1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:07,840 Last week we began our new series in the Lord's Prayer. 2 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:15,560 It is Part 3 of a multi year program pulpit that I decided to 3 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:21,000 do on the basics of foundation stones of Christianity, and I 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,240 have been fond of showing you all this triangle to help you 5 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,480 think about a comprehensive plan for Christian discipleship. 6 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,400 It's very important that we grow in maturity and knowledge in 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:39,040 biblical literacy, but also that we learn theology, also known as 8 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,680 our doctrines or our beliefs, but that we also receive 9 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:48,320 training and grow in spiritual disciplines, practices, godly 10 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:51,800 habits. And as we preach, we kind of go 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,240 around this triangle. Sometimes we're more working our 12 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,440 way through book by book, chapter by chapter. 13 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,840 Sometimes we're working through a particular teaching of Holy 14 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,760 Scripture and doing exposition on that. 15 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,520 Sometimes we're training in godliness and learning about 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,440 disciplines and holy habits. Last week I introduced this 17 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,040 word. Many of you know it already. 18 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,400 It's a fancy term. Catechesis, a very old word, 19 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,960 refers to the teaching process, and what you use for your scope 20 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:28,400 and your sequence to figure out what to teach is sometimes 21 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:32,760 called a catechism. The teaching content and what 22 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,200 we've been doing in the spring is working our way through three 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:42,640 very important things to basic training for Christians. 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,720 One is the Apostles Creed. Another is the 10 Commandments. 25 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,000 And as I mentioned, we're going through a new series on the 26 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,120 Lord's Prayer. All of this is coming from the 27 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,120 rich wellspring of Holy Scripture. 28 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:01,760 It is profoundly biblical and has a robust Christian tradition 29 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,440 behind it. As we learn these things 30 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:09,120 together, Ji Packer in his very accessible book called Praying 31 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:14,400 the Lord's Prayer says these three give us summaries of 32 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,520 knowing what we believe, how we ought to behave and how to 33 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,880 commune with our Lord. By the way, I recommend this to 34 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:24,640 you. In fact, I I heard from one of 35 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:27,840 our home groups are going to go through this short book together 36 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:33,120 in concert with this. This series is thrilling things. 37 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,800 So if you would like to look at that, come see me after the 38 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,680 service last week. Also by way of introduction and 39 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,560 talking about catechisms. I mentioned that our our 40 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,360 children's program, particularly Basics, Basics Junior, sometimes 41 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,360 Lyft, goes through sections of the New City Catechism. 42 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,920 So here at UCC, if your kids are in children's programming, 43 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:54,920 particularly on Wednesday nights, they not only are 44 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,120 learning to memorize scripture, but also learning doctrinal 45 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,440 summaries as well if they choose to go through this particular 46 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,160 curriculum. Question 38 of the New City 47 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,960 Catechism. Again, we looked at last week. 48 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,960 What is prayer? New City Catechism draws its 49 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,920 definition from one of the psalms, Psalm 62. 50 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,800 Prayer is pouring out our hearts. 51 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:22,560 That's the part from the Psalm pouring out our hearts to God in 52 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,280 praise, petition, confession of sin, and Thanksgiving. 53 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,520 Now, this isn't the last word on a definition of prayer. 54 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,920 This is a conversation partner. It is not authoritative for your 55 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:36,400 faith and practice to have this definition. 56 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,440 If you have a different definition, that's OK. 57 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,640 In fact, it's helpful to look at several different definitions 58 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,080 and see them in conversation with each other. 59 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,440 So I also have this book on my shelf, on my shelf, which I 60 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,080 love. It's put out by Crossway 61 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,360 entitled Creeds, Confessions and Catechisms so that I can kind of 62 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,680 compare the different documents and see that they say, 63 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:02,200 interestingly, the Westminster Larger Catechism has the exact 64 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,160 same question. But in their case, it's #178 65 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,240 perhaps that's why we went with New City here at UCC. 66 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:16,160 Question #178 what is prayer? Westminster Larger Catechism 67 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:21,160 says this prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God. 68 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,960 But this one unpacks what God means a little bit, and we get a 69 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:30,760 Trinitarian riff, hovering up ourselves unto God in the name 70 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,720 of Jesus Christ by the help of His Spirit, with confession of 71 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:41,320 our sins and thankful acknowledgement of His mercies. 