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Welcome to the Grace Church Messages Podcast! These are the weekly Sunday messages from Grace Church in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area. Listen to biblical teaching from our weekend services to help you understand Scripture, follow Jesus in your everyday life, and grow in your faith. Perfect for the morning commute, the treadmill, or wherever life happens.
So the other day I was talking to Mary and I said, Mary, the message this Sunday is a theme in my life that has really transformed the way I see the Christian walk. When I first became a follower of Christ, there was a sense in me, maybe this doesn't make sense to you, but or maybe you've experienced. I'm like this, but I sort of viewed it as like Jesus.
As we enter Passion week, he did all of this stuff for me and now my job. 20 years later, I got to be like the best person I can to live my life and and really do better, try harder and live a life that honors him. And and it was a it was a that's not what the Christian life is all about.
We're going to talk today about how how was I mistaken in that and the wonder of what genuine Christianity is really all about. So I want to start with four questions that you'll see in your notes. If you got those on the way in, you'll see them on the screen as well. But and they all tie together to sort of say, what are we you know, what's the point of the Christian faith?
First of all, what's the amazing change that happens when I put my trust in Christ? Secondly, what's the point of the historical event that we call Easter? What's the best thing about heaven? And finally, how does this relate to the purpose of the tabernacle in the book we've been studying the last several weeks, the Book of Leviticus. We're going to see today that all those questions sort of tie together have the same answer.
And when we really comprehend this, I just believe it can change the way we view our daily assignments and responsibilities, our relationships, our future, our relationship with Christ. And and so we're going to see is a theme that runs all the way through the Bible. And and I hope that you'll leave today and go, wow, like I learned something new today and that that's a pretty neat way to see the Christian life.
So let's look at the gospel. According to Leviticus chapter eight. Now we've talked about how Leviticus takes his name from the tribe of the Levites, whose religious duties are described in this book, and it can feel sort of confusing. In fact, a lot of people have lost their way in their Bible reading. They're like, I was doing okay in.
Genesis, in Exodus, and.
Then Leviticus. I fell off the wagon. And and if that's you, you're not alone. But what we're going to do today is just is just see how this book well, here's we could say in a word, how do you interpret Leviticus? Leviticus is not a destination. Leviticus is a what is a signpost? It points to Jesus. Why do we have sacrifice?
Says it's because of what we read in Leviticus. Why a curtain turn in to from top to bottom? Why a scapegoat is all mention Leviticus and it all points to Jesus in fact, Jesus is talking to his followers one time and Luke chapter 24 and and he's and he's sort of, you know, he didn't pick up a paper Bible, but he might have had some scrolls at some point.
But it says this Luke 24 and beginning with Moses and all the prophets, that's Moses of the first five books of the Bible, the prophets are all the rest. It says that he explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself. And so I think he probably said, Hey guys, you know what? Leviticus, that book that maybe you find sort of boring.
Can I tell you how that points to me too? And, and so it's a book that points to Jesus, and we're going to see how that happens in the message today. So Leviticus, Chapter eight, really glad to have you for the journey. Let me just mention, as we are there, that we have a Bible app or a Grace app, that if you haven't downloaded that a few thousand people have done so.
And there's some resources you'll see right at the top there on this current series called Clean Finding Jesus in the Book of Leviticus. And there are things like, you know, devotionals and application questions and prayers, etc. So feel free to check that out. Okay. To all of you engaging online, really glad to have you with us as well.
Some of you going through tough times and that's why you're engaging online. There's a number of people in our church family who are going through some physical crises, and I'd just like for all of us, for them and for us, can we just take a moment, pray? Okay, So let's before we dig in to God's word, Lord, thank you.
How Psalm 121 tells us over and over again that you see us, you watch over us, and you never tire, you never sleep. And so, Lord, I thank you that today we can turn to you and we can bring every need in our lives to you. So, Lord, you know, it says Jesus. You said even before we ask the Father that he knows we're going to say.
And so we just bring to you the various requests that are really heavy on the hearts of people in this room, those engaging online. Lord, wherever we are, Thank you that we can turn to you, present a request to you and that you give us your peace. That is beyond like comprehension. There's just something about coming to you and turning to you that we realize you're bigger and stronger and able and sovereign.
And so here we turn to you, Lord, not only for us, but for those around our city and our country. We think of horrific attack in Moscow the other day. Lord, there's ongoing wars, people at the risk of starvation. Lord Jesus, we pray that in your grace, that you would use your people and that your compassion would be delivered.
