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SPEAKER_02: Oh, foolish relations.
SPEAKER_02: Who has bewith you?
SPEAKER_02: It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as a crucifixion.
SPEAKER_02: Let me ask you only this.
SPEAKER_02: Did you receive the spirit by works of the law or by hearing the faith?
SPEAKER_02: Are you so foolish?
SPEAKER_02: Having begun by the spirit, are you not being perfected by the flesh?
SPEAKER_02: Did you serve so many things in vain?
SPEAKER_02: If you do not see what the spirit you are fearful to money, do so by works of the law or by fears of faith.
SPEAKER_02: Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness.
SPEAKER_02: Know then that it is that it is those of faith who are sons of Abraham.
SPEAKER_02: And the scripture, for seeing that God would justify the children by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, In you shall all the nations be blessed.
SPEAKER_02: So then those who are of faith are blessed alone with Abraham, a man who all they rely on works of the law are under you curse.
SPEAKER_02: For it is written, Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law and do them.
SPEAKER_02: Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law.
SPEAKER_02: For the righteous shall live by faith.
SPEAKER_02: The law is not a faith.
SPEAKER_02: Rather, the one who does them shall live by them.
SPEAKER_02: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Lord by the coming and curse for us.
SPEAKER_02: For it is written, curse is everyone who is hanged on a tree.
SPEAKER_02: So that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promise of Spirit through the faith.
SPEAKER_02: The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Heavenly Father, we now come to hear you speak to us through your word.
SPEAKER_01: Father, I just pray that any distractions from this week, whether good or bad, or just fall away.
SPEAKER_01: Father, it's hard not to feel like we live in a world of chaos, we live in a world of pain and turmoil.
SPEAKER_01: Father, help us just to come to you now and lay all our burdens at your feet.
SPEAKER_01: And praise in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_01: Please be seated.
SPEAKER_01: So three weeks ago, Creden asked me to title the three sermons I'd be preaching during his vacation when we got back.
SPEAKER_01: The last one's today.
SPEAKER_01: So you may notice it says a tale of two cities.
SPEAKER_01: You can just scratch that out.
SPEAKER_01: That was me trying to be fancy and it's not going to work today.
SPEAKER_01: So just scratch that look at the quick notes.
SPEAKER_01: And the title is How to Live a Gospel Life.
SPEAKER_01: How do we do that?
SPEAKER_01: We hear week in, week out, me and Creighton are always saying, You need to follow, you need to believe in the gospel, you need to believe in Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: But what does that mean practically?
SPEAKER_01: How do we do that practically?
SPEAKER_01: We talk about this plain truth, this truth that Jesus died on the cross and he rose again.
SPEAKER_01: We need to believe in that.
SPEAKER_01: And then we say that it needs it transforms our life.
SPEAKER_01: But how does that happen?
SPEAKER_01: We talk a lot about it.
SPEAKER_01: Last week we talked, we looked at the text in Galatians where Paul says you're justified by faith.
SPEAKER_01: It's a very profound text.
SPEAKER_01: It's a great text to meditate on constantly, especially verse 16.
SPEAKER_01: And what does that mean though for us?
SPEAKER_01: You might be thinking, um, Matt, I believe I am justified by faith.
SPEAKER_01: I believe that I am truly a child of God.
SPEAKER_01: But sin keeps popping up in my life.
SPEAKER_01: It keeps happening.
SPEAKER_01: I keep feeling like I'm burdened by this sin that keeps happening in my life, no matter how hard I try.
SPEAKER_01: You may also think, well, isn't striving to get sin out of my life, to stop doing these things, isn't that, in a sense, following a certain law?
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that law?
SPEAKER_01: You guys have been saying for the past couple of weeks that you don't follow the law, you believe in Jesus by faith.
SPEAKER_01: What does this law have to do with anything?
SPEAKER_01: I feel like I'm living a law trying to get rid of these sins.
SPEAKER_01: I feel burdened by it.
SPEAKER_01: And you also might be thinking, how do I become more like Christ?
