WEBVTT 00:00:02.479 --> 00:00:09.359 So last Friday night, our little family had our normal Friday night pizza movie night. 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:15.519 Uh Christy and myself are three little girls, so we lay towels down on the floor in front of the TV. 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:21.600 We we cook pizzas and and we sit and we we have pizza, we watch a movie, and the girls wanted to watch the greatest showman. 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:23.199 You've seen the greatest showman. 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.120 Heather has seen the greatest showman, apparently. 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:27.839 We have one. 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.000 One has seen it, maybe more. 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:30.719 A few. 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:33.840 Yeah, so it I so I you know I was being the good dad. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.240 They wanted to watch The Greatest Showman. 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:38.000 That's fine. 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:40.079 I'll watch The Greatest Showman. 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:41.759 It's a family affair, you know. 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.719 That was my my kind of idea going into it. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:53.119 So Barnum, the circus guy, you know, he's the famous circus guy, and he's the main character in the movie, and he's rounding up all these people who are different. 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:54.560 Different from the norms. 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:02.880 You know, he's getting together the guy who's too tall, the guy who weighs too much, uh, the woman with the beard who sings incredibly. 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.319 Um, it's all the outcasts, it's all the people who have been outcast. 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:08.319 Anyone who's different. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:13.599 Skin looks different, face looks different, body looks different, sound different, can do something different. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.840 And at first, uh, the feel of it sort of like he's doing this to make money. 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:24.719 It's just it's the way that he kind of positioned himself to figure out how is he gonna make money for himself. 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:29.599 And then something happens in the movie, and for me, this is where the interest for me switched over. 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:34.400 Something happened in the movie where he actually accepts them as people. 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:44.159 And actually, it's where the disruption occurs in the movie, that he accepts the unacceptable, and now all of a sudden, society doesn't know what to do with that. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:53.200 And by the end of the movie, I'm like back behind my girls in my chair, and I'm, you know, like tearing up and crying, Christy's eyes are watering, you know. 00:01:54.239 --> 00:02:11.039 And you know the feeling, you know the feeling of, you know, the feeling of being society, like being the one that is you're deeming yourself normal and deeming somebody else abnormal out of pride and hardness and labeling them that, and because and we do that because we will feel more important, right? 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:17.919 There's there's no way to make yourself feel more important quicker than deeming somebody an enemy. 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:22.159 And then at other times you've felt how this has reacted against you. 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:28.960 Because you've been the one who has been the outcast, because you feel like you just don't quite fit in. 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:42.400 And maybe you actually feel that because a person or a group of people have actually made it very apparent that you will not fit in, and they are doing this because if you are the enemy and demonized, they will feel more important. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.199 And in all that, we wonder if people really know us. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.520 This is what the characters in this movie are wrestling with. 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:57.680 If people really know us, will they accept us? 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.840 So the first point that we get to before we even get into the text is this. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.400 Point number one, I got five points today. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.840 I was just like, just some extra for you guys today. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.639 I'm sorry, I just got motivated. 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:14.479 Point number one is people like division. 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:18.159 And maybe I should say it sadly, people like division. 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:21.680 And we do this because we're sinners and we do this because we're insecure. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:27.599 We do it because we're self-absorbed, we do it because we care more about ourselves often than somebody else. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.199 And if you're the enemy and you're simply different than me, then perhaps now I feel better. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.879 I mean, there's no place to see this quicker and easier than online and people's anger towards somebody else. 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.719 Somebody else posts a view, and there's immediate anger. 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:43.840 Right? 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.199 I mean, no, no desire to seek commonality. 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:47.919 Right? 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:58.879 You turn on news commentary, it's all division, it's all demonizing, because there's no way for me to sound smarter than to demonize you to be completely ignorant. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:06.319 But very rarely would you ever turn on news commentary and have one of the news commentary seek commonality and say, you know what? 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:07.360 I think that's a great point. 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:08.960 We really meet eye to eye on that point. 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:11.199 I mean, that's almost never heard. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:17.759 Because the quickest way for me to sound smart is for me to demonize one idea of yours. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.560 And then it works against us because some person, some group divides you from them. 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:31.920 And we do this because we're insecure, and we do it because we're sinners or self-absorbed. 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:34.720 It's a way of self-salvation in the end. 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:45.920 Rather than relying on Jesus and God's love for us to deem us worthy and important, it's quicker often to just divide and feel important. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:48.959 This brings us to our text, which Sam read. 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.279 I'll reread it, Acts 8, 1 through 8. 