WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.500 It says in Ephesians 1.23, God, whose breadth and length and height and depth are unfathomable, 00:00:07.600 --> 00:00:09.779 how can we possibly house Him? 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:17.240 God does not live in man-made temples, nor is He served by human hands. 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:23.600 It says in verse 25, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:25.420 and breath and everything. 00:00:25.420 --> 00:00:32.120 The Greeks served their gods by building temples and statues and altars and offering sacrifice to them 00:00:32.120 --> 00:00:36.760 and parading the idols throughout the city, carrying them around because they can't walk themselves. 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:41.579 But God declares that He is actually not served by human hands. 00:00:42.660 --> 00:00:44.140 This is an incredible assertion. 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.700 There is nothing that God needs. 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:53.439 God says in Psalm 50, verse 12, that He doesn't need our sacrifices. 00:00:53.439 --> 00:01:01.679 He says, quote, if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine and all that is in it. 00:01:03.739 --> 00:01:08.400 The true God does not need to be carried from place to place by human servants. 00:01:09.579 --> 00:01:13.819 The true God does not need to be fed with sacrificial offerings by humans. 00:01:14.459 --> 00:01:18.459 There is no deficiency or insufficiency in God. 00:01:18.459 --> 00:01:19.459 God does not need to be fed with us. 00:01:19.459 --> 00:01:22.939 This is what we call the doctrine of divine aseity. 00:01:24.019 --> 00:01:26.139 God's self-existence. 00:01:26.699 --> 00:01:28.859 His absolute independence. 00:01:32.259 --> 00:01:36.259 God did not create humanity because He needed us. 00:01:36.759 --> 00:01:40.599 Because He was insecure about Himself and needed our love and worship. 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:47.000 God didn't create us because He was shorthanded and needed some extra help. 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.899 God created the world out of nothing. 00:01:52.659 --> 00:01:58.419 And so our existence is totally, entirely derivative and dependent on Him. 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:03.619 God is the only truly independent being in the universe. 00:02:04.259 --> 00:02:06.379 He is totally independent. 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:08.740 And we are totally dependent. 00:02:08.740 --> 00:02:13.820 God is the one who gives us life and breath and everything. 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.080 God created us not to fill His emptiness, but out of His fullness. 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:22.700 In order to diffuse His fullness. 00:02:22.939 --> 00:02:25.060 In order to display His glory. 00:02:26.860 --> 00:02:31.620 That's why God says in Isaiah 43, 7 that He created us for His glory. 00:02:31.620 --> 00:02:39.379 So we have to be very careful, actually, when we talk about serving God. 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:48.439 Of course, in one sense, as it says in 1 Thessalonians 1, 9, 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:53.939 we have turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God. 00:02:53.939 --> 00:02:59.439 However, in another sense, we do not serve God at all. 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:04.159 He's not served by human hands. 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:10.939 We do not serve God in any sense of contributing something that He Himself lacks. 00:03:10.939 --> 00:03:22.079 Are you working hard right now with blood, sweat, and tears to repay God for what He has done for you? 00:03:23.740 --> 00:03:28.520 There is nothing to be repaid because salvation is a gift from God. 00:03:28.620 --> 00:03:29.379 It's not alone. 00:03:29.379 --> 00:03:38.340 Jesus did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.560 Why, Christian brothers and sisters, do you live like Jesus came to be served by you? 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.060 The gospel is not a service that you render to Jesus. 00:03:51.539 --> 00:03:55.280 It's a service that Jesus has already rendered to you. 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:01.439 Have you received this gift freely saying to God, 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.620 Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to the cross I cling. 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.020 Naked come to Thee for dress. 00:04:08.819 --> 00:04:10.780 Helpless look to Thee for grace. 00:04:14.300 --> 00:04:17.779 Are you trying to obey and serve God in your own strength? 00:04:19.699 --> 00:04:21.660 As if it all depends on you. 