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Welcome to Global Harvest Calgaries Podcast, where faith becomes real and purpose comes alive. We pray that today's message helps you recognize the hand of God in your everyday life and discover the unique purpose He has placed inside you. Our heart is that you don't just hear a sermon, but truly experience his presence, his guidance, and his love in a personal way. Whether you're in a season of searching, rebuilding, or stepping into something new, you're not here by accident. God is closer than you think, and your purpose is greater than you imagine. Enjoy the message.

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Let's turn in our Bibles, if you will, please, to Romans Gospels. Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5. I would walk us through the first 11 verses. Actually, we're gonna take two readings. We're gonna take Romans chapter 5 from verses 1 through to 11. And then we'll go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 also and read verse 21. So Romans chapter 5, 1 to 11, and then 2nd Corinthians 5, just verse 21. So if you're there, say yes, I'm there. Uh oh, okay. Romans chapter 5 from verse 1. Take it to 11. Here begins the reading of God's word. It says, Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Beautiful. It says, and not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Yet perhaps for a good man, someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love toward us, and that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For in for if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son. Much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Awesome. So let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21. 2 Corinthians 5 21, and let's take that in concert. 2 Corinthians 5 21, 1, 2, go. For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him. I'd like to choose for a title, Christ our substitute. Christ our substitute. Through the Easter season, we're reminded of what Christ did for us, and Christ is our substitute. Father, we're grateful for the opportunity to be in your presence once again. Thank you because you're speaking to us already. Breed on the teaching and the preaching of your word that we may walk in the consciousness of what Jesus did and live the life that He intends for us to live. Thank you, Father. We give you all the praise. Everyone that I believe says Amen. Amazing Easter season, amazing time to remember what Jesus did on the cross. In the last um two services, last week, Sunday and Thursday, we kind of dug into the journey of the disciples into the final moment of Christ and then talked about some powerful significance and lessons that we learned from Easter. So today I want to focus on the work of Christ on the cross, the substitutionary work of Christ on the cross. And it's important that we recognize what that act of Jesus' death and resurrection did for us. Anyways, so the Bible tells us in Romans chapter 3, verse 23, it said, For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And of course, bringing us to the understanding of the effect of Adam on the entirety of mankind. In in our text, Romans chapter uh 5, verse 12 tells us about the fact that therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin, thus death spread to all men or all men because all sinned. So it's telling us because of what Adam did, and because of what we did after that, you know, because of the things we've added to it. Because sometimes it's easy to point the finger at Adam and forget all the things you've done. Praise God. Okay, somebody even said it this way some time ago. He said, All Adam eat was eat of fruits. What have you done? Okay, just to just to help us understand, but all of sin and falling short of the glory of God. And the Ezekiel told us, Ezekiel 18 20 says, The soul that sins, it shall die. So Paul reiterated that and and told us in Romans 6.23 that the wages of sin is death, and that death is essentially separation from God, and it has a multi-level implication. The first, of course, is separation from fellowship with God. Fellowship where we've been put apart from God. Okay, the second is death physically. We cease to exist on this plane. Man was meant to live forever, I believe. And and then, but from the point of sin, the the the oldest that we have on record is 969, and his name is Melchizedek. Okay, I mean Methuselah, I beg your pardon, and Methuselah lived for 969 years and died. He didn't even clock a thousand. Okay, now because you know, because a thousand years is like a day before the Lord, and God had warned Adam that the day you eat the fruit, you will die. So man has been dying in one day. Just put that in context, okay? And and so um man would die, and that's the second death, but there is that's the first physical or first cessation from earthly existence, but there's a third death, which is the eternal death. Okay, all three are the consequences of sin, and that's what was laid on mankind because of sin that's been passed down to all of us, and this is where Jesus comes into the equation because God so loved the world, God concerned about the world, God concerned about you and I, God, mindful of us, decided to send his son into the world. