WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:04.480 Let me pray as we look into Hebrews chapter 8 this morning. 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:06.719 God, thank you for this morning. 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:08.720 Open our hearts as we come in. 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:18.399 Some of us with a very busy heart, preoccupied, and some of us with very hurt heart. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.960 And God, would you would your Holy Spirit meet us exactly where we are this morning? 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:30.559 And we thank you that you are the pursuer, you are the rescuer. 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:40.399 As we open up your word, would you embed it into our hearts that new life would be created inside of us? 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:43.280 And have mercy on us. 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.200 Have mercy on us, especially the one who speaks. 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:48.159 Amen. 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:51.039 So we've been making our way through the book of Hebrews. 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:53.439 We've been talking about the priesthood of Jesus. 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:06.239 Last week we've talked about the doctrine of intercession, which I had never even preached on before, and that was a blast for me to get into and realize how good Jesus is, not only in the past on the cross, but in the present, in this doctrine of intercession. 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.120 And we get to this Hebrews chapter 8, verses 6 and 7. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:10.079 Here's what it says. 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:22.239 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old, as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:31.040 For if that first covenant, so that old one, had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.560 So in verse 6, two different times it says, better. 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:40.560 So Christ brings a better way than some former way of living faith. 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:46.640 The word better means more useful, more advantageous, more excellent. 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:55.040 So there is a new way to live faith that is better than an old way that had faults. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.879 I bought a new iPhone about a year ago. 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:07.840 Mine was getting super slow and frustrating, and so finally I caved, and I bought a new one, and then of course, you know, right when you get the new one, you realize all your stuff doesn't work. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.960 And I've been using uh these headphones for years. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:23.759 Uh these headphones, the corded headphones, and it has the round, the round into the round, and then the new phone had the rectangle, and I don't know the terms for all those plugins, but the the round didn't go into the rectangle, but these worked fine for me. 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:28.240 I used them for music, I made phone calls with them, I had no real problem with these. 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.240 They're fine, so I didn't see any reason to do anything real complicated here. 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:33.680 So I bought an adapter. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:43.759 So the adapter, if you've done this trick, anybody done this trick because you didn't want to buy new headphones, is you just do the adapter and now the round turns to a rectangle, the rectangle goes a rectangle, and now your new phone takes your old headphones. 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:50.400 And so I just kept using these, and then my children started to make fun of me because I didn't have AirPods, right? 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:51.599 AirPods, right? 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:56.560 And I for I'll confess I thought it was they were called ear pods for a very long time. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:08.000 After being corrected, I kept using the term earpods just to make my children laugh, and so that went for a while, but I'm pretty sure, although not completely confident to be honest, that they are called AirPods. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.840 Or they it's AirPods, okay, so it's AirPods. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:24.319 And so finally I get home one day, and over on my side of the counter is this nice, beautiful little box, and you flip it open, little right, and you know that little click. 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.280 And there's over there, my wife had got them for me, the AirPods, right? 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:32.319 Now I'm now I'm a justified man in the world. 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:36.719 I can you know walk proudly, and of course, I do what I did with all new technology. 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:44.879 I just put them in the glove box of my truck, and I didn't use them for about a month, and then one day, for no reason any other day, I just pulled them out to make phone calls. 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:46.639 I probably couldn't find the corded ones. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:53.199 I made phone calls with these, and I will admit, the moment of pulling these out versus untangling these, right? 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.759 Like this was a good moment, and these worked really well. 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:59.360 They hung perfectly my ears, and these always kind of hurt my ears if I was gonna be honest. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:05.439 And these hung perfectly my ears, which these were falling out, I get some big ear issues, and so they were falling out. 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:06.800 These hung, they stayed in. 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.240 I was walking, I got my phone calls, the Bluetooth picked up immediately. 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:12.400 The clarity was unbelievable. 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.080 I could not argue with it. 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.839 Groundbreaking tech review, these are better. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:22.399 And you already knew that as you've been using them for three years or how many years they've been out, right? 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:23.439 You already knew that. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:28.639 They're more useful, more advantageous, more excellent. 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:35.759 There was an old way with fault, and then a new way came, a better way. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:39.759 And the Hebrews writer is saying is there's two ways of faith. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:41.439 These actually interact. 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:58.000 I mean, this is the framework of the scriptures, and it should be the framework of our hearts to understand these dynamics of an old way of law that still has a role in your life, but we live in the new way of grace, the covenant of law and the covenant of grace. 00:04:58.319 --> 00:04:59.920 So let's make sense of this. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:07.199 Point number one: your heart will either be overwhelmed by law or relieved by gospel. 