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00:00:00 Speaker: This talk is entitled balance through the Lord Jesus Christ. And we want to say that this morning we were speaking of how the Lord will enable us to get at bitter roots within us. Therefore, we were speaking of sin within us. Tonight we will be speaking about the inner person again, but not about necessarily about sin within us, but rather our own natures and how our own natures drive each other off balance, both in man and wife relations and in relations in the church and with bosses and employees and so forth. And how the Lord in His lordship can give us an ability to die to self, and come into balance and appreciation of each other's differences. But let us also say that we are aware many people have come up and said, uh, boy, you really stirred us up. And we really shared things in our prayer group. And the boy I prayed all afternoon and so on. And whenever we do get stirred up like that, there is a tendency when the Lord shows us so many things in us that need to be healed to feel like, oh my goodness, I must be the worst of all, and oh, help and everything else. And so I would like to say one, uh, don't let it carry you on a trip and get carried away seeing all the troubles inside. And two and this is more important, God knows when he sends us into our family and into our situation, just exactly what he's sending us into. He knows just how our parents will flub it up with us and how they'll bless us. And he knows just how you and I are going to choose wrongly and how we are going to sin. And he sends us there Precisely so that in our weaknesses we might be made strong, and all those pitfalls and troubles and aches and sins into which we have fallen are not by the grace of God lost, but Romans eight. Remember says, God works together in everything, in all things for good to those who are called according to his purpose. And so, in the very midst of your hurt and the things that you've done wrong and fallen into, and the things you see wrong in you, that area is the very area the Lord is building in you, out of which you shall minister to others. A lady just came before we were sitting down here and told us about the hurt she had, about a suicide, and how she covered that up until the Lord made that aware to her. And then she began to minister to People who had suicides in their family. And so the very area in which you have had trouble is to become your beauty and your strength. And this is the glory of God. And I was so grateful when Bishop Fray talked about bringing us into a oneness in which there were those who could cross themselves, and there were those who could raise their hands and those who could sit silently. And so he was making the point that when we come together in unity, it is not uniformity wherever Satan has gotten hold of a people. For instance, when he got hold of the people in Nazi Germany, he attempts and when he got Ahold of the people in Russia today, his work is to attempt to crush people together into a oneness, which is uniformity. And wherever God comes, we get such grace that we can celebrate our differences, and that's what we want to really talk about tonight is the grace in the Lord Jesus Christ to celebrate our differences. Praise the Lord. The scripture for the night is Ephesians five twenty one following. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. In the Revised Standard Version, it says, submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, even as Christ is head of the church, and he is the Savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. And the basic text is that we submit ourselves to one another out of reverence for Christ. And it is in that submission to the Lord Jesus Christ that it becomes possible for us to submit to one another. And if we are not submitted to the Lord Jesus Christ, we can't make that submission because of the character and personality that we are, because God draws together people who are opposites. I'd like to begin by reminding you of those days when you went to the playground to play on the teeter totter. Now I'm going to outstretch my hands, and I want you to imagine that these arms are a teeter totter. And on this end, maybe you're the little fat guy. And on this end, uh, maybe you're the little skinny fellow. So when the fat guy gets on the teeter totter, obviously the little fellow is up in the air and the little fellow may kind of edge down, you know, trying to get some kind of balance. But when he gets so close to the middle, he doesn't have any fun. There is there can't be much of a ride there. So he gets back on the end and again the big one goes down. All right. Then somebody calls a big boy over, and that big boy stands right in the middle of the teeter totter and with the strength that is in his own legs, he manages to exert enough pressure in the favor of the lighter one, so that he brings that teeter totter to a perfect balance. Now we're like that teeter totter in our relationships, in our husband and wife relationships, in the relationships that we have in our churches and in our families, wherever we are. Some of us, well, we're all just different from one another, and some of us are a little bit heavy in some qualities. I'm not saying that some of us are the big guys, and some of us are the little guys, meaning that some are more important and some are less. I mean simply that some have a little more weight on them in some areas than others do. And there is no place for one person to look at another and say, hey fatty, you know, let's change or hey skinny, you just need to eat some more, you know, demanding