SPEAKER_01: How do I live a righteous life that it says in this text?
SPEAKER_01: Don't I need to speak good?
SPEAKER_01: But how do I do that?
SPEAKER_01: How do I do that?
SPEAKER_01: Well, the Galatian church, in a sense, is struggling with these same questions.
SPEAKER_01: And that's why Paul is writing this letter to them because he was there earlier and he showed them the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: He told them about the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: They believed in the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: But then he left to continue on his missionary journey, and then some other teachers came in and started teaching that yes, you need to believe that Jesus died and rose again.
SPEAKER_01: But you also need to do these other things to be right with God.
SPEAKER_01: You need to follow the law, the Mosaic law that was given to Moses.
SPEAKER_01: So that's why Paul is writing this, because there's such a time now that they're starting to turn away from the simple truth of the gospel and follow these Jewish laws in order that they feel like they can be right with God.
SPEAKER_01: So that's what's going on in the church.
SPEAKER_01: That's why Paul is writing this letter to them.
SPEAKER_01: And that's also something in our own lives.
SPEAKER_01: We try, we make these laws where we feel like that if we just follow them, then we'll be right with God.
SPEAKER_01: God will accept us.
SPEAKER_01: So let's look at the text.
SPEAKER_01: So Galatians chapter 3, verses 1 to 14.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't have a timer because we're using it to record, so this might be a very long sermon.
SPEAKER_01: Or a short one, let's see.
SPEAKER_01: So Galatians chapter 3, verses 1 to 14, and we're gonna look at it in three points.
SPEAKER_01: And the first point is gospel focused, the second point is gospel centered, and the third point is gospel freedom, all in the sense of how to live a gospel life.
SPEAKER_01: That's how we're gonna look at it.
SPEAKER_01: So point one, gospel focus, verses 1 to 15, and we're gonna start with verse 1.
SPEAKER_01: Oh foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?
SPEAKER_01: Now just pause here.
SPEAKER_01: What is why is Paul talking like this?
SPEAKER_01: He last week he said Gentile sinners, and that seemed really intense.
SPEAKER_01: Paul seems to be very blunt in this letter.
SPEAKER_01: That's something I personally appreciate, because I'm kind of a blunt person.
SPEAKER_01: And he's very blunt, he gets right to the point.
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't skirt around the issue or anything, he goes right for it.
SPEAKER_01: And a way to that we can um we can look at this uh text and think about why is he saying, oh, foolish Galatians, who's bewitched you?
SPEAKER_01: Um I haven't uh had a teenager yet, um, but I'm sure many of you have, and there's a time when teenagers act out, and there's points I'm sure as a parent you think about like who has bewitched you?
SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
SPEAKER_01: Why are you being so foolish?
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure my mom could say a lot of that and reflect on that.
SPEAKER_01: There's something he cares so deeply about this church, the people of Galicia, that he's writing to them saying, What are you doing?
SPEAKER_01: Why are you being so foolish?
SPEAKER_01: And he uses the language that they're being so foolish, it seems like someone has cast a spell over them, that they're like they have been bewitched, that they're acting like they're just going off the rails.
SPEAKER_01: Why is this happening?
SPEAKER_01: Because he cares so much.
SPEAKER_01: And Paul is using this rhetorical skill that he has.
SPEAKER_01: If you read his letters, you notice that he is a great speaker, he is a great writer, that the way he asks questions, the way he uses certain things to make people think about certain things, is he has great rhetorical skill.
SPEAKER_01: It'd be like um, and they cast, and think about this spell, this idea of a spell that's being cast over them.
SPEAKER_01: It's almost like when a famous person walks into a room, there's this aura about them.
SPEAKER_01: Or someone who you really respect and look up to in your life.
SPEAKER_01: You finally meet them, and there's this aura, and you feel this almost bewitched about this aura about them.
SPEAKER_01: That's what's going on here.
SPEAKER_01: These people that came, these Judaizers, would probably be better speakers than Paul.
SPEAKER_01: They probably would have looked more the part than Paul looked, but what he proclaimed.
