Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] A few weeks ago, we started unpacking this verse that I think is beautiful.
[00:00:07] I pictured Jesus speaking into these crowds, and he was.
[00:00:15] He was a bitter pill for a lot of people to swallow. People that had everything on lockdown, people that were very comfortable with the way things were, were very frustrated with Jesus.
[00:00:24] But people who.
[00:00:26] People who were not happy with the way things were, people who felt like they. That their lives weren't quite as they ought to be found in Jesus, a great deal of hope.
[00:00:39] And this verse, Matthew 11, 28, 29. These two verses, Jesus says, come to me, all you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I'll give you rest. I just have to imagine what it would have felt like for these crowds who very often were. I mean, you woke up every day.
[00:00:57] It's hard for me to appreciate the grind of life as it existed. You were dealing with foreign oppressors, the Roman oppressors that were over you. You were dealing with religious leaders who were telling you that the reason those Romans were there was because you're sinning. If you would just stop sinning, Jesus would.
[00:01:17] God would come, he would bring his Messiah, and we wouldn't have to deal with them anymore. So why are the Romans oppressing you? Because you're sinning, so you need to quit sinning. So you're dealing with them. Then you're just dealing with the normal grind of life where every single day you wake up and you have to work that day and hope that you've worked enough to be able to make enough money for food to pay for your family. I mean, the grind that they're experiencing is intense.
[00:01:42] And for Jesus to say, come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, I'll give you rest, that must have been something that brought a great deal of hope.
[00:01:53] Like, can this guy actually bring me rest, because I need it.
[00:01:59] We've looked at. We've kind of broken down most of this verse already. These last few sermons. I started at the very end, and I looked at the relationship between the heavy burdens that we carry and the rest that he offers.
[00:02:14] The vast majority of the burdens that we carry are a result of our sin and the sin of other people, like our unwillingness to cooperate in ways to function as a family, the way God built humanity to be.
[00:02:29] We are constantly out of fear, trying to protect ourselves from a world that isn't fit to our survival, it feels like. And we're willing to do all kinds of things in order to survive.
[00:02:40] We're willing to sin, the salvation that he offers is a. Is a restoration to God. It is that that rest is that we are no longer at war with God.
[00:02:52] We don't have to try to figure out our survival on our own. We can trust him to survive. We can be at rest in Him.
[00:03:00] Then last week we looked at the relationship between.
[00:03:03] He says, come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden. That relationship between the one who saves and the one who needs saving, that's not an equitable relationship. It is much more like a, you know, Jesus describes it as like a father child relationship.
[00:03:19] It is something where we have to come at him with dependency. We talked about that last week, but today I want to focus on just the very first part. Come to me. What. What does it mean to approach God?
[00:03:31] If it's true that I.
[00:03:34] I need rescue from life? And I have to tell you, the more time that I spend putting myself in the shoes of Jesus, first hearers, the people that he was speaking to, and how aware they were of his need, of the need for rescue of some sort, I realized how.
[00:04:01] How far we often are from that. It's very easy for us to live in a way daily where we don't actually feel the need to seek out help outside of ourselves.
[00:04:16] Money.
[00:04:18] We are insulated from a lot of the pressures that have been normal for humans throughout history.
[00:04:27] And it can be easy to ignore the aspects of being human that continue on. No matter how much money you have or no matter how much liberties you have in your life, that you are still living at odds with God, you are still trying to protect yourselves, and you're doing it at the expense of others and at the expense of God. And sometimes we can ignore that. We can forget that we actually do need a savior and we don't feel the need to come to God. And Jesus says, you know, I came for the sick, I didn't come for the healthy. If you don't see yourself as one, if you don't see yourself as somebody that needs to be saving, then I don't actually have a relationship for you because I'm here to save.
[00:05:14] And if you don't see yourself as someone that needs saving, I don't know who I could possibly be to you.
[00:05:21] But if you do need saving, if you do need a savior, then it's good to know how you could approach one who saves.
[00:05:33] How do we come to Jesus?
[00:05:35] How do we approach him in a way that is an appropriate relationship with one who understands the world well enough to direct us in how to be human in a world that is constantly deforming our spirit and making us something.