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:26.500 1 Chronicles 29 verse 14 says, 00:04:26.660 --> 00:04:32.880 For all things come from you, and of your own we have given to you. 00:04:35.220 --> 00:04:39.020 We can only give to God what we have received from Him. 00:04:41.200 --> 00:04:43.300 2 Corinthians 9 verse 8 says, 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:56.280 Do you notice the connection there? 00:04:57.139 --> 00:05:03.580 Every good work we do that we abound in is a result of God's abounding grace. 00:05:03.579 --> 00:05:09.659 This is why 1 Peter chapter 4 verses 10 to 11 says this, 00:05:09.740 --> 00:05:11.479 As each has received a gift, 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.459 Use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace. 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:18.699 Whoever speaks as one who speaks oracles of God. 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:22.599 Whoever serves as one who serves by the strength that God supplies. 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:27.180 In order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. 00:05:27.180 --> 00:05:30.439 To Him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. 00:05:30.860 --> 00:05:31.419 Amen. 00:05:31.420 --> 00:05:35.080 All that we do for God. 00:05:35.180 --> 00:05:38.420 That we do out of the gifts we have received from Him. 00:05:38.740 --> 00:05:41.280 Out of His varied grace toward us. 00:05:42.520 --> 00:05:48.379 And so we ought to do everything with a conscious, prayerful dependence on Him. 00:05:49.379 --> 00:05:52.000 As those who have been united with Christ. 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:54.439 As Christ's mouth. 00:05:54.580 --> 00:05:56.000 As Christ's hands. 00:05:56.259 --> 00:05:57.620 As Christ's feet. 00:05:57.620 --> 00:06:02.319 So that in everything Christ gets the glory and not us. 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:11.379 Genuine Christian service is never self-aggrandizing. 00:06:11.939 --> 00:06:14.000 It is always self-effacing. 00:06:14.379 --> 00:06:16.019 And Christ-exalting. 00:06:16.019 --> 00:06:24.459 Paul continues to magnify God in verse 26. 00:06:24.459 --> 00:06:29.939 And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth. 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.039 Having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place. 00:06:34.699 --> 00:06:38.319 God is the Lord of human history and world geography. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:42.540 You were born exactly when you were born. 00:06:42.540 --> 00:06:44.819 And exactly where you were born. 00:06:45.500 --> 00:06:47.579 In accordance with God's sovereign will. 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.759 We are all descended from one man. 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:55.379 A common ancestor, Adam. 00:06:55.620 --> 00:07:00.759 And God has sovereignly determined when in history and where on earth every nation should live. 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:06.759 And He did this so that they should seek God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him. 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:11.360 The word translated feel their way, it's a very good translation. 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.399 It's to look for something in uncertain fashion. 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.180 To feel around, to grope for something. 00:07:17.420 --> 00:07:21.920 Like a person trying to feel his way around the floor in a dark room. 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:27.920 Paul is acknowledging here that the Athenians were in their own way seeking God. 00:07:28.020 --> 00:07:29.740 They're trying to feel their way toward Him. 00:07:29.939 --> 00:07:31.960 But they have not yet found Him. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:36.920 And that's why Paul is now proclaiming to them the God that they worship as unknown. 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:44.900 And this God is not in everything as the Stoics believed. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.500 He's distinct from His creation and transcending over it. 00:07:48.580 --> 00:07:49.360 He is sovereign. 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:53.280 And yet, God is not merely transcendent. 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.699 He's not detached or aloof from us as the Epicureans conceived of God. 00:07:59.540 --> 00:08:01.540 Paul says this in verses 27 and 28. 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.860 Yet He is actually not far from us. 00:08:05.060 --> 00:08:09.259 For in Him we live and move and have our being as even some of your own poets have said. 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:10.759 For we are indeed His offspring. 00:08:11.939 --> 00:08:14.879 God is intimately involved in our lives. 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:17.680 He knows what you are going through. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.519 He is present. 00:08:19.939 --> 00:08:20.900 He is imminent. 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:21.959 He is watching. 