Repentance Is a Gift of God — Randy Krahn

Jesus Fulfills Isaiah’s Prophecy

I was thinking this morning about when Jesus came, and it's probably fairly close to when he began his ministry. He went into the temple and he asked for the scroll of Isaiah, and he turned to 61, and he began to read.

And I'd like to read that, and we see from that passage that it was a fulfillment of God in the people's hearing in that day. You know, it's still God's heart that that would happen in our day. It was finished when Jesus said it was fulfilled in his hearing, but on our part, we either receive the word of God and it becomes real in our life, or we reject it.

And we see that in that day, in that time, when Jesus read Isaiah 61, and he said, today this is fulfilled in your hearing, that they became angry with him, and they grabbed him and they took him to throw him off a cliff.

You know, some of us would say, oh, if Jesus would come, then everything would be great. You know, he came to his own people and his own people rejected him. They didn't recognize him. They didn't understand the day in which they lived.

They didn't recognize that Jesus is the Christ, and even today, the Jews are still waiting for their Messiah to come. There's a whole pile of work going on and different plans happening for when the Christ will come, whoever he is.

They don't have a revelation of Jesus as the Christ. But we who believe have come to know that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus is the Christ. And he said to those who received him, he said, Simon, flesh and blood hasn't revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven, it comes by revelation.

Revelation, Conversion, and Election

So you know what, we can labor, and we can grind it out, and we can try to convince people that Jesus is the Christ, but unless God reveals it to you individually, it's not going to change your life. Giving mental assent that Jesus is the Christ is not going to change your life.

It has to go more than just the level of the mind. It has to come into the level of the spirit, into the heart, the depths of your being. That's when Jesus is going to change your life. When you meet him and have that Damascus Road experience for yourself, and you realize that all your life, you thought maybe you were doing something for God, and you realize that you've been fighting against God.

His brother Saul received a conversion on the Damascus Road and became brother Paul. It's a picture of a man who was dead in trespasses and sins, and he was made alive. But he had to come to a revelation that he was blind.

He had to be made naturally blind that the Holy Spirit could reveal to him that he was spiritually blind. Yet according to his righteousness, according to the law, he found himself to be blameless. So what righteousness did he have?

He was consenting to the death of Stephen, he was holding the codes. He was going and imprisoning the people of the way who were following after Jesus and who were teaching others and spreading their heresy all over the place according to him.

And God stopped him in his tracks on the Damascus Road. He thought he was doing it for God and God revealed himself to him. Therein lies something that we rarely preach on called election. Why did God reveal himself to Saul on the Damascus Road and not to everyone or not to someone else?

Because he just pleased God to do it. You know what it does? You know what election does? It takes away all boasting. It can't produce boasting if you think, oh, I'm one of the chosen. But what it does, it humbles us because you realize he should have long done away with us.

He should have killed us. He should have passed us by. But it just, it pleased him to take those things that are not, the foolish things, the abased things, those things that are vile and an abomination before God, that which is highly esteemed among men, that kind of religious, pharisaical, I've done nothing wrong heart attitude, and bring it to naught.

Like dragging your tongue across the pavement until you get a revelation that you miss God altogether. It wasn't that Saul was searching for God. God found Saul. And why did he do it? Because it just pleased him to do it.

And there were a lot of Christians praying because that guy was wreaking havoc all over the place. That guy had a zeal. You want to talk about having a zeal for God? That guy had a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

He missed Christ. Those people who were waiting for Messiah, they had a zeal for God, but when Jesus stood up in the temple and read Isaiah 61 to them, they missed Christ. They wanted to push the Christ over the cliff, but it wasn't his time to go to the cross yet.

It wasn't his time to die. All things had to be fulfilled. That the purpose and the promises of God might be fulfilled from Scripture. That's the thing about prophecy. God knows what's going to happen.

God knows the choices that you're going to make. God knows whether you're going to reject him or receive him. He knows the end of the whole matter. Yet he's given us free will, but he knows our choice.

So therein lies the balance of free will and election. He gives us a choice. Choose you this day whom you will serve. He tells them that in Joshua's day. And he says that to us today. But he also said this, Joshua revealed to him, and he said, God revealed to Joshua, and he said, but you were not willing.