of the other one that they change. But there is a need to invite an elder brother in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ to come and stand in the middle and affect that balance between the two. And that's the only way that a balance can be affected by the dependence on that elder brother. Any other way becomes a competitive kind of struggle and leads us into judging one another. Or maybe one will become discouraged and just simply get off and the one who's left flips way out. So let that be the basis for what we share from here on. What we want to share again from our own life because we think we are. I hope we are rather normal, and we hope that you'll be able to identify and to show how the Lord with us, just by testimony, how he has dealt with us. So let me begin with me. I was a second son and was given a very mystical and absent minded, dreamy kind of nature, and whatever Hal wanted to do, that's what we did. And I just tagged along and I had fun. I could enjoy the birds and the bees and the trees and the flowers and just dream, because Hal always knew where we were going. As a matter of fact, my younger sister thought that Hal's name was boys because every time mom called, he answered. And I was so absent minded that if Dad or Mom sent me upstairs to get something, I not only forgot what I was supposed to get, I forgot I was sent, and pretty soon they'd have to send one of the kids up there to get me and that kind of absent minded and besides that, one of these mystical nuts, you know, who could sense things at a distance and leave you in a minute? I was like Elijah when Obadiah found him. And Obadiah says, what are you doing to me? If I go get the king, the spirit will carry you off somewhere. Well, that's what the spirit was always doing with me, carrying me off somewhere. And so when Paula and I married, there was a tremendous imbalance because I was the absent minded dreamer, mystical type. And that meant, you see, that Paula, who has her own mystical nature, could not afford to express that because of what I was. She had to become the practical one who had her head on her shoulders all the time. And it meant that since I had the capacity to withdraw inside of myself in an instant and be gone in some netherworld of the heavens with the Lord, that the kids could do all kinds of things around me and Paula, who remember, said that she wanted to be protected. Had no protection because when the kids got in trouble, I didn't even hear it. It wasn't that I wasn't trying to hear it. I physically didn't hear it because I was gone somewhere. My mother used to say, you could burn down the house around me and I wouldn't know it. And so she called John. Not a thing. I didn't hear her at all. Jack didn't hear it. Hey, dopey. And then I would answer. And the Lord had to come to me and deal with me in terms of making me aware of Paula's need. And I want to share something here about remorse and repentance. Remorse happens when we are sorry we failed. Remorse happens when we fail to be the God we wanted to be. Remorse is self-centered and self-pitying, and it never leads to freedom. Repentance happens as a gift of God when out of love for the other. We are concerned that the other is hurting for the other's sake and is not even that important that we did it. And when real repentance comes, God can bring about change. And so the Lord himself had to deal with me and make me aware that I was leaving her without protection. And I began to move back the other way to become more practical. He made it sound amusing, and he made me sound almost kind in the way that I would try to get him out of his world. But it was neither funny to me, nor was I kind about it. I was very angry because I felt I had this image that he, as the father of the children, as the head of the household should be the one to take the leadership in discipline. And I didn't like being the heavy in the discipline. And so I came really down with a just with a really firm hand with the kids. But a part of that sternness was not just simply a concern for the children, or even an attempt to fill the vacuum that he left. It was an expression of my own anger, which I was not really venting on him, but it came out on the children. And this anger, I believe, was primarily because of the image that I had of what he should be. I had that set up. I was constantly passing a judgment on him, and I had to come to a repentance of that, because until I repented of that, and I set him free from my judgment. What was coming across was not an invitation to him to be what he should as a father. It was a demand. And it came across as an undercutting, as the disrespect which was crushing to him and which set up a block, a real wall. He used to say to me, the only way you can really settle this anger in use, not to talk to me about it, talk to the Lord about it. And oh, I fought this. I really fought it because I, I thought, well, you know, I'm okay with the Lord. He he gives me the support I need. It's you, you know, dum dum. We've gotta get this settled between us. But it was, first of all, that I did need to get it settled with the Lord. Because that's where the repenting first had to come. Um, because the Lord did not call me to be my husband's judge. He did not call me to demand. He called me to invite and to nurture my husband, and to set him free, to give me that support that I needed. And praise God, he did begin to accomplish that. Now we've kind of pulled a switch, and, uh, he's the heavy, and I'm the one who placates the children. So we're still, you know, in the process of coming to a really true balance. The first two kids got