Pillar 1 of a Biblical Church, The Whole Counsel of God, Acts 20:17-35

That's Acts chapter 20 verses 17 to 35 hear the word of the Lord Now from the lettuce he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him and when they came to him

He said to them You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia Serving the

Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable and teaching you in public and from house to house

Testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and now behold

I'm going to Jerusalem constrained by the Spirit not knowing what will happen to me there Except that the

Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself

If only I may finish my course in the ministry that I receive from the Lord Jesus To testify to the gospel of the grace of God and now behold

I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock in which the

Holy Spirit has made you overseers to care for the Church of God which he obtained with his own blood. I Will come in among you not

Sparing the flock and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things to draw away that the disciples after them

Therefore be alert Remembering that for three years. I did not cease night or day to admonish everyone with tears

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace Which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified

I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel you yourselves Know that these hands minister to my necessities and to those who were with me in all things

I've shown you that by working hard in this way We must help the weak and remember the words of the

Lord Jesus how he himself said it is more blessed to give Than to receive

May the Lord add his blessings to the reading of his Holy Word Well ever thought you understood something?

pretty well only to be made aware to realize that you were only seeing one side of the story ever start to answer a question before was fully asked and Be embarrassed that you assumed the question wrongly

Ever hear someone make a case for themselves. Maybe how wronged they were I didn't deserve to be suspended or how right they are only to hear the other side and Realize you were fooled.

I Assumed I knew something based on an incomplete picture I was walking down the sidewalk in Singapore walking down the road, but there was a high wall on my right side

When I got to it driveway of this parking lot, it's to a big hotel I was shocked to see inside kind of the half of the whole of the parking lot the little walled -off lot that I could see

Two men arguing just violently and they were speaking Mandarin So I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I could tell that they were they were really mad at each other

And I thought the man I just kind of saw that soon as I saw that just stopped in my tracks and thought man

These two guys are about to get into a fight and I knew what they did Yeah, I have to do the right thing. I have to go in and break it up So I just stopped there just staring at this with the other with the wall still blocking up half of the parking lot

I stared at the two men Arguing and then suddenly just as I feared one man took up a big swing at the other man

Fly back like he'd been hit hard the fight had started. Oh, no, I'm gonna have to break this up I have to go do my duty.

It was weird though that could tell from my angle that the guy that took the swing missed by a mile and Didn't really hit the other guy and it was really weird

That the guy the other guy just went flying back like he had been hit hard But you know,

I thought well, whatever I could see the fight had begun So I began to walk quickly Through the driveway into the into the full parking lot and now

I could see the whole picture there and the half of the parking lot that I couldn't see before was a

TV camera and a cameraman a Man with a boom mic and another lighting manual the light and a few other people standing around watching the two actors

Everything I saw before was true But I couldn't interpret it correctly until I saw the whole picture

Now the worst thing that would have happened if I had actually ran in there and broken up the actors fight scene Would be my own embarrassment.

It's a cut cut get out of here But sometimes acting on partial perceptions can have much more dire consequences

When last we were living long term in Singapore Mike his speech therapist won a free trip to New York City in September of 2001

Think about that for a second New York City in September of 2001 on the morning of Tuesday, September 11th 2001 as part of her package deal prize that she won she was she was supposed to take a tour up to the top of the

World Trade Center as She finished her breakfast with her husband started walking Toward the

World Trade Centers and she looked up and she saw an airplane Disappear into the side of one of the towers

From now from her point of view all that she could see was a plane going into the building You know those pictures you've seen from a distance

They show you've probably seen them over and over again on TV the plane hitting on one side and the explosion coming out the other well, she was just looking at the side the plane hit and First her thought was well, this is some kind of stunt some kind of magic trick

You know like David Copperfield making a Statue of Liberty disappear this time He's making a plane disappear to the side of a building

She said that there were just so many other strange things in New York City She figured this is just another one of them. And so she turned to her husband and said, oh

What a neat effect and they kept walking straight toward the

World Trade Center Only when crowds of people began running the other way did she realize that something horrible had just happened

You can see something very important you can be an eyewitness to one of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of the world, but get the exact wrong lesson and Respond in exactly the wrong way.

Keep rock walking straight toward disaster Unless you get the whole picture Now that's exactly what is wrong with a lot of preaching these days.

