It is good to see everybody who has made it here this morning.
And so thankful for the presence and I pray that what I have to
say this morning is number one and aligned with God's teaching
to us and number two, beneficial to the congregation here, had a
couple people come up before services to me and jokingly say
I'm out of here based on the title of the lesson.
And another one asking if I had a list and I do not have a list.
I do not have anybody specifically in mind or anything
like that? This is a heavy subject that
we're going to talk about today and I made the mistake of
looking at my heart rate before I got up here and it's at a calm
120 beats per minute. So I pray that I can get through
this without any issues. But being that, you know, we
were kind of laughing about this topic before of hidden sin
before services, this is a very serious subject that we all need
to be examining our lives about. I want us to consider it to what
could be a big hindrance to us individually.
And as a congregation experiencing, the kind of life
that we want to experience in God's that God intends for us
too. and maybe a big hindrance and to us experience the kind of
church that God wants us to experience the kind of
togetherness But God's word is so encouraging.
So I'm not going to leave us this morning without new current
encouraging word. We're going to look at clothes
at Joshua chapter 7 where God shows the children of Israel and
us some consequences for a specific specific type of sin in
that is hidden sin. If we want to experience the
fullness of God's power, his presence and his Blessing, we
must be serious and honest to ourselves about it in sin.
And another way to State this point is that hidden sin may be
the biggest hindrance. To experience God's blessings in
your life and my life and God's blessings in the church as a
whole. Hidden sin may keep what we all
want in our life from happening. And I hope to show that in
Joshua chapter 7 leading up to Joshua chapter 7 of the first
six chapters for Joshua. Everything is going really,
really good for the children of Israel.
The book opens with the people of God on the brink of the
promised land and Joshua has been installed.
As Moses successor, God gives powerful promises to Joshua and
chapter 1. By chapter 3, the people of God
have mercy I can literally cross the Jordan River in chapter 6,
they experience their first victory in the Battle of
Jericho, and if we look at the very last verse of Joshua
chapter 6, The Bible says, the Lord is with Joshua and his
Fame, was all in the land. and then when we get to the first
verse, the first verse of chapter 7, the first word there
is but and that's where we're going to pick up.
We're going to read the entire chapter of Joshua.
So I want to make sure that we're following along closely.
We're going to read that before we get into anything else.
Starting in verse 1. Josh was seven.
But the children of Israel had committed.
Let me start again, but the children of Israel committed a
trespass. Regarding the accursed things
for Aiken. The son of kamkar, me, the son
of Zebedee, son of Zera of the tribe of Judah.
Took of the accursed things, so the anger of the Lord burned
against the children of Israel. Now, Joshua sent men from
Jericho to AI, which is beside Beth Haven on the east side of
Bethel, and spoke to them saying, go up and spy out the
country. So Men went up and spied out Ai
and they returned to Joshua and said to him.
Do not let all the people go up but let about two or three
thousand men go up and attack day off and Tack a, I do not
worry all the people there for the people of AI are few so
about 3,000 men went up from the people but they fled before the
men of AI and the men of AI struck down about 36 men for
they chased them from before the gate as far as shit.
Sheb Army and struck them down on The Descent.
Therefore the hearts of the people melted me and became like
water then Joshua tore his clothes and fell onto the Earth
on his face before the Ark of the Lord until evening.
He and the Elders of Israel. Oh, and they put dust on their
heads and Joshua said, alas, Lord God.
Why have you brought this people over the Jordan, at all?
To deliver us into the hand of the amorites to destroy us.
Oh, that we had been content and dwelt on the other side of
Jordan. Oh Lord.
What shall I say? When Israel returned turns its
back before the its enemies for the Canaanites and all the
inhabitants of the land will hear it and surround us and cut
off our name from the earth. Then what will you do for your
great? So the Lord said to Joshua get
up. Why do you lie this on your
face? Israel has sinned and they have
also transgress my Covenant which I commanded them for.
They have even taken some of the accursed things and have both
stolen and deceived, and they have also put it among their own
stuff. Therefore, the children of
Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turn their
backs before their enemies because they have become doomed
to destruction, neither will I be with you anymore.
More unless you destroy the accursed from among you get up
sanctify, the people and say, sanctify yourselves for
tomorrow. Because thus says the Lord God
of Israel, there is an accursed thing in your mind midst.
