SPEAKER_00: And our gospel reading this morning is Matthew 14, verses 22 to 33.
SPEAKER_00: Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
SPEAKER_00: And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray.
SPEAKER_00: When evening came, he was there alone.
SPEAKER_00: But the boat by this time was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves, for the wind was against them.
SPEAKER_00: And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them walking on the sea.
SPEAKER_00: But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, It is a ghost, and they cried out in fear.
SPEAKER_00: But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, Take heart, it is I.
SPEAKER_00: Do not be afraid.
SPEAKER_00: And Peter answered him, Lord, if it is you, command me to come out to you on the water.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Come.
SPEAKER_00: So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: But when he saw the wind, he was afraid.
SPEAKER_00: And beginning to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt?
SPEAKER_00: And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased, and those in the boat worshipped him, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.
SPEAKER_00: The word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
SPEAKER_00: And friends, let us confess our faith in the ancient words of the Apostles' Creed.
SPEAKER_00: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
SPEAKER_00: I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
SPEAKER_00: He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
SPEAKER_00: He descended to the dead.
SPEAKER_00: On the third day he rose again, he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
SPEAKER_00: He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
SPEAKER_00: I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: And saints, let us pray.
SPEAKER_00: Almighty God, give us the increase of faith, hope, and love, that we may obtain what you have promised.
SPEAKER_00: Make us love what you command through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: So every four years, I probably like many of us gathered this morning, get caught up in Olympic fever.
SPEAKER_00: I suppose it's every two years, so we alternate between Summer and Winter Olympics.
SPEAKER_00: And well, let's be honest, the Winter Olympics matter more to us as Canadians, don't they?
SPEAKER_00: But the Summer Olympics, there's one event in particular that always captures my imagination, and that event is the 100 meter dash.
SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you why it captures my attention.
SPEAKER_00: It's because I think about for every single second, and it is seconds that we're talking about.
SPEAKER_00: The record for the 100 meter dash, you might know, is held by Usain Bolt, and it's 9.58 seconds.
SPEAKER_00: Think for each and every second on that track, there are hundreds and thousands of hours of training and equipping, right?
SPEAKER_00: Doing reps, running laps, dieting, doing breathing exercises.
SPEAKER_00: Think of the countless hours spent disciplining and training your body for this single moment in time where you're going to run less than 10 seconds for the sake of your country in pursuit of winning the gold.
SPEAKER_00: Now let me set up a bit of a silly scenario for us, but it's a scenario with a purpose here.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine that you and I are sitting shoulder to shoulder in the front row at the 100-meter dash, and we're ready to watch these trained Olympic athletes get ready to do that 100-meter dash and within a matter of seconds go for the glory.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine we hear the pistol shot echo and we watch all of the Olympic athletes start working on their breathing technique.
SPEAKER_00: And the coaches take the field and they go, What are you doing?
SPEAKER_00: Well, and and and the athletes to some degree rightly say, Well, I'm not going to win this race unless my breathing is perfect.
SPEAKER_00: I've got to get my breathing right, and then we can go for that.
SPEAKER_00: Imagine in frustration, the Canadian coach turns to you and I sitting in the stands and waves us in and points us towards the finish line.
SPEAKER_00: And so here we go, taking off at our at our best pace, which for me is a brisk jog.
SPEAKER_00: And now we've surpassed the trained Olympic athletes, so to speak, and we cross the finish line together, and in pursuit of the gold, we we've we win and we win the glory as it goes.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is a silly scenario, it's true, but I want to illustrate something of the sheer outrageousness and just the unexpected nature of what Paul is getting at in our Romans reading today.
SPEAKER_00: Paul says that Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it.
SPEAKER_00: That is a righteousness by faith, and that's a very important phrase for Paul, righteousness by faith.
SPEAKER_00: Jews who didn't pursue righteousness have attained it.
SPEAKER_00: But Israel, who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness, did not succeed in reaching the law.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.
SPEAKER_00: So here we are back at the back at the track.
SPEAKER_00: We know that the end of this race, it is all about who crosses that finish line.
SPEAKER_00: That finish line is the end and purpose of why we're gathered.
SPEAKER_00: The breathing exercises, the training, everything else that goes in preparation is for, is only contributed towards that singular goal of crossing the finish line.
SPEAKER_00: And if we confuse what trains us with what the end goal, purpose, result is, then we miss it entirely.
SPEAKER_00: The Gentiles who were not God's covenant people in the Old Testament have attained a righteousness, a right standing with God by faith in a way that Israel got so caught up on the ins and outs of God's commands and statutes and law, they've confused the training with the pursuit itself.