72 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:47,200 The Heidelberg Catechism goes a step further to actually talk 73 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,160 about the Father. In fact, the question is framed 74 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:54,080 this way. Question #120 why has Christ 75 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:59,960 commanded us to address God as quote, our Father? 76 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,720 Here's the answer, beautiful answer. 77 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,160 To awaken in us at the very beginning of our prayer. 78 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,680 What should be basic to our prayer? 79 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:18,640 A childlike reverence and trust that through Christ God has 80 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:24,240 become our Father and will much less refuse to give us what we 81 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,640 ask in faith. Then will our parents refuse us 82 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,680 the things of this life beautiful and behind. 83 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:36,760 This is obviously the verses from Matthew Chapter 7, The 84 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,160 words of our Lord. Or which one of you? 85 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,080 If his Son asked him for bread, we'll give him a stone, or if he 86 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,440 asked for a fish, we'll give him a serpent. 87 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,080 If you then who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your 88 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,760 children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven 89 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,240 give good things to those who ask Him? 90 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,880 Beautiful. And it brings up this notion of 91 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:03,640 Father. And I'm going to argue this 92 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,240 morning that in that one word, in that word, Father is embedded 93 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,440 the gospel story. Because the bad news, my 94 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,400 friends, is because of human rebellion. 95 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,040 The Bible says that we were estranged from our Father and 96 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,800 we're brought under the tyranny of another type of Father, the 97 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,600 devil, that we exist in a spiritual battle. 98 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,080 And that conversion is in fact a type of adoption, a release from 99 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,400 this illegitimate father into a beautiful relationship with our 100 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,840 heavenly Father. This is a very important thing 101 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:42,160 for us to understand. It's basic and foundation to all 102 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,640 of Christian life. Martin Luther, the great 103 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,960 reformer who lived 500 years ago, is passionate about the 104 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,160 fact that we are in a spiritual battle. 105 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,360 He says this, for what do you think has hit her to accomplish 106 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,600 such great things in this Reformation? 107 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,400 What has checked or quelled the counsel, purposes, murder and 108 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:09,240 riot of our enemies, whereby the devil devil fought to crush us 109 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:14,120 together with the Gospel, Except, except that the prayer 110 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:19,480 of a few godly men intervened like a wall of iron on our side, 111 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:26,400 we shall nevertheless be a match for them and a match for the 112 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:33,200 devil by prayer alone, if we only persevere diligently and 113 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,360 not become slack. For whenever a godly Christian 114 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,640 praise, dear Father, let thy will be done. 115 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,800 God speaks from on high and says, Yes, dear child, it shall 116 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,960 be be so in spite of the devil and all the world. 117 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,680 God is speaking to us in our prayers in as much as we are 118 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:00,600 speaking to him. There is a dialogue going on and 119 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,160 it is a tender conversation as a father to his children in the 120 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:11,360 context of tremendous spiritual battle and acute need. 121 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,440 God is speaking to us through our prayers. 122 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,440 Ji Packer writes that every part of the Lord's Prayer is 123 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,440 interrogating us or questioning our faith, confronting our 124 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,800 unbelief and disbelief with powerful truths about who God is 125 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:35,799 and who we are. The problem of our fallenness is 126 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:39,760 a paternity problem. When Adam and Eve rebelled 127 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,960 against God, they fell under the devil's authority, and in some 128 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,880 sense they became his children. Christ himself, in a 129 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:53,240 tremendously dramatic section in John chapter 8, says this to the 130 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:59,160 Pharisees in a showdown. Jesus says to the Pharisees, If 131 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,520 God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and 132 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,160 I am here. I came not of my own accord, but 133 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,400 he sent me. Why do you not understand what I 134 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,160 say? It is because you cannot bear to 135 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:18,440 hear my word. You are of your Father the 136 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,960 devil, and your will is to do your Father's desires. 