Luke 6:12-19 with Aaron Searles

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Okay, I'm starting off this morning with what I'll call a teaching illustration. I think some of you can see this. Can you guys see this in the back? A little higher. Okay. So I'm holding this, we'll call it object. It may look like a rock. But it again communicates something. Maybe helpful to focus our morning on what it is. But something's very important about this object, I'm calling it. And it it looks maybe on the outside like a rock. It may look like an ordinary rock. You may see something like this in your own garden or near your front door or your back door. It may blend in with a garden or the plants or other rocks that you have. But there's something secret about it. There's something hidden about it, something very important. And actually, this object carries authority. It carries maybe a responsibility. It carries access. What in the world are you talking about, Aaron? Okay, so what this actually is, is a fake rock that holds a key. Holds a key to this building I put in it. So this building, you know, some estimates would say maybe close to $500,000 to buy this building or to purchase. Some people would argue more or whatever, but just a rough estimate. But holds a key. This this object, again, on the outside looks ordinary, looks boring, looks like you wouldn't care ever about it. It looks like a rock. But inside of it, it carried something very important again, something that has access, something that has responsibility, authority to something vastly more important. And so that's what we're going to be talking about today. We're going to be talking about three keys to be like Jesus. Three keys. I mean, is there anything maybe more important for us to focus on in our lives than to be like Jesus? And to do that, we're going to be in Luke chapter 6, verses 12 through 19. So then just encourage you in your journals or in your Bibles to turn to Luke chapter 6, verses 12 through 19. Again, we're going to be looking at three keys to be like Jesus. So verse 12. And again, we'll go verse by verse through this. In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. Again, this is Jesus. So the title of this sermon series is called Christ Our Certainty. And we've been learning and going through these first chapters and verses and looking at all the ways so far that Jesus has declared and revealed that He is the Messiah. He is God in the flesh. He is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords. He is again God in the flesh. And so last week Jared talked about how Jesus said he is the Lord of the Sabbath. In other words, he's saying, I created everything on the seventh day I rested. I am the Lord of the Sabbath. That's a way of, in a sense, declaring that he is God, that he is creator. Before that, we talked about how Jesus identified himself as the bridegroom, and that's why you don't have to fast. The disciples didn't have to fast because they were with the bridegroom. You wouldn't not eat at a wedding. And again, Jesus compares himself to the bridegroom. We talked about how Jesus forgives sins. Nobody but God can forgive sins. And Jesus was forgiving sins. And then after that, healing someone of their inability to walk. Peter and James and John and Andrew, we understand, call Jesus Lord after they saw the miraculous catch of fish. We know that Jesus has delivered people from demonic oppression. So many who were possessed by demons were no longer possessed by demons because of Jesus. We know in his hometown, he was rejected when he declared that in their hearing the prophecy of the Messiah was now fulfilled. But they rejected him and they tried to throw him off a cliff. Imagine that. Imagine if your closest friends and family tried to throw you off a cliff, but he didn't allow them. He passed through the crowd that was trying to kill him. We know that John the Baptist baptized him in what I would understand a Trinitarian event. We see the three persons of the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit in that moment. We know that Jesus was born of the bloodline that was necessary and the Davidic bloodline. And Jesus, when he was 12 years old, he said the temple was his father's house. Again, these are all ways in just the couple of chapters that we've been through where Jesus is plainly, simply declaring who he is. He is God, Christ our certainty. So now Jesus, after you know, doing these things and now displaying that he is Christ, that he is the Messiah, he goes to this mountain to pray. And he prays all night. Jesus over and over again, even in the first couple of chapters, over and over again, models to us the priority of our lives is actually in secret. To be in secret with God, to be in secret with, in relationship with Jesus. Again, Jesus is showing us how to live, how to be a Christian, how to be a follower of Christ. It's about the secret life. And that's why this is where this idea came up. That there is a secret life. There's, in a sense, a secret that we all carry. And it doesn't get noticed. It's not about anybody else finding out about your secret life in God. And it's it needs to be a