Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South
Australia. We have had quite a lot of input
from outside our context over the last short period of time.
And, you know, one of the questions that I've been asking
myself that I would ask all of us is what is God saying and
what are we doing with it? You know, like how we're
applying the things that God's speaking to us and God's really
been dealing with me. And some of these things, you
know, I've realized that, you know, one of the things that
God's really spoken to me is the need for having people around me
that I'm accountable to, that I'm completely transparent with,
open with. Trying to do life on your own or
for myself, trying to do what it is that God's called me to do in
my own strength is too hard. And we, we need each other.
Craig's laughing. He's like, of course it is like
we, we need each other. We need the body.
We need our brothers and our sisters.
You know, the people that are close to me need to know my
struggles. They need to know the things
that I'm struggling with. They need to know the things
that I'm victorious in. All of these things.
We can't leave things hidden in the dark.
When you keep things to yourself, you are, you are
leaving it in the dark. And when you have someone that
you can share these things with that you can shed some light on
it and they can speak the word of God of you and you make an
encourage you. It's called shedding the light
on on the darkness because all of us have got stuff.
All of us have got some sort of baggage, some sort of hold up,
whatever it is, we got some stuff.
And don't try and deal with your stuff on your own, you know,
And, and even like, because, you know, I have this attitude,
sometimes that just goes, I can just deal with it just with me
and the Lord. And that's great.
But sometimes that that isn't even enough, you know, like we
are the body of Christ, right? And so we need to have people
around us in the body that we can do this with.
Yeah. Anyway, I won't get too hung up
on this, but yeah, actually I will tell a story just from my
week, just in in line with this stuff.
I sell motorcycle engines. And so, you know, these
motorcycle engines are on a pallet at my house and I have to
move them onto the back of the car and take them to be shipped
and stuff like this. This is just part of my job.
And so Hilary helps me move these engines.
And so, so, you know, she, my wife is so much stronger than
you think. Like she should pick up these
things with me anyway. Like, I didn't get her to lift
him. I had my friend come when she
was pregnant and stuff like that.
So just relax. OK.
But she's not pregnant anymore. And I had to move this engine.
And so we've picked up this motor and we're sort of like
shifting it to the car. And I'm like, you're OK, you're
OK. Yeah, I'm fine, you know, and
and because I had to book it in, I had to estimate what how much
it weighed. I estimated this thing probably
weighed about 40 or 50 kilos, right.
And so, you know, like, you can pick up, I can pick up 30 kilos
pretty easily. Like, not easily, but 30 kilos
is quite a lot to pick up. But when there's two of you, you
know, it is easier. And it's funny because I took
this engine to work and I had what my mate at work helped me
take it off the car, right? And we're picking it up and
we're walking along and he's like, geez, this is pretty
heavy. Like, what do you reckon this
weighs? And he's like, oh, I don't know,
like sort of 40 or 50 kilos. Yeah, that's what I thought.
Because why don't we stick it up on the scales?
So we put it on the scales. 83 kilos, 83 kilos.
I had my missus carrying 40 kilos.
But anyway, please don't judge. She's fine, I'm OK.
But but my point is like 80 kilos, like I, I, I would
struggle to lift 50 kilos on my own.
Like I I don't, I don't think I could, right.
But between two people carrying 80 plus kilos, it's doable.
It's not that hard. You don't, you don't hurt
yourself. And my point is that 2 can carry
much more than half of what one person can carry.
Does that make sense? It's true.
I googled it. This is what they say like
because you know, things are awkward and, and some of the
things that it said, you know, the reasons why two people can
carry more is because they can coordinate with each other.
Just watch out behind you. Like, do you see what I'm
saying? Like there's a picture here that
we can get a hold of that doing this together and having someone
alongside you to help is so powerful.
And it's amazing to me that God has just created this universe
in this world and just put his truth through everything.
It's like you can see God and you can see the goodness of God
and you can see the structure of things in all of his creation.
Isn't that amazing? Very good.
And so this morning, I'm going to be talking about sacrifice.
Yay. So I've got this slide here that
Hillary's going to pop up for me.
These were the 8 key ingredients to building God's church.
And so one of these is, I forget which picture this is, but
there's another slide here. It's there it is.
It's that one sacrifice. And so we're going to talk about
sacrifice this morning. Is sacrifice something that as
believers that we are called to do, that we are called to live
in? Of course, it is Paul.