Oh, Israel. You cannot stand before your
enemies until you take away. The accursed thing from among
you in the morning. Therefore you shall be brought
according to your tribes and it shall be that the tribe which
the Lord takes shall come. According to his two families
and the family, which the Lord Take shall come to by households
and the household which the Lord takes shall come Man by man,
then it shall be, that he who is taken with the accursed thing,
shall be burned with fire. He and all that he has, because
he has transgressed the Covenant of the Lord, and because he has
done a disgraceful thing in Israel.
So Joshua Rose early in the morning and brought Israel by
their tribes and the tribe of Judah was taken.
He brought the clan of Judah and he took the family of the Czar
Heights. And he brought the family of the
Czar, Heights Man by man, and zabi was taken.
Then he brought his household Man by man and Akin.
The son of car me, the son of Zebedee, the son of Zechariah of
the tribe of Judah was taken. Now, Joshua said to Aiken my
son, I beg you give glory to the Lord God of Israel and make
confession to him and tell me now would you have done do not
hide it from me and a can answer Joshua and said indeed I have
sinned against the Lord God of Israel and this is what I have
done. When I saw Among The Spoils of
beautiful. Beautiful Babylon, garment 200
shekels of silver, silver and a wedge of gold.
Weighing 50 shekels. I coveted them and I took them
And they are. And there they are hidden in the
earth, in the midst of my tent with the silver under it, so
Joshua sent Messengers and they ran to the tent and there was
hidden in his tent with a silver under it.
And they took them from the midst of the 10th, brought them
to Joshua and to the and to all the children of Israel and laid
out laid out before the Lord God.
Then Joshua and all Israel with him.
Took Aiken and the sons of Zaire.
Ha. The silver, the Garment, the
wedge of gold. His sons, his daughters is
aux-in is donkeys. His sheep his tent and all that
he had. And they brought them to the
valley of achor and Joshua said, why have you troubled us?
The Lord will trouble you this day so all Israel stoned him
with stones and they burn them with fire.
If they had Stone them with stones then they raised over
him. A great heap of stones, still
there to this day. So the Lord turned from the
fierceness of his anger, therefore the name of that place
has been called the valley of achor to this day.
So some pretty intense stuff in that chapter just happened and
for us to understand what's happened.
We're going to go back to Joshua, chapter 6, verse, 18,
and 19 where it says there. And this is God's instructions.
And You, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest
you become accursed. When you take the accursed
things and make the camp of Israel, a curse and trouble it.
But all the silver and golden vessels of bronze and iron are
Consecrated to the Lord and they shall come into the treasury of
the Lord. And the picture is picture.
Here of the accursed things is used 27 times in the Book of
Joshua, it's in reference to silver and gold and bronze and
iron in the promised land that the people had devoted to the
worship of idols. And God said these things, when
you conquer these cities, you're going to take these things and
you're going to use them and put them in the treasury for The
temple for the temple, do not take these things and use them
for personal gain. because they were worshipped to false gods
before and God was extremely serious about this to his people
displaying his glory as they went into the land full of false
gods and when we get to Joshua 6 verse 24, It says there.
We think the people had actually done all that God had said, but
we look at the 24th verse of chapter 6, but this they burned
the city and all that was in it with fire.
Only the silver and gold in the vessels and bronze and iron.
They put into the treasury of the house of the Lord, but when
we get to Joshua with 7 verse 1, the find out that one man named
Aiken had kept some of these. Accursed things are these
devoted things, one man had taken something forbidden,
forbidden. And by God and hit it one man.
And it's described in Joshua chapter 7 verses 20 through 21.
He saw the beauty of a row and the money and he wanted it, he
coveted it and he took it. And he was hiding it.
And this is the pattern that we really kind of see throughout
scripture as we read it. Thus, the story of sin house in
happens, is the very sin. First thing, we saw in Genesis
chapter 3, when Eve saw the fruit, she desired it, she acted
on it and she ate of it. The sooner we read about later
involving King David. He saw Bathsheba another man's
wife, he desired her and he took her It's a pattern that sin that
we see in our lives today as well.
We see something, we desire it and we take it and we act and we
do it often and sometimes we do it and when we think, nobody's
watching and nobody knows about it.