We're most needed. We turn to you, Jesus, Teach us now, as we look into your word and your name, we pray. Amen. All right. Here's we've looked at so far, and if you're one are like to see something wrong with Jonathan up there. I just. I lost my voice. I don't know what happened. I had a big concert the other night.
I sing about 25 songs in my dreams, but I got some of bug. So you'll see the themes the first few weeks here, and that's what we've looked at so far. I won't repeat that, but next week we're going to see just a beautiful picture of what Jesus has done for us and how he ultimately fulfills the greatest desires and needs that we have.
And and I want to just encourage you to invite some people to join you for Easter. We have a bunch of these cards. Take them with you, pass them out to wherever appropriate. We're also going to be I'll send out an email to the church family this Tuesday. Wednesday, you can sign up for that online and just do Jonathan's newsletters.
And I send them out about once a week, but I'll send a digital invitation. You can just forward to people if that's a better way to do it. But you never know the power of an invitation. We've seen it happen over and over again where someone goes, Yeah, someone invited me and ended up, like long story short, changed my life.
And so may that made that happen again and again this this coming week. All right, Leviticus eight, verse one. The Lord said to Moses, bring Aaron and his sons their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin, offering the two rams and basket containing bread made without use. And right there you go. And that's why I gave up on the book of Leviticus right there.
Right. I have no idea what you're talking about. And gather the entire assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting verse four. Moses did, as the Lord commanded him in the assembly, gathered at the entrance to the tent, a meeting. Then it goes on, talks about the ritual of cleansing for the priests Aaron and his family and the drop down in verse ten, and it says this.
Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, and so consecrated them, he sprinkled some of the oil on the altar. Seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and basin with a stand to consecrate them. Let's just pause right there first. What is this tabernacle thing? Secondly, why did it exists? This tent, a meeting right at the center of the nation.
Here's what to look like. You'll see a close up view here, a cutaway view. It's small. Like if you were to measure that, it's it's like 45 feet long and 15 feet wide, like way, way smaller than any one of our campus facilities. And but if you walk with that priest who's out of the front of the right, you walk through and you come to the left, you see that candelabra like a menorah seven light.
That was the only light that existed inside the tabernacle. Obviously, it was fully covered over. No one could go inside except the priests. And and we'll get to the last room in a second. But across from the candelabra, you see the table of bread sort of pointing forward to communion. And it was brother was just regularly replaced. Then you go to the left, you'll see that sort of square deal platform with the four horns on the corners.
That was a table of incense, represented the prayers of God's people that would be going up to to God. Then there was the curtain. It's only halfway because it's a cutaway picture here. But that occurred when all the way across and blocked that 15 by 15 perfect cube, that later revelation we read that revelation in that heaven again is symbolically perfect.
Cuba's the sign of perfection, but that was the holy of holies. And inside is the arc of the word covenant. You're going to get the same arc as Raiders of the Lost Ark. It is sort of nobody knows where it is except for Harrison Ford. But but that room, only one person, the high priest, could go in. How many times a year?
One time. A year. So you never saw inside that room and the priest would go in and on top of the Ark of the Covenant was what's called the mercy. See, there's these cherubim that these wings were angels really going back to the Garden of Eden. There was cherubim guarding there, and now they're in the holy of holies in this mercy seat.
The priest would take in the blood for a sacrifice and would make an atonement a covering for your sin. And that would happen once every year. So that's that's a that's what sort of a close up view. Let's sort of move back your second and that's what you would see if you were looking for from like the hill nearby.
And there are 12 tribes of Israel and there's three in the north, south, west, east, and you'll see them sort of in the background there. And and above the tabernacle is what, a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. And let's remember that. And here's what you read just before we start the book of Leviticus, the last chapter of Exodus.
Here's what it says. The last five verses Exodus 40, then the cloud cover, the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses could not enter the tent of meaning because the cloud settled on him. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and all the travels of the Israelites. Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out.
But if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out until the day lifted. So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day and fire was in the cloud by night in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels. And the next verse is Leviticus one, verse one. What's the point of the Tabernacle?
Why have ten chapters of Leviticus, a full quarter of the book all about this tent of meaning? Another word for the tabernacle? Let's turn over to Leviticus chapter 26 and we got tells us what is hardest for us, what it's always Ben the Steelers today and here it is Leviticus 26 gonna read from the new living translation it says this God says to his people I will live where among you and I will not despise you.