SPEAKER_00: And what Paul wants these Roman Christians to know is what Paul wants us to know today.
SPEAKER_00: That the pursuit of righteousness is the pursuit of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: The pursuit of righteousness is the pursuit of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And that's an important thing for us to know today.
SPEAKER_00: Because, like Israel in the Old Testament, I think from time to time, maybe with more frequency than we'd like to admit, we slip into a works-based thinking, a training-based thinking that says I need to do the right things that God demands if I want to get the goods, if I want to get the glory, if I want to get what's promised, I gotta work on the front end to do my part, right?
SPEAKER_00: We set up a transactional relationship with God, where if we do our part, God's going to do his.
SPEAKER_00: And what Paul sees, uh, the the fault that Paul sees with his people, Israel, is that they did not pursue the law in accordance with the heart that God was calling them to have: a heart of faith, a heart of trust.
SPEAKER_00: So if we want to know what it means to be, to have a right standing with God and to faithfully pursue righteousness, this is an important text for us to wrestle with this morning, because the pursuit of righteousness is the pursuit of Christ, not by works, so that no one can boast, but it's a free gift of God through Christ.
SPEAKER_00: So we've been going through Romans.
SPEAKER_00: We picked up at chapter five, we look back at the first four foundational verses.
SPEAKER_00: Chapter one begins by recognizing that God has revealed his righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel is the revealing of God's righteousness for the Jew and for the Gentile alike, and that's ultimately good news.
SPEAKER_00: But what precedes the good news is the difficult diagnosis.
SPEAKER_00: The diagnosis is that we are all of us sinners, Gentile, that is non-Jew, and Jew alike.
SPEAKER_00: Within, without the covenant community of God, we all stand as sinners in need of redemption.
SPEAKER_00: All have fallen short of the glory of God.
SPEAKER_00: We all need redemption.
SPEAKER_00: But Paul describes the gospel as he describes the gospel as the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first, to the Gentile as well, to the Greek, to the non-Jew.
SPEAKER_00: In it the righteousness of God is revealed for faith to faith.
SPEAKER_00: Now these are these are words that we don't use often.
SPEAKER_00: We we don't think along these lines because, well, because the controversy of Paul's time isn't necessarily the controversy of our time.
SPEAKER_00: Here you have a church that's grappling with a new identity, being having been primarily a uh a Jewish uh uh uh uh work of the Spirit, a renewal, so to speak, um, of God's covenant people.
SPEAKER_00: Now this is a primarily Gentile community gathering in Rome, and Jews are starting to gather with them, and they've got to grapple with this question of is God's salvation coming through his covenant people that he's been working with from generation after generation?
SPEAKER_00: It seems like he's doing something new and something remarkable.
SPEAKER_00: So now we've got to grapple with the question of where does the law factor into all of this?
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: How do we get on a right standing with God?
SPEAKER_00: And Paul wants us to know that Jew and Gentile alike, whatever our birthright is, we all come to righteousness, right standing with God on the basis of our trust in Him.
SPEAKER_00: And that's why the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.
SPEAKER_00: It's in the context of trusting God and surrendering ourselves to him that we find a right standing with him, not by works.
SPEAKER_00: That's an important thing for us to grapple with because, like I say, I think from time to time we slip into works-based thinking.
SPEAKER_00: It can be insidious, it can be sneaky, it can, it can sneak up on us.
SPEAKER_00: One of my professors in college, he he talks about a friend of his who uh who works a uh you know a middle-of-the-road job, and and and what he does is he saves each and every penny through the whole year.
SPEAKER_00: He saves each and every penny and puts away in the bank so that he can take one week of vacation and head straight to Vegas.
SPEAKER_00: And he gets a hotel and he spends 14 hours at the casino, because you only have to make it big once to have made it, right?
SPEAKER_00: And he's going to spend each and every penny he saved at the casino in the hopes that he is going to hit the jackpot.
SPEAKER_00: But before he hits the casino, he heads to mass.
SPEAKER_00: He heads to mass at 7 a.m.
SPEAKER_00: each and every morning down the street so that by so that at 7 he can he can come to the table and at 7.30 he can be at the casino.
SPEAKER_00: And my professor, who turns out to be an Anglican, so he's got that going for him, um, my professor asks his friend, he goes, Why do you do that?
SPEAKER_00: And his friend says to him, Well, I go to Mass because I want to get on good, God's good side, right?