As for me in my house, serve the Lord. You choose to serve God, but you know what? You're not going to because God already told me you won't. This is a fine line. Repent and be converted. Who can repent if they have no conviction?

Personal Repentance and Humility

Yesterday I got caught up in something. You know what? I got caught up in battling flesh with flesh. You know what? And I spoke hastily, spoke from the flesh, spoke from pride. Then I felt bad about it, and I kind of was trying to repent over it.

I went to sleep heavy. I woke up heavy. You know what? It was till I just started texting with Curtis on the drive, and I started to acknowledge my transgressions. I started to acknowledge my sin. It doesn't matter what the other people say.

It doesn't matter what the other people have done. What matters is what I've done, my response to it. When those people went to all in one accord, pushed Jesus off the cliff, he could have just screamed at them and told them, I'm going to send a legion of angels, and I just wipe you guys all out because if you don't know, I'm the Christ, and just spoke in the flesh because that's not what the Father told him to say.

He never did that. We can think we're standing up for righteousness or truth or some other thing and speak totally and completely from the flesh because there's also another scripture that says, when he was reviled, he did not revile in return.

He continued to speak the truth, but he spoke it in love. He didn't speak it from anger. He didn't speak it from pride. He didn't speak it because he had to push back against those who were trying to push him off a cliff.

And when I humbled myself, I was seeking repentance from last night even until this morning, but I didn't find any because repentance is a gift that comes from God. And until I was prepared to humble myself, and I didn't even realize I was humbling myself except that I was just opening up my heart to share.

You know, because sometimes we can seem to be something, but we struggle just like everybody else. It doesn't matter what position you have, whether you're a king or whether you clean the king's shoes.

What matters is what God says. And when we open up our heart and we become genuine and we become sincere in where we're at and our struggles and become open one with another and vulnerable, then God sees the motive and intent of the heart, and he gives repentance.

All of a sudden, I started to tear up while I was texting you, Curtis. And I started to realize, man, this is repentance. God is granting me repentance. You can tell a man to repent until he's blue in the face, and until God changes his heart, nothing will change.

And then after I started to have a softness of heart, I decided I was going to send a letter asking forgiveness to the person that I had spoken harshly to. I spoke truth, but I spoke harshly. And I was accusing in the way I was saying things, and I was using it as a position of authority over someone in a lower position to exercise my right as a boss.

And you know what? When I started to type that letter, brokenness came. Forgiveness came. Healing came. Deliverance came. Freedom came. Joy came for heaviness. Praise came. A garment of praise. And I knew that repentance has come.

We can ask on our part, but God is the giver of repentance. God is the one who gives a man repentance. And when he sees that the heart is in line with humility and a genuineness and remorse, God brings a change.

That's why a lot of times people, when they say, Jesus, forgive me of my sins, and they hope to find forgiveness because they've willfully sinned and done stupid things, they feel nothing's happened, nothing has changed, and their prayers keep hitting the floor.

Because at the level of the words, God sees the heart. Because it says, with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, and with the heart one believes unto righteousness. The two have to connect. The mouth and the heart have to come in agreement in order for there to be repentance.

With the heart one believes unto righteousness. See, I thought I was doing what was right, and I spoke what I thought was right, and I was not going to back down from truth, but yet with the heart it was speaking from pride.

It was not speaking from love. And if we're not speaking from love, then we miss Jesus. You miss the righteousness that I'm speaking about. Jesus always spoke the truth in love. It's not in the words, it's in the heart attitude by which one speaks.

From love or from pride. And I have this yet to learn. So praise God, I got some repentance. I'm grateful for that. We have many things yet to learn. I want to read Isaiah 61, and I can see myself this morning in there.

Isaiah 61 and Freedom for the Brokenhearted

Isaiah 61, and this is what Jesus stood up and read in the synagogue, in the temple. Now the spirit of the Lord God is upon me. This is what Jesus says. The spirit of the Lord God, the spirit of God is upon me.

He was the God-man. He was fully man, but he couldn't change who he was. He was God in the flesh, but yet he had a Father who was in the heavens, and he subjected himself as a man as we are to subject ourselves as men to God.

