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That gets me ready for Easter. Anybody else excited for Easter?
I do hope you'll join us for our special services this week
as we think more about the cross and the resurrection.
Thursday night at 6 o'clock, we'll talk through the first three of Jesus' seven sayings from the cross.
We'll celebrate the Lord's Supper Friday at 3.
We'll do the last four sayings in that service.
And then Sunday morning, 6 o'clock outside and 9.30 back in here.
So much to celebrate. Amen.
And we celebrate, thank you, the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus every day, don't we?
That song. It's an Easter song.
This sermon is Easter focused.
It is Easter part one, if you will.
I mean, I do hope you'll come back, but you're going to get Easter this morning.
And I am pretty fired up, to be honest with you, about this glorious text.
Before I read it, let me ask you to think about something.
I want you to think about how God views you today.
In a variety of potential situations you might find yourself in.
For the sake of this exercise, let's assume that you're a follower of Jesus.
You're in relationship with God, who, remember, is the infinite, holy, holy, holy, just God of the universe.
Okay?
Here's some potential situations.
You're doing that same thing again that you know God's Word tells you not to do.
That you have promised God before you'd never do again.
How does God feel about you today?
Or you're just so confused and you're frustrated by the events that are going on around you in the world and in your life.
And you just, you don't even know how to pray anything at all.
How does God feel today?
Or you're really struggling with doubts again.
Is God really there?
Is He really good?
Is He really in control?
You're just not sure what to think anymore, honestly.
How does God feel about you today?
Is God perhaps disappointed in you?
Seriously?
Again?
Or maybe He's just done caring.
He's really disinterested.
Like, I mean, I guess I'm going to have to let you into heaven one day.
But in the meantime, could you try to get it together?
Or maybe you feel even worse that God's dismissive of you.
He's ready to be done with you.
Putting you in the doghouse.
Don't try to pretend we're good.
Don't expect blessing from me.
Stay away for a while.
You're in time out.
And the next time this happens, it'll be even worse.
To be clear, the Bible's honest that all of those would be very fair things for God to feel towards you, wouldn't they?
He's a righteous king.
He ought to feel those things towards us.
In fact, He is so pure that He has to incinerate sin.
He can't have it in His presence.
It has to be kept away from Him permanently.
And here we are.
We're sinners wondering then perhaps if we can have any relationship at all with this holy God.
Hebrews has been telling us Jesus is the key to this.
Specifically, that He's our great high priest to stand before this holy God on our behalf.
Hebrews 7 has shown Jesus in a permanent, God-appointed role as priest like Melchizedek.
Pastor Bill taught us so well last week, I don't even have to talk about Melchizedek.
And now, He shows us how God relates to, feels about us who trust Jesus as our high priest.
What's our relationship with God today?
It's all about what Jesus is doing today.
Let's read at verse 23 of Hebrews 7.
The former priests were many in number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office.
But Jesus holds His priesthood permanently because He continues forever.
Consequently, He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him
since He always lives to make intercession for them.
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest.
Holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens.
He has no need like those high priests to offer sacrifices daily first for His own sins
and then for those of the people since He did this once for all when He offered up Himself.
For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests.
But the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a son who has been made perfect forever.
This is God's Word. Let's ask for His help.
Father, this is really glorious beyond what You know I have the capacity or abilities to describe.
So, Spirit, would You speak?
Would we hear these words in a fresh way?
Would it give us fresh hope and confidence and joy in our Savior?
We ask in His name. Amen.
Amen.
What's Jesus doing today?
You ever think about that?
What's Jesus up to?
Well, the Bible tells us many things, including that He is sustaining the world by the word of His power.
He's ruling and reigning over the nations.
He's preparing to return and rescue us and restore all things.
That's a lot.
But here, the writer tells us that He always lives to make intercession for those who trust in Him.
This is the role of the priest that Hebrews has been telling us about.
The one who represents the people in the presence of God.
And this, then, is unbelievable.
In every way, this is transformational about how God relates to you.
Here's what it is.
Jesus is praying for you.
What's Jesus doing today?
Jesus is praying for you.
It's unbelievable.
If you didn't realize that, I want this to come home.
Because sometimes that's a general thing, okay?
Jesus is praying for you.
Great.