SPEAKER_01: They probably would have talked a certain way, used certain words to elevate themselves in a certain way.
SPEAKER_01: And then they taught a salvation plus works gospel.
SPEAKER_01: Now, this is something that you, if you they probably thought, oh, we can get our hands dirty of this.
SPEAKER_01: This is something that we can do for ourselves.
SPEAKER_01: It gives you this practical thing.
SPEAKER_01: It's practical, it's physical.
SPEAKER_01: That's probably what's going on here.
SPEAKER_01: But Paul taught a completely different gospel than this.
SPEAKER_01: He taught a gospel of justified by faith, the gospel of freedom.
SPEAKER_01: So that's what's going on in his text.
SPEAKER_01: That these that the Galatian church are becoming bewitched, they've started to go away, this spell has been cast over them in a sense, and then that's what went on.
SPEAKER_01: That's why Paul is writing.
SPEAKER_01: And we see in the second part of verse 1, he says, It was before your eyes that Jesus was publicly portrayed as crucified.
SPEAKER_01: So Paul's recalling about this time when he was there, and he proclaimed Christ crucified so vividly to them that they could say, in the sense, that we were there.
SPEAKER_01: We saw Christ crucified.
SPEAKER_01: I know it's real.
SPEAKER_01: He's reminding them of that.
SPEAKER_01: And that's Paul's goal when you read his letters, is that his one aim in life is to proclaim Christ crucified.
SPEAKER_01: And that's a great thing for us to remember when we share the gospel with people.
SPEAKER_01: It's not about all this other stuff that's going on, it's about the simple truth that Christ died on the cross for you and me and for all in this world, and that they need to hear this great truth of the crucified Lord and Savior of our lives.
SPEAKER_01: That is what's going on, that's what Paul is reminding them of.
SPEAKER_01: It's like when you think of this vividness that Paul is talking about.
SPEAKER_01: When you read about paintings or history in books, and then you finally go to the place, and it's so much more vivid.
SPEAKER_01: That's what he's talking about.
SPEAKER_01: Creighton and Rachel were just in Germany.
SPEAKER_01: I know they're history buffs, and they were reading a lot about Germany before they went, especially in World War II, so I'm sure it was very way more vivid to them as they went.
SPEAKER_01: And we all can relate to this in some sense.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe we love paintings and we finally see the painting in person.
SPEAKER_01: It's so vivid to us.
SPEAKER_01: That's what Paul is talking about here.
SPEAKER_01: And for those who call themselves followers of Jesus, this needs to be our main focus: Christ crucified.
SPEAKER_01: Our only hope in life and death is Christ alone and nothing else.
SPEAKER_01: That is our hope, that is our aim in life, and that is the gospel that Jesus Christ is our hope and savior in life and death.
SPEAKER_01: And Paul continues his rhetorical skill by posing a question for them by two different perspectives.
SPEAKER_01: This is what he says in verses 2 to 5.
SPEAKER_01: Let me ask you only this.
SPEAKER_01: Did you receive the Spirit by works in the law or by hearing it with faith?
SPEAKER_01: Are you so foolish?
SPEAKER_01: Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
SPEAKER_01: Did you suffer so many things in vain, if indeed it was in vain?
SPEAKER_01: Does he, that's God, who supplies the spirit to you and works miracles among you, do so by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
SPEAKER_01: So the questions he's asking, is it you or the spirit that leads you in life?
SPEAKER_01: That works your spirit, that works out that works things out in your life?
SPEAKER_01: Or he's asking, did God give you the spirit or did you earn it?
SPEAKER_01: Have you taken your eyes off the cross?
SPEAKER_01: So what Paul is talking about here is that when you become justified by faith, it doesn't end there.
SPEAKER_01: Your life continues on.
SPEAKER_01: You don't just camp out in that one thing, you continue on.
SPEAKER_01: But this life that we live, a justified life by faith, is a life of continually surrendering to that great moment.
SPEAKER_01: The great moment when we come to faith.
