WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:01.360 Maybe seated. 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:11.359 So have you ever been in a conversation and you're retelling a story, and the story seems to be getting better than it was to begin with. 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:12.640 I do that a lot. 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:20.960 Or you wake up, you wake up tomorrow morning and you feel like if you were only a little bit better. 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:25.600 If you were just a little bit better, then you would feel whole. 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:27.440 You would feel fulfilled. 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:32.960 Or have you ever felt like if you if you just could get it all together? 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:42.560 If you could just get your act all together, then finally, finally, finally, finally, you could be at rest. 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.840 Well, there's this thing, this way of thinking and living that exists in us. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.520 It's in us, it's uh it's in the church, it's in the world. 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:54.000 It's called a theology of glory. 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.399 It's a way of glory, a life of glory. 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:03.920 It's this idea that if and when I get that better thing, then I will be fulfilled, I will be satisfied. 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:06.959 It's the idea that all things should endlessly get better. 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:26.079 It's the idea that I should endlessly get better, and if I'm not getting better, then there's no possible way that I could be healed or whole or fulfilled or satisfied or accepted before God, valued as a human being or deemed righteous. 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:28.480 And it's easy to think this way. 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:34.319 But Jesus teaches that faith is about losing your life, that you might find it. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.000 And maybe that's new to you, maybe you're new to church, and that's new to you. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.079 Oh wow, what does that even mean? 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:44.239 Or maybe you've heard that so many times, so many times it can feel old. 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.599 Well, he's saying that life is not in the glory. 00:01:48.239 --> 00:02:05.599 He's saying that it's actually in sacrifice, is actually in facing sacrifices, in honestly coming before your weakness and your shame and your guilt and your hurt and your sin and all your stuff, that that's actually where life is found. 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:07.840 That if you lose your life, you'll find it. 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:14.639 Joy and freedom, joy and freedom are found in that process, not in pretending it's not there. 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:29.759 So if there's a bear in your kitchen going through your fridge, if you pretend like the bear's not in your kitchen going through the fridge, it doesn't mean there's not a bear in your kitchen going through your fridge. 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:31.520 You see what I'm saying? 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:42.479 If you pretend like the brokenness and shame and hurt and the reality of so much of our inner lives is not there, if you just pretend like it's not, it doesn't mean it goes away. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:44.719 It's still there. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:52.960 And for many of us, I think the greatest thing that could happen to us, the greatest thing could be for us to finally get the glory. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:03:06.159 I think it could be so great because if you could finally get the job and get the raise and get the house and get the friends and get the girlfriend, the boyfriend, get the spouse, and get the kids and get all the kids behaving just right, and finally get all of it, because you know what? 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:07.599 You might have a teacher. 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.759 At that point, the way of glory may teach you. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:18.719 And what it would teach you is it would teach you that the way of sacrifice is actually the way to life, because you'll realize that the way of glory actually does not bring it. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:27.599 So three years ago, 30 of us sat in this room, and we sat in a circle, as we could. 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.120 There's 30, maybe 20 of us, I don't know, we didn't count. 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.680 Uh in a circle. 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.080 And we talked about what might be for us. 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:46.960 And one of the things we talked about that morning was we invited, we gave permission for each other to leave. 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:48.800 That was important to us. 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.919 Not that you actually need permission to leave a church, you don't. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.520 If you're in a church that needs permission, then you just need to leave immediately. 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:09.039 You don't need permission to leave, but it was very important to us then, and it's important now, for us to have an open community, to have a place where it's open for people to leave. 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:18.079 Meaning, we need a place that's open, a community that's open not just to growing, but also to failing. 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:25.519 And still be whole and valued and loved and accepted. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:33.600 I know it sounds crazy, but see, if we're not open to this, then we're not free from the way of glory. 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:40.399 Unless we're open to that, then we're not free from needing more people and more buildings and more glory, more glory, and more glory. 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.839 So our text this morning is Matthew 16, 24 through 26. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:50.720 Then Jesus told his disciples, If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:55.360 Forever, for whoever would save his life will lose it. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.959 But whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:04.720 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.519 Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.560 So there's a word that's repeated in verse 25 and 26. 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:18.160 In verse 25, it shows up as life, and verse 26 it shows up as soul, and it's this word suko in the Greek. 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:20.879 It's the word we get psyche from it. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:27.199 It's the core of who you are, your essence that differs from your body. 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:42.160 It's the you that's not the accumulation of your actions or your behaviors or the accumulation of your stuff or the accumulation of your organs and bones, and yet you're there, and yet you're you're you. 