137 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:29,920 Friends, we desperately need a good Father. 138 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:36,280 Christian conversion is presented as adoption, as was so 139 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,560 beautifully read from our Scripture reading this morning. 140 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,880 Our text this morning is Matthew 6, verse 9. 141 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:45,720 In fact, I'm only taking on one word. 142 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,400 Some of you are counting all the words in this prayer and 143 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,240 wondering if we're going to be here for four years. 144 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:53,920 That's not the case, but I am taking one word, this word, 145 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,520 Father. We pray to the Father. 146 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,640 We pray to the Father. And if we are Christians, we are 147 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:06,280 learning even from the very words we speak as we say the 148 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,920 prayer of Christ that He has given to us, that we have a new 149 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,040 identity. No longer are we children of the 150 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:18,160 devil, we are children of God. This comes through adoption. 151 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,200 This is what we read in the scripture reading. 152 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,280 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has 153 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:28,560 blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the 154 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:31,880 heavenly places, even as He chose us in Him before the 155 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:35,080 foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless 156 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,560 before Him in love. He predestined us for adoption 157 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:43,960 to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose 158 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,760 of His will to the praise of His glorious grace, which with which 159 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,040 He has blessed us in the Beloved. 160 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:53,400 This is not the only place this occurs. 161 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,080 It recurs in several other places. 162 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,680 The apostle John is particularly fond of this idea. 163 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:06,520 Look at first John 3 verse one. See what kind of love the Father 164 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,360 has given to us that we should be called children of God. 165 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:16,320 So we are. Conversion is adoption. 166 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:20,040 It's joining a new family. It's the release of sin and 167 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,080 death and tyranny under the devil. 168 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,280 Psalm one O 3, verse 13 says this. 169 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,640 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows 170 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:32,760 compassion to those who fear him. 171 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:37,000 It's important to understand that we live with this 172 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000 relationship of father to child under a type of authority, don't 173 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,680 we? Type of authority. 174 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,480 So we can see to those who fear him, to those who respect him, 175 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,120 to those who are called by His name, to those who are united 176 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,640 Him by faith. But what kind of father is he? 177 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,600 Did you see it? He's a compassionate father, 178 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,160 isn't he? He's full of compassion. 179 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,880 And So what you have in this relationship is authority and 180 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:07,840 intimacy at the same time. And any good father wants that 181 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:09,360 in the relationship with their children. 182 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,280 I hope that my children experience me as someone who 183 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:19,080 both has authority to teach, to guide, to discipline and direct, 184 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,200 but also that they experience their daddy as someone who is 185 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,560 gentle and compassionate, a good listener, someone who 186 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:30,520 understands so that they have this both and compassion and 187 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:36,200 fear. What kind of father is he? 188 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:39,120 We have this new identity. We are under authority. 189 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:43,360 There is compassionate intimacy. But a Father has great ability, 190 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,440 doesn't He? And this ability is to provide 191 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:51,600 for our needs and to protect us. Let's look at provision, the 192 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,160 words of our Lord. Again in Matthew chapter 6, He 193 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,120 says, look at the birds of the air. 194 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:01,480 They neither sow, sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet 195 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:06,480 your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than 196 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,880 they? He provides for our needs. 197 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,320 We're going to see that petition in the Lord's Prayer a little 198 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,000 bit further down, but a Father provides. 