00:04:51.360 --> 00:05:03.279 And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles, devout men, buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:07.600 But Saul was ravaging the church, so he was dividing. 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:12.160 And entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.720 Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:25.199 Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and that's where we're going to see more division and people actually overcoming it, and proclaimed to them the Christ. 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:31.439 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip when they heard him and saw the signs that he did. 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:39.040 For unclean spirits crying out with a loud voice came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.319 So there was much joy in that city. 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:45.839 So the bad thing became a good thing, right? 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.319 So Saul is persecuting, he's dividing. 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.439 He didn't want to see any commonality, right? 00:05:51.519 --> 00:06:02.160 I mean, this Jesus movement is a direct threat to society, the religious authorities who have built society around the religion, the economic, the status structure, I mean, all of it, this is a threat. 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:06.160 And so the easiest way to do this is let's just disperse the group. 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:06.800 Right? 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:15.920 Let's get rid of the threat, let's disperse them, let's just get rid of them, but the bad thing becomes a good thing because what actually happens is these people just keep talking about it. 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:17.839 They won't shut up. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:20.639 And this is where we get two quick points here. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.600 Point number two, the gospel's communal. 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:31.360 We learn about it in community, we experience it in community, we preach the gospel to each other, we know it from one person to the other, but it's also personal. 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.879 So the gospel is communal and it is personal. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.279 It didn't fall apart. 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:44.160 It didn't fall apart when Paul scattered Saul, scattered all of these people because it was personal to them. 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.079 Their belief didn't change. 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:49.680 Stephen and Philip really believed this. 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.040 So when they got sent off wherever, they just kept talking about it. 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:54.160 Point number three. 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.639 So point number two, the gospel is communal and it is personal. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.560 Point number three, the gospel is personal and then it is public. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:06.079 These people reacted to the grace of God by just keep talking about it. 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:09.199 They couldn't quit talking about it. 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.959 And it's this third path is what the gospel is. 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:18.720 I mean, look out into the world, it's true now, like it's true then. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:28.959 You can try to seek your value and acceptance and worthiness by worldly success, worldly achievement, worldly merit, maybe even hedonism, pleasure, that's a path. 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:37.519 Second path, the path of religious merit, spirituality, faith by merit, religiosity, that's path number two. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:41.759 But then there's the path of the gospel, which is different than both of those paths. 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:51.600 And this says that the good news is that all the work of your absolution and your acceptance is already done by God, by Himself, and given to you. 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.040 There's nothing, nothing for you to add. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:00.399 It's not what they did, it's what God did, it's not what you do, it's what God did for you. 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:02.399 This was radical to that world. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:14.879 This is the thing that radicalized Stephen and Philip in a good way, in a way of love toward people, and a way of understanding their absolution and their acceptance, and they just couldn't quit talking about it. 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.800 There's this story in Luke chapter 10, it's called the Good Samaritan story. 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:20.160 You've probably heard it before. 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:25.839 Jesus tells a story, a religious guy comes up to him and says, Hey, how can I inherit eternal life? 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.759 I mean, it's this guy's way of asking, like, how can I be right with God? 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.759 How can I be, Jesus, you're this great teacher, how can I be right with God? 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.519 And Jesus says, Well, love God and love your neighbor as yourself. 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.799 And then the guy says, Well, okay, who's my neighbor? 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:49.120 And Jesus launches into the story, which I think ends up being much more about who your neighbor is and who you're like than anything else. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.559 And he says, There's this man that's traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:57.440 He's traveling along, some robbers come up on him, they rob him, they beat him down, they leave him for dead. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:02.080 He's half dead in the gutter of the street, just laying there. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:03.360 He can't do anything. 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.279 He is headed toward death. 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:17.279 A priest walks along, the priest sees him, sees he's half dead, crosses the street, most likely out of his religiosity, because if he touched a dead man, he would be deemed impure. 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:23.679 So he's probably not just a jerk, but a religious jerk, which makes much it could be worse than just a jerk, I'm not sure. 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:31.440 But he crosses the street, passes the guy, a Levite, which is another religious guy, he comes along, he does the same thing. 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.159 And then a Samaritan comes along. 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:41.759 And this guy, who the Jews despised, Samaritans. 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:49.440 I mean, this was as low of a person as you could imagine in a world where status and social structure was everything. 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.799 These people had no part in the promises of God. 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:59.759 And this guy, the Samaritan, in Jesus' story, he comes along and he helps the guy. 