priority as you go about this life. Again, Jesus models to us our priority is in the secret time with Jesus. Jesus' prayer life is also to me a in a picture, a display of the Trinity. Again, Jesus models to us again that the importance of being in union in relationship in perfection in being with God, the Father. So the first key I just want to highlight to you today to be like Jesus is secret life with God. Secret life with God. If we want to be like Jesus, we need to have a secret life with God. Again, fasting and nobody knows it. In prayer, in a prayer closet, in a desolate place, it says, Nobody knows it. Nobody's giving you credit for being religious. It's just the priority, the importance to be with Jesus. So that's the key, again, number one, the secret life with God. So what was Jesus praying about? What was he praying all night about? Well, John chapter 8, verse 28 and 29 says this. So Jesus said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. So I read some commentaries on this, and we can all speculate about what Jesus was praying about. We do know what happens next, but again, I see the importance, the priority of Jesus in secret, in relationship with God the Father. I think we can apply that to our lives. But this is what it says, verse 13. So Jesus spends all night praying, and then this happens, verse 13. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles. So apostles, so why twelve? Well, we can understand this. We can conclude that this was symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel. So the Israel was made up of twelve kind of, in a sense, people groups that were descendants of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. So they were the descendants. It's a way to represent, like this is all of Israel represented. And these 12 are as symbolically representing that. But one commentary I read said this the idea behind the ancient Greek word, so this word apostle, is ambassador. The Greek word is apostolos, which means sent one. It describes someone who represents another and has a message from their sender. In this broader sense, Jesus was also an apostle according to Hebrews chapter 3, verse 1, considering the apostle and high priest of our confession, Christ Jesus. So what am I saying here? Jesus is giving them an office of apostle, but also a purpose like his, to be sent, to be sent ones, to be like ambassadors for Jesus. And we know that after Judas betrays Jesus, they chose a new apostle to take his place. And this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But the criteria, if you look at when they're trying to decide, and I've heard different pronunciations of his name, so Matthias, Matthias, I'll leave that up to you. I think you know what I'm talking about, but there's this in the book of Acts this conversation. But the criteria to be considered an apostle, again, to be in this purpose and office of apostle was a very critical criteria. The criteria is you had to be at the baptism of John and you had to see his resurrection. You had to see the life and the ministry of Jesus. So that in order to be qualified to be an apostle, you had to see all of the ministry and the mission and what Jesus, the Messiah, was doing. That's what was the qualifications, again, the appointed by Jesus. But really, what apostles are are witnesses of all the ministry of Jesus. So again, there's this capital A apostle office versus what I'll call apostolic, like calling and mission and gifting, I will call it. So our church doesn't believe there are apostles anymore. We believe that office was for the early church. So I'm not an apostle, capital A, but I would argue I have apostolic, in a sense, gifting. I want to be on mission for Jesus. And I would say if you look back on the back wall, it says everyone on mission. So guess what? We want you to be apostolic in the sense of being sent. We want you to be ambassadors, to be representatives, to be on mission for Jesus, to leave what is comfortable, to leave, in a sense, what is safe, and to go represent Jesus to your neighbors, to represent Jesus to your coworkers, to represent Jesus to your friends and your family. That is what we believe and call you to. That is one of the values of our church, to be, in a sense, on mission for Jesus. But again, the office of apostle, here's what they would do: they would write and confirm Scripture. They would confirm Paul in all of his letters and writings. We know that Luke and Acts was, in a sense, kind of Paul's gospel. Again, Paul was recognized by the other apostles. You've heard of John, John the Beloved, but we also heard of Mark, John Mark. We've talked about him in the past, and he was kind of Peter's gospel kind of story writer for the gospel. Obviously, John the Beloved wrote his gospel in 1, 2nd, 3rd, John, and Revelation. We know Matthew, again, we talked about Matthew in the past and the calling of Matthew, he would have been the most hated in society, and he writes one of the gospels. James and Jude, the half-brothers of Jesus, again, but confirmed by the other apostles. So this is what the apostles would do. And again, we can, I think, take from their example. So we're