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:47.920 And that part of us, that part of us wants something. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.279 You ever been driving down the road? 00:05:51.519 --> 00:06:06.879 You're sitting on your porch, or your head hits the pillow, and you sort of hit this moment, like the accumulation of all this stuff and my behaviors, all of this, it's not adding up to bringing life. 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:17.040 Like the attempt to keep trying to get yourself better and better and more approved and thinner and richer and all that, it's just making you more tired. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.279 It's because you're on a pursuit, you're on a pursuit for life. 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:27.680 And Jesus is saying, hey, like if you stick on that route by your own work and your own merit, you're gonna lose it. 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:29.360 You won't ever find it. 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:36.240 But if you lose your life, you'll save it, you'll find it. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:43.360 This word save me, it means to be saved, it means to be safe or rescued, to be healed and whole. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:45.279 Listen, it's so good this word. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.399 It means to be free from judgment. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.240 That judgment of am I in or out before God? 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:54.959 Am I secure or insecure as a person? 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.360 Am I righteous or unrighteous? 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:05.759 That that daily predicament, where do I stand, you can be free from that judgment. 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:11.199 But you have to lose your life in order to be free from that judgment. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:25.839 Colossians 1 verse 20 says this, and through him, through Jesus, to reconcile to himself all things that would be also be you, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.120 So crosses are everywhere. 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.240 Some of you probably have probably have earrings on or necklaces. 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:34.639 I mean, they're on buildings, tattoos, probably some of you have tattoos with crosses. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.560 Crosses are everywhere, and it's an execution method. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:40.480 It's an execution method, right? 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:42.879 And yet it's a symbol of hope. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:49.600 It's because at the cross we find the humility and love of God to us. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:57.360 This abstract idea that can seem so philosophical that God loves me unconditionally. 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.639 It becomes concrete at the cross. 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.560 It can be known, it can be seen in humanity. 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:14.319 We can know that God wants you reconciled to Him and for you to be secure. 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:33.440 So Jesus says here, if you're trying to do that on your own, if you're trying to do that by your work and your effort and your resume and your scorecard or escaping, you're gonna lose it. 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.919 You'll never find it. 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:37.840 So two points this morning. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:41.039 Point number one, we can lose the same thing we want. 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.279 We can lose the same thing we want. 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:52.000 We want life, but in a theology of glory, a way of glory, rather than a theology or way of the cross, we refuse to face reality. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.039 And when we do that, we'll lose the thing we want. 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:56.320 That's point number one. 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:05.440 Point number two, we must lose the pursuit to work or escape out of the imperfection we feel and know. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:18.000 And you could replace imperfection with sin, and it would say, we must lose the pursuit to work or escape out of the sin or the shame we feel and know. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:32.960 This is what it means to lose your life, to gain it, to lose your work, to attempt your own healing and wholeness out of that judgment and the burden to get into forgiveness and acceptance, to finally be in a position where you're at the cross, and the only position at the cross is to receive. 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.480 So when I was in college, I bought a pretty nice camera. 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.240 It was back in the day of film. 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:44.320 You'd go to Walmart and buy film or Echor Drugs, always Echo Drug Store. 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:45.679 And so you go and you'd buy film. 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:53.440 Remember, you'd load it in the back and you close the cover and you had to hook the little things on the little edges, you'd hook it, you close it, and it would make that noise until it caught, that little noise. 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.919 And I would I just started to shoot pictures. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.200 I wasn't like a photographer, I just it gave me something to do when I went hiking or camping, or I was with my family somewhere. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:06.080 And so I had this little camera and I'd buy film and I'd go and I'd shoot these pictures. 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:11.039 So one summer we were on a vacation, my family, and I took my little camera and I had my film. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:12.639 I think I had like three rolls of film. 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:14.799 And remember, every picture was a huge debate. 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:16.399 You remember you remember this? 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:17.919 You didn't take multiples. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.240 You weren't shooting like eight pictures and then deleting them and looking and checking it out and filtering them, posting them. 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:23.120 You weren't doing anything. 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:25.600 Like every picture was a huge debate. 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:26.559 Do I take it? 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:28.000 Because I only got 24. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.120 You know, you know, I got 13 left, and I don't know if I want to take this picture, and you took it, you didn't take any more. 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:34.399 It was a huge debate. 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:40.879 And so every picture meant so much, that film meant so much, you didn't know if they were any good until like two weeks later when you pick the film up. 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:42.639 I mean, it was a whole process. 