Special Guest Preacher Justin Peters | Worship Service

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January 17, 2022

Special Guest Preacher Justin Peters | Worship Service

00:01: Forsaken Jesus, He has risen
00:08: Jesus, He's the Lord We have turned from God to sin's disgrace
01:28: We chose the path to hell Perfect law of God condemned our race
01:37: For all in Adam fell But the righteousness of God appeared
01:45: And the world found hope again For the righteous one has come down to bear
01:54: All the curse of sin and death Now to Him who's seated on the throne
02:04: All acts of wisdom, grace, and power
02:13: All glory of sin that held us fast
02:33: Is left in Jesus' grave We've been freed from all that gripped our past From Satan's ruling reign
02:45: We've been raised to life, to breathe again
02:50: As captives now reclaimed All our guilt is gone, all our striving ceased
02:59: We're alive to seek His face
03:05: Now to Him who's seated on the throne All acts of wisdom, grace, and power
03:19: Now our future's fixed, our journey clear
03:52: God will not let us go Every trial that tempts our hearts to fear
04:00: He'll use to give us hope All creation groans as we await
04:09: What our eyes have longed to see Every pain and need washed by Christ our
04:20: King Now to Him who's seated on the throne
04:28: All glory be forever All the depths of wisdom, grace, and power
04:37: All glory be forever Now to Him who's seated on the throne
04:51: All acts of wisdom, grace, and power Lost and we were broken, one addition
06:15: You sent your Son to change our fate
06:22: Though we were hopelessly imprisoned He came to take our place
06:29: Glory to the name of Jesus Glory to the only name that saves
06:39: Ransomed the captives Your name is matchless
06:47: A mystery to fathom your children set apart
07:01: These now pilgrims, prodigals at heart
07:10: But your Spirit now has caused us To no longer doubt your love
07:23: Adopted through your Son Glory to the name of Jesus Glory to the only name that saves
07:37: Ransomed the captives Your name is matchless
07:46: Glory to the name that freed us Glory to the love that matches
07:58: Your name is matchless
08:08: Glory to your name Glory to your name
08:24: Given as to God through Jesus' name Esteemless death has been made certain
08:33: Glory now awaits your glory Glory to the name of Jesus Glory to the only name that saves
08:52: Ransomed the captives Your name is matchless Your name is matchless
09:21: Ransomed the captives Your name is matchless
09:27: Give me
10:10: Jesus All His joys are but a name
10:16: But His love abides forever
10:21: Through eternal years the same
10:34: Take the world But give me Jesus Sweetest comfort of my soul
10:43: With my Savior watching over me
10:49: I can see the billows roll Let your banner take this world
11:18: My God to God But give me
11:33: Jesus In His cross my trust shall be
11:39: Filled with clearer, brighter vision Face to face my
11:47: Lord I see And good morning.
14:38: Welcome to Kootenai Church. We're glad that you're here today. Would you please stand and sing with us this morning, Christ Our Glory.
14:45: Our rest is in heaven
14:59: Our rest is not here Then why should we tremble
15:06: When trials draw near Be still and remember
15:12: The worst that can come But shortens our journey
15:19: And hastens us home Christ our glory
15:28: Christ our hope Christ our
15:33: King forevermore Be still and remember
15:42: The worst that can come But shortens our journey
15:49: And hastens us home No hour should be wasted
16:01: On seeking our joy And placing our hope
16:07: In what will be destroyed We look for a city
16:14: That hands have not raised We long for a country
16:20: That sin has not stained Christ our glory
16:29: Christ our hope Christ our
16:34: King forevermore We look for a city
16:43: That hands have not raised We long for a country
16:50: That sin has not stained Though trouble and anguish
17:10: Increase all the more They cannot compare
17:16: To the glory in store Come joy or come sorrow
17:23: Whatever befalls The light of the
17:29: Savior Will outshine them all
17:36: Christ our glory Christ our hope
17:43: Christ our King forevermore
17:49: Christ our glory Christ our hope
17:56: Christ our King forevermore
18:02: Christ our glory Christ our hope
18:08: Christ our King forevermore
18:16: Come joy or come sorrow Whatever befalls
18:23: The light of the Savior Will outshine them all
18:41: Praise the One who breaks the darkness With the liberating light
18:49: Praise the One who frees the prisoners Turning blindness into sight
18:57: Praise the One who preached the gospel Healing every dread disease
19:04: Calming storms and feeding thousands With the very bread of peace
19:13: Praise the One who blessed the children
19:20: With the strong yet gentle word Praise the
19:25: One who drove out demons With the piercing two -edged sword
19:32: Praise the One who brings cool water To the deserts burning sad
19:39: From this well comes living water Quenching thirst in every land
19:49: Praise the One true love incarnate
19:55: Christ who suffered in our place Jesus died and rose for many
20:03: That we may know God by grace Let us sing for joy and gladness
20:11: Seeing what our God has done Praise the One redeeming glory
20:18: Praise the One who makes us whole In Psalm 91 verses 1 and 2 it says,
20:28: He who abides in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
20:34: I will say to Yahweh my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom
20:39: I trust. We're going to introduce a new song this morning which is taken from this psalm called
20:45: Christ Will Be My Hideaway. I will dwell within the shelter of the
21:10: God who reigns above. I will rest beneath the shadow of the mighty
21:24: King above. Though a sickness hides in darkness,
21:33: Though a plague destroys by day, I will stand upon His promises.
21:46: Christ will be my hideaway. In You, my
21:55: God, I trust. You are strong and here with us.
22:04: In You, my hope remains.
22:10: Christ will be my hideaway. Angels gather to protect me when they hear my
22:26: Savior call. Sovereign hands are ever ready to uphold me should
22:39: I fall. Safe beneath His wings of refuge,
22:48: All my fears are kept at bay.
22:54: I am shielded by His faithfulness.
23:00: Christ will be my hideaway. In You, my
23:09: God, I trust. You are strong and here with us.
23:18: In You, my hope remains.
23:24: Christ will be my hideaway. Though a thousand fall around me,
23:38: Though death looks me in the eye,
23:44: Evil shall not have the victory while the
23:51: Lord is at my side. God in power reigns my
24:00: Savior. I no longer fear the grave.
24:08: God in power reigns my Savior.
