unknown: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
SPEAKER_00: My name's Nathan.
SPEAKER_00: I'm one of the designated survivors this morning.
SPEAKER_00: It's good to be with you and to open up God's word.
SPEAKER_00: If you would turn in your Bibles to 2 Corinthians chapter 4, we're going to be looking at the first 12 verses.
SPEAKER_00: You can see it printed in your worship guide, or you can find it on page 907 in the Bible that's in front of you in your chair.
SPEAKER_00: 2 Corinthians chapter 4.
SPEAKER_00: Beginning in verse 1.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced disgraceful underhanded ways.
SPEAKER_00: We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word.
SPEAKER_00: But by the open statement of the truth, we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
SPEAKER_00: And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
SPEAKER_00: In their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
SPEAKER_00: For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
SPEAKER_00: For God said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
SPEAKER_00: We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not driven to despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed, always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
SPEAKER_00: For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
SPEAKER_00: So death is at work in us, but life and you.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: I love when I get to stand up and preach, and the sermon has basically already been preached through all of the liturgy, all the words that we've sung and prayed together.
SPEAKER_00: That we are not to be reliant on ourselves, but dependent upon God alone.
SPEAKER_00: Most of us carry an expectation about how life is supposed to go.
SPEAKER_00: In almost every area of life, growth means that we become more competent, more in control, there's less volatility.
SPEAKER_00: If you think about it, in your work, as you grow, you're expected to be more capable, more efficient in your job, less overwhelmed.
SPEAKER_00: In our finances, we hope to be more stable, less risk, fewer surprises in the portfolio, in home.
SPEAKER_00: We want to make sure there's more margin in our calendar, that things feel more settled, less chaotic.
SPEAKER_00: That's what growth would mean in these environments.
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we can naturally import that way of thinking into our spiritual lives too.
SPEAKER_00: We assume that as we grow, as we mature, as we walk in Christ longer, that we become more in control, less shaken by our circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: But then something happens that doesn't quite fit within that framework.
SPEAKER_00: A phone call.
SPEAKER_00: A diagnosis, a moment in a doctor's office when everything shifts.
SPEAKER_00: And suddenly all the categories that we had are shaken.
SPEAKER_00: We realize how very little control we actually had.
SPEAKER_00: We realize how fragile we are.
SPEAKER_00: And over time, if you've walked with Jesus for some time, you notice something maybe a little unsettling at first.
SPEAKER_00: In some ways, you may feel more aware of your own weakness, more aware of your limits, more aware of even your own sin.
SPEAKER_00: And if you haven't had that experience yet in life, I promise that it will be.
SPEAKER_00: But a question that I want us to be thinking about during these few moments together is: could it be that true spirituality is not about increased control or strength, but an ever-increasing dependence upon God?
SPEAKER_00: And I want us to think about that as we walk through this passage together because the answer will help us shape everything that we understand Paul is saying to the church here in Corinth.
SPEAKER_00: God puts his treasure in fragile people so that his strength, not ours, shows up, just like it does at the cross.
SPEAKER_00: That's what we're gonna talk about this morning.
SPEAKER_00: God puts his treasure in fragile people so that his strength, not ours, shows up, which is just how we see it in the cross.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna focus really on verses 7 through 10 in this passage.
SPEAKER_00: I want to read it for the broader context, and we're gonna even go on a little bit further at the end of this time.
SPEAKER_00: But Paul begins verse 7 with an image that would have been immediately clear to his audience.
SPEAKER_00: You see it in the title of the sermon.
SPEAKER_00: But we have this treasure in jars of clay.
SPEAKER_00: Now, a jar of clay was the most ordinary object in the ancient world.
SPEAKER_00: We still find them as we dig up archaeological sites all out in the ancient Near East.
SPEAKER_00: It was cheap, it was common, it was easily broken.
SPEAKER_00: You didn't display them, you didn't protect them, you used it, and when you cracked it, you destroyed it and you buried it in a pit.
SPEAKER_00: And Paul says, that's us.
SPEAKER_00: We are not the treasure, we are the container.
SPEAKER_00: But most of us in DC, I think, if we're honest, at least functionally, live as if the goal is to become impressive containers.
SPEAKER_00: We want to be strong, we want to be polished, we want to be capable, competent, people who look like we have it all together.
SPEAKER_00: But Paul is telling us that this is the paradox, that Valley of Vision prayer that we just read.
SPEAKER_00: The paradox is that the design works the other way.
SPEAKER_00: The treasure is the gospel of Jesus Christ, his life, his death, his resurrection.
