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Stop 9 Church
Uncomfortable Love (Part 1)
Morning. Just a quick announcement before we get started. It's time for our March Madness bracket again.
Speaker 2:So we're going to. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you for that. Appreciate that. So we've got some. We did 32 songs this year instead of 64. We made it a little easier on you. So, before you leave today, I think we're going to have some folks out here in the foyer Make sure you pick up a bracket, pick your favorite songs on there, and then I think we're going to have some folks out here in the foyer. Make sure you pick up a bracket, pick your favorite songs on there, and then I think our March Madness Sunday is going to be the 23rd. So if we could have these back in two weeks, then we'll narrow it down to some of our favorites and we'll do that again. A fun thing to find out some of the favorite songs that we like singing.
Speaker 1:All right, let's begin our worship with a word of prayer. Father, thank you for your family that is here this morning and thank you for the opportunity to gather here, and we just thank you for everything that you do for us, for your son, for the Holy Spirit that you sent for us. We thank you for the way you bless us and take care of us, and, father, we just want to never take those blessings for granted. We want to thank you for everything, and we want to show the world what is different about us, what gives us our peace and our hope and our patience. We just want to be more like Jesus. Father, help us learn to do that, help us be encouraged to do that, and, holy Spirit, we just invite you in here this morning to cover us and encourage us, and we thank you for your son, father, for what he did for us, for dying for us, and it's in his name we pray, amen, amen.
Speaker 2:Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord, our God. Will you pray with all your power While we try to preach the word, all is vain unless the spirit, unless the spirit of the Holy One comes down. Brethren, pray, and holy manna Will be showered all around. Let us love our God supremely. Let us love each other too. Let us love and pray for sinners till our God makes all things new. Then he'll call us home to heaven. At his table we'll sit down. Christ will gird himself and serve us with sweet manna all around. O that thou wouldst bless me, lord. Bless thou me indeed. Give me the things I lack. O Lord, grant my every need need.
Speaker 2:Lord, enlarge my coast. I pray. Thine hand be with me. Help me to do just as you say, that I may please thee From all evil. Keep thou me. Evil brings such pain. When tempted, I will turn to thee lest I live in vain in the harvest field of ripen. There's a work for all to do. Hark, the voice of God is calling To the harvest, calling you.
Speaker 2:Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus' name. Does the place you're called to labor seem so small and little known? It is great if God is in it and he'll not forget his own. Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. For fame, there's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name. Are you laid aside from service, body worn from toil and care? You can still, body worn from toil and care, you can still be in the battle In the sacred place of prayer.
Speaker 2:Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it If you'll go in Jesus' name when the conflict here is ended and our race on earth is run. He will say if we are faithful, welcome home my child, welcome my child. Well done. Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it If you'll go in Jesus' name.
Speaker 3:Good morning. I wanted to share with you real quickly before we dismiss the kids for class. Last week we went to Gatlinburg, tennessee, for Winterfest, and while we were there, we had four teenagers give their life to Christ. And so, quentin, if you're here, stand up. Just stand up. This is Quentin. Wyatt is over there as well. Wyatt, lily I don't know if Lily's here, I didn't see Lily yet and Andrew yet, and Andrew, and then he's going to thump me in a second. But also, once we got back, cooper McManaway also gave his life to Christ this week too. So Cooper's over there, and I believe we're going to have some more later this afternoon. So God is doing some incredible things.
Speaker 3:So our scripture reading today is Luke, not John. I have no idea why John is up there. This is Luke, luke 10, 41 through 42. It says but the Lord said to her my dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details. There is only one thing worth being concerned about, and Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her. All right, let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this morning. God, we thank you for an opportunity to get together as family, to sing and to praise and to worship you for who you are. God, we're thankful for your love. We're thankful for your son, jesus and his example and what he taught us to do how to interact and how to love people and God. We're thankful for your Spirit, the thing that guides us and points us back to you. It's in your Son's name that we pray. Amen. Good morning, alright.