The apostles thought so, and he wrote a lot about it.
And, you know, but what does Paul know about building the
church? Paul knew a lot about building
the church. He called himself a wise master
builder in the Lord, you know, and so we can we can listen to
it when, when we think about building the church and building
God's house, we've got this guy that that knew how to build and
he and So what we're reading today is his words to the church
on on sacrifice. OK, so this is Romans 12 verse
1. And so I'm going to read through
it quickly and then I'm we're going to look at a little
closer. It's just one verse.
So Romans 12 verse one, it says, I beseech you, therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
reasonable service. So this word I'm, I'm not going
to say the Greek words. I'll just tell you that this
word beseech, the original Greek word is like to call for, to
summon, like he summoned them to speak to them.
But the, the definition is like a, it's a +1.
It's one of exhortation, like Paul wants to gather you to tell
you something good. And that same Greek word is
translated comfort a lot in the scripture, funnily enough.
And so Paul's beseeching you, I want to tell you something
that's good, something that's going to bring comfort.
And so that's the heart behind what he's saying.
It's a good heart. It's one that wants us to catch
this. This is important.
Listen up. I've got something to say and
it's good for you. This is the heart.
And he and he says, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, you
know, this is family. This is brothers or sisters.
He's not talking to a stranger. He's talking to the family of
God saying like I'm, I'm talking to my brothers and sisters here,
guys, by the mercies of God, by God's compassion, by God's
longing for us to catch this, your bodies to present, to
provide, sorry to, to present, to provide, to bring forward to
command, to yield. I like yield, yield your bodies
and and bodies. It's not just your physical
body. And you can tell that just by
reading the context. If you if you go back and read,
he's not just talking about your physical body and the same word
for body in this passage is the same word where Jesus says
don't, don't fear him who who can kill the body fear him who
can cast your body into hell body, same word.
So Jesus uses the word, this word body, not just for your
physical body, but the body that could be cast into hell as
that's all of you. That's like everything.
And so it says, present your bodies a living sacrifice.
So you're not going to physically die, but you're going
to die in your attitude, in your in your laying down of your life
as a sacrifice. You know this word sacrifice, if
you look at the strong's meaning, it only gives one
other, one other word to describe this Greek word.
You know what it is victim present.
Present your body as a victim. You know, we don't like that.
We don't like to even sacrifice. I would say a lot of us don't
like to hear that. Like I have to sacrifice myself.
Like that's crazy talk. But this is what the word of God
is calling us to do, to sacrifice, to make yourself, you
know, when they killed the sacrificial lamb, that lamb was
a victim, you know, for to cover the sins.
This is the same same thing that God's asking us to do to
sacrifice yourself and you know, holy, obviously set apart
acceptable to God, which is I love this bit, right, the bit at
the end here, which is your reasonable service.
Paul's not like pulling any punches here, right?
He's going, you know, as I'm I'm crying out to you guys as
brothers and sisters to lay down to sacrifice your body.
And this is like your reasonable service, you know this word
reasonable It, it just means logical.
This is logic. This is logic that you would do
this believers, brothers and sisters, wouldn't make any sense
that you wouldn't live this way. Do you see what he's saying?
It's like anything full short of full commitment to this thing is
illogical. Like it wouldn't make any sense
for you not to be fully committed to this totally given
over to Christ's likeness. And as a believer, as a
Christian, as a follower of Christ, it just makes no sense
to live in a way that's not completely sold out, given over
laying your body on the line as a as a sacrifice to the Lord
that that I'm belonging to him now and he gets to he gets to
dictate to me what I should do with my life and my choices.
Logical. Isn't that interesting because
we think sometimes that is irrational for us to like self
sacrifice. That's not what the Bible's
teaching. That's not what the Word of God
says. And so I'm going to read it
again for us. I beseech you, therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God, which is your
reasonable service. That's a powerful verse, isn't
it? As I was preparing this morning,
just around some of these things, I was just reading and
praying this morning. I didn't sort of look at the
notes or anything that I'm just up early.
I'm praying, I'm reading the word and you know, I just
started to dwell on some of these things and just, you know,
that that thing of like full commitment to the Lord and you
know how how me being fully committed to the Lord means be
me being fully committed to his church because we're the body of
Christ. You know, I don't know what you
think about church. I don't know what you think the
church is, but the church is Christ's body.
