WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:09.359 So we've been in the story of Exodus for a while now, and actually, up until this point, maybe last week, it's been a pretty dramatic, epic story. 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:26.640 I'm not gonna rephrase everything, but you had these people, the people of Israel in slavery, and they've been there for a while and they are in miserable suffering, and finally God comes and through circumstances and beyond their control, uh, delivers them. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.039 To the point within the story that you go, okay, these people did nothing in the rescue. 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:43.600 Even the fact that even the guy who helped rescue them, Moses, um, had his own set of issues, and the fact that God used him to be the rescuer, even that shows how much that God was the deliverer in this situation. 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.479 And so we get this huge story of their deliverance. 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.719 And then they're out in the desert, and then God begins to communicate to them how to live, right? 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:56.159 We get the Ten Commandments, and we spent a lot of weeks on those Ten Commandments about how we should live. 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:03.600 But what we talked about and what we saw in the text was this over and over and over again, uh, God reminds them that grace precedes law. 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:10.959 So uh before you get what you should live like, you always have the security of who you already are. 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.040 The deliverance came before the law. 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:14.560 So grace precedes law. 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.719 So that God's grace to you and his love toward you comes before. 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.760 You've got to start there before you can move into what you should live like. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:30.560 If you start with what you should live like, you will be exhausted and be crushed by that because you won't live up to it. 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.200 Hate to break the news, but it's true. 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.879 Uh so this is the story, and so we're moving along, and the story's going good. 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.640 It's pretty epic and huge and big things and interesting things going on. 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:44.159 And then all of a sudden we hit these chapters, and I'm not just talking like one or two chapters. 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:50.319 If you're familiar with Exodus, it's a long way through the rest of the book, and you're going, oh my gosh, are we gonna do this every single week? 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:51.120 No, we won't. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:56.079 We're gonna maybe sparse out the sermons a little bit, space them out a little bit more through the rest of the way. 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:04.879 Because what we have is we have something like 18 chapters, 18 chapters about something to do with the tabernacle. 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:12.960 Like the curtains and the tent pegs and the color and the and all of it means something. 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:14.800 I mean, all of it means something. 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.120 And I'll give you some commentaries and you can dig as much as you want to dig. 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.879 Um we're gonna do some macro level discussion about it. 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:24.240 But all of it is saying something. 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:30.800 It's saying something about his goodness and his holiness and his glory and and his sweet loving regard to you. 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.120 It's saying something. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:41.120 And when I say loving regard toward you, I mean I mean I mean you, like the you that you actually hide from everybody else. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:50.240 Or the you that you hide underneath a lot of other things that maybe you're not even sure if you can face that, those parts of you. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:56.240 Um He actually knows that part of you, and He actually loves even that. 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.199 He He loves even you, that part. 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:07.120 And not only that, but He actually would say that He is really pleased, very pleased with you. 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.159 So we get this in Exodus 25, 7, which we looked at last week. 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.240 We get this phrase, make me a sanctuary. 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:17.199 So he says to Moses, hey, Moses, make me a sanctuary. 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.599 And this is a heavy word, this idea of sanctuary. 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.159 This is about a place where holiness is. 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:28.639 And this idea of holiness is it's it's even hard to get a word for it. 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:30.960 It's so otherly than us. 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:36.879 It's just gloriously, powerfully heavy beauty. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:40.719 I mean, we get glimpses of it perhaps in our lives. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:48.400 It's the kind of beauty that just stops you in your tracks, and in some way you come under the power of it. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:51.919 And we all know this on some level, and for each of us it's different. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.919 You know, for some of us, it's like you're out in nature and you see a mountain or you see a river. 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.240 You know, this is unbelievable. 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:04.000 And others of us, you're in a museum and you see a Monet and you can't stand there long enough. 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.719 Others of us, I have a friend, literally, it's a Ferrari. 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:14.240 If he sees a Ferrari, if he hears that beautiful, perfect hum of that engine, it is so beautiful to him. 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:15.680 And so you know what I'm talking about. 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.720 You're not gonna raise your hands as you think we're gonna label you as materialistic. 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:20.240 Well, we might, but it's true. 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:21.360 It's true, right? 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.560 Like we run into beauty, right? 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:34.720 You're reading a book, a well, like unbelievably well-crafted sentence, and you're like, this is so beautiful, and so it just stops everything. 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:40.160 This week I was thinking about this and how we run into this kind of over and over in different areas of life. 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:56.079 And uh my grandmother has an old lake cabin on Altoona, like 30 minutes from here, and she we were having some leaking through the chimney, and so I had to meet a roofer up there, and so I get up there, and then the roofer pulls up, and from behind the little cabin, you can't see the lake. 