James White: The Pope Vs The Prophets

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last Sunday Jeff leaned over to me at one point before the service started and he said

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So You think you'd be ready to go next week and I Was just had just been talking to him about how

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I had a 630 a .m. Appointment at Banner Thunderbird for surgery in the morning

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I just looked at him like huh, and He said

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I'm on sabbatical and I said well tell you what if If things go really really really well tomorrow

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We'll we'll do it and so here I am Thankful for that and he's on sabbatical and unfortunately they have sickness in the family.

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So how does how does that even work? I'm not sure but we will continue to pray for them but you probably heard that last

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Sunday, I believe it was last Sunday. It might have been the Sunday before that I've sort of you know, all these surgeries have involved full anesthesia and So I'm using that as an excuse by the way because the doctors did mention to me

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That one of the drugs used in modern -day anesthesia is fentanyl so I figure

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You know when the when when Kelly says don't you remember I just go no And I have an excuse now, it's great.

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I love it. I don't even have to use age But sometime it was either last

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Sunday or the Sunday before There was an interview on 60 minutes with Pope Francis It wasn't a long interview.

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It was fairly short. It was a softball interview Though it did it did surprise me that the female reporter that was asking the questions

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Literally said to the Pope you have approved blessing of same -sex marriages and I'm like No, he didn't

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You know, I I have to keep real close tabs on these things There was a

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Granting of permission for priests to give a blessing to individuals in irregular relationships not a blessing to the relationship but to individuals and I've talked to some priests about it and they go well actually that's it's not all that of a huge thing because you can give blessings to Convicted felons before they are executed or all sorts of things like that.

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So So even even the questions that they asked did not show a whole lot of insight into what the real issues are

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I'm not saying by the way, there's not a real issue with the blessings thing There is you just have to understand what's really being promoted to be able to see what direction it's actually gonna go

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And the people in the media Don't have a clue but then after that There were further a few further questions and then right at the end

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Right at the end A question was asked of the

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Pope When you look at the world What gives you hope?

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now Let's say you were Walking along Mill Avenue or wherever people still walk these days

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Back when I was young, I would have said let's say you're walking through Metro Center well, it's due to be demolished by this fall actually sad really is but you're walking along somewhere and a reporter walks up to you and Sticks a

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Camera phone in your face and says When you look at the world what gives you hope

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How would you respond? And I don't want you to respond in the sense of well

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I'm sitting in a Christian Church. And so I need to give a particularly good theological answer. That would be nice, but Honestly, I mean some of you might be here and you don't have hope and hopefully by the end of the sermons today you will

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But what does a how does a Christian respond to that question? Because hope is a central concept in the

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Christian faith So, for example we are

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We are not to grieve as what as those who have no hope

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That doesn't mean Christians don't grieve if you're old enough to love You're old enough to grieve

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So Christians do grieve But we do not grieve as those who have no hope.

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I learned when I worked at Thunderbird Samaritan now, it's banner Thunderbird when

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I worked at that hospital that I've now been visiting fairly regularly as a hospital chaplain,

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I learned in that work, especially doing grief counseling that The key issue as to how someone was going to deal with loss

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Was whether they had hope in the future If the future was one big black darkness to them they weren't gonna make it but if they could see into the future and see a purpose in their life and a purpose in their continuation in life

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Then they would be able to work through the issues that are brought to us by Grief and the issue is hope why should how should a

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Christian answer? How do you what gives you hope and? first and foremost for us

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What gives me hope is the fact that I know that father son and Holy Spirit are building the kingdom of God in this world and I've chosen to redeem

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Sinners Undeserving sinners as part of that process and that God has promised and has demonstrated the truth is promised in The person of Jesus Christ is death barrel his resurrection his enthronement in heaven that he's going to accomplish

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His self -glorification and the redemption of his people there is an empty tomb in Jerusalem That's my hope

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My hope it isn't isn't in man. I Know apart from the restraining power of the

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Holy Spirit of God If I did not believe That there is a supernatural force restraining the evil of men in this world.

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I Would expect to wake up to nuclear warfare every day

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I would and now we've got biological warfare and all sorts of other stuff

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It's great. I mean we could have the Terminator future the matrix future.

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Whatever dystopian Disaster you want to talk about? That's what I'd be expecting if I did not believe that God had a purpose in creating this world in Populating this world and he is going to demonstrate his glory

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In how he wraps this all up in the way that he chooses to do so, but how'd the

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Pope answer? I know 60 minutes used to be

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See I'm back from the days when When you had shag carpet and the

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TV did not have a remote and There were only like four or five channels anyway you had rabbit ears in the top and you had to move them to get the right, you know the right reception and The problem was normally somebody was holding it as soon as I let it go.