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:44.720 So every picture meant everything. 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:51.759 So I'm shooting these pictures, we're stopping at a couple stop sites and taking some pictures, kind of entertaining myself on family vacation. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.399 We get back in the car and I'm putting the camera up on the up on the roof. 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.080 Anybody? 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.120 Anybody lost anything off the roof? 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:03.919 I've done it several times. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:07.039 Well, a couple things have actually stayed up there, which is a miracle. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.039 I the camera didn't stay up there. 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:27.759 We get to the next site, and I realize I realize what happened, and I get out, oh, we get back in the car, we drive straight back, we're looking along the road, we get back to, I'm looking where we were, I'm looking all over it, camera's gone, I'm all those pictures, I never even knew if they were any good, and my camera's gone, and it's just it's just heartache, right? 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:28.559 It was gone. 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:29.440 It was gone. 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:31.440 It was it was lost, right? 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.039 You've lost things. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:33.919 Right? 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:34.399 It's gone. 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:35.440 When it's lost, it's gone. 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:42.960 It may bother you, you may remember it, it may affect you, but it's no longer a part of your actual life. 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.440 This is what it means to lose something. 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:49.200 It's no longer a part of your actual life. 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.000 It's over, it's finished. 00:11:52.320 --> 00:12:04.240 How long will you keep picking up the work of redemption when the work has already been finished by Jesus? 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:19.360 The way of the cross is where you live in that perfect security with the grace of God known in Jesus, that you don't have to keep adding to it. 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:31.840 That you can lose your life, you can lose your merit-based system in this world and before God to create value, to be accepted before God. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:37.600 It's only known at the cross, it's only known in the theology of the cross. 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:42.480 So we embrace confession and repentance, we embrace rest and surrender. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:44.240 So that's personal, right? 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:45.600 A lot of that's really personal. 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.639 Hopefully, it's freeing, but it's also communal. 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.200 Next week we're going into a new building. 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:52.639 Don't come here, we're not gonna be here. 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:53.759 Don't come here. 00:12:54.080 --> 00:13:02.480 We're not gonna set up these maroon chairs that fold funky, and nobody we we would invite more people to fold the chairs up, and nobody can figure out how to fold them. 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:03.840 I don't know if you've ever tried to fold them. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:05.039 It's a horrible. 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:06.399 We won't be here. 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:14.159 We're gonna be in a new building, and it this building's new building's quirky, and it's beautiful, and it's a converted warehouse. 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.840 It's a big step for a young church. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.120 And there's a lot of glory in it. 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.200 And God's been faithful and God has been good, and we will say that. 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:28.960 We're gonna say that Wednesday night at our worship and prayer, we're gonna say that next Sunday. 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:30.720 God's faithful, he's been good. 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:31.440 But you know what? 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.399 God is faithful today and he's been good. 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:39.440 And six months ago, and a year and a half ago when we didn't own the building, God was faithful and good. 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:44.320 See, as a church, it's so easy, so easy to begin to think. 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:58.000 If we do this, if we become this, if we can get here, if we can convert that warehouse into a beautiful building, then it'll be so great. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:04.159 It'll be so awesome then, but we have to see that it's awesome now. 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:16.320 We have to see that it was awesome in the dentist office, and we have to see that it would be awesome if we were in the dentist office again. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:26.080 Because glory theology does not define us as individuals, nor can it define us as a church. 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:28.639 It will let us down. 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:39.120 Gerhard Forday, who's a professor and minister theologian, who's also a pretty good baker, in case you're wondering, he wrote a book on baking as well as theology. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.759 Here's a quote by him I ran into this week. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:51.519 In short, a theologian of the cross sees the cross as the end where we die to our sin with Christ and are raised a new creation with Christ. 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.960 The work is truly finished, as Christ promised. 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:58.399 And there is no moving on from his cross. 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.919 So maybe things are a bit theological, maybe you're not quite sure what that means for your life. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:02.879 It's not over your head. 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:08.799 What it means is we don't use the cross as a means to get somewhere else. 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:14.559 Life does not come into the cross and keep moving onward. 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:22.159 And then we move onward and we just keep meriting and working harder and improving ourselves just like we were doing on some other path. 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:27.600 The cross is actually a different way of life, and the path stops there. 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:37.440 It's the place we lose our life and we lose the need of having to fight for acceptance and value and forgiveness and position. 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:39.039 It's the place where we can rest. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:40.879 The fight is to rest. 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.759 The fight is to remember to stay at the cross. 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:45.039 That's the fight. 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:56.240 It's the way of the cross, it's a theology of the cross, of knowing his unconditional love that secures us the redemption by the cross. 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:02.320 That all of our sin, all the shame is put upon him, and his righteousness is put upon us. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:04.879 You've been watching the Olympics? 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:06.000 You're getting into it. 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:07.200 Is anybody in it? 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:09.200 You're just so in it like four hours last night. 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:12.320 Anybody watch all like four hours? 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:13.279 Nobody? 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:13.919 Three? 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:15.679 Anybody, did you go three? 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:17.679 Trey, you went three, four? 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:18.480 I watched all of it. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:19.360 You went for it. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.840 All right, so the balance beam, right? 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:25.840 I mean, oh my gosh. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:27.679 So nerve-wracking, right? 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:34.000 They're doing these flips and backwards stuff and a sideway flip and back handspring, right? 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:35.919 It's so it's nerve-wracking. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:37.600 Like, are they gonna fall? 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.200 And they showed you that little video vignette before. 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.159 And so you're pulling for this little girl. 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:58.559 Like, I mean, you are for her because she overcame her family and her dad died, and then she was walking eight miles each way to the gym and the snow, and you are, I mean, you are so for this girl or this guy who overcame whatever. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:00.240 I mean, they show you this video, right? 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:05.680 You know what I'm talking about, and then all of a sudden you care about this sport of what you've never cared about in your life. 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:14.240 And you are for her, and she's flipping her body all over the place on this beam, and you just please don't fall, please don't fall. 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:21.440 Unless, you know, a Russian or you're like, please, please fall. 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:28.079 Just that's a little nationalism coming out of me. 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:32.160 If you're from Russia, we can talk afterward. 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:33.279 I apologize. 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.759 Alright, so all the glory is on the beam. 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:38.240 Right? 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:39.599 All the glory is on the beam. 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:41.440 All the glory is staying on the beam. 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:43.200 That's where the glory's at. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.079 It's just so insecure. 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.200 It's just so fragile. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.039 It's so exhausting. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.680 You know where all the security, all the security is. 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:55.759 It's in the thing we don't want to do. 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:57.680 It's in losing. 00:17:58.240 --> 00:17:59.680 It's in stepping off. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.079 All the security is on the ground. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:05.039 When you lose your attempt. 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:07.839 That's where all the security is, right? 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:16.000 It's dangerous to constantly work in all things to keep that fragile self together. 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:20.880 Rather than willing to go into that darkness and face that bear in the kitchen, right? 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:21.920 It's already there. 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:23.200 It's already there. 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:27.039 Whether you pretend it's not there, it's still there. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:41.039 Naming the imperfections, the sin and the shame, naming those wrongful pursuits and the things done, then you see, then you see that it's only the way of the cross that can bring you life. 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:44.559 Because you need God's grace to you. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:52.319 You need his righteousness earned for you on the cross, and it's finished and it's secure, and you can be at rest. 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:57.759 So, my brothers and sisters, may this good news be a breath of fresh air to you. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.799 You don't have to live in the way of glory. 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:06.000 May you continually lose your life that you might find true life in the way of the cross. 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:07.119 Let's pray together. 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:12.319 God, thank you that we do not have to live by a theology of glory. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:18.240 As individuals, we do not have to, and as a community, we do not have to. 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.920 That we do fail. 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:29.200 Even when we have our acts together, there's motives we're not even aware of. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:36.160 And for these things, we come before you and say, we are deeply in sorrow. 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:45.039 That we are not as we should be, but we are so grateful that you love us as we are, and that Jesus is enough. 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:53.440 And we don't have to live by the way of glory, but we can live by the way of the cross, and we can rest our hearts and our souls at the cross. 00:19:53.599 --> 00:20:01.200 Help us, help us to learn what it means to fight, to live at the cross. 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:10.640 In a position of humility and receiving open heart and open hands, needing a righteousness from outside of us. 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:20.400 Help us as a community as we move forward to be a community that's about the way of the cross and not the way of glory. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:22.799 In Jesus' name, we pray all things. 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:23.680 Amen.