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Invite you to turn with me in your Bibles to Galatians chapter two. We're gonna be looking at Galatians chapter two verse 20. That's our key text for this morning, and really what we're doing is we're shifting gears here. So we have this theme, this topical theme that we've been going with, which is living the the cross shaped life. And for the last eight or nine weeks, we have been focused on our position in Christ.
David Westwood:There is nothing more refreshing, I think, in my opinion, than meditating on our position in Christ. And really the purpose there was to interrupt a conversation. This is interrupting a conversation that you have with yourself about your own shortcomings, about your own limitations, about your own sins, your own sense of belonging, and to interrupt that conversation and to displace it with the idea of who you are in Christ that you are a child of god, that on the knife edge, on the knife edge, when you put your trust in the lord Jesus Christ, you are brought into a union with the Lord Jesus Christ himself. In that moment, on the knife edge, you become a child of God. In that moment, on a knife edge, you become a priest.
David Westwood:A free access. Hebrews chapter four to that throne of grace. A child of God. First John chapter three, now you are sons of God. On the knife edge.
David Westwood:And that is who you are in Christ. And you and I, we have all kinds of interesting conversations with ourselves that that's not really true but the scripture is our straight edge. The scripture is the truth and often times our hearts and minds get it wrong And so it's good to open our minds and hearts to the truth of scripture and align our self to what that what the scriptures actually say and what they actually mean. What's true about us. Are you willing?
David Westwood:Let me ask you a question. Having our position in Christ now in the rearview mirror, are you willing to trust what the Bible says about you and what the Lord says about you and not what your own feelings say about you? Are you willing to disregard your feelings? How nerve racking that may be for you and I at times. Because so often we have what is called a self referential epistemology.
David Westwood:This means that you hold what you believe to be true, true. You are your own reference. But that is not the case. The scripture is the straight edge, and what the scripture says is true about you is true despite what you may feel. And so here we turn our attention having dwelt on our position in Christ.
David Westwood:Now we want to turn our attention to life of surrender where there is freedom and surrender. We want to be considering, you know, that this cross shaped life and the fact that we now surrender to the Lord. And we're gonna find that there is freedom through surrender. You know, it's it's no mystery to you and to I. You know, a couple of weeks ago, Dan talked, Dan gave a message about the death and and resurrection of of the Christian faith.
David Westwood:There there's no escaping the model that we have in scripture about death and resurrection. Like Dan had mentioned in his sermon, this when you become a Christian, it's not a remodel. You don't go in and get some new cabinets and you don't go in and get new carpeting. This is a death and resurrection kind of paradigm when we talk about putting our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. And throughout the pages of the New Testament, we have this idea about death and resurrection.
David Westwood:It's replete in the Scripture. And so here today, we want to be dwelling on the Scripture. We want to be finding, Lord, that we want to be finding that as we yield our life, one of the most difficult things that you will face in your life is yielding to the Lord, is yielding to the Lord. And it it is at hot... It is at times so difficult to do because we want our own way.
David Westwood:But when you and I, this morning at the breaking of bread, it was talked about Psalm one. I think Alan had mentioned that. Don't you wanna be... Let me ask you that by way of appeal, don't you wanna be like a tree firmly planted by the stream? Don't you want that?
David Westwood:Don't you want to be a tree whose leaves do not wither in season? Don't you want to be a tree that bears fruit? You say, well, I like that. I want to be that way. Well, there is a cost to that.
David Westwood:It is a death to self. It is in Psalm one, it's delighting in the law of the Lord. And we want we want that. We want the steady path. We want the tree, but so often we we want it in our own way and on our own terms.
David Westwood:Are you willing to to yield to the terms of the Lord? It says in Psalm one forty three verse 10, it says, teach me to do your will. That's surrender. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on level ground.
David Westwood:Don't you want level ground in your life? Lord, my ground is so rough and rocky. Don't you want to walk on level ground? Lord, teach me your way. Let your good spirit lead me on level ground.
David Westwood:If you're all in agreement, then we can continue on. So we will be spending some time looking to see how we might be able to walk on level ground. I have book recommendation for you here for the fall. I don't know. You know, is it is it getting to be that time when you go to Starbucks and and now they've got the the pumpkin whatever latte or I don't know.
