WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.919 God, thank you for your grace to us. 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:08.400 Open our hearts in these moments to what you have for us from this great book of Hebrews. 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:10.320 And would your Holy Spirit speak to us? 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:14.640 Help us to be open to the Spirit that is already in us. 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:23.760 To convict where conviction is needed to comfort, to heal, to bring us into a greater awareness of how good you are. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.280 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:26.160 Amen. 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:33.280 Well, last year I told you, and it's not impressive, mind you, that I am, in fact, a silver medallion with Delta. 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:35.039 I don't know if that impresses you. 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:37.359 It shouldn't, because some of your gold, right? 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:38.719 You know it, and you're proud of that. 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:40.240 Platinum, you're really proud of it. 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.039 Y'all have secrets that the rest of us don't even know about. 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:50.240 I actually I love being a silver medallion, partially because I like putting the tag on my bag and feeling more important than other people as I work my way through the airport. 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:53.200 But I really like the special lines. 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:58.240 I like, I'm just that shallow, impatient person that I like a special line. 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.759 And if some of you, not the shadow, not the shallow, you're you're not that impatient. 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:05.040 You're like, you look at people in that line and you don't get it. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:05.760 I love it. 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:07.439 Like I love the special line. 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:10.079 I like being 20 seconds faster than you. 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:10.879 I just do. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.000 That's just me. 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:13.840 Uh, and then COVID hit, right? 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:17.280 And if you you have status with Delta, you know what I'm talking about as soon as I mentioned that. 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:29.200 COVID hit, and somewhere in your line of priorities, underneath the health and well-being of humanity, uh, was your status with Delta because all your flights were canceled, right? 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:30.159 Anyone else? 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:31.359 This hit you at some point? 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:36.879 Maybe it wasn't March 13th, maybe it was like March 23rd, but somewhere it hit you. 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.239 Oh my, the special line might be taken from me. 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:45.200 Um, what am I, how am I going to manage through this next time I go through an airport? 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:49.200 And then you received the email I received. 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:50.719 Do you remember getting it? 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:51.760 Some of you? 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:52.640 You know. 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.159 Because your status is secure through January of 2022. 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:56.480 Amen. 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:57.920 Anybody just want to say amen? 00:01:58.000 --> 00:01:58.879 Like that's you? 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:00.400 You got that secure status? 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:01.280 A few of you do. 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:02.319 You know exactly what I'm talking about. 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:03.920 The rest of you know what I'm talking about. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.120 But you understand it, right? 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:13.360 Like you understand that we were having to maintain our status, that lowly little silver, it's unimpressive, mind you, status with Delta. 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:18.560 I was having to maintain that with my like handful of flights a year and my spending on my Amex card. 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:19.439 I was having to earn it. 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:25.520 I was having to earn that status, and then by the grace of Delta Airlines, an email comes in. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:27.360 And everything changes. 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.479 The whole way that this thing is structured changes. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:36.159 By the grace of Delta, our status is secure through January of 2022. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:37.120 Unbelievable. 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.840 So before this grace, our status was maintained by our work. 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:44.479 After this grace, our status is secured by their grace to us. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:46.400 Such good news. 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:47.120 Amen. 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:49.039 Such good news. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:56.560 Because we all know how great it is to be in a secure relationship with a steadfast person. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:07.599 And we all know how horrible it was when you dated that person in college and they weren't steadfast, and you never knew where you stood and what it was like, and you were just anxiety all the time. 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.520 There's nothing worse than that. 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.719 Or worse, right? 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:21.199 Preacher transition, or worse, what it feels like if you think God is not steadfast toward you. 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:26.719 And you just kind of wake up or you live in this perpetual of like, am I really secure with him? 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.919 Like, is he disappointed with me today or after that thing versus the other thing? 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.319 And what if I really get my act together? 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:40.560 Like, not how I've gotten my act together in the past, but like really, yeah, really, really get my act together. 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:44.000 Like, will he then suddenly smile upon me? 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:47.199 And this is all cleared up in the book of Hebrews. 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:47.759 Isn't that good? 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:49.039 That's cleared up for us. 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:56.560 It's all cleared up for us that we're not just saved from the uttermost, but we are assured. 