Tyler Lynde: So we're in the middle of a sermon series called Red Letters, and it's all about the words of Jesus that are found in the Sermon on the Mount.
Tyler Lynde: It's so important for us to understand that Jesus gives us a portrait of what it looks like to be a follower of Jesus Christ, and so all throughout this sermon we see examples of that over and over again.
Tyler Lynde: Mark did a great job last week of showing us the difference between following the letter of the law and the spirit or the intent of the law.
Tyler Lynde: We learned that sin is not merely about outward actions, but the state and intentions of our heart, which is the seedbed of those actions.
Tyler Lynde: In other words, whatever is in your heart is going to make its way out in our words, in our deeds, in the way that we live right.
Tyler Lynde: So the title of today's message is a heart to help those in need.
Tyler Lynde: A heart to help those in need.
Tyler Lynde: Let's look at Matthew, chapter six, verses one through four, and the word of God says beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father, who is in heaven.
Tyler Lynde: Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others.
Tyler Lynde: Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Tyler Lynde: But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret and your father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.
Tyler Lynde: Let's pray, father.
Tyler Lynde: We thank you for the word of God.
Tyler Lynde: We thank you that you didn't just give it to us so that we would have something to read.
Tyler Lynde: You gave it to us so that it could read us, so that it could bring about the transformation in our hearts that needs to happen.
Tyler Lynde: Lord, we pray that you would open this word today, that you would open the eyes of our understanding, that our revelation that you give us by the Holy Spirit would come alive, lord God, and that we would understand and not only understand it, but have a will and a desire to carry it out by your work and by your grace.
Tyler Lynde: We thank you for these things in Jesus' name, amen.
Tyler Lynde: Some of you have heard this story, but I'm just going to repeat it for those who haven't.
Tyler Lynde: When I was about nine years old, my family was very poor, but we didn't know we were poor.
Tyler Lynde: Anybody grow up like that.
Tyler Lynde: My family never talked about it, but one day in particular the cupboards were empty.
Tyler Lynde: We had no groceries except for one chicken pot pie, and my mom put it was a Wednesday.
Tyler Lynde: My mom put that chicken pot pie in the oven and she cooked it and the dinger went off and my brother and I started to salivate.
Tyler Lynde: Right, we were hungry and she was pulling it out and I don't know if it was from weakness, because she hadn't been eating much, or what happened, if it was just the devil himself, but that chicken pot pie fell over in the oven to the bottom of the oven, and the bottom of oven had not been cleaned for some time, and so that chicken pot pie found its destiny within the electric part of the oven, at the bottom of the oven, and we didn't get to eat.
Tyler Lynde: My dad always taught us you can trust in Jesus.
Tyler Lynde: We trust in the Lord.
Tyler Lynde: He takes care of our needs.
Tyler Lynde: This was a Wednesday.
Tyler Lynde: We went to church on Wednesday night.
Tyler Lynde: My dad was a pastor.
Tyler Lynde: The only other person in attendance was my aunt.
Tyler Lynde: My aunt was also poor.
Tyler Lynde: My dad preached like he would preach to a group like this.
Tyler Lynde: And at the end he took up an offering and my aunt gave $1 in the offering and on our way home we stopped by Wendy's and back then there was a special where you could get two cheeseburgers for a dollar, and so my parents took that dollar and they bought two cheeseburgers and they gave them to.
Tyler Lynde: So my parents took that dollar and they bought two cheeseburgers and they gave them to my brother and I, who sat in the back seat chewing on them, feeling I was feeling a little bit.
Tyler Lynde: I was very thankful, but watching my parents glance into the rearview mirror as we were eating that burger, there was something in me that connected with that and realized they probably wanted the burger as well.
Tyler Lynde: We got home and my dad unlocked the door and we walked inside and we turned around and all of a sudden my dad and mom began to shout.
Tyler Lynde: I assumed there was a mouse or God forbid a snake or something like that in the house.
Tyler Lynde: But as the lights turned on and we turned the corner, my brother and I saw something we'd never seen before, at least for a long time Twelve bags of groceries sitting on the kitchen table.
