of mourning and of grief. And Jesus comes to minister to, to bring care to, 00:07:02.699 --> 00:07:09.879 these two sisters who've lost their brother, to Martha and to Mary. And what we'll see is that Jesus 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:15.139 ministers in very different ways to each of them, but gives to them and to us what we really need. 00:07:16.139 --> 00:07:23.959 To Martha, there is what's often known as the ministry of truth, and to Mary, the ministry of tears. 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:34.599 And again, it's something that we need to recognize, because facing death is horrible, 00:07:35.339 --> 00:07:48.240 and frightening, and lonely, and awful. And we need Jesus, the one who enters in, the one who entered 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:53.540 into our experience, and the one who comes to draw near to His people, so that when we walk through the 00:07:53.540 --> 00:08:01.360 valley of the shadow of death, we're not on our own. We need Jesus, the one who gives hope of meaning 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:09.480 beyond death, of life and love that lasts beyond death. That's what Jesus comes to bring. 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:16.660 So let's look together at this ministry of truth that He brings to Martha. Verse 21, we see Martha 00:08:16.660 --> 00:08:23.200 has faith, and indeed she has great faith. Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 00:08:23.819 --> 00:08:29.180 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask. So she knows Jesus could have healed 00:08:29.180 --> 00:08:39.340 Lazarus' illness. She knows that Jesus does have unique access to His Father. Martha has great faith, 00:08:39.340 --> 00:08:46.580 but it's not as yet complete faith. There is still more that she needs to see and understand about the 00:08:46.580 --> 00:08:52.840 authority of Jesus, namely to see that His authority extends beyond illness, even over death. 00:08:54.300 --> 00:09:01.160 She needs to see the full extent of His glory as He comes to raise Lazarus. 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:10.600 Jesus said to her in verse 23, your brother will rise again. And Martha shares the same 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:17.079 understanding of resurrection as many of the Jews of her day. I know He will rise again in the 00:09:17.079 --> 00:09:21.419 resurrection at the last day. So for Jewish people, their great hope was at the end of time, 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:27.819 the people of God would be risen to new life, and God would make everything new for them. But what 00:09:27.820 --> 00:09:37.240 does Jesus do that's different? Key verse here, verse 25, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:43.760 and the life. The one who believes in me will live even though they die, and whoever lives by believing 00:09:43.760 --> 00:09:51.640 in me will never die. What is Jesus doing here? He is rooting resurrection hope in Himself. Hope is now 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:59.279 focused on a person, the person of the Lord Jesus. And it's not just for some moment in the future, 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:07.659 hope is now focused on the present, on the Savior who is present with her. 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.819 Jesus is saying that to believe in Him, to believe that He is the resurrection and the life, 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:21.399 is to understand that He is our life, that nothing matters more than Jesus to us. 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:32.379 He is Lord, He is Savior, He is King, He is friend, He is brother, that He gives eternal life. 00:10:32.939 --> 00:10:39.240 He has that authority, and it is His delight to love His children and to give eternal life, 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:49.100 and He promises true life beyond death. Not wishful thinking and pie in the sky, this is a promise 00:10:49.100 --> 00:10:59.759 from our Creator King who is Lord over all. Jesus comes towards this funeral scene, 00:11:01.220 --> 00:11:08.000 and it's as if there's that understanding, everything in life is temporary except for God's love. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:19.220 Everything will be lost except for God's love. Boys and girls, if you can think back to the summer, 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:24.259 maybe you have some in your house, those big shells that you pick up at the beach and where they're big 00:11:24.259 --> 00:11:31.539 enough that you can cup them to your ear. And when you do that, what do you hear? You hear the echo of the sea, 00:11:31.539 --> 00:11:44.299 don't you? You hear the waves. Our great need as people is to listen to our heart for that echo of eternity. 00:11:44.299 --> 00:11:55.939 We were made to live forever. We were made to live with God. That's the deep longing in our hearts. That's 00:11:55.939 --> 00:12:05.599 why we hate all losses. We need to recognize that and to respond with faith in Jesus. Follow the example 00:12:05.599 --> 00:12:12.059 of Martha, verse 27. Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the 00:12:12.059 --> 00:12:21.179 world. She follows the signpost and hope begins to rise in her heart. So, there's the ministry of truth 00:12:21.179 --> 00:12:30.519 that Jesus brings, but then there's the ministry of tears from verse 28 to 37. We can imagine if this was 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:39.599 sort of on cinema, the camera panning back from Jesus and Martha panning back to the house in Bethany 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:46.860 to where Mary is weeping and her friends have gathered to bring comfort. And Martha comes running 00:12:46.860 --> 00:12:54.120 and says, Jesus is here and he wants to talk to you. And so, we see Mary get up and begin to move to 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:59.740 Jesus. And then we see the friends, presuming she's going to the graveside, they want to follow to offer 00:12:59.740 --> 00:13:10.600 comfort. And just before we move from that, it's important to recognize the value of the ministry 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:19.180 of presence. I think one of the most profoundly sad parts of sort of the last 18 months is to see and 00:13:19.180 --> 00:13:26.539 to hear people having to suffer and to die alone. And we need, now that we have the opportunity to 00:13:26.539 --> 00:13:32.360 recover that ministry of presence is a beautiful and a necessary thing to be with people. We don't 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:39.319 necessarily have to have wise words or the right words. We need to be where suffering, hurting people 00:13:39.319 --> 00:13:47.339 are. We see that wonderful example from the friends of Mary. But here's Mary and now she reaches 00:13:47.340 --> 00:13:54.300 Jesus in verse 32 as she's weeping and the crowds are weeping and she says, Lord, if you'd been here, 00:13:54.899 --> 00:14:01.680 my brother would not have died. And Jesus sees her weeping. The Jews who'd come along with her also 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:11.800 weeping. What happens next? So, remember, we've already been told by Jesus himself, this will not end in 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:18.479 death. This event will display the glory of God. So, Jesus knows the end of the story. 00:14:20.959 --> 00:14:30.339 But how do we find Jesus? Verse 33, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:39.120 And then verse 35, that short and yet so profound little verse, Jesus wept. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:51.060 Jesus is heartbroken. He is Jesus in his full humanity with a full range of human emotions. 00:14:51.539 --> 00:14:59.600 We see on the one hand a hatred of death, but also a mourning with his friends and mourning and weeping 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:09.100 for his friend. It's a reminder to it that grief is right. It's a reminder for us grief is right. 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:20.639 Life is good. Life is a good gift. Death is a horrible offense and it is right to grieve and Jesus teaches us that. 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:31.500 So, here we are again at a funeral scene and we're being confronted with permanent loss, 00:15:32.460 --> 00:15:42.259 confronted with the reality of mortality, confronted by the wages of sin, which is death. 00:15:42.259 --> 00:15:51.000 Recently been reading through the book of Ecclesiastes and that little verse in chapter 7 is always so 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:56.220 striking and I wonder the extent to which we in Western society struggle with it. Here's the verse, 00:15:57.139 --> 00:16:03.759 it is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:10.519 Now, we live where we're encouraged to think that happiness and joy and pleasure is everything and 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:18.200 that's our aim, that's our goal, that's it. Why is it better, according to the wisdom of Ecclesiastes, 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:26.639 to go to a house of mourning? For death is the destiny of everyone. The living should take this to heart. 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:36.080 We need to get real with the reality that we all will die so that we are prepared, so that we are found 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:45.340 in Jesus. And when we allow ourselves to consider that great and solemn reality, 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:52.259 then we begin to understand the value of Christianity and of the Lord Jesus and that it gives us what we 00:16:52.259 --> 00:17:00.200 most need. Think about the truth that Jesus has just been talking about. To believe in Him is to have 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:08.019 that hope that love never ends, that life with God continues, that perfect life can be ours if we 00:17:08.019 --> 00:17:18.400 are trusting in Jesus. We also have that wonderful reality of the tears of Jesus, that God didn't stay 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:28.500 distant to the great human problem, that rather God in Christ entered in. We have a saviour with tear-stained 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:38.380 cheeks, a saviour who promises He will come in the end to wipe away all tears and to give His people a life 00:17:38.380 --> 00:17:46.759 of perfect, unending joy, to give the life and the world that you and I want. If only we would see 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:50.900 that that life is found in knowing the Lord Jesus. 