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.959 Um, so we climb up on the roof, and we're up on the roof. 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:12.160 He's inspecting, and he's inspecting, and he's telling me what he's seeing, and we're both standing up there, and the whole time I'm sort of looking out over the water from up on the roof, and it's just it was middle, it was middle of the week, so nobody's up there, and it was like it was like glass. 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:13.199 It was just beautiful. 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:22.720 I'm and and I'm standing up there looking at this, and he's telling me all about you know, rolled roofing and flashing and all sorts of stuff, and I'm just going like, just give me a quote, that's all I need. 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:30.800 But I'm looking at the lake, and it's when I see, when I see something beautiful, it's just like it's all gonna be okay. 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.040 It's just it's all gonna be okay. 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.199 Like, like there's some power it that it can have over you. 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:43.360 And this is just a little glimpse of what I'm talking about when we when we come into the idea of perfect beauty. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:51.040 So this roofer eventually, I mean he had been like he was down, and he was moving around and checking out the flashing and the caulking and talking about all this. 00:05:51.120 --> 00:06:00.879 And then finally he stands up and he turns around and he he sees the water and he just stops and he goes, Oh, that's beautiful. 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:05.439 And so we held hands and had a moment. 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:23.120 But we know we don't know that moment, but we know the moment of we know the moment of being in the presence of some beauty that has an ability to have a power over you. 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:24.639 Here's my point. 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:25.600 Here's my point. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:26.879 This is point number one. 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:27.759 I have two points. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:33.920 That which you perceive as gloriously beautiful has power over you. 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.160 That which you perceive as gloriously beautiful has power over you. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.040 So you have this tabernacle that's going to be built. 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:49.199 And God says gold, bronze, silver, let's do purple curtains. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.920 Let's make it as beautiful as possible. 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:56.240 I'm worthy of that. 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:00.000 I'm worthy of the finest possible materials. 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:01.839 And he's trying to tell us something. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.079 He's trying to communicate something over time to them and eventually to us. 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:12.959 He's saying the most beautiful things in the world that you so often give your lives to, those things bow to me. 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:16.959 Like those, you can make a house for me out of those things. 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.399 I'm that glorious. 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:26.160 And this is where the Bible and the tabernacle is on a mission. 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:36.240 It's on a mission to help us understand that which is truly holy and truly beautiful, and that will and can have power over you. 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:42.160 And it's not a negative power, it's the most freeing giving power because something has power over you. 00:07:42.319 --> 00:08:02.879 And that's where the Bible is also on a mission for your life to help you understand that which is not truly holy and beautiful, but you're perceiving it as holy and beautiful, and therefore it has power over you, but you don't realize that it's not really giving to you and freeing you, it's actually demanding of you and exhausting you. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.040 And some of you know exactly what I'm talking about. 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:12.079 And I ran into this quote this week, David Foster Wallace, an author, I think we wrote a quote last week, and I'll just keep using him over and over again. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:19.360 But he he is a he was an author that in his early 20s, he came in, he wrote a couple books, and they just just he just blew up. 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:26.639 I mean, New York Times bestseller, and he was so young, and people couldn't believe a guy this young could possibly write this sort of book. 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:31.279 And he just his whole life he's sharing just unbelievable insight after insight. 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.559 Um this isn't like in the Christian world or the church world. 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:42.639 I mean, this is just out there, and he he's making a speech at Kenyon College, and here's what he says: I printed it out for you there in the handout. 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.120 There is no such thing as not worshiping. 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:49.360 Everybody worships. 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.000 The only choice we get is what to worship. 00:08:52.240 --> 00:09:02.960 And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of God or spiritual type thing to worship is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:11.600 If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough. 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.200 Never feel you have enough. 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:16.480 It's the truth. 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:22.000 Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure, and you will always feel ugly. 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:29.039 And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.679 Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid. 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:39.600 And you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:47.679 Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.919 See, a lot of these things are fine. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:10:01.519 Like a lot of those things are fine for their own purpose, for their own role in our lives, but not to center the core of our beings on. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:13.679 And so this tabernacle comes into these people's lives and it starts to become the center of their life in many ways for their understanding of how to be redeemed. 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:19.360 And that's where these other things that Wallace is talking about, these other things, a lot of these things are fine. 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:25.440 But as soon as they become the center of our lives that we orbit around, this is where things fall apart. 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:27.200 Because they cannot sustain us. 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.320 They can't sustain our orbiting around them. 