24:14: I no longer fear the grave. Through this fragile life and evermore,
24:26: Christ will be my hideaway. In You, my
24:35: God, I trust. You are strong and here with us.
24:44: In You, my hope remains.
24:50: Christ will be my hideaway. In You, my
24:59: God, I trust. You are strong and here with us.
25:07: In You, my hope remains.
25:14: Christ will be my hideaway. Christ will be my hideaway.
25:26: Christ, You are my hideaway. You may be seated.
25:41: Well, good morning, everyone. I'm not preaching today, obviously. We have with us Justin Peters, who was here for our conference this last
25:47: Friday and Saturday, and everything went well with that. We're grateful for everybody who had a part in setting up for that and handling that.
25:54: Justin is going to be preaching today from the book of James, continuing the series that he started before he moved away from here in violation to God's will.
26:03: The Lord spoke to me and told me to tell Justin not to leave, and I told that to Justin. He wouldn't listen.
26:09: So he's back here today, and it is truly our joy and our delight to have him with us because he is familiar to most of you. Will you please turn in your
26:16: Bibles to Philippians 1 for the Scripture reading? We're going to read Philippians 1, verse 27, and then a short passage out of chapter 2.
26:37: Philippians 1, verse 27. Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent,
26:47: I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel.
26:54: And then over in chapter 2, beginning at verse 12. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed,
27:02: I'll try it again.
27:12: There we go. Sorry. Verse 12. So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
27:23: For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or disputing, so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent children of God, above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory, because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.
27:50: But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
27:58: Will you stand with me as we pray? Let's bow our heads.
28:06: Our Father, you are a merciful God, a good God, a loving God, and as your children, those called in Jesus Christ, we rejoice in all of these realities and truths.
28:15: We gather here together each and every week to praise you and to honor you, to sing to you, our
28:22: God, who is worthy of all this praise and honor and so much more because of the great work of salvation.
28:27: We thank you. You've called us out of darkness and into light, and now we do truly, as the passage just read described.
28:33: We shine as lights in this world. We live among a crooked and perverse people. We live in a nation and at a time when every position of power over us has determined to kick against the goads of your righteousness and to try and thwart your rule and your reign.
28:50: The nations are raging and the peoples are plotting a vain thing, but we thank you that our God sits in the heavens and he laughs at all the scoffing of men and all of their attempts to persecute the church and to drive out righteousness from our society.
29:01: And we are reminded of that again today, even as wicked laws go into effect in the nation of Canada and probably similar things even on the horizon for our own nation.
29:11: We pray that in the midst of that, that you would judge the wicked in our midst. We pray that you would judge the wicked in this world.
29:18: We ask that righteousness would be established, and we pray that you would accomplish all your purposes for your church, that you would protect your people.
29:25: And in the midst of all of this, we ask that you would give us grace and strength and courage and unity, that we may strive together in oneness in the gospel, that we may present to the world a united front in our love for one another and our commitment to your truth and your word and your righteous standards.
29:43: Give us courage to do this and to confront the lost world with the gospel so that all men may know. We thank you that the day will come when
29:49: Jesus Christ will return and all the nations will be given to him, and he will rule and he will reign forevermore.
29:55: And we are grateful for that hope, and we pray that in the midst of that, that you would keep us strong, fixed on that hope until that day arrives.
30:02: And we pray that it would hasten, in Jesus' name. Amen. I cannot comprehend the agonies of Calvary You, the perfect Holy One, crushed
30:45: Your Son Drank the bitter cup reserved for me
30:53: Your blood has washed away my sin,
31:00: Jesus, thank You The Father's wrath completely satisfied,
31:07: Jesus, thank You What's Your enemy? Now seated at Your table,
31:16: Jesus, thank You By Your perfect sacrifice
31:31: I've been brought near Your enemy,
31:37: You've made Your friend Pouring out the riches of Your glorious grace
31:50: Your mercy and Your kindness know no end
31:56: Your blood has washed away my sin,
32:03: Jesus, thank You The Father's wrath completely satisfied,
32:10: Jesus, thank You What's Your enemy?
32:16: Now seated at Your table, Jesus, thank
32:22: You Soul, I want to live for You Lover of my soul,
32:52: I want to live for You Lover of my soul,
33:06: I want to live for You Lover of my soul,
33:20: I want to live for You Your blood has washed away my sin,
33:33: Jesus, thank You The Father's wrath completely satisfied,
33:40: Jesus, thank You Your blood has washed away my sin,
33:47: Jesus, thank You The Father's wrath completely satisfied,
33:54: Jesus, thank You What's Your enemy? Now seated at Your table,
34:02: Jesus, thank You We're going to end this set with Turn Your Eyes Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full in His wonderful face
35:09: And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace
35:31: Turn your eyes to the hillside
35:38: Where justice and mercy embrace
35:46: There the Son of God gave His life for us
35:54: And our measureless debt was erased
36:03: Jesus, to You we lift our eyes
36:10: Jesus, our glory and our prize
36:17: We adore You, behold You, our Savior ever true
36:25: Jesus, we turn our eyes to You Turn your eyes to the morning
36:51: And see Christ the Lion awake
36:59: What a glorious dawn, fear of death is gone
37:07: For we carry His life in our veins
37:16: Jesus, to You we lift our eyes
37:24: Jesus, our glory and our prize
37:31: We adore You, behold You, our Savior ever true
37:39: Jesus, we turn our eyes to You Turn your eyes to the heavens
37:57: Our King will return for His own
38:05: Every knee will bow, every tongue will shout
38:13: All glory to Jesus alone
38:21: Jesus, to You we lift our eyes
38:28: Jesus, our glory and our prize
38:35: We adore You, behold You, our Savior ever true
38:42: Jesus, we turn our eyes to You Jesus, to You we lift our eyes
38:58: Jesus, our glory and our prize
39:04: We adore You, behold You, our Savior ever true
39:12: Oh Jesus, we turn our eyes to You Oh Jesus, we turn our eyes to You Good morning, hope everyone is doing well this morning
40:38: And what a joy it is to be back with you It truly is I very much enjoyed the weekend
40:44: And it's a special honor to be able to bring God's Word to you And do that here So Kathy and I love y 'all
40:51: So thank you very much for this opportunity Let's go to the
40:56: Word, to the Lord, excuse me, in a word of prayer And we will begin Father, we're so grateful for this day that You've given to us