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.360 And Jesus validates that guy. 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.519 That's the guy that Jesus validates. 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:08.000 And he's saying that he's your neighbor. 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.240 The Samaritan is your neighbor. 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:15.759 And if anybody's like you, it's sort of the person who lives to your right or left. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.960 They're somewhat on the same basis as you, the same socioeconomic structure. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.639 They're your neighbor, they are like you, and you are like them. 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:50.879 So then in Acts chapter 8, to tie this back to Acts chapter 8, we have these Jewish converts, a group of people who despise this other group of people from Samaria, who thought they were as low as possible, no part in the promises of God, and these Jewish converts who have been converted over from religious merit over to radical love, acceptance, absolution by Jesus, these people go into Samaria to tell them about the love of God. 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:55.039 And here's what's going on in Luke 10 and also in Acts chapter 8. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:56.559 This is point number four. 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:08.480 When we understand we are the sinner needing grace, we no longer see ourselves better than the other group or the other people. 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:17.919 When we understand we are the sinner needing grace, we no longer see ourselves better than that other group or that other person. 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:27.679 See, the gospel sets us free from using division, giving us an identity that's secure in God's grace and God's grace alone. 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:36.240 The gospel equips you, equips me to see ourselves as a sinner, as one who does divide. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:54.879 And then you, as the one who experiences grace in your division, is actually equipped in love to go in love and speak the truth of the gospel to the very people you divided. 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:57.600 There's this other story in Luke chapter 19. 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:06.159 Jesus comes up to the Temple Mount, and it's like the only time in Scripture where Jesus uses physical force, so it really sticks out. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:13.120 We see it and we go, like, this is so strange that Jesus acted like this because he shows up into the scene. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.399 It's Passover time, there's a huge festival going on. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:21.840 There's people from all over different countries, different towns, I mean, all a whole mix of people here. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:26.480 And because of this, people were bringing different money from the different areas. 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:29.679 And so there were tables set up to exchange your money. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:46.080 So you could exchange your money from where you were at in order to get what would be deemed the purest money possible, the Hebrew silver shekel, because that's the money you needed in order to buy the purest possible animal in order for you to go to the priest, in order for you to make a sacrifice for your sin. 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.000 That's the system that's set up. 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:56.159 Jesus shows up into this system and he flips tables, he makes a whip, he runs the animals out of there. 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.320 He is upset. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.120 He is he's angry. 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:02.879 And why? 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.120 I mean, it seems like almost like an overreaction. 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:13.279 Like in every other setting, he's addressing people with a question, he's making people think through something, but here he's furious. 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:22.639 And the problem is that these people who set up these tables, the problem wasn't that they were exchanging money. 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:30.240 The problem is actually that they were creating exchange rates on the money that exploited the people. 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:38.240 So the locals here who held the power create a system of economic exploitation over people from other places. 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:41.759 So this is something that enraged Jesus. 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:43.600 This was wrong. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:46.320 This is wrong when this occurs. 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.879 The exploitation of people for the increased well-being of people and power is wrong. 00:13:54.000 --> 00:14:01.120 And if we dig deeper into it, we learn that the place that all this is happening is in the outer court of the temple, the Gentile court. 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:08.480 Because the Gentiles, the non-Jews, they weren't allowed to get into the inner court closer to the temple where they understood the presence of God to be. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:10.320 They had to be kept further away. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.639 You know, those people can't come in close. 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:14.559 Only we can come in close. 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:16.320 Those people can't come in close. 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:24.320 Imagine how important you felt when you would walk through that outer court past all those Gentiles, and you got to walk into the inner court. 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.679 Can you imagine how important you felt? 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.039 So much better than those other people. 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:36.480 And this enraged Jesus as well. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:43.440 See, they had this structure about who was in and who was out. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:48.320 Who were the in people with God and who were the out people with God. 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:54.720 They were denying people of different races and cultures from easy entry. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:00.480 And in the gospel, it's just free entry for anybody. 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:02.159 It's not even easy entry. 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:03.759 It's free entry. 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:10.159 God created all these people, and Jesus was enraged. 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:18.000 He wanted people to see there are no classes before people, and when we divide, that is our sin. 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.240 There's no in people and there's no out people. 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:43.519 So we have the beauty of Jesus and his message of love, the absolution of all people, and then we have the beauty of the reaction of the people to this gospel as they understand it in Acts 8, where a Jewish man is going into Samaria to tell them about Jesus. 