SPEAKER_00: We are in the third part of our four-part series on entitled Until He Comes.
SPEAKER_00: Voltaire, the French philosopher, said, Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
SPEAKER_00: I like this quote.
SPEAKER_00: It's a good quote.
SPEAKER_00: But I want to add one thing to Voltaire's statement.
SPEAKER_00: Work spares us from distraction.
SPEAKER_00: To our knowledge, what we have recorded in the Bible, this sermon, Matthew chapter 24 and 25, is Jesus' final sermon right before he heads to the cross.
SPEAKER_00: The Olivet sermon is known as the Olivet sermon.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus spends 62 verses, the vast majority of this sermon, talking about encouraging humanity to be ready for his return.
SPEAKER_00: There's that saying that we should listen to people's last words.
SPEAKER_00: And the last words that Jesus gave, some of those last words were encouragement.
SPEAKER_00: His last sermon was encouragement for us to be ready for when Jesus would come.
SPEAKER_00: And last week we looked at some of the things that can distract us, that may distract us from good things that we often don't consider as distraction.
SPEAKER_00: These are good things, just the ordinariness of life, just the routine of life, which can feel good.
SPEAKER_00: I'd have to tell you, my kids went back to school this week, and oh man, there was this routine of life that's gone back to normal.
SPEAKER_00: It's nice when you get into that routine.
SPEAKER_00: The Zinky family has a lot of folk here because Kirsten and Jeff are going to uh be getting married in just a few days or maybe a day.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: I think it's a day, right?
SPEAKER_00: It's tomorrow, yeah.
SPEAKER_00: And uh we welcome all of you.
SPEAKER_00: I'm supposed to be there, so I should probably know what day it is.
SPEAKER_00: But uh, you know, one of the blessings of life is is is yes, there's the the honeymoon phase and everything, but also just sometimes that routine.
SPEAKER_00: But sometimes those routines can become distractions.
SPEAKER_00: Some of these blessings can become distractions in life.
SPEAKER_00: There's there's many things that can become distractions.
SPEAKER_00: Well, today, as I said in this penultimate sermon of this four-part series, we're gonna talk about how to avoid maybe that distraction.
SPEAKER_00: How can we avoid that distraction?
SPEAKER_00: In this chapter, chapter 25 of Matthew, and if you have your Bibles, you can start to get them out now.
SPEAKER_00: Matthew chapter 25, uh, there are three illustrations that Jesus spoke of.
SPEAKER_00: We are going to narrow in on the middle illustration for this sermon, but let me give you kind of a singular survey and uniting aspect of all three illustrations.
SPEAKER_00: In the context of this message and what I want to focus on today, one of the things that unites all three of these stories is the encouragement that Jesus gives, that we see from Jesus, that we have a task to do, that we have an assignment to undertake that we are to fulfill.
SPEAKER_00: In the first parable, the bridegroom that is there in your Bibles, and we're not going to go through it, but the assignment for the ten virgins or bridesmaids, as we would call them, is actually to accompany, to accompany the bridegroom to the wedding.
SPEAKER_00: We don't often, when we when we talk about this passage in the Bible, we usually focus on the oil, which is a good sermon, or we focus on how the the bridesmaids, the ten virgins, fell asleep, and that's also a good sermon, but we lose sight that all of this was in the context of a work that they were called to do.
SPEAKER_00: Dr.
SPEAKER_00: Craig Keener wrote the following, one of my favorite uh commentators.
SPEAKER_00: He wrote, To participate in their friend's wedding was a great honor.
SPEAKER_00: As virgins, these young women were in a sense practicing for their own impending weddings around the ages of 12 to 16.
SPEAKER_00: But to have spoiled the wedding for her by failing to do their appropriate part was a great insult to their friend and to the groom and to the guests.
SPEAKER_00: The the words that Keener uses there, I like in there, participate, practice, do their appropriate part.
SPEAKER_00: These are all words of activity.