00:17:53.339 --> 00:18:02.680 Then we get to the miracle of Jesus in verse 38 to 44. I want to take us back just for a moment 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:09.579 to the Lord of the Rings and to that battle of Helm's Deep. And so what we have, there's the terrible 00:18:09.579 --> 00:18:15.119 fighting and the distress at the bottom of the hill, and then we see Gandalf, and Gandalf was riding his great 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:23.179 horse, shadow facts. So imagine that great war horse, nostrils flaring, just about to charge down the 00:18:23.179 --> 00:18:31.679 hillside into battle. Imagine the enemies falling before Gandalf the Great, and use that to help us 00:18:31.679 --> 00:18:38.059 to understand this miracle that's taking place at a funeral. Because there's two things we can see here, 00:18:38.399 --> 00:18:42.839 one that's hidden, one that's clear. The first thing that's hidden, and it's hidden by our English 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:51.799 translation actually, is the anger of Jesus. We need to go back to verse 33, and then to verse 38. 00:18:51.899 --> 00:18:59.059 In verse 33, we're told Jesus was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. And then in verse 38, we're told 00:18:59.059 --> 00:19:09.899 Jesus once more deeply moved came to the tomb. Now, the image that our English doesn't get across to us 00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:19.420 is of how indignant and righteously angry Jesus is. This is the image of nostrils flaring. 00:19:20.460 --> 00:19:28.759 Imagine Shadowfax, that great horse, nostrils flaring before charging at the enemy. This is the anger that 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:34.780 Jesus feels as he confronts his enemy. And who is the enemy, or rather, what is the enemy? It's death. 00:19:34.779 --> 00:19:43.519 And behind death, the one who has the power of death, the devil. Jesus is ready to charge into battle 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:52.119 as he is confronted with this great enemy. Maybe that provokes a question in our mind. How can we 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:57.740 be told on the one hand that Jesus is perfect and Jesus is angry? Isn't anger always a bad thing? 00:19:57.740 --> 00:20:05.859 But again, if we think about it in our own lives, when we truly love someone, 00:20:06.980 --> 00:20:11.019 don't we instinctively hate that thing that kills and destroys? 00:20:13.420 --> 00:20:20.539 We hate cancer. We hate alcohol that destroys an addict. 00:20:20.539 --> 00:20:34.379 Jesus hates death. He hates the wages of sin. He hates the reality of life under the curse. 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:43.859 And so, B.B. Warfield, the theologian, says, Jesus wins for us our salvation in flaming wrath 00:20:43.859 --> 00:20:54.279 against the devil. Against death and the devil. So, the anger of Jesus is there. But we also see in 00:20:54.279 --> 00:21:02.799 this miracle, of course, the authority of Jesus. The authority of Jesus in verse 40, Jesus said, 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:12.639 did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God? Jesus is God's approved agent. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:21.780 When God acts, he's revealing the glory of God. And here is the authority of Jesus. Verse 43, 00:21:22.980 --> 00:21:30.720 Jesus called in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out. The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:39.280 with strips of linen and a cloth round his face. Jesus has the authority to bring the dead to life. 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:47.039 Jesus, who is the word of God with just a word, brings new life to the corpse of Lazarus, 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:52.039 saying to us really powerfully that Jesus is Lord even over death. 