WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.160 Ha hey, happy Masters Sunday. 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:03.359 Y'all excited? 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:11.119 I woke up early this morning and it's still dark out, and you know, most pastors wake up and open their Bibles and I turned on live from the Masters. 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:14.960 I gotta get caught up to know what's gonna happen today. 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:18.559 Uh well, today we are back in the book of Leviticus. 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:20.320 Uh we started studying it in January. 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:21.600 We took a break for Lent. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:30.239 Last week, Matt jumped us back into it in Leviticus 8, where we saw Aaron uh becoming the high priest, and so that's where we're gonna jump back in today. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:41.280 What in the world does an Old Testament, strange, seemingly unrelatable, ritualistic book have to do with our lives? 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:42.880 Well, let's review just a bit. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.640 Leviticus is structured a very particular way to tell us something. 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:54.320 Chapters 1 through 16 take us somewhere, and then chapters 17 through 27 take us somewhere else. 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:56.960 You can see the structure of it up on the screens. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:05.120 Chapters 1 through 7, which we spent in January and February, we learned about the five sacrifices, this sacrifice, that sacrifice, the different sacrifices. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:06.159 We learned all about that. 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.079 And then last week we began the priesthood. 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:09.760 We'll be in that this week and next week. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.879 And then we go to instructions for purity, 11 through 15. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.079 Everything is taking us to the Day of Atonement, the middle of the book, the climax. 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.439 And this is why this book is so Jesus-y. 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:27.599 It helps us understand Hebrews in the New Testament, and Hebrews is like the commentary on Leviticus. 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:29.599 Um, they all fit together. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:31.359 All this Bible fits together. 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:38.879 Out of that climax, the Day of Atonement, the Code for Purity, how we should live, back to priesthood, back to ritual. 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.799 Let's jump in Leviticus 9, verse 1 through 7. 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:52.400 On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, and he said to Aaron, Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 00:01:52.560 --> 00:02:19.280 So we studied all these different offerings or sacrifices in that chapters one through seven, both without blemish, and offered them before the Lord, and say to the people of Israel, Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, again another offering that we already studied, to sacrifice before the Lord, and a grain offering, there's the other offering, mixed with oil for today, the Lord will appear to you. 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:20.319 Verse 5. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:24.560 And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting. 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.599 So sometimes that tent of meeting is called the tabernacle. 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:37.120 And all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord, and Moses said, This is the thing that the Lord commanded you to do, that the glory of the Lord may appear to you. 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:51.759 Then Moses said to Aaron, draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them as the Lord has commanded you. 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:55.680 See, this was Aaron's job as the high priest to make these sacrifices. 00:02:55.919 --> 00:03:02.319 Point number one is this God's heart, God's heart is to know you and to be known by you. 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:08.080 This is the mission that God is on that we read, getting played out in the scriptures. 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:17.759 So here in chapter 9, Aaron is now ready as the high priest to begin his ministry in this tabernacle, this tent of meeting that's in the center of God's people. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:23.360 He's residing, God is right, residing with his people to make himself known. 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.800 In the Old Testament, we're seeing it step by step, and we see it fulfilled in Jesus. 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:41.120 Two weeks ago, for the first time ever, more people watched the women's college basketball championship game than the men's women, right? 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:41.759 Amen. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.039 Amen, women. 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:45.520 All because of one woman. 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:47.360 Do you know who she is? 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:48.800 Caitlin Clark. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.719 Iowa's Caitlin Clark. 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:52.479 All because of this woman. 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:59.039 This woman, she is the all-time leading scorer in all of college basketball history. 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.400 And she launches three-pointers. 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:05.439 Like at any point, anywhere on the court. 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.159 It is absurd where she will shoot from. 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.039 It is just, it's it's just it's kind of breathtaking. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.039 Like you think there's no way she's gonna shoot, and then she shoots. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:14.479 You're like, oh my gosh. 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.360 She sells out every stadium she plays in. 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:20.639 She's sponsored by Nike and State Farm and Gatorade. 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:24.639 This past year has been known as the Caitlin Clark Effect. 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:27.519 This is how much power she has. 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.480 Well, she lost the big game, she lost the championship game. 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:34.560 But what was clear during the game was very clear from the announcers. 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.240 They talked about her like the whole time. 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.720 Like she played the whole game. 