SPEAKER_00: In the last illustration that's here in the book of Matthew, chapter 25, Jesus clearly illuminates that the principle that we are to the principle that we are to be caring for those amongst us that are in need as we prepare for his return.
SPEAKER_00: Matthew chapter 25, verses 34 through 36.
SPEAKER_00: Come, you are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from that foundation of the world.
SPEAKER_00: For I was hungry and you gave me food.
SPEAKER_00: I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink.
SPEAKER_00: I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
SPEAKER_00: I was naked and you clothed me.
SPEAKER_00: I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison, and you came to me.
SPEAKER_00: Here is the principle of all of Matthew chapter 25.
SPEAKER_00: Waiting for Christ's return and being ready for it are not passive matters.
SPEAKER_00: They are not passive matters.
SPEAKER_00: We are not just to say, okay, I understand the truth, I understand Jesus' coming, so I'm just gonna sit back and wait on whenever that happens.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna, not gonna be a part of anything, not gonna do anything.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll show up at church once a week.
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SPEAKER_00: Readiness for Jesus, waiting for Christ's return and being ready for that day are not passive matters.
SPEAKER_00: Don't be distracted was the theme of last week's message.
SPEAKER_00: Don't be distracted by the good things, the things that we sometimes overlook.
SPEAKER_00: The theme of this week's message, I would say, is readiness is demonstrated through activity for the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Our readiness is demonstrated through activity for the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: So open your Bibles with me to the book of Matthew if you have not already done so.
SPEAKER_00: The book of Matthew, and we are going to be in that middle parable in Matthew chapter 25, in Matthew chapter 25, and I'll begin in verses 14 and 15.
SPEAKER_00: And one of the things that we're going to see in this is in the parable of the talents, is that we learn that readiness looks like faithful working.
SPEAKER_00: In the parable of the talents, readiness looks like faithful working.
SPEAKER_00: Beginning in verse 14, and I'll read verse 14 and 15.
SPEAKER_00: For it will be like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
SPEAKER_00: To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, and to each according to his ability, then he went away.
SPEAKER_00: Let's understand how powerful these verses are, these first few verses are.
SPEAKER_00: First, by understanding what a talent is in the context of application for us.
SPEAKER_00: In this illustration, a talent, Jesus is referring to money and a significant sum of money, which we'll get to in just a moment.
SPEAKER_00: But but in application, what Jesus is not just speaking about giving your money, he's also talking about all the other talents that you have in your life.
SPEAKER_00: JC Rile, who is uh was a preacher and a commentator or a Bible scholar, he said, anything whereby we may glorify God is a talent.
SPEAKER_00: Our gifts, our influence, our money, our knowledge, our health, our strength, our time, our senses, our reason, our intellect, our memory, our affections, our privileges as members of Christ's church, our advantages as possessors of the Bible, or as possessors of the Bible, all of these, all are talents.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, anything that you have, basically what he's saying in your life, any any opportunity, any experience that you have in your life, is an opportunity to be used for God.
SPEAKER_00: Think of it like this any advantages you have are a talent.
SPEAKER_00: And by the way, any disadvantages that you think you have can also be turned into a talent.
SPEAKER_00: I was with a friend of mine, Ed, at a baseball game this week.
SPEAKER_00: We saw his Orioles lose to the Yankees.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not happy about that.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying that for anyone to cheer or anything.
SPEAKER_00: I prefer the Orioles over the Yankees as well.
SPEAKER_00: But he was there.
SPEAKER_00: We were there at the baseball game, and I've been going to many baseball games over the years with uh with Ed, and Ed always brings with him in a little bag that he carries, he brings with him uh steps to Christ, and he'll bring like toothbrushes and toothpaste and various other things.
SPEAKER_00: He'll put some money in the steps to Christ, and he, after the baseball game's over, as we're walking out, he'll hand these books to various people asking for money.
SPEAKER_00: And he'll give them the money, but he'll also give them the book and he'll say, and he has a note that he's prepared in it that says, you know, I just want you to have this.
