WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:01:23.359 Today I would like for us to consider the cross of Christ and the word of abandonment, the word of anguish, the word that Jesus spoke from the cross where he says, "Eloi, Eloi, lama, sabothani, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" The word of abandonment, the word of anguish. In Matthew's account, chapter 27, let us pick up the reading starting in verse 35. In this account there are at least four ironies of the cross. We have those that are mocking the king, they're mocking him and saying that he is powerless, they are mocking him and deriding him saying that he can't save others and then he cries out in despair. 00:01:23.359 --> 00:04:28.519 Matthew chapter 27 verse 35 we read, "And when they had crucified him they divided his garments among them by casting lots. Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And over his head they put the charge against him which read, 'This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.' When the two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left, and those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, 'You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.' So also the chief priest with the scribes and elders mocked him saying, 'He saved others, he cannot save himself. He is the king of Israel and we will believe in him. He trusting God, let him deliver him now if he desires him. For he said, 'I am the Son of God.' And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying,'Eli, Eloi, Lamasabhani.' That is, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' And some of the bystanders hearing it said, 'This man is calling Elijah.' And one of them at once ran and took a sponge and filled it with sour wine and put it on a sponge and filled it with sour wine and put it to the reed and gave it to him and took drink. But the other said, 'Let us wait and see whether Elijah will come and save him.' And Jesus cried out with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit and behold the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the tombs after the resurrection. They went into the holy city and appeared to many." Well that is the reading of the scripture there. And as I said there were four ironies, four ironies. 00:04:28.519 --> 00:05:39.519 [Silence][ Pause ][ Pause ] Perfect. 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.519 What were those four ironies? 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:52.519 The first irony is that the man who is mocked as king really and truly is king. 00:05:52.519 --> 00:06:00.519 The man who was utterly powerless is in fact the man that is all-powerful. 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:08.519 The man who didn't save himself and doesn't save himself is the only one that can truly save us. 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:18.519 Furthermore, the man who cried out in despair is really the man that trusted in God on the cross. 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:28.519 Now, a question may be is if we were to read the account that is found in this gospel or the other gospel is what does the cross mean? 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.519 What does it mean for us? 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:38.519 Well, theologically we can go to the epistles and they explain the cross of Christ to us. 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:51.519 One of the many meanings is that Christ suffered and died on the cross to provide for us the basis of our justification before God. 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:57.519 However, those of you that are reversed in your Old Testament, you know what Proverbs says. 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:22.519 "He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord." If we're fallen in Adam and if we have sinned where we have original sin and actual sin, how is it that Holy God can proclaim or announce us as being right in his sight? 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:25.519 That's a good question, isn't it? 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:33.519 Well, Romans tells us in chapter 3, if you just want to flip there, I'll hit a few passages in chapter 3 and elsewhere. 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:46.519 It says that we are justified, we're declared righteous by his grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:59.519 In other words, what happened on the cross is where God was using Jesus to legally declare us righteous, those who would believe in him. 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:12.519 Later on in chapter 3 verse 26, it says it was to show his righteousness, God's righteousness at the present time so that he might be the just and the justifier. 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:19.519 God is not going to sweep his holy demands underneath the rug at all. 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:25.519 He is just and he's the one that makes us just. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:26.519 How does this happen? 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:33.519 Well, one of the components that makes that happen is for us to believe or have faith in Christ. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:50.519 A couple of verses later in chapter 3 verse 28, we see, "For we hold that one is justified by faith." That's how it happens, by us trusting in Christ, which is apart from the law. 00:08:50.519 --> 00:09:13.519 Chapter 4 verse 5, Paul continues on helping us to explain the cross and our justification,"And to the one who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly." His faith is counted, his faith is reckoned as righteousness. 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:17.519 This is what's occurring at the cross. 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:24.519 God justifies sinners based upon the righteousness of Christ. 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:37.519 Righteousness is still upheld in Christ and then it is accrued, it is accounted on those sinners who believe in him so they are righteous. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:50.519 Furthermore, in chapter 5 verse 9, Paul says, "Since therefore we have now been justified." We've been justified by Christ blood. 00:09:50.519 --> 00:10:11.519 And if that's the case that we have been declared not guilty, he says, "Much more shall we be saved from the wrath of God." Friends, it's your end Christ. This is great news. This is the best of news. 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:19.519 Your sins are covered in the blood of the Lamb. 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:31.519 Not just the ones that you had before you believed, but the ones that you have presently committed, maybe even this morning, and the future ones. 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:45.519 He's declaring you righteous. Not because you have kept the law, but because Christ on your behalf has kept it for you. 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:51.519 Remember, Jesus came to fulfill all righteousness. 00:10:51.519 --> 00:11:02.519 If you were just declared not guilty, that would only put you back in the garden. 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:27.519 But he's saying, "Now my righteousness is your righteousness. You've met the law when it's never occurred." This is great. Not only does Christ suffering on the cross and death provide the basis of our justification, but as I have alluded, it also completes our obedience and our righteousness. 