David Westwood:Is it that time of year now? So, if if it's that time of year and it's now time for fireplaces and and cold and brief cold mornings and and a cozy book that will tear your heart to shreds. I have a book recommendation for you. And so it is it is Born Crucified by Ellie Maxwell. The QR codes there, $5 on Amazon for the Kindle version.
David Westwood:Well, it's it's just a great book, you know. It's rough reading but it's good. Notice what Ellie Maxwell says. He says, from the moment a believer is saved, he is so related to the cross that if he henceforth fails to live by the cross, he's an utter ethical contradiction to himself in his position in Christ. We've just we've just spent some time talking about our position in Christ, who we are, and sprinkled throughout that, we have our practice.
David Westwood:But we don't want to be a contradiction. We want to close the gap of how we actually live and what we actually do and how we interact with the challenges that life brings so that we can kind of close that gap and be responding and acting the right way. And I would suggest to you that that Galatians chapter two verse 20, this thing this thing is packed. This thing this verse is packed. And you know, if if you were to if you were...
David Westwood:If I were to put for the... For our STP students, you know, what's your theme? I I would say I would say that my theme is Galatians two twenty, living the cross... Living the the crucified life according to Galatians two twenty is strategic. It is strategic.
David Westwood:This verse, every phrase, our plan, the outline is to go semicolon by semicolon. That's what we're going to do according to the the printing in my NASB. So we'll take it phrase by phrase, and that's just the plan of what we're gonna do and go through it phrase by phrase as we look at this verse. I've been crucified with Christ, and it's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life which I now live in the flesh, live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
David Westwood:Some of you have told me that this is your life verse. I think it's a pretty good selection for life verse. If you're gonna choose a life verse, it needs to be one of those verses that sort of works like a Swiss army knife, you know. It's gotta work in every sort of circumstance and situation. I think you've got a good one here with Galatians two twenty being a life verse.
David Westwood:I think it's a good one. But let's just look you know, the word of God is active and sharper than any two edged sword. So by my examples, by my demeanor and friendly appearance, you know, that actually is not going to do a bit of good. The the impact of God's word needs to take hold in our life. So let's look at it.
David Westwood:It is God's word. So let's look at this phrase by phrase. Consider this this recurrent idea of living. Do you like to live? Yes, I like to live.
David Westwood:Okay. Well, we talked about Galatians two twenty being strategic and that is to say, it needs to apply to the way that we live. I who live, Christ lives in me. The life as if to sort of underscore what it is that that Paul is talking about. He's not talking about some esoteric idea of living but he's talking about the the life that I live in the flesh.
David Westwood:You know, like Monday, like tomorrow, like dealing with cranky kids, like dealing with a demanding boss, like dealing with struggles and and chronic issues that won't go away. The life that I now live in the flesh. Let's talk about your life, the life that you live in the flesh. If this verse is gonna be strategic, it needs to be working in your life. The life that you live in the flesh, your real life needs to be applicable in that way.
David Westwood:Howard Voss says, this verse, verse 20, is the most magnificent verse in all scripture. Wow, that's quite a comment. It makes abundantly clear that the fact that Christianity is not a matter of some legalistic form of carefully checked off list of do's and don'ts. It's it's a life. It's a life.
David Westwood:Moreover, it is not human effort trying to bring to bring off a superior kind of morality, but a divine life surging through the individual. Old things have passed away. All things have become new. The context of of Galatians two twenty is actually in a section of Galatians chapter two where there's some historical narrative that takes place. Paul talks about a scenario where he went to Antioch and there he saw Peter there in Antioch and apparently, Peter was in sort of the situation where he was enjoying his Christian liberty with fellow Gentiles And and he was there and and and he was eating and fellowshipping with the Gentiles.
David Westwood:But when the Jews came, Peter held himself aloof. And he said, oh, you know, the Gentiles, I can't I can't be that way. And so Peter called him out. Peter or Paul called him out to his face. It says there in in earlier in Galatians chapter two and called him out for his hypocrisy.