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have what? Everlasting life or eternal life. That was God's plan. So when Jesus showed up on the scene and John the Baptist had baptized him, the Bible told us in John chapter 1 and verse 29 that John the Baptist pointed at Jesus and said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Someone said the lamb of God takes away the sin of the world. Now you need to understand the implication of that because in the old covenant, because of the sin of the children of Israel, God told her, Okay, let's just a quick a quick reminder of where this lamb was introduced. Do you remember that um when they were gonna come out of Egypt, okay, that God said they should kill a lamb for every household, okay, and put the blood on the lintel or on the doorpost of the houses, all right? And we we used to say that that that motion is like the cross, actually, because when you put it up on the lintel and you put it on the doorpost, do you get that now? That it's looking like the cross already, almost figurative of Jesus. Really, the lamb signified Christ at the end of the day. But at that point, God said it had to be a lamb for every household. So when they ate the lamp, when they put the blood on the doorpost, the angel of death came that night and he did not enter the region where Israelites were, right? Why? Because of the blood, because the blood became like a covering for them. It was it was to it was to atone in a sense for the sins that they committed. Okay, so by the time they came out, then the through the laws, Moses now, God now instituted that everyone could come and bring a lamp if they knew they had committed sins, they can come offer sacrifices. But then there was the high priest who, on behalf of the entire nation, will offer a lamb to the Lord, and it was to cover the sin of the entire nation because because of their sin. And the the symbolism there is this that when they brought the lamb, if somebody brought the lamb to offer for their sacrifices, you know, God would usually say a lamp without blemish, it was supposed to be a sinless creature, and they would typically put their hand on the lamb, and what it stood for was that the sin of the person was put on the lamb, and then the purity of the lamb came on the person, so it was an exchange. You follow what I'm saying? So that because the soul that sins it should die, isn't it? So now the lamb will be killed figurative of the person that committed the sin. So the person brings a lamb to offer a sacrifice, and then the person walks away pure for a season because the lamb, I mean, how much purity can the lamb offer? You do you get what I'm saying? So it's just to like to manage and dance that tension for a while. That's what it was, okay? But so Jesus then, remember, we'd gone from a lamp to uh a household, a lamp to the entire nation. But Jesus was going to be the lamb for the entire world, it was gonna be one lamp for all of mankind, it will cover Israel, it will cover Canada, it will cover Nigeria, it will cover, and now that we're on our way to the moon, it will cover the moon too. And if we make it to Mars, it will show up there. Praise God. Anywhere human beings are found, the blood will cover because now this was the life of a human being for me. That's why, that's why Paul was saying, look, for for for a just man, for a good person, somebody might even try to die. Do you get says look, if somebody's been very nice, I mean that there are people who've offered their organs for the sake, well, not the commercialized ones, but in in in genuine, genuine human care, people have offered their lives for the sake of other people. There are men that have said, look, take my organ, I want my child to leave. And and all of that goes on because of the precious, precious state of the person. But he was asking, he says, Who will die for a wicked person? Who will die for a sinner? Who will die for a notorious criminal? Who will take the place of somebody that everybody knows is evil? He says, God demonstrated his love towards us. Romans 5, it says, He demonstrated his love towards us in that whilst we were yet sinners. Think about that. Christ died for us. I mean, we were sinners, sinner to the point that he was crucified between two thieves. Even the thief on the cross was still harassing him, and the people he was dying for were piercing him, they were mocking him, they gave him all kinds of things, but that's the nature of God's love for us. Hallelujah! And and and so Jesus took on that substitutionary role. Are you following this now? So that the death you should have died, and the death I should have died, Jesus took it up on her instead. And and to to help us understand the symbolism of this lamb, Isaiah used some words that were quite interesting. So if you go to Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53, someone say Isaiah 53. See that Isaiah 53 is one of the things we quote a lot, and and sometimes you may miss out on some powerful truths as Isaiah broke it down. Isaiah 53, the entire chapter really, but let's walk verses 4 to 6. I want to show you something real quick here. So remember, he's the Lamb of God, isn't he? Okay, now he says to us, Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smithing by God and afflicted. Verse 5 says, He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by stripes we are healed. Verse 6. Everybody want to go? All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Did you see that? Did you see that? It was wounded for our transgressions, isn't it? It was bruised for our iniquities. The chastism of the brother's peace was upon him, by stripes were healed. And then verse 6 tells us that all we like sheep have gone ashore, we've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord did what? Now I need you to watch that. The Lord has done what? What does it mean to lay on? To put on, yeah. So just like the lamb in exchange, the Lord put all our sins, all God put it on Jesus, He put it on Jesus. Verse 4 says, He bore it as a Lord. So two things are going on here. The Lord was putting our sin on Jesus, and Jesus carried it. Did you see that? He accepted it. So, so for Peter was quoting Isaiah. 1 Peter 2. I just want to work this. 1 Peter 2, 23 to 24. So Peter was quoting Isaiah 53, and he phrased it this way for us. Hear what it says it says, Who, when he was reviled, did not revile in return. When he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously. Verse 24, everybody who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we haven't died to sins, might live for righteousness by whose stripes. So you see that the Lord put it on him, and Jesus gladly bore it. He took it. That's what he did for your life. He took our sin, he took our place. Glory to God. He took our sins so that we we we are now dead to sin. We can leave for righteousness. Okay. So now let me let me let me close this loop this way because uh uh 2 Corinthians 5 21. I want to close that loop there and make a point, and I'll I'll go on from there. So here what it now says now. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21. It says, For he made him who knew no sin to become what sin for us. So so that's the summary is that everything that was on us was completely transferred to him, so that everything that makes him him was transferred to us. That's called the great exchange. Oh, yeah, you did see that now. So this is where it happened through that cross, it was a complete exchange, so that now, so that now you might become what the righteousness of God in him, so that now you are like Jesus. God has turned our lives around. You see, that's why it's this same 2 Corinthians 5 in verse 17, where it says, So then, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creator, old has passed away, all things have become new. So say, Father, I thank you because I am a new person now. Glory to God. So Jesus died. Listen, the the if if the the sin was nailed to the cross, everything was crucified. He died, took our place completely, so that now you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Now we are justified. He said we're justified by his blood. Glory to God. I really like that. He says, now we're justified, it means you are made right, it means every time God looks at you, now you're not guilty anymore. That's why we said last week Romans Romans Romans 8:1 says, There's therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, because in Christ Jesus you can't be guilty again because Jesus has become guilty. Now you are being justified, the price has been paid. Glory to God. So anytime you are reading your Bible and you see the just, the Bible is talking about you. Okay, the just will be satisfied. You are the one the Bible is talking about that the Lord will bless the just with peace, the Lord will bless you with peace, bless you with his goodness, bless your family in Jesus' precious name. Glory to God. Oh, yeah. So now we have all of these blessings. He says, Now we are reconciled to God. Oh, so there's no separation between us and God anymore. Now we are reconciled. Hallelujah! We're reconciled, so we are we are in fellowship with the Father, we have access to God that makes us listen. So, but before now, when you you might have needed to go through somebody to get to God, but now you go to God for yourself. Praise God. That's right. Some people are still wrong when they think you need to pray to an angel to talk to God. You still need to go through Jesus' mother to get to God. No, you don't need to go that far. Praise God. He is in you and you are in him. Now you have access to God. So, what Jesus did, the sacrifice on the cross made all of that possible for us. It really, really is a game changer. That's why I was saying on Thursday. If you really understand this Easter, you celebrate it more than Christmas. If you really get it, you will understand that Christmas is the is the you see, in my colloquial in the colloquial language, uh uh from from a tribe that I'm from in Africa, in Nigeria, they they they would call the Easter the small, they'll call the Easter the small holiday or the the small the small celebration, but they call the Christmas the big celebration. Yeah, you know, I told us I think there's something about uh about babies being born, about all of that thing that makes it extra fun, isn't it? Yeah, but but as you as you mature in the things of the spirit, you understand that that Easter is the real deal, okay? Is