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It didn't look as good so they heard the star had to stand there and If you got up and walked across the shag carpet to touch the

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TV you got a wonderful shock. It was great It would wake you up Be really really good for you.

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So 60 minutes was something exciting back then You know, it's one of the only things on on TV It's not the case anymore, so maybe you weren't watching 60 minutes, but here's what happened

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When you look at the world, what gives you hope? He said everything You see tragedies, but you also see so many beautiful things

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You see heroic mothers heroic men men who have hopes and dreams women who look to the future that gives me a lot of hope people want to live people forge ahead and people are

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Fundamentally good We are all Fundamentally good

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Yes, there are some rogues and sinners But the heart itself is good quote end quote for Pope Francis What gives him hope the goodness of the human race?

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The fact that the heart of the human race itself is good

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So you look at the bulletin and what title did we put on the front of the bulletin today?

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the Pope versus the prophets I Would invite you we don't have time to do it during the service today

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But I would invite you to give serious consideration Especially to the weeping

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Prophet Jeremiah Read what

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Jeremiah had to say to us many of you have memorized for example

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What Jeremiah said in the 17th chapter of his prophecy The Heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick

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Who can know it I Yahweh searched the heart

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I test the inmost being even to give to each man according to his ways according to the fruit of his deeds as A partridge that hatches eggs, which it has not laid.

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So is he who makes a fortune but unjustly in the midst of his days It will forsake him in the end.

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He will be a wicked fool the heart

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The Pope tells us It's good The Prophet tells us it's more deceitful than all else

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Nothing about what deceitful means It's filled with lies.

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And yes We lie to one another all the time We live in a day

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Where if a politician opens their mouth our Expectation is what's going to come out will be a lie.

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I watch certain well -known leaders and They stand in front of microphones and television cameras and the things that come forth from their mouth

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Stunned me a that God does not simply strike them dead and Secondly that they can look at themselves in the mirror in the morning how

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I don't get it. I Don't understand it, but we've just become so accustomed to it

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It's our expectation If a politician is speaking they're lying and that's on both sides of the aisle

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It's a rarity to find an individual Who says

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I must speak the truth, even if it's going to cost me votes So it's one thing for us to admit the heart is deceitful it there's lies everywhere we were lied to in 2020 for months and months on end

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Lied we were I personally these days When I see things online aren't you getting sick and tired of Responding to something and then you discover, you know a few hours later.

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It was a complete fake anyways How can you even know anymore? You can look at a video you think that someone's saying something but it's not

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It's a fake. I Had I've mentioned that someone

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Sent me a link to me talking This is really not nice to do to old people by the way.

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I Mean it's really not nice to send an old person a link To them talking because the first thing we're gonna do is sit there and go

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Well, it sounds like me and Some of the things that I'm saying sound like things

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I would say but I don't remember saying that It wasn't me

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It was one of these online deep fake websites that you can

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Link them to sermons We have

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I think around 2 ,500 dividing -line webcasts online going back to 1998 so I've said a lot that's been recorded and that's not even including my sermons and debates and things like that classes so it's easy for a computer to grab hold of my voice and Create a fake and then have me say anything and now it's becoming more and more

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Possible to do that visually That's deceitful it's deceptive it's lying

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In a secular world that doesn't matter if you're just the random result of natural processes and when you die

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No one's gonna care. The universe doesn't care then lying or telling the truth is irrelevant

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Doesn't matter but no society can long last

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Without some commitment to something called truthfulness Where did that come from? It came from the

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Christian faith It came from the Christian scriptures. So the heart is deceitful.

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We lie to others around us. We can now lie Electronically we can deceive people but you know, the most dangerous way in which the heart is deceitful

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As we lie to ourselves We lie to ourselves and you know the first time you tell yourself a lie

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This isn't gonna hurt me. I can get away with this

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This might actually have some some good results for me You know, you're lying the scary thing is you keep doing it long enough and You can't tell you're lying to yourself anymore.

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The heart is deceitful is more deceitful than all else We have stood out on the sidewalks in Mesa We don't get to have nearly as many conversations as we used to but man

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I can tell you back in the 80s 90s the

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Mormons actually wanted to talk to you and I can't tell you how many Mormons I Had to say to them

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They said my I have a testimony of the Holy Spirit My heart tells me and I tell them the heart is more deceitful than all else.

