1 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:08,500 If you have your Bible, you can open just turn a couple of pages 2 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:10,800 as you open that thing to Genesis chapter one. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,200 We're not going to go real real far into the pages this morning. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:18,300 We're going to look at Genesis chapter 1, and we're going to 5 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:21,700 continue in our Advent series which we started last week. 6 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:28,800 The I guess the theme of advent is to to look at the coming of 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:34,100 Christ, always, it's to see that first coming of Jesus Christ, as 8 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:37,000 we Dissipate his second coming and we'll get a great 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,200 opportunity that this morning as we finish out the day today with 10 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,000 the Lord's Supper here in a little bit. 11 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:48,100 But again I want to take us back into who is God the last week we 12 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:52,700 began by just looking at the Triune God that he is Triune. 13 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:55,000 We looked at some of the things that that meant one of the 14 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,300 things that we said or kind of the overarching thing we said is 15 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:02,500 that he is self-existent all sufficient and Triune and we 16 00:01:02,508 --> 00:01:04,099 looked at what those things mean. 17 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:07,600 And so that's going to bring it's going to shed some lights 18 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,000 on the significance of the Incarnation that Jesus Christ 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 has come. It's going to help us to 20 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,500 understand that a bit more fully this week that I want to focus 21 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:21,900 on the overflowing love of God, the overflowing love of God next 22 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:23,800 week. We're going to look at how he's 23 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,100 a God and like all others, but this week we're going to look at 24 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:29,400 the overflowing love of God. What you'll actually parallel 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,700 really well to this morning Sunday school lessons. 26 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:35,500 So we're just going to kind of add to To some of the things we 27 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:39,400 that were set in it, which was not planned, but worked out 28 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,600 really nicely. So, Let's see. 29 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:47,300 Me say a couple more things and I'll pray for us for we get 30 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:50,200 rolling as we're thinking about God. 31 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,700 We want to know who is he, who is God, as we ask those 32 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:59,900 questions, wonder, what is this? God like, If he's the Creator, 33 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:04,000 why does he creates? Why is he interested in 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,800 Redemption at all? Is this Christian God like other 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:16,100 gods are Allah and Buddha and various other gods throughout 36 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:19,600 time and history. Are they all the same as the 37 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,000 Christian God just with different names or is our God 38 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,300 different? And if so what separates him 39 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:31,200 from them, They're all really good questions and someone will 40 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,400 get answered more as we go through the series. 41 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:39,600 But the Bible reveals a God who is radically different than 42 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,900 other gods. He's unlike all other gods are 43 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:46,600 God is eternally Triune. He's the creator of everyone and 44 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,600 everything. And the thing that I want you to 45 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,400 see today, if you're taking notes, you can write this down 46 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,500 at the top. Is that the overflowing love of 47 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:56,200 God is the beginning of creation? 48 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:01,100 It's what is the foundation of creation. 49 00:03:01,100 --> 00:03:05,100 As the overflowing love of God, let me pray for us before we 50 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:10,100 dive into this today. Heavenly Father, we we praise 51 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:14,300 you and we're in all of you and it's wonderful that we've sung 52 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:18,300 songs this morning. That glorify your name because 53 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:25,000 as we approach the study of you father, we need our hearts to be 54 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,600 in the right place. Lord help us to. 55 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:32,700 I'll be humble today as we approached you. 56 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:39,000 Help us to Revere your name. Father, we come to you, not 57 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:44,800 wanting to accuse you of anything, not wanting to assume 58 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,200 anything about you, but we come to you wanting to discover 59 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,400 exactly who you are. And so Lord, these things are 60 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,500 above me. My words will fail. 61 00:03:58,100 --> 00:04:06,700 My thoughts will be incomplete. God, you transcend all things. 62 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,500 And yet father what we see in the Advent is that you come to 63 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:17,600 us, you are near to us. You are unlike us. 64 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,400 And yet, you are near to us. And so father, we worship you 65 00:04:23,407 --> 00:04:26,900 today, we honor you today and we approach your word today wanting 66 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:32,000 to learn from you about you. Lord, would you help us to do 67 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,800 that today? Would you be near to us? 68 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,100 Would you illuminate the scriptures today by your Holy 69 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:44,200 Spirit up our hearts to love you, help our desires before you 70 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 help us father to Delight in you today. 