Speaker 3:We're going to start a new series this week and we're going to talk about this idea of uncomfortable love, and really what we're going to talk about is the idea of conflict. Conflict is a disagreement or an argument between two people or groups, or even within a person. You may experience conflict. Conflict can arise for many different reasons different values, goals and opinions and basically, when you just add people into a mix, there's going to be conflict, and so I do not like conflict. If you know me at all, I'm the peacemaker guy. I'm the guy that doesn't want anybody upset. I don't want to make anybody mad. If you call me about the youth center and want to rent it and it's already taken, I can tell you that I'm going to pace in the hallway trying to figure out how I'm going to tell you what's already taken, because I don't want you to be mad and upset. That's just who I am. I don't like conflict.
Speaker 3:However, I did grow up being the baby child in my family and it's an unwritten rule that if you are the baby in the family, you are the conflict creator. Nobody tells you that, but as the youngest kid, you just figure that out, that it's your goal or it's your responsibility to just provide conflict amongst the family and it's your job to get the older brother in trouble. And so I grew up with an older brother. He's two years older than me, he's here, he's coming up on stage. He doesn't know that, so go ahead and have a seat in that chair up there, brother.
Speaker 3:And I just want to share with you guys a story from our childhood. And Justin had no idea that this was going to happen because I didn't want him to make anything up. This is all factual and true. To make anything up, this is all factual and true. And so, growing up, we grew up.
Speaker 3:You know we had a Game Boy Kind of looked like this. This is a fake knockoff that I've gotten my kids because they don't deserve the real one yet. But I had a lime green Game Boy Game Boy color, and I think for a time we only had one. We had one, and so we had to share. And when you have family and you share something, there's never conflict. You always work it out and it's just never going to be conflict.
Speaker 3:And so the beauty in the Game Boy was that you could take it in the car, and so I want you to go with us for a minute. We're in the car and it's 2003. And I don't know what mom and dad were driving at that time. Do you remember? At one point it was a Chevy Impala. So we can envision ourselves in the Chevy Impala. And as the baby I always got to start with the Game Boy, and so I would have the Game Boy and we would have the yellow Pokemon game in there and we'd be playing, and after a while Justin would say is it my turn?
Speaker 1:Is it my turn?
Speaker 3:And I would say something like not yet, I just got it. We just started driving, I'd be playing, be playing. And then Justin would ask again not yet, I just got it, we just started driving, I'd be playing. And then Justin would ask again is it my turn? And so eventually I would hand this over. I didn't want to give it to him, I wanted it back.
Speaker 3:And so after some time, a couple minutes, I would say loudly Justin, it's my turn for the Game Boy, trying to just get the attention of my mom and dad just a little bit. They wouldn't turn around because they were used to this, because as parents, you know, you kind of mute some things out. As a parent I've developed that now, and so you don't turn around over every occasion, you just kind of monitor the occasion. So I'm in the back and I've already said once Justin, it's my turn for the Game Boy. Nobody's, no response. And Justin's over there thinking I just got this thing, it's still on the startup screen and he would do that. That's what he would do.
Speaker 3:And so I would say a little bit louder, I would say no, stay over there. I would say Justin, you've had that thing forever, it's my turn. Still didn't get a reaction. And so, as the youngest kid and if you're the baby in the family I got a trick for you today. It works about 85% of the time. So I would take my left hand and I would reach it out, I would take my right hand and I would raise it real high and I would say one last time. I would say Justin, give me the Game Boy. No response, and I would go ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh ahhhh, ahhhh, justin hit me, my mom wouldn't even turn around.
Speaker 3:She would just say Justin, give the Game Boy to your brother. But mom and I would be over here like, and he would get mad. And then when we got home into the bedroom he would close the door and I would get thumped or I'd cut the curtains. Yeah, we do have this running thing in our family. Somebody cut the curtains when we were children. It was Justin, but it's still a running thing. I don't know why. But so as a kid, so as an adult, I don't like conflict, but as a kid I was all about it. That worked almost all the time. Justin hated it. He got the bad end of it because mom wouldn't even always turn around, because dad would just be up front. I'll turn this car around. And mom was tired of dealing with it. So she just say Justin, give the game boy to your brother. And so then he was in trouble. So guess who got the game boy the whole time? Oh yeah. And then I knew on the way home it was going to get dark and the game boy didn't have a light on the screen, so nobody was going to get to play with it. So I got all all my time in the afternoon. So, hey, you can have a seat now. Seat now, thanks brother.
