WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.480 So we are still making our way through the book of Joshua as we are still in online worship. 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:11.759 And yes, we are, myself and Eric and Sam, we are getting tired of seeing an empty sanctuary. 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.000 So we are a part of the missing. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:15.199 We are missing you. 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:20.960 We are missing seeing you and being with you and can't wait for that day. 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:31.440 So this week, we did begin as a state, the state of Georgia began to reopen our society, sort of this phase one coming out of coronavirus shelter and place. 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:41.759 And Monday morning, that first day of reopening, here's what I woke up to a text message from my mentor, Scotty Smith, and he also tweets these out, but he knows I don't read a lot of Twitter. 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:42.880 So he sent this to me. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.600 This said, Monday, self-note. 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:56.399 Number one, the main opening to be preoccupied this week is your unfettered 24-7 access to the throne of grace. 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:11.040 Number two, more prostration in response to your father's welcome and love, and less pontification about your neighbor's politics and virus etiquette. 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:18.799 Then later that morning I heard this quote, second quote of my sermon already, on the Mockingbird podcast. 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:20.239 It's called Mockingcast. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:29.439 And this quote is from Jennifer Wiener in her article in the New York Times entitled The Seductive Appeal of Pandemic Shaming. 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.959 It's a confessional piece I think you'll probably associate with it. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:33.760 I sure did. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:35.280 Here's what she writes. 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:42.480 When I see misbehavior in person, it's all I can do not to start shouting, either in real life or virtually. 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:43.599 Why aren't you? 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:44.959 Or why don't you? 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:48.480 Don't you know you're putting people at risk? 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:57.760 I understand, thanks to therapy, that anger is a manifestation of fear, a way of exerting a tiny measure of control. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:01.120 I have no power over the pandemic. 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:10.319 I can't control who gets sick, or if my hospital is ready, or when we might return to something that looks like normal. 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:19.599 But yelling at a guy on the sidewalk or posting his picture on nextdoor.com with the caption so gross, or can't you believe this? 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:21.520 This I can do. 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.000 So we know these feelings, right? 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:26.639 Because you saw two of your friends, you couldn't believe it. 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:35.520 You were driving to Kroger with your mask and gloves, and you saw two of your friends walking down the street at 5.3 feet apart from each other, and it blew your mind. 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.000 You couldn't believe it, they weren't at six feet. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.599 Or maybe your friend Phil has not come out of his bedroom in seven weeks, and you can't believe that. 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.400 You can't believe why in the world would he do that? 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.360 I'm getting my haircut tomorrow. 00:02:49.759 --> 00:03:02.960 So I'm gonna go from being one of the people in the scraggly haircut categories to having a good haircut, and mind you, the instruction sent to me by my barber is like putting on a hazmat suit to enter to get a haircut. 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:23.759 But nonetheless, I'm going from scraggly to good haircut, which you know, all of a sudden, you know, good haircut people can judge scraggly haircut people, and scraggly haircut people can judge good haircut people, and then there's the third camp, which is the bad haircut, which meant you got your spouse or your friend or your buddy to cut your hair, and so you got bad haircut judging somebody else, and we got a judgment, right? 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:38.159 So easy, so easy in this process of reopening society and us coming out of our houses and beginning to do different things for us just to move straight into judgment, straight into shaming. 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:43.919 And it goes back to that text that my mentor sent me, and I need to hear it. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:56.960 I need more prostration, more bowing down in response to the father's welcome and love of me, and less pontification about my neighbor's politics and virus etiquette. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:21.120 None of us did quarantine right because you wanted to clean your garage and write a book and get you know personally fit, and you were gonna have a non-anxious presence with your children, and you're gonna play hide and seek outside, and you did two of those things, and while you're doing two of them, you ignored the other things, and now the other things you can't believe you didn't do those, and we we none of us, none of us did it right. 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:27.920 None of us did it perfectly, and none of us will do reopening perfectly either. 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:41.360 And this is where this passage, you wouldn't see it coming, but this passage comes to us so powerfully because it comes to us to show us the altar of grace that we we live with. 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:59.680 Not an altar of merit, not an altar of us making sacrifice after sacrifice after sacrifice to be delighted in by the Father, but that God provided that sacrifice and that his welcome and acceptance and righteousness for us is immeasurable and it never stops. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:05.439 So we're in this story in Joshua, this epic ancient story, this Old Testament story. 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:22.319 God's people were enslaved in Egypt, they come out of that, they're in 40 years in the desert, finally they get out of that, they go over the Jordan River, they're back in the land that's their land, and they're back in it, they're conquering some people to get their land, they conquer Jericho, they get defeated by I. 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:30.319 We talked about this last week, and that defeat came after some coveting and some stealing done, and so we talked last week about coveting and contentment. 