71 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,300 In Christ's name, we pray. Amen. 72 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,100 So I want to talk to you today. About how God's love is not 73 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:00,800 something that happened at creation, but creation is the 74 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,800 Overflow of God's love. In Genesis 1:1, what we read 75 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,300 about God is that in the beginning, God in the beginning, 76 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:14,000 God created the heavens and the earth and the teaches us 77 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,300 something immediately. And those first four words of 78 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:20,300 scripture. About God. 79 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:22,100 And that. Is that in the beginning? 80 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:27,600 God. It means that God existed. 81 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,800 before the beginning, before the beginning of the universe, 82 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,100 before the beginning of all things, before the creation of 83 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:38,300 all things God was Existed before those things. 84 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:42,800 And so, One of the questions that comes to mind for us. 85 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,400 I think, at times as well, what was God doing? 86 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,400 Maybe you've never thought of question before. 87 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,700 But one question that comes at comes to the Forefront. 88 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:54,500 When you read that God was in the beginning, is what is he up 89 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:58,200 to? What is the godhead doing in 90 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:03,100 those moments? Well, the eternally Triune God, 91 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:05,900 which will see more about even today than what we saw last week 92 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:08,600 because you, you can't talk about God without talking about 93 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,300 the Trinity. This eternally Triune God, the 94 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:16,400 Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, they were enjoying one 95 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,000 another. They were in fellowship with one 96 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,600 another, they were loving one. Another, there was Fellowship 97 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,200 within the godhead. They knew one another their 98 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,300 communing with one another. That the father was loving the 99 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:36,700 son, through the Holy Spirit. Just as he does today, the sun 100 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:39,200 was loving the father and returned through the Holy 101 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,500 Spirit, just as he does now. In John 17. 102 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,400 Jesus Christ. Praise this to the father in 103 00:06:46,407 --> 00:06:51,500 chapter and verse 5 of John 17, he says and now father glorify 104 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:57,400 me in your presence with the glory that I had with you before 105 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,900 the world existed. So Christ is now saying 106 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,800 something about his deity. That he existed with the father 107 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:09,600 before the world existed in the beginning was God. 108 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,500 In verse 24. Jesus goes on and his prayer 109 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:16,700 there in the high Priestly prayer of John 17. 110 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,900 He says, father I desire that they also talking about his 111 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:24,100 disciples and those who would come after them you and I, I 112 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:28,000 desire that they also Those whom you have given me may be with me 113 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,200 where I am to see my glory that you have given me because you 114 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,600 loved me before the foundation of the world. 115 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:42,200 So Christ had the glory of the father before the foundation of 116 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,700 the world and he had the love of the father before the foundation 117 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:48,700 of the world, there was communion within the godhead. 118 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,900 And so Jesus reveals the fatherly love of God, he shows 119 00:07:54,900 --> 00:08:00,500 us that God, the father is a father because he loves Jesus 120 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:04,300 baptism captures. The nature of this. 121 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:07,500 So we see the Triune God in action and it helps us to 122 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:11,700 understand what their relationship is like before the 123 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:14,900 foundation of the world and Luke 3:21 through 22. 124 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:19,900 We have Luke's written accounts of the baptism of Christ. 125 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,700 He says now when all the people were baptized and Jesus also had 126 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:29,600 been baptized and was praying. The heavens were opened and the 127 00:08:29,608 --> 00:08:32,200 Holy Spirit. Descended on him in bodily form, 128 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,100 like a dove and a voice Came From Heaven. 129 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:41,100 You are my beloved Son with you. I am. 130 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:44,400 Well pleased you're my beloved Son with you. 131 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,100 I am. Well pleased. 