Speaker 3:All right, so you add people into the mix. You're going to get a conflict because there's always people that have different opinions, people wanting to strive for their own goals and things like that. So you're always going to have conflict. It's always going to exist. I can create conflict in here this morning by just saying one sentence Raising canes is overrated. Half of you are looking for a new church. Raising canes is overrated. But the truth is I don't even have to make a statement this morning because, statistically, there's probably already a conflict that's happening between somebody in this room. Two people walked in here this morning at conflict with one another. Because people are people. That's a simple answer. People are people. We get upset. So conflict is always going to exist and it's always going to be around.
Speaker 3:So over the next few weeks we're going to try to figure out how we should handle it. We're going to look at some Scripture, look at some stories where there was conflict in the Bible and see what happens throughout Scripture. So our story today is in Luke 10. We jump into a situation with two sisters. And there would never be conflict amongst two sisters. Right, that's not going to happen. Right, barry, you had four daughters. They're angels. Right, they played some fit. There's never going to be conflict with the sisters.
Speaker 3:Well, we pick up in Luke 10. We'll go ahead and read that Verse 38-40. It says as Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where there was a woman named Martha, who welcomed Him into her home. Her sister, mary, sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he taught, but Martha was distracted by the big dinner that she was preparing. And so you have Mary and Martha, and they find out that Jesus is coming into town. Now they would have somewhat of a relationship with Jesus. Their brother, lazarus, is going to be one of His best friends, and so Mary and Martha know who Jesus is. And so when they find out Jesus is coming into town, they think to themselves we have to have Him over at our house.
Speaker 3:And way back in Bible times you also cleaned your house to make it look like nobody lived there when a guest was coming over. And so Mary and Martha are preparing the house for Jesus. There's almost like an extra pressure because it's Jesus who's coming to the house. So Mary and Martha are getting everything ready at the house and they're waiting for Jesus to arrive. But the issue is that they have different agendas for what's going to happen when Jesus enters the home. Martha is going to keep busy. She's going to keep serving and cleaning as they go throughout the meal. She's going to keep herself busy and wants to do her best for Jesus. But Mary understands who's walking into the house, and so when Jesus sits down at the table and starts preaching and teaching, mary also sits down and begins to listen.
Speaker 3:We didn't read it yet, but while Martha is working, she's starting to get a little bit frustrated. She's frustrated by what's happening. She kind of notices Martha as she's walking around getting the dishes prepared and getting all the food ready and setting things up. She's noticing that now she is the only one that is working. And so in every single conflict that you find yourself in, there's always an issue, because somebody believes something, maybe about the other person, or there's maybe a lie that they're believing that's leading to this conflict.
Speaker 3:And so this morning, as we kind of dive into this story, I think Martha is choosing to believe two things in this moment, because, I want you to understand, she's getting frustrated because she's the only one doing anything. And Mary is just sitting, her sister's just sitting, but Martha is running around like crazy trying to get everything together. So there's two lies that I think Martha believes. The first one is this Mary doesn't care. Because Mary isn't doing exactly what Martha is doing, then she obviously doesn't care. This may sound crazy, but Martha is trying to do her best and she's trying to serve in the best way possible. She's trying to serve Jesus in the way that she thinks she can. But because Mary's not doing the same thing, there's this belief that pops in her head that Mary just doesn't care. She's just sitting there. I'm doing all the work, she doesn't even care. We see that over time One generation does one thing and then the next generation does another thing, and maybe we're left thinking my generation doesn't even care.
Speaker 2:They're not doing it the way that we?