Tyler Lynde: We opened the refrigerator and the refrigerator was filled with steak and pork chops and chicken and milk and yogurt and all of those things.
Tyler Lynde: And here's the crazy part there was no note, there was no letter.
Tyler Lynde: There was no letter, there was no recognition, there was no acknowledgement.
Tyler Lynde: There was just 12 bags of groceries and a fridge full of food.
Tyler Lynde: When my brother and I looked at each other, and as the four of us celebrated, we realized the Lord Jesus did take care of us.
Tyler Lynde: To this day I still don't know who did that.
Tyler Lynde: The doors and windows to our house were locked.
Tyler Lynde: I would thought it would have been an angel, but there was one telltale sign that it wasn't there was a box of Count Chocula in the bags on the kitchen table.
Tyler Lynde: And we know no angel buying Count Chocula, right?
Tyler Lynde: Anyway, we're not going to get religious this morning.
Tyler Lynde: Why do I tell that story all these years later?
Tyler Lynde: Because what an impact it had on our lives.
Tyler Lynde: Only God really knew.
Tyler Lynde: My parents hadn't been telling anybody, they hadn't been complaining to anyone, nobody knew.
Tyler Lynde: But God knew.
Tyler Lynde: And God spoke to one of his children and one of his children somehow miraculously brought that food in there and left it for us.
Tyler Lynde: So last week Jesus was confronting the wrong thinking about that says as long as I don't do the dirty deed, in other words, as long as I don't murder anybody, as long as I don't commit adultery, then I'm fine, right?
Tyler Lynde: No, jesus goes much deeper.
Tyler Lynde: He clearly showed us that what's in the heart is what matters most.
Tyler Lynde: What's in the heart of men is what matters most.
Tyler Lynde: And in today's passage, jesus moves on to a new set of topics, but he has the same goal in mind.
Tyler Lynde: He wants to shine a light on the heart of men and women, and that's what he wants to do in our lives as well.
Tyler Lynde: The Jewish leaders had three religious acts that they performed regularly, and they asked for their parishioners, they asked for the Jewish people to perform these acts as well.
Tyler Lynde: So one was giving alms to the poor.
Tyler Lynde: Second was prayer, and the third was fasting Fasting.
Tyler Lynde: That's coming in a couple weeks.
Tyler Lynde: On the surface, these things are really good, aren't they?
Tyler Lynde: We, as believers, are called to engage in these same kinds of activities.
Tyler Lynde: So there's nothing wrong with giving alms to the poor, there's nothing wrong with prayer, there's nothing wrong with fasting, but the motivation that is behind those things is essential and very important.
Tyler Lynde: See, the problem that Jesus was addressing is not having the proper heart motivation when it comes to the reason why we do these things.
Tyler Lynde: Why do we do these things?
Tyler Lynde: So let's not allow ourselves to get distracted from the truth.
Tyler Lynde: How many of you know, jesus was not teaching behavior modification.
Tyler Lynde: In other words, jesus wasn't saying if you will it enough, if you have a strong enough mind, if you will it enough, if you have a strong enough mind, if you desire it enough, you can change yourself.
Tyler Lynde: And if you change yourself, then you can have the right attitude about giving and about prayer and about fasting.
Tyler Lynde: How many of you realize there's a missing ingredient in all of that that I just said?
Tyler Lynde: And what is it?
Tyler Lynde: It is the grace of God.
Tyler Lynde: You see, he is saying that if you are a recipient of the grace of God and God is your father, then the natural outworking of that is that you will gloriously change and live like you're a family member.
Tyler Lynde: How many of you are glad that you are part of the family of God?
Tyler Lynde: And how many of us find us on a daily basis acting like we're a part of the family of God?
Tyler Lynde: Why did we get quiet?
Tyler Lynde: Come on, I know this church, I know you and I know that many of you, on a daily basis, do live like children of God.
Tyler Lynde: You act like children of God.
Tyler Lynde: You do the types of things from a heart that's pure, that prove out the fact that you have been born again.
Tyler Lynde: I see it and I know it's true.
Tyler Lynde: But how many of you know?
Tyler Lynde: All of us are in process and there's room for improvement.