the heavy mama, the second two kids get the heavy papa, and the third two kids are just really going to have a great. It was a very interesting timing when the Lord dealt with me in my repentance and how close that was to her repentance. And so the key you see is death of self, that we must be willing to die to those things we cherish most. For when we cherish a picture of the way the other should act, we have put an IT world between us and the other, and we are setting up an image on the plane, and the other one must fall down and worship it. And if he doesn't, then the furnace is heated up seven times more than it was wont to be heated and into the fiery furnace he goes, you see. So there is the death of the good things. Not just the bad things, but we are called to die to those good things we want, in order to set the other free and to come to balance. Now, the next tendency I had, you see, we're talking about what? Really? I think they're not sins, they're just normal traits. They're healthy things that get a little out of balance. The next trait I had was that my father was a job instruction training man during the war, and he trained us very carefully. I can hear it ringing in my my head almost every day. A place for everything and everything in its place. Oh, I'm not alone. You got the same thing. Yeah. Okay. And so it was drilled into me. And I love order and logic and authority, and I like things in their place. And so when I picked out Paula at the time, I. And I shopped carefully for my wife, you know, and, uh, I thought that since she agreed with everything I said that she had, you know, we were she felt like I did. And I thought that she was strong enough and independent enough that she could let me alone to seclude in my books and become the secluded scholar I thought I wanted to be, and that she was a very ordered person. Well, you know, uh, very quickly I Quickly, I discovered she had a mind of her own and intended to use it on me. And not only was she not going to let me be a secluded scholar, she would not. She would come and sit on my books and love up on me, which was what I needed. And the first morning when she squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle. There went. Ordered. The best way to do it. And you should see what happens when we paint. When I start to paint, one always starts on the left hand upper hand corner and paints across and down carefully. So I come in the house one day and here's a DOB in this corner. And here's a swirl here. And here's one over here, and here's one over here. Paula, what are you doing? I'm painting. You know, it's boring for her to start this paint down here and paint up here and paint down here? And that's kind of a parable, this artistic person versus this logical one. And that goes all the way through life, you know, because nothing is ever in place. And yet it is. And and a way of saying how the Lord has dealt with us is that now you should see the way we paint. Because I methodically do all the, uh, edges and around the windows while she swirls in the middle. Now, this meant, you see that for us to live in peace, I was called to death of my image, of the way a well-ordered house should run and the way everything should be planned out logically, in step in place. And I had to die to that thing every day I had a call on the Lord Jesus Christ for that to happen, so that she could be free to be the artistic person she is. And this leads me to the point, which is that it because I am that logically structured person, the very thing I need the most is her spontaneity, her fire, and her lovely disorder. We may talk about this tonight, about midnight. He just has to keep calling it by that word. And so the Lord has taught us to appreciate and to find zest in life by the differentness. And if two of us are alike, one of us is unnecessary. When we would have a little upset over our differences. My nature would want to get the thing up on the table right away. Let's talk about it. Let's settle it now. Let's look at it for what it is. And we've gotta hash this out because, you know, I'm not going to go to bed until this thing is finished and we're feeling good about one another. He, with his cold logic and I used to call it a nobility. Withdraw into this. It will be all right. You haven't hurt my feelings. It's all right, you know, and he would really he'd be thinking of me as this poor emotional thing who just can't handle it, you know? And so we had quite a hassle there. But when we began to really let the Lord be Lord of our lives individually, and we began to thank the Lord for one another just as we were, and we began to learn the meaning of waiting on the Lord. Then I was able to wait to trust that if he was being obnoxious in the moment, it wasn't because he didn't love me. It's because he loved me so much. I had the power to upset him, you know? And to trust that the Lord would bring about that time after tempers had cooled, when we could sit down and say, Lord, show us this thing. Be in our talking, be in our speaking, be in our loving. And it's been a lot better. But we, the house, it's been a beautiful thing because both of us were called to die to the picture of the other one. I had a picture in my mind that I wouldn't admit I had, and it was composed of things my mother did that Paula must do, and composed of more things my mother did that Paula desperately must not do. And she had a picture in her mind of what a good father should be, and husband and should not be. And it took about ten to fifteen years for the Lord to bring all those good images down to death, so that we could be grateful for the other one, just