And so you couldn't be committed to Jesus unless you were
committed to to the church. And that's kind of jarring to
hear sometimes. I don't know what you guys are
hearing when I say that, but if you're not fully committed in,
you know, this verse that I read about being a living sacrifice
completely given over to the church.
If I say you need to be a living sacrifice to the church, to the
body to live for it, that that would be the most important
thing in your world because it's Jesus, that could be quite
jarring to hear. And I wonder whether when it is
jarring and whether you go, oh, that doesn't sound right.
I can't be fully committed to church.
Church is just a building with people in it.
Like, I don't know whether we've grasped what the church actually
is, you know, like, because we can start to think things like,
you know, when I say that as a leader in the church, you know,
things that you hear people, I don't know, I know you guys
don't say this, but things that you hear the the people in
churches and stuff say, they say, you know, this passage just
wants all my time and all my money.
He just wants me to like give up everything for, for the for the
church. And you just go, yeah, that's
what the Scripture says. This is kind of like, but not
for my sake, not for me, not because I'm saying that you need
to give up everything for the church and to serve the Lord,
but for the Lord. It's like that is exactly what
God is calling us to do to to give up everything to serve him.
And can I remind us that what he's doing on the on the planet
earth right now is the church is in and through the church is in
and through his body, we are representing God here.
This is the most important thing that we have going on in our
lives. God's thing, not our thing.
Can I say that? Like we can't love Jesus unless
we love his church. A lot of people out there just
going, I'm done with the church. The church has just messed me
up. They're all just a bunch of this
and that. I love Jesus though.
Do you? Because this is his bride.
You can't follow Jesus without being a part of his church.
I'm just following Jesus on my own.
I'm just doing my own thing. I've just got my own
relationship with God. I've got my own faith.
Do you? Because if you're not a part of
his body, then where are you and what are you doing?
I hope I'm not coming across like, you know, too strong here,
but isn't Is that true? You can't come to God without
coming to Jesus. You can't come to the Lord
unless you come through Christ Jesus.
So when we talk about the church as his, as his bride, as as him,
himself, his body, well, can you, can you serve God without
coming to the church, without being a part of what he's doing?
I don't know that you can, not effectively.
I think that you could be saved. I think that you could be saved,
but I don't know that you're going to be very effective in
doing the thing that He's called us to do.
You might just be doing your own thing over here and just missing
the call that God has on your life, because the call that God
has on our life is in the church.
It is in the body. It's not off over there
somewhere doing your own thing. We are called to be servants of
the Lord and we serve in the church.
And so, you know, I think This is why Paul pleaded in this
letter in the into the to the Roman church to sacrifice
themselves. You know, I wonder whether he
was reminding them something that he'd already taught them or
whether he was teaching them something new.
I think maybe he'd already like they knew this and he was
reminding them of this. You know there's, there's
something worse and just not knowing something important.
Do you know what it is? Apathy.
Knowing something and just doing nothing with it.
Like apathy is like lack of interest.
It's like being unenthused, not concerned with.
I think I'm losing my voice. Apathy is worse than not
knowing. Well, I mean, it might both lead
to the same place, but it's just like if I know that that God's
called me to be a living sacrifice and to give up
everything to follow him, but I'm just like, meh, that's
worse. That means I'm going to stand
before the Lord one day and give an account of my life and he's
just going to go, but you knew this.
I don't want to stand before the Lord knowing that I I should
have given myself completely to him and I didn't just through
apathy. I wonder what's going through
our mind when we talk about these things, whether we're just
going, oh, well, you know, we talked about, you know, our
flesh and how, how we respond to the word of God and these sorts
of things. I wonder, I wonder what's going
on in here when we when we think about having to give up
everything, lay down everything to serve the Lord, whether it's
just like ice, we're doing OK. That might be apathy.
We don't want to be an apathetic church.
Can I say that the the church, especially in Australia, 1,
especially in Australia. I'm in Australia.
So you see it apathetic very just like, you know, what did I
say? It's like not really that
interested, not really that concerned like that, man.
It's funny because it's a meme, but you know what it means.
It's like, man, some of you probably don't know.
And I know that, you know, I don't say this to be heavy
because I know that many of us are sacrificing a lot already to
be here, to serve, to be a part of the body.
