WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:01.120 Well, good morning. 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:07.599 We have two sermons left in the book of Leviticus, which we've been studying our way through since January. 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:08.800 So we have a lot to cover. 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:10.480 We have three three chapters to cover. 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:19.039 This is actually one of those sermons where I look at my past self last fall when I outlined all this and like why did I decide to cover three chapters in one Sunday? 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:20.000 Because it's a lot to cover. 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.559 So I'm going to summarize a bit, but here we go. 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:28.320 Point number one is this Jesus walks with us in the extraordinary of life. 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:32.560 This is thinking about this chapter 23 and what Courtney just read for us. 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:44.000 Every Thanksgiving, my family, we wake up early, we walk down to the square, we do the gomble jog, and then we come home, we watch the parade, we eat, we nap, we watch home alone. 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:46.640 Like this, you know, we do the family stuff. 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:53.520 And at some point, maybe the next day, uh, we will set up our Christmas tree inside our house in the corner of our den. 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:53.920 There it is. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.960 There's my dog brother posing, perfect postcard. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:03.119 Brother, and that's a fake tree, if I can just go ahead and confess to fake tree people. 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.599 Yep, live tree people, we know. 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:06.319 Go ahead. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:06.879 Yep. 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.480 Live tree people are always a more proud people than fake tree people. 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.000 Fake tree people are very shame-filled, but it's a fake tree. 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.840 Now, whether you put a fake tree or a live tree in your house, uh that's not ordinary. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.120 Like that's an extraordinary situation, right? 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.519 That's an extraordinary season. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:27.439 It's all designed to be that way. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.879 The Christmas season for us is extraordinary. 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:32.640 All cultures do this. 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:40.239 We set aside days or seasons to be extraordinary, uh, to remind us of that which means the most to us. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.000 So when we read chapter 23, we read about seven feasts. 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:49.680 We are reading about extraordinary seasons designed to help them remember something. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:57.920 Just like we have Advent into Christmas, Lent into Easter, they have seven feasts. 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:04.799 So I'm gonna just review each feast for just a few minutes, a little bit of information here as we go through it. 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:06.799 Feast, the first feast, feast number one. 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:10.560 Passover, verses four through eight, teaches that God delivers. 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:11.919 This meal was once a year. 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:21.120 So on the 14th day of the first month, it celebrated when their people, when they came out of Egypt and they smeared blood over the doorpost. 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:27.280 And when they did that, death passed them over, which allowed them, God delivered them out of that slavery. 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:32.879 And so the people would sacrifice a Passover lamb and they would have this great meal. 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:38.879 So Passover is actually the origin of us taking communion each week. 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:43.599 It's a celebration, it's a remembrance that Jesus is our Passover lamb. 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:44.800 He delivers us. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:56.319 This is the day after Passover, in this last seven days, right at the beginning of the barley harvest. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:06.639 And at this feast, they ate unleavened bread, which is helping them remember when they left Egypt, they left in such a hurry to get out that they didn't have time for their bread to rise. 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:15.680 Now, later on in this feast, the symbolism of unleavened bread sort of widens out with the idea that yeast is a symbol of corruption. 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:22.719 And so refusing yeast for a season was this idea of removing corruption from their lives. 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.039 See, Paul connects all this in the New Testament. 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:25.680 Listen to this. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:27.599 1 Corinthians 5, 7. 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:34.479 Cleanse out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump as you really are unleavened. 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.080 For Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:42.319 You can hear how Paul is writing, thinking about these feasts. 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:48.159 Feast number three, the feast of first fruits, verses 9 through 14, teaches that God claims. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:53.280 So when the barley was ripe, everyone gave the first grain to the Lord. 00:03:53.439 --> 00:04:02.479 So this is the origin of our New Testament Christian practice of giving, that we take the first of our resources and give it back to the Lord. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:14.560 All the other nations, they used their giving as a way to try to manipulate God or their deity to bless them, to give them a good harvest. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:16.879 But the Israelites were different. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.680 They trusted that God would provide, and they didn't have to try to arm twist God. 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.560 So they lived in trust and then they lived in gratitude. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:32.560 Feast number four, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost, verses 15 through 22, that teaches that God provides. 