41:06: For the freedom that we have to gather together As Your blood -bought sheep that You have called to Yourself Father, we pray that as we go to Your Word now
41:21: That Your Holy Spirit would conform us more into the image of Your Son And Your Word has many things that in the process of our personal sanctification are hard And they may chip away at our pride
41:40: Chip away at things that we have believed to be true but may not be true
41:45: So Father, we pray that You would conform us now Through the instrument of Your Word Your double -edged sword
41:54: And would conform us more into the image of our King, Jesus We pray these things in His name and for His sake
42:02: Amen I invite you to take your copy of God's Word And open to the book of James, chapter 1
42:11: James, chapter 1 As I have opportunities to fill the pulpit on a Sunday morning from time to time
42:17: I've been making my way through James And I think my first sermon,
42:22: I didn't look this up so I might be wrong But I think my first sermon in James was 6 years ago 6 or maybe even 7 years ago
42:32: And still in chapter 1 So I'm pretty sure the sun will run out of fuel before I make my way all the way through the book
42:43: So I'm going to bite off a little bit more maybe than I normally would Because I want to get through this chapter
42:50: But let's look at James, chapter 1, verses 26 through 27 If anyone thinks himself to be religious while not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart
43:04: This man's religious is worthless Pure and undefiled religion before our
43:10: God the Father is this To visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world
43:18: May God bless the reading of His Word So just as a quick review for those of you who have not been here for the last 7 years
43:27: The predominant theme of the first chapter of James is that of trials How we as Christians should respond to trials, they are varied
43:35: And James says that we are not to enjoy our trials because trials by definition are not enjoyable
43:42: But we can count them as joy when we rest in the sovereignty of God Knowing that He will work all of these things out together for our good and ultimately for the glory of Christ We saw in verse 12 that Jesus Christ Himself is our reward for suffering through these trials of life
44:00: He is the crown of life We saw in verse 15 the deceitfulness and ultimate ruin of sin
44:07: In verse 18 we looked at the sovereignty of God and salvation In verse 19 we looked at the importance of being quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger
44:19: These are marks of spiritual maturity And then in verse 22
44:24: James tells us that we are to be not only hearers of the Word but doers of the
44:31: Word We are to obey God's Word And then the final two verses that we just read, verse 26 and 27, sum up what we have seen thus far in chapter 1
44:41: And they make a bridge of sorts into chapter 2 And they bring up themes that James will return to in the final chapters of his book
44:54: It's been said that James is Christianity in blue jeans It's a very practical book
45:00: And so this morning we are going to put on our theological blue jeans, if you will
45:06: James tells us in these last two verses that there are three ways that we as Christians are to be doers of the
45:15: Word These three things James will introduce here and come back to later in his book
45:20: Number one, here are the three things that mark pure and undefiled religion Controlling the tongue, concern for the helpless, and avoiding worldliness
45:33: Controlling the tongue, concern for the helpless, and avoiding worldliness This sets the tone for the next four chapters
45:40: So let's look again at the text James says, if anyone thinks himself to be religious
45:48: We are immediately struck by the stark reality that not everyone who professes to be a
45:54: Christian actually is a Christian There are many false professors of Christianity out there
46:01: There are many people who think themselves to be religious but are not really
46:08: There are two words that often denote the use of religious matters There's two words in the
46:14: Greek, one is threskos and the other is eusebes Threskos denotes an outward form of religion
46:22: The appearances of religion The rituals, the perfunctory things that you do
46:28: The smells and bells, all the kind of outward stuff that people see That's threskos
46:33: And eusebes refers to pure religion, genuine religion that comes from the heart
46:39: And here James uses the word threskos This is an outward form of religion
46:46: But there is no content to it, it's not real It's just for appearances This person, the one who thinks himself to be religious
46:55: Is far from God He professes to be a Christian but he is far from God This is the unstable man, this is the double -minded man who is unstable in all his ways of verse 8
47:06: This is the man of whom Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 15 As he addressed the scribes and the
47:12: Pharisees when Jesus says You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you
47:18: This people honors me with their lips but their heart is far away from me But in vain do they worship me
47:25: Teaching as doctrines the commands of men These are the people of Matthew chapter 7, 21 through 23
47:32: When they cry out to Jesus Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name Cast out demons and perform many miracles
47:40: And then Jesus will look at them and say to them I never knew you Depart from me you workers of iniquity
47:49: These are the ones that have a vain religion These are the ones who have a form of godliness
47:56: But they deny the power thereof False professors of Christ False converts
48:03: These are the ones who went out from us because they were not really of us Their religion is in vain
48:12: Pure and undefiled religion Pure and undefiled religion is one, number one
48:18: The first point is one who controls his tongue Who bridles his tongue
48:24: James is the only biblical author that uses a bridle in relationship to the tongue
48:30: And he returns to this in chapter 3 But he's the only biblical author that uses this kind of imagery
48:35: And it's not a real mystery to what bridling the tongue means, right? I mean we know what a bridle is
48:42: A bridle is a small thing that you put on a very large animal, a horse
48:47: That controls the horse And though our tongues are small things in and of themselves
48:54: They are enormously powerful, are they not? Not in a word -faith sense kind of powerful
49:01: Not speak -things -into -existence kind of powerful But they are powerful in the sense that they can do tremendous damage
49:09: Our tongues can do tremendous damage To our own testimonies To other people
49:16: When we harm their reputation And also they can bring untold reproach upon the name of Christ When we claim to be
49:23: Christians But do not act in a way that is commensurate with that And James says the one who has pure religion is the one who can truly bridle his tongue
49:33: And the one who cannot bridle his tongue His religion is vain and it is worthless
49:41: Now James here does not give us specifics of what bridling the tongue looks like So what we do to know what he's talking about Is to gather together other things that the
49:52: Bible says About our tongues and how we can sin against God with our tongues