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It will lie to you Before your feet even touch the ground and getting out of bed in the morning.

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We lie to ourselves We do it over and over and over again to fulfill our lusts the heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick

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Not in the modern Oh, we can give it a pill to make it better idea

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The days of Jeremiah you became desperately sick and That would normally be the end things that we can treat like that today deadly

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Deadly up until only 150 years ago. So when it's said it's desperately sick

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It's on its last legs It can't be trusted It's been perverted.

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It's not functioning, right? That means it's not a safe guide It's not a safe guy.

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So the Pope tells us your your heart is good That there are a few a few rogues and sinners

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This man claims to be the Bishop of the Church of Rome the infallible leader of all the world's

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Christians He doesn't stand with the Apostles and prophets

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He does not have a biblical understanding of mankind But let's be honest what he said resonates with our society

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It resonates with the people at your work With your co -workers with the people in your neighborhood.

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It sounds so nice Isn't he a nice man? He's not like those preachers at Apologia They're always calling us sinners he's a nice man and He doesn't he's not challenging me

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He's not telling me my heart's gonna lie to me. I Like how it how he makes me feel, you know what

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I'm saying is true. Here's my thinking for today

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We have an opportunity a lot of people heard about this

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You have opportunity to Engage with Roman Catholics. We've been doing the Roman Catholic controversy series a few

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Sundays ago. I preached from Hebrews chapter 10 And by the way

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When I was holding on like this See, I don't have to do that today but you watch the video of What was that three weeks ago now when

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I preached from Hebrews chapter 10, I was holding on like this You know why I almost passed out four times during that sermon

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Lord got me through it, but there are grip marks right here where I was

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I was holding on That was fun You and I have an opportunity

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Yes, we've been talking about Roman Catholicism and so you might say I you know, I just don't know all that many Roman Catholics Well, man, if you get around at all, you're gonna you're definitely gonna run into him

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Here is an opportunity On a what you might call a silver platter

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You don't have to try to find a way to Direct the conversation to where it needs to go.

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This is about the gospel. This is about what the Reformation was all about Now I need to say

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There are Augustinian Roman Catholics and And I would say to you that the vast majority of the

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Pope's predecessors Would never have said what he said They never would have said what he said

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I doubt that his immediate predecessor Boniface the 16th

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Benedict 16th. Sorry Benedict 16th Better known as Cardinal Ratzinger.

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I Don't think he would have said that not in the way he not in the way that Francis did Because Francis is not even up to the

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Roman Catholic view of man he has a lower view in the sense of Viewing that from a biblical perspective then the church he's allegedly the head of He's a liberation theologian

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They don't take very seriously the dogmas of the Roman Catholic faith which include the idea that man is in fact a

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Sinner and it's not there are a few rogues and sinners We all are now he had said earlier.

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Well, I'm a sinner and you're a sinner You know, it's sort of the we're all sinners in that sense of a it's no big deal type idea the

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Reformation Was focused upon how we are to have peace with God if you've been listening carefully and There will be a final examination toward the end of the sermon series just so you know

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I'm never gonna I'm not gonna let you know when it's gonna happen but we're gonna have

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All these guys that like to you know, talk about fighting and you know Karate is better than this or that, you know

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MMA all right. So again, we're gonna have them at all the doors one day and You don't get to leave until you pass the test.

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Okay, you all didn't hear about this yet but we'll we'll let you know about this later on and There are certain things you're gonna need to know to get out of the room

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You all awake now You don't you don't think I'm serious do you

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Hmm. Okay. All right You just wait till these big guys are standing the doorway and you know, we'll we'll find out so for example

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You're gonna need to know what the formal and Material principles of the

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Reformation were The formal and Material principles of the

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Reformation. I'm looking at my grandkids right now Because they're gonna

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You all know this right? I got a

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What does that mean How many of you feel like you could answer that question right now formal material principles the

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Reformation Okay, I'm a failure. Thank you very much.

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I feel really good now the material principle the

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Reformation justification by faith alone

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Why is that the material principle of Reformation? It was the material the substance of the preaching of the

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Reformation. It's what changed the face of Europe It's what spoke to the hearts of men who were enslaved to the traditions of Rome enslaved to purgatory enslaved to indulgences

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Enslaved to priestly absolution and it said you can have peace with God Through what

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Jesus Christ has done for you and not having to go through all Of these mediators to get there.