199 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,440 The father also protects the vulnerable, which all of us are. 200 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,840 Look at this from Psalm 65, sorry, Psalm 68, beginning in 201 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,440 verse 5 and going into 6. He is father of the fatherless 202 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:32,040 and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. 203 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,520 God settles the solitary in a home. 204 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,280 So He not only provides for our physical needs, He also protects 205 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:43,000 the vulnerable of which we all are. 206 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,840 He not only provides and protects, but He also provides 207 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,160 discipline. Hebrews chapter 12, verse 6. 208 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:56,760 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves and chastises every son 209 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,400 whom He receives. We are under His discipline, and 210 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,560 that is an act of love. It's part of the relationship of 211 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:08,360 being His child and He our Father. 212 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,800 Again, what kind of discipline is this? 213 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:17,120 If we're used to experiencing the the rage of a bad father or 214 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:22,880 the frustrating inconsistencies of a bad father, the Bible 215 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,280 teaches us that that's not the case at all. 216 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,600 We have a good and loving father. 217 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:29,720 He does not do things that bad fathers do. 218 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,400 Look at Ephesians chapter 6. Paul says right now to human 219 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,080 fathers others do not provoke your children to anger. 220 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,400 Some translations have exasperate your children, but 221 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:47,080 bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 222 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,320 The Lord is that kind of father. His discipline includes 223 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:55,520 instruction and is not to frustrate or exasperate, but to 224 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:00,080 lead and to guide us. As we continue through our 225 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,280 biblical survey, we come to 2nd Corinthians chapter one, verse 226 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,080 3. Blessed be the God and Father of 227 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:10,280 our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all 228 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,040 comfort. What kind of dad is he? 229 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,400 He's merciful, he's full of comfort. 230 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,560 He's someone that you'd want to come home to. 231 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,760 And in fact, in Jesus's arguably most famous parable of all time, 232 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,480 the parable of the prodigal, the son knew that he could go home 233 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:32,760 and he was met with abundant forgiveness and provision, mercy 234 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,800 and and compassion. So not only does he have give us 235 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,480 discipline, but he also gives us mercy and comfort. 236 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:46,360 But he also is a father who rewards and blesses Matthew 237 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:51,320 chapter 6 for and your father who sees in secret will reward 238 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,760 you. Help my kids experience a dad 239 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,200 who rewards them that blesses them. 240 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,520 This isn't a source of encouragement, kind of 241 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:08,840 exasperation and futility. Romans 8 says this. 16 B. 242 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:13,640 We are children of God, and if children then heirs, heirs of 243 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,360 God and fellow heirs with Christ, not only does he reward 244 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:22,920 us, but he promises us a future, a future that's rich, a future 245 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,200 that's used with a language of inheritance. 246 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,320 He's going to prepare a place for us, to bless us, to give a 247 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,160 home forever to us. All of this is included in that 248 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:40,200 one little word when we say Father and dress the Lord in 249 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,760 this powerful term. But we're going to learn as we 250 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:49,680 move into the next movement of this sermon that prayer is a 251 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:54,120 family affair. Prayer is a family affair. 252 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:58,120 We're not only praying to the Father, we're praying to the 253 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:04,000 Father in the name of the Son. No chance of ever calling God 254 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,599 your Father without the person and the work of Jesus Christ, 255 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,800 his Son. He is the one, His agency is the 256 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:17,400 the thing that allows us to be adopted as children of God. 257 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:22,720 He's the one that does it. And so when we pray, we pray in 258 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,440 the name of the Son. Now we know this, right? 259 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,040 Even when you're a little kid, your parents are teaching you 260 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,320 the script for prayer. At the end of the prayer, you 261 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,720 say in Jesus name, Amen. Right? 262 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,560 In Jesus name, Amen. Why do we do that? 263 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,520 Because we rehearse and live out our theology in the words that 264 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:45,600 we say by concluding our prayer in the name of Jesus. 