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.920 And so then we enter Joshua 8 with that background. 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:35.759 Joshua 8, verses 1 and 2. 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.439 And the Lord said to Joshua, do not fear and do not be dismayed. 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:43.040 Take all the fighting men with you and arise, go up to I. 00:05:43.920 --> 00:06:03.519 See, I have given into your hand the king of I and his people, his city and his land, and you shall do to I and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves, lay an ambush against the city behind it. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:11.120 So point number one is this we have a giving God who blesses us through little and through much. 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:14.480 We have a giving God who blesses us through little and through much. 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:15.759 Now, what do I mean by that, right? 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:17.120 I can mean a whole bunch of different stuff. 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:17.759 Well, what do I mean? 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:18.879 Well, this is this is what I mean. 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:22.480 Three weeks ago, we were down to five rolls of toilet paper. 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:51.519 I don't know if you got to that during the big toilet paper crisis of 2020, but we were down to five, and Christy, my wife, she comes and she says, Hey, by the way, we're down to five rolls, and so you know, I'm moving to planner and provider mode, and I have to have another tutorial because in my house we have uh I have a wife and then I have three little girls, so we can we can do toilet paper, we can go through that, and so I have to have another tutorial about squares versus snowball, right? 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.600 That that's the small squares, not big snowball, and so we have to do that again. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:33.680 So we're at five rolls, I'm getting nervous, and I can remember that one time when I went to Africa on a mission trip, we used newspaper, but the problem is I don't want to do that, and also we don't take the newspaper, and then I saw a Beth Moore book on our end table, and I'd never looked at a Beth Moore book like that before, but I did and thought, well, we do have paper, so we got paper, so we could make it, but just when I couldn't believe I had looked at a Beth Moore book like that, uh Christy's dad hits the jackpot because he's hitting the senior citizen hour at Sam's and he gets us a 36 pack, and so we get a 36 pack of toilet paper. 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:34.480 We couldn't believe it. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.720 Best thing had happened in weeks, right? 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:44.000 And then the next day I'm at Costco, the next day, and I get another pack of 36. 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:51.120 We go from five rolls to 77 rolls in like two days, right? 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.120 I mean, just like abundance, right? 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.360 Here's the really deep point, right? 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.519 Like very profound illustration here. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.720 Taught, we're taught like really high caliber here at Redeemer. 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.439 And here's the point toilet paper comes and goes. 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.680 We didn't realize that until the last couple of months, but apparently that's very true. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:13.279 And what we have known for a long time is our 401ks come and go. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.439 And and sadly, sometimes our incomes come and go. 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.600 And a lot of that can be very painful. 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:21.279 But it's true. 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:29.199 And in it, and in it, God's resources of lavish love for you. 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.799 It never goes. 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:39.759 That it is always there to welcome, and it is always immeasurable for us. 00:08:39.919 --> 00:09:00.080 And so the story in Joshua 8 is that Joshua takes 5,000 men, he goes up to I, they hide out in this ravine, they trick this city and all the fighting men in the city, come out of the city walls and they trick them, and then they ambush the city, they take out the fighting men, they set fire to the city, they win the bat, they win this battle. 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:07.120 And then they bring at the end, everybody's dead, everybody's been conquered. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.200 And if you need a sermon on war, we did that at the beginning of the series on Joshua. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.279 At the end of this, they bring the king of I to Joshua. 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.159 We don't know if the king is alive or dead at this point, but they say they hanged him in a tree. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:29.120 He could have already been dead, but this is a custom of the day to hang the king of the city in a tree, and then they buried him at the entry of the city. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:43.360 And then Israel, these people, God's people that are coming back into their land, God says, Hey, you can take all their livestock and all their treasure as your own, but they didn't get to do it at Jericho, but now they get to do it here. 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:51.759 And this is just a generic observation that sometimes we have a little and sometimes we have a lot. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.559 But Paul teaches on this, Philippians 4. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:57.440 Maybe you know this passage, you've been around church, you might have heard this. 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:59.679 Philippians 4, 11 through 13. 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.480 Paul, he's in jail when he's writing this in the New Testament. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.720 He's in prison when he writes this. 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:11.679 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:19.600 That's that word we learned about last week, which means that you are self-sufficient apart from what you have in circumstance or treasure. 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:22.480 Oh, what power, what power that is. 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:29.519 Verse 12, he says, I know how to be brought low and I know how to abound in any and every circumstance. 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:35.440 I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.799 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:45.200 Now, I used to have a poster of a guy dunking in my basketball locker room in high school with that verse on it. 