There are many preachers who aren't preaching anything. That's directly false They're just preaching only one side of the story

We can rail against the doctrines of the you know Whatever the cults criticize some people for their overt doctrine for the things they teach but in my experience there are far more people today who may not be saying anything that is directly false

But they're only teaching half the story what they declare may be entirely true But it isn't the entire truth.

You see a half truth Presented as a whole truth is a complete untruth and because they aren't declaring the entire truth

The whole Council of God what Paul calls it here people can respond in exactly the wrong way

There are people who are right now heading toward disaster based on their true but merely partial perception

How are we not to be one of them? Well, the Apostle Paul gives us the key in this farewell address the

Ephesian elders and here in Acts chapter 20 This key plays as we saw when we go through access plays a key part in the book of Acts This explains what happens in the last one -third of Acts Why he goes all through the trials and you know the the prison that he goes through He says if only

I may testify to the gospel the grace of God I don't care about these afflictions as long as I do that and this also explains what the church is that he is leaving behind What they need what he calls the whole

Council of God, so let's answer three key questions What is it? What is the whole

Council of God? How do we get it? And Why is it necessary? You know what how and why?

But what is the whole Council of God? Well, the term I think is just self -explanatory First hole means all means the entirety.

It's not a special word Don't expect me to say something to the Greek means this or that and it means something totally different than English No, it just means all and counsel means the truths that he has revealed

He has counseled us about what the truth is Psalm 119 verse 24 says your testimonies

I was the Word of God are my delight. They are my counselors They teach the right way.

They are the counsel He has given us in his word that which is this which is of God in verse 32

He commends them the churches to God and to the word of his grace

That is Scripture that would that would mean that the things other things There are not revealed in his word.

Maybe things are just a man just speculations Maybe speculations about theology or a lot of debates about the end times

Maybe today a lot of politics people like to talk politics a pop psychology fluff about self -esteem

Maybe motivational speaking. It's all commercial yesterday Pinocchio giving a motivational speech, you know, you have potential in his nose gross because he's actually lying

You don't have potential but a lot of stuff it just gets so much attention these days well that can be skipped because Much of that is not profitable, but not anything that that is here.

This is profitable We proclaim everything in it and it is all profitable because the message of the gospel is in it all the gospel of the grace

Of God so that is that is the what it's pretty simple now Notice how important Paul deems declaring the whole message of Scripture in verse 20

Paul reminds them. These are his last words to this church Remember that you're gonna say your last words are gonna be important.

He reminds them that he says I did not shrink From declaring to you anything that was profitable and he's shrinked from I didn't and they didn't hold it back

I didn't flinch and doing it even once he doesn't even he doesn't say well I eventually got around to all of it.

He said he didn't shrink. He never held it back He's never afraid man. If I say that that guy's gonna be angry.

He's gonna leave. I won't get his tithe anymore You know, he doesn't he's not afraid that if he teaches us this whatever unpopular doctrine that they'll reject him

He never flinched from declaring everything God said and he didn't shrink from notice.

He did said he didn't shrink from declaring Not just suggesting Not just implying

Not whispering anything. It's not as though some things the popular things. He said loudly and the other things

The unpopular stuff. He said softly No, he declared Everything in verse 20.

He says he's innocent of their blood because he did not hold back I was God will he say God will not hold me responsible if you fall into judgment

Because I told you everything you needed to know Here he is drawing on an image from the prophet Ezekiel and what

God says to Ezekiel you're like a watchman on a wall And you you have to tell the people what you see coming

The watchman is held accountable held responsible for for warning the people

At the watchman on the wall scenes danger coming is an invading army and he doesn't warn Maybe he's afraid, you know, that's unpopular.

Those people don't want to hear this is an evading army coming They want to hear everything's fine No, but if he doesn't tell them he will be held responsible

But if he warns and the people don't listen that they don't close the gate

They don't prepare to defend themselves. Then it's not his fault when the city is destroyed. He did his duty He did what he was supposed to do.

He warned he might not win the people In other words, you might not convince them. He might might not win them, but he must warn them

Now the church is not held accountable for winning We might not win we might not win every person we speak to But we must warn

There are sometimes when faithfulness will bring loss and suffering when people will reject us

Because they don't like what we're saying as it did for Paul when he left Ephesus He went knowingly into prison

Paul felt he had to do that to be faithful to his call he had to say things that people would

Reject him for for us faithfulness to the whole message may sometimes mean losing people who can't accept certain teachings, whatever they find

Unacceptable, they hate the idea that their salvation is totally outside their control that God is sovereign

That Jesus teaches church discipline or that our favorite in times theories are are taught in Scripture or not really or there are they hate the idea that that our

Autonomy our self -rule our individualism the consumer attitude that there's so much in the air around us these days that everything exists for my

Consumption my marriage exists for my consumption my family even the Bible salvation worship the church even the

Lord himself All exists to give me my best life now, right?