265 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:48,760 Now you may ask, well, why doesn't the Lord's Prayer 266 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,200 conclude with in Jesus name, Amen. 267 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,040 And I will say many theologians will agree that it is embedded 268 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,640 in the term Father. And if you know your Bible and 269 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,280 you know your theology, you know the only way that you can say 270 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,400 our Father is because of the agency and the person in the 271 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:10,800 work of Jesus Christ, his Son. Prayer is a family affair. 272 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:16,000 We pray to the to God the Father according to Jesus example, 273 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:19,720 don't we? If you read John chapter 17, 274 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:26,400 you'll see Jesus call Godfather over and over and over again at 275 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,360 least six times. He says father in this long 276 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:31,880 prayer, his high priestly prayer. 277 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,120 And so when we say our Father, we are praying like he prayed 278 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:38,000 when he addressed his Father as Father. 279 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,520 We also learned this idea of agency is deeply within the 280 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,360 Bible. Jesus will say this in John 281 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:49,520 chapter 14. Jesus said to him, I am the way 282 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,720 and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, You 283 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,600 listening, you looking except through me. 284 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,840 Without Jesus, there is no relationship with the Father. 285 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,400 It's through his agency and his person and work that we can call 286 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,560 God our Father. Again, John chapter one, verse 287 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,280 12. But to all who did receive 288 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:16,640 Jesus, who believed in His name, God gave the right to become 289 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,600 children of God. So once again, we can see 290 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,560 directly, it's because the person and the work of Jesus 291 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,920 Christ that we can have adoption with the Father. 292 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,520 He is our elder brother. He does it all. 293 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,280 Not only is He the only way of the Father and the agent of 294 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,640 adoption, but He commands us to pray in His name. 295 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,920 As we've already said, John 14, and this is all over in John's 296 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,400 gospel. Jesus will say things like this. 297 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:46,280 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do that my Father, 298 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,560 that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 299 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,440 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 300 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,880 So we pray to the Father in the name of the Son. 301 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,400 But remember, prayer is a family affair. 302 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:07,280 We pray by the Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit, The Holy 303 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,320 Spirit is the means by which we pray. 304 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,640 Now that's kind of, you know, we get in an English grammar class 305 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,080 like what what is the means? If you think about a ship, a 306 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,880 sailing vessel that has to move, it needs wind to push the sail, 307 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,680 to open it up, to propel the ship. 308 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,360 The Spirit is often referred to as a breath, right? 309 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:31,840 I cannot speak to you without exhaling a little bit of air 310 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,200 through my vocal cords in order to make sounds. 311 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:40,280 My breath is the means by which I speak, and the Bible teaches 312 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,480 us that the Holy Spirit is the means by which we pray. 313 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,560 The Holy Spirit is the means by which we pray. 314 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,560 I also want you to notice the close association between the 315 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,000 Holy Spirit and the idea of adoption. 316 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:58,080 Look at Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8. 317 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,880 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back 318 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:10,520 into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoptions as sons 319 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:15,840 by whom hear that the language of means, by whom we cry, ABBA, 320 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,120 Father. You can't even say our Father, 321 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,800 if the Holy Spirit isn't animating your prayer. 322 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,920 It is going through the agency of Christ to give you 323 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,120 communication with God that has been so broken by sin. 324 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,280 Prayer is a miracle. Prayer is impossible without 325 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:41,520 God's work on our behalf. Goes on to imply this. 326 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,280 Look Romans chapter 826. Likewise, the Spirit helps us in 327 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:50,560 our weakness, for we do not know what to pray for as we ought. 