We're actually going to be 1214 and 15 as we go through.
We're going to go through just the last week Jesus was here
before, before the cross or before the tomb.
But we're going to start off in Psalm 22 and we're just going to
read a little bit of it starting in verse 6.
But I am warm and no man. A reproach of men and despised
by the people. All those who see me ridicule
me. Those who shoot out the lip,
they shake the head, shake the head, saying he trusted in the
Lord, let him rescue him, let him deliver him, since he
delights in him. But you are he who took me out
of the womb. You made me trust while on my
mother's breast. I was cast upon you from birth.
From my mother's womb you have been my God.
Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to
help me. Many bowls have surrounded me.
Strong bowls of Bashan have encircled me.
They they gape at me with their mouths like raging and roaring
lions. I am poured out like water and
all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, It has
melted within me. My strength is dried up like a
pot. Sure, sure.
And my tongue clings to my jaws. You have brought me to the dust
of death. For dogs have surrounded me.
The congregation of the wicked hasn't closed me.
They pierced my hands and my feet.
I can count all my bones. They look and stare at me.
They divide my garments among them.
And for my clothes they cast lots.
And Lord, I just once again just come before you Lord, and just
be here tonight, be here with each and every one of us.
Lord, fill us with your spirit. Speak to us.
Lord, if I don't, if I don't have the words to explain, Lord,
you can explain. Lord, mold my words.
Teach me, Lord, speak to everybody here.
And I pray this in Jesus name, Amen.
So Psalm 22 was written between 10,000, so basically 10 thousand
1040 and 1000 BC. So during David's lifetime and
the Romans perfected the torture of crucifixion by the time Jesus
was around. But it it's something the
Persians had used back in 519 BC.
But that's still 500 years after Psalm 22 was written and the
point of me reading that to begin with was the shadow of the
cross has been from the beginning, right.
It's something it's not something that God that Adam and
Eve sinned and God went well. Now here's my fix.
He is this has been the plan from the beginning because he
knew that we were going to sin. Not he didn't plan for us to
sin, but he knew we were going to it.
The my simple illustration for that is that when I, when I was
43 years old, I crushed my right foot because I'm an idiot.
I tried to jump on a on a moving truck.
I slipped and got my foot under the tire and God had had us sell
our house to get ready to go to Uganda.
And I kind of argued with him while we were selling it because
I'm like, it was 2013. We weren't moving to Uganda
until 2018. And he really was pressure.
I mean, there was I had verses and and he wanted me to sell the
house. So we put it on the market and
we sold the house and then we got it all done, you know, ready
to sell. And then you don't want to sell
it because it's like really nice to live in because it's
finished. And I'm like, but we could just
stay here. It's OK and and fine.
And then, you know, but we were, we, we listened and sold the
house and it, it finalized in June.
And on July 5th, I crushed my foot.
So I always say God didn't tell me to sell the house because we
were in Uganda told me to sold the house because Nick's an
idiot. And he knew that I wasn't going
to be able to take care of the house or afford the house or do
any of that stuff because I was going to be laid up for the
better part of three months. And so God that that all to say
that the cross was from the beginning, but that's because he
knew we were going to sin, not because he planned for us to
sin, if that makes sense. If you go to first Peter 119
Jesus shares a little bit or Peter shares a little bit about
this and it says but with the precious blood of Christ as of
the lamb without blemish and without spot.
He indeed was foreord named before the foundations of the
world, but manifested to these last times for you and and that
is from the foundations of the world from the moment God
created the beginning. He knew Jesus was going to the
cross. And so that that being said all
through the Old Testament, there are those places, right?
Exodus 12/21. We talked about this a couple
weeks ago. Moses called for all the elders
of Israel and said to them, Pick out and take lambs for yourself
according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in blood that is
in the basin, and strike the lentil and the two doorposts
with that in the basin, with the blood with with the blood that
is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of
the door of his house until morning.
So the key to the Passover lamb sacrifice was to apply the
blood. Choosing the lamb was important.
Sacrificing the lamb was important.
Collecting the blood was important.
Gathering the hyssop was important.
But none of it mattered until you applied it to the door and
submitted to the power of it to save you.