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.879 So it's the 50th day of the year at this point, and the people took a day off and they gathered together. 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:40.720 They brought two loaves of bread, but this time with yeast. 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:42.079 And this was a celebration. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.079 It was a celebration of abundance. 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:52.079 That they were reminded, even in the abundance that God has given them, they're reminded in this feast of the poor and the needy. 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:56.240 And so we have faith being about trust and gratitude. 00:04:56.319 --> 00:05:00.480 And then here we have faith being about trust, gratitude, and compassion. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:02.639 Feast number five, three more feasts. 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:07.519 Feast number five, feast of trumpets, verses 23 through 25 teaches that God remembers. 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:11.279 So it's the seventh month of the year at this point, the least demanding in terms of farming. 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:13.040 And people would take time out from the work. 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:14.879 God actually commanded them to rest. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:21.759 A trumpet would blast, and when the trumpet blasted, they were being reminded that they were all part of a covenant. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:24.480 They were being reminded they belonged to God. 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:26.959 Which is so important. 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:28.399 It's just easy to keep working. 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.360 Just like keep working and do the next thing the next day. 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:32.879 But we need to pause. 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.959 We need to remember that we belong. 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:41.680 Verse uh Feast 6, Day of Atonement, verses 26 through 32 teaches that God forgives. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.240 This was probably the high point of the year. 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:53.279 Whatever their sins, whatever their mess-ups, are all swept away in the forgiveness of God. 00:05:53.680 --> 00:06:03.360 And as we saw in Leviticus, as we've been seeing, that the whole book of Leviticus drives us to chapter 16, the pinnacle of the book, and everything's coming out of chapter 16 in the back half of the book. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:09.040 The center of the book of Leviticus is the free forgiveness of sinners by God. 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.480 And this day of atonement is that in their calendar year. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.680 Feast 7, the last feast, the feast of booths. 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.600 That's verses 33 through 36 and teaches that God reminds. 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:20.800 So this is the final feast. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:22.319 This is a seven-day festival. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:26.800 Everyone moves out of their homes and they move in temporary shelters like tents. 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:33.199 So this is sort of like a woodstock or burning hand, but much more wholesome than burning man. 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:35.920 No pictures of burning hand will go up on the screens this morning. 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:37.199 Not going to risk that. 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:45.680 This is a wholesome Jewish festival to remember God's provision for them in the present and in the future. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:53.120 So, seven feasts for the people to pause, for the people to reflect. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:57.360 A couple months ago, a guy gets up on America's Got Talents. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:58.560 Anyone watch AGT? 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:00.480 Anyone just watch AGT? 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:02.079 There's like four of us. 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:02.480 Okay. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:02.959 That's right. 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:03.680 That's fine. 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.639 Maybe we'll get together later and talk about it. 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:12.639 This guy gets up on AGT and he sings about Jesus. 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:19.040 And the clip's about three minutes long, and I want us to watch what happens as he sings about Jesus. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.639 Worthy is your name. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:54.320 Well, maybe the Holy Spirit, maybe some good editing, right? 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.080 I think maybe both. 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:06.559 What's clear is most people are so distracted in the world that they never pause to reflect on why we are here. 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:14.080 And then something like this happens, and maybe even for you watching it, like something inside of you happens. 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.159 Or a feast happens. 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:21.360 Or you walk into church after a season of being distant. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:23.440 And here's what we learn. 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:36.320 We learn that it's important for God's children to pause and gather, to reflect and celebrate what God has done, is doing, and will do for you. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.279 Chapter 24, verses 1 through 4. 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:51.360 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly outside the veil of the testimony in the tent of meeting. 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.519 Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.879 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:04.399 He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the Lord regularly. 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:10.320 So in this chapter 24, there's three items for the people to care for. 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:14.559 There's the lamp, there's bread, and then there's the sacred name. 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:19.759 Point number two is this Jesus walks through with us through the ordinary of life. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.240 Chapter 23, the extraordinary. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.639 Chapter 24, the ordinary. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:29.519 Last Sunday was Father's Day, and my girls gave me this. 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:37.200 Beautiful bougie ice cream scooper, hand-carved wooden hand. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.159 I mean, I it's it can't get more beautiful. 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:45.519 And the thing is, is in our drawer is this, like from Target. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:46.799 Like we have this one. 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:53.360 Um, just just kind of basic, like not, but this one, this is like this is amazing, right? 00:12:53.759 --> 00:13:00.000 So if these are side by side, uh this one doesn't really have any meaning, it'll get the job done. 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.919 But this one's completely different. 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:16.480 This new scooper, when I go to scoop my bluebell cookies and cream, and I know some of you guys, you're buying the Talenti and the Ginnies, you high dollar folks, but I'm just classic, humble bluebell, right? 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:21.519 When I go to scoop that, I mean, I'm reminded of something much more. 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.759 Because, see, this came with something else. 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:32.559 This came with this, which is my Father's Day card, filled with sweet little notes to me, of which is none of your business, and I'm not gonna read it to you. 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.679 So, this item, that's just a basic item like a lamp or bread. 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:43.120 It's not just an ice cream scooper, it's much more because it means something. 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:52.639 And so, chapter 24, we're talking about a lamp and we're talking about bread, but we're talking about more than a lamp, and we're talking about more than bread. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:57.440 Verses 1 through 4, the lamp reminds the people that God is the creator of light. 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:02.080 The lamp burned all through the night to remind them that God is even in the darkness. 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.440 The bread, verses 5 through 9, reminds the people that God provides. 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:10.320 Each week, 12 loaves will be brought. 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:16.240 They'd be placed there as a symbol of God's provision of the twelve tribes of Israel. 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.000 It's a reminder that God is always providing for his people. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:27.120 And then the last is the sacred name, verses 10 through 23, reminds the people that that which is sacred must be safeguarded. 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:32.799 There's this story in the end of this chapter where a guy blasphemes the name of the Lord. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:34.720 So it's more than like a cuss word. 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:41.519 It has something to do with such a high disrespect for God's care and concern for his people. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:46.000 And this man was held in custody, and the story goes on, this man was killed due to the ancient law. 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.679 Now that's really, really intense. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:48.960 But here's what we learn. 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:54.720 What we learn is this we should watch over big and little things as to honor God. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:59.840 That which is sacred should be safeguarded, should be protected. 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:18.320 So chapter 24 has this ordinariness to it with this lamp and this bread, compared to chapter 23 with those seven feasts, which seems very extraordinary, which is a reminder for us that walking with Jesus is done in big celebrations and big moments and mountaintops, verse chapter 23. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:29.200 And then it's also done in incredible ordinariness of life in chapter 24, which is freeing because it turns out life is just usually really, really ordinary. 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.320 Like one day can really look like the day before. 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.000 And Jesus walks with us. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.720 Chapter 25, verses 8 through 12. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:43.200 This is speaking about the Sabbath year every seventh year, and the Jubilee year every 50th year. 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:44.000 Verse 8. 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:58.960 You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years, then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of atonement, you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:05.360 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:11.759 It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property, and each of you shall return to his clan. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.039 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you. 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:25.679 In it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines, for it is a jubilee, it shall be holy to you. 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.759 You may eat the produce of the field. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:33.600 Point number three is this our faith walk with Jesus is one of Jubilee and liberty. 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:40.799 The sabbatical year, the Sabbath year, uh, occurred every seventh year, and the land was to rest. 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:55.919 Debts were to be forgiven, Hebrew slaves were to be released, and then every 50th year, the year of Jubilee, debts are forgiven, slaves are freed, and all lands returned back to their original owners. 00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:02.000 So this meant every 50 years, every 50 years, wealth and poverty were reset. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:08.720 This reveals God's heart and care for the vulnerable, for the poor, for oppressed and enslaved. 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:19.200 And Jubilee calls us, not necessarily to mirror the same model in society, but it calls us as God's people to have God's heart for the vulnerable and the poor. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.440 It's a call to compassion. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.880 But the problem is, is none of us are perfectly compassionate. 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.880 So Jubilee also points us to Jesus. 