Speaker 3:did, they don't even care. Or maybe it's when you're volunteering or doing something and you look around and you go where's everybody else, right? And you're cleaning that classroom, and you look around and you go where's everybody else and you're cleaning that classroom and you're washing that classroom and you look around and you don't see anybody else. It's easy for that thought to pop into your head. Well, I'm here cleaning this room and nobody else cares. Nobody else cares that I'm doing all of this work. Well, I don't think that this is necessarily a true lie that she's believing. I think Mary cares, but Mary understands she needs to be where At the feet of Jesus. So whatever it is that's going on in her life, whatever it is that she's struggling with or going through, she has an understanding that at this current moment I don't need to keep myself busy with all of these distractions, but I need to be at the feet of Jesus. But it would be hard for Martha to see that, right, and so we can understand why Martha is a little bit frustrated, because she's looking around while everybody else is sitting. It feels like she's the only one doing any kind of work. So it's an easy thing for her to fall into. The second lie that I think she's somewhat believing is that her worth is found in her work, and unfortunately, there are so many people that are in that same spot that we think that our work defines our worth. And unfortunately, we live in a world with social media where everything on social media creates this idea that you constantly have to be chasing something else, that where you're at in this current moment isn't good enough, that you have to keep working and you have to keep striving, and you have to keep working and you have to keep striving and you have to keep going. And so Martha is on this non-stop movement trying to get the house ready, because she wants everything to be done, she wants everything to look good and she wants everybody to be taken care of. Some of us walk in here each and every week exhausted because we're doing the same thing. We're taking care of everybody else, we're trying to make sure everybody else is doing good, we're trying to make sure everybody else is in a good spot, but we're not necessarily taking care of our self. That's where Martha is at. She's caught up in this struggle and this idea of trying to take care of everybody else and trying to make everything look nice and make everything look like it's taken care of, but she's running around spiritually on empty and some of us this morning walk in here on a spiritual empty because we're taking care of everybody else. Does that make sense? Where Martha is at, can you understand where her thinking possibly is? And so she hasn't stopped and she's getting distracted. Here's what we read. It says but Martha was distracted by the big dinner that she was preparing and so I put this on our outline and hopefully this makes sense. As we keep going.
Speaker 3:Sometimes our service can be an obstacle for our relationship for Jesus. Sometimes we can get caught up in distractions and busyness that we forget to build our relationship with Jesus. Her service is great. She's trying to do what is best, but in the midst of her desire to serve, she's getting distracted and not noticing who is in the room. In the midst of plating everything and getting all of the food ready, she's distracted and doesn't even realize that Jesus is in the room.
Speaker 3:So when we get distracted and busy, it leads to these five things. I'm going to put five things up here. The first one is anxiousness. The second thing is frustration. When we're busy and distracted, we find ourselves being anxious, we find ourselves being frustrated. We find ourselves being frustrated. We get to this feeling of feeling overwhelmed. We get to this moment where we're discontent, where we're not happy about anything. Nothing really brings us joy and then we get to this moment of resentment. We're frustrated by everybody that's even around us. These all add up when we're distracted and busy.
Speaker 3:For me personally, when I look at those lists, I get all of those ways. When I get overwhelmed, when I get busy or distracted and I take my focus off what God wants me to do and I focus on me and everything that I have going on in my life, I get overwhelmed. And when I get overwhelmed, I get anxious. I never thought I would be on in my life. I get overwhelmed, and when I get overwhelmed, I get anxious. I never thought I would be a person with anxiety, but I do struggle with it. I was always a positive Polly, not always anymore. I have anxiety, I have worries.
Speaker 3:When things get overwhelming, I get frustrated. But remember I told you at the beginning I'm not a person that likes conflict, so you're not going to know that I'm frustrated. You know who knows that I'm frustrated? My wife. Isn't that silly how we do that to the people we love. Isn't that a silly concept that you take out your anger and your frustration on the people that you love. And so Morgan will understand that There'll be moments where I lash out at one of the kids and she'll be like why don't you just take a minute? We get that way, but I think it's oftentimes because all of these things build up, we get distracted in the busyness and they lead to all these things. Martha is experiencing all of these things and what it has done is it has shifted her focus from her relationship with Jesus to her busyness. All of this busyness, all of these distractions that she's got herself caught up in, shifts her focus off of Jesus into everything that she has going on, and Satan loves when that happens. Satan loves when stuff gets in our way and takes our eyes off of Jesus. So we look at the rest of the story. What is Mary doing? This is what we know that Mary is doing. Her sister, while she is cleaning and doing all the work, we find Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus listening to what he taught.