[00:05:50] I would say something less than human.
[00:05:53] Paul, I think, answers that very well. In Romans chapter 10, he has almost an analytical, concise look at what it means to come to Jesus. How do we come to Jesus? In Romans chapter 10, verse 9, he says, this is how you come to me. Come to Jesus. If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved.
[00:06:17] For it's by believing in your heart that you are made right with God. And it's by openly declaring your faith that you're saved. Now it's so concise that it can almost sound robotic or sound like mechanical formulaic. Here's how you do it. Follow this formula and you're saved.
[00:06:35] That couldn't be further from the truth if you pay attention to the words that he's saying. It is the exact opposite of a formula. It is in fact, deeply personal and relational, which is the opposite of a formula.
[00:06:52] Christianity is uniquely different than other philosophies and other religions in that it's not something you can come to as a set of principles or precepts.
[00:07:01] It is fundamentally relational. And everything that he said in these two verses is relational. I want to break it down and look at it.
[00:07:09] He says, first of all, he says there has to be something that you're doing in your heart and something that you're doing in your mouth, something that is. There's a way that you are expressing yourself to the world and a belief that you have tucked away inside of you.
[00:07:22] This is what I believe of myself or what I believe in the world, and this is how I interact with the world.
[00:07:28] It's important that he's looking at these two things because he's saying, don't be a hypocrite. What you believe of yourself and what you believe of your relationship with God and the way that you interact with the world based on those beliefs would be.
[00:07:42] Would be the same thing.
[00:07:44] You're not doing the right things while harboring different beliefs, and you're not harboring these beliefs while doing different things. You're not a hypocrite. And so that he's looking at both these two things together. He's saying first of all that there's a cohesion, a consistency to who you are, your self identity and the identity you present to the world will be consistent, will fit together.
[00:08:10] You'll be a person of integrity.
[00:08:13] If you are approaching.
[00:08:15] When we come to God, when we come to Jesus, as savior, there is an honesty and an integrity that we come to him with.
[00:08:24] This is no different than any other relationship.
[00:08:29] If you're at school and you're like, oh, school's coming up. School starts tomorrow, right?
[00:08:33] And it's new school. I'm going to be in high school this next year, whatever. And like, I want to make friends, right? You have a couple of options. You can figure out what those people value, and you can try to adjust yourself to fit into their values, or you can be yourself in that context. You can be yourself in that context in a way that's winsome.
[00:08:50] Being yourself doesn't mean that you are the worst of yourself. Every day you're like, you know what? That's just how I am. And I'm going to say what I think, okay, there's other stuff to you other than being a jerk. You can be not a jerk and be yourself. I think sometimes people think, like, when you say, I'm just gonna be myself, you just like, I'm just gonna be the worst version of myself possible. That's not true.
[00:09:13] You can actually be the person that you intend to be. That person that you, you know, this is the person that God built me to be, and I will reach to be that individual.
[00:09:27] You can be that person. It can be winsome and good and truthful, or you can just look around for whatever your. The other people in school seem to value and act based on what they seem to like, if they seem to like being disrespectful, being hateful, really bagging on other kids for whatever reason, the way they look or gosh, in those school, the way they smell, like, whatever. There's gonna be plenty of reasons to be a lesser version of yourself and for other people to think you're funny or whatever.
[00:10:03] By doing that stuff, you can be that other person as well.
[00:10:10] When we approach God, we are approaching him based on who we know ourselves to be. And we are like this person. I intend to be like the person that I. I would respect myself from being, and I'll have integrity in the way that I interact with the world. So that's first. It's very important to recognize that. So what are those two parts? First, we're openly declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord. Now, that word, openly declaring Greek does this a lot. They would cram these two words together. It's homologe. It just means I will, I will speak together with. Or it's like, I will declare.
[00:10:51] But what I'm declaring isn't coming for myself. I'm declaring that you're right. I'm declaring that I agree with you.
[00:10:57] It's the kind of word that you might use. If you are professing allegiance to someone, you would say, like, I am declaring that I myself am on board with what you've already said. This thing that I'm declaring isn't some new idea that comes out of me. I am agreeing with you about what you've already said. You have shown yourself to be Lord, and I agree that you're Lord.