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:28.540 He's the one who is sustaining you so that you are still alive. 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:31.139 So that you are still standing. 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.419 He's the one who enables us to live and move and have our being. 00:08:37.419 --> 00:08:44.299 I think a lot of times we live like we only need God in dire circumstances, don't we? 00:08:47.019 --> 00:08:49.039 God, please heal me of this disease. 00:08:49.899 --> 00:08:51.559 God, please give me this job. 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:56.799 Forgetting the fact that apart from God, we can't even do the basic things of life. 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:00.120 God, we can't breathe. 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:01.679 We can't live. 00:09:02.059 --> 00:09:02.959 We can't move. 00:09:03.359 --> 00:09:04.659 We can't even exist. 00:09:08.299 --> 00:09:13.979 If we really understood this, we'd have a much humbler posture in our plans and activities. 00:09:13.980 --> 00:09:23.080 And since God is the one who created us and sustains us in one sense, all of humanity can be described as God's offspring. 00:09:23.800 --> 00:09:26.740 Though not all of humanity is God's chosen children. 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.340 Because we are all created in His image. 00:09:30.340 --> 00:09:40.340 And if we are God's offspring, then, Paul says, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 00:09:41.060 --> 00:09:47.180 If we have been created by God, how can the objects of our creation be God? 00:09:48.680 --> 00:09:49.780 That's Paul's logic. 00:09:51.280 --> 00:09:54.960 Where did the idols and statues of gold, silver, and stone originate? 00:09:55.379 --> 00:09:59.400 They are products of the human imagination, of human craftsmanship. 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:03.700 How, then, can these things possibly be God? 00:10:04.180 --> 00:10:11.920 There's a world of difference between man-made gods that the Athenians worshipped and the God who made the world that Paul proclaimed. 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:19.940 In what ways are we also guilty of worshipping a God that we have fashioned with our own minds and hands? 00:10:21.780 --> 00:10:25.280 In what ways have we tried to domesticate God? 00:10:27.019 --> 00:10:30.320 Reduce Him to amulets, pendants, and talismans? 00:10:30.340 --> 00:10:35.600 As if we can put God in a pocket and carry Him around like a trinket. 00:10:37.700 --> 00:10:46.340 In what ways have we compartmentalized our lives and acted like we can confine God, restrict Him and His demands to Sunday morning? 00:10:46.340 --> 00:10:58.500 In what ways have we related to God like a genie that we turn to only when our own purposes and priorities are thwarted? 00:10:58.500 --> 00:11:05.860 We must repent of our idolatry and turn to God on His terms. 00:11:05.860 --> 00:11:19.019 And remember, Paul was provoked in spirit by the numerous idols in Athens, and now Paul has established a Christian framework or worldview in which people can understand what he's saying. 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:22.600 And now he's exposing the futility of idolatry. 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:31.480 But before I get to that next point, notice that while Paul's speech is chock full of biblical truths, he actually hasn't quoted a single Bible verse. 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:40.220 That's because unlike the Thessalonians and Bereans, Athenians were biblically illiterate Greeks. 00:11:40.220 --> 00:11:48.840 So in verse 28, Paul quotes sources that the Athenians would have recognized as authoritative. 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:50.820 He says, 00:11:50.820 --> 00:12:08.760 Paul actually quotes from him again in Titus 1.12 from the exact same section, so this is likely to be a quote. 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:10.900 And he says, 00:12:10.899 --> 00:12:19.899 To be sure, Paul's not endorsing all that they say. 00:12:19.980 --> 00:12:22.720 He's not simply affirming the Athenians' philosophical framework. 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:32.159 He's appropriating their works into the Christian framework and making his case against idolatry using what they themselves believed. 00:12:33.319 --> 00:12:39.240 He's using their frame of reference so that he might be more accessible and credible to the Athenians. 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:47.039 This is an effective way to evangelize with people who don't share a biblical context with us. 00:12:47.980 --> 00:12:53.159 To use what they already believe to expose, to contrast, to contradiction. 00:12:56.019 --> 00:13:00.779 We exploit the points of contact to expose the points of contradiction. 00:13:02.100 --> 00:13:07.940 And that brings us to the final section of Paul's speech where he contrasts times of ignorance and times of repentance. 