as they are, and be at peace and appreciate our differences. Another pattern we had and still have to some extent has to do with work. I was trained to work and I work hard and I work at working even. And father always would say, John, you even work at resting. Even if I play, I go at it gung ho and with my brother and I get to playing card games, it's bloody murder because we go at it gung ho. And that always bothered Paula for me to be that way. I don't know how to answer that. This one is being healed, except to say that the Lord is taking out of me the compulsion to work. I don't have to work hard anymore to prove my manhood. I don't have to work hard anymore to prove to the world that I'm a worker. I don't have to work hard anymore to win my way with the Lord Jesus. The Lord has brought rest to us, and he has shown us that he is Lord. And because he is Lord, I can leave some things undone. And so I'm learning. Rest. When we were first married, John informed me that he was the scholarly type and he would need a lot of time to study and to think philosophically, you know, and that I would therefore, in the parish have to be the one who would visit with the people. And. He had more important things to do now. Um. No, he was good about calling. But one thing that did happen. If we were visiting any family together, he would just very easily retire out of the trivia, he called it of the conversation. He was so intense that you had to say something important, something that would really be earth shaking, something that would really affect a change in someone before it was worth saying. And he couldn't stand the trivia. And so I was left with all this dribbling. How's the weather? How are you? I am fine, you know, and that kind of thing. And it was it was very frustrating until the Lord taught us both that not only were we to meet one another and appreciate one another, but everyone else that he led us to be in contact with. We met them where they were, and if we had to beam in on something that seemed trivial, if that was the open door, then that is important. Any area where we can identify with the other person and accept him in that little portion of his being that he's allowing us to share, we should treasure that as a very sacred offering of himself. And when we have done that, then that gives the person the courage to open up. And we get into the really deeper things and the ministry of the Lord can really go somewhere with us all. I think we should say that the Lord leaves intact our natural nature. My natural nature is to love, to have Paula along, because she'll just chat with the people and I can just sit there and I have to remind myself and haul myself out to visit with people on just a natural, day to day little basis. And I have learned to enjoy it. But we need to remember that the nature he has given us, he leaves there. And therefore, if I get away from the Lord one day, I know it. And if I get away from the Lord two days, Paula knows it. And if I get away from the Lord three days, the world knows it. I'd like to talk a bit about mystical and earthiness, and though I could talk continually about us. I don't want to in this instance because I run across this so much. What has happened is that the women in most places, and I'm so delighted to see so many men here and whole families here, but in so many places, you're aware that it is the women who are flooding the churches, and the women come to the Lord and the women get filled with spirituality. And then that balance principle takes hold, because the woman is becoming such a saint and so filled with the spirit and so spiritual and and everything else, the husband sets his teeth to become more earthy, and now he cannot express his natural own spirituality because he's got to counterbalance her. And this is one of the most devastating things that we see happening in the churches. And then what happens is that the woman thinks, oh, if I could just pray hard enough. And so she prays and she attends some more spiritual meetings. And the more spiritual she gets, the more earthy he gets. And even worldly and determined not to become like that. Now there's a way out of that. And, uh, if you women will pardon my French, it's get the hell off the pedestal. Quit trying to be so spiritual. Get back in the home. And, uh, if the somebody calls you and says, uh, come down to this meeting, say no. Bake your husband a pie. Seduce him once in a while. Love him up. Be earthy with him. Be loving to him now. We had in our church. Little Millie Cerf. And she stood about so high. And she was a blonde package of dynamite. She prayed with such childlike innocence that it was marvelous. And if I was in trouble down at the office, the Lord would call her, and she'd come down and say, now, John, what is it? And pray, and I'd be all right. She was a little dynamo, but she heard this message, and she stopped coming to the prayer meetings for a while, and she went back in. And at the same time that she was becoming more spiritual, Dave, her husband, was going the other way. And so she went back in and began to love him and just hold on to him and give him herself in every way, ministering to him in about, what, two, six weeks? About six weeks. Dave was down at the altar giving his life to the Lord, and in just about two weeks he was way out ahead of her. And now Millie was mad. And she said, what did I do? What did I spend six years learning all this for? And he's got it in two weeks. But you see, the truth is first Corinthians seven. The unbelieving partner is consecrated through the believing partner. So all the time that Millie was learning, it was