SPEAKER_00: That's the power, that's the value, that's what matters.
SPEAKER_00: We see the continuation of verse 7.
SPEAKER_00: To show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
SPEAKER_00: There was the whole point of the story of Gideon in Judges 7 and the 300 as that army was whittled down.
SPEAKER_00: It was to show that the strength of the Lord was the one who would win the battle, so that Israel could not boast in their own strength.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, God intentionally chooses weak containers so that when something powerful, amazing happens, that there's no question about the source of where this strength comes from.
SPEAKER_00: God's strategy is not to bypass weakness, it is to work through it.
SPEAKER_00: That's the power of the gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Paul's hardship and the way that he works through it, as we hear if you read 2 Corinthians, is meant to be a help to them.
SPEAKER_00: Over and over we hear them saying, Do not lose hope.
SPEAKER_00: He's trying to teach the church how to trust God amidst their circumstances, whatever place they find themselves, and to find life there as well.
SPEAKER_00: And if that's true, if God is using Paul's weakness to bring life to others, then we should expect that same pattern to be true of our lives as well.
SPEAKER_00: That God would use our own weaknesses, our own frailty, the fragility of our clay pots for his glory, that he might be seen strong in our stories, in our own lives.
SPEAKER_00: Which means that the first thing that we have to come to terms with this morning is that we are more fragile than we think.
SPEAKER_00: That's point number one.
SPEAKER_00: We are more fragile than we think.
SPEAKER_00: Paul doesn't leave the image abstract in any way.
SPEAKER_00: He begins to describe what this fragility looks like in verse 8.
SPEAKER_00: We're afflicted in every way.
SPEAKER_00: This idea of affliction is pressure, being pressed in, hemmed in, life closing in all around us.
SPEAKER_00: And before we move too quickly past that, it's important to notice what Paul assumes.
SPEAKER_00: He assumes that pressure is normal, not occasional, not exceptional, not a sign that something unusual has happened or gone wrong, but in every way it's comprehensive.
SPEAKER_00: It touches every part of our lives.
SPEAKER_00: And one of the primary places where we experience this type of pressure is in close relationships, especially marriage.
SPEAKER_00: If you're married, you know this to be true.
SPEAKER_00: Marriage doesn't create weakness, it reveals what was already there.
SPEAKER_00: So what do we do when the cracks begin to show?
SPEAKER_00: Most of us, we can assume that if something is breaking or broken, that something has gone wrong.
SPEAKER_00: If there's tension, something's off.
SPEAKER_00: If there's conflict, that something is failing.
SPEAKER_00: But Paul's framework, again, challenges this assumption a little bit.
SPEAKER_00: We don't become weak in marriage.
SPEAKER_00: We discover that we already are.
SPEAKER_00: Marriage doesn't create selfishness, it exposes it.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't create fear, it reveals it.
SPEAKER_00: I see a nodding head.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of nodding heads out there.
SPEAKER_00: People who are married, they know this to be true.
SPEAKER_00: There's a well-known story of the late pastor in New York, Tim Keller and his wife Kathy.
SPEAKER_00: Early in their marriage, Tim had asked for three years so that he could really focus on planting their church, Redeemer Presbyterian, in Manhattan.
SPEAKER_00: Three years where he was going to keep his head down and that things will change after that three years.
SPEAKER_00: Well, three years came and went the grind of New York City and nothing changed.
SPEAKER_00: And one day he found his wife, Kathy, on the balcony of their apartment with a hammer and a piece of their wedding china in her hand.
SPEAKER_00: And one by one she was crashing it with the hammer, shattering it for all of their neighbors to see.
SPEAKER_00: And he yelled up to the balcony, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_00: Of course, Kathy was illustrating something deep in their marriage.
SPEAKER_00: You're not seeing me.
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't see me, this marriage won't survive.
SPEAKER_00: That was a wake-up call that he needed to hear and to see in that moment.
SPEAKER_00: Because the reality is most of our conflicts are not about dishes, they're not about schedules, they're not surface level irritations, but they're a deeper cry.
SPEAKER_00: Do you see me?
SPEAKER_00: Do you hear me?
SPEAKER_00: Do I matter to you?
SPEAKER_00: Marriage exposes these cracks, not by creating them, but by revealing what has been there all along.
SPEAKER_00: And the first step to us understanding the treasure that is within us is for us to understand the fragility of us as the vessel.
SPEAKER_00: And of course, marriage is just one example of where we can see this on display.
SPEAKER_00: I woke up yesterday a little bit with a crick in my neck.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure if that's a medical term, but at least that's what we call it in Alabama, where I grew up.