132 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:51,100 So we might think of God is first and foremost, a Creator or 133 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:56,400 ruler, but we would be, we would be wrong to do that. 134 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:07,200 We might. We might think of him as 135 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,300 something else that he's just God, and whatever that means 136 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:14,100 that he's Lord. But first and foremost, what we 137 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:20,400 learn is that He's a father, he's a father who loves his son 138 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,700 and he pours out the spirit of Love on the Sonny's, for pours 139 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,500 out the spirit of life on the Sun, from eternity, past to 140 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,400 Eternity future, this will be the way it is. 141 00:09:34,300 --> 00:09:37,300 It's a wonderful little book delighting in the Trinity to 142 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:39,800 talks about these things and I go back to it over. 143 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,100 And again, as I'm talking with you guys, because it's such a 144 00:09:43,108 --> 00:09:46,000 great read. But Michael Reaves writes this. 145 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,900 He says, since God is before all things a father and not 146 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:56,500 primarily Creator, or Ruler all his ways are beautifully. 147 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:00,900 Fatherly. It's not that this God does you 148 00:10:00,908 --> 00:10:05,400 know quote-unquote does being a father as like a day job. 149 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,200 Reeves says only to kick back in the evenings as plain old God. 150 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:17,100 It's not that he has a nice blob of fatherly icing on top. 151 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:23,300 He is father What reads the signs that through and through. 152 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,300 He's a father all the way down to the Core. 153 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,200 Reeves continues. That's all that he does. 154 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,900 He does his father. That is who he is. 155 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,900 He creates his father and he rules his father. 156 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:42,800 And that means the way he rules over creation is most unlike the 157 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:48,400 way any other God would rule over creation He's a father. 158 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,100 And what we see with God is that when he rules his creation, he 159 00:10:54,100 --> 00:11:00,100 does it as a kind a loving, a benevolence father and he 160 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:04,600 doesn't so that will be moved and Delight of him. 161 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,100 That will be moved deep within in the light of his providential 162 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,900 plans in our life that whatever he gives to us. 163 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:16,900 We Delight in the father. Because we know that what the 164 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:22,100 father orders is good. It's for our good, it's for his 165 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:24,300 glory. So the father is called a father 166 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:27,400 because he is a father and what does the father do? 167 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:30,900 Well a father is someone who gives life a father produces 168 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:34,400 children and before the foundation of the world God was 169 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,200 eternally a father. This is core to understanding 170 00:11:38,500 --> 00:11:44,500 God that that means that he is inherently as a father outgoing. 171 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:50,700 He Is life-giving, We can honestly say that he is a 172 00:11:50,700 --> 00:11:55,800 life-giving God. It didn't give life for the 173 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,700 first time when he decided to create. 174 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:02,100 From eternity, he has been life-giving. 175 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:07,000 First John four reveals this kind of God for us. 176 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:11,500 In verse 7, the Apostle John writes, beloved let us love one. 177 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:15,300 Another for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born 178 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:19,600 of God and knows, God, anyone who does not love, does not 179 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:26,600 know, God, because God is love. We can say that God is all sorts 180 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,400 of other attributes and we would be right. 181 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:33,000 We listed some of these on the Whiteboard last week that got 182 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,700 us. Holy that God is perfect. 183 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:40,000 God is just, God is righteous. There's no lack of anything in 184 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,600 God. God has all things, right? 185 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,800 He's all powerful. He's all knowing, he's all 186 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,600 present, all of these things would be part of the attributes 187 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:51,400 of God. But none of these attributes 188 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,700 exist apart from one another you are he is fully loving and he's 189 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,100 all-powerful his all power is love. 190 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:05,300 He will not be all-powerful apart from Love. 191 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,000 He will not be loving apart from his power that makes sense. 192 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,700 They're all enter, they're intertwined, they enter link, 193 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,400 they're connected to one another, all of his attributes, 194 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:21,900 we don't separate separate them, we don't segregate them out. 195 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:25,900 We don't list some here like God is loving, but he's also angry. 196 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,000 Well, well, anger comes from the love of God, it comes from his 197 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,500 righteousness that there is justice that must be rendered. 198 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:39,000 There is judgments that must be given and that's a part of the 199 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,200 love of God. And so the Apostle John is 200 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,400 saying that God is so profoundly loving that. 201 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,000 You simply cannot know. God, without also becoming love 202 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,600 it. The Bible here is saying that 203 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,700 there is no such thing as a as a Christian, a pro client 204 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:57,200 self-proclaimed Christian who is not loving. 