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:39.519 No doubt we could look to Romans chapter 5 verse 19, which talks about the first Adam and then discusses the last Adam. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:46.519 Our first parent in the garden represented all of us. 00:11:46.519 --> 00:12:02.519 He was in covenant relationship with God. He needed to have perfect obedience, and he failed. 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:15.519 We read in Romans chapter 5 verse 19, it says, "For as one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners." All of mankind fell in him. 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:24.519 So by one man's obedience, we just heard about the first Adam, and now here's the last Adam. 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:36.519 So by the one man's obedience, that's the Lord Jesus Christ, many will be made righteous because of his obedience. 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:40.519 No doubt you guys remember 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21. 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:44.519 It's one of those that is tattooed in our minds. 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:51.519 It is always before us because it talks so, so pointedly about the gospel. 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:55.519 What is the gospel in one verse? Here it is. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:13:12.519 It says, "For our sake, he made him to be sin, who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." Hold on, let's unpack this just for a second. 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:29.519 "For our sake, for the sake of God's elect, for the sake of those that Christ came to save." God the Father made God the Son our Lord Jesus Christ, who knew no sin. 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:40.519 He was the spotless Lamb to be sin, to be sin for us. 00:13:40.519 --> 00:14:10.519 "So that on the cross he bore the infinite wrath of God, not just for everyone who would believe in him, but for every sin that every one of them would do." Now you know that one sin would damn a person to an infinity and an eternity of wrath and condemnation, correct? 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:16.519 Now just think about, now don't think about yourself, think about somebody else, okay? 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:26.519 If somebody else was to sin not once, but twice, now there's two eternities that they need to pay because one sin is enough to damn a person to hell, correct? 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:30.519 And then they commit another one and another one and another one and another one. 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:37.519 I mean, how many sins can a person do in a day's time? 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.519 Two days' time. 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.519 A decade, two decades. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.519 How many decades have you lived? 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.519 How much judgment do you deserve? 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:52.519 How much judgment do I deserve? 00:14:52.519 --> 00:15:02.519 And yet on the cross, Christ absorbed all of that wrath in a moment. 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:05.519 Is that not amazing? 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:10.519 I don't understand that, but that's what occurred. 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:16.519 God the Father made the Lord Jesus Christ who knew no sin to be our sin. 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:29.519 He bore that wrath, He bore that judgment, He bore that condemnation so that those that believe in Him would not experience that. 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:56.519 So that they wouldn't experience the dereliction cry that He had, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?" Christ was forsaken is what we deserve. You remember on the Day of Atonement that there were two goats that were brought before the people, and they would lay their hands on that goat. 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:58.519 Why would they lay their hands on that goat? 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.519 That goat was innocent. 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:05.519 That goat had not committed any sin at all. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:10.519 And it was a transfer, it was a physical way for them to think about. 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.519 I deserve this judgment. 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:19.519 My guilt I'm placing on the head of this animal. 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:24.519 One animal was sacrificed. 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.519 That goat was the Atonement, right? 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:29.519 It was the covering. It was the covering of sin. 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.519 It was propitiation. It was the appeasement of God's wrath. 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:38.519 They deserved to die. That goat died in their place. 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:43.519 But the other goat we don't talk about as much. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:51.519 The other goat in Leviticus chapter 16 we call the scapegoat. 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:54.519 You remember that one, the scapegoat? 00:16:54.519 --> 00:17:00.519 The scapegoat was led outside the camp. 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:05.519 Remember the camp is where the presence of God is. 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:09.519 And in the center of the camp that's where the temple or the tabernacle was. 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:25.519 But no, this goat was taken from the tabernacle, from the temple, and it was led outside their camp, outside the presence of God, and was led into the wilderness. 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.519 He didn't escape. 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:35.519 He represented the abandonment of God. 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:42.519 That goat would wander away from the presence. 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.519 That's what we deserve. 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:55.519 And Christ on the cross filled all of that, all of that. 00:17:55.519 --> 00:18:07.519 His life was the life that we never lived, fulfilling every aspect of the law. 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:16.519 And that is what is credited to us when we believe in Him. 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:28.519 So that we wouldn't be that scapegoat, abandoned, forsaken, outside the presence of God. 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:35.519 The Old Testament is so full, dripping with grace all over the place. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:39.519 He's the God that is gracious and kind. 