Don’t Worry, Be Holy - Part 4: Your Heavenly Father Knows

Well this morning we are coming to part four and really the last part of this whole first part of the end of chapter 6. Which is essentially the don't worry part with now for several weeks been considering from verses 25 through 32 this morning what it means to not worry and Why it's important to grasp what Jesus is teaching about us not.

Having our lives consumed or choked with the cares and needs of life. With the concerns and ambitions and drives and desires of life. And so in in all of these ways over the past several weeks We've we've been unpacking why we should not worry and then beginning next week and we'll have about Three weeks specifically just on verse 33.

We'll consider the counterpart to that. Don't worry, but be holy. Seek first the kingdom of God in the last several weeks. We've been looking at birds. We've been looking at lilies. We've been stepping on blades of grass again.

I hope you're you've been a little more Romanticized in the way you're looking and listening and experiencing the world. Don't be too much like a hippie, but still kind of you know, take it all in soak it all in this time of year.

Especially but the reason we've been looking at birds and lilies is Jesus has been pressing us to reflect deeply on The father's care and therefore to respond to the father's will. All right, we don't have to worry.

We need to trust God that he'll provide so that not being distracted by worry. We can devote ourselves to him completely we can seek first his will his desire. Last week in particular we spoke about The source of contentment.

Paul said that in all things he had learned how to be content. In other words, he had wrestled through and struggled through needs anxieties fears hopes ambitions and all of these Deprivations and all of these blessings He had learned to be content and we we've seen that God is always teaching us something.

The question is not Is God teaching me. The question is am I learning what God is teaching me? God is always teaching always speaking always revealing. The question is am I able to slow down? Pay attention.

Reflect deeply and respond to what God is trying to show me to the things He's trying to teach me and so we spoke about contentment last week and the two streams that lead into that river of contentment which are meekness and gratitude and We spoke more on gratitude because when we are actually walking in gratitude We become very meek people.

Meek people are thankful people. Well this morning we take up at verses 31 and 32. I'm gonna read it with 33, but 33 will not be what we break ground on until next week. So Matthew 6 beginning in verse 31.

The Gentiles Seek After Things, But the Father Knows Your Needs

Therefore Jesus says do not worry saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? For after all these things the Gentiles seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. So again leaving 33 aside I'm reading it so you can catch some repetition going on. Notice the repetition of what is being sought after all these things the Gentiles seek.

The Gentiles are seeking things and they're seeking things in a certain way and notice the repetition of this phrase all of these things.

Euphemistically.

What we're going to eat and what we're going to wear but beyond that every issue of life. Everything under the Sun. After all these things all the things that comprise life. All the things that there are to be worried about.

All the things that your life your body does need. After all these things the Gentiles seek your father knows you need all these things. Seek first the kingdom and all these things will be added to you.

So Jesus is is repeating and emphasizing the fact that the father really does know you need all these things. The father really knows that you're struggling and trying to make sense of all of these things.

That's the emphasis. The question is in light of these things. What are you seeking? How are you ordering your life? That'll become a little more clear as we as we get to verse 33 next week. Not only are we finding the repetition of what's being sought.

Not only do we find the repetition of all these things that have taken our attention from verses 25 through 32. But we also are coming full circle. These verses resume where we began in verse 25 in verse 25.

Jesus gave a command. Do not worry. That's a command. Do not worry about your life. And then he repeats the same questions he introduced in verse 25, what shall we eat what shall we drink or what shall we wear.

So we're coming full circle and not only are we coming full circle to verses 25 and following. But in a lot of ways Jesus is drawing us back to where we had begun in chapter 6. You remember it was earlier in Matthew 6 where the Gentiles the Gentiles that he says here are Seeking after all these things and all of the wrong ways for all of the wrong reason but it was the Gentiles earlier in Matthew 6 that were rambling and Heaping up many words hoping that somehow their gods would provide all of these things.

The Gentiles had to wonder whether their gifts and their offerings and their incessant verbose Prayers would actually bring about the things that they need and Jesus says your heavenly father is not like that.

That's why we went into the Lord's Prayer. Listen when you pray don't pray like the Gentiles they're keeping up words. They're desperate for many things. They can't really trust their gods. They have to heap up their words and heap up their altars and heap up their sacrifices.