49:58: First and foremost, the first thing that comes to our minds We can lie, right? Thou shalt not lie
50:04: So the one who is a liar, the one who makes a habit of lying Is one who is not bridling his tongue
50:11: And his religion is vain Another way that we can sin against God and others with our tongues
50:18: Is with gossip and slander Gossip and slander
50:23: What is gossip? Gossip is spreading rumors about other people
50:31: That may be true, but we do not know them to be true It's possible that they're true, but we don't know them to be true
50:39: And we spread these rumors in such a way that it brings about damage to the person's reputation
50:45: If you engage in gossip, if you start talking about other people And you're not 100 % that what you're hearing is true
50:52: But you spread it to others and that is injurious information to that person's reputation
50:57: That's gossip And we've all done this But it is a dangerous sin
51:06: And it's a very serious sin In fact, so serious is this sin That it is listed amongst the sins of Romans chapter 1
51:14: That marks the lives of unbelievers Read Romans chapter 1
51:20: And Paul lists a number of sins He talks about people who hate God, who are violent, who are proud
51:26: They are boasters, they invent evil things And they are murderers And amongst that same list of sins
51:33: Paul includes the sin of gossip Gossip may be fun for a lot of people
51:39: Because a lot of people do it But it is a very serious sin And it is one of the sins that marks the lives of unbelievers
51:45: So is the sin of slander What is slander? Slander is intentionally spreading rumors about people that we know are not true
51:54: And we do it with the purpose of hurting someone else's reputation Gossip and slander are both sins
52:01: And the one who engages in these things is one who cannot bridle his tongue Or does not bridle his tongue
52:08: And it marks the lives of those who are unregenerate Matthew chapter 12 verse 36
52:15: Jesus says But I tell you that every careless word that people speak
52:20: They shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment Dear ones, remember that Every careless word that you and I speak
52:29: One day we will stand before a thrice holy risen Lord Jesus Christ With eyes of flaming fire and feet of burnished bronze
52:39: And we will have to give an account for every careless word that we speak
52:45: It's very serious And we would serve ourselves well to remember that Matthew Henry, the
52:53: Bible commentator Matthew Henry says this Quote The man who has a detracting tongue
52:58: Cannot have a truly humble gracious heart He who delights to injure his neighbor in vain
53:06: Pretends to love God Say that again He who delights to injure his neighbor in vain
53:14: Pretends to love God Therefore a reviling tongue will prove a man a hypocrite
53:22: Another form of not bridling the tongue Is coarse jesting
53:29: Coarse jesting We see this in Ephesians chapter 5 verses 3 -4 Ephesians 5, 3 -4
53:36: The Apostle Paul writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit says But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed
53:44: Must not even be named among you As is proper among the saints
53:51: Not filthiness or foolish talk Or coarse jesting
53:57: Which are not fitting But rather the giving of thanks Dear one, sexual immorality is not even to be named amongst the saints of God And in this same passage, in this same text, in this same thought
54:12: Paul includes coarse jesting Filthy talk, foolish talk
54:18: The use of foul language The use of sexual innuendo in jokes
54:25: In order to get a laugh out of people It might elicit a laugh out of other people
54:31: But dear ones, it will not elicit a laugh out of God It will not elicit a laugh out of God God is holy, thrice holy
54:43: People may be amused but God is not amused And note that coarse jesting here is connected with And in the same context of sexual immorality
54:54: Actual sexual immorality Coarse jesting is just as sure a form of sexual immorality as is lusting
55:06: Lusting is not bridling the mind Coarse jesting is not bridling the tongue
55:14: And the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit Connects these things
55:20: And though it is cliche and overused nowadays The old WWJD thing that,
55:26: I don't know, 20 or so years ago Kind of came on the evangelical pike and saying What would
55:31: Jesus do? It's way overused But it's helpful here, in a sense
55:38: The next time you feel yourself tempted to engage in coarse jesting
55:43: Or some kind of filthy talk Ask yourself this question If Jesus was visibly standing next to me
55:50: Would I be comfortable in what I'm about to say Knowing that Jesus is right here And if you would not be
55:58: Then bridle your tongue Don't engage in coarse jesting And filthy talk
56:06: So these are sins of commission with our tongues Things that we can do with our tongues that are sinful
56:12: There are also sins of omission with our tongues Sins of omission
56:18: And this is something that has been heavy on my heart I guess in a real acute way in just the last week or so All of us miss opportunities to share the gospel
56:32: Me included I'm an evangelist This is what I do And I miss opportunities to share the gospel
56:40: But sometimes we have opportunities that are just so laid Presented to us on a silver platter
56:48: That are just begging for us to take it It is absolutely sinful when we do not
56:54: Many of you have heard of the satirical organization Babylon Bee And maybe some of you have seen the video that I did a week or so ago
57:03: But the Babylon Bee group They began by satirizing false teachers Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland And that kind of crowd,
57:11: Benny Hinn And in more recent years they've turned more political And they satirize liberal politics
57:17: And there's much there to make fun of But Babylon Bee recently put up an interview
57:25: That they did with Elon Musk Elon Musk is the wealthiest man on the planet
57:31: From what I'm told Sends rockets up into space And makes Teslas and all that kind of stuff
57:37: Wealthiest man in the world And they sat down with Elon Musk for over an hour and a half And at the last part of the interview
57:44: The last six or seven minutes or so One of the Babylon Bee guys said
57:51: Well, we're a Christian ministry And so would you do us
57:56: Saying, talking to Elon Would you do us a quick solid And ask Jesus into your heart
58:03: And for the next six or seven minutes They made an absolute mockery out of the gospel
58:09: It was clear from listening to Elon Musk As he kind of talked about Jesus He knew some
58:16: Bible stuff He knew some Bible stories He knew the story about the loaves and the fish And Jesus turning the water into wine
58:22: And you could tell he knew these stories But he didn't understand them at all
58:28: On any level And Elon Musk was He was asking them questions
58:33: I mean he was all but down on his knees Asking them to explain these things to him And they didn't
58:41: They made a joke about it I am not a fuddy -duddy
58:49: And I'm not against having fun And laughing about things I'm not that person
58:55: But there are some things We do not laugh about There are some things
59:01: That are not satirical And they're not parody And if there's anything that is not funny