Tyler Lynde: Right, because practicing your righteousness isn't about earning it, but living like you've received it as a free gift.
Tyler Lynde: We don't live the way that God calls us to live in order to earn righteousness.
Tyler Lynde: We live the way that God calls us to live because we've been made righteous.
Tyler Lynde: Ephesians 2 says it like this For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing.
Tyler Lynde: Did you save yourself?
Tyler Lynde: It is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Tyler Lynde: So we are born again.
Tyler Lynde: When we put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ, when we repent of our sins and we believe in the sacrifice of Jesus, his life, his death, his burial and his resurrection, we put our faith and hope in Jesus Christ, we're born again and the grace of God transforms our hearts and we are granted the righteousness of God.
Tyler Lynde: In Christ Jesus, you have been given, as a follower of Jesus, the gift of righteousness, right standing with God, your relationship with him has been made right.
Tyler Lynde: And if that's not the case for you yet, I implore you, I beg you, I beseech you, that today would be the day that you would acknowledge your need and that you would put your faith, hope and trust in a risen savior.
Tyler Lynde: Amen, amen.
Tyler Lynde: So we as believers.
Tyler Lynde: The Holy Spirit lives in us now and continues the work of sanctification.
Tyler Lynde: The natural outworking of the ongoing process of sanctification is that we will become more and more like our heavenly father.
Tyler Lynde: In what ways?
Tyler Lynde: In the way we speak, in the way we live, in our thought life, in our actions and, most importantly maybe, in our motivations, why we do the things that we do.
Tyler Lynde: So we're going to see a pattern emerge over the next three weeks, as Jesus addresses these three activities almsgiving, prayer and fasting at some length.
Tyler Lynde: So let's look at number one.
Tyler Lynde: The first thing that happens is there's a warning to not do the activity regularly in order to be praised by human beings.
Tyler Lynde: There's a warning to not do the activity to be praised by human beings.
Tyler Lynde: Number two, there's a guarantee that those who ignore this warning will only receive human praise.
Tyler Lynde: Number three, there's an instruction on how to perform the activity with the right heart.
Tyler Lynde: And number four, there's an assurance that our heavenly father, who sees in secret, will do what Will reward openly.
Tyler Lynde: You can take a snapshot of that slide if you want to real quick for your notes.
Tyler Lynde: I know I'm moving quickly this morning.
Tyler Lynde: So let's look at this particular passage today about helping those who are in need and having a heart for that, and let's look at our four different segments.
Tyler Lynde: So the first one is a warning.
Tyler Lynde: It says thus when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may be praised by others.
Tyler Lynde: Now there's a presupposition here that says not if you give.
Tyler Lynde: What does it say when you give?
Tyler Lynde: So what does that mean?
Tyler Lynde: Should we be giving to those who are in need?
Tyler Lynde: Absolutely, this should be one of the joys of our life.
Tyler Lynde: Excuse me, in fact, true religion is associated closely with this very thing in scripture.
Tyler Lynde: Look at James 1.27,.
Tyler Lynde: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, in their time of need, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Tyler Lynde: It is pure religion for us to help those with the right heart, to help those who are in need.
Tyler Lynde: So the warning is clearly about how and why we give to those in need.
Tyler Lynde: Jesus may have been using some hyperbole here.
Tyler Lynde: Sometimes he used some imagery to bring the point home, right.
Tyler Lynde: So he says you shouldn't sound the trumpet before you come to deliver the gift that you're going to give to the needy, right?
Tyler Lynde: Can you picture that in your head?
Tyler Lynde: Somebody blowing the alarm, blowing the trumpet and saying I'm here to save the day, right, but he's clear here that we, as children of God, are not to make a big deal about ourselves.
Tyler Lynde: Hello, we're not to make a big deal about ourselves and our own goodness.
Tyler Lynde: What are we here to make a big deal about?
Tyler Lynde: About God and his goodness?
Tyler Lynde: Jesus calls the person engaged in this perilous self-promotion hypocrites.
Tyler Lynde: Hypocrites the term hypocrite was originally used for actors on a Greek stage who put on various masks to play different roles.