You know, God still says that to you today. When you come to Him and your sin and your shame are covered by his blood. Some of us think that God is sort of angry with us, or He must just be almost embarrassed about things in our lives. And he says, I won't despise you. In fact, verse 12, I will walk among you.
I will be your God and you will be my people. Translated, God wants to hang out with the people He created. That's his heart. He wants to live in the neighborhood. God Himself, the Almighty God, the Great I am the Holy One of the universe moves in next door and He goes, You know what? I'm going to set up my tent right in the middle of the neighborhood.
And it is it's the focal point for all of Israel. It was God's way of being with his people. What happens is this listen to this all the way through the Bible, you see this theme that God wants to restore and to be with us. And he loves us and cares about us and wants to show his strength in our lives.
And so let's just do a quick like flyover of the Bible. And what you see is the Lord's plan has always been this I will be what he says with you. I'll be with you. Here's why we read Ephesians chapter one. Paul says, God's unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.
What kind of a plan is it? It's an unchanging plan. It means there's always been God's heart. And so if you look at your notes, if you didn't get in on the way and as good a grace, he made out of work and go to our home page, you'll see the bulletin with the notes there. But what you'll do is you see God's heart all the way through the Bible starts in the very beginning, the beginning chapters of Genesis that you find that God was in the garden of Eden.
No need to turn there, but listen to Genesis chapter three, verse eight. Then the man and his wife, Adam and Eve, heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Imagine that was like you go out in your backyard and you know, and and the Lord wants to talk with you and he's there and it's this amazing thing place.
And and you're like this with Jesus, like there's a perfect relationship and you can talk to him about anything. And he. How long did that last? Not very long. Three chapters of the Bible, barely. And they turn their backs on God and he banishes them from the garden. And the worst part of that wasn't leaving behind all the amazing nature and rivers and fruit trees and all the rest.
The worst part was the absence of God's presence, a lost friendship. Generations later. In fact, Genesis 12 through the rest of the Book of Genesis is God's building a nation, and He wants to bless him and bless all the nations through them. And he says, I want to live among you. I want to move into the neighborhood. And how does he do that?
We said that God was in the tabernacle. In fact, when the structure was first announced in Exodus 25, here's what God says. Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary? So that I can receive their sacrifices, take offerings. I can what I can live among them? You know, it's interesting how the book of Exodus begins with God's glory and his presence seen in a Bush that's onwhat that's on fire, but it's not consumed with one man way off in the in the edge of the wilderness.
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That's how Exodus begins with Moses. At the end of the Book of Exodus, you have another flame over something that's not consume the tabernacle. But it's not just one man. It's how many people all of the nation of Israel, probably 2 million strong. Remember that the flame above, That's key. And the tabernacle. This telling the flame above is what set the people of God apart.
Other nations had temples. A lot of nations, the Philistines and others, but they were empty. But the the tabernacle in Israel was filled with God's presence, right? Like it was it was clearly seen among them cloud by day and a pillar of fire by by night. I love how John Ortberg puts it. He he writes the story of the Bible isn't primarily but the desire people to be with God.
It's the desire of God to be with his people. He takes the initiative when we're broken and then estranged from him. He reaches out to the people he created in order to bring us back into relationship with himself. And that's the story of the rest of the Old Testament. God wants to be with his people. Let's turn to Matthew chapter one, the very first chapter of the of the New Testament, the New Covenant here.
And and it talks about the ancestry of Jesus, his arrival, his mission and his name. And even in his name, we find out how much he wants to be near us. Matthew Chapter one, verse 18 Josemaria told This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about. The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, the angel says, and they will call him Emmanuel, which means God with us coming to restore us, to bring us back into his family by becoming one of us.
God was in the garden, God was in the tabernacle. Later, the temple God is present and the person of Christ. And here's how the Apostle John puts it in John Chapter one. He says, In the beginning the word already existed. It's talking about Jesus, right? The word was with God and the word was God. And in verse 14, the word became human and made his home among us in the Greek, it's literally he tabernacle among us.
Jesus is the tabernacle of God. This is what the Incarnation is all about, that Jesus moves into our neighborhood, He takes up residence in our backyard. Friends, listen to this. God literally moves in. That's that's the story of the gospel, that that God becomes one of us in order to rescue us. And it it's a game changer. Now, people are really recognize it, but Jesus makes it very clear.