So everything's good right? As long as nobody knows about it
but I want us to look what happens in in Joshua 7, verse
11. Says Israel has sinned and they
have also transgressed my Covenant which I commanded them
for. They have taken some of the
accursed things and have both stolen and deceived, and they
have also put it among their own stuff.
In the original, Hebrew Old Testament language.
This is kind of like a slow build up to a climax of sin.
It describes a kind of a multi-level multi-faceted levels
of sin against God, it starts with a general description of
sin. They have sinned then describes
how they have trip transgressed against God's covenant, and the
term used here is the same term used in other places in the
Bible where it describes adultery They have broken their
marriage. Covenant, with God, they have
taken the devoted things, they have stolen, they have lied and
they have tried to cover it up. And there's a word here in the
Old Testament. The word also here, Is put in
here in the first part of this verse.
But for some reason, they decided to Omit this word later
on in the verse where, where it actually should read it.
Literally says, they send. They have also transgressed my
Covenant. They have also taken some of the
devoted things they have also stolen stolen, they have also
lied and they have also put them among their own belongings.
All they can did was take a robe, little bit of money and
little bit of silver, a little bit of golden.
God said, you have violated my wishes, my commands.
You have stolen, you have lied and you've tried to cover it up.
And in this story, we must see this seriousness of hidden sin.
And when I use the term hidden sin, I want to be clear.
I'm referring, of course, to sin that has not been confessed to
the Lord God in any of our lives.
I'm not talking about sins that we have confessed and made,
right? And been forgiven them talking
about sins, and we have not confessed to God.
It's in that we actually tried to ignore in our lives.
Talking about Sin that nobody else knows about Sin that has
not been off the. We have not been honest to God
about or with others and this can be very dangerous because we
can so easily convince ourselves sometimes that it's not really
that big of a deal. When it actually is a huge deal.
God's lesson from this passage saying the effects of sin of
hidden sin are serious. God is telling us that hidden
sin, harms us And hidden sin, also harms the people around us.
Hidden Sim harms us and that reality couldn't be any clearer.
As we see how Akins life was taken as directed by God at the
end of the chapter 7 and I don't want us to be deceived into
thinking that hidden sin is not harming and will not harm us.
Because it will. And it harms of people around us
as well, think about the story, how many people took of the
devoted things with the, accursed things, one man Aiken,
and as a result of his sin, the entire Israel army Was Defeated
at Ai and 36, people had lost their lives.
Not one man and died in the Battle of Jericho.
And that big massive walled City, but 36 men, die.
Today I in a very small City and if we look at Joshua chapter 7
verse 1 again where it's where he started it says, but the
children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the curse
things. We're taking the son of car me,
the son of Zebedee, the son of Zera of the tribe of Judah, took
of the accursed things, so the anger of the Lord burned against
the children of Israel, not just a second, but the entire
children of Israel, In verse 11 and 12 of this chapter.
This is describing their sin and it says, Israel has sinned.
And they have also transgressed my Covenant which I commanded
them for. They have even taken some of the
accursed things and have put and have both stolen to deceive.
And they have also put it among their own stuff there.
For the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies,
but turn their backs before their enemies because they have
become doomed to destruction, neither will I be with you
anymore unless you destroy the accursed from among you.
So Israel has sinned and look how many times it mentions, they
it says, here they have Transgressed my Covenant.
And it also says they and they have also put it among their
own, and they have become doomed, neither will buy with be
with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed thing and
this word here, you, that is plural, that is not singular.
That is talking about the entire children of Israel camp.
So we can ask ourselves, what is this really about one person sin
or is it about people's sins? And I think with this story, we
cannot separate it. It's about both.
We can't divide the two in your sin and my sin always affects
other people. Whether we think about it or
not, we're the, we would like to deny that or not.
We see that in scripture and scripture and second, Samuel, 21
as a result of once in, in Saul's life, the people of God
experienced a famine for three years.
Once in three years of famine and Samuel to 2nd Samuel 24:1
sin and David's life leads to the death of thousands of people
and here in Joshua 736 people die and God's judgment comes
upon the entire nation because of one man's sin.
I want us to see that picture. I want us to understand that
hidden sin and Aikens Life affect the people, he didn't
even know around him. As well as people he knew very
closely. The three times.