59:06: It is the gospel of Jesus Christ These men who call themselves
59:11: Christians Say that they're part of a Christian ministry
59:17: Are looking at a man Who is an unregenerate man And they made a mockery out of the gospel
59:22: How much do you have to hate someone For someone to actually ask you questions about Jesus And not answer them
59:30: And what's even worse I guess than that Is that you look at the interview that they did
59:36: And that interview has been viewed By over two million people
59:43: Two million people They are lit They have exposed two million people
59:51: And counting To a false Jesus and a false gospel They are literally doing evangelism
59:59: In reverse An anti -evangelism Their sins of commission
01:00:06: With not bridling our tongues And their sins of omission In not bridling our tongues
01:00:13: And what those guys did It'd be one thing if they didn't claim to be Christian Fine, do whatever you want to do If you don't claim to be a
01:00:18: Christian But if you claim to be a Christian Preach the gospel Especially when people are asking you for it
01:00:26: Sins of omission The one who does not bridle his tongue Has an empty religion
01:00:33: The threskos Religious practices, religious emotions Even religious doctrine
01:00:39: Even if it's sound doctrine Apart from self -control Apart from being able to bridle our tongues
01:00:45: That kind of religion James says is worthless It is in vain
01:00:52: That kind of religion Has no more power to save Than does a false religion
01:01:01: Number two The second form of pure religion James says Is concern for the helpless
01:01:08: Concern for the helpless Pure and undefiled religion Before our God and Father is this
01:01:14: To visit orphans and widows In their affliction Now these two words
01:01:19: Pure and undefiled In the Greek, katharos and emiantos And katharos
01:01:25: That's the word from which we get our word Catharsis You can kind of hear the similarity It's a cleansing
01:01:34: It's a purifying A flushing out of impurities This word emiantos
01:01:40: It literally means Free from contamination So pure Undefiled religion
01:01:46: Before our God is to visit the orphans And the widows In their affliction This is pure religion
01:01:52: This is not a religion marked by hypocrisy This is not a religion that is marked by one
01:01:58: Who is unable to bridle his tongue This is not marked by a religion Who is just about the outward appearances
01:02:05: And doing the perfunctory things And the rituals and the smells and the bells This is pure religion
01:02:10: That is pleasing to God And dear friends, please note that That pure and undefiled religion
01:02:16: Is that which is pleasing to God Not necessarily that which is pleasing to man In fact If your religion is pleasing to man
01:02:25: Rest assured It is not pleasing to God It is not pleasing to God We need to understand this so much
01:02:32: That when we come and gather for worship It's not about us It's not about you, it's not about me
01:02:38: It is about God And any church that has people As its focus
01:02:44: Rather than God Is not a true church It's not a true church Pure and undefiled religion
01:02:51: Visiting the orphans and the widows In their distress God has great concern for the orphans
01:02:57: And the widows Orphans and widows back in this day and age Were the most needy groups
01:03:04: They were the groups with No husband and no father And as a woman
01:03:10: With no husband or as a child With no father There was no means of provision There were no social safety nets
01:03:17: Two thousand years ago A woman With no husband
01:03:23: Was a widow She had no means of support Very very little means of support
01:03:29: And a child with no father No one to protect that child No one to provide for that child These were the most needy and the most vulnerable
01:03:35: In their day And pure and undefiled religion Is that which cares for the orphans and the widows
01:03:41: Why? Because God himself Cares for the orphans and the widows In fact he describes himself as such
01:03:48: In Psalm chapter 68 verse 5 God describes himself As a father of the fatherless
01:03:54: And a judge For the widows An advocate, a defender of the widows
01:03:59: God gave a command In Exodus chapter 22 verse 22 He says you shall not afflict
01:04:05: In other words you shall not take Advantage of any widow Or any orphan
01:04:11: I mentioned this in the seminar Yesterday That those who take advantages
01:04:17: Of orphans and widows If you want to find a prime example Of people who do that very thing
01:04:22: All you have to do is turn on Christian television Because these wealthy multi -millionaire
01:04:27: Prosperity preachers that fly around In private jets and live in palatial Homes and drive
01:04:32: Bentleys and wear Rolex watches You know where a lot of their money comes from? Widows Little old ladies who can't get out
01:04:42: Can't go to church They're stuck at home or they're stuck In their retirement home or nursing home
01:04:47: And their only church Is this garbage That they see on Christian television
01:04:54: They literally Deliberately exploit The widows for personal
01:04:59: Financial gain These people are unregenerate Who would do that And though orphans and widows
01:05:07: Were the most vulnerable The principle here The application here is broader
01:05:14: The application Is anyone who is truly In need The elderly
01:05:20: The sick The handicapped These are
01:05:27: Those who were you to care for Those who truly cannot Care for themselves Let me tell you who this is not speaking of It's not
01:05:36: Speaking of the able -bodied man Standing on the street Corner Holding up a sign
01:05:44: Saying anything helps God bless you It's not Talking about that guy It's not talking about the able -bodied man
01:05:52: Standing with the sign Asking for money As he is literally yards away from a
01:05:57: Walmart Or a Burger King or a McDonald's Or something like that that says Now hiring It's not talking about that guy
01:06:04: A few months ago Kathy and I went to Walmart We were driving out and there was literally a man Sitting down with his cardboard sign
01:06:12: Something like anything helps You know Need help God bless you something like that And and this is not hyperbole
01:06:20: Literally like two feet Behind him is this big sign That Walmart put up Now hiring good wages
01:06:27: Benefits This is not talking about people like that I have no patience for able -bodied men
01:06:36: Who will not work The principle here is that we help those
01:06:42: Who are truly in need In the New Testament gives us a little bit more Clarification with this as well
01:06:48: Galatians chapter 6 verse 10 The apostle Paul says so then While we have opportunity let us
01:06:54: Do good to all people All people Saved and lost
01:06:59: All people But then Paul says especially To those who are of the household
01:07:06: Of faith Especially to those who are of the household Of faith brothers and sisters
01:07:12: We as Christians should Do good to all people but our first concern Our top priority
01:07:18: Are those of the household Of faith The widows the orphans the poor
01:07:24: The needy the sick The handicapped people who genuinely cannot Help themselves within the
01:07:29: Household of faith They are our top priority Not folks out there
01:07:35: Folks in here they are our top Priority and this is Pure and undefiled religion