[00:11:21] And to agree that someone is Lord means to say that their word is what matters.
[00:11:27] If you ever watch any old movies or whatever, like the Middle Ages, they would say, like, in the name of the King. I'm like, oh, that's good enough. Like, why are you doing this? Like, because it's in the name of the King. It's like, well, you win. Okay? It's like, wait a second. I disagree with that. I don't think that's a good idea. It doesn't matter because the king said it. It's like, in the Lord's name.
[00:11:46] That's all the answer you need because I am agreeing that the Lord's will is done.
[00:11:55] I've used this example before, but, like, I have a kingdom. I have certain, like, this phone.
[00:12:02] You have to ask permission if you, hey, can I use your phone? You're not just like, here, give me that. I'll be like, bro, that's my phone. You know, like, this is my kingdom. You know, there's stuff that belongs to me that I rule that I have say over. What goes with that stuff? You, you have this kingdom.
[00:12:22] When you say, I am prepared to give over my kingdom to a greater king, I'm prepared to make me and all that is mine to lay that at the feet of someone else. I actually believe that Jesus will be smarter and do a better job using me and my stuff than I would on my own. My ideas about how to interact with the world aren't as good as Jesus ideas. I trust him more than I trust myself. And so I'm prepared for him to be lord over my life, my stuff, my relationships.
[00:12:57] The way I think about how to interact, you know, very good example is the way Jesus describes how to interact with your enemies. You have reasonable ideas for how to interact with somebody who disrespects you.
[00:13:12] Jesus has different ideas about how to interact with people who disrespect you. Who's right?
[00:13:18] The Lord, whoever, whatever you do, says, which one's Lord? Your Lord. Because you do what you. You Know how you're supposed to interact with people that disrespect you or. Oh, man, I read Matthew, chapter six. That's crazy stuff. Like, you know, like, okay, I'll try that. Why? Because he's Lord. That's a. That's just a very simple example of what it means for to take my lordship and give it over. I agree. I openly declare that Jesus Christ is Lord. It's something that you say, it's something that you do. Okay.
[00:13:51] It is the way you interact with the world.
[00:13:54] I interact with the world as if God is Lord of my life.
[00:13:59] That makes sense.
[00:14:01] Second part. If you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved.
[00:14:07] Now, this is really interesting to me because the first part, the first part makes sense just on the, like, practicality of it.
[00:14:17] Either he's smarter than me about how to do stuff or he's not. And either it makes sense to, like, obey him or to obey myself.
[00:14:24] Now, just because it's smarter to obey him doesn't mean I'll do it because I'm, you know, I don't necessarily do it smart all the time, but if I think about is still smarter to obey him because he's just smarter about being a human than I am. Right. Okay, so that lordship thing is just practically makes sense. But the second part is, like, almost magical. If I believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead, I'll be saved. Like, okay, I get, like, I get how it'd be important to be obedient to a person who's better at being human. Like, by the way, we're all doing that. Even if you don't follow Christ, you have some set of precepts or values that have come from somewhere outside of yourself. You're following someone, whether you know it or not.
[00:15:14] Is that other person that you're following better at being human than Jesus? Okay, then follow him. But I disagree. So I follow Jesus, you know, Anyway, all that just seems so practical to me. That second part feels a little bit more like I have to believe.
[00:15:30] I have to believe that this Jesus did something that's impossible. Like, why do I have to believe?
[00:15:39] Aren't his ideas practically good enough if I just follow him, why do I have to believe that he was raised from the dead?
[00:15:47] Yeah, why that?
[00:15:49] We talked about this some in link group and Nick brought up Peter as an example, and I loved it.
[00:15:56] He said, you know, all through the Gospel, like Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, you see, like, you see Peter following Jesus like he he intends to follow Jesus. He even calls him, like, who do people say that I am? You're the Messiah. Like, he's like, he calls it out like he, he is like prepared to follow Jesus, but it wasn't. And when you look at who Peter was, like the way he acted, his behavior before the resurrection and after the resurrection, he's a radically different person.
[00:16:31] Like he's not, he's not similar.