Subject ourselves to the word of God and to the spirit of God. That's a mystery we won't discuss today, but we have the spirit of God come upon us. As believers in Jesus, filled with the spirit of God.

Born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible through the word of God. Which lives and abides forever. And we've received an anointing from the Holy One. And Jesus said, the spirit of the Lord is upon me.

Because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted. How many of you are broken hearted? Sometimes our sin makes us broken hearted. Sometimes our circumstances make us broken hearted.

Sometimes the people we work with make us broken hearted. Sometimes empty promises that people have made to us make us broken hearted. Sometimes we're waiting on God to do something in our life and it hasn't happened.

We become despairing of heart. But Jesus says, he sent his word to heal the broken hearted. He sent his word to heal us. To proclaim liberty to captives. What is a captive? Someone who's been taken captive to sin.

Perhaps someone who's been taken captive naturally. And finds himself in prison for no fault of their own. Or sometimes people who've been taken captive because they've sinned and they've gone to jail for their sins.

And he comes to set them at liberty where they're at. You might not naturally get free from prison. But you can be the Lord's freed man. As Paul was. When he said to Agrippa, he said, I wish you were as myself except for these chains.

Paul was the Lord's freed man. Even though he had chains on the outside. Agrippa was free on the outside. But he had chains on the inside. And Jesus said, I come to set the captives free. To free those who are in prison houses.

The opening of the prison to those who are bound. Bound to sin. Bound by fear. Crippled by anxiety. Crippled by what the future looks like. God wants us to be free. There's freedom in Christ. If we can find ourselves just looking unto him.

The day of vengeance of our God. When God deals with Satan and the powers of darkness as he did at the cross. And he now comes to deal with these things in our own personal lives. Where God seeks justice for us.

From our adversaries who have brought us into bondage. As the just judge gets justice for the widow who feels she's been violated. To comfort all who mourn. Some of you have been discouraged. You've been sad in your heart.

To console those who mourn in Zion. Maybe children not walking with the Lord. Friends not walking with the Lord. Parents not living for the Lord. Been divided. Brothers relationships have been severed because things have been said.

And Jesus is there to say I'm here to comfort those who mourn. To bring encouragement to you. And say hey you know what we have hope. Let's not lose hope here. To console those who mourn in Zion. To give them what?

To give them beauty for ashes. You know what maybe this morning. You know you look not too far in the past. And you say you know what? Like David and Ziglag we shared a few weeks ago. Well the houses were burned down and the children are taken.

And the men are all weeping. And God says I'm here to give you beauty for ashes. You say well I've made such a mess of things. All there is is just destruction around me because I've made so many mistakes.

But God says he's not going to leave us in that place. He sent the Spirit of God through the preaching. The foolishness of preaching. To say he's going to give you beauty for ashes. He's able to make those ashes beautiful.

He's able to take that flesh and that carnage. And he's able to rebuild it and make something precious in his sight. That pleases him. That pleases the heart of God. To give you the oil of joy for mourning.

To take away that discouragement and the sadness that's in your heart. Maybe you haven't seen your kids in a while. You know maybe it seems that it's just all weighing you down and making you sad inside.

But Jesus says I'm going to give you joy that doesn't make sense. I'm going to give you peace that passes understanding. It's going to guard your heart and your mind in Christ. This is what Jesus was reading in the temple to his people.

And they got mad after he preached this. They wanted to push him off a cliff. Makes no sense. Jesus is there just extending hope, truth, and life, and love. And telling them I'm here. And they rejected him.

They rejected his truth. They rejected him as the Prince of Peace. They rejected him as the Christ. He says the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. This is what I got to experience this morning.

When you find repentance, it doesn't matter that your head tells you that you're right and you're justified. What matters is if you don't have peace in your heart and you feel disconnected from the spirit of God.

Because sin separates us from God. Nothing else separates us from the love of God. But sin, it says in Isaiah 59, separates us from the love of God which is in Christ. It doesn't change the fact that God loves us.

It changes the fact that we can't experience any of it. That's what sin does. Did you know that? It's across the board. It says he who knew no sin became sin for us in 2 Corinthians 5. He became sin for us.