not in the office of, but we are in the ministry of, the purpose of, the function of being that kind of, you know, ambassador. You are the ambassadors of Christ. God is making his appeal through you. So we don't work, we don't have like an actual office space as ambassadors, but I have called this building, I want it to be like an embassy. And I want to send you out. I want, you know, the Holy Spirit and with God's word to send you out from this embassy, this place to equip you, to send you out, not to represent gospel collective, but to represent Jesus, to tell people about Jesus and tell them about what he has done in your life. It's also amazing. So the apostles, you know, they're the witnesses, they are confirming Scripture because they were the ones closest with Jesus. They had been given this authority, this office. And also the apostles would become evidence of the resurrection. We believe in the gospel. Jesus is God, Jesus died on the cross for your sins, Jesus conquered death by his resurrection. So the apostles would be the evidence, the witnesses of the resurrection. And then they would tell people about Jesus. One thing I just heard actually earlier this morning, a Wes Huff clip. He's if you don't know who Wes Huff is, he's really cool. But anyway, Wes Huff talks about how in this time we are very literary culture. We are about books and reading, and that is primarily because in the 1500s there's something called a printing press. I will not go more into that. At this time, they were more of an oral culture, a spoken culture. And so the importance was on people speaking and witnessing and sharing. So here Jesus appoints these twelve to bear witness to his life and resurrection. But again, they would become the evidence of the resurrection. With their own eyes, they declared that Jesus conquered death. Chuck Colson said this: a man who started prison ministry who had a conversion in prison. He was in the Watergate scandal. But he said this: I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. Twelve men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead. Then they proclaimed that truth for forty years, never once denying it. Everyone was beaten, tortured, and stoned, and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Again, the apostles are evidence of the resurrection. The apostles didn't, you know, I'm going to say something controversial, and so bear with me. The apostles didn't believe in Jesus. They didn't believe in it. They witnessed it. Okay? You know, we have faith in the unseen. I hope you have faith in the unseen. I hope you have faith in the gospel. I hope you believe that. But the the apostles saw it with their own eyes. They were witnesses of what Jesus had done. And again, as Chuck Olson as I read that quote, it's commonly understood that they all died, in a sense, martyr deaths, except for one. Did they get rich in this plot? Did they get famous? Did they get power? Martyrs don't have power. They're killed. They were killed by earthly powers. So emphatically we say no to that. They were martyred because of their witness, because they were ambassadors, because they had seen with their own eyes that Jesus conquered death. And that is evidence for us to believe this day. For some, it's it's kind of the linchpin of faith for them to believe and to look at the apostles and see the evidence of the gospel is the apostles. And so at the ascension, it says, even some doubted, even when they were worshiping Jesus in the Great Commission story, some doubted. You know, Thomas, as we'll talk about later, doubted. Even seeing resurrected Jesus, he was, well, I don't know what's going on there, but he was doubting. So I would argue, what's the difference? What's the difference? I would say the difference is the power and the witness of the Holy Spirit. That's the transformation. That's the concrete faith, and that's the witness of God in you and through your spirit to give you that confidence. Christ is our certainty. Let's move on. Verse 14. So Jesus is going to name his apostles. He's been praying all night about this, and now he says this in verse 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew. So again, Simon. So we see that Luke is writing from the future of this event because he calls Simon's nickname Peter, the rock. He's now saying what his name will become. Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist and Peter's brother. He was also a fisherman in that moment of the miraculous catch of fish. We have James and John, sons of Zebedee. They were also fishermen. And Jesus called them sons of thunder. What a cool nickname, but sons of thunder. They wanted to call down fire from heaven, by the way, on somebody. We'll get into that later. Philip. Bartholomew, also called Nathaniel in John chapter 1, verse 45. Moving on, verse 15. And Matthew and Thomas and James, the son of Alpheus, and Simon, who is called the zealot. So Matthew, we talked about the calling of Matthew. Matthew was a tax collector, would have been the most hated man in society, and God chooses him to be an apostle. What a picture of God's miraculous transformation. Called him, again, it's debated, Levi, which