[00:16:35] Like this dude was like, they called him the Son of Thunder because like when he showed up it was like, whoo. Like this guy is, you know, I'm sorry, he wasn't. There were several disciples. James and John were the Son of Thunders. Peter was the guy that seemed more thunderous than James and John even. So anyway, he was, he was just crazy.
[00:16:54] He'd take on like a whole host of people with sword and like, I've got you, I've got your back, Jesus, and I'm going to start whacking through all these guys to save you, like crazy stuff Afterward when you especially, like you read first two Peter and stuff or in Acts, you kind of read about Peter and there's this, like, there's this humility in him that didn't exist before.
[00:17:17] There's like a, there's like a gentle dad like quality to the way that he is talking to the people that he's interacting with.
[00:17:27] There's like a humble leadership where he's not loud or out. He's not, he doesn't seem to have. He seems to. If you didn't, if you didn't know it was the same person, if they had different names, for me, you'd say, oh, well, these must have been two different disciples because the guy before the resurrection and the guy after the resurrection were different. Why did the resurrection make such a difference in Peter?
[00:17:52] And why is belief in the resurrection necessary?
[00:18:00] Have you ever heard somebody say, like to get you thinking about what you're doing is what you ought to be doing. If you went to the doctor and they told you you had a month to live, what would you do differently?
[00:18:11] Have you heard you ever, like, what would you do differently if you had a month to live? Right.
[00:18:19] Have you thought of that?
[00:18:21] I've been told to think about it and I always think about it for a little bit and I'm like, eh, I don't know.
[00:18:25] I haven't been told that. So I don't know. I don't get too into it. But I think you can tell me if I'm wrong. I think you're supposed to Think like, oh, like all these things that I'm doing aren't really that important. I should be doing these other things that are important, right? And those things that are important are like, things you enjoy. Like, why am I working? I should go spend time with my kids or something. I don't know. Right. Like, I'm focused on all these things that don't matter, and instead I should be focusing on these things that matter. But what matters is based on only having a month to live.
[00:19:01] That makes sense. If you have a month to live, then the investment that you're making can only show out for the next month. You are, you are investing your time and your energy into things based on a month time horizon.
[00:19:19] Now, what if the opposite is true?
[00:19:22] What if you come to find out that you were wrong about death, such that it will have no effect on you?
[00:19:29] Like, you actually aren't.
[00:19:35] Death isn't something that is going to affect you.
[00:19:41] Like, you're gonna, like, this is gonna be like this physical death, just like Jesus experienced. But then I saw Jesus three days later arisen and I ate with him.
[00:19:52] And I gotta tell you, that was still Jesus after death.
[00:19:58] It seems as if my investments are no longer just about, like, the extent of my life.
[00:20:06] Whether it's a month or 40 years or whatever, the investment in my time and energy is based on forever.
[00:20:14] Like, your choices that you do right now resonate for eternity every time that you do something good and beautiful and kind. Like everything that is fit to the kingdom of God, it is something that it endures forever. And Jesus even says, like, don't invest your time in things that are gonna burn away. Invest your thing.
[00:20:34] Invest your time in things that will endure forever. Like, what does it mean for you to recognize that your life doesn't end and so your choices go on forever?
[00:20:54] For the early Christians, they did things that non Christians thought them to be really weird. Like they wrote about, like Pliny the Elder or whatever that we have different examples of Romans writing about these early Christians. And basically, like, these Christians were nut jobs from their perspective. And then Christians were writing back like, no, everything we're doing is pretty basic, like, very simple. Like, if you know that death isn't something to worry about, then everything that we're doing makes sense. They would do things like during the Justinian Plague, like, like literally everybody's worried they're going to die.
[00:21:33] Your son gets a boil, and literally everybody clears out from the house. And you just let your kid die, because otherwise all your kids are going to die and you're going to die.
[00:21:43] So it was better to just like, abandon your kid than to subject all the rest of your kids to that. The Christians would say, oh, there's a kid in that house. Let's go take care of that kid. Some of the Christians would die. They didn't care, because death really, they didn't see death the way that everybody else saw death. As a result, a lot of the people that they nursed, that they nursed came back to health.
[00:22:07] There was a great deal of love and appreciation for Christians who were living in a very different way because they didn't see death different. They saw death differently than everyone else.