SPEAKER_01: Is that we surrender to that justification by faith and we bring it into all areas of our life.
SPEAKER_01: So what's going on here is that the Galatian church are starting to use the law to justify themselves.
SPEAKER_01: They're forgetting about that great truth, the simple truth when they came to faith.
SPEAKER_01: And it's something that we can do in our own lives.
SPEAKER_01: We can make these laws that we think about, that we think if we just do them, we'll get right with God.
SPEAKER_01: So there's these, there's this dynamic, there's this tension between law and grace that's going on here.
SPEAKER_01: And they're wrestling against each other.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what the people who come in are doing to this church, that they're twisting their gospel, they're making them forget about the simple truth that it's just about being justified, laying your life down to Christ.
SPEAKER_01: And then it continues.
SPEAKER_01: So gospel focused.
SPEAKER_01: Keep your eyes on the cross.
SPEAKER_01: That is how you live a gospel life.
SPEAKER_01: Keep your eyes on the cross.
SPEAKER_01: Second point, gospel centered.
SPEAKER_01: Verses 6 to 9.
SPEAKER_01: Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
SPEAKER_01: And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.
SPEAKER_01: So then those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
SPEAKER_01: And you might be thinking, well, why bring up Abraham?
SPEAKER_01: That was so long ago.
SPEAKER_01: Why are we bringing him up?
SPEAKER_01: Well, Creighton's going to talk more about him next week because the text lays it out.
SPEAKER_01: But just to talk briefly about it, Paul is doing a very clever thing here.
SPEAKER_01: He's using his rhetorical skill, and he's going right after the Judaizers here, who they hold to the law.
SPEAKER_01: And the thing about the law is that it came 400 plus years later, after Abraham.
SPEAKER_01: So Paul's, in a sense, is going right to the source.
SPEAKER_01: He's reminding them of where did you come from?
SPEAKER_01: And he goes right to Abraham because Abraham is considered the father of the Israel people.
SPEAKER_01: He goes right to the source.
SPEAKER_01: And the thing about Abraham, the story of Abraham, is that he was called out of Earth.
SPEAKER_01: Abraham was actually a pagan.
SPEAKER_01: And he was called out by God.
SPEAKER_01: God appeared to him.
SPEAKER_01: And God made these promises to him.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just going to read chapter, Genesis chapter 15, verses, I believe, 5 to 6.
SPEAKER_01: Because it is a great moment in the text.
SPEAKER_01: And this is what he's referring to.
SPEAKER_01: This is what he says.
SPEAKER_01: So he's reminding them of this moment when God is interacting with Abraham, of this great promise that God gives to him.
SPEAKER_01: And the thing that's going on here is that Abraham wants an heir, and he hasn't had it yet.
SPEAKER_01: And him and his wife are becoming very old.
SPEAKER_01: So he's getting worried.
SPEAKER_01: And God keeps promising, making these promises to him.
SPEAKER_01: And this is the promise.
SPEAKER_01: He reminds him of the promise that he made.
SPEAKER_01: And this is what he does.
SPEAKER_01: So Abraham says, or God says, This man shall not be your heir, because Abraham is talking about someone in this household that it's not his bloodline, not his offspring.
SPEAKER_01: Your very own shall be your heir.
SPEAKER_01: And God brought him outside and said, Look towards heaven and number the stars.
SPEAKER_01: If you are able to number them, then he said to him, So shall your offspring be.
SPEAKER_01: And Abraham believed, believed the Lord, and it was counted to him as righteousness.
SPEAKER_01: So what Paul is doing here is that he's reminding them of this moment.
SPEAKER_01: Way back at the beginning in the Old Testament, Abraham, the father of Israel, was counted justified by faith.
SPEAKER_01: He was justified by faith before any of the law came in.
SPEAKER_01: He's reminding them that the gospel isn't just a New Testament, this new thing that happened later on.
SPEAKER_01: Is that the gospel has been proclaimed, has been taught all through the Bible, all through the Old Testament text, since the beginning, since Genesis 3, the gospel comes into play.