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:43.600 And so this tabernacle shows up, and this becomes the center of the place where they begin to understand how to be redeemed by an outside sacrifice rather than them having to be sacrificed themselves. 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:50.720 And maybe that be the sacrificing of I'm going to be good enough, I'm gonna merit my way into this relationship. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.639 And so this begins, this teaching, God's teaching through this. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:06.080 He's teaching that he's worthy, he's teaching that he's holy, that he's beautiful, that he's glorious, that there is grace, there's outside sacrifices needed, and all this is being taught in this tabernacle later in the temple. 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:12.240 So trivia, real quick trivia, not on the tabernacle, but another another area. 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:18.960 How do you remember, any of you, how fast is Earth traveling around the sun? 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.320 I thought there was gonna be a couple of you. 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:25.679 I had money on a couple of you. 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:29.039 I was really yeah, right. 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:32.080 Is it 186 something, no? 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.519 I think that's how fast the milk, maybe the milk away travels around. 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.120 This is what I looked up, Wikipedia. 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:40.960 Who knows who wrote that article? 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:44.879 67,000 miles per hour. 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:54.080 We are moving right now, we are moving 67,000 miles per hour through space. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.639 And in all of this, it works, right? 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:07.919 And it all works because of the reason the fact that we are held in perfect orbit by the power, the gravitational pull of the sun. 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:17.840 The earth doesn't shoot off all of a sudden in one direction, the sun doesn't suddenly become insufficient to give this power and to hold us in orbit. 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.320 The sun is sufficient for us. 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.279 And I was like, oh, that's a bad bumper sticker. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.679 Like I could see the Christian bumper sticker coming on. 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.159 And then we'd be like sun, S-U-N, S-O-N. 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:29.679 Anyways. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.320 But the sun holds us in perfect orbit. 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:40.080 I mean, even while, even while here on Earth, we we can have a million problems. 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:44.320 And still the sun is sufficient to hold us in perfect orbit. 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:49.360 This is because the sun's gravity, its power is sufficient for us. 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.799 That which you perceive is gloriously beautiful has power over you. 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:05.519 It's very important to begin to learn what actually has the power to hold you in a rightful orbit and to give to you. 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:15.440 Because God is on a mission to help you see that there is only one source to center your heart on that can keep you in that rightful orbit. 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:16.879 And that's point number two. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.960 It's a little abstract, so I'll explain as we go. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:25.360 Only the creator God, known in Jesus, has the capacity to hold us in rightful orbit. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:27.600 And here's what I mean. 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:32.000 So, Moses, hey, people, tell the people, make me a sanctuary. 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.399 Because I need you to begin to see something. 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:35.919 And this is how I think about it. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:37.200 I'm this illustration is not perfect. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:38.559 Illustrations are never perfect. 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:43.759 But this is how I sort of think about it is when I when I look at the Old Testament, you most of y'all can't read this. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:45.360 So it says tabernacle. 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:55.600 When I look at the tabernacle, I see a lot of like holiness, justice, uh, like Yahweh God, and the name Yahweh in the Old Testament. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:00.960 I mean, they had this such respect, I mean, almost fear. 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:07.360 I mean, it was a it was a relationship, but but it was not this idea in the New Testament. 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:12.159 So even in the Old Testament, you get the idea of Father God about 15 times. 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:17.279 In the New Testament, you get it about 245 times. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.799 There's a huge shift going on. 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:30.559 But this tabernacle, the Old Testament, a lot of times you read the Old Testament, it just feels so different before the cross of Jesus. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:35.360 And for me, I can think about it this way that he's trying to teach us something. 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.240 He's teaching us about his holiness and his justice. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:40.320 And he's still gracious. 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:45.120 He's still gracious, but but we're having a harder time to perceive that. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:15:04.799 And yet we're all wondering what source, what what what place or thing or person has the capacity to hold us, to redeem us, to keep us, to forgive us, to absolve us. 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.039 Listen to this in Hebrews 4, 14 through 16. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:14.159 And this is so important. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:19.200 Because this high priest would go into the tabernacle and he'd make a sacrifice for all the people. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:22.480 And they would have to keep doing this over and over, periodically. 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.960 They needed to do this, and that this is the way that the relationship between God and them was made right. 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.639 And then we get this in Hebrews 4. 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:36.000 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.279 So he's the high priest now. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:44.720 So God Himself says, Oh, by the way, you know that picture I've been building for you of the high priest? 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.559 I'm gonna be that also. 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:56.080 Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession, for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:57.919 That's good news. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:02.960 But one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:08.320 So that means he was able to be the high priest and able to be the sacrifice. 