Their gods are capricious arbitrary. Vengeful their projections of fallen men into the skies. But your father the creator of all he's not like that at all. Rather than looking into pagan mythology. Why don't you pluck some lilies?

Why don't you pay attention to the things that he has made? Why don't you get the perspective of Job and recognize who he is? So Jesus is pointing his disciples to the faithfulness and the character of the heavenly father his provision is trustworthy his mercy never changes and That clears the way for what will be distinctive about the followers of Jesus.

Unlike the Gentiles they don't hold their needs. They don't hold the things that even the father knows we need in the same way that the Gentiles do. They don't fend for themselves. They don't desperately wring their hands.

They don't heap up prayers. They're not anxious. They're not consumed. The gospel is not being suffocated By the cares and concerns of life or of the flesh or of this world or of the evil one. They truly are able to seek first the kingdom of God.

So the first point is when we hold all of this together in chapter 6. Jesus does not want his followers to live like the Gentiles. It's interesting, isn't it? We all we all have the same human bodies the same human needs.

In a lot of ways we all have to navigate our lives just like everybody else. Electric bills have to get paid. Cupboards have to get filled.

Right.

Gasoline tanks have to be topped off. We all generally have to live our lives in the same way and one of the emphases that Jesus is drawing out in Matthew 6 Is to say don't live like the Gentiles. You might be doing a lot of the same things.

You might need a lot of the same things, but do not be like them. You have to have an entirely different orientation to your life to the needs of your life to the things of life. And that's going to be because what you must do is the very thing the Gentiles cannot do.

You must seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Remember the Gentiles thought that they would be heard because they they had this whole elaborate System of rituals and they would heap up empty phrases on prayer and they thought if they could babble off repetitions.

The gods would be more favorable to hear them. So all of the emphasis is on the one who is praying. Jesus comes to his disciples and says no it's not on the one who is praying. It's the one that is being prayed to in other words God is the provider.

It's not wringing your hands. It's not heaping up phrases. It's not daydreaming about ambitions that brings anything about seek first the kingdom and recognize. Everything that is good comes down from the Father of lights.

And of course as we saw from the the Lord's Prayer. These these intercessions these rituals these repetitions are all attempts to try to control outcomes. Pagan prayers pagan rituals could hardly be described as mere devotion.

I Would think a better way to frame it would be devotional manipulation. They were trying to manipulate the will of the gods. Jesus has don't be like the Gentiles. They wanted to control. What were they trying to control?

What were they trying to manipulate? The outcomes of their needs and their worries and that's what Jesus has been getting at this whole time. When you're going to when you're going to live life as if you have to manipulate.

The outcomes of the things that you need the things that you're worried about. You will never be able to seek first the kingdom and if you can't seek first the kingdom. You can't enter it if we understand the flow of that logic when we get to chapter 7.

You'll see you'll see a lot of the artillery Of what it means to be a follower of Jesus but the emphasis this morning and the thing that Jesus has been driving to in light of all these things is that the care of the Heavenly Father when he Contrasted the way that the Gentiles conduct their lives and try to manipulate their needs and worries.

He was pointing his disciples to pray and entrust themselves to the care of the father. And so the prayer begins our father. And it's a very kingdom oriented seeking first the kingdom kind of prayer. It's how that prayer begins hallowed be thy name.

It's how that prayer ends. Here in verse 32 Jesus says your heavenly father Knows you need all these things. What did he say in verse 8? Do not be like them. Do not be like the Gentiles. Your father knows the things you need of before you even ask him.

So you see how we've come full circle even in this chapter. It's the it's the the symmetrical glory of this whole Sermon on the Mount. It's beautiful. Don't be like the Gentiles and he's saying it again here.

Don't be like the Gentiles in verse 8 your father knows the things you need in verse 32. Your father knows that you need all these things. So you don't have to be like a Gentile Gentile rambling and praying and hoping wringing your hands and worry.

Trying to manipulate the outcomes trying desperately to get some sense of control. Trying to move the chess pieces of your life to the path of ease and the best possible outcome that you can muster in light of your circumstances.

If that in any way touches on your approach to life, you cannot follow Jesus you cannot. What did he what did he say. No man can serve two masters. The comfort that he brings in light of this in light of verse 32 is Drawing again our attention to the care of our Heavenly Father so we have to take all that he's saying in light of where we're going in Matthew 7 this high and Narrow and weighty calling to truly be a disciple.