And, and like we talked about the last time we showed you is
and it says strike the doorpost, right?
So it's we, you can see different analogies and in there
and they're like painting, painting on the, they're
painting blood on the doorpost. That is what it says.
It's a strike, which means dip it in the blood and hit the
doorpost and hit the doorpost and hit the doorpost and what
what does that make? That's a cross back in forget
how many years before Christ. But because I don't have it in
my notes. I don't want to say and be
wrong, but but then but they actually had to apply that blood
right? And that's for us.
That is that submission to Jesus, right?
That isn't when I when I started going to church, that's Steve
was going through revelation and and I believed Jesus was a real
person that really lived. I believed Jesus died.
I even believed Jesus rose on the third day.
I just didn't believe he was my Lord, right?
I wouldn't have told you that when I started going to church.
I'm like, I can, I can believe all those things.
So I'm good. And then then I started going
and Steve's teaching and I'm like, well, I'm glad that's not
me, that's bad. And then I forget what he, what
he was teaching in, in revelation that I went, well,
that's bad, that's me, that's bad.
And and that's when it, when I stood up and gave my life to the
Lord, that's when I applied the blood to my life, right.
So that's what's important about about the cross, right?
We can read about it, we can know about it.
We can be all kinds of intellectual knowledge, but if
we haven't applied it to our lives, then it does no good,
right? We'll jump.
We're we're going to go through the that last week.
We're going to go pretty quick, but Mark 11 first verse 12,
starting verse 12. Now the next day when they had
come from Bethany, he was hungry and seeing from afar A fig tree
having leaves, he went to see it.
Perhaps he would find something on it, see if perhaps he would
find something on it. When he came to to it, he found
nothing but leaves for it was not the season for figs.
In response, Jesus said to it, Let no one eat fruit from you
ever again. And his disciples heard it.
So they came to Jerusalem. And then Jesus went into the
temple and began to drive out those who brought, bought and
sold in the temple, and overturned tables of the money
changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
And he would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple.
Then he taught to to them, saying, Is it not written?
My house shall be called the House of prayer for all nations?
But you have made it a din of thieves, and the scribes and the
chiefs priests heard it and sought how they might destroy
him, for they feared him because all the people were astonished
by his teachings. When evening had come, he went
out of the city. So kind of funny story, right?
He, he condemns a a fig tree with leaves on it.
So Jesus, Jesus does contemn A contemn a tree that looks like
it should bear fruit. And then he goes to a temple, a
place people would assume was about God's work, and he and he
condemned the false appearance. So you know, God is supposed to
be or sorry, God's house is supposed to be a place of
prayer, a place of meeting with God, not a box to be checked and
look religious. Looking good and being bad is
worse than being bad or than looking bad and being bad.
I, I will, I will. I don't normally get political,
but I will do this just for I have this conversation with
friends. And the difference between a
Donald Trump or a Ronald Reagan and A and a Joe Biden or a, or a
Barack Obama is that and, and Trump says things that can drive
me nuts, right? He says he, he can say things
that are just obnoxious, but his policies are good, right?
He, he, he aligns with, with, with good values in his
policies. Now, Obama and Biden knew how to
say all the right things, but their policies drove me nuts.
If I'm going to get driven nuts by something, I would rather get
driven nuts by what's coming out of your mouth then then what is
actually affecting policy, right?
And that's really the point here Jesus is making is if you're
going to look good, then you had better be good.
If you're going to look like you have leaves on you, then you had
better have fruit. But if you're just looking good,
then then you're full of dead men's bones, right?
That's and at no point do we want to be.
I mean, I say it all the time, but we never want to be playing
church, right? It is the funniest thing in the
world that that it's something that exists.
It existed in Jesus's day. It exists to this day.
Now is that people play church now playing Muslim, OK, playing
Buddhist OK, playing Hindu OK playing Christian is stupid
because the only one you're trying to impress knows if
you're serious or not. Impressing me does not get you
into heaven, right? Impressing everybody in the room
does not get you into heaven. If I stand up here Sunday after
Sunday and I I have the best, I can speak the best and I can
teach the best and I don't. But if I did, but I don't have a
relationship with the Lord, that doesn't do me any good.