SPEAKER_00: If I'm gonna hit it big, it's gonna be because, you know, God has God has something good going for me.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's an interesting thought, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00: He's going to a worship service because ultimately he's interested in what God can give him, what he can get out of this very transactional relationship, right?
SPEAKER_00: We see what's going on.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give God a little so that I can get a little bit from that.
SPEAKER_00: It seems to be pretty intuitive.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, sometimes we might think, isn't that the way religion is set up?
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that why we come to church each and every Sunday?
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna give God a little bit of what of the attention that he wants so that we can maybe get some blessings and prosperity out of that.
SPEAKER_00: Even you know, this is an easy assumption to make at a face value reading of some of the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_00: And Paul quotes Leviticus chapter 18 when he writes in in chapter 10, verse 5, Moses writes about the righteousness based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
SPEAKER_00: Do the commandments, get a good life.
SPEAKER_00: That seems to be the face value reading, right?
SPEAKER_00: Show up at church, God's gonna get, you know, God's gonna have some blessings for me, so to speak.
SPEAKER_00: Now, Leviticus 18 is in the context of laying out uh what covenant uh what what um uh holy sexuality is in the midst of God's um covenant identity with his people, and it's calling his people to an unlikeness, a holiness from the pagan nations around them who are slaves to sin and uh and corruption.
SPEAKER_00: The promise here is follow the statutes and rules, put them into practice, and you'll flourish.
SPEAKER_00: But there's a difference between an outward obedience and an inward obedience.
SPEAKER_00: It's the outward obedience that Israel gets hung up on.
SPEAKER_00: If I perform these things, that I'm gonna get these good things out of it when God is calling the heart of his people into a renewed, transformed relationship with him.
SPEAKER_00: It's not simply the exteriors, it's your heart that I want to consecrate.
SPEAKER_00: It's your heart that I want to renew, so that from your heart your good deeds would follow that.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe we can think about the epistle of James, that faith without good works is dead.
SPEAKER_00: But good works are the outworking of a very lively faith.
SPEAKER_00: So we might assume if I do good things, God's gonna give me good things, but that's only an exterior obedience, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00: That's only us performing the things we think we want, so that God can perform the things we want him to do.
SPEAKER_00: God is calling us into a renewed heart-level relationship with him.
SPEAKER_00: Because if we get hung up on the exteriors, we're only gonna end up tripping over the law, which is exactly what Paul says that Israel has done.
SPEAKER_00: And in chapter 9, verse 32, he quotes from both Isaiah 8 and Isaiah 28 to say this: that Israel did not pursue the law by faith, but as if it were based on works.
SPEAKER_00: They've stumbled over a stumbling stone, as it's written, Behold, I'm laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and whoever believes in him should not be put to shame.
SPEAKER_00: Isaiah's prophecy comes in the midst of a warning about an incoming invasion from Assyria, this ancient Near Eastern superpower, as an as judgment against Israel's corruption and apostasy.
SPEAKER_00: God is calling Israel into a renewed relationship through repentance and through obedience, but not just an exterior obedience that pays lip service, a renewed heart that seeks after God's righteousness, that pursues God's righteousness, not just in the exteriors, but in the internals as well.
SPEAKER_00: And it's this inward pursuit that ultimately leads the way towards a renewed covenant faithfulness, a renewed humanity that Paul is talking about right here in Romans.
SPEAKER_00: So that's why Paul can go on to quote from Deuteronomy chapter 30 and chapter 10, verse 6, and he can say that the righteousness based on faith says, do not say in your heart who will ascend to heaven, that is to bring Christ down, or who will descend into the abyss, that is to bring Christ up from the dead.
SPEAKER_00: But what does it say?
SPEAKER_00: The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that is the word of faith that we proclaim.
SPEAKER_00: Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
SPEAKER_00: What's Paul saying here?
SPEAKER_00: He's saying there's a difference between external obedience, an obedience of righteousness according to the law, so to speak, and that's righteousness and scare quotes here.
SPEAKER_00: A self-righteousness, a self-earned righteousness, and the righteousness that comes from placing our trust in God, who earns that on our behalf.
SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy chapter 30 is Moses' last sermon to the people of Israel, reminding them of God's covenant faithfulness, that from that through their generations, since their exodus from Egypt, God has remained faithful to them and calls them into a faithful and renewed relationship with Him so that they can experience the flourishing and abundance of the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: And in Deuteronomy chapter 29, Moses reminds the people that there will be consequences for disobedience, because God is the source of your life, and if you choose disobedience, you choose curse, you choose death, so choose life.