Speaker 3:We learn a few things from Mary as we read through this. The first thing is this is that she understood and knew that she needed to be with Jesus. She's there, listening, knowing that her life is about learning and living like Jesus. So she finds herself sitting there at the feet of Jesus. She understands who he is and why it's important to be there. That's the first thing we learn about Mary. The second thing that we learn about Mary is she didn't care to break the norm. I read this story the first time and I thought man, good for Mary. She saw Jesus in the room and she went and sat down and listened to Jesus. Good for her. Then you read through this story again and you start thinking about the context of when this story took place and the cultural norm would have been not for her to be sitting at the feet of Jesus. The cultural norm would have been for her to prepare and get everything ready. She wouldn't have had a seat there with Jesus. She would have been the one that was supposed to prepare, to cook and to take care of everyone. But almost in a radical move, she stops all of that and she sits at the feet of Jesus Because she knew that's where she needed to be. She knew that's where love was going to be found. She knew that at the feet of Jesus is where transformation was going to take place. And so at the feet of Jesus, at the feet of the Messiah, the Savior, the Kings of Kings, is where Mary finds herself. She makes herself present with Jesus.
Speaker 3:Many of us need to break the cultural norm today. The cultural norm today is for us to fill our schedule so jam-packed full that there's not an open day on our schedule. The cultural norm today is for you to sign up your kid for everything possible because they can't possibly miss out or not have an experience that somebody else has. I can say all that because we're in the midst of this. There's so much pressure from the cultural norm to do every single thing possible because you don't want to miss out, and so some of us need to be like Mary this morning. I need to be like Mary this morning and I need to break the cultural norm. I need to make the radical move to break from the norm and take time to get to the feet of Jesus. I need to put my phone down so that I have an opportunity to get to the feet of Jesus, because our phones are distracting. Some of us need to unschedule things so that we can get our family to the feet of Jesus. That's what Mary was doing in this moment. The cultural norm would have said, hey, you keep busy, you keep working, you're not supposed to sit at the feet of Jesus. But she made the radical move and said no, that's where I need to be. Many of us need to make the same move.
Speaker 3:I've been meeting with a group of guys from Muskingum. They play baseball. There's about five of them. I never knew these kids, I just knew one of them and we started talking about this idea of starting a Bible study and he said well, I know a couple guys on the team that might want to be a part of it. And so there's about five guys from the Muskingum baseball team that want to have a Bible study. They pick Friday as the day that they want to have it. Any guess at what time they want to meet on Fridays? 8 am.
Speaker 3:19-year-old, 18-year-old college kids said 8 am is when I want to have a Bible study. And so here I am going, man, that's the day I try to take off, that's the day I kind of like sit and watch SportsCenter for a little bit. But 8 am on Friday is when they want to meet Because they have practice from 5 to 7.30 and they said we'll just come right after and then we have class at 9 am and then we're going to have baseball and our schedules are going to be super busy but we can fit. We want to get to the feet of Jesus at 8 am on Friday. I got a call a couple weeks ago from one of the guys and he said hey, baseball practice got moved and it's going to be till 9 am on this friday. And so I was expecting hey, let's just wait until next week. You know what they said hey, let's meet on thursday at 8 am because they have a desire to be in the word, so they can find themselves at the feet of jesus. They're adjusting their schedule. They're breaking the cultural norm, because the cultural norm doesn't tell a college kid to have a bible study. That's not the norm. You know that. So that's what they did.
Speaker 3:And the last thing we learned from Mary is we need to don't write here. Do not write here. There's a different word that I want to use. We need to listen to his words, because sometimes we hear and we don't listen. My mom used to grab my face and say Josh, I need you to listen, not just hear me. I never knew what she meant, but I was always the kid that was like squirrel and she'd grab my face and she'd say, josh, what I'm telling you I want you to listen to, because there's a difference. Sometimes we just hear. We hear lots of things. I hear lots of noises. Right now, during communion, we heard 25 kids in this area making all that noise. We hear lots of things, which is such a cool thing. Morgan, counted from Tim and Deb down as 25 children, isn't that cool. That's an awesome thing. But sometimes I hear, but I don't listen.