means gift of God. Thomas, we now maybe refer to him as doubting Thomas. Poor doubting Thomas had a weak moment, and now forever is called doubting Thomas. But Thomas, I think the legend is that he went to India to share the gospel there. James, son of Alpheus, a different James, not the half-brother of Jesus either. So you've got to sometimes your and your last name is your dad to kind of help people identify who you are. Simon the Zealot, so a zealot is a militaristic, what some would consider terrorist of the Roman Empire. You know, I would argue you're a revolutionary or you're a terrorist, depending on who's writing history. That's who Simon the Zealot is, a radical nationalist. Continuing on verse 16. And Judas, the son of James, again, you get the last name to help identify the different one. And Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. Again, we're seeing the future now writing into this moment. Judas Iscariot. So Judas the trait is not, the first Judas is not the traitor. So again, he gets identified with his father's name. Judas later is known as the traitor. So Luke didn't give us a good spoiler alert here. What's going to happen? But Iscariot is again, my understanding is from an area near Judah. So he's actually identified where he's from. He's actually near Jerusalem, which I think can speak to some of what was going on in his life. But it's interesting. So these are the apostles. This is who Jesus names, the ones who are going to, in a sense, be in this office to be his official witnesses of his life, of his ministry. It's interesting who Jesus didn't choose. Think about who you would choose if you were going to pick your best twelve people to be your witnesses, to be your representatives. He didn't choose them. He didn't choose Pharisees. He didn't choose the priests or the scribes. He didn't choose the elite of society in that area. Who did he choose? Not the elite, not the polished, not the powerful. But fishermen. I call them blue-collar workers. He chose a tax collector, most hated in society. He chose the unknown and the unlikely men, not powerful, not famous, or wealthy. And I would say through them, not because of them, but through them, God changed the world. It's a display of God's power using them. Oswald Chambers said this: God can achieve his purpose either through the absence of human power and resources or the abandonment of reliance on them. All through history, God has chosen and used nobody's because their unusual dependence on him made possible the unique display of his power and grace. He chose and used somebody's only when they renounced dependence on their natural abilities and resources. I think we could point to Paul in that. There's a term called literary foils, and I think that's in a sense what the apostles are. We can see our humanity in them. We can see ourselves in these apostles. And maybe you've got your favorite apostle, maybe you've got your favorite who you identify with. As I joked earlier, James and John wanted to call down fire on people. Can anybody relate with wanting? You know, regularly the apostles expressed to Jesus, I don't get it. I don't understand. Can you explain that parable to us? Can you explain that story a little bit more to us? I can relate to that. I remember Peter saying to Jesus, No one's going to hurt you, no one's going to do that, I won't deny you. But we know that he denied him. And we know that Judas betrayed. And we know that they disobeyed. Again, we can see ourselves in their time with Jesus. So what God does in his selection of the apostles and the lives of the apostles is evidence of God's work and potential in us. Almost despite them, I would say despite them. It shows God's witness, it shows God's power, it shows what God does through our lives. And we all need to individually surrender to that. So how do we be like Jesus? Here's key number two. We invest in God potential, not external appearances. Again, to use this fake rock. We don't look at the outside. We don't look at maybe what society or the world would say, oh, they're qualified, or they've got this and that, or they've come from this family, or they have this money, or whatever that is. We don't rest on that. We don't depend on that. We in faith in the God who, in a sense, works through people despite their qualifications, maybe despite what their upbringing is or what society has labeled them as. Again, Matthew the tax collector is one of the best examples of this. I mean, and Paul is another example. Paul was like killing Christians, and God used him to spread the gospel throughout the Roman Empire. Again, so key number two to be like Jesus is to invest in the God potential. So the necessity of that goes back to key number one. If we're going to be seeing the God potential in people, we need to be hearing and spending time with Jesus. To not be seeing with our eyes, but seeing with God's eyes and what God is calling and what God is doing in someone's life, and to believe not in what someone's capacity is, but to see what their God potential is in their life. This is highlighted in Acts chapter 4, verse 13. This is again after Jesus ascends into heaven, he and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2. But in Acts chapter 4, verse 13, it says this this uh Peter and John are on trial after the the man was healed of not his lameness in the sense he wasn't able to walk. And he's they're put on trial. And this is what they say about Peter and John in Acts chapter 4, verse 13. Now, when they saw the boldness, so this is the Pharisees and the Sadducees, this is the elite saying this. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. I love this next part. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. That's it. Be like Jesus. Be with Jesus. Verse 17. So Jesus sets his apostles into their office now in verse 17. And he came down with them and stood on a level place, key phrase there, level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon. So when I originally was preaching this sermon and getting ready for this, I didn't preach this before, this is just now, but when I was getting ready for this, I thought this was going to be the sermon on the mount. But it says the level place. And so it's an interesting, what some scholars would believe a different sermon. And there's a comparison between what's going to be brought up next week and the sermon on the mount. But again, Jesus' sermon crowd here is all of Judea, people from Jerusalem and from what is modern-day Lebanon. People from all over the place are coming to hear Jesus preach and teach. Verse 18. Who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. So we're seeing the what we call healing traffic continue. People want to get around Jesus because they know the power that he possesses. And they're hearing the good news. They're hearing that the kingdom is here because the king is here. The Messiah is here. And people are being delivered of demonic oppression. They're being delivered. So Jesus is the king of the natural and the supernatural. His authority is not questionable. And as we made clear before Christ is our certainty, our king, our creator, our savior. Last verse today. And all the crowd sought to touch him. For power came out from him and healed them. Can you say this with me? All he healed them a little bit. No. He healed some. No. He healed them all. You know, I just see in this moment just the shock wave of healing of Jesus. Just like a wave, a tsunami of healing. And these are positive terms. Healing throughout this whole crowd. That's who our God is. That's who our King is. That's who Jesus is. They are all healed. So here's my last key to be like Jesus. Love like Jesus. Love like Jesus. Jesus loved and healed everyone. His nature, his substance is love. God is loved. 1 John chapter 4. You know, not, you know, we don't love not as the world would define love, but we love like Jesus loved. Jesus loved sacrificially. Jesus loved in truth. He didn't hide the truth. He is the truth. He spoke the truth and he was sacrificial. He's the perfect display and is love. If we're going to be like Jesus, our lifestyle, our words, our actions, our everything is to love like Jesus. So I ask you, who is your neighbor? Who is your neighbor? Not symbolically, not whatever. But like literally, who is your neighbor? Like who's who's like the closest person to your address? Or who's in the cubicle next to you? Or who's working side by side with you? Who's in the truck next to you? Who is in your life? And how can you love them? No strings attached. No pre-agreement. Jesus said, love your enemies. Love your enemies. You don't love your enemies because you like to do it. You love them because you're being like Jesus. And because God may be using you to transform lives. Because you're on mission, you are an ambassador, you are representative. You're not living for your life, you're living for his fame and his glory and his purposes in your life. We've got to check our attitudes, check our hearts. All the time, every day. Love your neighbor, love your enemy like Jesus would love them. Not saying agree with them, but love them. And so I would ask you, again, as we prayed before we started, to listen to the Holy Spirit, to listen to the prompting of God. Listen to the still small voice, that whisper of God prompting you, nudging you, poking you, maybe kicking you, to who is God calling you to love in your life? And how? It's going to cost you something. It's going to be sacrificial. It might be painful. It may be awkward. It may be uncomfortable. But our creator might be using you to soften a heart. Our creator might be bringing a transformation that you can't see on the outside. Our creator by his Holy Spirit might be equipping you to represent him, to somebody that nobody's given a shot to, a chance to. What a privilege. What an honor to be an ambassador, to be a representative of God. To those who on the surface may have never been given a chance, who society and family might have written off. But you might be a part of the transformation. You might be a part of their story. And we can't fathom, honestly, what an act of kindness, an act of love can do. And I just dream about these salvation stories that change families, that change neighborhoods, that change workplaces, that change