SPEAKER_00: And he says, if you don't want to read it yourself, please share it with someone else.
SPEAKER_00: Don't just throw it away.
SPEAKER_00: And so I said to Eddie, I've seen him do this for years.
SPEAKER_00: We've been going to baseball games together for years, and I see, and I said to him, I said, Hey Ed, when did you start doing this?
SPEAKER_00: And he tells me, you know, several years ago he started doing it.
SPEAKER_00: He tells me now that he takes him on vacations and his vacations are so much better because he's giving out these books on vacation.
SPEAKER_00: I asked him if his wife does it too, and he said, She knows I love it.
SPEAKER_00: I I don't know if that means she doesn't do it or but and I said, Oh, that's great.
SPEAKER_00: And then he said to me, he said, when people ask me questions about the Bible or about Jesus or whatever, I find that I get tongue-tied and and that I that I stumble over my words, and that I don't speak well in those moments.
SPEAKER_00: And so this is something I can do.
SPEAKER_00: And I thought, you know, all the times I've heard people say, Well, I can't do this or I can't do that.
SPEAKER_00: Here he's something that could be looked at as a disadvantage.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Okay, I can take this moment and I can turn it into an opportunity to use my talents for God.
SPEAKER_00: And that's what he's done.
SPEAKER_00: Your talents are the opportunities, whether from your advantages or your disadvantages, your opportunities in your job, your opportunities in your neighborhood, your opportunities, of course, in your home, your opportunities in your schooling.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe there's people in your life that God has put in your life, and you're like wondering, why is that person there?
SPEAKER_00: Maybe God has some talent in your life that He wants you to use to bless them.
SPEAKER_00: And of course, there are the spiritual gifts.
SPEAKER_00: Those are talents as well that God has given you.
SPEAKER_00: One of the things that the church, the global church, is going to be asking us to do is to use an opportunity that we have at our fingertips, all of us, to be witnesses around the world.
SPEAKER_00: It's the initiative called One Voice27.
SPEAKER_00: And you're going to be hearing about this a little bit more in a few weeks.
SPEAKER_00: But this is basically saying that that tool, that that device that you have and the social medias you have on there, whether it's LinkedIn or Strava, yes, exercisers, Strava is a social media, uh, or Instagram or whatever it may be, Facebook, whatever it is that you have, basically saying, I'm gonna take this opportunity to have, this it's not just gonna be a social thing for me, it's not just gonna be an entertainment for me, it's not just gonna be something that I can utilize my time or waste my time on, and it's very addicting, we all know that.
SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna use this as an opportunity to tell people about Jesus, to share Jesus with others.
SPEAKER_00: That is a talent.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm so we're not talking about skills, we're talking about talents, just the ability to do something for the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: How did Ryle say it?
SPEAKER_00: He said it like this anything where we may glorify God is a talent.
SPEAKER_00: Anything where you may glorify God in the context of this message and this principle and the application of this message is a talent.
SPEAKER_00: And each of you have talents that have already beg been given to you.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 4, verses 7 through 8.
SPEAKER_00: Paul was writing, he says, But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, it says, when he ascended on high, he led a host of captives and he gave gifts to men.
SPEAKER_00: He gave talents to humanity.
SPEAKER_00: Ellen White, in her writing about this parable of Jesus in the great book, Christ's Object Lessons.
SPEAKER_00: And if you've never read it, I want to encourage you to read it.
SPEAKER_00: If you have it and you want to share it with somebody, I encourage you to share it with somebody.
SPEAKER_00: Christ's Object Lessons, she wrote this great insight.
SPEAKER_00: The gifts are already ours in Christ, but their actual possession depends upon our reception of the Spirit of God.
SPEAKER_00: These aren't things that you have to say, well, I've I've got to figure it out.
SPEAKER_00: I've got, they're already yours.
SPEAKER_00: By the way, folks, just on a side note, some of us need to know this about salvation as well.