SPEAKER_01: And he's reminding them of that.
SPEAKER_01: He's showing that the people who are teaching the law, that grace plus works, is false.
SPEAKER_01: Is that they're teaching a thing that is later on after the righteousness by faith.
SPEAKER_01: That is what we need to remember, and that's what he's trying to remind them here.
SPEAKER_01: All nations, not just Israel, will be blessed through Abraham.
SPEAKER_01: Those who are faith.
SPEAKER_01: And the thing that you have to remember here is that he believed in God, not just of God.
SPEAKER_01: There's a big difference there.
SPEAKER_01: He believed in the promises of God.
SPEAKER_01: He remembered the promises.
SPEAKER_01: And that's for us, is that, and he's reminding them here in Galatians, is that you need to remember, you need to believe in the promise of the cross.
SPEAKER_01: The cross that was publicly portrayed to you of Jesus Christ crucified.
SPEAKER_01: You need to remember in that promise of why he went there, why he went to the cross.
SPEAKER_01: And that was so you could be saved by faith.
SPEAKER_01: It's a great promise.
SPEAKER_01: It's nothing that we can do on our own.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what he's showing them here.
SPEAKER_01: But you might be thinking, what does this have to do with gospel-centered?
SPEAKER_01: Well, as I said, is that to live a gospel-centered life is to live a life holding to the promises of God, holding to the promises of the Old Testament and the New Testament, that they all come together.
SPEAKER_01: And this is why we need to read and study the Old Testament together and on our own.
SPEAKER_01: That we shouldn't just read the New Testament.
SPEAKER_01: We need to read the entire Bible.
SPEAKER_01: Because it has this line, this thread running through it, of great hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_01: The redemptive story of the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: And this is why Paul is doing it.
SPEAKER_01: He shows that Abraham was justified by faith and not by the law.
SPEAKER_01: And then Paul continues his argument to them.
SPEAKER_01: So we need to think about to live a gospel life is needed a gospel-focused life on the cross, a gospel-centered life, having our life centered on the promises of God, and then through that that leads to gospel freedom.
SPEAKER_01: Verses 10 to 14.
SPEAKER_01: For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law and do them.
SPEAKER_01: Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law.
SPEAKER_01: For the righteous shall live by faith, but the law is not of faith, rather, the one who does them shall live by them.
SPEAKER_01: Christ redeemed us from the law, or from the curse of the law, by becoming a curse for us.
SPEAKER_01: For it is written, Curse is everyone who is hanged on a tree, so that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to go to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised spirit through faith.
SPEAKER_01: You notice the four.
SPEAKER_01: So when you see four or now or therefore in the text, it means that this is a very defining moment in the scripture that we need to really focus in on.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what Paul writes here.
SPEAKER_01: So Paul quotes Deuteronomy chapter 27, 26, where it says, Curse be anyone who does not confirm the words of the law by doing them.
SPEAKER_01: And then he quotes Leviticus chapter 18, 5.
SPEAKER_01: So what Paul is talking about here, he's showing them that this law that God brought into the picture in Exodus is something that cannot be done.
SPEAKER_01: It cannot be achieved on your own merit.
SPEAKER_01: That the whole point of the law was to make them depend on God for their salvation, being right with God.
SPEAKER_01: But then they started to strive by the law, and then if you continue on in the Old Testament, you see how that plays out, which is not great.
SPEAKER_01: So what Paul is showing here is that you can never be made right by the law.
SPEAKER_01: It puts you under a curse.
SPEAKER_01: You become cursed by the law if you only try to follow it, and your heart is not toward the Lord, not given wholly over to the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: And another spot in Deuteronomy, it says that anyone who does not follow the law to a T faces a divine rejection.
SPEAKER_01: That's what it talks about, or a divine curse.
SPEAKER_01: So after someone really does not follow the law.
SPEAKER_01: While it does something extremely bad, the people of Israel were meant to stone them to death, and then to show this image of divine rejection, they would hang them on a tree outside to remind people of what happens if you don't follow the law to a T.