Speaker 3:And so Mary finds herself at the feet of Jesus listening to what he is talking about. But it all leads to this moment. Martha finally snaps you ever had a moment where you snapped? Yeah, martha finally gets to that point. The frustration, the resentment, yeah, martha finally gets to that point. The frustration, the resentment, the overwhelming feeling gets to that moment. So she comes to Jesus. This is Martha. She came to Jesus and said Lord, doesn't it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits there while I do all the work and you feel the frustration? Isn't it unfair that she's just sitting there and I'm doing it all. Then the Lord said to her my dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details. There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it and it will not be taken away from her. Jesus, in the most loving way that he can, says oh dear, oh dear Martha, I know you're frustrated, I know you're upset, I know you're angry, I know you're overwhelmed. I know you've got a whole lot going on, martha, but your sister, she's not in the wrong, she's discovered where she needs to be.
Speaker 3:Other versions say Martha, martha, can't you just sense the love in that? Martha, martha, just take a deep breath. Take a deep breath, relax, understand that your sister has discovered it. She needs to be here because it's here, at the feet of Jesus, that you can find peace, love and joy. I wonder how many times God is in heaven going. Oh, dear Josh, oh Joshua, joshua, would you just quit worrying about everything and just fall at my feet, or you'll discover peace and joy.
Speaker 3:You see, the true conflict was with nobody but herself. Martha was wrapped up in this idea that everything had to be put together for Jesus, everything had to be just perfect for Jesus and everything had to be ready for Jesus. And Jesus in this moment just kind of says Martha, stop, what your sister's doing is right where she needs to be. We don't read anymore. But I imagine Jesus kind of patting the ground and saying come here, martha, have a seat too, just relax. You see, martha wanted everything to be perfect for Jesus to be able to be there.
Speaker 3:Many of us live the same way. We think we've got to have everything perfect before I can be in a relationship with Jesus. That's not what he calls us to. Jesus wants us. Well. She came to unbalance, so the true conflict was with nobody but herself. She became unbalanced. I think that's on your outline. Jesus wants us to serve him, but he also wants us to spend time with Him, to listen and to grow in our relationship with Him. Without this balance, our service becomes a burden rather than a joy. Some of us have got ourselves so distracted in everything that's going on in this life that our service is now a burden instead of a joy, and that's what the Lord wants us to be. He wants it to be a joy, and that's what the Lord wants us to be, wants it to be a joy.
Speaker 3:Let's pray, father. We thank you so much for this day. God, we thank you for the way that you work in our lives. God, we're thankful for your love and, god, I pray that we can learn from Mary and that we can prioritize our time with you, especially in a world that only encourages us and motivates us to be busy. May we make time to spend time with you and, father, let us learn from Martha that we can bring our worries and our frustrations to you, knowing that you can handle them. Lord, help us in these moments. May we trust that in your presence, that we can find peace, purpose and our true fulfillment. Thank you for Jesus and it's in His name we pray Amen.
Speaker 3:So over the next few weeks we're going to just start looking at different stories where conflicts take place, and many times some of the conflicts start within ourself. It's really a struggle and a battle that we're having within ourself and I think that's what happens here with Martha. She's really struggling with this idea of what she's supposed to do and Jesus shows her to just take a moment, to take a break and find herself at the feet of Jesus.
Speaker 1:I must tell Jesus all of my trials.
Speaker 2:I cannot bear these burdens alone. In my distress he kindly will help me. He ever loves and cares for His own, cares for his own. I must tell Jesus. I must tell Jesus I cannot bear my burdens alone. I must tell Jesus. I must tell Jesus, jesus can help me, jesus alone. Oh how the world to evil allures me. Oh how my heart is tempted to sin. I must tell Jesus and he will help me. Over the world, the victory to win. I must tell Jesus. I must tell Jesus.
Speaker 2:I cannot bear my burdens alone. I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus Jesus can help me, jesus alone how deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure that he should give his only son to make a wretch his treasure. How great the pain of searing loss the father. The pain of searing loss. The Father turns His face away as wounds which mar the Chosen One bring many sons to glory. Behold the man upon the cross, my sin upon his shoulders, on his shoulders ashamed. I hear my mocking voice Call out among the scoffers it was my sin that held him there until it was accomplished. His dying breath has brought me life. I know that it is finished. I will not boast in anything, no gifts, no power, no wisdom, but I will boast in Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection. Why should I gain from His reward? I cannot give an answer, but this I know with all my heart. His wounds have paid my ransom.
Speaker 1:Amen. God bless you everybody. Have a great week. Make sure to pick up your bracket on the way out the door. Tell somebody about Jesus this week.