And God, his father who loves Jesus as much as he loves us. Sounds like a heresy. He loves Jesus as much as he loves us. He had to turn his face away from the one that he loved. He didn't hate him. He loved him.

But he can't look on sin because God is holy. Sin separated Jesus from his father when Jesus took our sin upon himself, upon his shoulders. When he bore our sins in his own body, it says. And he took the penalty and the punishment for our crimes we've committed against Christ.

Why is it any different if we walk in pride and we walk in stubbornness and we walk in ego and we hold fast to our integrity rather than walking in the spirit and fulfilling the purpose and call of God for our life that we find our prayers not going too far.

Confession, Forgiveness, and the Cross

We can make eloquent prayers. Pharisees had long ones. Doesn't commend us to God. What commends us to God is if when we go to meet before God and we don't even have confidence to look up because we know we're guilty and we just beat our chest and say, oh, God have mercy on me.

Oh, God will meet you there. God will meet you when you're humble and you own your sin against God. David, he got found out. And then he humbled himself. Brother Sean shared, against thee and thee only have I sinned and done evil in thy sight.

Well, he'd sinned against Bathsheba. He sinned against Uriah for sure. He sinned against the people of Israel because God was going to end up dealing with them all. And what does he say against thee and thee only have I sinned?

Because our true crimes are committed against Christ. And when this is dealt with, then we are able to deal with our relationships this way. To love God with all our heart and to love our neighbor as ourself.

Do this and you'll live. You say, well, that sounds like a works gospel. Well, when the Word of God says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, there's a response required. To walk as Jesus walked means to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because the two are connected. Faith and fruits are inseparable. Show me your faith without fruit and I'll show you my faith by what I do. And the true believers, if we have been given a ministry, what is the ministry we've been given?

Well, we all have a diversity of gifts, but there's one ministry. The ministry of reconciliation. God had the same ministry through Jesus Christ reconciling the world to himself. And we have this ministry wherever we go.

And whatever gift and capacity you have is to show the love of Christ to everyone that you meet in one way or another. And if that is compromised because of your pride and you speak it in the flesh. And you speak from pride and not from love.

Well, you have broken that purpose and call of God for your life, which is the ministry of reconciliation. How are the unbelievers and the people who are in bondage and in darkness to see a great light if we're walking in pride?

And we're just giving them a piece of our mind. And that's why the Holy Spirit has to convict us. And that's why the Holy Spirit keeps working and sanctifying us and separating us unto himself. That we might fulfill that ministry where wherever we are we're able to speak the truth in love.

That we might impart grace to the hearers. To give them the oil of joy for mourning. The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. That they may be called the trees of righteousness. The planting of the Lord that he may be glorified.

And they shall rebuild the old ruins. So after God does a work in us, now we begin this ministry of reconciliation where they shall rebuild the old ruins. You know, you can show up at a place where the floods have come through our valley and you say, well, you know, what's the options?

Well, we can tear down and move or we can rebuild the old ruins. And I think God wants us to fulfill the purpose and call of God. That if we've gone astray and we see zigzags burned with fire and God's moving us back into his will, into his perfect plan for us.

That we rise again and bless his name. The scripture says, though a righteous man falls seven times, he gets up again. The key point is not seven times. The key point is he rises again. And that's what God calls us to do.

Seven is God's number. It's a complete number. It doesn't matter how many times you fall, you repent, you ask forgiveness. If your brother comes to you and asks for forgiveness seven times, do you forgive him or seven times 70?

In other words, you always are ready to forgive your brother. When he sins against you and speaks from pride and says certain things and say, hey, brother, I'm really sorry. It's like, you know what? I'll forgive you.

But you know what? We don't have fellowship anymore. Is that how God is with us? Say, you know what? Brother, I'll forgive you your sins, but you know what? We're not going to have fellowship. We won't have fellowship no more.

That's not how God works. When God forgives, he forgives completely. He justifies just as if we've never sinned. When the blood covers. When our heart is right in true repentance and God grants us repentance.

You know, it says that Esau, he sold his birthright for a bowl of stew. And he forfeited his blessing. And then he sought repentance. It says in Hebrews 12, Esau sought repentance with tears and found none.