SPEAKER_00: And my daughter Della said, Dad, that's sin.
SPEAKER_00: So I don't think there was anything I did in that moment that was sin that led to the crick in my neck.
SPEAKER_00: But of course she's right.
SPEAKER_00: This the fragility that we see in this world, the brokenness that we see all around us, is just a demonstration of the fall.
SPEAKER_00: How things are not the way they are supposed to be.
SPEAKER_00: We're more fragile than we think.
SPEAKER_00: But the second point is this we often try to fix what God is using.
SPEAKER_00: This is also true in marriage, but that will be another sermon at another time.
SPEAKER_00: But look again at verse 8.
SPEAKER_00: We're afflicted in every way, but not crushed.
SPEAKER_00: Before we get to the second part of that phrase, it's good to sit with the tension of the first because we see a lot of tension here.
SPEAKER_00: We're afflicted.
SPEAKER_00: The pressure is real.
SPEAKER_00: And what is our natural instinct to do when pressure comes?
SPEAKER_00: We want to get rid of it.
SPEAKER_00: We don't want to embrace it.
SPEAKER_00: Our instinct is to remove it.
SPEAKER_00: We don't want to live as jars of clay.
SPEAKER_00: We want something stronger.
SPEAKER_00: We want to be that thing that doesn't crack under pressure.
SPEAKER_00: We want to be put together in control.
SPEAKER_00: And so when cracks appear, we interpret them as problems to solve rather than realities to sit with.
SPEAKER_00: We can say to ourselves, this shouldn't be happening to me.
SPEAKER_00: Why is this happening?
SPEAKER_00: This needs to be fixed.
SPEAKER_00: This is not how it's supposed to go.
SPEAKER_00: And in that moment, our responses tend to fall in familiar patterns.
SPEAKER_00: Again, often in relationships we see this most clearly.
SPEAKER_00: We're defensive.
SPEAKER_00: Or we withdraw or we try to win by justifying ourselves.
SPEAKER_00: We defend because we don't want to be exposed.
SPEAKER_00: We withdraw because we don't want to be hurt.
SPEAKER_00: And we try to win.
SPEAKER_00: Again, to justify ourselves.
SPEAKER_00: But all of these responses have one thing in common.
SPEAKER_00: They're attempts to preserve the illusion of control or of strength.
SPEAKER_00: We try to hide our weakness.
SPEAKER_00: We work harder because we assume if something is broken that something has gone wrong.
SPEAKER_00: Paul says at the beginning of 2 Corinthians in chapter 1, verse 8 and 9, if you see the page to your left.
SPEAKER_00: For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
SPEAKER_00: Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death.
SPEAKER_00: But that was to make us rely not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.
SPEAKER_00: Paul, over and over throughout this book, is helping reframe our entire experience.
SPEAKER_00: Because what if the breaking is not a detour from God's work, but the breaking is actually a part of what God is doing to help us rely not on ourselves, but on Him.
SPEAKER_00: What if the breaking, the brokenness is the very place where God is going to begin His work in us?
SPEAKER_00: We sometimes get ahead, we try to fix what God is using.
SPEAKER_00: Third thing we see is that God reveals his life through what we try to hide.
SPEAKER_00: Now we come back to the full statement in verse 8.
SPEAKER_00: We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed.
SPEAKER_00: Paul continues, perplexed but not driven to despair.
SPEAKER_00: Persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed.
SPEAKER_00: Each of these phrases holds these two realities together.
SPEAKER_00: That there's pressure but preservation, confusion, but not despair, opposition but not abandonment, collapse, but not destruction.
SPEAKER_00: See, Paul is, he's not minimizing suffering.
SPEAKER_00: He's describing it honestly.
SPEAKER_00: Afflicted, perplexed, persecuted, struck down, even to such a point that he and his companions despaired for their very lives.
SPEAKER_00: But in each case, we see here that there is a limit.
SPEAKER_00: That we are not crushed, we are not driven to despair, we are not forsaken, we are not destroyed.
SPEAKER_00: And we have to ask ourselves the question, why?
SPEAKER_00: Why is this tension true?
SPEAKER_00: And we see in verse 10 an answer, because we are always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our bodies.
SPEAKER_00: Again, this is the interpretive key, how Paul wants us to reframe this.
SPEAKER_00: Because Paul says the Christian life is a continual participation in these two realities at the same time.