Jesus is taking our groans, our wandering prayers, and He's making them beautiful to the Father.
Fourth century church father, John Chrysostom, said this is like a little boy who wants to welcome his father home from a trip.
And so, he goes to make a bouquet for his father, and he gathers, well, mostly weeds and grass and a couple of flowers.
But thankfully, before giving them to his father, he delivers them to his mother, who takes them and fixes them up.
And when the father comes home and gets the bouquet, it's all flowers.
Chrysostom says,
See, Jesus' intercession means He is the one, the only one through whom we pray, through whom we talk to God.
He's the way.
Don't need saints.
Don't need angels.
Kids, I want you to think about this.
When you sit at home and you sit around the dining room table or wherever you sit to eat your meal, probably y'all often pray before you eat.
And when you are getting kind of towards the end of the prayer, do you maybe pray something like,
In Jesus' name, amen?
Is that how you end?
When you say that, what is that?
Is that just like saying, Goodbye, God.
We're through now.
We're going to eat.
I want to tell you it's a lot more than that.
When you say, In Jesus' name, what you're saying is that Jesus is actually praying with you and for you.
It's like Jesus is actually coming right down there with you as you're praying at the dinner table and taking your prayers and walking them up towards God,
making them beautiful and perfect along the way and giving them to God so He hears you praying.
Isn't that awesome?
That's what it means to pray in Jesus' name, that that's the way we come to God.
Kids, God loves to hear you pray.
Jesus loves to pray for you.
In fact, we know this from His high priestly prayer in John 17,
that when Jesus prays for you, He actually thanks God for giving you to Him as a gift.
And He prays that you would be with Him forever.
Isn't that so encouraging?
That's what Jesus is praying for you.
Scottish pastor Robert Murray McShane said of the confidence that he found in Jesus' intercession for him,
he said,
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
Yet distance makes no difference.
He is praying for me.
Jesus praying for you is part of His intercession.
It's part of what Jesus is doing today.
But Hebrews is even more specific about what He's praying for.
This word, intercession, it has a legal context, okay?
Someone is representing you, speaking on your behalf to the judge, right?
Remember, we desperately need a representative before a holy God,
or we sinners are in big trouble on our own, right?
Jesus steps forward and says,
I'll speak.
I'll stand.
I'll offer to be your representative.
You've probably heard that line at the end of lawyers' ads.
No representation is made that the quality of legal services to be performed
is greater than the quality of legal services performed by other lawyers.
It's usually faster than that.
It's all I can come up with.
Y'all, here in Hebrews, on the contrary,
every representation is being made
that the quality of legal services offered by Jesus
is greater than the quality of legal services you can get anywhere else.
That's the whole point.
That's what He's saying.
He's saying, this is what I'm offering you.
And so what I want us to see is three ways
that Jesus as the great high priest
is the greater intercessor,
the better representative.
And the first is at the foundation of all of it.
What is His unique basis for His intercession?
He's got one that nobody else offers.
How does Jesus build a case for a sinner like me
before a holy God?
Don't miss this.
Verse 26.
It was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest.
What's He like?
What kind?
A holy, innocent, unstained,
separated from sinners,
and exalted above the heavens.
Stop there for a second.
That's actually a little odd.
You may remember the last time we were told
that Jesus was a fitting high priest.
Do you remember why it was fitting?
Why was Jesus fitting?
He actually was fitting because He had been made low
to suffer like us.
That He had been tempted in every way as we are.
That He had become like us
so He could be sympathetic with us as a high priest.
Jesus is that.
And at the same time also completely, morally, ceremonially,
pure, above us,
in God's throne room,
actually standing before the very throne of grace.
No merely human priest goes there.
No way.
And He doesn't need, verse 27,
to offer sacrifices for His own sins.
Why?
Because He doesn't have any.
And so He was actually able
to make a perfect sacrifice of what?
Of Himself.
We got to get this.
See, back in Leviticus,
God's people were told to bring sin offerings
every time they sinned, right?
It was a lamb or whatever animal
always had to have no spot,
no wrinkle,
no blemish.
That happened thousands and thousands
and thousands of times.
And then for the first time,
a person was offered
as a perfect sacrifice
with no spot,
no wrinkle,
no blemish.
And that was where?
At the cross of Jesus.