205 00:13:57,700 --> 00:14:00,000 It doesn't mean that he's not working on his love and the way 206 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,200 that he loves others, even the way that he loves God. 207 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,500 It just means that there will be evidence of God's love. 208 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:09,400 In his life. If God is truly alive in him. 209 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,000 Amen. We Must Be Love. 210 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,500 And so, God is loving, John goes on to explain there in chapter 4 211 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:19,900 first. John chapter 4, how we know that 212 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:22,500 God is loving. He says, this in verse 9, just 213 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:25,900 two verses later, he says in this, the love of God was made 214 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:30,100 manifest Among Us. That God sent his only son into 215 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:33,800 the world so that we might live through him. 216 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,800 For the love of God is made manifest through the giving of 217 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,000 the Son of God. That's one of the clearest 218 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,800 pictures, we have of the love of God. 219 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:46,900 Now, other clear pictures of the love of God, our creation, the 220 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:50,100 fact that God creates the fact that God gives to us a world to 221 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,200 live in that he gives us life and breath and that he with 222 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:58,000 holds evil from us and that he gives good to us. 223 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:00,600 But all of these things are evidence, is many of these are 224 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,200 just common Grace's whether you're a Believer and unbeliever 225 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,800 your experience. In the love of God. 226 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,600 But as a Believer, you come to experience the love of God 227 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:14,300 through Christ Jesus, our lord and that love takes on new life. 228 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:18,100 It goes down much deeper than just observing creation, just 229 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:20,100 looking into the world that you live. 230 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:25,300 You now become loving because you are transformed. 231 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:31,200 You are made new, you're a new creation scripture says, so 232 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,400 before anything else. This father, who is loves the 233 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,500 father, who sends his son. And to be the father means to 234 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:43,300 love to give out life before anything else. 235 00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:48,000 This God for all eternity was loving, he was giving life He's 236 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,900 giving life to his son, who was delighting in his son and so 237 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:54,000 Above All Else. God is love. 238 00:15:55,700 --> 00:16:00,100 As Michael Reeves says he, he could not not love. 239 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,600 It's impossible for God to not love. 240 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:08,800 Because he has a son because he is Triune because he has known 241 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,800 relationship from the beginning of all time. 242 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,300 Well before that even Thomas for us, he's outside of that. 243 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,600 If he did not love, he would not be a father. 244 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:30,800 Adding some things here about the spirit. particularly that he 245 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:37,300 is a his purpose in the godhead that the way the father makes 246 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:39,600 his love known is through his spirit. 247 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,500 Romans 5:5 says that God's love has been poured into our hearts 248 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:47,700 through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. 249 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:50,200 This is what I meant a moment ago when I was talking about, 250 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,200 there's a deeper understanding of a love of God because the 251 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,500 Holy Spirit has made God's love known to you as God has poured, 252 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:05,000 the Holy Spirit into us. It's through this giving. 253 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:13,300 It's through giving his son and the spirit that the father 254 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:21,300 declares his love for the son. The lighting in the Trinity 255 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:23,700 again, read his rights. He says it is all deeply 256 00:17:23,700 --> 00:17:28,000 personal that the spirit stirs up, the light of the father, in 257 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,800 the sun and the Delight of the Sun in the father, in flaming 258 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,100 their love and so binding them together in The Fellowship of 259 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:38,800 the Holy Spirit, which we read about in 2nd Corinthians, 13:14 260 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:47,000 will be the The final passage of this Advent series, he makes the 261 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,300 Father's. Love known to the Sun. 262 00:17:52,300 --> 00:17:57,000 And it causes the sun to cry Abba Father, which is something 263 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,800 that he does for us. Also, according to Romans, 8 and 264 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:05,100 Galatians 4, that we've received the spirit of adoption as Sons 265 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:13,000 Sons, who now cry Abba Father. None of this means that the 266 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,800 spirit is merely an impersonal Divine Force. 267 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,100 Remember we said that the holy spirit is one of the persons of 268 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:24,400 the essence of God. He's one of the one of the 269 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,700 three, right? There's one Essence, three 270 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:29,500 persons. The holy spirit is the third 271 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:33,400 member of the Trinity. And as a person he speaks and he 272 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:38,500 sins acts 13, we see him speaking and sending he chooses 273 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:43,100 and Acts 20. He teaches in John 14, he gives 274 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:46,200 and Isaiah 63, he can be lied to and tested. 