To actually.

Respond to the things that he has taught us. To actually receive the lesson and let his word bear down deep into the soil of our hearts. So that it may spring forth into the fruits of life. To build wisely on the rock so that as needs and worries turn into storms and vortexes.

Our faith doesn't collapse under its own weight because it's built on shifting sands. And all of that is framed in if you would live your life built solid on the rock. Seeking first the kingdom of God you must truly grasp your Heavenly Father's care and love for you.

That is one of the major things that Jesus is trying to get across. Your Heavenly Father knows what you need. Your Heavenly Father knows what you need. What a comfort to know we have a father in heaven.

Who already knows what we need? We have a father in heaven who not only cares for us. But realizing that it's hard for us to trust that he knows what we need. It's hard for us to not fend for ourselves or try to manipulate outcomes.

He actually calls us to come and cast all of our cares on him. Our Heavenly Father knows the things that we need even before we ask them. Even if we never realize them, he knows the things that we need.

He knows what we need because he knows us. We have we have earthly fathers and mothers. Right in some ways in a microcosm we could say mom and dad knows what I need and that's true. Especially when you're very little.

Better than that little toddler knows for themselves in ways. They can't even comprehend mom and dad knows what needs to be done. Knows what knows what's important and what's not. Child says I need candy.

Mom and dad say no you do not. Child says I need that new toy. Mom and dad say no you do not need that. Child says I don't want to eat carrots. Mom and dad say you need to eat carrots, right? We know better than you you don't really know what you need and a lot of the things you think you need are not really needs.

But as you grow up. You know a lot of the younger people here. You're still at a home and as you've grown up as your life has become more complex as you've become more Self-aware as your life has been introduced with all sorts of drives and desires and circumstances and ambitions.

Less and less and less do your parents know truly where you are and what you need. They can observe they can have some sense of what's going on. They can have some conjectures about what's really important.

A lot of this is wrought out by prayer and discernment. These things are often worked out from the word in a community like a church. But the reality is you become more of a stranger to the people who knew so well what you needed when you were three years.

Old and.

In the same way, you're actually becoming a stranger to your own needs as well. You you yourself don't really know what you need or why you feel you need the things you feel you need and yet God perfectly knows what you need.

What I'm saying is No one truly knows what you need. Look to the left. Look to the right look behind look in front. Everyone here Does not know truly where you are and what you need. Some of us we could say are blissfully unaware.

Even the closest of us. Even those who are ground zero for the most difficult things taking place in your life Can't know the full depth of that and maybe can't even discern or ascertain what is truly needed.

But the father does. The father knows exactly what is needed. Not only does he know it better than the people around you the people closest to you The people that you trust and look to the most he knows it better than you do yourself.

Jesus is saying The one who feeds the ravens will feed you the one who ordained the lily to blossom in this specific way just so it can be mowed down in the season to come is the father who holds you to be of much more value than these things and Has undertaken to provide all that you need and he knows better than you what you need.

Well sometimes in the Christian life We go to God Because we need him to take away the very thing that he in his wife in his wise providence says it's actually what you need.

Think of Paul.

Three times. I'm praying Lord. I need this thorn to be taken out of me. And God is saying Paul you need that thorn in you. Paul comes to that realization the thing that I'm saying I need gone to get rid of is the thing that God says I need.

Because it's kept me humble and it's brought me low and now I won't make a train wreck out of this Apostolic foundation that God has tasked me with right and often in the Christian life. We think we know what we need.

But we don't really know our needs as well as our Heavenly Father. Just like a toddler doesn't really know what they need. They can respond and react to circumstances. But only the Heavenly Father truly knows us.

We don't even know ourselves as he knows us. The point that I'm driving at is If this is something you're just nodding and yeah, that's good. I love coming to church and getting a little fortune cookie sentiment like our father knows our needs.

That's you know, that's helpful to reflect on and I'm saying no you haven't really even begun to understand the depth of that the father. The father knows the perfect amount of suffering that is required to conform you to the image of his son and He's he's ordained to do that in a way that he will take you himself through a valley of tears so that you will have joy in the morning and Though you're desperately saying I know where joy in the morning is and the one place it's not is through this valley.