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:46.960 It has nothing to do with dunking, apparently. 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:51.200 It took me a while to figure that out, has everything to do with contentment. 00:10:52.240 --> 00:11:17.200 This verse is Paul saying, I've learned a secret, and this secret is God gives to us what we need in acceptance and love and forgiveness and righteousness and peace on the inside of who we are, so that as the circumstances of the world and the treasures we hold in this world around us, they come and they go, but that we can have a stability and a strength from Him. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.240 They didn't get a treasure from Jericho, but then they get treasure from I. 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:27.039 Verses 30 through 35. 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:27.600 Hang with me. 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:28.559 A bit of reading here. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.240 This story progresses. 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:48.000 At that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Abal, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones upon which no man has welded an iron tool. 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.879 And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings. 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:54.080 Verse 32. 00:11:54.320 --> 00:12:02.159 And there in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses which he had written. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:34.399 And all Israel, a sojourner as well as native-born with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front in front of Mount Abal, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded at the first to bless the people of Israel, and afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written, the book of the law. 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:44.720 There was not a word of a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:46.960 Now there's a lot in there. 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:52.080 We could easily read through a lot of that and just see that as sort of like narrative and history, but there's so much for us. 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.000 And here's the next point, point number two. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:59.600 We are called to the altar of grace, bringing our confession and gratitude. 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:02.879 That's actually the life we're called to, the life of faith. 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:12.480 This passage, and here's where this history comes in for us and means so much, is that this passage talks about these two different mountains, Mount Abal and Mount Gerizim. 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.759 If we just pass that over quickly, we miss the meaning of it. 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:22.000 But if we remember back in Deuteronomy chapter 11, there's this story, and Moses instructs the people. 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:35.120 And he says, Hey, when you get to that land, that day between those two mountains, you pronounce the blessings on Mount Gerizim and you pronounce the curse on Mount Abal. 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:36.720 So it's been 40 years or so. 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:43.440 They're on these two mountains, here they are, and Joshua is renewing this relationship with God. 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:50.559 Up on Mount Abal, they sacrifice, they make a peace offering, and they read the law. 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.559 So these people are reading the law, they are reading how they should live. 00:13:54.799 --> 00:14:02.559 So anytime you read that, you're guided, you're inspired, and at the same time you're crushed because you know. 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:05.440 You know you don't do that perfectly. 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:14.080 I mean, Jesus makes a point in the New Testament when he begins to teach to make sure we get this message that we cannot live up to the law perfectly. 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.440 And he says, Oh, you think the law is not to kill somebody? 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:20.000 How about never hold anger? 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.080 Oh, you think the law is not to have adultery? 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:23.039 No, no, no, no, no, no. 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:27.120 Never even lust after another person. 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.279 And so the law crushes us, it's a curse. 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:40.320 And so just when you think that the only thing coming off of Mount Abal would be a curse, there's also a sacrifice. 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:52.480 And this is how we see in the Old Testament, in these stories, we get picture after picture after picture of a larger story, a meta-narrative of the scriptures of the gospel. 00:14:52.799 --> 00:15:08.159 An old covenant building an understanding for us to have appreciation and live under a new covenant, an old covenant of sacrifices for us to understand God's grace and what he gives to us in the incarnation of himself in the person of Christ Jesus. 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.600 That's one big story. 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:24.240 And in the Old Testament, we get all these little stories that feel like history at times or feel so ancient at times, but really there's these little hidden gems in here for us to understand God's grace. 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:26.080 Paul helps us with this. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.159 Galatians is a great book for this. 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:34.879 Galatians 3, 13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.519 See, Christ is the final sacrifice. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.200 We don't have to keep making sacrifices. 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.200 We're called to an altar of grace, not an altar of our own sacrifices forever. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:47.600 The writer of Hebrews expands on this in Hebrews 8, 12 and 13. 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:52.000 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more. 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.000 What a great promise from God. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:59.600 Verse 13, in speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:05.200 And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:23.759 And I think there's an implication here, and the implication is is my heart, day to day, moment by moment, is my heart living, being crushed by condemnation, of not being good enough or always having to do more? 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:44.159 Or is my heart being serenaded by the promises of my worth, of my forgiveness, of my acceptance, of my righteousness that God gives to me in Jesus. 