[00:22:22] Their behaviors, the way that they understood the world was totally different because they didn't believe that death was what everyone else thought it was. And it wasn't because they just had some philosophical idea about death.
[00:22:37] They literally spent time with Jesus who had died and conquered death. And he said, follow me. This is what's going to happen to you, too. And they were like, I wouldn't believe it except that it happened. So I believe that Jesus was raised from the dead, and so I am now saved from the practical reasons to sin.
[00:23:04] Even this is practical.
[00:23:07] If you believe that Jesus was raised from the dead, if you believe what Christians believe about death, then the things that Jesus said about your sinless life, about your choices that aren't based on fear and greed, and like all the things that you feel like you need to do to protect yourself, you don't see the value in those things anymore.
[00:23:32] And so your behavior is you become a person who's no longer fighting with God.
[00:23:37] You become a person who is aligned with God. That the Christian word for that is righteous. You are right with God because you see the world the way God sees the world. You don't feel like you need to protect yourself using those tools of sin.
[00:23:51] So this is how we come to Jesus. If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. And he says, for it's by believing in your heart. He flips it the second the heart part comes first. It's by believing in your heart that you are made right with God.
[00:24:10] You are now agreeing with God about how things are.
[00:24:14] And it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. Like, I'm living my faith. I'm declaring it.
[00:24:21] This thing that I know to be true in my heart is something that comes out of my speech and my conduct.
[00:24:26] I am literally saved from sin. And by the way, that Word saved. We always talk like Christians talk about being saved, but we don't like often talk about saved from what? And the implication is often saved from hell, which I agree, that's good. But Jesus describes salvation as salvation from sin, from like the absence of fighting with God. He describes all this as either you're allegiant to God or you are distancing. You are separate from God, and what you're saved from is you're saved from fighting with God.
[00:24:57] That's how you're saved. You openly declare.
[00:25:01] You're openly declaring your faith.
[00:25:04] F.F. bruce, a philosopher that I love, he's Scottish and I'm going to read this not in a Scottish accent, but if you think about it in a Scottish accent, it'll sound even more profound.
[00:25:17] He says the philosophy of Plato must be considered on its own merits, apart from the life of Plato. But the Christian gospel is not primarily a code of ethics or a metaphysical system.
[00:25:30] It is first and foremost good news, immediately bound up with history.
[00:25:34] It tells how God entered into history and his great events in the incarnation, the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus. Christianity is radically different from a philosophy driven ethic and even from most religious ethics in that the actual historical event is the thing that we are hanging our hat on. It is the resurrection that tells us we no longer need to use those tools to save ourselves.
[00:26:11] Paul says it this way. 1 Corinthians 15, my favorite chapter in the Bible.
[00:26:18] For several years now.
[00:26:20] He says, I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. I'm letting you know now in the middle of this book, the thing that is the most important thing.
[00:26:31] Everything that I've been told and everything that I've lived I'm sharing with you now.
[00:26:36] So come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden. What does that mean? He says, I'm passing on to you now what is the most important thing here?
[00:26:43] Christ died for our sins, just as the scripture said.
[00:26:48] He was buried and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the scripture said. He was seen by Peter and then by the 12. After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive. You know them like this thing that I'm telling you. You have heard from several people currently, though some of them have died.
[00:27:09] Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles. And last, as though born on the wrong time.
[00:27:16] I saw him too.
[00:27:18] I'm not telling you that this is an idea that Jesus died. I'm telling you that I've seen him, and I'm telling you that a lot of people have seen him. You've known a lot of those people.
[00:27:27] If what I'm saying isn't true, you would know that, like these people aren't just saying that this thing, this isn't like some conspiracy where a bunch of people said, hey, let's make up this wild idea that the Messiah is going to die and be raised again. Which first of all, there was nothing in the Jewish tradition that would have led to that. It was a stumbling block for the Jews. It was absurd.
[00:27:50] But say they did decide to make that up. They were all going to make that up and then die for some lie that literally gave them no benefit at all. Like these early Christians didn't see any personal benefit to this. So that they said this occurred was not based on some conspiracy where they thought they were going to get over on everybody else. They were going to like conquer Rome or whatever.