SPEAKER_01: They became very serious about it, and that's what's in the law.
SPEAKER_01: So that's why it says here that Jesus took that curse, the curse of the law, that we can never do, and put it on himself.
SPEAKER_01: He took our curse and put it on himself, and that he was hanged on a tree.
SPEAKER_01: That's what Paul is alluding to here, that he was on the cross, wood.
SPEAKER_01: He was hanged on a tree.
SPEAKER_01: So what happens is that Jesus took our curse upon himself and hung from the tree, hung from the cross.
SPEAKER_01: That's why, and he experienced this divine rejection.
SPEAKER_01: That's why he yells out, Why have you forsaken me, my Lord?
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: And he did that for you, for me, and for all who put their faith in him.
SPEAKER_01: That is the gospel message.
SPEAKER_01: That is the great truth that anyone who believes in Jesus is no longer under the curse, but that they are justified by life.
SPEAKER_01: They're justified by faith.
SPEAKER_01: Now you might be thinking, how does the gospel, how does this tell me how to live the good life or live the gospel life?
SPEAKER_01: Well, you so the gospel focus is on the cross, gospel center on the promises of God, and your gospel freedom is when you truly put your faith and trust in that great hope of the cross, that you are free from the law.
SPEAKER_01: You're no longer under the curse of the law.
SPEAKER_01: See, when you're justified by faith, you're instantly made right with God, and His Spirit enters you.
SPEAKER_01: That is the moment you're justified.
SPEAKER_01: But the Christian life is a pilgrimage.
SPEAKER_01: It continues on.
SPEAKER_01: As we live this life following Jesus, taking up our cross, is that when we get through these parts in our life where we where we experience sin or these recurring things in our life that we know we shouldn't do keeps happening, and we feel totally burdened by them.
SPEAKER_01: Is that we take the gospel that you're justified by faith, and we apply them to all the areas of our life.
SPEAKER_01: Is that we no longer try to strive to stop doing them?
SPEAKER_01: Is that when but when we take the gospel that we are justified by faith and put into these areas, we remind ourselves is that I don't need to strive to do this.
SPEAKER_01: I just need that the gospel to come into my life more and more and to be transformed by the gospel more and more.
SPEAKER_01: When sin pops up, we need to ask God to show us what haven't we surrendered to Jesus?
SPEAKER_01: What are we holding on to?
SPEAKER_01: What we need to apply the gospel to that.
SPEAKER_01: Anything that takes our eyes off the cross, that no longer makes us gospel focused, we need to lay at the feet of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Anything we strive to fix on our own will lead to bitterness.
SPEAKER_01: It leads to bitterness, insecurity, jealousy, but gospel living sets you free from all that.
SPEAKER_01: When you know that you can't do it on your own, that it is only through the work of the Spirit within you that does it for you.
SPEAKER_01: That's the great truth, and that is how you live a gospel life.
SPEAKER_01: And we bring that to all areas of our lives, to our work, to our family, to our identities, that we are set free, we are justified by faith.
SPEAKER_01: That is the great truth of the gospel.
SPEAKER_01: That the gospel transforms all areas of our lives as we let it come into our lives more and more and stop striving to make ourselves right with God.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what Paul is talking to the Galatian church here.
SPEAKER_01: Is that he keeps reminding them that it is not by the works of the law, even if it makes you feel good about yourself, it is just about trusting in the cross of Jesus Christ, Christ crucified.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what he reminds them of.
SPEAKER_01: Let's pray.
SPEAKER_01: Heavenly Father, we thank you for the great truth of the cross.
SPEAKER_01: We thank you for the great truth of Christ Jesus crucified, Lord.
SPEAKER_01: And Father, we ask you as we continue this pilgrimage of this Christian walk, that your gospel would grip our hearts more and more deeply, that your gospel would transform all the areas of our life, that even the areas that we hold on to so dearly that we think will make us right with you.
SPEAKER_01: Help us to let go of that Lord as we trust in the finished word of the cross.
SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
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