I'm not saying that none of us are doing anything, but I'm
reminding us that God's always calling us for more.
Like there's always more that God wants me to give up and lay
down. It's interesting because God
wants me to be fruitful and to multiply.
God wants to add to those who have something.
So if I have have something, God wants to add to it.
And the only problem that I can see with that is that if God
gives me more now I'm going to have to give more away.
Like I'm going to have to be more sacrificial with the more
that God's given me. Do you see how this works?
So we want more and more out of God.
We want Him to grow us and to bless us, but that just means
that He's giving me more to be accountable to.
With that, I would have to give more, that I'd have to lay down
more of myself. It's just like I've got a third
child in the house now. God's blessed me.
You know what that means for us? Sacrifice, more sacrifice.
It means that I'm going to have to lay down more now because
I've got another responsibility here that needs to be raised and
brought up to know the Lord. Why would anyone choose to serve
the Lord? Why would anyone choose the
narrow gate? Why would anyone choose the way
that he's harder? Because it's the only way.
It's the only way that leads to life.
Because God himself is the prize.
Because God is a greater rich, you know He's the greatest
riches that ever existed him to know him and to walk with him is
a greater richer than my words aren't working here.
But it's it's of greater value for me to know the Lord than to
have all the possessions on the earth.
Do you believe that This is why choosing the narrow gate and
choosing the hard Rd. is is is so fulfilling because you get
him. Isn't that amazing?
And his grace, he says, my grace is sufficient for you.
That means that when you choose to give up everything and serve
the Lord and follow him, not only do you get him, you get his
grace to be able to walk this thing through.
And you can do this and you can do it well because your value is
in him and not in yourself and not in your own staff.
So we're just going to look a little.
I'm going to try and get through the end of it.
My voice is dying, but we're just going to look at Jesus and
some of the sacrifices that Jesus made in his life and I'll
bring this to a close. What did Jesus sacrifice for you
and I everything like everything, like Jesus didn't
hold anything back for you and I not a thing.
You know, we we hear people leaving churches and and saying
things like they asked too much of me.
Jesus asked for everything. Jesus gave everything.
So here's a few of the things that Jesus sacrificed.
Jesus sacrificed money. You know, Jesus was a Carpenter,
you know, got some Carpenter friends.
They make some pretty good money tradies.
I am joking, but but, but Jesus gave up, you know, a life of,
of, of, of working and earning. You know, Jesus wasn't rich in,
in, in physical wealth, was he? When, when, when they said, when
Peter came and said that, you know, we need to pay this temple
tax. What did he say?
He didn't just reach into his pocket and just go, oh, I got
wads of cash here. He'd take some of this.
He sent him fishing and he pulled a, a gold coin out of the
fish's mouth. That says to me that Jesus
wasn't loaded, right? Why would he make him go and do
that if he could just reach into his bag and just grab some
money? There might be other reasons,
but Jesus wasn't chasing physical riches.
Jesus had to walk from place to place.
Jesus said that he has nowhere to lay his own head.
Jesus gave up, you know, having somewhere to live, somewhere to
call home, just to go to do the thing that he ultimately called
us as the church to do. Go.
Therefore, Jesus was just doing that.
Jesus gave up comfort. The comfort that you and I have
in our day-to-day lives, we're pretty comfortable.
Jesus gave up that. Jesus was sleeping in boats.
Jesus was sleeping in the wilderness.
He was sleeping in gardens. He gave up comfort.
I'm sure that he didn't have an air conditioner or a heater
going and all of that. I know that He had a nice coat,
didn't he? He did.
That's what the Bible teaches. I didn't think he had 10 coats.
I didn't think he had 10 nice coats.
I don't think that he was just, you know, I can go into my
wardrobe and I've got like 5 or 6 coats.
Jesus didn't have that. You know, I think about the
amount of stuff that I've got and the amount of stuff that we
just accumulate stuff. Have you ever walked into the
shed or something and seen something there and just go, oh,
forgot I even had that. Jesus didn't do that.
Jesus didn't like walk into his room and just go, oh, forgot I
even had that thing. Jesus knew what he had.
Do you see him? Like, what's my point in here?
Are we being, are we living sacrificial lives in our
possessions? Are we giving up the opportunity
just to store up a whole bunch of stuff and try and close the
door? How much stuff do we have?