SPEAKER_00: But Moses reminds the people that the word is not at a distance, so that you strive after it, so that you work hard after it, so that you take a tally of each and every individual command.
SPEAKER_00: No, this is a law that's going to renew your heart, such that from the inside out you pursue him with faithfulness, with renewed covenant, faithfulness, and obedience.
SPEAKER_00: Friends, this is something that Paul himself knows quite well.
SPEAKER_00: He testifies in his letter to the Philippians a bit of his own personal testimony, which is always fun.
SPEAKER_00: I was, isn't it great to just have someone up and share their testimony?
SPEAKER_00: This is kind of like Paul just giving witness from his story, and it's a remarkable story at that.
SPEAKER_00: Let me flip over to Philippians chapter three here.
SPEAKER_00: Paul witnesses to his own story in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: He says this if anyone has any reason for confidence in the flesh, if anyone has any thinks they have any confidence of righteousness based on your birthright, based on being part of the people of Israel, I have more, is what Paul says.
SPEAKER_00: I was circumcised on the eighth day.
SPEAKER_00: I'm of the people of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews.
SPEAKER_00: As to the law of Pharisee, I'm as uh enthusiastic as it gets, as to zeal, a persecutor of the church, I did what I thought I had to do to uphold God's righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: And as to righteousness under the law, blameless is what he says.
SPEAKER_00: In terms of external obedience, I had a spot-free record.
SPEAKER_00: I nailed it, is what Paul's saying.
SPEAKER_00: But listen to what he says: whatever gain I had, whatever gain I thought I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: This is what Paul's saying to the Romans.
SPEAKER_00: The word of God, the law that you pursue, the external obedience is not far from you as though you've got to run and chase and strive after it.
SPEAKER_00: If we think we do that, it's as though we're chasing after the goal, pursuing the finish line with our shoelaces tied.
SPEAKER_00: No, Paul is saying that the goal, the end, the righteousness, who is Christ Himself in chapter 10, verse 4, has come to us.
SPEAKER_00: He's drawn near to our hearts and to our mouths.
SPEAKER_00: He's made himself known to us so that we can be renewed and transformed from the inside out, and so that our obedience isn't just an external lip service, it's a part of our renewed humanity, the thing that God has done in Christ to reconstitute us, to bring us back to himself.
SPEAKER_00: And so God has brought his salvation near to us in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: For with the heart one believes and is justified, with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
SPEAKER_00: The scripture says, whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
SPEAKER_00: The difference between an external obedience and an internal renewal is our trust in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: The pursuit of righteousness is the pursuit of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: So here we are, friends.
SPEAKER_00: Here we are gathered over Zoom at New Song Church in 2020, reading these words written to a Roman church 2,000 years ago.
SPEAKER_00: What do we have in common?
SPEAKER_00: We want to pursue a right relationship with God too, don't we?
SPEAKER_00: We want to know what God requires of us.
SPEAKER_00: We want to know how to pursue that.
SPEAKER_00: We want to know that we will cross that finish line and receive the prize, so to speak.
SPEAKER_00: Where does our assurance come from?
SPEAKER_00: Where does our confidence come from?
SPEAKER_00: Because it's very easy to put confidence in our external obedience, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00: To check off all the Christian boxes that we think we have to do.
SPEAKER_00: I wonder if that's why some of us are gathered right here over Zoom, because we feel like this is the kind of thing that makes that I feel like I've got to, I'm I'm obligated to give God.
SPEAKER_00: Give him a little bit of attention.
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna give me those promises.
SPEAKER_00: Friends in Christ, the word of God has drawn near to us to renew our heart, to transform our lives.
SPEAKER_00: The word of God is not a far distance away and says jump higher.
SPEAKER_00: The word of God climbs down into the pit, as it were, to pull us out of it.
SPEAKER_00: And that's who Jesus is the end goal, the finish line, the res the pursuit of righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: And that's what we see in his cross.
SPEAKER_00: And our cross, all our assumptions of what God's righteousness means for us are crucified.
SPEAKER_00: Because if we think we have an external obedience to pay, a mark to hit, and we've got to try harder, we see the Lord who's taken on our sinful flesh to put it to death, to break the power of sin, so that he can be the end of the law for righteousness for all who believes, Jew and Gentile alike, gathered at level footing at the foot of the cross, so that he can live the sinless, perfect life that we can't, so that we who put our trust in him can be renewed.
SPEAKER_00: By his resurrection, he renews our humanity, he raises it up to a new glory and calls us to himself to share in that.