328 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,840 Guys, do you think you really know what to pray for as we 329 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,440 ought? Do you think you really know 330 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:00,600 what's best? How many times have you been 331 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,920 totally confused? Maybe in the midst of a 332 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,680 confusing crisis you have. You can't see the top from the 333 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,920 bottom or the end from the beginning, and you just cry out 334 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,160 to God. God help me, I don't even know 335 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:10,120 how to pray. I don't even know where to 336 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:13,320 start. It's exactly what this verse is 337 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,680 about. The Holy Spirit is there, He's 338 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,160 there with you, animating that prayer, even if it comes out as 339 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,640 a confusing groan. Likewise, the Spirit helps us in 340 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,360 our weakness, for we do not know what to pray for as we ought. 341 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,560 But the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings 342 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,200 too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows 343 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,280 what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes 344 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,880 for the Saints according to the will of God. 345 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:50,160 Prayer is a family affair. Amazing truths, all embedded. 346 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,000 If you know your Bible and if you've been taught to understand 347 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,760 what's going on in that term, our Father, the Gospel is 348 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:03,560 embedded. How can we go forward as people 349 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,600 in this world, this confusing world, this hard world played by 350 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,680 sin and death and the devil? How can we go forward and apply 351 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,400 some of the things that we've learned? 352 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,120 Hopefully I can give us some some practical things to think 353 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,560 about in this next section of application, this next section, 354 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:27,840 1st, 1st, I hope. I hope that when we come into 355 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,720 prayer, we realize that we're receiving a gift. 356 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,720 We're not giving God anything. We're receiving something. 357 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,800 And the first thing, the very first thing to receive is the 358 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,880 gift of salvation itself. So you've never given your heart 359 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,560 and your life to Christ. The Bible says you have a 360 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,840 paternity problem. You got the wrong daddy, an 361 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,520 illegitimate father, and what is needed is a miracle of redeeming 362 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,800 love where by faith we repent, we repudiate that relationship, 363 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,760 we renounce and denounce the devil, We turn to Christ and say 364 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,400 here I am, save me, Lord Jesus, pick me up. 365 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:15,120 I am yours. Convert me, adopt me, put me 366 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,360 into the forever family. I am yours. 367 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:22,240 We have to receive His grace before we can respond in faith. 368 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,200 Maybe you've been a Christian for years and years and years, 369 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,320 and you'll say with me that prayer is hard and I'll agree. 370 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,240 I'll say yeah, prayer is impossible. 371 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,280 Not only you need converting grace, you need sanctifying 372 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:42,400 grace, a fresh relationship with God that reminds us that he is a 373 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,200 good Father, that he is produced adoption by the agency of his 374 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,760 Son. Very costly gift. 375 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,280 And then even now He will give you the grace to pray when you 376 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,440 don't know what to pray with inexpressible groans. 377 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,400 So we receive from him. That is the first thing. 378 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:04,920 The posture is like this. We see the second thing that we 379 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,800 need, the second thing that we need to do coming to prayer. 380 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,680 Once we've received the glory of the gospel in the term our 381 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:17,960 Father, then we can begin to practice. 382 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,760 You know, we'd like to think that we're good at prayer and 383 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,240 most of life. We would like to think that 384 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:28,360 we're just fine most of life. We'd like to just skip over all 385 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:32,080 the practice and all the hard work and all the learning. 386 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,520 We just want to skip over that to the part where we're awesome. 387 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,200 Just let me skip to the part where I'm awesome. 388 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,240 How do I do that? I say to my kids, there is no 389 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,720 skipping to awesome. It's a long uphill battle of 390 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,920 lots of work and practice. Now it's a little bit scary to 391 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,280 for me to say to you, we need to practice and becoming better at 392 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,560 prayer. Isn't prayer just something that 393 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,120 we pour out our hearts to God completely extemporaneously and 394 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:00,400 whatever words that come out? Yeah, there's a place for that, 395 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,720 absolutely. But we can also learn how to 396 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,360 pray as the disciples asked. Jesus. 397 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:12,720 Lord, teach us to pray and to consider deeply what these words 398 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:17,680 mean, that we can actually begin to pray in a trinitarian manner. 