Your father knows better than you do. So this is not some you know cotton candy sentiment. This is as bloody as our Lord putting a splintered cross across his back and dragging it took all Gotham. Because he's the one that's teaching these things.

When he grew up in stature and favor and wisdom among men when he as the writer of Hebrews says learned obedience through suffering. The heart sentiment of his whole devotion to his father was you know better than I?

So why did he teach his disciples to pray not my will but your will be done not what I need but what you ordain. Not what I would seek but what you have sought on my behalf what you would seek for me.

These are the things that drive me. These are the things that ought to compel me. My heavenly father knows my needs. Gentiles live by the motto. What will I eat? Christians live by the motto the Lord will provide.

Now that's something also I want to take a step back and really appreciate. The Lord will provide that that was a motto right in Genesis 22 when we saw the binding of Isaac and Isaac, of course enigmatic and typological toward Christ bearing the cross toward Golgotha was bearing the the wood of the sacrifice upon his back climbing up.

The Mount and.

He recognized well we have everything we need for a sacrifice but the sacrificial animal and Abraham responded the Lord will provide. And then in the narrative Moses says. And to this day that has become a motto or a proverb among the people on the Mount the Lord will provide and For us it really ought to be that motto that that life sentiment the Lord knows what I need and therefore the Lord will provide.

He'll provide blessing as I need it he'll provide trial as I need it. He'll give comforts and health and help as I need it. He'll give thorns and storms and trials as I need it. The Lord knows what I need.

I can't fend for myself. I Dare not strive for myself. The Lord knows what I need and the Lord will provide. He just bids me to seek his will as it's revealed as I seek the kingdom first. Everything else will be added.

Everything else is taken care of. Now here's the problem with this little motto. It just becomes a motto not a way of life not a sentiment born by faith. The Lord will provide. Alexander McLaren pointed this out He says the Lord will provide has become a threadbare proverb a commonplace Christian feeling in other words We all say it, but we don't actually mean it.

It's like it's like saying God bless you and you can say God bless you with real meaning. And there's a there's a few moments in my life that stand out to my memory where I've had occasion to to meet someone in in passing maybe a figure that is very influential important in my mind and as I Introduced myself and shook their hand.

I very Intentionally and purposefully with all of the all of the weight I could muster said God bless you. God bless you. God bless your ministry. God bless the impact you've had and then there's times where I've been in a room and someone sneezes and I go God bless you.

There's a difference between those two Same words, but one is just a reaction. God bless you. Or you don't even say it fully it means so little you don't even say it fully. God bless you.

God bless Gesundheit.

It just it's just a way of reacting to something. My my sense is the Lord will provide has gotten closer to how we respond to a sneeze than some full-hearted Sentiment born by faith. And so someone's going through a really difficult time.

Someone has some great needs some Really difficult trial that they don't know how to overcome and we almost not even knowing what to say to say. Well, the Lord will provide.

We.

Haven't even driven into the full theology of that sentiment and they don't even receive it in that way. They go. Yeah. No, I know. Or they'll beat you to it. Well, oh the Lord will provide and they almost say it as if they're just missing it.

It hasn't actually done anything to what they're facing. It hasn't actually relieved the burden of that need. It's almost just reacting to a sneeze. Oh, I know. Yeah, I know the Lord will provide. But anyways, here I am sweating and wringing my hands and I don't know how I'm gonna move forward.

We actually haven't allowed the truth of that statement to take hold to us. We're not saying it like Abraham said it. When we say something like the Lord will provide when we unpack all that Jesus is doing in Matthew 6 to say if you know the father and you know what he's like and you have eyes in your skull and Blades of grass are creeping up between your sandals and you're hearing bird songs.

You should be able to reflect a little more deeply on what the father's like and how he's made this world and the kind of Sovereign control he has over all things and the kind of character that you can entirely surrender to and in Entirely entrust yourself to and that ought to drive you to this recognition as Paul says to the church at Philippi My God will supply all of your needs according to the riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

That's not Paul's not saying that against a sneeze. That is deep theology. That's in the same letter. He's saying I learned how to be content. For two days and a night clinging to wood when I was shipwrecked beaten with rods whipped.