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.519 Everybody in the stadium is aware where she is. 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:43.680 The announcers are always aware where she is. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.000 If you're watching, you're just watching her. 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.240 Like everything is about her. 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:53.199 Everyone else orients themselves around her. 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:54.240 Right? 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.199 Her glory, her power is known. 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.480 So this just begins to get an idea of this tent of meeting. 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.639 God, creator of the world, this is an image of the tent of meeting, what it would look like. 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:11.439 God created the world, fullness of power, beauty, holiness, decides to reside with his people. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:16.240 And everything would have oriented around him. 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:18.720 Because he is the powerful one. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:22.240 His presence changes everything else. 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:32.720 Now, back in verse 2, this is the only place in Scripture where a bull calf is specified as a sin offering, which means nothing to us. 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:33.920 Who cares, right? 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:34.720 That's what you think. 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:35.839 Who cares? 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:39.680 But to Aaron, this would have meant everything. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.399 Because back in Exodus 32, Aaron was part of being unfaithful to God. 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.439 The people's rebellion from God. 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.279 God's people have been saved. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:52.720 God saved them out of Egypt. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:53.519 They're in the desert. 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.519 God's providing for his people in amazing, miraculous ways. 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:01.600 And then the leader, Moses, he goes up on the mountain to experience God and be with God. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.160 And Moses says, Hey, just be faithful while I'm gone. 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:05.120 Just hold it together. 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:06.240 You can hold it together. 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.439 And of course, they can't. 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:08.560 They don't hold it together. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.399 Then Aaron is part of that. 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:17.120 And they take a bunch of gold and they form an idol, a physical idol, a golden calf. 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.439 Because they didn't want to wait. 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:21.759 They didn't want to trust God. 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.079 They wanted to do something themselves. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.319 And God says to Aaron, take that animal. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:31.199 Right? 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:43.040 So this is God's way of saying everything, even your biggest, most known, the thing that's on replay, the mistake that's on replay in your mind. 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.120 Like even that sin is provided for. 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:48.560 And forgiven. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.199 God's saying to us, I already know everything about you. 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.040 I know about that big one. 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:58.639 And that is forgiven. 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.519 Do you see how personal this God is? 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.160 And forgiving. 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:13.439 In Leviticus 9, verses 7 through 21, Aaron as the high priest, he goes into the Ten of Meeting to the altar and he makes all these sacrifices. 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:17.680 He follows the exact processes that chapters 1 through 7 give us and that we study. 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:22.000 And then Aaron comes out to the people, and in verse 22 through 24, here's what happens. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:26.079 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.879 And he came down from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, the peace offerings. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:36.240 Then Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out, they blessed the people. 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:39.360 And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:45.759 And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar. 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.920 And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces. 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:57.600 So point number two is this our lives should orient around God as He is our ultimate treasure. 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:02.959 Verse 6, Moses says, Hey, the Lord will appear to you. 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:07.040 God's people had not experienced anything like that yet. 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:15.439 In Exodus 19, Moses experienced God up on the mountain, but the people experienced God as thunder and lightning and a thick cloud. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:19.600 And now Moses is saying, No, you're going to experience him very personally. 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:23.839 This was a holy God with an unclean, imperfect people. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:25.680 And Moses says, Hey, he'll appear to you. 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:29.920 It would have been like last week, the eclipse. 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:31.759 The eclipse. 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:35.120 And somebody's saying, just look at it. 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:36.320 You can look at it. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:37.519 Go on outside. 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.399 Take a good long look. 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:42.879 You'll be fine. 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:43.440 Right? 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:44.159 No, no, no. 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:45.039 None of us did that. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.039 We all walk outside and we're like this. 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:48.960 Like, do you do you have any glasses? 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.600 You know, you put on those weird glasses, you're like, oh, okay, that's great. 