the real deal without Easter? Christmas is useless. Okay, without Easter, there's no point knowing whether he was born or not. He was not the first person to be born, he was he was not the last person. The only reason we remember his birth is because he died and rose again. It's because of Easter. Glory to God. Now, is this the truth that I'm sharing with you? Are you justified now? I'm really wondering if you really know. Do you believe the things I've said so far? Are you saved? Are you justified? Have you been reconciled to God? Are you are you at is God at peace with you? So God is not angry with you now. He's at there's peace between you and God. Some people still can't Romans 5:1. That's where we started from. It says, Therefore, haven't been justified by faith. We we what do we have? Are we going to have it? What do we have it now? So anytime you think of God, think peace is the prince of peace. There is peace between you and God. So God is not angry, there's no fight. Oh my god, is that is that true? And yes, it is. Come on, somebody say yes, it is. That's what you have, isn't it? So, so because it is true, hear the tone of Paul's words, and and and the first thing I want you to do is that you must continue to rejoice for what he has done. You must rejoice if it is true, and yes, it is. What you should do is to keep rejoicing. Every time we lift up our hands, we are grateful to God. We are thankful to God. I remember somebody was uh a man of God was talking the other day and he was sharing how he spent some time praying with Pastor E. E. Adeboe. And he said that they I think the prayer meeting must have started somewhere like 11, and they were supposed to pray. So they started with Thanksgiving. He said, and as it started with Thanksgiving, it was 12 o'clock, and then it was one o'clock, and it was going to two o'clock. He said he tapped on that man. I said, Wait, have they called any prayer point? And I missed it because I'm trying to find out what's going on here. He said, Because they were just worshiping and just thanking God and just thanking God and just thanking God. And I can get it because sometimes I feel I felt I've got myself locked up in that mood where we have things we wanted to ask, but as we thank Him for redemption, for salvation, for deliverance, for empowerment, for access, for sonship, all of a sudden every other prayer point fades away because we're we are in the consciousness of what he has done. Anybody really great? Global others, are you grateful in the house today? Woo! Glory to God. Here, Paul's excitement in verse 2, Romans 5, from verse 2 to 3. See what he says. He says, Through whom also we have what access by faith into this grace in which we stand. Oh my god, I'm standing in the grace of God. We are living in the grace of God. He says, So, what do we do? And rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Glory to God. He says, We rejoice, we even glory in tribulation. I mean, he said, Look, there's there is joy, there is joy for what the Lord has done. Oh, somebody give him praise and glory. We rejoice and we're grateful. So you lift up your hands, conscious and mindful of the fact that we wouldn't have even been able to do that. It's not possible. We were far from him. Jesus brought us near. So we rejoice and we gave him glory for it. Number two, we are filled with hope, hope of the future and hope of eternal life. You know, we we were sharing on Thursday, and I said, one of the things that Easter tells us is that God is a promise keeper. If he says he will do something, he will do it. He said, he said he will rise again, he rose again. Oh my god, anything he says is gonna do. So when he said he's coming back again, I believe he's coming back again. He will keep his word. Hallelujah! He will keep his word. So Paul will often talk about the travails we go through in the flesh. He says, But we know there is hope ahead of us. Yes, Christ in us is the hope. When he talks about the hope of glory, it's not just talking about the manifestation of the glory of God on the earth. That is beautiful and it is true, but there is another dimension beyond this world. So he would say, if only in this world we have hope, we have all men most miserable because then we're not different from other animals who die and perish. But we have hope beyond this world. We have hope of seeing him as he is, we have hope of dropping this body of flesh and putting on the new one. Praise God. But somebody was encouraging himself sometime because he said, Look, if I struggle with this weight, control, weight, control, and I can't get it, don't worry. I'm gonna have a new body, praise God. I like it, amen. So I'm gonna have a new body and that we won't struggle with weight and cholesterol and nothing anymore. Praise God, it will be perfect. So, so encourage yourself, amen. This body can only trouble you for maximum 969. If you don't get that, forget about it. Now, look, you will have a new body, amen. Yeah, and you'll become anything, anything you imagine you want that body to be, it will be because there will be no sin. Praise God, it will be perfect. Hallelujah! Yeah, so when some people are harassing you with with six packs, praise God. Blessed are those with amusement park