[00:28:13] That wasn't their experience. That's not what happened. And they stuck with their story.
[00:28:19] So Paul says this thing that I'm telling you that you've heard from a lot of other people. This is central now, this whole chapter. He could focus on the death, he could focus on the burial. He focuses on the resurrection.
[00:28:31] It is the resurrection that was startling and life altering to him. And to all of those first Christians, this next part he says, he doubles down on how essential this is.
[00:28:46] He says, since we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead? Now he's talking to people that might affirm Jesus as Lord, but they wouldn't affirm that he was resurrected. These are people that he's writing to, the church in Corinth. So these are people in the church who are like, yeah, I just can't get behind. I think you are all having a mass hallucination or something. I'm not going to say that you're all liars, but I don't know.
[00:29:17] People don't come back from the dead. That doesn't happen. So I don't believe you.
[00:29:22] Why are some of you saying that?
[00:29:24] He says, for if there is no resurrection from the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised from the dead, then all our preaching is useless. And your faith, you who call Jesus Lord without believing in the resurrection, your faith is useless as well.
[00:29:39] And you are guilty of your sins. In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost. And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.
[00:29:52] Now this is interesting.
[00:29:54] I've actually had people, people that have been coming, people that have come to Horizon in the past, people in my small group who liked and wanted to be a part of church but didn't believe in Jesus at all. And it was interesting and I kind of wondered like what the value was, like what is the value? And what they said was, I love the sensation of being with people. Like the values that the people at this church have are good. I like the family type dynamic, the sense that the thing that I get here out of this. And I thought, yeah, that's good for you, but that's actually not so good for me. Like what you're benefiting from is being a part of a community that's functioning out of a reality that you disagree with.
[00:30:43] And I have to tell you that if I am not going to live forever, then my investments are just as wrong as if I was only going to live for one month.
[00:30:57] I am ordering my life. I am making decisions in my life based on the belief, on the faith, on the hope, on the trust that life extends into forever and that every choice I make matters into forever.
[00:31:19] And if that is not the case, than I am to be pitied.
[00:31:23] Because I could have made other choices that would have been better for me over a 60 year period or 80 year period than the choices that I've made.
[00:31:32] If my hope is on whatever I can gain from myself over a few short years and then this is all over, I could have made choices that would have been more fruitful over that short period of time.
[00:31:46] I could have been wealthier, my family could have been more secure. Like I could have made other choices. I made these choices because I know that every choice I make now to follow him is what leads to the best life possible forever.
[00:32:08] If I'm wrong, then this life that I'm living isn't something that you should respect. You should pity me.
[00:32:18] But then Paul says, but in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.
[00:32:25] He's the first of the greatest harvest of all who died.
[00:32:29] So you see, just as death came into the world through one man, through Adam, now resurrection from the dead has begun through another man.
[00:32:38] This when I, when I come to Jesus, I am coming to him as Lord.
[00:32:44] Not because he's a good man, not just because he has good ideas, but because he has unmade the punishment of death. The end of the line he has shifted what it means to live a good life now, to make choices now that bear fruit into the future.
[00:33:05] When he demonstrated his conquering of death, that death wasn't what I thought death was what all of us see death to be outside of Christ, he changed the way it's reasonable to interact with the world.
[00:33:26] His resurrection made him Lord in an entirely different way than what it meant to be to follow him as Lord beforehand.
[00:33:34] We are not called to be Peter in the Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. We are called to be like Peter in Acts and in first and second Peter. A Peter that saw life is not what I thought it was.
[00:33:51] Come to me, all of you who are weary and heavy laden, and I'll give you rest.
[00:33:59] Father God, I pray that our faith and confidence in you is bold and strong, Lord, that we look around this world and we see all the other options, all the potential ways that we could live life, Lord. And in light of your resurrection, none of them measure up.
[00:34:20] And so, God, we follow you. We come to you. We accept that you are our Lord.
[00:34:25] Lord. We want you to be our Lord because we want both for ourselves and the people around us, the best lives possible.
[00:34:31] We want what you have to offer.
[00:34:34] God. We submit to you because you are the one that has defeated sin and death.
[00:34:40] We love you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