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:53.440 Okay, it's like, all right, I'll go back inside now. 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:54.720 That's what I did. 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:56.399 Took about 30 seconds. 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:57.759 Some of y'all went on trips. 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.600 I just went to the parking lot for 30 seconds. 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:00.399 Weird glasses. 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:03.679 But if somebody said, like, oh no, you can look at it, look at it. 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:05.200 Like, take a good long glass. 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.799 Like, no, that would have been filled with maybe like a little excitement. 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.600 Like, oh, I'm gonna look at it like I'm gonna look at it without glasses. 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.480 No, because we're not enough, right? 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.039 Like, we're not enough to look at it. 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.879 And that's the point here of what these people would feel like. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:25.919 They would have been filled with joy and like reverence and fear and excitement. 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:31.840 That them is not enough could be in relationship with God. 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.120 And then in verse 23, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:36.960 This actually happened. 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:43.600 The word glory is the word kabod, meaning honor, splendor, and abundance. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.799 Glory is something of weight, meaning it has supreme value. 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:53.440 Something so worthy it changes everything else. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:10:00.480 It's the royal merchant treasure on the Netflix show Outer Banks. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.919 If you're under 30, you know what I'm talking about. 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:04.960 John B. 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:09.440 and JJ and Key and Sarah and Pope. 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.879 I can't even talk about Rafe and Ward because they're so horrible. 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:17.200 A$400 million gold treasure. 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:21.840 It's a show about teenagers making horrible life decisions. 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:30.799 You can just, you can show the actually you can show the show to your teenager and say, do nothing like this, and you will have a successful life. 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:39.840 And everybody in the show, everybody in the show will do anything for the treasure. 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:41.039 Anything. 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.960 Their entire lives orient around the treasure. 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:56.960 This is the power of glory, something that has so much worth and so much weight that it lures you, it attracts you, and it holds you. 00:10:57.120 --> 00:10:58.879 It's enough to hold you. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:07.279 So a growth in grace question for us is what do you give worth to and orient your life around? 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.720 That's not to say list it out and shame on you. 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:20.159 That's to say maybe perhaps in the grace of God repent, but also more grace on you that you might treasure what can actually hold you. 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:28.960 Does it or they have the weight, the glory to properly hold and fulfill you? 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.879 Or do you feel you're tossing about? 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:37.120 Does the treasure of your heart have the weight to hold you? 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:38.639 To save you? 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:40.720 To forgive you? 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:45.759 Can the treasure of your heart love you when you're not performing? 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.000 Can the treasure of your heart love you when you are unfaithful? 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:54.960 Can the treasure of your heart be with you when you're suffering? 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.720 Can it give you a purpose that's bigger than yourself? 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:14.720 And 1 Corinthians, when Paul's urging us away from illusions of fulfillment, he finally summarizes by saying, 1 Corinthians 10 31, so whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:23.279 Like he is treasure, he is worth and value and weight is enough for our lives to orient around him. 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.440 Leviticus 9 24. 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:30.399 And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar. 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:34.240 And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces. 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:40.960 Point number three is this by God's grace we experience him as consuming and accepting of us. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.120 Through his grace. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:51.919 And every other neighboring tribe, fire signaled the arrival of God, a God. 00:12:53.039 --> 00:13:02.480 But this God of Israel was different because this God resides with them right at the center of their camp to bless them. 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:13.600 And in verse 24, the fire consumes, fully consumes the sacrifice as a way to say, by grace I accept you. 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.960 Fire's a constant biblical image throughout the scriptures. 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:25.759 And for those who have reason to fear God, fire is like hiking in a dry forest. 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.159 You'd be filled with fear. 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:39.919 But to those who receive the love of God, the provision of a sacrifice outside of yourself, Jesus for us, fire becomes something altogether different, doesn't it? 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:48.480 God becomes like an all-consuming fire, but like a fire on a in a safe fireplace that warms us. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:58.879 And see, beloved, that's the truth that we have in this God that through Jesus, fire speaks of God's warmth and our welcome and his blessing over us. 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:03.519 In verse 22, we read that Aaron raised his hands and spoke a blessing over the people. 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:12.879 And point number four is this the ultimate blessing is God's free, loving, and transformative presence with us. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.720 There's no greater blessing that we're gonna stumble into in life. 