Because repentance is granted from God. And it says before the children were born, Jacob I have loved. Before they've done any good or evil. And Esau, I hated that guy. God said he hated Esau from scripture.

Why? Because he saw the end of Esau's heart and all the things, all the opportunity, all the mercy, all the kindness that God showed to that guy. And he rejected God's blessing and God's promise for his life.

And at the end of it, when he sought repentance because he lost all his blessings. And he lost his birthright and he found himself with nothing. He didn't find repentance, though he sought it with tears.

Tears alone doesn't mean repentance. Because there's worldly sorrow that doesn't lead to repentance. But godly sorrow leads to repentance. Tears doesn't mean repentance. Repentance is from the heart. That's where God grants repentance.

Where there's a changing of the heart. There's a renewing of the mind. And then there's a clearing of oneself. And a vindication and an open heaven to God. Where you know that your sacrifice of repentance has been accepted.

You don't need a man to tell you that you're forgiven. You don't need a man to tell you, a priest to tell you that your sins are forgiven. You need God to tell you. And when God tells you, you don't need to learn to love yourself.

You know the love of God which surpasses knowledge. This doctrine of learning to love yourself. No, the scripture says you should loathe yourself for the things that you've done. And then the waves of God's love just come and pour over you.

And then you just say, how could I have done it? I've been there. And I just weep and I wail. And I, Lord, how could you love me, a sinner condemned unclean? How marvelous, how wonderful is the Lord who's done this for me.

You experience the waves of his love. God is loving. He doesn't want to hold it back. He wants to pour out on you. But we're not hindered by his affection for us. We're hindered by our own affections.

We don't want to let God get too close because we don't want to become vulnerable. We don't want to become weak. We don't know what that's going to look like. And so through fear, we keep ourselves a good arm's length from God having his own way.

That's 2 Corinthians in chapter 6. Paul said to the church, he said, open your hearts wide. Be open. We ourselves are open. You also be open. You're not hindered by us. You're hindered by your own affections.

You're just guarded. Let your guard down. Let God break you down. Let's become vulnerable together. Let's be open. Don't worry about being hurt. Trust God. It's safe here, Paul says. Then you shall rebuild the old ruins.

They shall raise up the former desolations. They shall repair the ruined cities and the desolations of so many generations. He goes on from there. Let's look in 2 Corinthians in chapter 5. 2 Corinthians in chapter 5, verse 17.

New Creation and Life in Christ

Being born again is a miracle. It's just as much a miracle as if we went to a funeral, and there was someone who died before their time in the casket, and the man went over there through brokenness and through the word of the Lord and spoke life into the man in the casket, and he'd just come right out of the casket, and he just raised from the dead.

You say, man, well, that would be something. That would be something. I'm going to tell you, a greater miracle than that is a man who's dead in trespasses and sins being made alive. That's a greater miracle than our eyes seeing someone get out of the casket after they've been dead.

We have to wrap our minds around what God did in sending His Son to deal with the sin issue on the cross, and pouring out His Spirit, and giving His Spirit to a man who was dead in trespasses and sins from Ephesians 2, and making them alive.

That's what he says, Ephesians 2. You were dead in trespasses and sins, but He made us alive together with Christ. We become one with Christ. Joint heirs with Christ. Sounds like a heresy. You know, we were talking a little bit about inheritance last night, and we've got nine children.

Everybody gets their share of inheritance. He's like, yeah, I don't want to wait for that. We become impatient, and that seems like so far in advance. You know what? We have an inheritance in Christ, because Christ is our elder brother.

He's our husband, and we are the bride of Christ. We have inheritance. He said, well, I don't know. I don't want to wait for all that. I know one day that's coming and all that, but what's that do for me today?

It does nothing for me. We have to have a revelation. All the riches that are in the Godhead in Christ are in bodily form, and we are His body. He's our head, and we're complete in Him. And all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ, and we can tap into that, and we can have the resources of life and truth and everything pertaining to life and godliness in Christ.

If we look to Him, if we submit ourselves completely to Him, that whatever we ask in prayer believing, we shall receive. The same way that God answered Jesus, the same way Jesus through the Holy Spirit will help us, will answer us, and we'll see the power of God.