Tyler Lynde: They'd put on a mask, they'd pump energy and they would play out these different parts as they were masked in order to do that.
Tyler Lynde: Jesus here says to the religious leaders in a very scornful way, especially the Pharisees.
Tyler Lynde: Especially the Pharisees, he says that they were performing external acts of righteousness that were masking, even from their selves, even from their selves, their own inner corruption.
Tyler Lynde: You see, hypocrisy is so evil because many of those who are involved in it think they are right with God.
Tyler Lynde: You know how to stop being a hypocrite.
Tyler Lynde: Acknowledge that you are one in some way, not saying we have to stay there.
Tyler Lynde: But how many of you know all of us?
Tyler Lynde: If somebody were to follow us home and walk around with us, soon enough they'd find some area in our life where our action or our words or our thoughts, our motivation, didn't line up with God's way.
Tyler Lynde: Right, in order for us to change, we have to understand that we have a need for change.
Tyler Lynde: In this case, hypocrisy is defined as doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Tyler Lynde: Jesus, in another passage, warns his followers to break from the religious status quo when it came to hypocrisy.
Tyler Lynde: In Luke 12, verse 1, it says in the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples.
Tyler Lynde: First beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Tyler Lynde: It seems like every day in the news, now or every other day, we're hearing of another person who is famous in the Christian world, who has been discovered is living a hypocritical lifestyle.
Tyler Lynde: My friends, we have to be so careful, we have to be so guarded because, but for the grace of God, there go I.
Tyler Lynde: We're not here to sit in judgment or to scorn.
Tyler Lynde: We're here to say God, as far as I'm concerned, protect me, keep me from being a hypocrite.
Tyler Lynde: You know the number one reason people aren't in church today.
Tyler Lynde: When you ask them what will they say overwhelmingly Because of hypocrites.
Tyler Lynde: I'm going to give you a living illustration, a modern day example of what Jesus was talking about.
Tyler Lynde: So can I have a volunteer, please?
Tyler Lynde: Are there any volunteers to be willing to help me?
Tyler Lynde: Okay, this man right here on the front row.
Tyler Lynde: Would you come down?
Tyler Lynde: Let's welcome him.
Tyler Lynde: Thank him for being so willing to help out this morning.
Tyler Lynde: Isn't that great?
Tyler Lynde: Come on over, sir.
Tyler Lynde: Come on over.
Tyler Lynde: So what is your name?
Tyler Lynde: John, john?
Tyler Lynde: Okay, richard, it's good to meet you.
Tyler Lynde: I'm glad that you're here with us today.
Tyler Lynde: And you know, I was just thinking.
Tyler Lynde: I was sitting at home and I just kind of had this thought yeah, that's it, that's the right stuff.
Tyler Lynde: You ready to make it rain?
Tyler Lynde: Are you hungry?
Tyler Lynde: Yes, he's hungry.
Tyler Lynde: Are you homeless?
Tyler Lynde: Yes, he's homeless.
Tyler Lynde: He's got two of the three H's I was looking for.
Tyler Lynde: He's hungry, he's homeless and he's.
Tyler Lynde: Is he handsome?
Tyler Lynde: Yes, he's got all three.
Tyler Lynde: Are you kidding me?
Tyler Lynde: This is the trifecta.
Tyler Lynde: This is what I've been waiting for for so long.
Tyler Lynde: I have this right here, this hard-earned money right here.
Tyler Lynde: Do you see it?
Tyler Lynde: You want to smell?
Tyler Lynde: It Smells like cash, smell like cash.
Tyler Lynde: Could you use this money right here?
Tyler Lynde: Do you see it?
Tyler Lynde: You want to smell?
Tyler Lynde: It?
Tyler Lynde: Smell like cash.
Tyler Lynde: Could you use this money right here?
Tyler Lynde: Are you sure?
Tyler Lynde: Okay, all I need you to do is I need to take a picture real quick.
Tyler Lynde: That's okay.
Tyler Lynde: No, don't touch it, don't.
Tyler Lynde: Yeah, no, don't, don't touch me.
Tyler Lynde: No, we don't do that.