There's not, there is nothing there, right?
Having leaves and no fruit is the worst place you ever want to
be. You would rather be a Charlie
Brown Christmas tree with one piece of fruit on you then, then
a, then a, then a tree full of leaves with 0 fruit, right?
And, and Jesus here is for this, this week, right here guys,
Jesus comes in like a storm, right?
He he comes in to clear up any confusion and frustrate and and
really bring to conclusion that his time here and he he's going
to make it very clear of his position as the Son of God,
whether they like it or not, that that is who he says he is
and that is what he is and he's going to prove it to him over
and over again. The day before this this scene,
they were rebuked. They were telling him he needed
to rebuke the people because they were calling him God.
And he said and he answered them and said, if I tell you that if
these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out
right. This is they were calling him
Hosanna God Withers God. And whenever anybody says that
Jesus never called himself God, it's because they haven't ever
actually read the Bible right. And he is very blunt and very
direct throughout the process. Many the next day he comes back
to the temple and, and the they're, they're feisty.
They're feeling like they got something to say to him.
You know, the night, the day before, they were taught they
were trying to figure out how to destroy him.
So they confront him when he gets there, starting in verse 27
of Chapter 11. Then they came again to
Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the
temple, the chief priest describes the and the elders
came to him and they said to him, by what authority are you
doing these things? And who gave you the authority
to do these things? But Jesus answered and said to
them, I also will ask you one question, then answer me and I
will tell you by what authority I do these things.
The baptism of John was it from heaven or from man?
Answer me. And they responded or they
reasoned among themselves saying, if we say from heaven,
he will say, why then did you not believe?
Now can you picture this real quick?
It's, it's these guys all confront him and then he asked
him a question. And now the, the gaggle, it's
what I call a bunch of guys all stand around the gaggle all kind
of walked over here to talk to themselves, right?
There's we got to go, we got to go figure out our, our way of
doing this. And they, they go on and say,
but if we say it's from men, they fear the people for all
count John to have been a prophet indeed.
So they answered and said to Jesus, we do not know.
And Jesus answered and said to them, neither will I tell you by
what authority I do these things.
And I'm sure that I've used this illustration before.
It is truly one of my favorite interactions with religious
people and how Jesus did not come against them, right?
What he did was ask them a question that their mob rule was
not going to defend. And what I mean by that is Jesus
showed them their hearts. Each one of them that night or
the next week or after the crucifixion or years later at
some point was going to come to this question and go, why could
we not answer that question not as a group, but as an
individual. Why could I not if if he if
Jesus, if Jesus is false, then John was false.
And I should be able to just say that we're going to we're going
to stand against Jesus. I should be able to just say
John is false. It wasn't from God.
But if John was from God, then Jesus was from God.
And this is that point of Jesus is not looking to and this is
guys, I want you to hear this because Facebook or the
megaphone of Satan, is that what it was Telegraph, Satan's
Telegraph. There we go another Marcism.
It's a good one. But the thing in the thing on
Facebook, guys, is we like zingers.
We like we like I got I got AI can I can beat that act?
I can beat that argument. I need to say this, you know, I
call it, I call it popping off, right?
I can, I can respond to that. I can get I can win that because
that doesn't that doesn't do good that that is, that is not
Jesus doing that right. Jesus's plan always is to seek
their heart. Now that doesn't mean that at
any point he he folded on what was true, but his goal was their
salvation, right. So that brings us to a little
story tucked in the most important week of all history.
And and really this is this is where we're going to camp.
And it's one of those that you look at a lot went on in in that
last week. Jesus talked about the most
important commandments. He talked about who we're
supposed to pay taxes to. He he talked about resurrection,
all kinds of really big issues and then kind of random off to
the side, but right within that week.
And you'll always find that Jesus reason for when and where
he shares truth is, is usually on purpose.
Mark 1241 Now Jesus said opposite the treasury, and saw
how many people put money into the treasury, and many who were
rich put in much. Then one poor widow came and
threw into mites, which make a which make a quadrant.
So he called the disciples and to himself, and said, assuredly,
I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more.