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:02.000 We are assured, not because of our work for God, but because of his work for us. 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.680 We're gonna read this one verse this morning, Hebrews 7, verse 25. 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:09.520 Sam Rap did a great job last week in this first half of the verse. 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.319 I'm gonna focus on the second half. 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:24.240 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:33.199 So, point number one is this Christ is praying for you, which means God is for you. 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.000 Christ is praying for you, which means God is for you. 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:43.519 So we've been talking the past few weeks about Christ being the final priest, the priesthood of Christ. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:45.360 And I'm tempted to repreach all those sermons. 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:49.439 That's what pastors are tempted to do in this moment, kind of get you caught back up. 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:55.920 I'm not gonna do that, but I will read what pastor and author John Piper wrote about this verse, 725. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:04.000 This means our salvation is as secure as Christ's priesthood is indestructible. 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:08.399 This is why we needed a priest so much greater than any human priest. 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:16.240 Christ's deity and his resurrection from the dead secure his indestructible priesthood for us. 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:26.480 So his priesthood for us is indestructible, which means that our relationship with him is forever secure based on his work on the cross and the resurrection. 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.319 Isn't that such good news? 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.360 Because it means it's by his grace alone. 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.920 And it says, this passage says, that he is praying for us. 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:40.079 Three years ago on a Sunday, we were over in the old sanctuary over on the other side. 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.600 Some of you were here when we were back over there in that space. 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:50.079 And I was preaching, I was preaching to a crowd back when we had crowds in churches, and I was preaching to a crowd, like when we shoved you in. 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:50.639 You remember that? 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:55.839 You didn't have all this like leg room, like we shoved you together three times as many people, right? 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:56.800 Like they're in this room. 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:58.480 We would just shove you all in here. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:08.319 And they were it was crowded, and so you know, you're preaching, you're kind of you're working your way, you know, you're working your way through the crowd as you talk, and you try to even it out here and there and back and forth. 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:12.720 And and in a crowd like that, you don't necessarily see everybody's face all the time. 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.360 It kind of blurs together, but then every once in a while you catch somebody's face, right? 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.439 And you go, like, oh, there you know, John is, right? 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:18.399 Like, or something like that. 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:21.360 And then every once in a while you'd see somebody you hadn't seen in a long time. 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:22.879 Like that's what happens when you're pastor. 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:24.720 Like somebody comes in and you hadn't seen it, you want to stop. 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:28.720 You want to be like, hey, you know, Charles, hey, I hadn't seen you in a while. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.439 Like it gets you get excited and you can't do that, but you want to. 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:37.600 And so, anyway, so I'm preaching, and I I scanned back to the back corner, back where Charles is, back over there. 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:38.399 Hey, Charles. 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.519 And back over there was a retired minister. 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.199 And I I see him and I met him like years before. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:47.920 I hadn't I hadn't seen or talked to him since then. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:50.959 But he's sitting back over there, he just kind of came and visited our church. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:52.959 And oh, that's kind of nice. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.439 I mean, like he's like a well-respected guy. 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:57.040 Like a lot of people, a lot of people know him. 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:06.639 I don't think he would even have known me again, except that one time that we met, a lot of people really adored this man, and he was sitting back there just attending our church at service ends, and he leaves. 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:07.920 I didn't talk to him or anything. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.759 And then four days later, I get a letter in the mail. 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.399 And I'm not talking like a little note card, right? 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:21.120 Like a little note, you know, like four sentences, you know, like no, I'm talking like a letter, like the old days, right? 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:26.639 Like a whole sheet, like the whole thing, written, covered, like the whole thing. 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:32.560 And it wasn't, it was, it was real, like it was personal, it was thoughtful. 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.839 It was just filled with encouragement for our church and what we're doing. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:42.319 And at the end of the letter, he said, I am praying for your church. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:47.439 And then after that, the next said, I am praying for you. 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:50.240 Now, what does that mean? 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:56.160 Like literally, I think it means he's praying for our church and for me. 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.480 But here's how it made me feel. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.120 It made me feel like he is for me. 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:07.040 And he's with me, and he cares about me. 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:07.759 Right? 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:17.920 Because when someone prays for you, when you know that person is praying for you, it's they're for you and they're with you. 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.759 Now, these prayers of Christ, right? 