Tyler Lynde: No, don't touch me.
Tyler Lynde: No, we don't do that, we don't go there.
Tyler Lynde: We definitely don't go there.
Tyler Lynde: Okay, all right.
Tyler Lynde: Can you smile for the camera?
Tyler Lynde: Oh, wait, wait.
Tyler Lynde: Would you mind just take that hand and just point at me, if you would, oh, and just say you, da man.
Tyler Lynde: Okay, all right, wait, just a second here.
Tyler Lynde: Let me take care of this.
Tyler Lynde: I got to get this on the socials.
Tyler Lynde: Hashtag blessed to be a blessing.
Tyler Lynde: Hashtag homeless no more.
Tyler Lynde: Hashtag man.
Tyler Lynde: T-money's good Hashtag.
Tyler Lynde: This about to go viral.
Tyler Lynde: Okay, thank you.
Tyler Lynde: Appreciate it.
Tyler Lynde: Yeah, what.
Tyler Lynde: What are you talking about, richard?
Tyler Lynde: This is what are you talking about.
Tyler Lynde: Are you going to buy drugs with it here?
Tyler Lynde: I can spare that, all right.
Tyler Lynde: Yeah, what are you on about?
Tyler Lynde: What's wrong?
Tyler Lynde: Okay, hopefully you get the point.
Tyler Lynde: We could do this all day.
Tyler Lynde: I've got lots of other examples we could do.
Tyler Lynde: It's fun, all right, let's look at the guarantee, the third part.
Tyler Lynde: Jesus says truly, I say to you they have received their second part, they have received their reward.
Tyler Lynde: Let's be honest.
Tyler Lynde: It's so easy to love the glory that comes from people acknowledging us and recognizing us more than the glory that comes from God.
Tyler Lynde: It's instant and it's very gratifying when people acknowledge how great we are.
Tyler Lynde: By the way, it's not wrong for people to acknowledge that.
Tyler Lynde: In fact, there's a verse about it.
Tyler Lynde: Proverbs 27, verse 2, says let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Tyler Lynde: Not wrong for somebody else to say thank you or to, but how many of you know the motivation of our heart as the person who's being used by God to be a blessing to others.
Tyler Lynde: Matters, matters, greatly.
Tyler Lynde: See, we are tragically wrong when we prefer the praise of others over the praise of God, when we prefer the praise of others over the praise of God, when we're more concerned about what somebody else thinks of me than we are concerned about what God thinks of me.
Tyler Lynde: The sad irony is that when we do the right thing for the wrong reason, we may be able to impress others, but God is not impressed and he will not reward us.
Tyler Lynde: He's not impressed and he will not reward us.
Tyler Lynde: So what is the instruction?
Tyler Lynde: The third part of this?
Tyler Lynde: Jesus goes to the farthest extreme in the way that he contrasts the way his disciples are to perform acts of righteousness with the ways of the religious leaders.
Tyler Lynde: They are to have such pure motives of concern for the poor that when giving, they won't pay attention to themselves at all.
Tyler Lynde: They won't recognize themselves at all.
Tyler Lynde: Sometimes this means giving anonymously, but it always means not making a big deal about it, not making a fuss over it, not looking for some kind of self-promotion or looking for somebody to raise the flags or the banners or somebody to shout team money's in the house.
Tyler Lynde: You see, when we help those in need with a pure heart, it's about bringing honor and glory to God and not about ourselves.
Tyler Lynde: What a beautiful concept.
Tyler Lynde: We see a great example of this in the life of David.
Tyler Lynde: David was used by God to gather together everything that was going to be needed for the building of the temple.
Tyler Lynde: He wasn't going to get to build it because of the blood that he shed, but his son after him, solomon, was going to be able to build it, and so David had the privilege of gathering all of these things together, and at the end of that process, he says this in front of all of the people.
Tyler Lynde: Therefore, david blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly.
Tyler Lynde: And David said blessed are you, o Lord, the God of Israel, our father, forever and ever.
Tyler Lynde: Yours, o Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is whose.
Tyler Lynde: David's, god's.