because because we will have a new body, amen, and we will be fine. Glory to God. Give your praise in the house. Woo! It says you must have hope. Christians must be people filled with hope, filled with hope, filled with hope, filled with hope. First Timothy 4:8 says, It says, Godliness is profitable unto all things, having a promise of the world which now is and that which is to come. There's a promise of this world that good things will good things will happen. You will enjoy the goodness of the Lord, but thank God it doesn't end here. There's a promise of a life that's beyond this, a promise of the world that there will be no sickness, there will be no wars anymore. Hallelujah. There will be no inflation anymore, there will be no political drama anymore, there will sure be no kidnapping anymore. Praise God. So much ahead of us, it says we are filled with this hope. So we are hopeful of the things to come, we are sure of his promises that it will not fail. So watch this now because I'm about to bring the third thing that this thing does for us. It talks about rejoicing now in the reality, filled with the hope of the things that will be manifested, and and between that, number three, we are to live for him now. Live these lives that we have right now, we are to live it for him. We are to we are to live in a our lives to his glory, to his praise for the one who died for us, yeah, because he became sin that we become the righteousness of God and we can live for righteousness. Let me take 2 Corinthians 5 this time and walk it from verse 13. 2 Corinthians 5 from verse 13. And you see how beautiful this scripture is God. I hope you love the Lord. I know you do. So watch what He says. It says, For if we ourselves, it is for God, or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. Actually, God I'm tempted to do some things, but uh okay, okay. Let's stay there, let's stay there. Verse 14. It says, For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thoughts. When I saw that word judge again, I said, Did you see that word judge? You know, we're talking about how do you judge? What's your what's your judgment? What's your conclusion about God? You know, do we judge him faithful? And we're on thoughts, they were saying, Yes, the word faithful was the number one conclusion and judgment from everybody. It says, Because we judge thoughts, that if one died for all, who is the one if one died for all, then what happened? All died. Verse 15, it says, and he died for all. Why that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again. Did you see that? Now it says, so this substitutionary work means you can't live for yourself anymore. And when he said that, we're talking about the way you used to live. You can't live like somebody who doesn't have God, you can't live like somebody who has not experienced resurrection. It says, No, you can't live like that anymore. Now, on our way on this journey, on this part of the earth, we must live for Christ. It is Jesus first, it must be about Jesus. He says you should live for for. I mean, I I watched, I watched um uh uh I just got caught up with with a with a series. Um, usually don't get involved with series because praise God. Because it can be addictive and and a problem. But there's this one, but but lately we've been talking about autistic children and all the challenges that have happened, especially that exploded since 2020. There's a lot of kids and a lot of challenges with with kids with disabilities and all of those kind of things. So it the conversation kind of took us, and we saw this series on Netflix, and it's the good doctor about an autistic doctor. Oh, and I mean it shocked us on, but thank God is the two of us, so we are able to regulate it. We tell us after this one, we are stopping. Yes, we stop, then leave it, and then it's the beauty of because the Bible says if one falls, the other will pick him up. Praise God. But woe to him who falls when he's alone. He will just find watch five series, and by the he has missed three appointments and he goes late to work, and then he goes to work and his heads are all red because he doesn't know when to stop. You know, that's the problem with entertainment sometimes, isn't it? You people, the way you are talking, you are not. Are you am I talking to you? Oh, I'm talking to you so much you are trying to keep a straight face. Okay, it's okay. So, you know, so we started getting we started getting into it and all that. And and one of the episodes, there was a there's a little boy that had to get um um, there was a bad guy, very, very bad guy, and he wanted some kind of um, there's a word they use for not repentance, but uh penitence, some some kind of uh redemption is the word. So the guy wanted to just do something good before he would die. And there was a young boy who was dying from bad liver, and so the guy shot himself so that they could harvest his liver and give it to the boy. And then the boy now said, um, eventually when he agreed, when he knew he was a bad guy, he didn't want to collect the liver. I mean, because he said, Oh, he doesn't want that. So they told him the guy is just trying to do something good, and they told him the guy actually killed himself so that that boy can I said, Okay, he