God appoints Jesus as priest
not for His weakness,
but here because He's the Son
made perfect forever.
Perfect priest
who can offer a perfect sacrifice.
That is the priest
that we imperfect people desperately need.
No one else can make a case
for us like this.
It's like Anna
with true love
interceding
before the sword
that's coming,
crashing down
on her sister.
Like that,
Jesus intercedes
for us.
Throwing Himself
between us
and the wrath
of a holy God.
He takes it.
See,
what that means
is that
when you mess up,
Jesus doesn't say to God,
now listen,
Father,
take it easy on Will.
I mean,
he's a pretty good guy.
He really tries,
Your Honor.
I know he blows it a lot,
but give him another shot.
He'll do better next time.
No.
Jesus' case for you
focuses not on you.
But on Himself.
When Jesus prays for you,
He's asking God
to give you
not a second chance
to do better,
but a second representative
who has done better.
Better than Adam.
Better than me.
Better than you.
Jesus,
the perfect Son.
He's saying,
God,
give Him that record.
Why is it
that we can sing
about our souls
rising up
and shaking off
their guilty fears?
Is it because
we've done really well?
What are we saying?
The bleeding sacrifice
on my behalf
appears.
Before the throne,
our surety stands
with our names
written on His hands.
Can you believe that?
Jesus says,
Father,
this will guy,
let me tell you
what's important
about him.
I bled for him.
I see it right here.
I bled for that guy.
Jesus stands
to make your case
before the throne of God
and He speaks
of His five bleeding wounds
that pour effectual prayers
that strongly plead for me.
Forgive Him,
Father,
wretched sinner
though He be.
Forgive Him
for my sake.
That's what happens.
Hear how Paul says it
in Romans 8.
Why does Paul say,
no charges stick
against us?
Why is that true?
Christ Jesus
died
and was raised
to light
and is indeed
present tense
today
interceding
for us.
You know what that means
for you and me?
That means actually
that if we think of Jesus
asking God
to be merciful
and gracious,
when Jesus is pleading
your case
before God,
He's not pleading
for mercy.
There's plenty
of mercy and grace
in Jesus,
don't get me wrong.
But Jesus comes
before His Father
and says,
Father,
give justice.
Give what
must be given now.
1 John 1
says it, right?
If you confess
your sins,
God is faithful
and just
to forgive
your sins.
He sees Jesus
has already paid
for those sins.
Jesus doesn't have
to say,
Father,
come on,
find it in your heart
to give Him a break.
No, He says,
Father,
give Him
the forgiveness
that I purchased,
that I have earned,
that I have won.
That's what
Romans 3 explains
has been happening
with these sacrifices
and priests
all along.
What's been going on
through the Old Testament
is that
as they bring
all these sacrifices,
God is passing
over sins.
He's passing
over them
until a time
would come
when there was
a perfect sacrifice,
when God
could be just,
He could receive
sin's deserved payment
and at the same time
be the justifier
of those trusting
Jesus' perfect sacrifice.
Friends,
Jesus is our
great high priest,
our qualified representative
because unlike
any other religious leader,
His case
is based on
His perfect sacrifice.
So His prayers
for you
are always heard.
Just like when He
prayed for Peter,
He knew Peter
was going to deny Him.
He prayed that
when Peter fell,
His faith
would not fail.
And God hears.
Pastor Edmund Clowney
tells of a time
he sought out
the holiest,
best prayer
he knew
because he was hurting
deeply.
He found
famed theologian
John Murray
and said,
pray for me,
John.
This is what
he writes.
In a time
of devastating
personal grief
concerning a member
of my family,
I sought John Murray
to request
his prayer.
As John
interceded
for me
and for the
deepest concern
of my heart,
he prayed
with urgency
and strength,
weaving together
passages of Scripture
to form the fabric
of his claim
on the mercy
and promises
of God.
At that moment,
I confess,
I was overwhelmed
with the sheer
blessing
of having
such an intercessor
to take me
before my
heavenly Father.
I think that's
how I used to feel
with Delilah Harris
or Jenny Doss
or your grandmother
when you heard
them praying for you.
He says,
then,
as his prayer
was lifted
to the mercy seat,
he began to thank
the Father
for the mediation
of God's
eternal Son,
the merciful
and faithful
high priest
who ever lives
to make intercession
for us.