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:40.000 In the book of Matthew in the New Testament, John the Baptist was a leader there at the beginning of the New Testament, and he's starting to have some doubts about who Jesus is. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:42.640 Is Jesus really the Messiah? 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:48.880 And Jesus responds to him in Matthew by alluding to Isaiah 61, verses 1 and 2. 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:55.440 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 00:17:55.599 --> 00:18:10.400 He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn. 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:16.400 So Isaiah 61 is Leviticus 25 language, Jubilee language. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.359 And Jesus is using this to speak about Himself. 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:22.799 It's a prophecy about Jesus. 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:32.400 Jesus ushers in not a 50-year, every 50 years, you know, free of debts and free of enslavement, but an eternal Jubilee. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:39.599 That we as a people, and then you as an individual, that you can have a Jubilee for your heart and your soul. 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:42.640 Freedom from your sins, freedom from enslavement. 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:45.519 This is what Jesus is speaking of. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:51.119 In that Matthew passage, this is where Jesus eventually heads toward Matthew 11, 28. 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:57.279 Jesus says, Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:00.400 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:04.960 For I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.079 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:10.319 So what does all this mean? 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:15.599 Well, it means we're liberated by Christ, and it means we feast on Christ. 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:19.759 It means He's our jubilee, our celebration. 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:24.960 A few weeks ago, eight of us from our church went to serve ministry partners in Guatemala. 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:39.039 Here's a picture of us as we were serving some children up in a village and ran like a VBS for them and provided food for them and played a really rousing game of soccer out there in that dirt field and had a great time. 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:44.240 So we served children, we served the elderly, we helped local churches, we did home visits, we prayed for families. 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:49.519 And then every evening we returned back to this ministry compound in San Juan, Guatemala. 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:53.759 Here's a picture of the lake, and San Juan is right at the end of those dots. 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.480 Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful place, right? 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.680 And every evening we were returned back to that ministry compound. 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:05.680 We walk into the dining hall and we would sit down and every the food was so good. 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:06.880 It was so good. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:07.599 It was amazing. 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:15.200 These Guatemalan mamas had been in the kitchen all afternoon, every day, every night the dinner got better and better. 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:16.079 It's just a feast. 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:17.599 It's the only mission trip, right? 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:18.720 You're gonna gain weight. 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:24.640 Like this is this is a mission trip and a culinary trip, like brought together for us to go on. 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:25.519 It's amazing. 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:27.519 It was just feast after feast. 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.240 This is a good image of the Christian life. 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:35.839 Resting and feasting on a provision given to us by somebody else. 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.200 This is what Jesus is for us, for our hearts and our souls. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:46.240 This word jubilee comes from the Hebrew word, which alludes to the trumpet that was made from a ram's horn. 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:51.440 So when we say jubilee, it is a metaphor, it's alluding to that horn. 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:55.599 This horn would be blown at the beginning of a celebration. 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:58.480 It would signal to everybody to celebrate. 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:03.839 So when we say Jesus is our Jubilee, we're saying Jesus is our celebration. 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:10.799 I made a quick list this week just of how Jesus is my Jubilee, how he's your Jubilee. 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:13.359 You could probably add a lot to this list. 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:16.799 Here's the three first things that came to me. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:23.759 Jesus is our Jubilee, we are fully forgiven and liberated from our sins defining us. 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:29.599 Jesus is our Jubilee, we are fully righteous because Jesus is righteousness for us. 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:36.480 Jesus is our jubilee, we are securely accepted and in a peace-filled relationship with God. 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:39.440 Beloved, we have a feast. 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:42.000 And we have a jubilee, and it's Jesus. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:43.519 Let's pray it again. 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:52.559 Heavenly Father, we thank you that you walk with us in the ordinary and in the extraordinary. 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.759 That our hearts can feast on you. 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:04.319 And that you are enough for all of our mess-ups and stakes, for our brokenness, for when we are beat down. 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:06.880 That Jesus is enough. 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:09.200 Worthy are you, Jesus. 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:10.799 Worthy are you. 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:14.559 Jesus, we feast on you. 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.640 Help our hearts all the more not to be distracted by this world. 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.839 And to reflect, and to remember that we belong to you. 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:26.000 In Christ's name we pray.