399 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,560 What does that mean? Perhaps you would like as an 400 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,880 action step, instead of always saying Lord when you're 401 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,600 addressing God or God when you're addressing God, to begin 402 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,760 very deliberately saying our Father when you address God and 403 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,000 that you can continue to say in the name of Jesus or in Jesus 404 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,240 name, Amen. But perhaps sometimes I tell 405 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,360 people to mention the Holy Spirit too. 406 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:44,360 This is a family affair. You'll hear people conclude 407 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:48,360 their prayers sometimes here in Jesus name and by the Spirit. 408 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:52,720 One God forevermore, Amen. So that in that arc of that 409 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,560 prayer, all three persons are addressed not as three gods, but 410 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,920 as the one and only true God, the Holy Trinity. 411 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:07,560 We can practice and develop our prayers to pray in the manner of 412 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,040 our Lord in a deep and meaningful way. 413 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,920 The prayer will continue to change us and mold us and shape 414 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,760 us into the image of Christ. It will confront our bad 415 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,200 thoughts and our false identities and reforge them into 416 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,320 the spirit of adoption that we've been talking about. 417 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,800 It's beautiful, highly formative. 418 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,600 And Speaking of formation, I think what many of us here 419 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:34,320 really deeply need is healing. We need healing. 420 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,840 And here we're going to talk about how the prayer to our 421 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:46,920 Father perhaps does need to bring tremendous healing because 422 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:55,280 perhaps for you, the category of Father is deeply broken, so 423 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,720 broken that you don't even want to say it or use it. 424 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,280 And I want you to know I have deep compassion and empathy, if 425 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,400 that's your story. Few weeks ago, my family, we 426 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,560 went up to Goshen, Goshen, IN, That's where we're from, spent a 427 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,920 few days relaxing. And one of the things to do in 428 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:19,800 Goshen, if you want to, is go to the old bag factory. 429 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,520 Yeah, they've got this historic bag factory where they used to 430 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,520 make bags years and years and years ago. 431 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,080 It's now been converted into, you know, swanky little shops 432 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,360 and places to get a bite to eat, antique floors, beautiful place, 433 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:36,240 old safe, very interesting, can walk through it. 434 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,320 It's a thing to do in G town. I think it's probably more fun 435 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,360 for grown-ups and children. But my kids, they, you know, 436 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,000 they put up with us. When you go into your old bag 437 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,240 factory in one of these areas, they have this gigantic guest 438 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:54,080 book. It's huge, massive book on a 439 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,280 table. And at first, I didn't know what 440 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,960 it was because the pages were blank. 441 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,480 There's a huge lines register or something here. 442 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,560 Wonder what this is. So I flip back a few pages and I 443 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,080 see, oh, there's dates and names, and this is where you can 444 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,600 sign. Yeah, I went to the old bag 445 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,600 factory, and I'm from Duluth. Great. 446 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,280 But the page right before our blank page, instead of having 447 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,440 names, there was scrawl on this huge paper just scrawled across 448 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,400 the entire page. I hate men. 449 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,360 And I read that and I was, I was so sad. 450 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,280 I was so sad to to think, to think about the, the kind of 451 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:44,920 life where you're going up to a guest book in a tourist place to 452 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,480 write in big letters in the guest book. 453 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,960 I hate men. What kind of what kind of 454 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:54,080 brokenness does that represent? Brokenness on whoever harmed 455 00:29:54,080 --> 00:30:02,120 that person and brokenness for the result both and so and so 456 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,960 when we come to the text and we're we're supposed to pray our 457 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:11,480 father, that's that's some people's lived experience, the 458 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,480 broken category. So there's two options now, you 459 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,280 can just sort of like ignore everything we've been saying 460 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,120 about the goodness of the fatherhood of God and try to use 461 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,800 some other word like God or Lord or something. 462 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,520 Or what I would say is the more redemptive thing is to try to 463 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,680 heal it. Let the Holy Spirit heal it. 464 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,640 The miracle of redeeming love that brought Jesus Christ back 465 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,760 to the from the dead can reverse any brokenness. 