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:47.679 The last point is this, point number five. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:54.480 God's love has no limits toward people or inside of people. 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:56.799 Including you. 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.120 That's a really long point. 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.240 Not a great sentence, really, now that I read it out loud. 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:10.879 God's love has no limits toward people or inside of people, including you. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:13.360 And maybe you think that doesn't need to be said. 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:18.720 Like, oh, that's how you always end, whether it's point three or point five, the last point's gonna be that point. 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.679 Yes, it pretty much is gonna be that point, I admit. 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.200 But it has to be said. 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:33.200 It has to be said every week, it needs to be said every day to ourselves because you've looked at that successful guy. 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:41.279 Whoever that successful guy is to you in your mind, you've looked at him and he's sitting there and you've thought, he's wearing new pants again. 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.679 Of course he's wearing new pants. 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:45.679 And look how he's sitting. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:47.600 So arrogant. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:49.919 Right? 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:51.039 You've done it. 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:52.960 You know exactly what I'm talking about. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:58.320 Or you're looking through your Instagram, there she is again. 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.440 Always taking that same angled picture of herself. 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:05.519 It's always that angle. 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.440 Or look at that race of people. 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.000 Or look at that income of people. 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:25.119 Oh, can you believe they're such supporters of Trump? 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:28.559 Oh, they're Bernie supporters. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:30.960 Oh, they're Hillary supporters. 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:35.039 Oh, they are they are idiots. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:36.720 They are such a world. 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.920 And don't you just feel smarter the moment you say it about somebody? 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:46.720 It's all our version of creating a Samaritan. 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:49.920 Not looking for commonality at all. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.079 Very rarely out of love. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.279 Usually just using division to feel more important. 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:02.960 Meaning, in all of it, it's just sort of this attitude, like, well, at least I'm not like that person. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:14.400 And we do it, I do it, and yet I am incredibly thankful that God's love and absolution has no limits. 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:25.599 Not toward any person or group of people high up on some social ladder or low down or what they look like, color, income. 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:31.279 But then also into my judgmentalism and the way that I do this. 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:46.160 Also, I think there's probably some of you that have felt for some time that you felt like you live in that outer court, like you're not quite worthy to be too close to God. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:56.240 Maybe somebody told you that, or you heard that, or you felt that, or maybe it's just the voice of shame inside of yourself that is saying, you will never be like that group. 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:00.240 You will never be like him, you will never be like her. 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:05.839 And you see, it's actually your voice of shame creating division inside of yourself when you do that. 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:16.240 And Jesus sees that and has furious love toward that, toward those forces and voices of shame in your life. 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:28.160 Because he wants you to see that you are no different than the Samaritan or the Jew, the Jew's no different than the Samaritan, the Jews no different than you, the Samaritan's no different than the Jew, the Samaritan's no different than you. 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:40.799 Just people, just sinners saved by grace, completely, absolutely loved and absolved and accepted because of Jesus. 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:44.559 And you are welcome far nearer than the outer court. 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:52.160 It doesn't matter what you look like, it doesn't matter what you did or what you're doing, you are welcome far nearer than the outer court. 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.359 There are no in people and there are no out people. 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:01.680 There are only people who sadly, all of us use division to feel worthy. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:06.720 And yet a God who loves each of us fully to the utmost nearness. 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:18.319 So, my brothers and sisters, may you know this love that refuses division and knows no boundaries, not in race, not in economics, and not in your heart. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:19.920 Let's pray together. 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:28.880 God, thank you for your good grace toward us that does not divide, but is constantly throughout the scriptures bringing us together. 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:43.759 That you take a converted Jew who despised and hated Samaritans, and he walks into Samaria to tell them how much you love them, to be brothers with them. 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:47.119 God, thank you. 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:55.359 That you are not an ethnocentric God that picks certain people and leaves out others, but that it is free entry for all. 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:02.079 Forgive us for the ways that we divide in order to feel more worthy. 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:14.960 Forgive us the way that that creates racism inside of our hearts, prejudice towards race, prejudice towards socioeconomic levels. 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:22.400 Would you help us to trust in Jesus more for us to have great security and worth? 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:30.240 Our full importance in you and not in our status, what we look like, how much money's in the bank. 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:40.160 That we are your beloved, fully absolved, fully accepted, and would this be great love that we give to other people. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:41.519 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:42.319 Amen.