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:17.680 So those are the two forces, not only that we see in the scripture, the law, the standard of who we should be and how we should live, but the gospel that we are rescued and relieved. 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.480 The covenant of law and the covenant of grace. 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:25.040 Now, a covenant is a binding agreement for a relationship to work between two parties. 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:26.240 That's what a covenant is. 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.480 The first one that we're talking about here in this passage is the covenant with Moses that God made. 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.319 We see it in the Ten Commandments, and it is holy and it is good. 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:44.800 All the moral law is good and holy, all the law in the New Testament of who we should be, even as Christians, is good and holy, and yet there's a problem with all of it. 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.279 And the problem's us. 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:53.360 Because we don't live up to it perfectly, and it demands our perfect righteousness. 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:59.680 But good news, the story wasn't over because the law, while it guides us, it crushes us, and it leads us to the gospel. 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:10.800 A thousand years after that covenant with Moses, Jeremiah writes, Jeremiah 31, 31, Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:16.480 He's talking about the person and the work of the incarnate God and Jesus the Christ. 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:25.680 This is what Paul helps us make sense of in all of his writings, Galatians 3, 13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.360 So as good and holy as the law is, it can become a curse. 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:35.199 It always becomes a curse on us because it eventually condemns us and our shortcomings. 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:39.360 The writer of Hebrews expands it, 8, 12, and 13. 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.480 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities. 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:46.399 This is God speaking, and I will remember their sins no more. 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:52.800 And speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.160 And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:02.480 So the law guides and crushes, and the gospel rescues and relieves. 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:07.439 And gospel is not an adjective, gospel music. 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:08.560 We say that. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.480 The gospel is news, something done. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:20.399 Good news of God's inexhaustible love to you in Jesus. 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.560 And Jesus' finished work for you. 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:25.600 Nothing for you to add. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.600 It's the new covenant of finished work, of absolution, and your righteousness. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:38.240 My friend and author, David Zall, he said this on the Mockingcast podcast last week. 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:47.759 He said, We've turned Christianity into something that's another and rather than where you go when the ands crush you. 00:07:49.199 --> 00:08:00.240 So he's commenting on how easy it is for us just to move back into, even in Christianity, move back into a life of performing or pretending, just into a list of things to do. 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:04.879 God loves you and you need to attend church. 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:06.399 Thank you for being at church, by the way. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:09.839 This is a lot better than an empty sanctuary those first couple months of the pandemic. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.519 I love that you're here. 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:17.120 God loves you and you need to pray continuously. 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:18.240 How's that going, right? 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.639 Okay, all right, there's where the law can crush you. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:22.959 God loves you and you should be patient always. 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:24.800 God loves you and you should love your neighbor. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:31.600 God loves you and the law there can pile on you just like the world's laws can. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.080 And those are good and holy things for us to do. 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:40.240 But rather, the grammar of God is different. 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:49.120 The grammar of God is because God loves you, you get to be involved in a community of faith. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:54.559 Because God loves you, you get to exercise patience toward people. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:59.919 Because God loves you, you can be free from money and give money away to needs. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:06.399 Because God loves you, you get to move toward morality and holiness and love of neighbor. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:14.799 One is more ands, and the other is because you are already righteous. 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.039 And that is freeing. 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:23.039 And it aspires and empowers movement toward God. 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:26.879 This chart by Tim Keller in his book, Gospel and Life, has helped me make sense of it. 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:35.519 For me, this was a pretty crucial sort of framework of thinking of how does the gospel intersect my life and where how does law work itself out and how do I see it? 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:36.399 How would I describe it? 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:37.279 How would I recognize it? 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.039 And then what does gospel look like? 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:48.639 I'm not going to go through all of this, although I would love to go through every single sentence of this, but you could Google Tim Keller Gospel and Life chart, you'll get this chart, it's all over the internet at this point. 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.159 Let me just mention a few of them. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.080 Religion says, I obey, therefore I'm accepted. 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.480 Gospel says, I'm accepted, therefore I obey. 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:01.200 We have to have the distinguishment here. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:06.320 Religion uses fear or insecurity for motivation in your faith. 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:08.320 Maybe you've been there. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:12.960 Gospel has motivation for the Christian life as grateful joy. 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:26.720 In religion, my self-view, and I know all about this, swings between two poles when I'm living up to standards and law, and we can put that in the religious law or worldly law, any standard of who I should be, it swings. 