Clowney says,
then it came home
to me.
I had a better
intercessor
than John Murray.
Jesus Christ,
my Savior,
prayed for me.
Praise Jesus.
Jesus,
praise for you.
well,
that sounds like
a good representative
to have,
right?
It's a good start.
But how long
will he continue
representing me?
That's a real issue
here in Hebrews
because these
Old Testament priests,
there were a lot
of good ones,
but they all died.
And you had to wonder,
would the next guy
successfully make
the sacrifices?
Would he safely
bring you near to God?
God?
First century
Jewish historian
Josephus
estimates 83
different high priests
from Aaron
until the destruction
of the temple
in 70 A.D.
One after another
after another.
But remember,
Jesus
is a permanent priest.
How?
The power
of an indestructible
life.
Verse 16
told us that.
It's Easter.
It's resurrection,
right?
Verse 24.
But Jesus,
he holds his priesthood
permanently.
Why?
Because he continues
forever.
Verse 25.
He always lives.
There's our
eternal security,
right?
It's in the resurrection.
Jesus has beaten
death
at death's own game.
Hosanna,
save us.
You've conquered
death.
Do it for us.
We never have to wonder
if the next day
or the next failure
will condemn us.
If God's gonna
turn and decide
to give up on us
this time.
No.
Our case is not
based on us.
It's based on the
perfect priest
who is the
forever priest
never dying,
never retiring,
never leaving us,
never sleeping,
never wavering,
never failing
to intercede
for us
no matter where
we find ourselves.
He ever
lives above,
right?
For me to intercede,
his all-redeeming love,
his precious blood
to plead
for every race
at the throne
of grace.
He's there today
if you're wondering
what's Jesus doing?
Why isn't Jesus in church?
He's interceding.
Pastor Andrew Murray
explains what that
means for us,
what that frees us up
to do in our lives
if Jesus is always
interceding.
To come to God
through Christ
means nothing less
than entering
into the holiest
of all,
God's very presence,
and dwelling there
all day,
spending our lives
there,
abiding there
continually.
He's interceding
before God
today and always,
so you live,
you rest,
you abide
before God
today and always.
A priest
with a perfect
sacrifice,
with a permanent,
permanent
service
of intercession.
One more phrase
that I don't want
us to miss.
How effective
is Jesus
at bringing me
to God?
In other words,
if I'm going to hire him,
how often
does this lawyer
win the case
for his client?
verse 25.
Consequently,
Jesus is able
to save
to the uttermost
those who draw
near to God
through him
since he always
lives to make
intercession
for them.
Because he lives
forever,
because he always
lives to make
intercession,
he saves
to the uttermost.
Great word.
Great word,
uttermost.
Don't use it
very often.
It means
from all your sins
at all times
in all ways
Jesus saves.
That's what his name
means.
That's what his father
sent him to do.
It's what he came
to accomplish
on the cross
and in the empty tomb.
And it's important
because you need
to know something
when you're wondering
about how God
feels about you.
When you say,
I've been a Christian
a long time,
but lately,
I'm just really,
I'm really struggling.
I'm really wavering a lot.
I don't feel like
God and I
are doing well.
Jesus didn't,
Jesus didn't make
your salvation
possible.
Jesus made your
salvation real.
Not a possibility,
a reality.
He actually
accomplishes salvation.
He saves
to the uttermost.
Later it says
of his sacrifice,
once for all.
So nothing else
is needed.
This Jesus
is a savior.
He came to seek
and to save the lost.
He is able to save
to the uttermost.
So listen,
what does that mean?
That means there is
no sin
too big for him.
It means there is
no sinner
too bad
for him to save.
There's no offense
too often repeated.
No runaway
too distant.
No situation
too complicated.
No valley
too dark
where the good shepherd
can't find
a lost sheep.
No rebel
too hardened.
No shame
too deep.
No life
too far gone.
But Jesus
saves today
to the uttermost.
All of them.
five bleeding wounds.
Five bleeding wounds
of Jesus
cry,
forgive him.
Who?
Which one?
That one?
Is he too bad?
They cry,
forgive him.
Always.
Dear friend,
if you're here today
and you are just
kind of exploring Jesus,
maybe seeking,
wondering about Jesus,
not sure
what to think
about him,
I'd urge you
to ask him
to be your
representative,
to intercede
for you.