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That was the material Principle of the Reformation. It's what made up the preaching

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Okay So write that down Material principle. He's writing it down right there.

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I see him material principle. I see it right there material principle the Reformation Y 'all gonna remember that right?

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What's the formal? principle what gave form to that presentation sola scriptura

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Scripture is the sole infallible rule of faith of the church if you don't have solo scriptura then you have to be grabbing on to traditions and External sources to try to prop up what you're saying and When Rome tried to respond to Luther's preaching of justification by faith, that's where they attacked

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You're going against the Pope. You're going against the councils. You're going against the church When you believe in solo scriptura you say but the church is under the authority of God's Word The sole infallible rule of faith so Material principle is and the formal principle is solo scriptura write it down Or it's gonna be a long night in here when that final exam takes place.

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Okay so those are your two formal principle that the former principle material principle of Reformation and And when

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Luther begins to preach this this message along with Zwingli and then the the other reformers to come afterwards

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What they were speaking to? was the fundamental Degradation that had taken place over many many centuries in Rome's view of grace

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Rome's view of grace You need to understand

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Rome says Grace is necessary. I hear people all the time saying ah those

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Roman Catholics. They don't think grace is necessary. No, that's not true Rome teaches that grace is

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Necessary you cannot save yourself Rome condemned

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Pelagius and Pelagian ism Even though they're semi Pelagian You cannot save yourself you need grace

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Even Mormonism says you need grace though They have no earthy idea what it actually means the issue at the

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Reformation was not the necessity of grace the issue at the Reformation was the sufficiency of grace not the necessity

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Everybody says it's necessary and Rome has this elaborate Sacramental system and the grace is channeled through these various sacraments and all the rest of this kind of stuff.

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Okay It's necessary, but it's not sufficient in and of itself The Reformation Grounding itself firmly upon the message of the

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New Testament itself said God's saving grace is sufficient

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God Can save completely It's not 98 %

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God and 2 % me. It's not that synergistic cooperation

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God can save and save perfectly It's about grace but you see if the heart is

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Fundamentally good Then what the

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Pope is saying to the Reformation is you went overboard You don't need that much

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Your heart's desperate your hearts fundamentally a good thing the

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Reformation went back to the New Testament and Said no Man is not fundamentally good man is dead in his sin and his trespasses and is in rebellion against God and That's why you need to have a powerful

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Savior, that's why you need to have election that's why you need to have a Holy Spirit who can actually act and Take out a heart of stone and give a heart of flesh

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Can you see how it is? That today so much of what is called

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Protestantism Whatever in the world that's supposed to mean even how much of evangelicalism

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Has collapsed on what was the central issue of the

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Reformation That's where we are So ask yourself a question

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You and my prayer is you're already praying to have this opportunity but you in this coming week are

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Let's say your place of work has a cafeteria type thing and you're There getting your lunch or something along those lines

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And you're talking as one of your co -workers and they go, you know,

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I Watched the 60 minutes interview with Pope Francis and I thought it was just it was so encouraging

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When he was asked why he has hope he said because People are generally good

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The heart is good and there's a

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There's a brief second it passes quickly and in your mind

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You're going is this the time? Am I prepared?

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Am I ready? You know what you need to do, but so often we hesitate and The next words out of the person's mouth was oh and hey, did you see that basketball game last night?

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Wow that last shot and The opportunity has moved on Opportunities moved on But let's say what happens is they go all

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I was so encouraged by Pope Francis and then they take a bite of their burrito What's gonna do?

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What's gonna do where are you gonna go? how are you gonna approach this because the first thought across your mind is if I Go where I need to go

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People around me are gonna think that I'm negative

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Hate -filled my family likes to call me

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Debbie Downer In fact, my son called me Debbie Downer just yesterday a day before yesterday

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Because I made reference to Something that Chuck Schumer said anything

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Chuck Schumer says will make us all Debbie Downers. That's just all there is to it But yeah, they call me

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Debbie Downer and it's sad my wife isn't looking at me right now because she doesn't want to participate in it

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But you know, that's what's gonna happen and you're making a calculation in your mind

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Let me suggest something to you the more confident you are In where the scripture will directly address this issue

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The more likely it is that you will go ahead and speak the truth in that context the less confidence you have

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That you know what the script is the scriptures teach and that you're ready to present it the more likely it is that that Opportunity will pass.