275 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:51,000 In Acts 5, he can be resisted and that 7, he can be grieved 276 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,700 and Isaiah 63, and Ephesians 4. He can be blasphemed and Matthew 277 00:18:55,700 --> 00:19:01,100 12 and every way he is presented alongside the father and the son 278 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:07,100 as a person in the godhead and maybe this is best seen in the 279 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:09,700 Great Commission, which we looked at last week where Jesus 280 00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:12,600 says go and make disciples baptizing them in the name of 281 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:19,100 the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit. again, I say 282 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:23,500 that God is eternally Triune and he is there for eternally, 283 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:30,400 loving And the separates him from all other gods. 284 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:46,300 Now, in Genesis 1:1 through to, we begin to see how the godhead 285 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,700 was working. In the beginning, God created 286 00:19:51,700 --> 00:19:55,100 the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was without form and 287 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:59,300 void and darkness was over the face of the deep and the spirit 288 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:03,600 of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 289 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,900 So the way that the father and the son and the spirit related 290 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:17,500 at Jesus Jesus baptism wasn't a one-time event, it looks a lot 291 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:24,100 like Genesis 11 through 20 We see them all in action. 292 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,300 Reeves explains this further. He says, we see the spirit 293 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:33,300 hovered Dove like over the waters. 294 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:41,700 Just as he did at the baptism. The spirit would go on to send 295 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:45,000 out Christ into the lifeless Wilderness. 296 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,900 So, in Genesis 1, the spirit appears as the power by which 297 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,600 God's word goes out into the lifeless void. 298 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:56,900 In the beginning, God creates by his word, the word that would 299 00:20:56,900 --> 00:21:00,900 later become flesh as seen in John chapter 1 verses 1 through 300 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:04,900 3 and he does. So by sending out his word and 301 00:21:04,900 --> 00:21:09,700 the power of His Spirit or breath, This is how we see. 302 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,200 That they're linked. So, what we're saying is that, 303 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,800 God the father, and God the son, and God, the Holy Spirit work 304 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,100 together in Perfect Harmony, and creating the heavens and the 305 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:24,900 Earth. That and the crown jewel of 306 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:28,000 creation which is Humanity images. 307 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,700 The Triune God perfectly Genesis 1:27, we read that he created 308 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:36,100 them in his own image and likeness he created them male 309 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:40,600 and female, he created them. And so God creates man from the 310 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,100 dust of the ground, breathe life into his nostrils, by his own 311 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:48,900 breath, He's loving and life-giving. 312 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,100 And then God creates the woman from the side of man. 313 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:57,500 If you remember last week I talked about how you can't, you 314 00:21:57,508 --> 00:22:03,100 really can't draw the Trinity. You really can't use an analogy 315 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:07,100 for the Trinity like water or a person, and how he has three 316 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,600 different roles that those get into Aris. 317 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,800 He's like modalism, and, and others, but Reeves, and his book 318 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,800 pointed out, one that I had never heard before that. 319 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:22,900 I think works really well. He says that Eve is a person 320 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:26,700 distinct from Adam and so he's going back to Creation to help, 321 00:22:26,700 --> 00:22:30,600 explain the Trinity Eve's a person, distinct from Adam, yet 322 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:35,100 she has all her life and being from Adam and Corinthians. 323 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:38,700 We read that. But I want you to understand 324 00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:40,000 that the head of every man is Christ. 325 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,200 The head of a wife has her husband and the head of Christ 326 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:47,000 is God. And so back to read this quote, 327 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,200 he says Eve is a person distinct from Adam yet she has all her 328 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,100 life and being from Adam, she comes from his side. 329 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:58,000 She is bone of his bones and flesh of his flesh and his one 330 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,700 with him in the flesh according to Genesis chapter 2. 331 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:07,000 Now, this reflects a personal God, a son who is distinct from 332 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:12,000 his father and yet who is of the very being of the father and who 333 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,000 is eternally one with him in. Spirits. 334 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,400 So, maybe marriage is the best analogy we have for the Trinity 335 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:27,100 at least Christian marriage. So then it's out of the Overflow 336 00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:30,900 of loving fellowship with the Sun that causes God, to create 337 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:35,800 the heavens and the Earth. what I'm wanting you to see is that 338 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,000 as I said last week, that God has no, there's no lack in God, 339 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:47,400 there's no need in God, there's no want, and God God does not 340 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,400 create because he wants something that he's missing. 