Than all those who have given to the treasury for they all put in
out of their abundance. But she out of her poverty put
in all that she had for her whole livelihood and sacrifice
by definition cost us something right It it's something about
the Christian life and I guess I'm just getting this way
tonight. But if you go back to COVID, you
will find churches that that shut down some of them never
reopened people that had to go to different churches, people
that never walked back into a church again because suddenly
being a Christian cost them something.
And in America and I and this is a western world thing.
It's it's just the way that that the enemy works.
He's about overcorrecting on one side or the other.
But America it is for decades it has been a blessing to your
financial health to be a Christian.
It's a good place to network. It's, you know, you can do all
kinds of stuff in the church, whether or not the church is
doing the church just covered in leaves, no fruit, but but full
of a full of a whole lot of leaves.
And, and you watched COVID clean that out, right?
And not it was a, it was a time that you just got to watch
people decide whether it was a social club or it's where they
got the words of life, right. And that's that's something that
as you look it at the the widow, but then you get into in in
first Chronicles 21, verse 23, and this is David.
So King David called for a census, which was a sin, right?
He was, he wanted to know, he wanted to know how powerful he
was, how, how powerful Judah was or Israel was.
And so he called for a count of all the people, which Joab, who
was definitely nobody I would look up to, even tried to talk
him out of and say don't do this, Please don't do this.
Well, he did it and God prophet came and said, you know, you're
in trouble. Went through the whole thing and
P and basically in the end, you know, people were dying of a
plague. And David said, Lord, please
don't let don't don't count this against them.
Counted against me. I did this.
They didn't do this, you know, and he threw himself at the
mercy of the Lord and the Lord said, if you go and sacrifice,
do you know, go buy this red, go, go to this threshing floor.
Go sacrifice there. I will I'll relay it.
So verse 23 but Oren said to David, and this is David up
going to get the threshing floor.
He said, said to David, take it to yourself and let my Lord the
king do what is good in his eyes.
Look, I also give you the oxen and the burn off for the burnt
offering and the threshing floor implement for wood and the wheat
for grain offerings. I give it all.
Well, that sounds like a deal, right?
So now David's going to go up and do all this sacrifice and
ain't going to cost him anything.
Verse 24 The king, then King David said to Oran, no, but I
will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what
is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings with that which
cost me nothing. So as believers, our
relationship with the Lord at minimum, at minimum should cost
me all that I am. And I say that all the time, but
that's really what it costs. It's a free gift.
It just cost me everything that I think I get out of the deal
that my eyes need to be on on Jesus and his plan for my
future, whatever that is, right that that that old my, my line.
Embrace the suck, right guys? Serving Jesus doesn't suck at
any point at any level. It is it is the most joy, the
most fun that I have ever had doing anything.
My flesh can get a little whiny about it there.
There are moments that it wants to do what it wants to do.
And my job is to tell my flesh that it isn't in charge anymore.
And it isn't that I suddenly became in charge.
It is reminding my flesh that Jesus sits on that throne now.
I don't and I and I do what he says, and that's what it costs
me. So if, if sacrifice cost me
nothing, it's pointless, right? The the whole idea of the
sacrificial system was that it had to be something of real
value to the giver it. It couldn't be something I was
throwing away. Anybody been to a donation yard
sale? Anybody had a donation yard
sale? I have hauled more junk to my
house because somebody was donating stuff for a yard sale
and I used to say I could just take it straight to the dump.
It would be quicker. But, and, and you can ask Faye
that I, I don't like yard sales. Like I don't like going to a
yard sale. I having yard sales gives me
hives. Like I don't like to do yard
sales for that reason. Because when I when, when, when
I'm selling something at a yard sale, look, I guarantee you if
you touch it, you can go home with it because it is garbage to
me, right? The reason that I am getting rid
of it is because I don't want it anymore.
And if you take it, then I don't have to haul it to the dump.
So there's no reason you don't leave with it, you know, and
that isn't the sacrifice Jesus is looking for, you know, he
isn't looking for my, he isn't looking for my extra, He's
looking for my awe. And So what does that have to do
with with why did Jesus share about the widow in that moment?
What is it about that? So remember that Jesus was
headed to the cross and we get to see in the garden of this
Gethsemane, which we were talking about earlier.