SPEAKER_00: So the pursuit of righteousness is the pursuit of Christ, but we see that it's not our pursuit that comes first, it's his pursuit.
SPEAKER_00: After us.
SPEAKER_00: Those of us who are in Christ know what it is to be grabbed by Christ and brought into his covenant family.
SPEAKER_00: We're held in his hands, as it were.
SPEAKER_00: The word of God is drawn near to our hearts and to our lips.
SPEAKER_00: So now that we can rest, rest in the sure and certain knowledge that everyone who's called on the name of the Lord will be saved.
SPEAKER_00: That word to call is to say more than just lip service, more than just to say the words, as it were.
SPEAKER_00: That word call is a summons.
SPEAKER_00: It speaks to the very depths of our soul.
SPEAKER_00: Those of us who've been called to put our trust in Jesus are those who are called to know him as our Lord and Savior, are those who are called to an assurance that he's won our righteousness for us, that he willingly gives himself to us as a gift, that we are filled by his Holy Spirit, and that we can be renewed and transformed from one degree of glory to another as we faithfully pursue him.
SPEAKER_00: So the pursuit of righteousness is something of a surrender.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I think we think the pursuit of righteousness or cultivating spiritual disciplines or personal holiness is us striving after God.
SPEAKER_00: And it's true there's there's hard work involved, but remember, good works are not an earning of salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Good works are the outworking of a faith, of a lively, vivified faith in Christ that is saving.
SPEAKER_00: So when we think of the pursuit of righteousness, when we think of cultivating a personal holiness that reflects the glory of God, when we get caught up in His kingdom, we might consider the first steps towards that.
SPEAKER_00: Calvin, one of my favorite theologians, he writes this: He writes, the first step to obtaining the righteousness of God is to renounce our own righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: That was the mistake that Israel made.
SPEAKER_00: Israel assumed it was our righteousness, the righteousness we earn that will make us right with God.
SPEAKER_00: Paul is saying, no, the righteousness of God has come near to you.
SPEAKER_00: Put your trust in Him.
SPEAKER_00: Friends, the same is true for us.
SPEAKER_00: If we want a right relationship with God, we have first to renounce our own self-reliance.
SPEAKER_00: Are we striving to meet the demands we think God has on us?
SPEAKER_00: The good news is we can release that.
SPEAKER_00: We can release ourselves, we can surrender to him, put our trust in Jesus, who's earned our salvation on the cross, and we can know that we too will be saved because we've been summoned, we've been called.
SPEAKER_00: And when we call on the name of the Lord, we will know his salvation.
SPEAKER_00: So suddenly prayer and Bible study and generosity and confession of sin, all these spiritual disciplines become not something that try that that attempts to earn God's favor so much as knowing that we who've been greatly favored by God, we who have been saved, get to grow in likeness and in promise, in righteousness with him.
SPEAKER_00: We get to get caught up in the kingdom and they become acts of surrender, of greater surrender of ourselves, greater and greater hope of glory.
SPEAKER_00: So the pursuit of righteousness, friends, is the pursuit of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Christ who is the end of the law.
SPEAKER_00: Think of those runners stuck on the track, as it were.
SPEAKER_00: Here we are called into the race, called from without, called to pursue the end of that righteousness, knowing that the goal is Christ.
SPEAKER_00: The author of the Book of Hebrews says to fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.
SPEAKER_00: For those of us caught up in the kingdom, caught up in the race of righteousness, the pursuit of righteousness, we have only to set our eyes in Jesus, knowing that as we pursue him, he has first pursued us, and that the word is near to our hearts, and it's on our lips.
SPEAKER_00: So if you haven't before, would you call on the name of the Lord?
SPEAKER_00: You have only to call on him to know that you are saved, to know that you are caught up in his kingdom, that he has a place for you at his table and a place for you in eternity.
SPEAKER_00: And friends, as we, whatever stage of discipleship we're at, we can rest assured that we are truly, fully, completely caught up and saved in him, the pursuit of righteousness who pursues after us.
SPEAKER_00: So, Jesus, we pray that you would come to us once again.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, you are the word of God, and you've drawn near to our hearts and to our mouths.
SPEAKER_00: So, Lord, we confess you as Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We bless your name.
SPEAKER_00: We pray, Father, catch us up in your kingdom once again.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, as we pursue you, we know that you pursue us by your righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: That's what the cross is.
SPEAKER_00: So, Father, would you catch us up in yourself?
SPEAKER_00: Renew us by your word, renew new song, renew your church.
SPEAKER_00: All this we pray in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.