SPEAKER_00: Both the death of Jesus and the life of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And we will experience them at different moments in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: But if you find yourself in that low place, surrounded in the valley of the shadow of death, you are closer to understanding the reality of the cross, of the death of Jesus in that moment than you may ever be in your life.
SPEAKER_00: Those moments are the moments where He draws us closer to Himself.
SPEAKER_00: Through despair, through persecution, because we are not forsaken, we are not destroyed.
SPEAKER_00: We are carrying in the body the death of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And so that means that we have to have a continual dying to self.
SPEAKER_00: A dying to need to be right, a dying to the need to be in control, a dying to self-sufficiency, a dying to the illusion that we are the source of life.
SPEAKER_00: And when that happens, if we do those things, that is when we begin to see the life of Jesus manifested in us.
SPEAKER_00: When we are dying to ourselves in that way.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, the life of Jesus becomes visible not when we avoid weakness, but when we can glorify God even in the midst of our weakness, of our brokenness.
SPEAKER_00: Because God uses pressure to reveal what is in us.
SPEAKER_00: And what is in this jar of clay.
SPEAKER_00: It is the life of Jesus himself.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is within us.
SPEAKER_00: That is where the true strength comes from.
SPEAKER_00: So in marriage, that means the very places that we want to hide, the place of frustration or of conflict or of disappointment, become the place where Christ can be most seen in our relationship, in our health.
SPEAKER_00: When we hear about the diagnosis that we didn't expect and are suddenly aware of how little in control we are, that is the place where Christ can be seen most in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: In parenting, in those moments when we realize That we can't change our child's heart.
SPEAKER_00: When we feel our impatience, we are aware of our inadequacy.
SPEAKER_00: When we feel our limits, then and only then we're almost there.
SPEAKER_00: Then we are understanding that that is where the place God wants us to be.
SPEAKER_00: Relying not on ourselves, but on Him alone.
SPEAKER_00: That is where we will find Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Not because the situation is easy, but because something is happening in us that cannot be explained by our own strength, by our own gifts or competence.
SPEAKER_00: We are being sustained.
SPEAKER_00: We are not being crushed.
SPEAKER_00: We are not abandoned.
SPEAKER_00: We are not destroyed.
SPEAKER_00: And through that process, the life of Jesus becomes visible in us.
SPEAKER_00: My mother-in-law introduced me to the Japanese art form called Kinsugi.
SPEAKER_00: You've maybe heard about this.
SPEAKER_00: And she is in the midst of her own battle right now, battling leukemia.
SPEAKER_00: She's in the midst of this.
SPEAKER_00: And when a piece of pottery breaks, they don't throw it away.
SPEAKER_00: They repair it with gold.
SPEAKER_00: The cracks are not hidden, they are highlighted.
SPEAKER_00: Because the object becomes more beautiful, not in spite of the breaking, but through it.
SPEAKER_00: That's the picture that Paul is describing here.
SPEAKER_00: God does not waste weakness, he uses it to display something greater.
SPEAKER_00: He reveals his life often through the things and the places which we try to hide.
SPEAKER_00: The fourth and final point is this.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel makes us strong.
SPEAKER_00: Again, we see this great paradox that we are weak, but Jesus Christ in us, his life, his death, his resurrection, is what gives us strength to live today and to face tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00: How can we live like this?
SPEAKER_00: How can we face weakness honestly, without fear, without shame, without constantly trying to cover over it?
SPEAKER_00: The answer is Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: We are weak, made strong in the Savior's love, as we just sang.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of this pattern.
SPEAKER_00: He is the jar of clay because he became weak.
SPEAKER_00: He took on human frailty so that we might have life.
SPEAKER_00: At the cross, he entered fully into suffering.
SPEAKER_00: But notice the difference.
SPEAKER_00: Paul tells us that we are afflicted but not crushed.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus was crushed.
SPEAKER_00: Paul says that we are persecuted but not forsaken.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus cries out on the cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
SPEAKER_00: Paul says that we are struck down but not destroyed.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus was struck down even unto death on the cross.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: The answer is so that we would not be.
SPEAKER_00: He took on the full weight of judgment.
SPEAKER_00: He bore the curse deserved for us so that we might inherit the blessing that remained, the blessing of eternal life.
SPEAKER_00: And that is the only way that we can make sense of the brokenness in this world.
SPEAKER_00: That eternal weight of glory that we'll see in a few verses in just a minute.
SPEAKER_00: When Paul weighs the scale of what he sees in his own life, he has seen Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And he has seen which is more valuable in the end, which is lasting.
SPEAKER_00: He took the full weight of judgment so that our suffering would not be judgment.