00:13:07.940 --> 00:13:09.860 He says in verses 30 to 31, 00:13:09.940 --> 00:13:14.220 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 00:13:14.660 --> 00:13:20.440 because he has fixed the day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed. 00:13:21.060 --> 00:13:25.060 And of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. 00:13:26.500 --> 00:13:32.040 This is similar to what Paul said to the pagans in Lystra in Acts 14.16, 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.039 when he said, 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:37.159 He allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:43.120 Prior to the coming of Jesus, the various nations were in times of ignorance, 00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:47.219 worshiping other gods, and God overlooked this. 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:52.079 Not in the sense that he approved of it or pardoned their idolatry, 00:13:52.319 --> 00:13:55.000 but merely that he didn't interfere with it. 00:13:55.000 --> 00:14:00.080 But now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 00:14:00.899 --> 00:14:04.059 With the coming of Jesus and the commissioning of his apostles, 00:14:04.539 --> 00:14:07.960 the times of ignorance have come to a decisive end. 00:14:09.019 --> 00:14:12.360 Now God is interfering in the affairs of the nations. 00:14:12.860 --> 00:14:16.360 Now he is putting a stop to the idolatry all throughout the world, 00:14:16.580 --> 00:14:19.720 and he's sending his people to proclaim that. 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:28.200 And repentance, turning away from the idols, is a necessity 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:32.420 because God has fixed the day on which he will judge the world in righteousness 00:14:32.420 --> 00:14:34.600 by a man whom he has appointed. 00:14:35.060 --> 00:14:38.399 And of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. 00:14:39.500 --> 00:14:41.379 Whether we are aware of it or not, 00:14:41.899 --> 00:14:43.340 whether we like it or not, 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:44.759 judgment day is coming. 00:14:44.759 --> 00:14:50.879 And every nation, every human being, 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.620 will be held to an account for their idolatry. 00:14:54.779 --> 00:14:57.439 The trial date has been set. 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:58.600 It's fixed. 00:15:00.779 --> 00:15:02.399 When a judge is appointed, 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:04.960 when a judge is assigned to a case, 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:06.740 you know that the trial is near. 00:15:09.299 --> 00:15:11.580 And the ultimate judge of humanity, 00:15:11.580 --> 00:15:14.200 Jesus has been appointed. 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:20.779 And God has given proof of that by raising him from the dead. 00:15:21.100 --> 00:15:25.580 That's why Jesus alone is qualified to judge both the living and the dead. 00:15:28.319 --> 00:15:31.620 Now some people criticize Paul's sermon here. 00:15:35.019 --> 00:15:37.899 They say that, well, Paul doesn't actually preach the gospel. 00:15:39.419 --> 00:15:41.600 He doesn't talk about Jesus' death. 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.700 He's only talking about the bad news of judgment. 00:15:44.779 --> 00:15:46.100 He doesn't talk about the good news. 00:15:46.800 --> 00:15:48.279 I don't think that's what's happening here. 00:15:49.460 --> 00:15:53.320 We see in verse 34 that some people had joined Paul and believed. 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:56.580 Dionysius the Areopagite, 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.540 Demaris, Demaris, and others with him. 00:15:59.920 --> 00:16:02.399 The fact that they believed, meaning they became believers, 00:16:02.580 --> 00:16:03.440 they became Christians, 00:16:03.560 --> 00:16:05.420 showed that Paul did preach the good news 00:16:05.419 --> 00:16:08.679 that Jesus died and was raised for the forgiveness of sins. 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:13.479 He said earlier in verse 8 that Paul was preaching Jesus, 00:16:13.899 --> 00:16:17.579 which is shorthand in the book of Acts for preaching the gospel. 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.439 That Jesus is the prophesied Messiah and Savior. 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:27.500 After all, how do you preach the resurrection of Christ 00:16:27.500 --> 00:16:30.580 without preaching about the death of Christ? 00:16:34.460 --> 00:16:37.539 Paul writes in Romans 1, chapter 1, verse 4, 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:38.960 that Jesus Christ, our Lord, 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:42.279 was declared to be the Son of God in power 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.379 according to the Spirit of holiness 00:16:44.379 --> 00:16:47.240 by His resurrection from the dead. 00:16:48.019 --> 00:16:51.220 It was the resurrection that demonstrated decisively 00:16:51.220 --> 00:16:53.120 that Jesus, the Son of Man, 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:54.720 who died on the cross, 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.360 was also the Son of God. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.560 We know that Jesus' atoning sacrifice on the cross 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:04.140 on behalf of His people 00:17:04.140 --> 00:17:05.880 was accepted by the Father 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.200 because He raised Jesus from the dead. 00:17:08.259 --> 00:17:09.299 That's how we know that. 00:17:12.360 --> 00:17:13.960 Friends, we have all sinned 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:15.460 and fallen short of the glory of God. 00:17:16.700 --> 00:17:20.539 We were all once proud and stubborn idolaters, 00:17:20.539 --> 00:17:25.000 convinced of the wisdom of our rebellious ways, 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:28.680 devising gods and goddesses to our own liking, 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:31.680 with our own minds and with our own hands, 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.180 and prostrating ourselves before them, 00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:36.539 literally or at least figuratively, 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:39.619 we have made idols in our own image 00:17:39.619 --> 00:17:41.119 rather than worshiping the God 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:43.339 in whose image we have been created. 00:17:43.339 --> 00:17:47.659 We have worshipped ourselves 00:17:47.659 --> 00:17:50.559 by making ourselves the ultimate object 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:52.119 of our affection and allegiance, 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.439 by living for ourselves 00:17:54.439 --> 00:17:57.559 and not for the God who created us. 00:17:58.980 --> 00:18:01.859 But God, who should have rejected our folly 00:18:01.859 --> 00:18:03.399 and crushed our rebellion, 00:18:04.919 --> 00:18:07.980 instead graciously sent us His Son, 00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:12.639 who is the image of the invisible God. 00:18:13.339 --> 00:18:16.819 so that we might turn from worshipping 00:18:16.819 --> 00:18:18.220 the images of our own making 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:21.359 and turn to the living God. 00:18:24.699 --> 00:18:26.639 We deserve to be destroyed 00:18:26.639 --> 00:18:29.220 by God's holy wrath for our idolatry, 00:18:29.819 --> 00:18:32.299 and it's only because 00:18:32.299 --> 00:18:35.339 Jesus was crushed in our place 00:18:35.339 --> 00:18:38.799 that we now have the opportunity to repent. 00:18:39.939 --> 00:18:41.539 That's the good news of Jesus Christ. 00:18:43.339 --> 00:18:53.480 There are idols all over the world, 00:18:53.980 --> 00:18:54.919 all over our city. 00:18:58.199 --> 00:18:59.159 I pray 00:18:59.159 --> 00:19:03.259 that we be provoked in our spirit 00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:06.720 to proclaim the living God 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:08.339 wherever we go. 00:19:08.339 --> 00:19:11.179 Heavenly Father, 00:19:11.699 --> 00:19:14.000 help us to do that. 00:19:18.399 --> 00:19:21.659 Oh, so align our hearts with yours, Father. 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:24.939 So unite us 00:19:24.939 --> 00:19:29.159 with the will of our Master, 00:19:29.259 --> 00:19:30.399 our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:19:30.399 --> 00:19:30.519 Amen. 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:37.160 That we can't help but be provoked by idolatry. 00:19:39.180 --> 00:19:41.119 That we might bear witness to you 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:44.420 the image of the invisible God, 00:19:44.639 --> 00:19:45.200 Lord Jesus, 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:48.460 to the ends of the earth. 00:19:49.819 --> 00:19:51.139 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:52.200 Amen. 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:52.379 Amen. 00:19:52.379 --> 00:19:52.700 Amen. 00:19:52.700 --> 00:19:54.700 Amen. 00:19:54.700 --> 00:19:55.319 Amen. 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:55.700 Amen. 00:19:55.700 --> 00:19:56.319 Amen. 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:56.379 Amen. 00:19:56.379 --> 00:19:56.400 Amen. 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:56.460 Amen. 00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:56.480 Amen. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:56.539 Amen. 00:19:56.539 --> 00:19:56.660 Amen. 00:19:56.660 --> 00:19:56.700 Amen. 00:19:56.700 --> 00:19:56.740 Amen. 00:19:56.740 --> 00:19:56.779 Amen. 00:19:56.779 --> 00:19:56.799 Amen. 00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:56.819 Amen. 00:19:56.819 --> 00:19:56.839 Amen. 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:56.859 Amen. 00:19:56.859 --> 00:19:56.920 Amen. 00:19:56.920 --> 00:19:56.940 Amen. 00:19:56.940 --> 00:19:56.960 Amen. 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:56.980 Amen. 00:19:56.980 --> 00:19:57.000 Amen.