SPEAKER_00: The scripture says that Christ died for all of us once.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, salvation has already been given and extended to you.
SPEAKER_00: Your salvation is not dependent on anything you do, but it's the reception of that gift that Jesus has given you.
SPEAKER_00: The same thing that each of you have a talent, something that God can use to give glory and honor to Him.
SPEAKER_00: And you may say, Oh, I don't have it.
SPEAKER_00: No, you do.
SPEAKER_00: It's just a matter of whether or not you'll receive that talent.
SPEAKER_00: God has already given you that talent, just as He's already given you salvation as well.
SPEAKER_00: Now you may be a one-talent person, or you may be a five-talent person.
SPEAKER_00: The amount does not matter because actually both of them are extremely significant.
SPEAKER_00: Scholars state that a single talent was worth six thousand denarii.
SPEAKER_00: A denari was one day's wages.
SPEAKER_00: So this was about six thousand days' wages.
SPEAKER_00: And I read many different commentaries on this, and and they they disagree on the exact amount of that is.
SPEAKER_00: But the lowest number I saw is that 6,000 talents would be equivalent to about$350,000 in our modern uh monetary system.
SPEAKER_00: Others say it's up to$1.4 million in our monetary system.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna quibble.
SPEAKER_00: Both those numbers are really, really big to me.
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna take me many, many years and not spending a single dime to have$350,000 on my salary.
SPEAKER_00: It's probably for some of you as well.
SPEAKER_00: Either way, a talent is an enormous amount of money.
SPEAKER_00: And here is the point the immensity of the sum is intended to remind us of the preciousness of the gifts that God has entrusted to each one of us.
SPEAKER_00: That sum should be like we can just read a talent, one talent, five talents, and not think anything about it.
SPEAKER_00: But the immensity of a sum to the original hearers, they would have heard this and thought, that's a huge amount of money.
SPEAKER_00: And God's given me that.
SPEAKER_00: And whether it be one or it would be five, it's an enormous amount of money.
SPEAKER_00: To one, he gave five talents.
SPEAKER_00: To another, he gave three, or to two, to another, one, to each according to his ability.
SPEAKER_00: The opportunities that may open to any one of us as a follower of Jesus, as a disciple, those things may differ in character or in magnitude.
SPEAKER_00: It's according to whatever ability God's chosen to give us to.
SPEAKER_00: But they are all to be faithfully invested before the master returns.
SPEAKER_00: Whatever talent you have, whether you're a one-talent person or a three-talent person or a five-talent person, whatever talent you have, all of those are to be invested for God.
SPEAKER_00: And let's all be okay.
SPEAKER_00: Let's all be okay if we're one-talent people and someone else is a five-talent person.
SPEAKER_00: Let's not look upon them and say, well, I'm not a five-talent person, I can't do that, or have jealousies over those things.
SPEAKER_00: Don't spend time worrying about that.
SPEAKER_00: Know that the talent that you've had is precious and indeed beautiful and wonderful.
SPEAKER_00: The summer I was in uh California and I was at a camp meeting in California, Central California Conferences camp meeting, Soquel, not SoCal, but SoCal, right there near Santa Cruz.
SPEAKER_00: To me, it is the preeminent uh camp meeting in all of North America.
SPEAKER_00: And they have a they had a lineup of heavy hitter Aventist, famous Aventist people, as my sons refer to them as famous Aventist individuals.
SPEAKER_00: And most of these individuals in this particular case are actually friends of mine, and in some cases, very close friends of mine.
SPEAKER_00: And I was walking with one of my sons, and he asked me, How do all these famous Adventists know who you are, Dad?
SPEAKER_00: I see you get the implication.
SPEAKER_00: The implication of that statement is Dad, you're not so famous.
SPEAKER_00: So why do they know you?
SPEAKER_00: And I think to my son's credit, he's developing some social awareness.