466 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,840 That's what we believe. That's we come in what we come 467 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,240 in here and sing, and that's what we try to live any 468 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:54,320 brokenness in the Lord. I think the Lord is honest about 469 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:55,920 this. I think the Bible is honest 470 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,720 about this and still asks us to step toward it. 471 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,760 I want you to look for a second at Psalm 27, verse 10 and just 472 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,760 sit with me in the first half of the verse. 473 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,360 For my father and my mother have forsaken me. 474 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:21,760 They're gone, They left. They're not here. 475 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,720 I'm abandoned. They're gone. 476 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,440 Then this is what the Bible does. 477 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:40,040 It comes in with these massive gospel words like but, but the 478 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,720 Lord will take me in. He is the Father to the 479 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,560 fatherless. He is the kind and merciful 480 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:52,480 father that will rebuild the category if we will go through 481 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,360 the hard work, the surgical work of bowing before him and saying 482 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:03,280 this word, our father. I'll land with a quote from the 483 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:08,800 great late Ji Packer. Any time you hear a theologian 484 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,000 saying highest privilege, you're going to stop and pause. 485 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,440 Especially with Ji Packer. Adoption is the highest 486 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,320 privilege of the gospel. The traitor is forgiven, brought 487 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,400 in for supper, and given the family name. 488 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,640 To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be 489 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,840 loved and cared for by God the Father is greater. 490 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:36,600 I think he's right, my friends. And we tend to really think and 491 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,640 sing about the pardon that we get, this amazing pardon. 492 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,360 You know, I was guilty. I deserve to be punished. 493 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,800 The judge gave me a great pardon and I'm free. 494 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,200 Praise God. That's all awesome. 495 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,240 But I think Packer's right when he says hang in there. 496 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,720 There's more. Because in this story, the judge 497 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:02,040 not only pardons you, but he adopts you into his own family, 498 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,640 a traitor, adopted in his own family, given the family name. 499 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,440 He's an heir to everything. That's our story. 500 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,280 And that's what has to be rebuilt, even if we have 501 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,920 tremendous brokenness. And this is how this is how 502 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:24,480 prayer changes lives, especially prayer according to the word of 503 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,840 God. So I'm going to conclude and 504 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,040 then I'm going to pray. But in our prayer, I'm going to 505 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,920 do something every week, which is have us all, if you want to 506 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,760 pray together, the Lord's Prayer. 507 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,840 And when we get to the confusing part, when we don't know what 508 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,320 we're all going to say, let's say trespasses, forgive us our 509 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:43,840 trespasses. We're going to do the old way 510 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,680 that I learned from my grandma. OK. 511 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:51,200 Also, when we get to that part, the musicians will come up and 512 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,080 we'll begin. We'll finish with a song of 513 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,000 response. So here's the conclusion. 514 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,600 And then I'm going to move right into the Lord's Prayer. 515 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,480 You're welcome to join me. Oh, by the way, if you don't 516 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,960 know it, no problem. Just listen. 517 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,880 And if you come week after week, by the end of this long series, 518 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:07,400 you'll probably have it memorized too. 519 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,880 OK, parents, teach it to your kids. 520 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,280 Pray it regularly. That's what we're trying to just 521 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,400 sort of really leaven the dough with. 522 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,639 So let me conclude, and then we'll pray the Lord's Prayer 523 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:21,600 together. Our sin enslaves us to a wicked 524 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:27,560 father, the devil, but God in the Gospel adopts us into a new 525 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,080 family. Prayer is conversation with God 526 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,840 addressed to the Father in the name of the Son by the Holy 527 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,520 Spirit. Pray with me, our Father, who 528 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:45,320 art in heaven, hallowed be your name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will 529 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,360 be done on earth as it is in heaven. 530 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,840 Give us this day Our Daily Bread, and forgive us our 531 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,360 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. 532 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:02,000 Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 533 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:07,040 For thine is the Kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. 534 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:08,000 Amen.