Because we don't see it yet, we can't be discouraged by it and become unbelieving and lose heart. So he says in verse 17, If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, a new creature. Old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

This is what we see, rebuilding the old waste places, giving beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. So what we have seen is carnage, what we have seen is discouragement, and setting our hope in that which is fading, but now we see Jesus.

If anyone be in Christ, man, woman, child, if anyone be in Christ, they're a new creation, born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed through the word of God, which lives and abides forever.

Jesus is the living word of God manifested in flesh, and we are complete in Him. Is the word of God alive in you? Is Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit real in your heart? If it's not real, it can be real.

Call upon the name of the Lord, ask Him for help. You say, well, I've tried that. Well, you know what, maybe it was at the level of the mind, let it be at the level of the heart, and it will become real.

And you know what, you'll find that your circumstances may not change, but what's going on inside, you will have peace. The Prince of Peace, who will guide your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Now all things are of God, verse 18, 2 Corinthians 5, 18, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

The Ministry of Reconciliation

Every one of you has received this ministry, a ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their sins against Him, not saying, you know what, they did this against me, and they did that against me, and they've done all these things, and that separated them from me.

But now at the process of time, when God decides, it's just pleasing to do it, and when God puts it in your heart to pass over whatever everybody's done to you, and said against you, and spoken of you, and what they think about you, and you don't impute any of it against them, but it's now the Spirit of God in you, imploring them to be reconciled to God.

Just pure love, just speaking that truth in love. As God didn't impute our sins against us, we don't impute sins that others have committed against us to anyone. And that's where it says, if you forgive anyone's sins, they're forgiven.

If you retain their sins, they're retained. You have the power to forgive people who sin against you. God has the power to forgive people who sin against Him. And if you release people who have sinned and hurt you, then you can be free and fulfill that call of God for your life.

And when you release them, God will release you. The unbeliever doesn't have that power. It comes through Christ. Jesus breathed on them. He breathed on them after the resurrection. That wasn't the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

They received life, and He said, now you have power to forgive sins. It's misunderstood. The Catholics take it that the priests have power to say, my son, my daughter, your sins are forgiven, then go give some penance.

We have power to forgive people who sin against us. Their sins are not imputed against them because we released them. Because God gives us power to forgive everyone. Because God has forgiven us. If God has forgiven us, we ought to forgive everyone.

If you hold grudges, I'm telling you, you're going to go back into prison houses, into chains. You'll be the most miserable person, and you'll try to repent a thousand times. But until you start sending out the texts and the letters and the emails, and you start releasing people, and just taking ownership of your part in holding grudges, even if that's all you did is hold a grudge, you'll feel separated until then.

You release them, and you will feel the connection between you and God. I can attest to that even this morning. We can't hold grudges against anyone. It doesn't matter what they've done to us. What matters is, we've committed a hundred thousand times more crimes against Christ.

Do we want Him to hold a grudge against us? We expect Him to release us, but we can't release others. If we die in that state, we're not going to be in a good way. Let's just put it that way. You won't be in a good way.

If you die having grudges against anyone, you're taking your chances, and I wouldn't take those chances. Now then, verse 20, we are ambassadors for Christ. What does it mean to be an ambassador? You get into government, and they make you an ambassador for a certain country.

You speak for Canada. You speak on behalf of the Prime Minister. When you go there, you are a representative of the leadership of the country which you come from. That's a noble position. That is a stately place to function.

Ambassadors for Christ

Now we are ministry of Christ in the earth as ambassadors from heaven. It says we're seated with Christ in heavenly places. And when the Spirit of Christ is in us, and the Holy Spirit is functioning properly through us, we become ambassadors of Christ to the perishing people of the world.

So wherever God sends us, we are there to speak on behalf of the Spirit of God. And as we hear we speak. You are ambassadors for Christ. As though Christ were pleading through us and then begging people, or begging you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

Get right with God. That's the ministry of reconciliation. That's everyone's ministry. Whatever gift you have. Maybe you make muffins and cupcakes and you go to your neighbor and the tears run down your face and they ask for the hope that's in you.