SPEAKER_00: I think to my son's credit, he realized the implication of this question too, and he quickly said, I think you would be famous too if you had chosen to be famous, which I also found was humorous.
SPEAKER_00: And I said, Thanks, son, but I said this to him I said, Buddy, it's not about choosing.
SPEAKER_00: I said, I know these people, none of them chose to be well-known famous.
SPEAKER_00: They excel in the God-given talents and gifts that God has given to them, and He's given them platforms to use those, and they're doing so.
SPEAKER_00: Y'all, that is okay.
SPEAKER_00: If I'm a one-talent, or maybe to my son a half a talent person, that's okay.
SPEAKER_00: And someone else is a five-talent person, all of it is a lot to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: All of it is an amazing gift to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And as we see from this parable, God doesn't care if a person is one talent, has one talent or five talents.
SPEAKER_00: What God cares about is if a person uses that talent that He's given them, whatever it may be.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus just wants us to use these, and our using of these in the context of Matthew 25 is an example of our readiness.
SPEAKER_00: Readiness consists in having already faithfully discharged our responsibilities as disciples, whether they have been small or great.
SPEAKER_00: It is Jesus who allocates the scale of responsibilities.
SPEAKER_00: Our duty is merely to carry out faithfully the role that is entrusted to us.
SPEAKER_00: That's our responsibility.
SPEAKER_00: You have one talent, you have five talents, you have ten talents.
SPEAKER_00: This side over here said yes and amen over here.
SPEAKER_00: This side didn't say anything, so I'm giving them one talent, I'm giving you twenty.
SPEAKER_00: Love y'all.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_00: Our our responsibility is are we faithful with what God has entrusted to us?
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says in verse 16, he who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.
SPEAKER_00: So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.
SPEAKER_00: But he who had received the one talent talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.
SPEAKER_00: Now, after a long time, the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
SPEAKER_00: And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, Master, you delivered to me five talents.
SPEAKER_00: Here I have made five more talents.
SPEAKER_00: His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant.
SPEAKER_00: You have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much.
SPEAKER_00: Enter into the joy of your master.
SPEAKER_00: And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, Master, you delivered to me two talents here.
SPEAKER_00: I have made two talents more.
SPEAKER_00: His master said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much.
SPEAKER_00: Enter into the joy of your Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He who also had received the one talent came forward, saying, Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed.
SPEAKER_00: So I was afraid, and I went and I hid your talent in the ground.
SPEAKER_00: Here you have what is yours.
SPEAKER_00: But his master answered him, You wicked and slothful servant.
SPEAKER_00: Brothers and sisters, it's not a matter.
SPEAKER_00: To be ready is not a matter of passively waiting, but of responsible activity for the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: An activity that will produce results through the grace and the goodness of God in preparation of our coming King and our Savior.
SPEAKER_00: We are in this time of waiting right now.
SPEAKER_00: We are in a season of waiting, and no one knows the day or the hour that Jesus will return.
SPEAKER_00: Not one of us.
SPEAKER_00: But the period of waiting was not intended to be empty or mindless or inactive.
SPEAKER_00: The period of waiting is an opportunity to put to good use the talents that God has given to each one of us.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus ends this section here of the Bible saying something that we don't like to hear, but it's part of the text.
SPEAKER_00: And it says in verse 30, and he cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness in that place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
SPEAKER_00: The clear picture here is that the ones who use what God gives them, the talents that God gives them, as they wait for his return, are ready.
SPEAKER_00: And the ones who choose not to use those talents, who choose to allow them just to lay idle, are not ready.
SPEAKER_00: God expects returns on the talents that He has given to us.
SPEAKER_00: Now you may say, Pastor, don't teach salvation by works.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not teaching salvation by works.
SPEAKER_00: What I'm teaching, what I'm teaching is that our work is evidence of the salvation that we have already received.
SPEAKER_00: That's what this says.
SPEAKER_00: Our work is evidence of the salvation that we have attained through Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Ellen White said, let none of us suppose, let none of us suppose that they can live a selfishness not using talents for God.