Five occasion right? He's going to have in everything with blessings and trials with thorns and gifts and everything I learned to be content. And what's what's the driving point behind that? It's the same thing Jesus here is is doing in Matthew 6.

God will supply all that you need. He'll do it according to his riches. Do you think his hand is short? Do you think his Treasury is is bankrupt? Do you think his control is limited? Do you think his purpose is thwarted?

That's what he's reminding Job. You forgot who I am. You haven't been looking around. You haven't been inhaling and reflecting on who you are and where you are what you're like versus what I'm like. When we understand these things when we understand that God knows us.

He truly knows me. He knows me in ways that I can't even admit. He knows me and so when I pray sometimes I pray with what I would want to be known sometimes I I come to him with things still in my pockets and Here's the God who knows me better than myself.

It's like Boy this is a really embarrassing. This is a really embarrassing story, but it came to my mind. So I'm just gonna run with it. I don't have many memories from when I was a very little boy, but I remember being in preschool and It's really one of the only memories I think I've ever had from preschool.

And it's like Augustine remembering when he stole fruit and he held to that his whole life and said we weren't even hungry. We didn't even eat it. We just wanted to steal it. And it's very much an Augustine confession an Augustinian confession.

I remember we had a show and tell day and my best little friend Chucky Brought this brand new Paratrooper Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure and I had my little GI Joe. And I just my mouth was out like I've never seen something so.

Amazing I.

Got to get my hands on that a little too obvious if I take the the figure. But the packaging is pretty awesome. So I took this big piece of cardboard and I shoved it under my shirt. I was this wiry little four-year-old and I have this huge cardboard box sticking out of my shirt.

And at some point Chuck is realizing wait.

Where's the box?

And in my four-year-old perspective the teacher is going where could it be? Let's all look around and figure out where this could someone have taken this box. And I'm going. I'm mystified. I mean it was there.

I remember vividly seeing it there.

I.

Think Joey's looking a little suspicious to be honest. It's like at some point. I realize you know.

The jig is up.

Come to light. So I went in the corner and I pulled out this cardboard box. It was like I found it. The teacher's like, okay, can we just move on and all the kids are like, yay the hero Ross. He found the box and Chuck.

He's like, you're my best friend. That's a lot like it's like here I am with this this issue this need this pain this weakness. This darkness is idolatry and it's sticking out of me.

Obvious.

But I'm just carrying on carrying on in my walk with the Lord as if he doesn't know as if he doesn't see. So how in the world am I gonna seek the kingdom first? If I can't cope with the fact that he knows me better than I know myself.

Even the things I don't like to see in myself even the places. I don't want to really confront or dwell on. I've said it from this pulpit before it's the hardest thing in the world to get someone to look in the mirror.

It's really hard to get someone to look in the mirror. We don't like looking at ourselves in the mirror spiritually speaking. We love looking at everyone else in the mirror. We don't really like looking at ourselves.

Do you know that God knows you do you know that nothing is hidden from his sight that ought to melt us. But how is Jesus presenting this truth to his disciples. It ought to melt us if we could honestly reckon with this the fact that it's a holy God.

That knows me as a sinner in sins that I don't even see and to the degree that I realize them. I don't even want to dwell on or I want to mask them over and newspaper them and make them look better. He actually knows them and he knows them with a perfect pure sight with the holiness.

And when Jesus is teaching on this he doesn't bring it in a way that it's to melt us and make us tremble. He says you actually can surrender yourself to the mercy of God. That's what Peter is doing in in 5 7 when he says you can cast all your cares.

You can cast all of the mess on him. He actually cares for you. And if you recognize that you'll actually be able to fully devote yourself to his kingdom because you've never been embraced in that way.

No one else would embrace you in that way. If everyone could see the full darkness in the way that God sees it you would be ostracized for the rest of your life. I'm thankful that God doesn't even bear to myself the full weight of my sinfulness.

It's a mercy that he numbs and makes me dull to my own sinfulness. But he sees it all and the glory of the gospel brothers and sisters as he sees it all. Through the finished work of Christ. And that's why Paul can say my God will supply every single thing that you need according to his riches by Christ Jesus all of his fatherly care and Providence and interaction is funneled to you as a Christian through the finished work of the Son and It's applied and carried out by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The the the very thing that Jesus is trying to prevent us from doing is a thing we almost always do. We try to figure it out and make it work and go in our own way and seek first all the things that we really need to accomplish because how else will It be accomplished.