Matthew chapter 12 is one instance, verse six. He says, I tell you, it's Look, in a crowd of people that's something greater than the temple is here. And they're going, Wait, time out a second. Then look on the temple gone. Look at this thing, this, this. People, you know, they say today it would have cost like hundreds of of dollars, like it was this ornate gold plate.
mean, it was phenomenal. People want it. It was like a wonder of the world. And you're saying something really someone greater than the temple is here. How could it be? Because the very God of the universe had come into town and he is the very tabernacle of God. Friends, This is amazing. No other religious faith is like this.
Jesus isn't just a teacher who tells us how to get to God. He's God who comes to get us and brings us into his family. Jesus moves into our neighborhood. So big picture, let's step back again because you go, okay, so Jesus doesn't physically walk around us anymore. He's not in the garden. He no longer lives in a building.
Actually Chapter seven Stephen makes that really clear. God does not live in buildings made with human hands is why we don't call this Grace Temple. Grace Tabernacle. It's not a tabernacle. It's not a temple. If it's a facility that we give thanks for. But. But this is. But where's the tabernacle today? Look at this picture right here. That is the tabernacle of God or Tabernacles.
That's the Grace Church family worshiping together. Where at Beulah Beach last August. Fact We're going have another baptism service there on August 25th this summer, if you want to write that in your calendar. And we do a picnic and everything in worship. And then last year at about 60, people get baptized, I think only like six got bitten by piranhas.
The rest of them were fine. And so I think if you want to sign up, actually, you know, it's it's beautiful. You can see right there, we had hundreds of people are witnessing those baptisms. But the people right there, those are the those are the tabernacles of God. When you put your trust in Christ, listen to what Paul writes in first Corinthians six.
He says, Do you not know that your bodies are what temples? Tabernacles The very dwelling place, the home of the Holy Spirit. Who is in you whom you ever see from God? Because of that you are not your own. You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. What Paul's saying is this is God. God is in you live like it.
If Jesus came to visit your house, physical house this afternoon, you would do what to your house before if you got like 30 minutes notice. Should be like massive cleanup, right? If he comes to live inside this home, what does he want to do there as well? Same thing. Paul's going, you don't belong to yourself. This house belongs to him.
You are the very tabernacle of God. Would you look at your neighbor right now and just tell them? Say you are the tabernacle of God. Would you tell him that the person closest to you, those of you online, is typing in the chat room? You are the tabernacle of God. You if you've put your trust in Christ. That's true of you guys, not some kind of far off deity that you're trying to please and do your best.
He actually comes to live within you and he want to make it so clear, you know how you know how God does with the physical symbol in the Book of Acts, when the Holy Spirit first comes to live in people on a permanent basis, Acts Chapter two says this On the day of Pentecost, all the believers were meeting together in one place.
There was a sound from heaven, like the roaring of a mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting, 120 people. Then what looked like what flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. Now what do you think? Just think with me. What do you think is going through their minds when they see they look around, You know, someone's now closing their eyes while they're praying.
You don't have to do that and they're looking around, gone. There's a flame in all these people's heads and they're looking above, you know, their own head. And they would have thought that they would have thought of that right there. Right. They knew that one, the flame of fire was above something who live there, God himself. And they're looking around going, you're the tabernacle of God.
You're you're that. And they're going and you're the tabernacle of God as well. That God had come to live within his people, friends, that this was remarkable. God wants to hang out with you. He wants to live in you. If you're a new believer, this is what the Christian faith is all about. And if you've been a Christian a while, I'll speak for myself.
It's very easy to forget this and to go about life and to forget that were ever. I go, I am a tabernacle of God, the Lion of Judah, the LAMB of God, the great I am the all sufficient one has come to take up residence in me. You know what that means? It means when I'm driving on 480, he's with me.
He's a little bit scared the way I'm driving sometimes, but he's with me if I'm sit in front of my computer, I may not even be aware of it. He's with me right there. Every phone call I'm on, he's with me. I'm spending time with Mary. He's with me. I'm watching a ballgame. I'm hanging out with my kids.
I go to the West Side market. He's with me. You go to work tomorrow, you're in a meeting, you go to school, you're in a bus, a plane, a car. He's with you wherever you go. And not just in the mundane. Can I. Can I say this? Some of you are going through a really painful chapter of your life right now.