A taken is described here in this.
Passage at the beginning of chapter 7, when he's confronted
with sin and then when he dies and and all three times, it
lists his family. His relatives. and Aiken is
really tied to his family this entire time through this chapter
And at the end of this passage or this chapter, it's not just a
cat who loses his life. It's his entire family and they
can sin affected his entire family.
I think about my family and Lizzie.
I love Lizzie so much, I love my family so much my favorite time.
Is to be with them regardless of what we're doing, if we're
having family, dinner around the table, fits watching Emma ride,
her horse or Lizzy, and I on a date.
My favorite time is to be with them.
And I desire and I long for them to experience the blessings that
God can have upon us all. And I do not want to be a
hindrance to that. I do not want to be the cause
for them to nautic to experience God's blessings in their life.
I only want to pass on good to them.
I don't want to pass on my consequences of sin.
I don't want to pull my wife or kids into the effects of sin
with me and I don't want them to suffer because of my sin.
If I hide sin, And it's under undeniable in, scripture men
husbands and fathers and even if you're not a husband and a
father, just a fear of man, it is a lie that your sin only
affects you. And your sin affects everybody
around you. That you come in contact with
and not just men, women and children and singles and spouses
and parents that hidden sin, that no one else knows about is
not as hidden as you think. it affects people, we don't even
know, affects people who are closest to us, don't think we
can hide it under the ground in a tent like Aiken did We
desperately need God to help us from that mindset, that it only
affects us. When we sin, it's not true men.
What sin is hidden your life Uncover it, if not for your
sake. For your family's sake.
Women, what's in? Are you hiding in your life?
Uncover it not for your sake, maybe for those that are around
you or your family. And just think what?
If your sin that you are hiding and holding onto right now is
not just keeping you from experiencing God's blessing but
it holds others back around you. You may not even be aware of.
This is especially true in the case of fathers and husbands in
a family leadership role. We need to be very honest with
ourselves, and that's the picture that we're seeing here.
Which leads us to our next Point hidden, send harms us and the
people around us And it also forfeits the blessing of God's
presence. And this is the contrast between
everything we've looked at in the Book of Joshua up to this
point and Joshua 7 the theme of Joshua's life.
And Leadership was the presence of God with him.
He had the presence of God, all the way up to this point and
listen to these verses and Deuteronomy 31 verse 23.
And this is when Moses was passing on the leadership to
Joshua that says there and the Lord commission Joshua, the son
of nun and said be be strong and courageous.
Were you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I
swore to give them. I will be with you.
Joshua 1 verse 5 at the very beginning of This Book of
Joshua. No matter.
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your
life. Just as I was with Moses.
So I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake
you Joshua 1:9 have. I not commanded, you be strong
and courageous do not be frightened and do not be
dismayed. For the Lord, God is with you,
wherever you go. He said, I am with you in verse
17 of chapter 1, just as we obeyed Moses and all things.
So we will, we will obey, you only made the Lord God be with
you. As he was with Moses, Joshua 37,
the Lord said to Joshua today, I will begin to exalt you in the
sight of all Israel that they may know that as I was with
Moses, so I will be with you Joshua 6:27, the Lord was with
Joshua and his face. Fame was in all the land but
then when we get to Joshua 7, verse 12, It says here.
Neither will I be with you anymore?
And that's because of Akins hidden sin.
God is showing judgment upon sin here in chapter 7.
He saying you will not experience the blessing of my
presence, as long as you're hiding sin in your midst.
And this is evident in the very beginning of the chapter.
We can see when Joshua sent his army to AI.
Joshua didn't even pray before God, to be with him during that.
Instead, he assumed that God's presence would be there.
But the blessing of God's presence was not with him and
they were defeated and it wasn't because the army of AI was so
great. They ended up defeating him if
we read into chapter 8 anyway but it was because the
difference between seven and eight was basically God's
presence with the Israelites. During that time, that was the
difference. And I want to see that picture
in this story. We can try all day long to do
this or that in our lives and our families as a church.
But God will be saying And look at your life, look at what's
going on in your life, stop playing games with God.
We can't assume that God is with us all the time. when we are
sinning and not trusting on him and confessing everything to
him, it's entirely possible for us to miss out on the blessing
of God because of hidden sin. Hidden sin.