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:33.519 So if I'm living up to those standards, I am feeling fantastic about myself and also prideful. 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.360 And then you know what happens because you felt it. 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:42.480 You don't live up to it, and the pendulum swings, and you don't live up to law. 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:44.559 You feel like a failure. 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.399 You feel shame. 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:53.919 But the gospel, such good news says my self-view is not based in my moral or worldly achievement. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:05.360 I am completely sinner and saint simultaneously at the same time, and I am so sinful that Jesus had to die for me, and yet I am so loved he gladly died for me. 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:10.320 Last one, my self-worth is based in how hard I work. 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:12.000 This is what religion says. 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:14.799 How hard I work, how moral I am. 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:20.080 So inevitably I end up looking down on somebody who doesn't have their act together. 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:26.879 And the gospel says, my identity is in the covenant of grace. 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:33.039 God's love for me and Jesus, I am saved and made whole by sheer grace. 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:43.600 So I can't look down on somebody because they don't have their act together, and I can't look down on somebody because they believe differently than me, because only by grace I am who I am. 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:58.240 See, this is how the heart is saved, gets healed, put free from performance and pretending, free from worldly law and free from religious law. 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:04.879 And as we recognize and distinguish the difference between law and gospel, we can catch ourselves as we revert back. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:12.399 This is what Paul wants us to do: catch ourselves so that we can understand that we should live under the gospel. 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:19.440 Point number two is this when something is better, you fight to remain in the better, not return to the former. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:24.080 When something is better, you fight to remain in the better, not return to the former. 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:31.440 So I know it was a rough evening, last evening for all of us, right? 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.559 Braves, bulldogs, it was not good. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:35.600 Wasn't good. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.879 Now, equally exciting has been Fat Bear Week. 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:40.799 Anybody been following Fat Bear Week? 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:46.320 Y'all remember it from last year where I thrilled you for weeks and weeks and weeks about Fat Bear Week. 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.559 And Fat Bear Week, to catch you up to speed, because I know you've been we woke up for this. 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.200 Uh, Fat Bear Week is up in Katma National Park. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:54.320 If you remember, here's a picture of it. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.240 These are the grizzly bears up in Alaska. 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:13.039 They come to Brooks Falls from June through October before hibernation, and they come here and the salmon are happening here, and they they just gorge themselves for months and months and months, and they start out super skinny and they feed and feed and feed, and they're getting fatter and fatter and fatter. 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.600 You can look at pictures, there's a community, by the way. 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:32.960 I'm in the community because I've participated, and you can be in the community if you want to be in the community, it's a community of bear people, and you can watch videos and see pictures, and then October comes the excitement because it's Fat Bear Week with a tournament, and you vote on what bear got the fattest from the beginning to the end. 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:35.759 And if you remember last year, Holly won. 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.039 Here's a picture of Holly, same bear, same year. 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:41.440 Okay, that's what's important about this picture on the left. 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:46.080 That's the beginning of the summer, and that's her, same bear, at the end of the summer. 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.559 And so she took the championship last year. 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:50.799 This year, bear 747. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:52.240 This is 747. 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.240 This guy won this year, 747. 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.519 He beat up Chunk the Bear, in case you're wondering who came in second. 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:03.360 Now, what I didn't tell you last year was a bit of a soap opera that happened there at Brooks Falls. 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:08.960 And what happened was is this new bear named Humphrey Hump, if you're in the community, we just call him Hump. 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.320 Hump the Bear, he shows up, never been there before. 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:26.399 So he's new to Brooks Falls, and he shows up there at Brooks Falls and he's trying to find his spot, and you saw it, it's a lot of bears there trying to find his spot, and he gets there and he starts a fight with 801, bear 801. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:33.360 801 had this prime fishing spot, and he starts a fight, and they fight for a little bit, and you can watch the video online, it's thrilling. 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:40.080 They kind of go at it for a little bit, and then Otis, the bear, the 2017 champion, he's an old timer, he's 23 years old. 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:44.159 Otis sees what's going on, he's not far off, and he turns around, he's just not gonna have it. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:48.240 He comes over and he kind of pushes Hump on, and Hump leaves. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.000 But here's the deal with Hump. 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.840 Now, I don't like that Hump showed up and he's causing these problems with everybody else. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:55.600 I also don't blame him, right? 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:57.840 Now he stays the rest of the summer. 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.720 He stayed, and you can't blame him for staying. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:06.960 Who knows what river he's been fishing in and what creek he's been fishing in, and then he shows up at Brooks Falls. 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:09.039 This place is a feast. 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.799 I mean, these salmon are jumping into these bears' mouths. 