WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.599 This podcast is a ministry of Grant Parkway Baptist Church, helping people know, enjoy, and glorify God. 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:13.279 For more information about Grant Parkway, visit GrantProquay.org. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:24.960 Lord Jesus, thanks for the very beautiful lyrical and musical reminder that glory awaits that which the Bible says that we have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.920 You've come to restore, so much so that it becomes the deciding factor in our life. 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:35.679 It's why Paul says, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do all for the glory of God. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:42.880 It is most like you to make preeminent that which we could never uh establish or accomplish on our own. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:58.000 And so we fell short of the glory of God, and you restored us to such a degree that you say, hey, now live, do business, love your wife, spend your money, hunt deer, everything you do, whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:03.600 Lord, it is our privilege today to live and do what we do for your glory. 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:04.959 We just want you to know that. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:05.599 That's a privilege. 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:06.400 It's not a burden. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.000 You didn't like drop a weight on us and say, try to lift this. 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.239 It is this thing that kind of buoys us. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.560 It's this thing that sustains us, that compels us and propels us. 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:18.159 That's what your glory does. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:24.560 And as much of it as we can know in this lifetime, the Bible says that here we just look through the glass dimly. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:26.159 You can't take it all in. 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.159 There's so much more to come. 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:35.519 And so we want to live fully alive in this world, realizing that there's more and better to come in the next. 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:37.120 We're grateful for that. 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.000 Speak to us now from your word, we pray in Jesus' name. 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:42.079 And everyone said, Amen. 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:42.879 You can have a scene. 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.599 If you've got a Bible, open it if you would to Romans chapter 11. 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.439 If you don't have a Bible, the passage we're going to read will come up on the screen. 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.359 After a song like that, I'm tempted to say, be sure and tip your waitress and thank you. 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:55.760 Welcome to the House of Blues Sunday brunch. 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.400 Anyway, uh, Romans chapter 11. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:05.920 We've been, if you've been here for any length of time, you realize we've been preaching through the book of Romans, and then uh the past two months we did Romans 9, 10, and 11. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:15.039 And Paul kind of comes to this last section of Romans chapter 11, and it's kind of like he catches himself thinking or he kind of looks back and he kind of summarizes it. 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:28.479 It's kind of like, it's kind of like on Thursday after you commit heinous gluttony and you sit down on the couch and you take those first two really deep breaths, and then you realize, oh, oh, I'm going down, I'm going down, someone throw a blanket on me. 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:29.919 That's kind of what Paul is like. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.759 He gets this part and he's kind of like, oh, I just can't take it in. 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:35.039 And this is what he says. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.240 Romans chapter 11, verse 33. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:46.159 He says, Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments, and how inscrutable his ways. 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:52.800 For who has known the minds of the Lord, or who has been his counselor, who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid? 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.000 For from him and through him and to him are all things. 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:58.240 To him be the glory forever. 00:02:58.560 --> 00:02:59.120 Amen. 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:10.719 It's kind of this uh Paul is kind of bursting at the seams and he thinks back over all he's been writing for the past three chapters as being one continuous strain or train of thought. 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:18.719 It started in chapter 9 with him saying, I so love my kinsmen, I so love these people, the Jewish people, I wish they could get this. 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:27.759 Matter of fact, I could if I could wish myself accursed for the sake of them, if I could go to hell so they could go to heaven, I would do it, but I can't. 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:29.919 So I gotta preach the gospel to these people. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.280 That doesn't mean I gotta beat them over the head and cram it down their throat. 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.560 It means that I gotta live it in my life and I gotta say it to them in a language that they understand. 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:49.919 And he gets to the end of this section in chapter 11, and he's like, oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways. 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:53.680 In other words, nobody can scrutinize the way God does things. 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:56.800 No one can stand in judgment of what God does. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:00.400 He says, for who's known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.360 I mean, who did God ask for advice? 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.960 Then he goes on and says, or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid. 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:10.800 Think about that just for a minute. 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:19.360 I have a friend in my life that every time we get together, whether it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner or coffee at Starbucks, he always pays. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:21.600 You say, Well, why don't you get the ticket sometime? 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:22.399 I tried. 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.240 He gets there early, and I'll I remember one of the last times I had a meal with him. 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.480 He got up after we ordered, went to the restroom. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:30.959 I called the waitress over and said, Hey, bring me the ticket, okay? 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:32.240 And she smiled and said, Okay. 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:33.680 And I was like, Got him. 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.639 Got done eating, talked about 20 minutes after the meal. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:37.519 He said, I gotta go. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:38.240 I said, Me too. 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:39.680 Hey, I appreciate you making time. 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:41.040 I said, ma'am, can we get a check? 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.519 And she smiled and said, He's already taken care of it. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:45.360 And I was like, there is no way. 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:49.360 And finally I just said, Hey, dude, I'm starting to feel like a freeloading mooch, okay? 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:50.959 I want to pay for this sometime. 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:52.800 And he reached and put his hand on the table. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:54.000 I thought he's put his hand on my hand. 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:55.519 I was like, watch yourself. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.319 But he put his hand on the table and he said, Neil, you got enough people in your life that you're always paying. 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:01.839 He said, I know you're a pretty generous person. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:02.959 You're always picking up the tab. 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:06.319 He said, You are never going to pick up the tab when you and I meet. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.879 For whatever it is, okay, I'm always going to pay. 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:09.839 Because here's the deal. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.120 When you think about spending time with me, I want you to know you're going to get blessed and it's not going to cost you nothing. 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:21.360 Now, I don't know if you've got any men in your life that talk to you that way, but that was kind of creepy and awkward. 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.680 And when he said it, I was kind of like. 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:32.879 And there was like 10 seconds of just silence, and I'm like, creepy. 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:34.399 Weird. 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.079 But there's a part of me that was like, just come around the table and just hold me just for a minute. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:38.959 I'll be better. 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:40.160 Because here's the deal. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:43.439 I got friends when the ticket when the ticket comes, they turn into astronomers. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:45.040 They start looking at the ceiling. 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.439 Well, how are Marcy and the kids? 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:48.480 How's the church going? 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.279 And finally, I'm just like, give me the ticket, I'll pay for it. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:52.079 But it was weird. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.480 So when I when anytime I read this, or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid? 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:01.920 Translation, you're never going to do anything that's going to put God make God indebted to you. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.639 You're never going to do something and go, scoreboard, God. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:05.839 There you go, okay? 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:06.639 Take that. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:08.000 Now you owe me. 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:09.360 No, you don't. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:11.360 It's never going to happen. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:12.399 Never going to happen. 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:19.199 Matter of fact, to get how preposterous it is in the Psalms that people are kind of like, hey, God, we kind of send a lot. 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:20.800 We keep screwing up. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.360 We know better, but we do it anyway. 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.000 And we want to somehow show you that we get it. 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:29.680 How what a big deal it is that you just keep on loving us. 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:36.000 And God says this, hey, Lebanon, the cedars of Lebanon are not sufficient for altar fires. 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.800 Now you hear that and you're like, what are you talking about? 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:39.680 Crazy talking. 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:40.720 Who says stuff like that? 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:44.480 Translation, God says you could take all the cedar trees in Lebanon. 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:45.920 Have you ever been to Lebanon? 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.639 That's all there is is cedar trees. 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:54.720 In other words, you could cut down all the trees in this whole country and pile a big brush pile. 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.079 And then that wouldn't be a sufficient altar fire. 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:04.319 In other words, that's not a big enough sacrifice for how screwed up you people just keep on sinning despite. 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:06.240 In fact, I tell you, don't do that. 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:07.199 You keep doing it. 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:11.920 So if you want to like do something for me, there's not enough trees, my man. 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.480 And so what does he do? 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:18.160 There's just one tree. 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.600 We talked about it last week, this mercy tree. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:27.199 And Paul refers to it, he says, For from him and through him and to him are all things. 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:28.959 To him be the glory forever. 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.800 For from him and through him and to him. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:42.480 See, when he says, from him, he is the source, and through him, he is the means, and to him he is the goal or all things. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:52.639 And then Paul finishes this one continuous train of thought that he started back in Romans 9 by saying, To him be the glory forever. 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:53.680 Amen. 