Forfeits the blessing of God's presence and hidden sin.
Also dishonors the glory of God's name.
And when I say that, I'm not talking about the worth of God,
or who God is because nothing can take away from the worth of
God, nothing can take away from his name.
The thing I'm talking about here is basically the reputation of
God, he is, the way he is seen in the world.
His glory, his Fame in his honor.
Joshua knew what was at stake. Here we want to look at Joshua's
prayer here in verse 9. It says for the Canaanites and
all the inhabitants of the land will hear it and surround us and
cut off. Our name from the earth, then
what will you do for your great name and Joshua new here that
the people that God's Fame and Glory was at stake?
He knew that God's name was wrapped up in the work that
Joshua did. He knew he did all that stuff
because of God. But the problem here is, if
God's people going to the promised land and take things
that are devoted to the worship of false gods and hold on to
them, then they'll jeopardize God's reputation in the Promised
Land. God didn't save them from Egypt
to then worship our Idols. Joshua knew what was at stake as
soon as Joshua realized what had happened.
He knew it was serious and he knew we needed to get it taken
care of. and I want us to realize if we understand what's
at stake, when we have hidden sin, We've talked about in the
past, previous lessons, how there's a tendency now for
somebody to pray a prayer or just go to church every time
that they meet or be baptized and call themselves Christians.
But yet their lives show something completely different
than that. They're living for all kinds of
Idols in the world, for money, possessions.
Success, and all the praise. And when that happens, we need
to realize what we're telling the world.
We're telling, we're showing the world, a cheapened picture of
what Christianity is. We're showing that God really
doesn't change our lives, and that's what I'm talking about.
The reputation of God. Christianity is a joke, too many
of people in our culture because of those who call themselves
Christians, but show very little evidence of love for Christ over
and above the idols of this world.
We must uncover hidden sin because God's glory and his
Fame. And his name are intended to be
on display in our lives. Before the world.
So we want God's name to be honored in our lives and our
families. We also want our lives to
proclaim the glory of God, to those around Us, hidden sent
dishonors, the glory of God's name and hidden sin will
inevitably be revealed in God's judgment.
Will must be honest with each other and with ourselves.
We cannot hide our sin before a holy God.
It cannot be done. It is impossible to be done.
Hidden sin will be revealed in God's judgment and his judgment
will be just and it will be serious.
The passage is pretty disturbing.
If we look at it, you know, one guy keeps a robe, some silver,
some gold, and his whole family loses their life because of
that. In addition 36 other men lose
their lives as well. Kind of seems you know, at first
studying this little extreme If we think about it, we find
ourselves asking that question. When we look at some other
stories in scripture back, in Genesis 19, the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah were completely destroyed.
And all of lots, all Lot's wife, does is she just simply looks
back? And she's turned into a pillar
of salt loses her life immediately.
Leviticus 10, Aaron's sons need having a by who offered
unauthorized fire one time before the Lord and all of a
sudden fire comes out of the presence of God and Consumes
both of them their father, Aaron is stunned into silence.
The penalty for careless worship is death.
Numbers 15. A guy is caught up caught
picking up sticks on the Sabbath and all of a sudden he finds
himself dead just for picking up sticks.
And it's not just we find in the old town Old Testament acts 5,
which is really kind of one of the scariest stories to me in
the Bible ananias and Sapphira lie during offering time in the
church and they both fall dead. We read these stories and we
immediately think isn't God. Kind of overdoing it, isn't this
a little severe for what? For what the crime was and that
may be a valid question because it leads us to understanding the
picture in Joshua 7. We can't, we think of this kind
of punishment punishment is severe or even unjust, or maybe
even not. Right because we have a man
centered way of thinking, man, centered perspective of sin, If
people lie to us, or disobey us or speak against us, would we
say that they are worthy of death?
Of course not. But that is the key.
The key is not how serious. We think the sin is the key is
the one who we have sinned against God is infinitely, holy
and infinitely, honorable, and as a result of one sin against
him, it is infinite offense, an infinite dishonor, deserving, an
infinite punishment, If you sin against a rock, we're not very
guilty. If we sin against the person or
guilty, if we send against an infinite, God we are infinitely
guilty And that is what has God said in Genesis 3, if you eat of
this fruit you just eat it. Then you'll surely die and we
tend to look at that through man-centered eyes and think that
is really extreme and we need to be careful when we think that
way, very, very careful when we have that thought because what
we're doing is we're pointing the finger to question God's
justice slandering. The very character of God's is,
if you RI are more just than he is.