He loves doing it.
He lives for it.
And he will save you
to the uttermost.
You
and God
completely good
forever
and always
can never be
separated from him.
That's what Jesus
will do for you.
Dear friends
who have trusted
in Jesus
maybe for
most of your life,
won't you today,
as you hear Jesus
praying for you,
leave your life
of self-condemnation,
of half-hearted
distance
from Jesus,
of playing church
occasionally
but feeling like
God's far off.
Leave your life
of sin
that Jesus
has paid for
and remember
that he is
interceding
for you
today.
So God
is not
disappointed.
God is not
disinterested
in you.
Today,
while Jesus
is interceding
as he always
does,
your father
is smiling
on you.
He's delighting
in you
as his perfect
son.
He is welcoming
you home.
Come home,
he says.
Before we close,
I want to remember
why the writer
thinks this is
so important.
Why is he
telling them
about Jesus
as their
greater priest?
Do you remember
the whole letters
about this?
Some of them
in life's
difficulties,
they're in a
tough place
and they're
thinking about
going back
to the Jewish
sacrificial system
with dying
priests
and repeated
sacrifices
and many
regulations.
They're thinking
about that
because they all
know and feel
deeply they need
a representative
before God's
throne.
But they also
know other
options.
They've lived
them.
The spirit
of their age
was to go
back to the
sacrifices.
That's not
what many
people contemplate
these days.
That you
haven't been
thinking that
during this
sermon.
Maybe I'll
go back
to that.
No.
Instead of
clinging to
this great
representative
before God,
what's the
spirit of our
age?
I think
having lost
a reverent
fear of
God that
makes us
desperately
dependent on
a representative.
The spirit
of our age
is representing
myself.
In fact,
we do it
while we go
to church.
One of the
classic ways
I'll say that
I'll represent
myself is I'll
be moral.
I'll be good
enough for
God to be
okay with
me.
By the way,
that is way
underestimating
His holiness
and our
weakness to
think that
that's how we
could navigate
the relationship.
Others do
the same thing
by saying,
you know,
really all I
need to do
is be true
to myself.
And that
makes me and
whatever God
is out there,
we're fine.
However I
live, as long
as I'm true
to myself.
As much as
it is never
a good idea
to represent
yourself,
is it,
Barnes?
this instinct
is there
in all
of us
to represent
myself.
I'll show you
a version of
it in my
own life.
A couple
weeks ago,
Christy asked
me to do
something for
her, not
anything unusual
or unreasonable,
just helping
out around the
house.
But she told
me how I
could be
helpful to
her and she
explained how
she wanted
it done.
And I
listened,
mostly.
But I
kind of
thought I
just kind
of handle
it my
own way.
So when
it wasn't
done the
way that
she asked,
she wasn't
so much
frustrated at
how it
was done,
she capably
did it
better.
She was
hurt.
I didn't
respect or
value her.
I'd
selfishly
messed up
and hurt
someone that
I love.
How's
I going to
respond?
This
actually,
you haven't
seen it
yet,
this is
where you're
going to
see the
self-representation.
What happens
in that
moment for
me?
I mount
my self-defense.
It's a pretty
common one.
There's several
things I do.
I call
character
witnesses.
You know,
just the
beginning of
a conversation,
you know,
I work in,
naturally weave
in the fact
that this
happened after
I was picking
up the
girls.
I'm usually
pretty helpful,
that's what
you're supposed
to hear.
Plus,
there were
extenuating
circumstances.
I had a
long day
at work.
I wasn't
feeling great.
There was a
lot on my
mind.
You know,
that needs
to be
included.
My noble
intentions.
Sweetheart,
I didn't mean
to hurt you.
But the
closing argument
comes,
maybe you've
made this
one before,
future
commitments,
right?
Look,
it won't
happen again,
right?
Of course,
it won't
happen again.
So we're
okay,
right?
You're
happy with
me now.
See how
I've told
you how
good I
am and
will be?
Aren't
you okay
now?
Well,
that's no
way to
live,
is it?
Self-representation,
especially
if you're
having to
draw up
a defense
constantly
to prove
you're good
enough,
not just
to another
person,
but to
God,
to the
one who
sees
everything
that you
do,
to the
one who
knows
every
thought and
intention
of your
heart,
representing
yourself to
him and
explaining it
away.