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So what I want you to do is to think with me How did

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Paul? When Paul wanted to write his thought out

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Reasoned out Presentation of the gospel the gospel according to Paul We called the book of Romans And he wrote it to that church because he knew if he sent that epistle to that church

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It would be copied and distributed throughout the Roman Empire As that's what he does

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How did he present the gospel Well, the fact is

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He spent all of chapter 1 all of chapter 2 and half of chapter 3 on The bad news

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He didn't jump to the good news He didn't skip over the bad news he didn't sugarcoat the bad news

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He started there why because you have to If you don't start with the bad news the good news of a

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Redeemer Has no meaning if you don't know you need to be redeemed if you actually think

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That your heart is good Then you will not understand the need for Jesus to give his life on a tree in your place

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Can't I just have a little Reformation, you know little self -improvement No, you can't

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The penalty of sin is death. You're a rebel sinner under the curse of God a

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Little bit of self -help is not gonna do it That's what the

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Gospels have got So let's think Don't have time to read through these we're gonna we're gonna

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We're gonna land in chapter 3 if you want to turn there But but think with me for a moment these things this stuff needs to be in the back of your mind

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Romans chapter 1 beginning at verse 18 Romans 1 the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness of men

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Not will be some day is right now being revealed

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Yes, there's a great day of judgment coming but God's wrath is being revealed right now

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Against all the ungodliness of men. You see what people will do is they will say we'll see

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Romans 1 is talking about the Gentiles Romans 2 is addressed to the

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Jews And there is a sense of truth in that in the sense that there would be

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Jews who would read Romans 1 and They would see the universal sinfulness of man but they had such a strong idea that the world was made up of Jews and Gentiles that was it

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That's the entirety of the world and So we look at the Gentiles and oh, yeah look at all that pagan religion and look at all that all that stuff that they do in the

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Perversity and we have Moses's law We have the law of God we don't do those things and That's why you have chapter 2

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Paul Having Been raised within that Jewish system he understood he understood how they think how they'd be hearing his words and the whole point of Romans chapter 2 is

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Just because you possess it Doesn't mean that it has changed your heart.

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You know, you're not to steal but you still steal You know, you're not to commit idolatry, but you still commit idolatry and Boasting in your possession of The law

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Doesn't mean anything unless you are from the heart obeying that law and you aren't that's the whole point and He even says the

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Gentiles not having the law Do by nature because they're made in the image of God they have a conscience

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God has made them they will do things that are found in the law, even they don't have the law because they're the creatures of God and sometimes they will clearly

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Be more in line with what it means to be right with God than you Jews.

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That was part of what the prophets were saying The prophets say to the Jewish people you want to boast

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The name of Yahweh is blasphemed amongst the nations because of the way you behave

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The part of the prophetic testimony So what happens?

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So, okay Paul addresses the beginning of chapter 3 the Jews do have an advantage

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They had the scriptures God hasn't forsaken them in that sense

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But beginning in verse 5, but if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say?

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Is the God who inflicts wrath unrighteous I am speaking in human terms May it never be for otherwise, how will

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God judge the world? By the way, we could stop at almost any one of these phrases and very profitably

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Expand our time greatly but if through my lie

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The truth of God abounded to his glory. Why am I still being judged as a sinner?

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And why not say as we are slanderously reported as some claim that we say let us do evil that good may come

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Their condemnation is just What then are we better?

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Not at all For we have already charged that both

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Jews and Greeks are all under sin. Here it is Here it is Where do you need to get to?

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Before you can present Jesus as a perfect Savior. Here's Paul's answer.

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Here's scriptures answer as It is written beginning in verse 10.

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We have what's called a katina c -a -t -e -n -a if you want to have a new word for scrabble a katina of passages drawn primarily from the

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Psalter Testifying to the universal sinfulness of man both

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Jews and Gentiles You know the passage

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But listen to what it says there is none righteous Not even one

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There is none who understands There is none who seeks for God all

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Have turned aside together. They have become worthless There is none who does good.

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There is not even one Their throat is an open tomb with their tongues.

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They keep deceiving The poison of asps is under their lips

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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness? Their feet are swift to shed blood

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Destruction and misery are in their paths and the path of peace. They have not known

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There is no fear of God before their eyes. Let me tell you something.

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I do not believe that more than 10 % of What calls itself?

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evangelicalism today in this nation or this world

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Actually believes what I just read. I would say 90 % of those who would self identify as evangelicals would go well

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He's speaking hyperbolically he's speaking hyperbolically

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He's just saying that you know sins a real issue He didn't say sins a real issue.