341 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:56,000 He doesn't create so that he might be complete because he 342 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,700 Lacks. He doesn't create to fill some 343 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:03,700 need that the godhead wasn't fulfilling. 344 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,100 As though he's missing something, he creates out of 345 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:13,400 love which bubbles forth like a fountain head filling Creation 346 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,100 With His glory. Paul writes again in Colossians 347 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:20,900 1:15 through 16, he is the image of the invisible. 348 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:24,700 God talking about Christ, the firstborn of all creation, 349 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:29,400 though, this is not mean that God created Jesus, which is the 350 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,600 the old thing that cause Santa Claus to punch areas over, 351 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:36,200 right? God has not created Christ. 352 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:44,200 True story for but what it means is that Christ, receives all the 353 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,800 blessings of the firstborn that everything that is, the Father's 354 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:53,600 is his, he's the firstborn of all creation, It All Belongs to 355 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,200 him. Listen, we know this, because 356 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,000 Paul goes on to say, for by him, talking about Christ, all things 357 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,900 were created in heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, 358 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:08,800 whether Thrones, or dominions or rulers or authorities, he's all 359 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:17,000 things were created through him and for him, Everything exists 360 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:23,400 to glorify God, especially God, the son. 361 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:30,900 Creation is God's gift to his son that the son is the goal of 362 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,900 creation. He is the beginning and the end 363 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:38,400 of creation creation is expression of God's love for his 364 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,300 son. It all exists for him. 365 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:53,000 And so this means that you exist for God, God does not exist for 366 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000 you. God does not tend to all of your 367 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,600 wants and all of your needs because he is your Santa Claus. 368 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,300 God is the god of Heaven and Earth. 369 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:07,800 He's the creator of all things. Everything exists to glorify his 370 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,200 name. And so you exist to glorify the 371 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:18,400 name of God. And you will glorify the name of 372 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,700 God either by your obedience or by your Disobedience because 373 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:27,300 your Disobedience will be judged rightly in the last day. 374 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:30,400 And so God will receive glory for his judgments. 375 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,800 Your obedience will be judged rightly. 376 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:39,500 And so God will receive Glory, because you and I are only 377 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:42,500 obedience, because of the righteousness of Christ Jesus, 378 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:51,100 As we possess faith in him. As we trust him for our 379 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:55,100 obedience, as we trust him to absolve our Disobedience, has 380 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,100 God receives the glory. In this, we exist for him, he 381 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:08,200 does not exist for us. Reeves has just kind of a 382 00:27:08,208 --> 00:27:11,100 thought experiment, he concludes with and chapter 2, he says. 383 00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:15,400 So next time you look up at the Sun, next time you look up at 384 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:22,700 the Sun, the moon and the stars and you wonder Remember, they 385 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:28,300 are there because God loves because the Father's Love For 386 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:32,800 The Sunburst out. That it might be enjoyed by many 387 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,500 that you. And I might know the love of God 388 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:39,200 and they remain there only because God does not stop. 389 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:43,000 Loving. He is an attentive father who 390 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,600 numbers every hair on our heads for whom the fall of every 391 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,200 Sparrow matters. There's none. 392 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,400 There's not a sparrow that falls apart from the word of God. 393 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:58,900 Apart from his Providence. And Out of Love, he upholds all 394 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:03,600 things through his son and breathes out Natural Life on all 395 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:11,400 through his spirit. Research continues and not only 396 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,400 is God's joyful abundant spreading goodness. 397 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,800 The very reason for creation the love and the goodness of the 398 00:28:17,808 --> 00:28:20,700 Triune. God is the source of all love 399 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:23,800 and goodness. It's where we come to know what 400 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,700 is truly good. What is truly loving is in God. 401 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:31,000 It's not a part from him. It's in him. 402 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:39,200 Reeves goes on to quote, John Owen. 403 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:44,000 Who wrote that the Father's Love For the son, is the Fountain and 404 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000 the Prototype of all love and all love. 405 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,200 And the creation was introduced from this Fountain to give a 406 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:56,300 shadow in a resemblance of it. Reeves goes on to say, indeed 407 00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:59,600 the Triune God Is the Love behind all love. 408 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,200 He's the life behind all life, he's the music behind all music. 