will take the liver. And then he, when he when he got the lever, he recovered. I mean, all the yellow thing disappeared and it was getting better. Let's give him the parents, the guy's parents' address. He wanted to write a letter to them to let them know is their son did a good thing and that he will take care of that liver until his own death, you know, like he was gonna and and kind of trying to say, I'll be I'll live a responsible life for for the sake of this lever I got, isn't it? Yeah, nice, nice way to put the the plot, you know. And so I'm thinking about it. If Jesus laid down his life for us, I think we should tell him, Jesus, don't worry, we would we will we will take care of this life, we will, we will, this one you gave us, and that's what he's saying. That we we will we will use it for you. We shouldn't live like people who don't know what happened. He says, So I'm gonna I'm not I'm gonna live, I'm not gonna live recklessly anymore, I'm gonna live this life for you. So Paul put it this way in Galatians 5, uh Galatians 2 20 and 21. Galatians 2, 20 and 21, and I'm gonna be wrapping up the message from there. Galatians 2 20 and 21. It says, I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I will live, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself. Do you understand the weight of what he's saying here? Yeah, it says, I've been crucified with him. I I I know what happened on that cross. Yeah, I understand the substitutionary work there. I've been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I will live, but Christ lives. Is Christ living in you? Yes, he is. Yes, he is living in us. He says, and so which the life which I don't live in the flesh, I'll live by fellow son of God who loved me and gave himself from me, verse 21. It says, I do not set aside the grace of God, I won't behave as if I'm I'm not gonna, you know. That's why. Look, anybody who tells you, let's forget the Bible, is that's forget the person. Yeah, say, Pastor, let's let's put Bible aside. This is not Christianity here. Let's talk, let's talk reality. I say, No, the reality is that he died, and the life, this life that I have is not mine anymore, it is his life in me. In fact, it's a borrowed life, self. Do you get what I'm saying? We don't, I don't have a church life and a family life and a business life, it's just one life. There's no God, there's no God of church, God of business, and God. God is God. Imagine that, imagine that at work, God bones you, God only smiles at you in church. When you come to church, God says, Oh, my children, you are here. But Monday to Friday, God just frowns. He doesn't even God behaves as if He doesn't know you. I mean, I mean, are we not dead? Yeah, so if we now reverse it, should we only know God in church and then Monday to Friday, we don't know him, we bone him, and then we see him next week Sunday. No, we only have one life. He says, I don't set aside the grace of God, for it is right. If righteous comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. Of course, now you because there's there's there's a background to that, so I don't want us to get locked in it. But the point is, the life we have is the gift of God, and it's the life of Christ in us, so that we live for him, and and that we we we make sure that what we do is to his honor and to his glory, and that we we continue on that journey mindful of the sacrifice, mindful of the sacrifice, and and so in the same breath, if you in for in 2 Corinthians uh 5. Now, in the same breath, you know after after we talked about that this this those that are when Christ died, all of us died, and then so who are lives should live for Christ. He says, if any man be Christ, the new creature, and then he says, Now we are ambassadors for Christ, we're ambassadors for Christ. Pastor Lord and I were praying this morning, and I found myself saying these words out. I said, Lord, help us to be good and help help me to be a good ambassador to to my wife and her, a good ambassador of to represent Christ. So let me, yeah, let me put the way I said and said, Lord, help me to rep help help us to represent Christ to our children, that when our children look at us, may they see God in us, may we be true representatives of of Christ to our children. And then said, Lord, help help us to be good your representatives to each other. That when she looks at me, she says, I'm behaving like Christ, I'm loving her like Jesus, and that she's loving me like Jesus. And said, Lord, help us to be good representatives to the church. That when the church looks at us, they say, Oh, these are true servants of God, they they represent God, and so I'm praying the same prayer. May the church also represent you to the pastor, Lord. May we may we just represent Christ everywhere because the life we have, it is his life, it is his life, like the boy was gonna keep the liver and use it well. We need to use this life well and represent him well and in everything that we do, and let the name of the Lord be glorified, so we will rejoice for what he has done. We are filled with hope for this life and that which is to come, and on our way there, we will leave for Jesus. It's joy, it is hope, and it's life.

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