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:11.600 He was he was the righteousness we were not. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.000 He lived a life that we don't live. 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:28.080 Let us then with confidence, so we can come with confidence because of who he was, draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:36.559 So what we start to see, at least for me, no illustration is perfect. 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:40.159 I when I read the Old Testament, a lot of times I feel like I feel like this. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:43.200 I get glimpses of glimpses of God's grace. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.399 I feel a lot of holiness, a lot of justice. 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:53.200 And then I read the New Testament and excuse, this is a hello kitty ball I found in my backyard this morning, but it'll work. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:58.399 Um you can't read this as well, but it says, tabernacle, holy, just. 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:00.240 This doesn't go away. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:02.639 Old Testament God doesn't go away. 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:04.480 He's still holy, and he's still just. 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:09.279 It's just all that justice was met in Jesus. 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.279 He's still just, he's fully just. 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:13.119 The justice was met in Jesus. 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:20.720 You don't have to pay for your sins, and somebody who sins against you doesn't have to pay for their sins because the sin has been handled. 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:22.720 God is fully just. 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:30.400 But what we see in the New Testament, we're reading it and we start to see, like, oh, that so there's there's more to God. 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:34.319 We begin to understand that we are the temple. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:43.359 We begin to understand that God lives in us, not just around us or in the tabernacle, but actually that we ourselves are the temple, which we talked about last week. 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:50.160 And then we begin to get this idea of Father God, not just Yahweh God, but also a father God, an Abba Father. 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:52.640 And we begin to see grace and mercy. 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.319 And so we begin to see God in a fuller way. 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.640 And it's not, it's not a changing God. 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.279 But God's growing our perception of Him. 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:11.359 Because remember, that which you perceive as gloriously beautiful will have power over you. 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.720 I know I'm a broken record when it comes to what I say kind of week in and week out. 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:32.319 Um, and if you want some application, the application is the center, the core of your inner self on this great story, on who God is. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:38.559 He is holy and he is just and he is gloriously beautiful, and he is worthy. 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:43.759 All this gold, all this bronze, all this silver, you get to feel contextually so far from your life. 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:44.960 And it's just saying, you know what? 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.880 He is worthy of anything and everything. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:58.559 And yet, this tabernacle also teaches us when we look into the book of Hebrews, like we did last week, that we are, that God actually doesn't just live amongst us, but he lives in us. 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:04.799 And he absolves us and he loves us and he frees us. 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.079 And so the application is to live in the story. 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:11.759 So we make sanctuaries. 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:21.519 We make sanctuaries in your car, you're cutting the lawn, you're doing the dishes, you're going for a jog. 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:27.359 And that sanctuary is about remembering the story. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.480 That it is not based on your word. 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:37.200 That this whole story is about God's redemption of you through his work for you. 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:59.200 That this story has unbelievable power to hold you in orbit, to hold you, to secure you, to heal you, to redeem you, to absolve you of your sins, to begin to get you to live out of what Jesus has done for you and God's love for you and not out of shame. 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:05.599 Because our sins were cast upon Him that His righteousness might be given to us. 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:08.160 I know life's not perfect. 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:10.240 My life's not perfect, your life's not perfect. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:14.400 We can go around, we can share very incredibly, incredibly sad stories. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.200 But he really loves you. 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:19.839 He really loves you. 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:27.920 Not only that, and Jesus, he is fully pleased with you. 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:36.160 So, my brothers and sisters, I know you are needier than you would like to be, needier than you want to admit. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:37.279 Me too. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.079 Me too, but take great comfort. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:49.440 He is holy, and he is just and he is gloriously beautiful, and he is also gracious and merciful. 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:55.440 And so we know him as Yahweh God, but we also know him as an Abba Father. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:59.440 May you have a free conscience and a quiet heart and all things. 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:01.119 Let's pray together. 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.519 God, would you help? 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:12.720 Well, God, thank you that in your scriptures you teach us. 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:32.400 You teach us of your holiness and your beauty and your glory, that you are big and you are worthy, and you are just, and that you give us such great pictures for us to understand who you are and how you regard us. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:42.720 Thank you that last week that we could we could learn and remember that you make your home in us, that we are your most important place. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:50.160 And thank you this week that we get to remember that you are enough. 00:21:52.000 --> 00:22:03.119 And that you are on a mission to help us understand and perceive what is truly gloriously beautiful and what is enough to redeem us. 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:10.880 Would you help us to trust greater in the perfect work that you provided for us in Jesus? 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:11.839 Amen.