We get to see and remember Jesus is a man 100% man, 100% God.
And we will all understand that completely right after we get
there. But Jesus didn't come down with
a stacked deck and say, I mean, my exam a good, good example
that Jesus didn't pop out of Mary speaking right?
He had to learn how to speak. He had to learn how to walk, He
had to learn how to be a Carpenter.
Well, when he got to the cross, when he gets to this point and
he knows what's coming, God is outside of time.
Jesus at this moment is not and and he was going to get to
really suffer and he will really lay his life down as a
sacrifice. And Jesus unlike I think we can
understand, He understood what it was going to cost for Mark
1432. Then they came to the place
which was named Yosemite and he said to his disciples, sit here
a while, sit here while I pray. And he took Peter, James, and
John with him, and he began to be troubled and deeply
distressed. Then he said to them, My soul is
exceedingly sorrowful even to death, Stay here and watch.
And he went a little further and fell on the ground and prayed
that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
And he said, ABBA, father, all things are possible for you.
Take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will,
but what you will. So this is Jesus from the
foundations of the earth. This moment was coming and at
this moment His desire was to not do it.
Now His stronger was desire was to submit and to and to be
willing to be that sacrifice. So you guys got to remember that
Jesus was around 33 years old at this point, but he had been here
since before the foundations of the earth and him and the Father
had been together. Now I don't want to get weird.
The Trinity is never separated, they are always together.
But Jesus understood there was going to become a moment that he
was going to experience something that no other being
had ever experienced. All the sin of all time of the
whole world all at once. And we, I know the guilt of my
sin, but all the sin, that's that's all the sin, guys, that's
the grossest stuff you can come up with to the, the
concentration camps, all the sin.
And I would love to say that we've gotten more bloody than
they were back in the in these days.
But all the sin and he understood what what that was
going to take. And Jesus was going to feel the
forsakenness because of dirt sin.
And Even so, if you look at the widow and David, this cost him
something. If you look at the principle of
that, that this cost Jesus, this isn't if, if it didn't cost
Jesus, then it was just a game, right?
It's just, it's just moving pieces on a board and it, and it
doesn't really matter. And God's just just making
things up. But this really mattered and
this really hurt. And, and The thing is, is after
Jesus is at Gethsemane and he's, he's now getting crucified, he's
on the cross and he's still knowing that's coming.
Jesus says in, in Luke 2334, Father, forgive them for they do
not know what they're doing as they divided his garments and
cast law. And if you remember, I read
about, I read about them doing that back in Psalm 22.
He understood what they could not.
He was about to win what what they were all meaning for evil.
What the enemy was meaning for evil will cause the biggest
victory for grace, but it will cost more than any can pay.
Only Jesus has the ability to to sacrifice what was necessary.
Guys I just praying today and and talking to this really hurt
guys. This wasn't, this wasn't I got
back youth group time. We have one of the guys who goes
So what? God died for three days, but
he's God, so who cares? I mean, and that, I mean, he
said it a little more reverently than that, but if that's all it
was, a God outside of time skips 3 days, who cares?
A day is like 1000 years, 1000 years like a day, who cares.
That's why it is so important that Jesus is 100% man because
he took it like we would take it, but he took all of it.
And God did not shield his Son from the penalty of sin because
if he had, he would not be considered just.
And God is just. And Jesus agreed to the Father's
plan, or they agreed together, but at the end of the day, he
agreed because of the reward. And the reward was you and I.
So the sacrifice was worth it because of what he was going to
get. And what he was going to get was
each and every one of us, right, John?
And that's the John 316 For God so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
The world, whoever believes in him, right?
That's who Jesus gets. And Isaiah 53 he shall see the
labor of his soul and be satisfied by his knowledge.
My righteous servant shall justify many, for He shall bear
their iniquities. And this is if you guys haven't
ever read Isaiah 53. It's another one of those that
just proof of who Jesus was that was foretold 700 years before
Jesus. Jesus completes his task and I
was just actually talking to somebody today about this.
So when I first got saved, something that that I used to
that they probably still say it. Dying for Jesus would be easy.
It's living for him that's hard, right?
It's dying for him is an instant.