SPEAKER_00: She's speaking about this in the same context of the parable, the talents there in Christ's object list.
SPEAKER_00: Let none of us suppose that we can live a life of selfishness and then have, then having served our own interests, enter into the joy of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: The words of a higher authority book, the Bible, of course, in 2 Corinthians chapter 8.
SPEAKER_00: For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, if you have something, your readiness is this uh is demonstrated by your willingness to give it, to share it, to pass it on to someone else.
SPEAKER_00: So let me ask you, and let me ask myself, let's ask the Holy Spirit, even in this moment, to reveal to our own hearts, to reveal to us, are we utilizing our talents as a demonstration of our readiness for Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: When we look at our own hearts, do you see readiness?
SPEAKER_00: When you think about the talents that God has given you, and think again as talents as opportunities, when you think about the opportunities that God has given you in your workplace, in your home, in your neighborhood, in the random people you run into in life, if you think about those in your school, whatever it may be, as you think about those, do you see evidence of readiness as you're using your talents for God?
SPEAKER_00: If so, praise God.
SPEAKER_00: Say amen, Lord, and keep using them for your honor and for your glory.
SPEAKER_00: If not, then pray.
SPEAKER_00: And the prayer isn't, the prayer isn't, by the way, Lord, help me to work harder, help me to do better.
SPEAKER_00: The prayer is, Lord, I'm sorry that I've not appreciated what you've done for me in such a way to share that with others.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, come into my heart and make it new.
SPEAKER_00: Make it yours.
SPEAKER_00: Change me, Lord, from the inside out.
SPEAKER_00: Folks, if you try to demonstrate your readiness without having a converted heart, you'll just burn out.
SPEAKER_00: But something happens when you fall in love with Jesus and you just can't stop talking about him.
SPEAKER_00: Some people said to me, Pastor Chad, you talk about your kids a lot.
SPEAKER_00: Do they mind?
SPEAKER_00: Thus far, no.
SPEAKER_00: But folks, half the stories I tell you about my kids, they're not even in my sermons.
SPEAKER_00: I tell you because I'm in love with them.
SPEAKER_00: And when I'm in love with Jesus, I'll be ready to use my talents for Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And the only way I fall in love with Jesus is I say, Jesus, come into my heart and change me.
SPEAKER_00: Only Jesus can do that work in you.
SPEAKER_00: So don't go out there and go, I'm gonna try to research what my talent is.
SPEAKER_00: No, go out there and say, Jesus, come into my heart today and tomorrow and the next day.
SPEAKER_00: And watch what happens.
SPEAKER_00: There's this little truth of the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: By beholding, you become changed.
SPEAKER_00: So let us behold Jesus and watch how he uses our talents to change the world.
SPEAKER_00: Lord Jesus, we thank you so much for your grace, for your mercy.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your goodness towards us.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, you have already given us the talents.
SPEAKER_00: We now ask, if we're not using those talents, that you will send the Holy Spirit into our hearts to remind us that we are deeply loved by you, that we are valued by you, and that you have saved us.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, and I pray that the goodness of God will transform us and motivate us, inspire us to share with others.
SPEAKER_00: I think of the statement that I read recently, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: It said, if we are corrected, connected, if we are connected with Christ, it doesn't matter if we're the poorest person or the most ignorant person.
SPEAKER_00: We will have power that will tell upon our hearts, that will change our hearts, and that you, God, will make us channels for the working of highest influence in this universe.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, but that all begins with you in our hearts.
SPEAKER_00: So, Jesus, my prayer right now is not that people go find some seminar to get better or go home and give themselves a pep talk.
SPEAKER_00: My prayer right now, Jesus, is that you will remind all of us that Christ in us is the hope of glory.
SPEAKER_00: Remind my heart that.
SPEAKER_00: Remind my brothers and sisters of that.
SPEAKER_00: And may that truth transform us.
SPEAKER_00: In your name I pray.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.