David Westwood:That word hypocrisy is a is a theatrical term. It it talks it's a theatrical term that means speaking from under a mask. You know, means being one way in public but another way in private And Paul called him out in that. And so it's sort of within that context that we've got Paul making this statement. If you look at just the verse just before, you know, we've got verse 19.
David Westwood:For through the law, I died to the law so that I might live to God. And then Paul goes on, I've been crucified with Christ. Paul is basically saying, I am all in. You know, there's this example of Peter. He was one way in public.
David Westwood:He was another way when another group showed up. He was sort of he was sort of living a life that was a hypocritical life. And it was really messing with the very foundations of the gospel itself and Paul says, I'm all in. When he when he talks about being crucified with Christ and it's no longer I live but Christ lives in me. It's as if he's putting a stake in the ground and saying, this is me.
David Westwood:This is this is not just my ideology and this is not just my my you know, my friend group. He's saying, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. He's putting a stake in the ground. If Paul were sending like a text message with this verse to one of you, he might it would be in all caps. And I know that this is true.
David Westwood:That's not just for effect. Because actually, this is one of the unique epistles where Paul tells us the type of font that he used to write the letter. He says in chapter six, see with what large letters I am writing you. Paul is agitated because they're messing with the gospel. And Paul says, he Paul says, no, no hypocrisy.
David Westwood:He says, I am I am all in. I'm all in. And I know that in our day and age, you know, we we get dressed and we come to church and and we fellowship and we talk to other people, you know, but it really matters a great deal who you really are. It really matters a great deal who you Sometimes really we put on airs, or maybe we're one way with one group of people and another way with another group. That is just...
David Westwood:It's just hypocrisy. And and Paul just comes out and says, you know, I've been crucified with Christ. I believe it. And he puts his stake on it. So that is actually the context of our passage here.
David Westwood:He's fully committed. Notice how personal it is. He says seven times, something related to I and me. Isn't it interesting how Paul personalizes the death of the lord Jesus who loved me and gave himself up for me? Absent in this verse is the language of the lord loving the world or dying for the church, dying for the world, or, the Lord giving Himself up for us.
David Westwood:It's here Paul personalizes it and says, it is for me. The crucified life is for you and it is for me. And so here, you know, this is where you know, this is really the context of Galatians chapter two, verse 20, is Paul is saying, I am all in and and I, you know, I have died to the law and I'm staking everything on the cross. I'm staking everything on the cross. Well, that's really the context.
David Westwood:But this is one of those things that if you put a rock in the water and it has a ripple effect, that statement and this stake in the ground that Paul has here has a ripple effect. And the ripple effect is as we begin to take a look at this verb, the crucified, Paul says, I have been crucified with Christ. Paul is using figure of speech here. I know that we may have a tendency to kind of want to push away some of these severe terms. And this is a severe term.
David Westwood:Crucified means impaled. I mean, this is like this is the language that's being used. And Paul says, I have been basically impaled or crucified with Christ. Not literally, but it's a figure of speech. Bill MacDonald, in his commentary, says, the believer, that's you and I, is...
David Westwood:Are identified with Christ in his death. Not only was he crucified on Calvary, I was crucified there as well in him. See, when Paul is using his words I so often, you and I can put our words there too. Did you know that you were crucified with Christ? We don't often talk about things that way.
David Westwood:Listen to what Bill goes on to say. He goes on to say, this means an end of me as a sinner in god's sight. It means an end of me as a person seeking to merit or earn salvation in my own efforts. It means an end of me as a child of Adam, as a man under condemnation of law. My old unregenerate self.
David Westwood:The old evil eye has been crucified, and it is no... It no longer has claims on my daily life. This is true as to my standing before God, and it should be true as to my behavior. And so tonight, we're gonna also witness a baptism. Isn't it interesting that we have very few ordinances of the church?
David Westwood:We really have two primary ones. We have the breaking of bread that we did this morning, which is a remembering of the Lord with the breaking of bread and the drinking of the cup. That's one ordinance of the church. The other ordinance of the church is baptism, where it's that symbolic action of going underneath the water and coming up, being raised of newness of life. It's being identified with Christ in His death.