It's a moment, right? You know, gunman comes in, you
dive in front of the bullet. You know, somebody want that.
Those are moments living for him.
So this him on the cross is him living for us.
This is this is that moment that he paid for all the garbage that
I've all the garbage that I've ever done, all the garbage I'm
doing and all the garbage I will ever do, he paid for in that
instant. And it says in, in Mark 15.
Now when the 6th hour had come, there was darkness over the
whole land until the 9th hour. And at the 9th hour, Jesus cried
out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli Lama Savathnia, which
translated My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
And that is the first lines of Psalm 22.
And the the thing about that is all the Israelites, all those
rulers and elders and all those people that would be standing
around would know what that meant because they, they
memorized Scripture and catalogued their Scriptures by
the first line of the verse or of the passage.
So we started off with Psalm 22 and them casting lots and
piercing, piercing him. And now we're here and the
Israelites get to hear this and then they get to look at what
look at the look at the scene in front of them and see prophecy
and see what's happening. And then in John 19, it says
after this Jesus, knowing all things were accomplished, that
Scripture might be fulfilled, saying, I thirst.
And now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there, and they
filled the sponge with sour wine, put it on a hyssop and put
it to his mouth. So when Jesus had received the
sour wine, he said, it is finished.
And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.
And this was, this was not a show, right?
I this was eternally costly. When we see Jesus on the other
side of the tomb, He still has scars.
Put your Thomas, put your fingers in the holes, put your
hand in my side. I mean, this is not like Jesus
is still on the cross or still paying.
He paid it all past, present and future at that moment, and it
was finished. And Mark, Mark 1538 says, then
the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
So in the centurion who stood opposite him saw that he cried
out like this and breathed his last.
He said truly, this man was the Son of God.
And that was that was the world looking on in astonishment
right. And the the fun in this moment
guys is it is finished at that moment the payment had been
made. The proof of payment will show
up in a couple of days. Like the story of the paralyzed
man. The work was done because Jesus
said then it was proven. And if you look at that's Mark
23 or 523, and this is when Jesus says your sins are
forgiven. And everybody starts, well, you
can't say his sins are forgiven. And he's and Jesus comes back
and says, which is easier to say your sins are forgiven you or to
say rise up and walk. But that you may know that the
Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins.
He said to the man who was paralyzed, I say to you, arise,
take up your bed and go to your house.
And immediately he arose up before them.
And that is when Jesus said it is finished, it was finished, it
was done. You can count on it.
And the question is, what are we going to do with it, right?
Are we going to be, are we going to be leafy trees or are we
going to be fruit bearing, right?
Are we going to apply Jesus to our lives?
Are we going to say Jesus, I can't and you have to.
And that's. That is that understanding that
Jesus paid the price for all of it, right?
For my sin, for your sin for the guy that's making me mad sin for
my enemy, sin for my all of it. What it cost him?
You were worth it. Do we believe he is worth
sacrificing all of us for fellowship with him?
And that that really what it always comes down to is do we
trust him? Do we trust that when I say,
when I, when I say I don't matter that he that he's going
to come along and take care of me?
Or do I have to defend myself? Do I have to take care of
myself? And this the, the verse that I
use all the time and you guys hear it over and over and over
again is Galatians 220 is I've been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And this life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in
the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
This life that I now live in the flesh.
I live by faith in the Son of God because of what he did.
He already paid for it all guys, I got, I got nothing but gravy
this side of heaven and I get more gravy on that side because
it's his problem, all of it. You know it.
It's this is not how how do you how do you just exchange this
world for his plan, believe that he is able to do what he says
and then watch him do it? And does that mean that your
life is sunshine and rainbows? I would tell you the apostles
would probably tell you no. But is he worth it?
And is his plan better than mine?
Absolutely. So I encourage you that we have
the cross up here tonight and I and on Sunday.
He's awesome and he proves it. Not just don't just say it, he
proves it. So Lord, I just lift up this
time and I lift up everybody here, everybody at home.
And Lord, that you would just come in and take over.
Lord that we would just lean in and rely on you, Lord, and that
you would do amazing things through through our submitted
lives to your plan. And I pray all this in Jesus
name, Amen.