409 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,300 He's the beauty behind all Beauty and he is the joy behind 410 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:13,000 all joy. Comes from him and through him 411 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,700 and it exists to him. And other words in the Triune 412 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:19,600 God is a God. We can hardly enjoy. 413 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,300 It's a God, we can know. It's a God, we can come to 414 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:28,300 fellowship with commune with. It's a God, we can Delight in 415 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:31,300 and we do that through his creation. 416 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,800 One of the ways that we enjoy God Is by enjoying the things 417 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,000 that he has created. It's enjoying the life that you 418 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,600 have been given its spending your life and worship to God or 419 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:48,300 as Romans, 12 puts it to live your life, to give your life as 420 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:56,200 a living sacrifice for God. It's to understand that we exist 421 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,600 for his glory and so we must describe all glory and praise to 422 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:08,100 him in the way that we live. So how do we know that God loves 423 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:17,300 us? Well, it's John Piper wrote. 424 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:20,000 He said God loves us, mainly by giving us himself. 425 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:25,000 It's how we know that God loves us because he gives us himself. 426 00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:31,800 If God were not loving, he would not give us himself because he's 427 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,000 the all satisfied. Satisfying, he's all sufficient, 428 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,000 he self-existent he's the only thing that is able to satisfy 429 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:46,300 your desires. Your wants the only thing that 430 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:53,100 can satisfy your needs, he gives us himself and all that he is 431 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:58,500 for us in Jesus Christ. Papa goes on to say. 432 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:02,600 Jesus loves us mainly by giving us himself and all that God is 433 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:10,700 for us in him. And this is what John 3:16 is 434 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,100 showing us, right? It's Jesus Christ. 435 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:17,900 Is in this conversation with Nicodemus about how to be saved, 436 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:20,800 how to be born again, what it takes to be righteous. 437 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:27,300 Jesus says in John 3:16 for God. So loved the world that he gave 438 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:30,800 his only son that whoever believes in him should not 439 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:37,800 perish, but have eternal life. And what is eternal life? 440 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,400 Well, Jesus defines it in John 17:3. 441 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:52,300 He says this is eternal life that they know you the only true 442 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:59,500 God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent So, we turn a life. 443 00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:02,700 Depends on God, revealing himself to us. 444 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,300 Eternal life. Depends on God. 445 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:09,800 Revealing his son to us. Praise God. 446 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:14,300 That he has done both. He's revealed himself not only 447 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:20,100 naturally in creation, but specially in his word, we can 448 00:32:20,100 --> 00:32:24,200 know God. He's revealed the son, 449 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,400 physically the sun walked on Earth. 450 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,800 The sun live, the life that we can't live. 451 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,100 The sun was a the radiance of the glory of God. 452 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,900 He was a perfect imprint of God's nature. 453 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:47,000 He was God, and he was man. so next week, we'll talk more about 454 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:55,000 what that means. Eternal life then is to know the 455 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,500 father through his son by the power of the Holy Spirit. 456 00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:03,000 But we can only know and love the father. 457 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:10,000 The way that know the father is to is to come to him through 458 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,100 faith in his son. Who was given as a payment for 459 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:16,600 our sins. It's the place your faith in 460 00:33:16,608 --> 00:33:18,800 Jesus Christ for the Forgiveness of your sins. 461 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:23,900 That you come to know the father that God has revealed to you. 462 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:28,400 In Ephesians 2, there's this Bleak picture painted of mankind 463 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,900 that he is dead in his trespasses and sins. 464 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:35,700 And then, in verse 4, we read this, but God being rich in 465 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:40,800 Mercy because of the great love with which he loved us. 466 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,500 Even when we were dead in our trespasses, he made us alive 467 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:49,100 together. With Christ by Grace, you have 468 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:53,700 been saved and he raised us up with him and seated us with him 469 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,500 in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 470 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,100 So that in the coming ages he might show he's still showing 471 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:06,000 these are the Mean ages, the age to come even he might show the 472 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000 immeasurable Riches of his grace and kindness toward us in 473 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,400 Christ. Jesus, for by Grace, you have 474 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,500 been saved through faith and this is not your own doing. 