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:42.519 He's the one that provides the sacrifice. 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:49.519 He's the one that provides an atonement for us. 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:55.519 Well, if that first goat was propitiation, the scapegoat is expiation. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:02.519 He takes our sins and He sends it away as far as the east is from the west. 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:09.519 Philippians 2, verse 8, talking about Christ and being found in human form. 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:11.519 He took on flesh. He dwelt among us. 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:22.519 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient, obedient to the point of death, even the death on the cross. 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:29.519 That obedience is what is counted towards our righteousness. 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:36.519 Or later on in Philippians chapter 3, verse 9, it says that this is Paul talking about Himself. 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:46.519 He was a Pharisee. He was one of the elite ones that was separate from the common people that were God's people. 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:51.519 But no, he was saying, "I counted myself to be... 00:19:51.519 --> 00:20:05.519 Boy, I was in the right tribe. I was in the right club. I kept all the right rules." He said, "All of that I considered to be a great asset when I was a works' righteous worker. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:22.519 But then," he says, "when I came in contact with Christ, or rather when Christ came in contact with me and shown His blazing glory on that Damascus road, I saw everything that I once counted as gain. 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:30.519 I now consider loss." That which was an asset is now a liability. 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:49.519 And when he looked at Christ, he's like, "I have no righteousness." As he says in Philippians 3, 9, he says, "Not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law." I don't want any of that. That's Scrubylon. That is trash. That is something that I don't want to touch anymore. 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:55.519 My righteousness is as filthy rags. I don't want a righteousness that comes from the law. I can't do it. 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:02.519 I'm already fallen in Adam, and I've sinned since then. I'm under the judgment of God. 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:07.519 I don't want the righteousness that's tainted. 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:17.519 He says, "But he wants that which comes through faith in Christ. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:46.519 I'm going to trust in him as my Lamb, as my sacrifice, as the one that has come and fulfilled the law, that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith." Well, let's take some time and let's go back to Matthew chapter 27. 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:52.519 I've told you the meaning of the cross from the Epistles and even picking up some thoughts from the Old Testament. 00:21:52.519 --> 00:22:02.519 But what does the Gospel say about this? How would the Gospel describe for us the meaning of the cross? 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:06.519 Look at verse 45. 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:21.519 "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour." There was darkness. Jesus was probably crucified at 9 a.m. our time. 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:31.519 And then about at the sixth hour, which would have been around noon, there was darkness over all the land. 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:35.519 We might call this supernatural darkness. 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:41.519 In the Old Testament, the day of the Lord is called a day of darkness. 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:47.519 Maybe you remember that in Isaiah where it says the day of the Lord. 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:51.519 There will be the sun darkened. 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:57.519 Or in Joel when he talks about the day of the Lord, he says the sun shall be turned to darkness. 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:05.519 And Joel in the third chapter, he says the sun and the moon will be darkened. 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:10.519 Amos says the same thing in several places where there will be no light. 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:20.519 Zephaniah picks up the day of the Lord and he says will it not be thick darkness, a day of wrath, the day of the Lord? 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:27.519 Darkness is associated with judgment. 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:44.519 Maybe you remember 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 4 talking about those fallen angels that have not kept their domain, but they have been placed in chains in gloomy darkness reserved for judgment. 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:57.519 Revelation chapter 6 talks about the seal being opened up that great day where the sun became black as sackcloth. 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.519 What should we do when we look at this darkness? 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:17.519 We should see that God through the Holy Spirit is telling us that when the sun was blotted out, when darkness was over all of the land, that God is just, he is wrathful, and he punishes sin. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.519 That darkness tells you something about God. 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:25.519 He will not sweep sin underneath the rug. 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:31.519 There was darkness over all the land. 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:40.519 Not only was there darkness over all the land until the ninth hour, but look at verse 46. 00:24:40.519 --> 00:25:08.519 In about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "L.I. L.I. Lama Sabathani." And then we are given the translation because we need it. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" And there we see the sovereign departure. This is great mystery. 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:13.519 Mysteries upon all mysteries. We don't understand the Trinity. 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:20.519 We know that there is one God and three persons, and here we come across another mystery. 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:27.519 How is it that God the Son could be forsaken by God the Father? 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:31.519 We sing about it often, don't we, in our hymnbook? 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:41.519 His robes for mine on 181. It says that God is estranged from God. 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:49.519 Well, we don't want to jump into heresy by any means and saying that Jesus stopped being deity by any means. 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:54.519 No, that's not what it means. That's not what it means to be forsaken. 00:25:54.519 --> 00:26:02.519 But the relationship between them was severed in some way. 