There might be an unfulfilled longing. You might have a relationship or two or more that are on the bubble. You might be in a period of depression. You might be seeking to overcome an addiction, whatever it is. And God feels really far away. I just want to tell you, on the authority of His word, if you've put your trust in him, no matter how far away he feels, he's with you and he is in you and you are never alone, never, never alone.
It's the wonder of what the Christian faith is all about. And, you know, friends, just to wrap it all up, someday there's going to be a new heaven, a newer that come crashing into our current reality, and it's going to be even better. Let's turn to the second last chapter of the Bible, Revelation 21, Revelation 21, and we get a picture.
John the Apostle is when he gets a the Kern's are pulled back and is revealed to him. Hence the title. The book A revelation of what is going to be like one Day in Heaven. And here's what we find God, the wonder of Heaven is God is in our forever home in heaven. Here's what it says A Revelation.
Chapter 21, Verse three John says, I heard a loud shout from the throne saying, Look God's word. His home is now among his people. He will live with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them. And He will wipe every tear from their eyes. Let me say that again. He's going to wipe every tear from your eyes and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain.
All of these things are gone for how long? Forever. Friends. Heaven's going to be amazing. But the best part about heaven is not going to be the streets of gold or the amazing beaches, or the lack of disease and absence of poison ivy and cancer and toothaches. Or as one of my children said, they said, dead in heaven.
Do you think Krispy Kreme donuts will actually be good for you? I took that as a prophetic word. It's absolutely. The best thing about heaven is this All those who follow Jesus are going to be welcomed into God's house. And it's a big, big house with lots and lots of what some of you know, the song from years ago where we can play football.
You go going, I've never heard that song. Remember the four questions we asked at the beginning? What's the amazing change that happens in me when I trust in Christ? What's the point of the historical event we call Easter? What's the best thing about heaven and what's the purpose of the Tabernacle in the Book of Leviticus? Here's how Phil Yancey answers that.
He says, In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis all the way to Revelation, tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. That's you. That's your neighbors, your coworkers, your family. That's people in Mongolia and Cambodia and Iran, people we may never meet this side of heaven that God wants, all of us, to be part of his family and, you know, want to know why Jesus hasn't come back in a second.
Peter three says this God is patient, not wanting anyone to what perish. He doesn't want anybody locked out of the family. So he's waiting till the full number have come in. And that's his heart. He wants every one of us to experience him. Mary Now we're talking with a friend who's really a fun person, just super friendly. But this friend, I'll call her Sue, is not a follower of Jesus Christ yet we're in a conversation and she begins to tell us about a relationship that's broken in her heart as she just goes.
I don't know what to do. I'm dying on the inside. I have nowhere to turn. And Mary, my grace filled amazing wife, she just looked at her and she said, Such a mind. If I do share part of my own story. And Sue said, Yeah. And Mary said, So I want to tell you what happened in my own life.
I tried for a lot of years to do life on my own, and I had this empty place in my heart that I tried to fill up by achieving. And and so Mary made National Honor Society and she's, you know, and the chair, she's a cheerleader. And the president of a marching band and one of the Volunteer of the Year award and all these things that happened in high school trying to fill up this gaping hole in her heart.
And she said, I still felt empty. She said, I went off to college and I got involved. I just you know, I I was reaching for life and for my identity in the wrong places. And I experienced a lot of disappointment. And I got to know someone who Sheila, thank God for Sheila. And she goes, I saw a change in Sheila's life.
And she told me about I asked her and she told me about the amazing change that Jesus Christ had brought into her life that you can know him. It's a relationship. And and she'll asked me if I want to be part of a Bible study. And so I said, Yeah. And I started to read the Bible, and I always thought I was a Christian.
Mary said, Because I'm not Muslim or Buddhist or Jewish or Hindu or whatever. And I thought, just default American, like I'm Christian. And and but she said, I began to read the Gospels. You know, Matthew, Luke and John and get to know about Jesus. And my eyes were opened up. That being a follower of Jesus is knowing him in a personal way.
And she said, I invited Jesus Christ to come into my life. And I said, Jesus, I no longer want to live life on my terms. I want to live them on your terms. She said, I surrendered my life and she said, It's not that my problems all went away. But she said, Jesus came into my life and it began to transform the way I see people, my relationships.
And Mary said that empty place in my heart. He came in and he filled. And she goes, This made all the difference in my life. And Sue, that's what I want for you. I want you to find the Jesus wants to come into your life like He does for all of us, and he will fill that empty spot in your heart.