01:07:42: Helping those kind of people The orphans and the widows And the needy
01:07:48: A number of years ago Six or seven years ago Kathy and I were in San Diego I was preaching
01:07:53: At a church there and this Gentleman named Tony Contacted me
01:08:00: Emailed me told me he lived in the Area and he'd been following My ministry or something He called me up or emailed
01:08:07: Me and ended up contacting Each other and talked to him Got to meet Tony he came out to where we were
01:08:14: Tony and I went to lunch together And that just began a friendship With Tony and his wife
01:08:20: Jeanette I don't know there we go have the picture Up Tony to know Tony is to love
01:08:25: Tony Tony is just a Great great guy Funny as all get out just a great
01:08:32: Sense of humor he had been saved Out of the charismatic movement and he would Talk to me about Benny Hinn That's how he'd say
01:08:38: Benny Hinn And just a great Great guy he just loved the socks
01:08:43: Off of him and he loved The Lord solid believer Wonderful husband wonderful Father Almost two months ago
01:08:53: Kathy received a text From his wife Jeanette And Jeanette told us
01:08:59: That Tony suddenly had a massive Aneurysm and just Collapsed Instantly just collapsed and They rushed him to the hospital
01:09:08: Nothing could be done And Tony Was an organ donor so they
01:09:14: Kept him alive on the machines just long Enough so they could go and Harvest his organs But Tony left behind His wife
01:09:23: Jeanette and then their four children Anthony Joshua Vincent and their
01:09:28: Daughter Victoria Just instantly their husband
01:09:34: And father is gone These are the kind of people that we care for They're our top priority
01:09:41: And there is Much to be said about the ills Of social media and all that's on the
01:09:46: Internet but by God's grace There are some redeemable things about it And I did a YouTube video about Tony and his family they set up A GoFundMe and I let people
01:09:57: Made people aware Of it by via my YouTube Channel and I just checked this morning And along with what
01:10:06: And I don't Say this to Along with what the ministry has Given them there is
01:10:12: Now well over $70 ,000 That people From all over the
01:10:18: Country and Indeed around the world have donated to This precious family
01:10:23: Over $70 ,000 What a beautiful thing to see the bride Of Christ act
01:10:30: Like the bride of Christ and come together And the great Majority of that money came from people
01:10:36: That never met Tony Or Jeanette Caring for the orphans and the widows
01:10:42: This is pure and undefiled Religion It is not that the entirety
01:10:48: Of pure and undefiled religion Is doing things like this But that is an important part
01:10:54: Of it but any Religion that does not do this Is empty
01:11:00: It's vain And it's worthless Third Point Pure and undefiled religion
01:11:09: Is marked by those Who keep themselves unstained By the world
01:11:16: Unstained by the world the third Mark of being a doer of the word true religion True religion
01:11:21: May in a sense not be quite as Concrete as the first two that we've looked At but it is no less important And is that of holiness
01:11:30: Holiness Keeping oneself unstained By the world what is the world
01:11:35: The world is symbolic of this fallen Sinful state With sinful worldly Philosophies everything that the
01:11:43: World is we are To keep ourselves as Christians Unstained by that Now Unstained what does this mean unstained
01:11:53: This word in the greek is a Loss moss and it it means It means pure it means
01:12:00: Holy it means to It's actually the same word Interestingly it's the same word
01:12:05: Used to describe jesus christ Himself in First peter chapter 1 verse 19
01:12:11: The lamb unblemished Less moss The lamb unblemished this is
01:12:17: The same word used to describe Christ How pure is that How holy is that How unstained
01:12:28: Is that perfectly Unstained perfectly pure Perfectly holy
01:12:35: And it is that dear Ones for which we Are to strive
01:12:41: In keeping ourselves That unstained By the world as Christians we are to be
01:12:53: Unstained by the world and our personal holiness Let me say something quickly Though because what is true of us
01:12:59: As individual believers should Also be true of us as a Corporate body of believers local
01:13:05: Churches our churches are to be Unstained by the world as well If we are personally unstained by the world
01:13:11: Then our corporate gatherings will also be Unstained by the world But evangelical churches
01:13:17: Is as jeff miller this morning In sunday school said whatever that word Means anymore who knows it's overused
01:13:23: And it almost has no meaning But evangelical churches At least in theory are those
01:13:28: Which claim to have a high view of scripture and believe the bible Is the authoritative word of god and yet the Vast vast vast vast majority
01:13:35: Of evangelical churches are Extremely stained by The world they have imbibed
01:13:40: They have incorporated worldly Philosophies that have absolutely nothing to do With god but it is part and Parcel of their worship services
01:13:48: And how they think and how they Try to do quote unquote worship Whether we're talking about the
01:13:55: Secret sensitive movement making your church Intentionally look like the world To attract the world
01:14:01: That's that's stained that That's so stained you can't even see any purity But through through that That's being stained by the world word faith
01:14:09: Is being stained by the world Imbibing in the social justice Movement is
01:14:15: To be stained by the world The social justice movement is Neo -marxism
01:14:21: It's worldly philosophy And churches evangelical churches Even many who claim to have a high view
01:14:27: Of the sovereignty of god Are imbibing this and they are being Stained by this worldly System With the social justice movement
01:14:37: Comes female preachers Comes an emphasis on race And by the way how many races are there
01:14:44: One One race An emphasis on race Reparations which is nothing more than an
01:14:51: Endless state of victimhood A lack of forgiveness The social justice
01:14:57: Movement is predicated upon a Perpetual lack of forgiveness That is antithetical to the gospel
01:15:02: And a softening on homosexuality When that Social justice
01:15:09: Engine comes in the door It's bringing a lot of cars along with it Egalitarian car
01:15:15: Female preachers Emphasis on race Division on race
01:15:20: And homosexuality all those cars Are coming in behind that engine And it's not
01:15:27: That those who have imbibed in social justice At least in our circles Are outright denying
01:15:32: The deity of Jesus Christ or denying That salvation Is by grace through faith in Christ They're not outright denying these things
01:15:40: But dear friends mark this Anytime you say salvation Is by grace through faith
01:15:47: In Christ plus Something Whatever follows that plus Gets all of the attention
01:15:54: And guess what gets forgotten Salvation by Grace through faith in Christ Mark it
01:16:01: It will be forgotten It's already happened Look at the
01:16:07: United Methodist denomination They are now For all intents and purposes full blown
01:16:12: Apostate theologically speaking Where did it begin? It began when they
01:16:18: Began to ordain women into the Ministry and women began to fill the pulpits And now they're full blown apostate