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:23.279 There's no income level, there's no status that all of a sudden is gonna be greater than this. 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:34.559 In February, this video went viral of a little girl, little elementary school girl, who comes into school and her principal and her have the same birthday. 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.279 This is the morning of their birthday. 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:38.080 This is what happens. 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:31.840 Right? 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.799 She won't remember any gifts. 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:38.320 She won't remember what her spelling grade test was. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:40.000 She'll remember him. 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:43.519 She will remember him for the rest of her life. 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:51.519 See, we think we want more and more gifts, or we think we need more and more gifts, or more answers. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.639 Or if you're like me, control freaks, more control. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.919 Anyone say, yep, answer me, more control would be nice. 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:04.399 But in God's presence, everything else finds its proper place. 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:09.600 In Leviticus, we learn that God resided in the center of his people. 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:19.039 The New Testament expands this idea of presence, grounds it of Christ inside of us. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:21.440 Listen to Colossians. 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:30.799 Paul writes this Colossians 1, 19 and 20, for in him, in Jesus, all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:39.120 And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:52.720 Seven verses later, verse 27, to them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of his glory, of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.559 What does this mean for you? 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:02.879 Well, it means in Jesus we experience the fullness of God's weight and treasure. 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:06.720 There's no more glory than Jesus. 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:11.279 Meaning Christ is enough to hold us and he is worthy of our lives. 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:16.079 In Jesus, we have all the acceptance with God that we will ever need. 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.680 Meaning Christ is our acceptance. 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:26.000 So spiritual anxiety and fear can begin to fade and begin to heal. 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:32.079 And in Jesus, we have our loving God who resides with us. 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.519 He's not separate, he's not for special people, he's not just for the priest. 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.240 This God resides in you. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:43.039 Christ is for you and with you. 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:52.960 As a middle school kid, I went to Burt Marion Methodist Church and we had a youth group on Sunday night, and at five o'clock you could show up and we would play touch football. 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:54.799 That's why I showed up. 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:59.599 I loved that touch football game as a little pump sixth grade kid. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.319 And after that, we would we had a little snack supper. 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:04.640 It serves like a hot dog and chips or something. 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:08.640 And then we went into a room and Barbara would teach us a lesson. 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.720 And I don't remember any of these lessons. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:13.200 I don't remember anything that Barbara said. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:17.759 I really, really loved the football part of the whole evening. 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:31.359 But at the end of the youth group lesson, she had all of us stand up and you stood on the prim of the room and you held each other's hands, and you recited this thing. 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:32.400 I didn't know what it was. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:38.000 This kind of like mantra, just felt like a churchy mantra to me, is all it felt like. 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:46.960 I had no idea what it was or where it was from or anything like that, but you said it every single week, so it just kind of got in you like over time. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.400 Like, well, what I've learned now is this is the blessing of Aaron. 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.559 The Aaronic blessing was what it's called from the book of Numbers. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:02.480 Now, in verse 22 here in Leviticus 9, Aaron blesses the people. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:05.599 So perhaps, maybe it's this ironic blessing. 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:15.359 It could be something else, but Aaron blesses the people as a way to release and remind people of God's covenant care of them. 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:23.920 So I want to close the sermon by praying this blessing, this ironic blessing over you from Numbers 6, 24 through 26. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:29.759 And you can either read on the screens, you can bow your head, you can open your hands however you want to receive this. 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:35.440 The Lord bless you and keep you. 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:41.440 The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:47.599 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:54.799 Heavenly Father, thank you that Jesus is the fulfillment of all of this ritual and religion. 00:19:55.759 --> 00:20:00.160 And he is enough for all the forgiveness that we need to be accepted with you. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:03.920 Thank you that Jesus is enough for us. 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:16.319 And that you are not separate, you are not distant, but that you actually reside in us, Christ in us, hope of glory. 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:27.039 Would we repent all the more of all the treasures of our hearts that are worthless, hold no weight, and let us down? 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:30.559 Put grace on us. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:34.640 And would there be more grace on us to treasure you all the more? 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.720 Holy Spirit, would you increase our trust in you? 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:42.480 That we would treasure Jesus in greater ways. 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.480 And that our lives would orient around you. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:48.160 In Christ's name we pray. 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:48.960 Amen.