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:49.919 See, God doesn't just endure you, He adores you. 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:51.200 He didn't just endure you. 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.399 I gotta endure Russ for you know a little bit longer. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:55.039 No, no, no. 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.919 He delights in you, he delights in you. 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.360 This week I had a Zoom call, right? 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.720 We're doing lots of Zoom calls. 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:13.599 I had a Zoom call with 15 Marietta pastors, and we were meeting about and talking about like when and how and what what does it look like for churches in our city to reopen. 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:22.400 And I was just overwhelmed by the generosity and the wisdom of this meeting of these guys. 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:28.799 We prayed together, the the Roswell First Baptist pastor led the per led the meeting. 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:30.000 He led it perfectly. 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:32.480 It was fantastic. 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:50.799 And I was so overwhelmed, and at the same time, I was I was actually really, really convicted by the Holy Spirit because I, I don't know about you, but I spend so much time being judgmental of like, oh yeah, oh those those people are too too traditional. 00:17:51.440 --> 00:18:03.200 They're too conservative, oh, they're too liberal, they're too modern, they have too many smoke machines in their worship, oh, they have too many hymnals in their worship, oh, they have too many whatever, too many whatever. 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:12.319 Like there's so much judgment in the entire time, the entire time, they're my family, they're my brothers. 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:28.559 And I'm so thankful, like on that call, in that conviction, in that moment of conviction, that's just one example of many this week, but in that conviction, I don't have to just like live in shame and condemnation because I have an altar of grace where there has already been a final sacrifice. 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:35.519 And that I get to, in the kindness of God, I get to just confess over God, you know, God. 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:37.279 I just made a little prayer there. 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:38.240 I didn't close my eyes. 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.160 That would have been weird if they looked up and saw me in the meeting with my eyes closed, praying. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.480 They might have just thought I was extra spiritual. 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.480 But I just kept looking at all of them and just made, I just prayed a short prayer. 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:53.680 Abba, Father, I receive, like I receive your righteousness, I receive your forgiveness. 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:58.000 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and forgive me. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:00.240 Thank you. 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.240 See, God delights in us. 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:13.440 We're not under a curse, we're under a promise of belovedness, and this shapes everything we do and how we do it. 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.200 On that call, I needed an altar of grace. 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:18.480 I needed the cross. 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:20.640 That's the altar of grace. 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:23.039 But we need it all the time. 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.000 We need our parenting, we need it our dating, we need our living and our working. 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:42.720 We need we just need it all the time because we're not as holy or as whole or as healthy as we want to be or as God desires for us to be, we're still in that process of that ongoing, imperfect walk toward holiness. 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.079 And we are in need of his grace the entire way. 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:59.839 What's amazing is on that Zoom call, in that prayer, and that conviction and in that forgiveness, that God uses that grace, not for me to say, oh, I'm gonna be even more judgmental to them, but actually creates love for them. 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:06.559 Because that is what the gospel and what the Holy Spirit does in us is creates love for our neighbor. 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:13.200 Two questions to close us, for implications for our hearts. 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:14.720 Two questions. 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:25.279 What does it mean for me to bow at the altar of grace and not my altars of merit? 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:37.279 What does it mean for me this week to bow at the altar of the grace of God, not my altars of merit? 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:48.079 And question number two is this What ways might I know increasing joy in God as I confess quicker at the altar of grace? 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:57.279 What ways might I know increasing joy in God as I confess quicker at the altar of grace? 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:06.640 Church, there is an altar of grace for you granted and given by a God who delights and welcomes you. 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:08.480 And we know this in Jesus. 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:09.519 Let's pray together. 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:11.920 God, we thank you. 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.359 Abba Father, we thank you. 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:21.359 We receive forgiveness, and we receive your righteousness. 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:29.680 Help us to learn even more the depth of the wealth of the identity we have as your beloved. 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:36.960 And may we grow in our understanding that we are not just cursed. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:45.519 We are crushed by the law, but we are fully welcomed and loved and forgiven and righteous in your grace. 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:50.720 May the law crush us and may your grace relieve us. 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:56.799 And God, we say, may your Holy Spirit be a source of conviction and comfort. 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:12.160 God, may we be a people who in our days, hour by hour, are constantly in the grace of God, confessing quicker as to delight in you in greater ways. 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:13.839 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:14.720 Amen.