And and then in some way if we can in the process clean ourselves up and work things out. Then then we'll go to God. Let me handle all this and then I'll be able to seek his kingdom maybe in about twelve and a half years.

I'll be able to seek his kingdom first. And Jesus is saying no, no. He actually knows you all the great revival hymns over the past century. They the great revival movements almost invariably had that that great hymn, you know, come as you are.

Come to Jesus. And the only people that were actually going up the sawdust trail so to speak were the people that really were Coming as they are. What else can I do? It's always that way with the Lord always that way with the Lord God who is spirit eternal unchangeable in his being infinite and wisdom in power infinitely holy infinitely just infinite unending in his goodness.

The God who is love Is pure and without blemish. The God who spoke everything that is. You feel the woodgrain under your thumbs everything that is he just spoke into being. With no effort with no fatigue with no need for restoration.

He brings about everything that he has purposed according to his perfect decree. Without limitation unbounded in every way and Paul saying this God Jesus is saying my father Knows you and will provide for all of your needs.

He's clearing everything so that you can come to him and live for him so that you can actually conduct your life toward his will and Jesus is saying that's what I'm doing. Follow me in doing that. Paul says that's what I'm doing.

Follow my example in doing that I had to learn it. It wasn't easy. Jesus had to learn it. It wasn't easy whoever doesn't. Whoever doesn't take up the cross Won't be able to follow whoever Has their hand on the plow, but looks back like lots wife Isn't worthy and Jesus knows every fiber in our neck wants to turn back.

Fend.

Drive.

Straddle serve two masters. And he's saying if you know the father and you know, the father knows you and you know. The father cares for you. You truly can seek first the kingdom of God and know everything else will be added to you.

Nothing will be lost. Paul his own variation on that in first Corinthians 3 would be your life may be built up with jewels and gems and glorious things that come when you have. Put your hand to the plow and gone straight without looking back and by the Spirit of God.

He who began a good work is carrying it through but so often you've turned back. You've been hesitant you've fended and you've been building in those times in your life with a lot of rubble and hay and straw and At the end that all gets burnt down to a crisp.

When we recognize that it is the God My creator God the God of my redemption. That knows me better than I know and cares for the things that I need again. He knows that you need these things. He knows that you need these things.

He knows that you need these things. He'll provide for them. But he's not here to be your butler from the sky. He's not here to find a way as that Blasphemous saw it probably because I hate country. I can say this Well hates a strong word the one genre of music I strongly dislike would be country.

But if ever because you have blasphemies like, you know, Jesus take the wheel. Like take the wheel. The whole world is mine. You're not driving anything. Tricia this whole world belongs to me. I'm not here to be your co-pilot temporarily so you can figure things out.

When you recognize that in some sense. That that utter transcendence and there's a purpose to everything in life. And all of your blessings and your deprivations all of your gifts and your your lacks.

All of these things correspond to a perfect will and it's meant to free you. So you can actually devote yourself to the kingdom and if you have that recognition that this is the God Who is actually providing for me and caring for me and calling me and helping me assisting me drawing me encouraging me comforting me.

You'll be having you'll have this dizzying humility and gratitude. You'll be like David in 2nd. Samuel 7. Who am I a Lord God? What's my house that you'd bring me this far? Why in the world would you look to my needs why in the world would you take such great care of me and provide for.

Me.

How is it that your eye is on the sparrow. And I'm off much more weight.

Than they.

This means God is not some blind watchmaker. He's not some detached and disinterested higher intelligence. Life is not a dog-eat-dog. Way of navigating through all of our needs and ambitions. And some people have to turn to the crutch of religion to cope.

Here is a God who is Committed himself to his people his obstinate rebellious slow and dull hard to perceive. Stubborn often rebellious fickle wayward often straying people. He's committed himself to them entirely.

He's longing for each one that he has called and chosen. Here is the one who is so intensely committed that there is nothing he withholds. To provide for their greatest needs. Nothing. And Paul has come to recognize.

My God will supply all that is needed. He supplies according to the riches of his glory by Christ Jesus as we said last week. It's why the Apostle can always dwell around who loved me gave himself for me.