Friends, that is what authentic Christianity is all about. It's not about following some kind of set of moral like the Ten Commandments, not jumping through religious hoops. It's not, you know, trying your best and doing more and trying harder for a God who's far away. Christianity is about a God who says, I want to move into your neighborhood.
I want to come and live actually with you and in you. And it's the story of the Bible. It's the story of God that those who receive him are never the same. So here's my question for you today. What if just in a new, fresh way, whether you been a follower of Jesus for a long time or this is your first time, what if we just invited Jesus in his presence to fill us in a new way to say, Lord, I want to see my life from your perspective and I want to wake up every day this week and I want to do life with you as the one who's come to fill me with
all of your wisdom and your power and your love. Think about how that would transform your life If you've put your trust in him, I'm going to tell you again you are a tabernacle of God. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift. Amen. Let's pray and invite him to have his way within us. Jesus. Thank you today for coming and in finding a way for us to be forgiven.
We just invite you right now by your Holy Spirit to come and to live in all of your fullness in us. Come Holy Spirit. Whether this is a first time decision or Jesus, we've known you for a long time. We want you to come in to fill every nook and cranny of our lives, every sphere of our lives that we say, I'm not my own, Jesus.
I belong to you. I'm your temple. Thank you for moving into my life. Thank you for making your home and me and Jesus. If there's anything that makes you feel unwelcome, I want to turn away from that. I prayed. Cleanse me. Help me to take whatever steps are needed to be done with that thought pattern, that destructive habit, that behavior, that that just dishonors you.
Jesus. I repent of that and I want you to have your way in my life. Jesus, Thank you for coming to be and may prompt me this week. Remind me that you're with me and me and may I talk with you as if that's the reality and help me to see other people in that way as well. Temples that you want to fill.
Lord, have your way in Me I pray. May your name be honored and exalted as a result in all of his Tabernacles said together. Amen. Amen Team is going to lead us in a prayer. Love this song. Let's stand together and make this our prayer to Jesus.
Today you're one your own. Help me find a way.
Just now, Jesus.
draw me close to you. Never let me go Lay it all down here. You see it? I'm your friend. You are my son. No one else will to love No one else Take your place. Nothing in this world for you. All of your embrace. Help me find the way.
Bring me back to you.
You love it. I want you I want your life. Let me be your own one How me? No, me no. Charlie. God, Charlie, can we say draw me close to me?
Draw me close.
You never let me go Ever Let me go Lay it all down here You say to me. You say that I'm your friend and you're my desire. You might increase your passion for law. No one else will do nothing else for me to feel the warmth of your brain for Help me find love for you. Bring me back to you.
I bet you on all that I want you your 1010 How we know you wanna see you you're. all I ever have how you know Help me to know you help me to know the future Open my eyes How can I see Lord, How can I see you love trouble me We confess I need love Give us clean hands Give us your heart Let us not lift our souls to give us clean air.
Give us your heart Let us not kill you Just give us clean hands again. Give us clean, Give us clean Well, give us your heart. Just let us not start souls to run Give us creations Give us your heart There's my soul can't live God. Let us be. And away To Spain. To Spain To go to work God.
Let us see Until we see something won't die here. God. And I'll speak on Channel one show and see you on days. God. God. God bless me. Tell I see your face so. give us clean. Give us your. Let us start with our souls to above you. Give us clean. Sure. Let us on this dark souls to love.
I'm glad you said yes to Jesus.
I'm glad I did too.
Glad I did as well. I hope that's true for all of you. That's our heart for people that we know and love. And so if you want to take as many of these cards as you like there on the tables, you go. Also, Alpha Kappa Alpha table's out. Isbell is out there. She'd be glad to answer any questions you have.
And we have a prayer team that's going to be at the front here. And if you like to just have someone pray with you, they would be really happy to do that before you take off.
Isabella is tabling in the lobby.
Did I say that wrong? I'm sorry. No, no, no.
You said it right. But they said it earlier. They're talking about and at the end of the book of Matthew, the very last chapter, we read about that first Easter when Jesus came back from the dead for us. And then at the end, at the very end of the chapter, it said this He is this kind of a paraphrase.
He says, okay, I'll go tell everybody the good news. Go tell everybody the good news. And then he ends with this. You remember this, He says, And surely I will be with you. I will be with you always, even to the very end of the day. That's our promise. Grace Church. Love you right?