David Westwood:You and I have been identified with Christ in His death. We can say, with Paul, I've been crucified with Christ. You can say that too. This isn't like something for this extra credit only for the superior Christians that maybe wanna dabble on that. No.
David Westwood:This is true of you and I as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. And the and the encouraging thing here is that it's something that has that the the verb is actually in what they call the the perfect tense. And here is when we begin really for a balance of the message today to get application from this as we think about the perfect tense of this verb crucified with Christ. The perfect tense means that that it's it's an activity that took place at one particular point in time with results that continue on into the present. F.
David Westwood:F. Bruce adds that the perfect tense emphasizes that participation in the crucified Christ has become the believer's settled way of life. This is our settled way of life, is to consider that. So you say, well, Dave, I really that seems like kind of a stretch, what you're saying, or, okay, that's the application, and you told us the interpretation. Okay.
David Westwood:Look with me at, Galatians five twenty four. Okay. Galatians five twenty four. It says this, those who belong to Jesus Christ, is that you? This morning, as you sit here, do you belong to Jesus Christ?
David Westwood:You say, well, yes, I I do belong to Jesus Christ. Then Then you and I, we can also fill in with the rest of them. Those who belong to Jesus Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. So this is a truth that you and I can say based on Galatians five twenty four. We don't need to invent application for Galatians chapter two twenty.
David Westwood:Paul has given a... Given us the application in the very same letter. But he goes on to say that in the very next phrase, it is no longer I who live. The implication is that it used to be so. If Paul says it's no longer I who live, Paul is basically saying that that used to be the case.
David Westwood:Paul is used to be calling the shots. Paul was familiar with earning favor with others and by law keeping. But now he has been... Now there's been an exchange that has taken place. It is no longer I who live, and by extension, you and I can say the same thing.
David Westwood:No longer. You know, was looking I was just looking in my Bible at the phrase no longer, and it's interesting. This is one of those things that has come and now it's You know, in in the Garden of Eden, you know, when when god brought Eve to Adam, you know, it was so that the man would no longer be alone. And another instance of that is in two Corinthians five fifteen, which reads, He died for all so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose again on their behalf. This is this is why I think that this is why I think that Galatians chapter two, verse 20 is strategic.
David Westwood:That when you feel your blood pressure beginning to increase, or whatever kind of bodily response you have when difficulty arises, maybe it's perspiration. Maybe it's sort of that inward agitation. And you begin to sense, Okay, I'm beginning to kind of lose it. I'm struggling. I may blurt out and say something I regret.
David Westwood:I may yell. I may have any kind of number of responses. I think that by remembering Galatians chapter two, verse 20, that that could be strategically helpful in your life, and maybe even this particular phrase. If you embrace the idea that you have been crucified with Christ, and if you, even in the moment where it's so difficult, if you can somehow just calm yourself long enough to say the next few words, I think. I mean, I'm not a betting man, but I think that you could be 75% of the way there for a godly response.
David Westwood:If you could say, I've been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I. I mean, could you just get that far? It is no longer I. If you could say that, because there has been a replacement that has taken place here. And that's kind of the point that Paul is saying.
David Westwood:There's been a replacement. So could I just get you to embrace the idea that I'm warming up to the idea, Dave, that Galatians chapter two verse 20 is strategic for me. I don't like a life verse, and I'm not gonna put it on a plaque in my study. But I kind of like the idea that it may work in the moment when difficulty arises. The guy cut me off.
David Westwood:I was laughing yesterday. We were driving. And Lars says, why are you laughing? You know? And I said, this guy, you know, he cut me off.
David Westwood:And I said, well, why are you laughing? Well, I was just thinking about my message. I've been crucified. It's no longer I who live. Because what does that really mean?
David Westwood:It's no longer I who live? Well, we need to kind of fill it in with the rest of it. You know, Christ lives in me. To give you a little rest, you know, I know that you and I, we we play things, you know, when when when we're tempted, you know, if we're tempted about the future. If you're temp...
David Westwood:If you're tempted about the future with some sort of, you know, difficulty that's ahead, You know, I think that if you were to say this, you know, it would help you. It's no longer I who live. I'm crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live. Christ lives in me.