How much stuff do we need? Not a lot, according to Jesus's
example. Is that true?
I think I've got too much stuff. Jesus sacrificed his time,
didn't he? Constantly, constantly
interrupted. Going here to help someone.
Runs into someone else that needs help.
Always interrupted, pulled aside by women.
Help me here. OK.
Yeah. And always willing.
Just living a life of being interrupted constantly.
Didn't seem to bother him too much.
He was on mission. Jesus gave up sleep.
I'm just. I'm trying to say things that
you and I struggle to give up sleep.
We don't like to give up our sleep.
We don't like to sacrifice our sleep.
Jesus couldn't even get a nap. He goes to have a sleep in a
boat and they wake him up, right?
Jesus, we're going to die here. What are you doing constantly?
Just like can't even catch a break.
And you know, that can be the same for me.
It's like I want to be available to you guys when you need me.
You know, you could call me in the middle of the night.
Hopefully I would I'm, you know, I'm exposing myself here.
My phone's in the other room. But I trust that if I needed to
hear, God would make it make me hear right.
My wife would probably hear and tell me to go get it.
But if you, but if you if I was asleep, right, My point is, if I
was asleep and one of you guys came to me and said, help, help
me, I'll get up for that. I would.
Would you get up for me like if I called you in the middle of
the night, would you answer your phone or would you just go, oh,
Dave's calling and go back to sleep?
Would you do that for each other?
I'm, I'm questioning us here for your brothers and sisters.
Would if your brother or your sister rang you in the middle of
the night because they needed help, would you just go, oh,
I'll just call them in the morning?
Think about that. Would we be like Christ with our
sleep? Mark 132.
I won't read the passage. I'll just give you the the
headlines here. It says that Jesus was working
late. It says that Jesus was
ministering and the whole town came to him.
And this was after the sun had gone down.
Do you think that if the whole town came to Jesus, he might be
working for a few hours? I think he was working well into
the night. And then on that same night, it
says that Jesus rose early in the morning before the sun was
up to go and seek the Lord, sacrificing his sleep, right?
He didn't sleep in because he'd had a big night in ministry.
He got up because he knew that seeking the Lord was more
important than his own sleep. Think about that glass.
Some of us, you know, and I don't even know how I can say
that that's I started saying, I'm going to have to finish the
thought Now. Some of us can't get to the
meetings on time because we had a late night the night before.
That was not Jesus's example. Please hear the word.
Don't hear what I'm saying. Like it's just like, be
accountable to the Lord with your sleep.
You know, when I was young we would go out partying all night,
even if I had to work in the morning and I still went, right?
I might call in sick from time to time, but generally I would
go because I needed the money, right?
So I'd sacrificed my sleep to have fun and then to get the
money that I needed. So I was willing to sacrifice
for my own needs. Am I willing to sacrifice for
the needs of the brothers and sisters and for Christ?
Because we have to be here like you Take the Sunday meeting, for
example. Someone has to put that chair
out that we're sitting on. Someone has to set this stuff up
so that you guys can hear what I'm saying.
Someone has to do all these things.
If we're not coming in just because we're tired, are we
living a sacrificial life for one another?
I mean, wisdom says go to bed earlier.
But you know, I'm not always wise, but I know that being
here, I have to be here, so I sacrifice.
I hope you guys are catching what I'm saying here.
And Jesus, you know, ultimately I thought about this this week,
Jesus sacrificing his life. He said that I only do what the
Father says and I only says what I only say what he says to do.
You know, I got up on on Saturday with that in my on my
heart and I was like, man, I'm going to try and just do what
God I'm going to. I'm going to try and be careful
with my words today and only speak what the Lord would say.
And I'm, I'm only going to do like what I know that the Lord
would do. She's laughing because she's,
she was with me on Saturday. Do you know how hard that is?
Well, Jesus did that right. Wow, he's amazing.
Thank you, Lord, Thank you that you walked this thing out that I
would seem impossible for me to do.
Thank you, Lord. Oh my gosh.
And so, you know, we, we read in the Scripture that that this
lifestyle that Jesus lived was training Jesus to go through the
ultimate sacrifice, like a life that Jesus lived day-to-day,
sacrificing day after day after day after day, led him,
empowered him, strengthened him, brought him into a maturity to
be able to make the ultimate sacrifice for you and I.