Tyler Lynde: Yours is the kingdom, o Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
Tyler Lynde: Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all.
Tyler Lynde: In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is.
Tyler Lynde: It is to make great and to give strength to all.
Tyler Lynde: And now we thank you, our god, and praise your glorious name.
Tyler Lynde: But who am I and what is my people that we should be able thus to offer?
Tyler Lynde: Willingly?
Tyler Lynde: Offer what Willingly, for all things come from you and of your own have we given you?
Tyler Lynde: For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were.
Tyler Lynde: Our days on the earth are like a shadow and there's no abiding.
Tyler Lynde: Oh Lord, our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
Tyler Lynde: I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness, in the uprightness of my heart.
Tyler Lynde: In other words, with the right motivation, I have freely offered all these things.
Tyler Lynde: And now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you, to you.
Tyler Lynde: You see, when we understand that everything that we have, everything that we own, everything that we wear, everything that we drive, everything that we live in, every breath that we take, it all belongs to God, when we live that way and believe that it should be easy to give with the right heart.
Tyler Lynde: It should be the easiest thing and it should bring us such great joy to be able to do that Now.
Tyler Lynde: This isn't just a skit that I'm going to do right now.
Tyler Lynde: This is for real.
Tyler Lynde: I was praying about what I should do this morning and I felt like the Lord spoke to me, that I was supposed to come to Michaela and I was supposed to give her this gift and to say to her the Lord sees you and he knows you and he loves you, and this is a gift from him.
Tyler Lynde: It's not from me, it's from him, and he just wants to be a blessing to you and to let you know that he's your father and he loves you and you can put your trust in him completely.
Tyler Lynde: Okay, love you.
Tyler Lynde: Thank you, lord.
Tyler Lynde: What is our assurance?
Tyler Lynde: Your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Tyler Lynde: See, our Father sees everything and he loves to ultimately reward those who act with genuine sincerity instead of seeking public praise.
Tyler Lynde: There isn't a thing that we do for Him out of a right heart that he doesn't see and take note of.
Tyler Lynde: He takes note when we are obedient to him and we have the right heart, the right motivation when we do it.
Tyler Lynde: He's a doting father For all the parents and, I should say, all of the grandparents in the room.
Tyler Lynde: How much of your percentage of your conversation is about you talking about those little ones?
Tyler Lynde: Did you see what they did today?
Tyler Lynde: He's a doting father.
Tyler Lynde: He loves to celebrate his children's joyful obedience.
Tyler Lynde: It should be the cry of our hearts to hear our father say well done, my good and faithful servant.
Tyler Lynde: Let's pray together.
Tyler Lynde: Father, I thank you.
Tyler Lynde: I thank you for this church.
Tyler Lynde: I thank you, lord, that this church is such a generous church.
Tyler Lynde: Father, I thank you for all of the individuals that make up this body, and I thank you for the heart that's behind the desire to be a blessing to others and to recognize that everything that we have is a gift from you.
Tyler Lynde: I ask that you'd help us, lord, to run away from hypocrisy and to make sure that our heart's motivations are right.
Tyler Lynde: And we know that the Holy Spirit is the one that's working on the inside of us to bring us to the place of recognizing our need for change in these areas.
Tyler Lynde: And so, lord, we ask that you'd help us.
Tyler Lynde: Help us to change, father.
Tyler Lynde: Help us to change, help us to share your heart of compassion, lord.
Tyler Lynde: I'm so reminded of the many times where Jesus had compassion on people and he reached out and he met them at the point of their need.
Tyler Lynde: Father, would you give us your heart for those who are hurting?
Tyler Lynde: Would you give us your heart for those who are in great need today?
Tyler Lynde: And, lord, would you also give us the provision that we need?
Tyler Lynde: We thank you that every blessing comes from you, and we do want to be a blessing to others.
Tyler Lynde: We ask that you would funnel finances and other things that are needed, resources in our lives and through our lives to others.
Tyler Lynde: And, lord, let it be said, god is glorified by Trinity Community Church because of the heart of the people to help those who are in desperate need of help.
Tyler Lynde: Thank you for doing these things in Jesus' name, amen.