David Westwood:I'm I'm anxious about some unknown in the future. It's no longer I'm just agitated by the price of gas. You know, it's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. We... You and I, we fall into patterns of thinking that are just so repetitive, and we just don't want anything to kind of break the flow because it's code that executes so well to my software friends.
David Westwood:Oh, have I got something for you. I have some pseudo code. I have some pseudo code for you. So this is for my software friends. Don't interrupt Galatians two twenty.
David Westwood:I don't life verse, you know, I've been crucified. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Try executing some different code. Just try something a little different So that when my heart is tempted to react in a certain way, you know, to to fear, worry, anxiety, anger, some irritation, offense, and inconvenience. Something that just it wasn't a chapter in my book.
David Westwood:Do you have any events that happen in your life that you did not want that chapter in your book? Where did that come from? No, thank you. Rather than run the code that you're used to, or code, we're used to repeating, how about I've been crucified with Christ and it's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me? It's my, that's my strategy.
David Westwood:I'm gonna interrupt my heart that always seems to be talking, and I'm going to tell it to be quiet. And instead, I'm going to replace it with something that is true and right despite the way I feel and despite my circumstances. I'm gonna put my stake in the ground like Paul. I'm gonna write with large letters on my heart so that this is what I believe and that this is the truth that I'm going to embrace. But we have this idea that Christ lives in me.
David Westwood:What a consoling truth to know that Christ lives in me. This speaks of the potential that is available to you. Yo, what good is that? Christ it's so theoretical. I mean, like, like, where where is he?
David Westwood:Oh, this is this is where this life lived by faith. It must be embraced by faith. Christ lives in you. The book of Colossians chapter one says, Christ in you, the hope of glory. It says it says in, it says in another place where I have my notes.
David Westwood:It says in in first John some place, it says that we've got, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. I know that sometimes the the old man, if you will, seems to resurrect and seems so strong and so powerful, but John says, greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. You have Christ in you. Christ lives in me.
David Westwood:I wonder if you can say that this morning. Christ lives in me. And even though oftentimes you feel so overpowered by those circumstances, say to yourself Christ lives in me. So Paul Tripp in his book How People Change writes, The Christian mom who speaks with patience when she once would have spoken in anger is experiencing the reality of Christ living in her. The husband, who comes home tired from work but still serves his wife, is living in the power of the indwelling Christ.
David Westwood:The friend, who chooses to overlook minor offenses and stay in friendship she would have once forsaken is choosing to live a life based on the basis of Christ in me, a life of faith. We're just going through this verse. There's power in this verse. It's... This has nothing to do with the sermon.
David Westwood:But there's just power in these words. And if we could if we could burn infirmware these these these words into our mind, I think it would do us a great deal of good. Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, That is why the verse is so strategic because it's talking about the life that we now live in the flesh, the real life. I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. Let me ask you a question.
David Westwood:If we were to change this and and have it be a blank, let's say, let's let's do a little fill in the blank exercise. And let's do it for your life. And let's just have you fill in the blank and you were to say, well, Dave, the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by blank. What would you put in the blank? What would you put?
David Westwood:What would you put in the blank? I mean, think that through. We'll give you time to think. When you're done, put down your pencil. The life that I now live, I live by...
David Westwood:Well, I don't know. I'm just try... Will you leave me alone with sort of the tweaky kind of questions in her... I don't know. I'm just trying to survive.
David Westwood:I'm just trying to get through tomorrow. I mean, come on. Be real. I know that. What kind of coping mechanism do you have in life?
David Westwood:A poor coping says that my coping mechanism, the life that I now live in the flesh, live by, I must protect myself. I have to protect myself, even if it means compromising what I know to be the right thing to do. I must control outcomes at all cost. No matter what. I didn't have to look very far to say that one.
David Westwood:I must control outcomes at all costs. The life that I now live in the flesh, I live by control. That's how I get it done. The life that I now live in the flesh, here's how I live in it. If difficulty comes, I try to get out of it.
David Westwood:Difficulty, bad. No difficulty, good. Difficulty comes, get out. Whatever matters, whatever costs, if difficulty comes into your life, escape. Get rid of it.