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:00.160 And then the next section, which we'll pick up after the first of the year, is in chapter 12. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:09.199 He says, Therefore, in view of God's mercy, I urge you, brothers, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:15.680 You're made holy and acceptable to God because of the mercy tree. 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:17.040 That's what Paul is saying. 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:21.040 So we come today to this communion, to this meditation, to this thing. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:22.480 And here's what I want us to think about. 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.720 The communion, there's two things happening here, and Clyde uh alluded to it earlier. 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.879 Number one, it's a celebration of the fact that you're forgiven for all your sins. 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:40.240 And don't just think all your sins like sins that you've done in your past, you're forgiven for sin, period, past, present, and future. 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:52.399 You see, he didn't, Jesus died and didn't make up, didn't create this religious system whereby which you kind of sin and then you confess and get forgiveness and then you go try not to sin anymore. 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:53.039 No, no. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:09:02.960 If you're a Christian, you have a relationship with Christ, the Bible says the once for all sacrifice of Christ on the cross has made you right with God forever. 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:06.879 You say, Well, what do you mean? 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:12.639 At some point you gotta think maturely about sin and ask yourself, if I'm forgiven, why do I keep doing this? 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.720 It's like the man who beats his wife and apologizes every time. 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:19.840 Hey, come on, dude, at some point no one believes you anymore. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.960 The Bible says the same thing is true about our sin that, hey, you you're forgiven. 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:26.159 Done deal. 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:29.840 But also it looks back in gratitude, but it looks forward in anticipation. 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.600 You say, What do you mean? 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:33.120 Looks back in gratitude. 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:34.480 And it looks forward. 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:36.960 There's a sense of celebration about that. 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.919 Matter of fact, someone stopped me in a store went down a couple months ago, and the guy said, Hey, you you're the guy. 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:44.000 Yeah, I said, Yeah, I'll see you in my church. 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:48.399 And what your name he told me we were chatting, and he said, Hey, the way y'all do communion is kind of different. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:49.679 You know, like singing and stuff. 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:50.480 And I said, Yeah. 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:51.200 Tell me about that. 00:09:51.279 --> 00:10:03.200 He said, I like it, but when I was a kid, I grew up in a church and we all sat there and the deacons passed out the elements, and and and we just kind of sat there and he said, It just feels weird to sing while people are receiving the elements. 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:08.960 And I said, What what what feeling do you have when you're reminded that all your sins are forgiven? 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:11.519 Is that a morbid thing for you? 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.720 I said, That's why we sing because it's a celebratory. 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:17.600 Oh my gosh, yes, thank you, God. 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:23.039 He's like, So we sing every time, yeah, we sing during communion. 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:25.279 He said, Right, I knew there was a reason we did that. 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.000 It's just, I like it, but it's a little different. 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:29.039 I said, Okay. 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:32.320 You want us to just sit there and go, hey, you stink, feel bad? 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:34.799 You did that all week. 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:37.679 He's like, okay. 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:42.240 See, it's a r it's you're looking back with gratitude, but you're also looking forward with anticipation. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.759 Because it it's, hey, there's something better to come. 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:47.840 The Bible calls it the marriage feast of the Lamb. 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:56.559 You look in the end of the last book in the Bible, Revelation, and and you see that God is He's got, hey, I'm gonna have this feast with all the redeemed. 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:03.120 And by the way, it's that line from that great old hymn that says, When all the redeemed of God are saved to sin no more. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.480 When you get to heaven, you won't have the capacity to sin anymore. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:09.200 Think about that. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.120 Some of you are like, I sinned on the way here today. 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.279 In heaven, you won't have the capacity to sin anymore. 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.200 And you'll be in God's presence forever. 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:22.320 And the Bible says that's refers to that as a feast. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.919 Not the dysfunctional holdown you're gonna have on Thursday. 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:27.519 That's not what it's talking about. 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:31.120 When the people show up at your house that you don't like and eat the food they didn't pay for. 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:42.799 Yeah, not that you're keeping score or anything, but you're like, for the fourth year in a row, then people brought nothing and ate everything, and their kids stole some stuff out of our guest bathroom. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:45.600 Welcome to having family. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:49.600 Yet the Bible says we look forward. 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.000 We look forward to this time. 00:11:52.159 --> 00:12:03.519 So Jesus says in Matthew 26, he says at the it it it at the Lord's Supper, he says, I will not drink the fruit of the vine again until I drink it anew with you in my father's kingdom. 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:10.159 In other words, this is good, but there's gonna be a time we're gonna do this again, and it's gonna be even better then. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:17.519 And so, in just a moment, the Bible tells us, it says, hey, so when you when you receive the elements, don't receive them in an unworthy manner. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.039 It says, let a let a man, let a woman, let a person examine themselves. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:22.960 Not so we can feel worthy. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:24.159 That's not what he's talking about. 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.559 We're like deserving, but think about this. 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.879 Don't don't do this as just an empty ritual. 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:33.840 He says, anyone drinks the cup or partakes of the bread without discerning the body. 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:36.799 Now here's the part that we miss it up, we mess it up on, okay? 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:41.759 When he says without discerning the body, that's not talking about your body or the body of Jesus. 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.960 It's talking about discerning the fact that you belong. 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:46.879 If you're a member of this church, I'm talking to you. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.039 If you're visiting today, you got to haul a pass. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:54.720 But if you're a member of this church, because it's easy to say, well, when I sin, my sin's not hurting anybody. 00:12:54.799 --> 00:13:01.440 I'm just hooking up with this person, or I'm just stealing money here, or I'm just making individual choices, it's not hurting anybody. 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:09.120 The Bible says if you're a part of the church, you're part of the body of Christ, and your sin affects the body of believers that you're a part of. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:18.879 If you don't believe me, read in the Old Testament about a man named Achan who took some gold and hid it under his tent, and he said, No, I'm not hurting anybody. 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.480 I'm just ensuring I'm gonna have a little on the side in case things get. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.720 And the people of Israel were thwarted. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.879 They went up against a town, a little town called Ai, and got slaughtered. 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:32.960 This is after they'd overcome Jericho. 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:37.360 They got their heads handed to them like Baylor did last night up in Stillwater. 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:39.039 Whoopsie. 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:42.720 Yeah, my wife's a Baylor grad. 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:45.039 She kept like, you think they're tired or something? 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:46.799 No, they're getting beat. 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:48.960 Like a drum. 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:51.200 There's Indians outside the stadium. 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:53.440 What am I saying? 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.840 He says, hey, if you drink this and eat this and you don't discern the body, here's what he's saying. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.200 If you don't remember that you're a part of something bigger than you. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:06.879 Our last service went long because it's packed in here at the 10 o'clock service. 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:11.840 Because we don't get in a hurry, but we don't want to just preach to people. 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:13.200 We want to pastor them. 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.000 We want to remind them you're part of the body. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.600 You're not just consumers of religious services. 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:23.279 You're a part of a group of people that care about you. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:30.559 And so one couple that came to our wife's station, the lady said, Pray for us. 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:31.919 And I said, How can I pray? 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.080 We're about to kill each other. 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:36.879 And I said, How bad is it? 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.840 She goes, I think about it on a daily basis. 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:42.240 Guess what? 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:43.759 Welcome to marriage. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:47.919 My wife's married to an almost perfect man, and she has the same thought sometimes. 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:49.840 I don't know what her deal is. 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:51.919 I'm like, come on, lady. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.960 But here's the thing you can be that honest when you're a part of the body. 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.919 When you're part of the church, and you go, These people love me. 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:01.759 I can confess my sin to these people. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.279 They're not going to change their mind about me. 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:05.679 They're not going to go, oh, you struggle with that? 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:06.559 No. 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:13.200 That's what he means when he says, hey, don't eat or drink this without discerning the Bible, but without reminding yourself, I'm a part of something. 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.519 It's not a movement, it's a people. 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.799 And so how I live my life matters. 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:21.600 And how you live your life matters. 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:22.080 Why? 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:23.679 Because you're the church. 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:25.200 That's why. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.480 Let me ask you if you would just stand to your feet. 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:29.440 Hold your hands out. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:31.360 I'm going to speak a blessing over you. 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:42.399 Your loving God always picks up the tab. 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.960 Not to make you feel indebted to him, but to remind you that you're enjoyed. 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:50.399 You're loved. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.679 You're expected and anticipated. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.000 Depart now. 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:59.440 And live as if you really believe these things are true. 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:01.919 In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:02.480 Amen. 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:03.679 Bless you dismissed.