01:16:25: We've seen this movie before We know how it ends Keep yourself
01:16:31: Unstained by the world Churches The church is not supposed to look
01:16:36: Like the world By definition it's not supposed to look We're supposed to be different And so when you find a church
01:16:44: Around here that looks like the world You know you're not looking at a real church It's not a real church Josh Bice made a big statement
01:16:51: A couple weeks ago he's the pastor of Praise Mill Baptist Church Outside of Atlanta And he and his church left the
01:16:59: Southern Baptist Convention Made big news and they cited as their reasons A liberal drift in the
01:17:06: SBC which Unmistakably the SBC is drifting Liberally and then there
01:17:12: Was some woke guy I'll read this to you A guy named JT English I don't even know who he is But JT English this
01:17:18: Undoubtedly this social justice Warrior he gave a mocking response And he said this he said
01:17:23: Quote one way to find out if there's a liberal Drift in the SBC ask Actual liberals outside The SBC if they identify
01:17:31: With the theological trajectory of the SBC this stuff is Just nonsense so this liberal
01:17:37: Woke guy says you know If you want to know if the SBC is really Drifting ask some of us liberals if We think they're coming our way no we don't
01:17:46: And to which JD Greer Who is the former president of The SBC he responds and he says
01:17:52: Quote great point I have some Liberal dialogue partners whatever
01:17:57: Those are and they definitely don't think We are coming in their direction And then
01:18:04: Jim Osman responded He said He said let me translate
01:18:10: That for you if you want to find out if the SBC Is drifting into liberalism just Talk to people who have drifted further
01:18:15: Into it than us and ask them if they think We are liberal enough yet They'll say no Indeed once you
01:18:24: Unmoor From the anchor of God's word You're going to start
01:18:30: Drifting with the prevailing Cultural winds you're going To start drifting And the way you know
01:18:38: How far you've drifted is not To look at other liberals who are Just a little bit further down the stream
01:18:44: Than you are Because given a little bit of time You're going to catch up to them
01:18:50: It's to look at the authoritative All sufficient word of God that is Our standard and as Jim mentioned in his prayer this morning
01:18:59: As of The last couple weeks or so maybe Even just one week or so it is now Official law in Canada Bill C4 has made
01:19:08: What they call conversion Therapy illegal And it is a law that is
01:19:14: Intentionally broad in its Application and it's intentionally Broad because The end of this their end goal
01:19:22: Is to make it illegal For preachers to preach the gospel It is to make it illegal
01:19:28: For preachers to preach a Biblical sexual Ethic And so right now in Canada A pastor
01:19:37: Or a Christian in general Could be arrested For sharing the gospel
01:19:43: With a homosexual Or a transgendered person Quote unquote
01:19:50: That's what they call themselves It is illegal now to do that You could be arrested
01:19:55: For sharing the gospel And dear friends The United States We usually lag behind Canada by a few years
01:20:05: In where we go Socially and culturally But we don't lag behind too long
01:20:11: And that gap is getting Increasingly small It used to be kind of a joke
01:20:19: Amongst people in our Soteriological groups you know We may one day have to do prison
01:20:24: Ministry ha ha you know not really thinking That would actually happen Now I can see it Now I can actually
01:20:32: See it I think it's going to happen And I think it's going to happen easily in our lifetimes
01:20:39: Easily I'm not looking for this And I'm not necessarily hoping this is going to happen
01:20:45: But I would not be surprised I would not be surprised If my last days are spent in prison
01:20:52: It might come to that What are you going to do Christian? What are you going to do right now
01:20:58: Christian who works at some company And one of your co -workers Comes to work one day
01:21:04: A guy that you used to know as Dan But all of a sudden one day Dan shows up to work in a dress
01:21:10: And now he says his name is Danielle And he wants you to call him By his preferred pronouns
01:21:16: What are you going to do Christian? If you refer to him as a he
01:21:23: Which is what he is It might mean you lose your job What are you going to do?
01:21:32: That's not a stretch In fact it's already happening in some places What are you going to do?
01:21:39: What you should do Is to keep yourself unstained by the world You cannot refer to That person as a she
01:21:46: Because to do so Is to affirm that person in a sinful delusion And it is to deny the image
01:21:52: Of God in which he was created Things like this are tests Of our faith Keep yourself unstained
01:21:59: By the world Corporate holiness And personal holiness Keep yourself
01:22:06: Individual believer My brother, my sister In Christ Keep yourself unstained by the world
01:22:14: Guard your personal Holiness Guard your personal
01:22:21: Holiness I have seen something Happening in the last number of years
01:22:26: In our Doctrines of grace theological circles That distresses me
01:22:33: And troubles me greatly And it is this There is a kind of a culture if you will
01:22:38: Within our Theological circles That is far too cozy
01:22:44: With sin Far too cozy with the world It's been dubbed the young restless
01:22:51: And reformed crowd Reformed guys who
01:22:58: Think it's kind of cool to push the edge Just a little bit And they
01:23:05: They grab on to some of that Worldliness, things that are sinful But they kind of bring it in Almost as a sin
01:23:12: Almost in a way that they It's like they're trying to prove how manly they are They're trying to prove how strong They are in Christ that they can dabble
01:23:20: With these things and yet not Cross the line somehow Sexual immorality
01:23:28: Coarse jesting All of these things We are to flee from They are not to be even named
01:23:36: Among the family Of God and yet Some of these young restless and reformed
01:23:42: Crowd they're dabbling in it You see with Calvinism It's kind of a
01:23:48: It's become almost hip in the last 15 -20 years It's become kind of hip to become a
01:23:54: Calvinist Because it's got this robust Manly theology, you know, high view Of the sovereignty of God and it's kind of Manly and a lot of Calvinist guys
01:24:02: You know, they grow their beards out Much longer than mine It's almost kind of a It's a cultural thing with many of them
01:24:10: They think it's manly and hey, I have a high view Of the sovereignty of God, rightly so This church has a high view of the sovereignty of God Rightly so But don't take this high view
01:24:20: This high view of God's Sovereignty as a license for sin And that's what many of them
01:24:27: Are doing They are dabbling with things They are taking things that may not
01:24:32: In and of themselves be inherently Sinful But it's a very short step into sin
01:24:40: There's a Website that's a Calvinistic website And they have gear That you can buy, shirts and what not
01:24:46: And one of the things that I'm struck by Is they have whiskey flasks And engraved
01:24:53: On the whiskey flask Kill sin or it will be Killing you On a whiskey flask?