David Westwood:That's my strategy. That's my coping strategy. Been working for me for many years. My coping strategy is to blame somebody. Somebody this person did not do this, and it should have happened, so it's all his fault.
David Westwood:That's my coping strategy, is I'm going to blame somebody else. My coping strategy is to bulletproof my future. You know, build a bigger barn. Oh, where'd that come from? That's my strategy.
David Westwood:The life that I now fill in the blank. The life that I now live, I live by It doesn't matter. Just do something. Well, let's talk to Mary and Martha about that. My dad liked to quote an old navy adage.
David Westwood:It goes like this, when in danger or in doubt, run-in circles, scream, and shout. That may work. The life that I now live, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. There's no escaping. You walk your life and you grow and mature and age, but you never age out of your need to trust the Lord and to put your hand in his.
David Westwood:It is a life of faith and not by sight. This is one of those forward looking statements from Paul, the life that I live. Forward looking statement. It's like a financial thing. What's your forward what's your forward looking statement?
David Westwood:The life that I live in the flesh, I live by faith. Oh, but you need to have faith in something, don't you? Or someone. He says, I have faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. The future can be very scary, can't it?
David Westwood:And truth be told, that the things that you and I so often face can seem a whole lot like God does not love me if you were to create your evidences based upon your experiences, so often you would come to that conclusion, perhaps logically so, if you're going to derive it based upon what you can see and what you can understand and what you observe and experience in your life. But Paul is far from those evidences here in his statement, in his phrase. If I were to say, okay, let's have another quiz. What are the evidences for which Paul says that the Lord loves me? What would be the answer based upon the text?
David Westwood:Who loved me and gave himself up for me. That is your evidence. That is your evidence. There are absolutely difficulties that arise that are insurmountable and so, so difficult. But could we let these large letters embed themselves in our strategic thinking, our way of processing our difficulty to say that I am going to live my life in the flesh by faith, and I'm going to trust the one who loved me and paid it all.
David Westwood:This morning in the breaking of bread, we were talking about, you know, loving them to the end. I think that was something that was mentioned, or maybe it was a sentiment that was expressed. Who loved me and gave is that strong enough evidence for you that would trump, no pun intended, your experience? You would say, you know, what I'm experiencing is nuts. It's so crazy.
David Westwood:But you know what? This is like the trump card. This covers it all. Who loved me and gave himself up. He who did not spare his own son.
David Westwood:This is, I mean, we're in the deep end, I know. But I would like to quote, read a quote from Jerry Bridges in his book Trusting God. He says, Our greatest need is not freedom from adversity. Thanks a lot, Dave. Can you stop there?
David Westwood:Let's go on. Our greatest need is not to... Is not freedom from adversity. All the possible calamities that could occur in this life cannot in any way be compared with the absolute calamity of eternal separation from God. Jesus said no earthly joy could compare with the eternal joy of our names written in heaven.
David Westwood:In like manner, no earthly adversity can compare with that awful calamity of God's eternal judgment in hell. I have I have one more slide. This is this is the last slide. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for you. It is the proof of God's love for you.
David Westwood:I hadn't really thought too much about Colossians chapter two verse 20 being a gospel verse. I don't think that that one's in the gospel outline the last time I checked. But I wonder if that could be your salvation verse for someone here. You know, you've lived your life, you know, trying to do your best, trying to just keep the faith and have religion and just trying to keep yourself clean from the world. Of course, there's the dirtying that happens along the way.
David Westwood:But you're sort of dabbling with the Galatian problem of that they were mixing the two, trying to be saved by keeping the law and doing right and then also keeping the faith. And Paul says, enough of this. Let me show you my capital letters. I'm putting everything, everything, my life, my future in the one who loved me and gave himself up for me. Could you say with Paul, I have died to the law that I might live to God?
David Westwood:I've died to the law. Come on. Just take that step and trust Christ and put your faith all in him, him alone, For your future, for your eternity, and for the struggles and the challenges that you face tomorrow, your life in the flesh. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for your word, And we thank you for the strategic nature of Galatians chapter two verse 20.
David Westwood:I pray, Lord, that as a church, we would allow some of our thoughts and conversations to be interrupted with this verse in Jesus' name. Amen.