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:14.000 He does not want to leave. 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:16.559 He's gonna stay, he's gonna figure it out and find his way in. 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:18.879 He's gonna plant himself there. 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.120 He's not gonna move on, he's not gonna go back to the old. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:27.519 This is what the New Testament is guiding us to. 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:28.879 It's what Paul's urging us. 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.120 Don't go back to the former way. 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:33.120 This is this passage in Hebrews. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:34.320 There was an old way. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:36.320 It had faults. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.440 Because we don't live up to it. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.679 And we have a new and a better covenant and the covenant of grace in Jesus. 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:46.480 That's why these words like in Christ mean so much. 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:57.360 Because it means you're fully forgiven and fully righteous, and that does mean you have complete freedom because you don't have to add on to that work, and it's that healing and that freedom that actually empowers you. 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:02.960 The Holy Spirit uses it to create healing to even want to live a godly life. 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:08.720 And this new covenant of grace, it also asks for perfect righteousness, by the way, and perfect obedience. 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:13.759 It asks for the same thing, but it fulfills itself. 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:18.480 God fulfills, provides the fulfillment of what he asks. 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:24.879 And so not only do we have complete absolution in Jesus, we have perfect righteousness in Jesus. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:30.240 So we live in him and in the covenant of grace, not under the law. 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:35.759 The law guides us and it crushes us and it leads us to the gospel. 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:43.279 So our earning is over, and in grace, our effort to follow Him can begin. 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:45.840 Last point, point number three. 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.799 At the end of your self-sufficiency is delight. 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:56.159 It will be your delight in Christ's sufficiency and embrace of you. 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:05.519 It's there at the end of yourself that you'll you'll see it and you'll rest in it, and you'll take delight in it. 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.440 In 1934, a failed stockbroker, Bill Wilson, he was an alcoholic. 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:12.960 He'd been to detox three times. 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:16.799 This is his fourth time being a New York detox center. 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.440 And he was he had nothing left. 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:21.359 He just had nothing left. 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:25.200 And finally, in the middle of the night, he prays. 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:33.920 Finally, fourth time in there, finally, he gets to the end of himself, and he prays, if there is a God, let him show himself. 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.319 I am ready to do anything. 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:40.319 He just has nothing left to offer except brokenness. 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:42.480 He never touched alcohol again. 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:47.680 He goes on and he forms AA, which has millions of members and the entire organization. 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:58.000 The movement of pulling people out of addiction is based on this one great truth, same truth for us, and that is at the end of ourselves we find healing. 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:05.039 And the recognition that we are in need of the grace of God, do we find healing? 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:09.440 See, the law is going to do its work in your life. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:17.119 Whether that's in the world of who you think you should be, and then you're falling short, the law will eventually crush you. 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:23.440 Or whether that's in religion, then all the ands that we put on top of God loves you and you need to. 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:26.480 And if you live by that, eventually you will live condemned. 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:28.880 The law will always do its job. 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:34.720 And if all we had was God's law, we would have no hope. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:39.759 If all we had was life application, we would have no hope. 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:43.359 The law always does its job. 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:46.240 But the gospel always does its job. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:52.079 And that is to pursue you and rescue you and relieve you in the finished work of Jesus. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:19:04.079 It's why we keep saying we are more broken than we originally thought, more sinful than we even know now, but we are more loved by God than we have ever dared a dream. 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:06.160 That's pretty good. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:25.599 God, thank you for this good news that we are made right with you by your grace to us and the covenant of grace that you fulfill not only for our absolution on our cross, on your cross, but the righteousness we need by the life of Christ. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:28.000 By your grace. 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:30.319 By your grace. 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:36.319 Would you help our hearts to heal from all the ways we want to live by performance? 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:42.799 Would you help our hearts to heal by all the ways we want to live in escaping from your law? 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:48.480 And would we sit in front of your law and be able to proclaim how good and holy it is? 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:55.119 And it crushes me, and I need to repent and thank you for your goodness and kindness that rescues me. 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:59.920 May we live in greater and deeper ways in your covenant of grace. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:05.759 Give us eyes to see the distinguishment between law and gospel as we can live in your gospel. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.640 Holy Spirit, teach us these things. 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.880 That we might live in a freedom. 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:19.599 That we might live in a freedom of a life that honors you. 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:20.799 In Jesus' name. 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:21.680 Amen.