going into Dave, and then Dave was there, and then she discovered that she all the time that she had been praying for Dave to be converted, there was another part of her that didn't want him to be converted, because that was her area to be one up. And that was part of her anger. And then then she had a whole nother lesson to learn about submission. And so women, if you want your husbands to be spiritual, be earthy. and ask your husband the questions you've been asking the pastor and the teachers that come through. Ask your husband those spiritual questions. Activate the position he already has as the spiritual head of the family. I think if the Lord would draw a diagram that could express the pattern of our lives. It would be with deep footprints spaced very close together, like a person running and a long skidmark right behind two skid marks. Because John's nature has always been to go enthusiastically gung ho charge, you know, into everything. And so what I did with almost everything was to hang on to his coattails and dig my heels in to keep him from going off the brink. This I can remember when we lived in Chicago with early in our marriage. We were in seminary. We'd go out to Lake Michigan and I can remember still. No, I can't feel it anymore. The Lord's taken that away. But I can remember the fear that I had as I saw John and my brother swim straight out into Lake Michigan until I could hardly see them anymore, and I'd stand on the bank and think, oh, my, doesn't he realize we have these tiny children? And everything? You know, if if I expressed a word of caution, he would go just all the father and all the pastor, and then I would pull on those reins the tighter. And as the Lord began to heal, that it began to change so that my word of caution could be supportive to him, and he could respect it, and I could respect his going, and I could support him and just simply balance him. When he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit back in, what, nineteen fifty eight? It wasn't very popular at the time in our denomination. It still isn't, but was even less than you were some kind of a kook. You know, if you'd had this experience, by the way, it was an Episcopalian that introduced us to that beautiful experience, but it was so thrilling to him that he just went full steam ahead. And we had not yet been healed in this skid mark pattern. And so I had to haul back and it retarded my own acceptance? Not by too much, just a few weeks. But I really had a lot of questions and a lot of objections. Before I could come into it, though, I had grown up with a really sweet, loving relationship with the Lord, and the Lord had somehow reached him through me in the first place. But I had to battle with the same thing that Milly Sur had in being jealous and kind of angry, and very much afraid that he was going to take what might be a good thing and go way off a balance with it. Now, that leads me into saying something about letting the husband be the head of the family, because when the Lord began to reestablish order in the churches and to speak about order in families, I saw so many people going way out of balance with it. We forgot that we would submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. And I saw many men coming across thinking, aha, here's my chance, you know, and here's my hammer. And so many wives, even if they were accepting, okay, if this is the way God says it should be, I will dutifully go through the motions of letting my husband make the decisions. But I will privately hate every minute of it, you know? And it just, it it really left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. And the Lord began to reveal to me that letting my husband be my head in no way diminished me, but that it was designed by the Lord to fulfill me, that I could rest in everything that the Lord had created him to be In all of that structure of logic that I had formerly passed judgment on. That was God's gift for me, because then it was safe for me to express everything of emotion and warmth and gentleness that I had within a framework that would not get carried away. And I realized by the quickening of the spirit that John needed everything that I was to keep him from going off balance in that logic, into truly a coldness and a hardness and a brittleness that would crush, that would come across not with authority, which was God given, but with authoritarianism that was just simply lay. The Lord revealed to me that. Everything. Whether we are male or female, that all of his promises are intended to be part of an abundant life. That his command was for us to lay down our lives for one another. That there could not possibly be any way that John could express authority or headship over me, unless I would invite it. It could not be Christian authority unless I was first reaching out my hand and saying, yes, I want your cover, because if I was not inviting he in order to express that would be insisting. Fisting. And so that began to begin to change my whole picture of it. And I began to think, that's really what I want. You know, I want to let him be my head. I want that kind of support because I know that I can grow into fullness in restfulness. But the catcher was, how can I trust this guy who's always charging out ahead? How can I trust the Lord to speak through him if he were made perfect already? You know, I could trust. And there are a lot of wives that say, okay, that's fine, you know? But my husband isn't there yet. I'm going to have to wait until the Lord converts him and makes a Christian out of him and teaches him some gentleness and patience, and then I'll let him be my head. And