countries. And if you think that's a wild thought, look at church history. Look at the spread of Christianity. Look at the apostles and how God transformed the world through them. Again, in a lot of ways, despite them, but through them. So again, I challenge you to love. Love like the Good Samaritan. Love like Jesus. Love people you encounter. You know, when I highlight the Good Samaritan story, I, you know, there's an organization, Samaritan's Purse. The Good Samaritan had a purse. He was ready to love. He was ready to give. He was ready to sacrifice. We need to be ready to do that. So again, in application, be like Jesus. Jesus is the example to us, the prayer priority, that we get our orders, we get our instructions in the secret, in the secret time with God, listening to Jesus, meditating on his and his truth, his revealed authoritative truth. These are our marching orders. This is how we live our life. So in our secret time with God, that's where we get our strength. That's where we get our orders. That's where we get our instructions. That's where we get our mission. That's where we get relationship with God. In this church, we've taught this idea of acts prayer, adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication. It's based on the Lord's Prayer in the Bible. I don't do it that way. I told my house church, I pray cats. I hate cats, by the way, but I'm allergic to them, so that's my reason. But I pray confession. I get right with God first in my prayer time. I confess my sin. That's how I can approach the throne of grace with boldness. Because I'm relying on his grace and his mercy. And I confess to God. But I just encourage you in the secret time to do that, to be in relationship with God, to listen to God. Again, the next thing is you know, Jesus invested and prioritized in people. Discipleship. Invested in the God potential, not the external appearances. So some of you might get some of that noise in your head, and I get it sometimes too, the imposter syndrome. Trust me, I get it. Who do you think you are? You get that lie. You hear that question. You hear that temptation. Who do you think you are, right? That's not God. Again, it's not about you getting credit, it's not about your glory, it's about his glory. It's about God using the most hated man in society like Matthew. It's like God using Paul, the most, you know, a murderous man to now spreading the gospel. So whatever mistakes you've made, whatever things that you've happened in your life, his mercies are new every morning. He does not remember your sin. God is calling you to be on mission for him and invest in people. Make disciples. Jesus healed and he taught. Again, we love like he did. We love people. We love our enemies. We share the good news of Jesus. So let me share the good news. This is what we believe. Jesus is God. Jesus died on the cross for your sin. And on the third day, Jesus conquered death by his resurrection. I hope and pray that you all believe that. If you don't, I invite you to believe it. I invite you to have a moment with God to say, God, I'm sorry for my sin. I'm sorry for my sin. Thank you for dying on the cross for me. I now invite you into my life. I invite you into my heart. I invite you to take over. I want to be your ambassador. I want to be your representative. Start a personal relationship with Jesus today. Give your life completely to God. Hold on to nothing else. He's the only thing that will satisfy. I want to end today with Revelation chapter 21, verses 9 through 14. This is a description of the new Jerusalem. This is a description of heaven. It says this in Revelation 21, 9 through 14. Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke to me, saying, Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper clear as crystal. It had a great high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed. On the east, three gates, on the north, three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. I think it's neat to think about that visual of the twelve names of the twelve apostles on the foundations of New Jerusalem. Let's pray. God, we thank you for this time in your word. We thank you that we are in relationship with you, God. God, help us to prioritize you. Help us to have a secret life with you, God. Help us to be motivated to do that. Help us to be disciplined in our prioritizing of that, God. Help us to have moments just in secret with you, God, to talk to you, to listen to you, to share with you, to get instructions from you, God. Help us to listen to you, God. God, I pray that you would um equip us with who you're prompting us to love in our lives, God. Help us to surrender all to you in loving our neighbors and coworkers and friends and our enemies, God, for your glory. And God help us to share your good news. Give us the words as you promised to be witnesses, to be your ambassadors to this world. So, God, we ask for ears to hear where you're calling us by your word and by your truth. And I pray that we all know you and love you in your good news. And we pray that you would send us out from this place in love, to love our neighbors, to love you. All for your glory. In your name we pray. Amen.