00:21:52.039 --> 00:22:01.259 We have time to look at the rest of chapter 11, but what we find is that the religious leaders 00:22:01.259 --> 00:22:06.359 come together once again, their hatred and their fear of Jesus is growing, and they say, 00:22:06.460 --> 00:22:12.339 we need to get rid of this guy. We need to kill Jesus. And then in verse 50, we find Caiaphas, 00:22:12.420 --> 00:22:20.500 the high priest, saying far more than he means when he says, you do not realize that it is better for 00:22:20.500 --> 00:22:29.700 you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish. Jesus has come to be our 00:22:29.700 --> 00:22:41.220 Savior King. But in order to be our Savior King, he must die. The only way to give new life to Lazarus, 00:22:41.220 --> 00:22:49.660 the only way to give new life to you and to me, the only hope for us in having eternal resurrection life, 00:22:49.900 --> 00:22:59.720 is if Jesus goes into the tomb himself, having paid the price for our forgiveness, 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:06.059 and then rising in victory to show he is Lord of all even over death. 00:23:06.059 --> 00:23:17.859 This final sign leads us towards seeing Jesus' own resurrection. It announces that Jesus has come 00:23:17.859 --> 00:23:25.639 to take the death penalty for us, to end the slavery to sin leading to death that we experience, 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:35.539 to break the curse we are under. If, if we believe in him, we turn from our sin, 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:48.799 and trust in him. Let's close by thinking about why this all matters. Just over 20 years ago, 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:57.399 the first Sunday after 9-11 in Manhattan and outside the Redeemer Church there, 00:23:57.879 --> 00:24:05.379 queues formed around the building to have the chance to be in the worship service. So, 00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:16.280 they had to put an extra service on. As the twin towers fell and as the debris was still smoking, 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:27.360 people wanted to find a church, to find hope. And what was the text? That day, it was this text. It was John 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:39.679 11. Now, why choose that text? It's because it's what a broken city and a sorrowing people needed. 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:52.480 This truth is what you and I need more than anything else. To recognize Jesus is Lord over death, 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:58.299 and that to believe in him. And that to believe in him is to receive a love that you will never lose. 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:09.360 To realize that as we face death, we need Jesus, the one who is stronger than death. We need to face 00:25:09.360 --> 00:25:17.019 death in him. Faith in him to know eternal life. 00:25:17.019 --> 00:25:24.819 That the repeating notes of the song of John 11, of the song that we need to hear in our hearts, 00:25:24.879 --> 00:25:30.779 we need to hear and hear and hear again of a loving Savior who came to defeat death, 00:25:31.339 --> 00:25:39.240 by tasting death, who defeated death and who will return one day to end death forever for his people. 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:48.019 We need to hear and hear and hear again of the glory of Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Man, 00:25:48.099 --> 00:25:58.599 bringing truth and tears and final victory to his own people. And we need to hear and hear and hear 00:25:58.599 --> 00:26:05.920 again so we will believe and keep believing. We turn from sin, we trust in him, we live with our eyes fixed 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:15.039 on his glory and our hope would rest on our eternal glory. These signs of John, why were they written? 00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:21.300 They were written so that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by 00:26:21.300 --> 00:26:31.900 believing we would have life and life in his name. Have we seen who Jesus is? If we have seen, 00:26:31.900 --> 00:26:36.060 we believe. Let's pray together. 00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:51.820 Lord, our God, we thank you that the Bible is honest 00:26:51.819 --> 00:26:59.519 and it reminds us of realities that we know are true, even if we find them difficult to face. 00:27:01.220 --> 00:27:06.700 Suffering and death come to us all and we need to be ready to face that. 00:27:07.919 --> 00:27:14.960 As Lord, we're so thankful for the ministry of Jesus, for his truth and for his tears, 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:21.380 for his love and for his glory that we have seen here in the way that he dealt with Lazarus. 00:27:22.100 --> 00:27:28.180 We thank you that it prepares the way for us, for Jesus himself dying and rising. 00:27:30.660 --> 00:27:36.140 Our Lord, we thank you for the hope that if we trust in Jesus, we too, even though we die, will live. 00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:48.759 Our great hope as Christians is a renewed world where everything is made perfect once again, 00:27:49.420 --> 00:27:57.180 where we have resurrection bodies unable to sin, knowing no pain or suffering or death, 00:27:58.180 --> 00:28:00.220 enjoying life with Jesus forever. 00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:06.400 Lord, may you confirm those truths and that hope in our hearts we pray. 00:28:07.700 --> 00:28:08.059 Amen.