then the Lord, just in a flash, gave me a very simple diagram for my simple mind, which was just really written on my heart. He said, imagine your husband, this imperfect guy right here. We got it backwards, I'm afraid. Yeah. I want him to be the heavy hitter. Okay, there is the husband, here am I. And here is my relationship to God. I have no fear of putting myself in submission to God because God is perfect and he is love. The pure expression of love. So how do I get my husband into the right relationship with God by simply putting myself, whether he deserves it or not, whether it makes any sense or not. Putting myself under his authority. Is God going to leave me for that? Is he going to quit being my cover? No. He's going to move right with me. And then I've got my husband sandwiched right in the middle. There's no way he can get away. Those of you who are frustrated with the pastor of your church and would like to know how to get him really under the authority of the Lordship of Jesus, just try getting under him and letting the Lord move with you into that position. And when she did move in that way, then the Lord acted on me. and I would be in my study and be lost in my books as usual. And the Lord would haul me right up by the collar of my neck, and I'd find myself out there scolding the kids because they weren't. They were giving her trouble. Because, you see, now she was activating the position and the Lord was activating me. And this is a beautiful, beautiful lesson to learn, because coming under headship does not mean that the head has to be worthy. Eli was an unfaithful priest, and yet he blessed Hannah and she conceived. And when she had conceived that son, she brought that son to Eli, who had already failed, raising his two sons. And in obedience to God, she put Samuel under Eli. For Eli to raise him. And Samuel became the great prophet of the Lord. So it is obedience to the Lord's will, not circumstances not dependent on the person, but obedience to what His Word says to do. We'd like to end this by saying that when we do really put Jesus Christ as the head over us, and he is able to bring to death in us both the good things and the bad things, and to transform us, then we are able to appreciate the differences between us. And I want to close with one remark because I've seen it happen so much lately. If a wife, I'm going to say it about the wife, because that's where I've seen it so many times. If a wife does not have that full and vital relation with the Lord Jesus Christ, then she will unconsciously, unconsciously ask her husband to give to her what only God can give. And that's too heavy a weight for the man. And he flees out. And of course, the converse is true, that if the husband does not have a full, free relation with the Lord Jesus Christ, he will ask his wife to give him what only God can supply. And it's too much. Therefore, only if the Lord is truly Lord, and we make him Lord by praying together continually. We pray every night listening to God. We have devotions in the morning and we make him Lord by reading the word together and by giving our whole life in service to him together as a team. I would like to add one postscript. When I was hesitating there, I was saying one thing and I was sending my mind off looking for something else. You remember what Jesus said about if you seek to save your life, you'll lose it. If you seek to lose your life for my sake, you'll find it. And I think that sums this subject up very well, too. I hear so many women looking for liberty. You know, women's lib and all, but they're looking for it with a grabbing, you know, a reaching out and saying, I want my life and I have a right to take it. But the truth of the matter is that when we're willing to just lay our life before the other one to submit in respect to give, then the Lord comes, and he gives us more than we wanted. The Lord is always more willing to bless us and give to us than we are able to ask. Look, now I'm finding my life because I was willing to trust dum dum. And I find my life in the same way. And find then, that the the Proverbs is true. Which says he praises her and says many one women have done well, but you have done excellently. Praise the Lord. Let us bow in prayer. We thank you, Lord, that your call to us to be one in no way diminishes us, but we find our life when we lay it down. We thank you Lord, for creating us so differently and so oppositely, for therein is the spice of life. We pray that tonight your healing love and your faith that transcends circumstances may be so much upon this body that each may go home tickled at those things that used to bother them in the mate especially. And Lord, in our church relationships, as we go back to live among that body of people in which there's there's such diversification, quicken in us a new appreciation of people just as they are and just where they are, and enable us, in your spirit to identify with them, to meet them where they are, and to allow you to do your special thing of raising us Together, enabling us to complement one another, enabling us to fulfill one another. Without any kind of demand or judgment placed on the other. Thank you, Lord, that you have placed us within families where this kind of thing happens. Thank you, Lord, that your awakening us to an understanding of a corporate life within the church where this kind of fellowship, where this kind of union is possible. Then, O Lord, for the paradox of freedom and unity with each other, we thank you for the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. This is the end of the recording. Please advance the tape to the end of the track.