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.600 He's for you, he's with you, he's praying for you. 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:36.240 They're they're not to persuade and upset or withholding, you know, God, and like God's upset and withholding, and then oh, Jesus is gonna pray to God, and then that withholding God all of a sudden is gonna like change his mind, and now be for you. 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:43.120 I mean, this is the Trinity, they are all satisfied, and everything of any judgment towards him is handled on the cross. 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:54.799 So this is an all-satisfying deity, and within the deity, Christ is fully satisfied, and his full satisfaction, he is pouring out prayers for you. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.559 It's not about changing God's mind. 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:11.039 Christ is praying in the present moment of pouring out the same grace that that was shown on the cross. 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:14.399 It's like the cross is brought into the present moment. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:25.919 Point number two is this Christ's present moment prayers for you reveal God's loyal heart and care for you. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:33.360 Dane Ortland in the book Gentle and Lowly, I've been reading quotes from that book as we've been going through the book of Hebrews. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:35.360 A lot of that book is about Hebrews. 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.120 Here's what he wrote about this verse, 725. 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.919 Christ's heart is a steady reality flowing through time. 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:51.840 It isn't as if his heart throbbed for his people when he was on earth but has dissipated now that he is in heaven. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:10:02.639 It's not that his heart was flowing forth in a burst of mercy that took him all the way to the cross but now cooled down, settling back once more into kindly indifference. 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:09.519 His heart is as drawn to his people now as ever it was in his incarnate state. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:17.679 And the present manifestation of his heart for his people is his constant interceding on their behalf. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:19.519 I love that. 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:23.919 His heart is as drawn to you now as it ever has been. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:26.639 I mean, knowing that changes everything. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:30.080 All that kind of like wondering about my status with God. 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:41.039 That's all been settled on the cross, and even now, this doctrine of intercession is the present moment manifestation of the same grace we saw on the cross in the present moment. 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.879 I've never preached a sermon on this in 20 years. 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.000 And then I hit this verse, I start studying, I'm like, this is incredible. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.240 How have I not hit this before? 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:56.240 This concept, this idea that Jesus in this present moment is still loving you with such delight. 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:06.720 Years ago, I was interviewing for the job that I had before this job, so a church down in Atlanta, uh a real nice and fancy church, and we're way out of my league. 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:09.360 I was from Gwinnett County, like right on the edge of rural. 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:13.919 I owned, I think I've told you this before, I owned one pair of khakis at that point in my life. 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:15.600 They were cargo pants, mind you. 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:19.279 So, like they I don't even know if they count as khakis and one button-up shirt. 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:20.879 That was all I had in my closet. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.679 One pair of khakis and one button-up shirt. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:24.399 That was it. 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.200 The rest were jeans, shorts, flip-flops, and t-shirts. 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.200 That was the wardrobe in Gwinnett County. 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:31.519 It was not the wardrobe in Buckhead. 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:32.559 Let's just say that. 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:39.440 I show up with the cargo pants and the button-up shirt, the one, and I'm just working my way, like interviewed and interviewed, and interviewed. 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:44.720 I mean, it's like getting in the CIA just over and over and over, different person, different person, different person. 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:47.360 Finally, the final step was this psychologist. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:55.440 And he has me go through all these tasks online, and then we have this phone conversation, and in the phone conversation, he starts to pick me apart, and he's got me. 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:56.879 He has it, I mean, he has me nailed. 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:02.320 He knows more about me in that test in that hour and 15 minutes than anybody on planet Earth. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:03.919 It was unbelievable. 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.759 I mean, he just had me absolutely pegged. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.799 And finally, at the end of it, I was just like, hey, like, what was that? 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:11.679 Like, what just happened? 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.759 What kind of black magic did you just put on me? 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:14.799 That was amazing. 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.639 And he said, Well, most of humanity behaves in patterns. 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.159 If I know your pattern, I can I can predict how you will behave. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:22.960 Right? 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.600 It's just like like being on repeat, right? 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.720 It's just it's the same idea of maybe like a song. 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:34.000 You fall in love with a song, you just keep putting it on repeat over and over and over and over again. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:40.639 In our house, uh, it's the Skylar sisters in Hamilton, because we have three girls and there's three Skylars. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:42.480 Angelica lies. 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:43.279 Anybody else? 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:43.759 Nobody? 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:45.519 Okay, there's a few of us. 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:55.759 I mean, three girls in the song, three girls in the house, they can divide up roles and new dances and then just play the song again, trade roles, new dance, right? 