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:12.519 Just like that scapegoat was forsaken, Christ was forsaken. 00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:25.519 Furthermore, we also know that if there was this sovereign departure that this would tell us that God is holy and He is separate from sin. 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:29.519 Look at verse 50. 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:48.519 There we read, "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His Spirit." Here we see that Christ is the self, is self-giving, and is self-giving death. 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:54.519 His body was like no other body because it wasn't fallen man. 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:59.519 Let me take a little bit of your time and tell you about crucifixion. 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:04.519 Christ willed Himself to death. 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:11.519 He told His Spirit to depart from Him. You can't do that, but Christ did. 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:18.519 Understand the travesty of crucifixion by the following. 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:28.519 Crucifixion was a form of punishment that had been passed down from the Romans to the Persians, the Phoenicians, and the Carthaginians. 00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:34.519 Roman crucifixion was a lingering doom by design. 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:43.519 Roman executioners had perfected the art of slow torture while keeping the victim alive. 00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:51.519 Some victims even lingered until they were eaten alive by birds of prey or wild beasts. 00:27:51.519 --> 00:28:01.519 Most hung on the cross for days before dying of exhaustion, dehydration, traumatic fever, or most likely, suffocation. 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:11.519 When the legs would no longer support the weight of the body, the diaphragm was constricted in a way that made breathing impossible. 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:20.519 That is why the breaking of legs would hasten, but this was not done in Jesus' case. 00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:23.519 It wasn't necessary because He gave up His Spirit. 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:35.519 The hands were usually nailed through the wrist and the feet through its instep or Achilles' tendons, sometimes using one nail for both feet. 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:47.519 None of these wounds would be fatal, but their pain would become unbearable as the hours dragged on. 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:55.519 The most notable feature of crucifixion was the stigma of disgrace that was attached to it. 00:28:55.519 --> 00:29:04.519 One indignity was the humiliation of carrying one's own cross, which might weigh as much as two hundred pounds. 00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:19.519 Normally a quaternion or four soldiers would escort the prisoner through the crowd to the place of crucifixion, and a placard bearing the indictment was hung around the person's neck. 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:27.519 Why do I show all of that gruesome detail about what Christ suffered? 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.519 Because He died. 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:35.519 Not days later, but that day. 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:44.519 He yielded up His life as a substitute for those of us that deserved that death. 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:51.519 This is to demonstrate that God is gracious and loving for His people. 00:29:51.519 --> 00:30:04.519 Furthermore, we also see in verse 51, "And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." There we see the sanctuary devastation. 00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:14.519 It was torn not from the bottom up where man works their way to heaven, but no, God opens up. 00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:25.519 The Holy of Holies, the presence of God on the day of atonement when people were coming there to celebrate the Passover. 00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:28.519 Their temple was empty. 00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:31.519 Their temple was void. 00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:46.519 But God is saying, "I am making a way for heaven to come to you." This shows us that God has open arms granting access for all that would believe in His Son. 00:30:46.519 --> 00:31:04.519 Furthermore, in verse 51, we see after the curtain being torn in two, it says, "And the earth shook, and the rocks split open." Maybe we could call that soil disturbance if we're just trying to keep on alliterating things. 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:10.519 The earth shook, rocks split open. 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:16.519 Have we ever read where the kingdom of God would shake this earth? 00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:28.519 The renewing of the heavens and the earth when God would reformulate everything, God is establishing His kingdom even there. 00:31:28.519 --> 00:32:00.519 Furthermore, we read in verse 52, "The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, and they went to the holy city and appeared to many." Resurrection, it occurred after Christ, of course, because He is the first fruit. 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:05.519 But here it's telling us that death does not have the last word. 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:12.519 God is punching a hole through death and bringing forth life. 00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:19.519 And that tells us that God is life-giving. He is giving us resurrection life. 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:21.519 Isn't this glorious? 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:28.519 Obviously, we can go to the epistles to find out what the cross means. 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:36.519 But I think this text out of Matthew 27, the Holy Spirit is telling us exactly what the cross means. 00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:40.519 It is not left to one's own interpretation. 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:43.519 Well, let's praise God for all of this. 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:45.519 Bow your heads with me. 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:53.519 O Lord, we do thank You for Your goodness and for Your grace and for the cross of Christ. 00:32:53.519 --> 00:33:06.519 We ask, Lord, that You would use these words in our hearts so that we would worship Christ, so that we would submit to Christ, so that we would trust in Him and Him alone. 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:11.519 Almighty God, we do thank You for Your Son. 00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:18.519 We thank You for Your Holy Spirit that has given us Your word so that we might know You. 00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:26.519 Bless this word in our lives. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. 00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:31.519 [Music]