01:25:01: Are you serious? Kill sin or it Will be killing you on a whiskey flask? Now Jeff For those of you who were in there this morning
01:25:12: He rightly said That the Bible does not condemn Outright Alcohol, or wine
01:25:20: It doesn't explicitly condemn these things So I'm not going to go where the Bible Does not go, but the
01:25:26: Bible also Has to say some other things to say About alcoholic drinks Proverbs 20
01:25:32: Verse 1, wine is a mocker Strong drink a brawler And whoever is
01:25:39: Led astray by it Is not wise So I'm not going
01:25:44: To go where the Bible does not go But I will say that With some of those things that are Christian liberties
01:25:52: Friends, you've got to be very Very careful Because it is a short step
01:25:58: Into a sinful state And we need To remember that many
01:26:04: Of our weaker brothers And sisters have been saved Out of some of these things
01:26:10: They've been saved out of these things Don't flaunt your liberty In such a way that it becomes
01:26:16: A stumbling block To those who have been saved out of these things Kathy and I know
01:26:22: A lady who was saved by God's grace About five years or so ago And she was saved out of a lot of things
01:26:28: One of which was alcoholism And as she was a brand new Christian She talked to this pastor
01:26:34: Who was doctrinally sound And he knew what she had been saved out of And she needed some guidance
01:26:40: And so she called him up And he wanted to meet her at a bar What are you doing?
01:26:47: Be very careful with your Christian liberty Be careful Be wise
01:26:53: For your own sake and for the sake Of weaker brothers and sisters Some of these
01:26:59: Reformed pastors Like to use profanity They think it's cool to use profanity
01:27:04: One of them A very well known one, I won't mention his name But one of them Pretty recently made a point
01:27:11: To use profanity in his sermon Like it's something that's cool There's nothing cool about that God is holy
01:27:20: We are to be holy We are to keep Ourselves as unstained
01:27:25: From the world as Christ is Now I don't want you to misunderstand me
01:27:32: And I'm not going down this legalistic Independent fundamentalist Baptist Kind of a road
01:27:38: I'm not going that direction To be holy You've got to have your hair cut a certain way
01:27:43: And ladies, you've got to have your dresses down below your ankles No makeup on those faces Ladies If you don't have a
01:27:50: King James Bible You're not That's not where I'm going
01:27:56: With this That's legalism That's vain religion too That's vain religion too
01:28:03: Dear ones Our holiness as Christians Should come From our hearts
01:28:09: It should come from a place of wanting To please our Savior To live in such a way
01:28:16: That honors Him That glorifies Him One of the surest ways that you can know
01:28:22: That you have a different relationship With the Savior Than you did before your conversion
01:28:29: Is if you have A different relationship with sin That is one of the surest ways to know
01:28:37: That you are truly in Christ You have a different relationship With sin today
01:28:42: Than you did before Our personal holiness should come from a place Where we want to please
01:28:49: Christ And live in such a way That honors Him This is about pleasing
01:28:56: God through our personal holiness I want to read to you a quote From J .C. Ryle J .C.
01:29:01: Ryle was a bishop in Liverpool, England And J .C. Ryle Has written a very helpful book
01:29:07: By the way on holiness Look up that on Google J .C. Ryle on holiness It's very helpful
01:29:13: He says this He who supposes that Jesus Christ only lived
01:29:19: And died and rose again In order to provide justification And forgiveness of sins for His people
01:29:26: He died only for that That person Has yet much to learn Whether he knows it or not
01:29:33: He is dishonoring our blessed Lord In making Him only A half Savior Jesus Christ did come to die
01:29:43: And save us from our sins To make us right with God To provide our justification Our salvation and to secure it
01:29:50: Yes He did But He also came to die that we would be a peculiar people Set apart
01:29:56: Holy We should show our love for God By our obedience to His commands
01:30:04: It should come from a place of love for our Savior Not to meet Legalistic demands
01:30:10: But to please our King We should obey His commands Because His commands are not burdensome to us
01:30:17: Colossians chapter 2 verse 6 Therefore as you received Christ Jesus as Lord So walk in Him Receive Jesus as Lord And so walk in Him In pure and undefiled
01:30:31: Religion That controls the tongue That cares for the needy And that Protects and guards
01:30:39: And nurtures our own Personal holiness Let's close in a word of prayer
01:30:50: Father in so many ways We as your children Are We are strangers
01:30:57: We are strangers We find ourselves in a strange land We find ourselves in a world
01:31:03: That is opposed to you And We live
01:31:09: In these fallen bodies Still with fallen fleshly desires And the world tugs on us
01:31:15: Father may we Always keep in the forefront of our mind That we as your people
01:31:21: Are to be different That We owe our
01:31:26: King A life of Devotion out of the Gratitude of the
01:31:32: Profundity of what He has done for us So Father May we live lives that are holy
01:31:38: May our religion be before you Pure and undefiled These things we ask
01:31:44: And pray in Christ's name Amen Would you please stand as we dismiss this evening
01:33:00: Holy Holy Holy Holy Our God almighty
01:33:11: The morning Our song Shall rise
01:33:17: To thee Holy Holy Holy Merciful Almighty Merciful Merciful Trinity Trinity Holy Holy Holy Though the
01:33:48: Darkness hide Thee Though the eye
01:33:53: Of sinful man Of glory May not see
01:34:00: Only Thou art Holy There Is none beside Thee Perfect In power
01:34:16: In love And purity Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty All Thy works
01:34:35: Shall praise Thy name In earth and sky
01:34:40: And sea Holy Holy Holy Merciful And mighty
01:34:54: God In three Persons Blessed Trinity Now may the
01:35:04: God of hope fill you With all joy and peace in believing So that you will abound in hope
01:35:10: By the power of the Holy Spirit Thanks for coming, have a great week Jesus Christ has risen
01:36:28: From the grave Our Savior reigns
01:36:39: You are our hope So we sing
01:36:48: Hallelujah Hallelujah Jesus is alive Risen from death
01:36:54: Ascended on high Glorious by the Father's side