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.440 Like you just do it over and over. 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:58.240 I know, I know it. 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:00.399 The scholar sisters are looking for a mind at work. 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:01.360 Like, I know it. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:07.039 Like, I know everything about the scholar sisters, how they're going downtown, they're looking for a man for the mind at work. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:11.919 I know the whole song because it's on repeat, right? 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:15.200 And I mentioned that because this has something to do with God. 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:21.919 Like this idea of enduring love for you, this idea, this is on repeat, it's on perpetual repeat. 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:24.080 It's stable, it's steadfast. 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:28.399 That's why we're assured it's fully reliable. 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:37.279 Point number three is this just as praying for someone is personal, Christ's prayers reveal how He personally loves you. 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:47.600 The Old Testament Hebrew word that we learned a couple years ago for loyal love, like perpetual loyal love, is this Hebrew word chysid. 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:51.200 And chissid is love that's so enduring. 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:54.080 It's a perpetual force. 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:02.080 That it persists beyond sin and betrayal, and it can mend brokenness and it can heal. 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:08.799 It's a perfectly loyal love that says, I'm for you and I'm with you, and I'm not going anywhere. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.519 I read this quote back when we studied that word by theologian John Oswalt. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:27.440 Chasid, so loyal love, God's loyal love speaks of a completely undeserved kindness and generosity done by a person who is in a position of power. 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.720 This was the Israelites' experience of God. 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:43.840 He revealed himself to them when they were not looking for him, and he kept his covenant with them long after they persistent, a persistent breaking of it, had destroyed any reason for his continued keeping of it. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:50.559 Unlike humans, this deity was not fickle, undependable, self-serving, and grasping. 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:57.519 Instead, he was, and we can say, he is, faithful, true, upright, and generous. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:58.480 Always. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.360 See, the story is always our need and his sufficiency. 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:08.080 It's our, yes, on and off prayers, hot and cold prayers. 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.960 But his constant prayers for us. 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:17.039 It's that one song that just keeps going. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.120 In closing, I think there's two gospel implications for us. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:34.320 Number one is this you are his beloved, and he is patiently pursuing, we can say perpetually pursuing, your heart by means of conviction, comfort, and healing. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.600 This is the Holy Spirit's work in your life. 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:44.639 There's going to be conviction, there's going to be comfort, and that is unto healing, and that is unto wholeness and holiness. 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:49.360 Number two, you may have a lot of worries in life. 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:50.559 We can just stop there, right? 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:52.480 You say, Yep, yep, that's me. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:54.799 Okay, you got me in the first part of the sentence. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:57.519 You will have a lot of worries in life. 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:08.399 But in Christ's work and devotion, you can be healed from spiritual anxiety, lack of assurance, and fear of God's regard to you. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:14.879 The other worries might continue on, but these are worries you don't have to carry around. 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:22.879 The question I grew up with, in the context I grew up with, a lot of times I would hear this question, maybe you heard this question, maybe you didn't, and you won't associate with it. 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:30.080 The question I heard is, do you know that you know that you know that you know Jesus is Lord? 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.279 Well, now that you phrase it that way, no. 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:35.120 Like, right? 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.200 Like if it was just like, do you know Jesus is Lord? 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:38.320 I'm like, yes, I do. 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:42.320 But now that you said, do you know that you know, like, like, no, now I'm not, I'm not sure. 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.480 I don't I don't even know if I'm a member of the Y at this point. 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:46.720 Like, there's so much pressure, right? 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.200 Some of you know what I'm talking about. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:56.320 It can just produce so much anxiety. 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.919 See, the question is not, do you know, do you know, do you know, do you know? 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:05.759 The question is, do you know? 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:15.039 That he knows, that he knows, that he knows, that he knows, that he redeems you. 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:16.240 Do you know that? 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.599 Because that is such a good news to rest in and be assured of it. 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:20.720 Let's pray together. 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:32.720 God, thank you for the assurance that we have in you that we can be healed from spiritual anxiety and the fear that might creep into our hearts about how you might feel about us today. 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:43.680 Thank you that your regard to us has been settled on the cross, and even more in this present moment, we have such security that even now your heart is being poured out about us. 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:53.359 That any of our suffering and conviction is all unto our healing, wholeness and holiness. 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:03.119 God, for the many of us that are in this room or watching online and have suffered with spiritual anxiety for so long, would this be such good news for our hearts? 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:14.720 And would your Holy Spirit use it to create such healing and such assurance of our status with you and the good and perfect word of Jesus? 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:15.920 Amen.