Can you
imagine?
Most of us
can imagine.
You know
what you'll
do if
that's the
way you
live with
God?
I'll tell
you because
I've lived
it.
You'll
quit drawing
near to
him.
You will.
I don't
know what
it'll look
like, but
you'll quit
getting close
because it's
exhausting.
It's too
much work
to get to
the place
where you
know he's
okay with
you, where
you've
proven your
case.
You'll
either know
you're not
good enough
or you
will get
exhausted
from trying
to convince
yourself that
you are.
How about
this way of
living with
him?
I'm sorry.
I was
unthoughtful.
I hate
how this
hurts you
and our
relationship.
Please
forgive me.
I have
nothing.
I need
forgiveness.
Why is it
so hard
for me
to say
that?
As a
husband?
As a
child of
God?
Because I
love to
represent
myself.
I want
to tell
you,
Jesus
loves
to represent
you.
He lives
to intercede
for you.
He's doing
it today
and always.
You can
count on it.
You can
live like
it's a
reality.
Don't
represent
yourself.
Don't
run back
to making
enough of
the right
sacrifices.
You know,
a few
Sunday mornings
at church,
a couple
service
project,
a few
bucks
in the
plate.
Yeah,
God and
I,
we're good
now.
No,
no.
That's
exhausting.
Y'all,
it's also
ineffective.
And there
is a
greater
priest
than that.
He knows
your pain.
He gets
your temptation.
He's
walking
your shoes
and
He's
holy,
innocent,
unstained,
separated
from sinners,
exalted
above the
heavens,
interceding
in the
very throne
room of
God.
He's
praying
for you
right now.
Dear ones,
run to
Jesus and
don't ever
run away
from Him.
Three points
in a poem.
That's what a
sermon is
supposed to
be.
It's not
usually the
way I
go.
But I
like this
poem.
Martha
Snell
Nicholson.
I can
relate.
I think
probably
many of
you can
too.
I
sinned
and
straightway
post-haste
Satan
flew before
the presence
of the
Most High
God
and made
a railing
accusation
there.
He said
this soul,
this thing
of clay
and sod
has sinned.
Tis
true that
he has
named
thy name
but I
demand
his
death
for thou
has said
the soul
that sinneth
it shall
die.
Shall not
thy sentence
be fulfilled?
Is justice
dead?
Send now
this wretched
sinner to
his doom.
What other
thing can
righteous
ruler do?
And thus
did he accuse
me day and
night and
every word
he spoke
oh God
was true.
Then quickly
one rose up
from God's
right hand
before whose
glory angels
veiled their
eyes.
He spoke
each
jot and
tittle
of the
law must
be fulfilled
the guilty
sinner dies.
But wait
suppose his
guilt were
all transferred
to me
and that I
paid his
penalty.
Behold my
hands
my side
my feet
one day
I was made
sin for
him and
died that
he might
be presented
faultless
at thy
throne.
And Satan
fled away.
Full well
he knew
that he
could not
prevail against
such love
for every
word my
dear Lord
spoke was
true.
Jesus
there you
stand
before the
throne of
God above
making our
strong
and perfect
plea.
How beautiful
it is to
us.
that you
pray for
us.
You
defend us.
You plead
your blood
for us.
Praise you
Jesus for
your sinless
life that
makes us
beautiful to
our Father
clothed in
your righteousness.
Praise you
Jesus for
your sacrifice
of yourself
that washes
us clean
from all
our sins.
Praise you
Jesus for
always living
to intercede
for us.
thank you
for praying
for me.
Would you
help us even
this week to
run and
cling to your
cross?
We're going
to have it
before us.
We're going
to have
opportunities.
Help us
from the
depths of
our hearts
to see it
as the
most needful
thing in
our lives
and the
most important
thing of
all.
Help us
to worship
you for
your love.
Help us
to find
our hope
in your
empty tomb
and your
ongoing life
and your
intercession
before the
throne of
God.
Pour out
your grace
on us.
Give us
joy and
confidence
in you.
Thank you
for loving
us.
We pray
these prayers
in your name
knowing that
you pray them
alongside of
us and we
give you
great thanks.
Amen.
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