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How many times does he have to repeat himself? How strongly does he have to say it?

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There is none righteous not even one. Oh Come on, really? Yes.

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Come on, really if there is there was no need for the cross

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There is none who understands There is no God seeker. Oh Come on if you see someone seeking

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God is because God has already started working in their life It's the result of his work in them

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There is none who seeks for God. That's the heart of stone The heart of stones not gonna look for a way to be replaced all have turned aside

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See what he wants us to understand When he says there is no fear of God before their eyes

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That explains what sin is because if if we really understood who we were as creatures and who

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God is as our Creator that We will stand before Then we'd realize how stupid it is to sin

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You think God doesn't see it you think God's gonna just forget about There is no fear of God before their eyes

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So what's the summary? What where do you want to go? At the lunch table.

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I'm really wondering if next Lord's Day Someone's gonna come up to me and say you're not gonna believe what happened at work this week

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I'm praying I'm praying Now we know that whatever the law says

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It speaks to those who are in the law so that every mouth May be shut and all the world may become

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Accountable to God there it is There it is That's where you want to go

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You all have seen it. I mean, there's so many

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So many things on You know Don't really even have cable anymore

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I mean suppose you do but you know you subscribe to this you subscribe that and so you've got these law court programs

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You know, I was in the hospital for a while Surgery before the last one and you've got that clicker thing.

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Oh, man. Can I find Andy Griffiths something, please? And you run across this whole section of Judge Judy judge

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Bob judge Tim. I mean there's just judges everywhere And you can only last a few minutes before you just want to start throwing things and and stuff like that That's not good to do in a hospital.

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They can restrain you and do bad stuff like that. So but we've all watched him and What do you see

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You you know, which guy is guilty and What do they do? I'm not as bad as this other person and you know, honestly,

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I just had a bad childhood It was just having a bad day that day It goes on and on and on you just want to sit there and go like judge

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Judy normally does would you shut up? Because you know You know, they're just making excuses

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The mouth is just Doing my self -righteous thing and our goal

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God's goal in Romans chapter 3 is to shut the mouth to shut the mouth

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You know why? Because once you stop yammering your gums

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Once you stop talking about how good you are or you're not as bad as this other person or anything else

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We've all seen it You've seen that court scene where instead of excuse after excuse after excuse you've seen the the person standing there they've been convicted and they've confessed

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The heads down The mouth is closed There's no objection to the court's authority

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There's no objection to the judge being able to pass sentence. I Did it?

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I'm guilty You are righteous to judge me that's what

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Romans 3 19 is about So that every mouth may be shut and all the world may become

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Accountable to God God's the judge he will judge justly that's what our society hates now

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Don't tell me there's gonna be a day of judgment you bigot You hate -filled person

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All the world may become accountable to God Your heart's not good.

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It's evil You Stand before God your head is down.

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Your mouth is closed. I'm guilty do with me as you please and that's when

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Because by the works the law no flesh will be justified in his sight for the law comes the knowledge of sin

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But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been manifested

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Being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe

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For there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Being justified as a gift by his grace

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Paul does not talk about how a gift of grace will justify you until The mouth is closed until the excuses have ended then then and only then

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Is the gospel presented Pope Francis?

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Has hope in mankind. I have hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ that gospel which by the

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Spirit of God brings conviction of sin and Drives a person away from themselves and away from their own worthiness which they don't possess to begin with in fact drives to desperation and then offers the only solution and that Is the work of Jesus Christ Justification by grace through faith alone

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Being made right before God But the only one who's ready to hear that message

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Is the person whose mouth has been closed the Pope? Didn't close anyone's mouths

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Because he doesn't have a finished work he thinks when he stands up there behind that altar and raises that host

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That he's representing the one sacrifice of Christ the traditions

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Have eviscerated the gospel in Roman Catholicism and That's why we seek

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To present the truth in love to those who need to hear

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Will you pray? for the opportunity to speak that truth as unpopular as it is as damaging as it might be to your

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Advancement at work Those entrapped in these systems.

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They need those with the light to come to them. That's us That's you pray for that opportunity

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The need is great. Let's pray Father You have been merciful to us

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You've caused us to trust in Christ and Christ alone Give us the opportunity

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Lord to speak to others That they may come to have true peace having been justified by faith

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Make us bold bring your word to our mind Let us trust in the

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Spirit of God without the Spirit of God working. Nothing can be accomplished Father help us to be passionate about the gospel

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To love it for what it's done for us Therefore to proclaim it to others