And that means we have a sale, the judge of all the earth, when
we have no clue, what's in, is Psalms 99 for says, God is just,
he loves Justice. the question is, I'm sorry, I got ahead of
myself and that means that your hidden sin will be revealed and
the Judgment of God upon your sin is coming.
And it will be brought to light and the question that we will
bring it to light when we bring it to light.
Now will God bring it to light later?
listen to this, quote from John Piper.
To be caught in secret, sin is a horrible thing.
There is only one thing worse to not be caught.
That is a powerful quote that is a powerful thought.
When you think about it, the only one thing worse than being
caught in secret sin. Is to be continuing in secrets,
in until it's too late. Hidden sin will inevitably be
revealed in God's judgment. And that leads us to the last
point, I want us to see here and this what's makes the gospel so
beautiful. Hidden sin could ultimately be
erased by God's mercy. God is just and God is merciful
and He is wanting us to bring everything that we got to him to
lay it all upon him. Think about the Book of Joshua.
This is the story of the Israelites, going into the
promised land. They were sinful people.
Absolutely. And this is a story about the
Israelites they were constantly complaining and grumbling and
sending to the point where they actually turn back to go away
from the promised land. At one point, an entire
generation had died in wandering in the wilderness.
Even the leader Moses who had led them in so many good ways
died because of his sin against God in numbers, 20 and Moses
handed off the leadership of God.
God's people to another man. Who just so happened to be named
Joshua and the name of Joshua translated in the Old Testament,
means the Lord saves or the Lord is my salvation.
It's pretty interesting and amazing that even in the name,
very name of the Book of Joshua. God is telling the Israelites
God Saves God is our Salvation, God, is your salvation, God will
save you from sin. And when we get into the New
Testament, the way that Josh was name is translated when we get
into the news. New Testament is actually Jesus.
And what is the name of Jesus mean?
Talking about Mary and Matthew 1 verse 21.
It says she will bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus
for. He will save people from their
sins. Josh was seven is ultimately
teaching us today that hidden sin is serious but Jesus saves
and that is excellent news, that is great news.
God has made a way for you. And I to be forgiven of that sin
God had sent Jesus to pay the price for that sin.
We don't have to die in our sin because Jesus died on the cross
for that sin. Jesus has taken that judgment
that you and I deserve upon himself.
And when we confess that sin, we bring that sin into the open
before a holy God of the universe.
We ask for forgiveness through what Jesus did on the cross.
It's erased. It's gone like it never
happened. There are consequences of course
that we may have to deal with in the future but to God looks like
that's in never happened. We don't have to live with that
guilt anymore. God wants us to walk away,
understanding and knowing that Jesus came for us for our sins
and the words of Roman want. Romans 8 verses 1 there is
therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus. And when we confess our sin,
when we, when we trust in God and trust in Jesus, the holy God
of the universe, he says you're not guilty anymore, that's in.
So, the picture that I want to show, make sure we get it all
hidden sin, harms us and others. If forfeits the blessing of
God's presence, it brings dishonor to the glory of God's
name. It will inevitably be revealed
in God's judgment and it can ultimately be erased by God's
mercy. And how is that possible through
Jesus? He died for all of us for our
sins. He made the way to fulfill God's
promise and that we may have God's presence and His
blessings. Jesus was perfect in every way
yet died, for all of our sins. Truly amazing story.
Truly amazing that God put all of this together that we can
read in the Old Testament in a points to one man in the New
Testament. That's Jesus.
Doesn't happen by accident. That's my lesson.
Hope you have been edified by it and encouraged by it, but also
understand the seriousness of it.
And what we need to do about Sin that we have not confessed in
our lives today. Ask you to please believe in
God's word, repent of the past sins.
Be confessed in the name of the confess, the name of Jesus as
the Son of God and be baptized and if you have done that, you
need to look at your and we look at our lives honestly, if
there's something that we need to take care of publicly or just
These the prayers of the congregation.
We ask you, please come while we stand and while we see We thank
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