We find this in Hebrews 5 verse 7.
It says of Jesus. It says, who in the days of his
flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with
Bohemian criers and tears to him, who was able to save him
from death, and was heard because of his godly fear.
Though he was a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things
which he suffered. And having been made perfect,
having been perfected, he became the author of eternal salvation
to all of those who obey him. Oh my gosh, the Father heard
Jesus, it says, because he of his godly fear, because Jesus
lived a life, he feared the Lord and God heard him because of the
life that he lived. It says that Jesus learned
obedience through suffering, the life of self sacrifice.
It LED Jesus to give up everything.
The last thing that Jesus had was his own life and he laid it
down. And it says that, you know, in
the laying down of everything and his own life, perfection now
perfection in laying down everything, it's like, how do I
become perfect? Lord, lay it all down.
You know this wise man that comes to Jesus, this rich man,
he says, what must I do for eternal salvation or what?
What? What does the law say?
This thing, this thing that you have done, all of that.
OK, now sell everything you have and from come follow me.
Lay everything down then and come and follow me.
You know I'll read this, I'll read this again.
Verse 9 it says, and having been perfected, he became the author
of eternal salvation for all those who obey him.
That is a stern word, that Jesus has become the author and the of
our of our salvation to those who obey him.
Don't miss that, believers. Don't miss that.
Followers of Jesus to those who obey him, that is.
That should shake us up a little.
I know it shakes me up a little. Do we even want to obey him?
Do we even want to lay it all down to serve him?
And so I'm asking us here, like, what is the Lord saying to you?
What are the things that that God is asking you to sacrifice
to him? What is he asking you to give
up? You know, I was thinking about
people today, believers that that a martyr that that come to
that place where Jesus was where they had to lay down their
physical lives, you know, renounce Christ.
I will not put to death, you know, this.
There's a time coming where the if you're going to stand for
Jesus, stand for Christ. That's your life now.
And so I think about that. I was thinking about that this
morning and I was just like, gosh, it's almost, I don't want
to say easier, but I can see God's mercy and grace in that,
allowing A believer to come to this place where it's like me or
your life. Can you see the mercy of God to
allow that to happen, to give a person, to give a believer the
opportunity to lay down their life for the king?
An opportunity because you would look at that in the natural and
just go. How could God allow his
believers to be beheaded and killed?
But if you understand what Jesus has called His church to be and
who He's called you and I are to be, you would understand that
God is giving people the ultimate opportunity to lay down
their lives for Him. Perfection.
Do you see it? I think that some of us that,
you know, I don't know some of us, but some of the people that
will face that end might have lived a life that, that I'm
guilty of sometimes where I just haven't seemed to give it all to
God, where I haven't seemed to lay it all down, where I've sort
of lived sort of for God, but sort of for myself.
And then God's going to give this wonderful opportunity just
to, to, to go all in. I thought about, I looked
through my notes this morning and I got to the end here and I
was just, oh, I can't leave it there.
I was can't leave us there. Where's the hope in this?
And so I'm going to read for us here.
Don't worry, OK, I'm not going to leave this here.
Hebrews 12 verse 2 says this. It says, looking unto Jesus, the
author and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was
set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, He
sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
You know, when you're working a job that you don't really love,
you prefer to be at home or whatever.
I'm sure all of us can relate to that, whether it's a job or just
doing something that you would prefer not to be doing.
And you're looking at the clock and you're just like, it's 4:30
and I'm knocking off at 5:00. And it's like now I'm looking
for the hope before me that I'm going to be, I'm knocking off.
I'm going to be able to get out of here.
And so you can enjoy the last half an hour because you know
that I'm getting out of here soon.
It's a stupid analogy. I know when it when you, when
you bring Christ into it, right? But Jesus, knowing the hope that
was before him, knowing that laying down everything meant
that people like you and I could be set free, made whole,
delivered eternal life with the King forever, He thought that
was worthwhile. And he thought that there is a
joy there that is worth me laying down everything for.
And so for you and I is the same joy that Jesus had set before
him. It's the joy that we have set
before us. We can overcome, we can endure,
we can lay it all down for Christ and and for his Church
and for his bride and service of God and each other.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and love one another.
Service, sacrifice. Thank you, Lord, for the hope
that's set before us. Amen.
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