SPEAKER_00: He was abandoned so that we would never be abandoned.
SPEAKER_00: And after the resurrection, which we've just celebrated a few weeks ago, in John 20, Jesus appeared to his disciples.
SPEAKER_00: And what does he do?
SPEAKER_00: They were not erased, they were redeemed.
SPEAKER_00: They became a part of his glory.
SPEAKER_00: And that means that that will be said of us as well.
SPEAKER_00: That's true of us too, that our cracks are not just a sign of God's absence.
SPEAKER_00: They are the place where God's presence is made known.
SPEAKER_00: And the gospel makes us safe.
SPEAKER_00: It makes us safe to be honest about that.
SPEAKER_00: To be open about our own frailty.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to pretend to be strong.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to hide our weaknesses.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to perform.
SPEAKER_00: Because our standing before God is not based on any of those things.
SPEAKER_00: It's based on Him and on Him alone.
SPEAKER_00: Glory be to God.
SPEAKER_00: That's the only way that we can make sense of this world that we live in.
SPEAKER_00: Because the reality is that everything we long for in this world is already ours in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: When we long for control, when we long for beauty, when we long for these things, we find that they are already ours in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And so what does this mean for us?
SPEAKER_00: It means that the goal of our Christian lives, if you would call yourself a follower of Christ, is not to be unbreakable.
SPEAKER_00: It's not to eliminate weakness.
SPEAKER_00: The goal is to become the kind of person through whom the life of Jesus is visible.
SPEAKER_00: So is Jesus visible in your life today?
SPEAKER_00: Is he visible in your marriage?
SPEAKER_00: Is he visible at work?
SPEAKER_00: Kids, is he visible in you when you walk in your school in the hallway?
SPEAKER_00: Is he visible in our suffering?
SPEAKER_00: Where do you feel most fragile right now, in this moment?
SPEAKER_00: That's where you need him most.
SPEAKER_00: So the question we should be asking is, what might God do?
SPEAKER_00: How might he display his life through this, through my brokenness, through my weakness?
SPEAKER_00: And Paul says, don't lose heart.
SPEAKER_00: Don't lose heart.
SPEAKER_00: Look with me at verses fourteen through eighteen.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pick up there.
SPEAKER_00: Or we're starting 13.
SPEAKER_00: Since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what has been written, I believed, and so I spoke.
SPEAKER_00: We also believe, and so we also speak.
SPEAKER_00: Knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
SPEAKER_00: For it is all for your sake, so that his grace extends to more and more people.
SPEAKER_00: It may increase thanksgiving to the glory of God.
SPEAKER_00: So we do not lose heart.
SPEAKER_00: Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
SPEAKER_00: For this light, momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.
SPEAKER_00: As we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen.
SPEAKER_00: For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
SPEAKER_00: How can Paul say that?
SPEAKER_00: That this is just a momentary affliction.
SPEAKER_00: If you've been through the loss of a loved one, or you are now enduring that type of suffering that we can't explain, it can almost sound like Paul is being a little callous here.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's just momentary.
SPEAKER_00: But again, Paul gives us that eternal perspective, that eternal weight of glory that helps us understand our suffering, helps us understand our brokenness.
SPEAKER_00: And the point is so that we don't lose heart.
SPEAKER_00: We are broken, more broken than we dared imagine, yet more loved than we dreamed possible.
SPEAKER_00: We look to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen.
SPEAKER_00: For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
SPEAKER_00: So back to our original question: could it be that true spiritual maturity is not about increasing strength or control, but about increasing our dependence upon the Lord?
SPEAKER_00: And the answer is yes.
SPEAKER_00: Because the gospel frees us from pretending so that Christ's strength can be seen in our weakness.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_00: Almighty God, we do thank you that you would use humble, weak vessels like us to reveal your life and light to those around us.
SPEAKER_00: We don't always feel that that's true.
SPEAKER_00: So, Lord, for the many ways that we fall short, we ask for your forgiveness and grace.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we thank you for giving us everything that we need.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you for your work within us.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, help us to see that the power belongs to you and not to us.
SPEAKER_00: Help us when we find ourselves in the moment of despair, to know that you are with us, even in the midst of our circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: That we are not destroyed, that you have been destroyed on our behalf.
SPEAKER_00: But that wasn't the end of the story.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you that you've been raised to life.
SPEAKER_00: And that in you, we too, those who put our trust and hope in you, will also be raised to life.
SPEAKER_00: So would death be at work in us.
SPEAKER_00: And life as well.
SPEAKER_00: We pray this in our Savior's name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.