475 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,199 It is the gift of God. Not a result of works so that no 476 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,199 one may boast. And then in verse 10, Paul 477 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,900 writes he says, for we are his workmanship. 478 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:31,500 Talking about you as a Believer. Now you who have been saved by 479 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:34,900 the grace of God you were now his workmanship created in 480 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:39,600 Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand 481 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:45,199 that we should walk in them. Wow. 482 00:34:46,699 --> 00:34:52,000 And so what we see is a very trinitarian view of salvation, 483 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:56,000 but the Father, the Son, and the spirit, pour their Love On Us in 484 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000 creation. And then again and a re-creation 485 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,300 of those who believe in Christ a new creation that you become 486 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:11,600 altogether, new altogether, different And that re-creation 487 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,400 undoes the Brokenness of the Fall, it reverses the curse of 488 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,900 sin and death that are on your life because of the fall. 489 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:24,200 And you have new life, God has created in you new life, you 490 00:35:24,207 --> 00:35:28,100 have been born again. By the grace of God. 491 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,700 And so we see that the overflowing love of God is the 492 00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:37,100 beginning of creation. It's the beginning of it both. 493 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,100 Physical creation and spiritual rebirth. 494 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:49,100 Are founded on the love of God. A man that's dependent upon us. 495 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,300 if there's anybody in here today, who is an unbeliever in 496 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:02,500 Jesus Christ, You're unsure, you're not following him. 497 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:07,500 Or maybe you have a different stripe of unbelief. 498 00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:10,500 The kind of unbelief that says well I believe that Jesus 499 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:16,900 existed, I believe there is a God but I don't follow him. 500 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,800 There's no fruit of Salvation in my life. 501 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:29,000 And I implore you today on behalf of the loving father, and 502 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,100 on behalf of his son, Jesus Christ to be reconciled to God 503 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:38,100 through faith and the death and the resurrection of Jesus 504 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:41,100 Christ. Trust God, for the Forgiveness 505 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:45,300 of your sins. Find New Life in him. 506 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,700 God is Not distant from you. He's not far off from you. 507 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,300 He is near to those who were humbled by their sins near to 508 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,200 those who are in need of a savior. 509 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,500 And so all that you need to bring to God today. 510 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,300 If you want to quote unquote, bring something to him, is to 511 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:13,200 bring to him your sin. That you might be saved today. 512 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:23,000 I know that many of you in here. Are genuine Believers followers 513 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,800 of Christ Jesus. No doubt wrestling with the 514 00:37:26,808 --> 00:37:30,200 flesh day in and day out. No doubt struggling with sins, 515 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:36,100 but saved by the grace of God. Seeking to honor the father and 516 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,200 the Son, and the Holy Spirit, living your life. 517 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:45,300 The glorify him. I want you today to reflect on 518 00:37:45,308 --> 00:37:48,100 the God who saved you, from your sins. 519 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:52,500 The God Who created all things out of love for his son, The God 520 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:56,700 Who came to us in his son, The God, Who died for our sins. 521 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:04,400 Through his son, reflect on The God, Who redeems us and makes us 522 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,500 Sons and Daughters. Who cry, Abba, Father, The God 523 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:13,600 Who makes us Eternal co-heirs with Jesus Christ, by his 524 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:18,400 salvation come to him today. Reflect on him today, brothers 525 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:24,200 and sisters, remember him. For your edification. 526 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,300 I have Romans 8 15, through 17 for you did not receive the 527 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:32,500 spirit of Slavery to fall back into fear but you have received 528 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:38,000 the spirit of adoption as Sons by whom we cry Abba, Father, the 529 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,200 spirit himself Bears, witness with our spirit that we are 530 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:45,600 children of God. And if children then heirs Heirs 531 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,900 of God and fellow heirs with Christ Jesus provided that we 532 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,900 suffer With him, in order that we may also be glorified with 533 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:58,100 him. Amen. 534 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:02,700 If you were to run this race. Well if you're to finish this 535 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:07,800 race well it'll be because you fix your eyes on Christ Jesus 536 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,300 and you never looked back. Amen. 537 00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:11,300 Did you say? Amen. 538 00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:12,000 Did you say?