That's the consumer attitude and if it's not doing that any of those things aren't doing it for me Well, I'll go and try another one

It will do it for me another wife another church another whatever another God Maybe that consumeristic individualism that the culture has inculcated in people around us

You know that we're supposed to give up for the Lord and for his body now people around us. They find that repulsive We want to win them

But We might lose them if we tell them the whole truth, but we have to take that chance We'll try to do our best to present everything is as winsomely as attractively as we can but sometimes faithfulness means warning without winning

I don't mean to make excuses for for not reaching people For staying small. We should be eager to grow a healthy church wants to grow

But we have to make a choice if we have to make a choice between warning or winning

You know, we think if we could just maybe we we don't mention this then they'll like us and they'll come in Well, no, we had better choose warning if we hold back any part of the message and people continue to head toward disaster

Because they can't see the whole picture We will be judged for that.

We will have in some way Their judgment their blood on our hands To be free of the guilt of the souls of others.

We need as a body together To be showing people the whole picture

Everything that God has revealed the whole counsel of God, but we can't do that if we don't know it ourselves

So what we need? What we need to see the whole picture is the whole counsel of God, but how are we to get that whole counsel?

Like Micah speech therapist we can see something that's completely true but only see one side of it and based on our

One -sided view we make the wrong decision on which way to walk Continue walking right toward disaster

Well, that's the second question. I was how How are we to know? The whole counsel of God.

It's not something you could just leave up to your your preferences your taste your whims your feelings

You know, whatever you Wake up and feel like doing you see we all have biases In fact, some of the most dangerous people are those who don't know their bias, especially they become professors or editors

We like certain ideas. We just like others. We have certain blind spots We see certain things whether it's there or not, and we totally miss other things that are there when we come to the

Bible We naturally gravitate toward those those themes and those books that we prefer and we we think we understand

It's like ruts in a dirt road You know, we keep following the ruts no matter where that leads us.

It's easier than forging a new path But the ruts might not lead us on the right path. So we need what we need

Some discipline a discipline regimen of going through all of Scripture That's why you in your private

Bible reading and you try to read the entire Bible Over a year or two, but you over a certain time you're getting through to all of it

Not just camp on a few verses here and there your favorite ones your favorite books or whatever or let devotionals kind of spoon -feed you a verse here and there and For us together, you know, that's why we intentionally here we shift around to all parts of the

Bible That's why we take large portions of it and we go through whole books To see everything that God has said we believe what

Paul later wrote to Timothy that all Scripture is inspired by God all of it and All of it is profitable.

All of it is useful and we need it all to be be careful of any teaching or teacher Who tells tells you that some parts of the

Bible, you know, I'd worry about those anymore. They're not really for us That they belong to another era that we can unhitch them

From our faith today to get the whole counsel of God You need the whole Word of God including the

Old Testament so for example, we we Methodically read and sing here and pray through all the

Psalms Which sometimes means we we end up singing and praying and reading things that sound strange

To us in our day some things we probably would never think of on our own But we need that because all the word is inspired not just all of what we like about it here

How are we to see the whole picture The Apostle Paul tells us one way in Colossians chapter 3 verse 16 is to sing at the

Word of Christ. Well, and you richly By singing of all things singing Psalms hymns and spiritual songs our own songs

I don't think they're bad our own songs Great to have creative people who can write good songs our own songs that will reflect our taste at our culture

So we need to sing Psalms to all of them knowing that when we do we'll soon find ourselves singing and praying things

That seem maybe incredibly bizarre from time to time to our modern ears Is it like someone who's been given only vegetables to eat all their life?

They've only eaten vegetables They got how would it strike them and suddenly give them a steak? How do you think it would feel in their mouth start eating some meat and first we feel strange wouldn't

Be hard to swallow. We keep chewing on it Eventually you begin to like it Now some will say you don't need to be so regimented follow the lead of the

Spirit I heard a man who dropped out of church when he learned the pastor prepares his messages ahead of time

Because he just thought the guy should just show up and follow the lead of the Spirit of course what really happens when you do that as you follow your feelings and And you probably go back into your ruts and you're going to the same passages and saying the same things over and over again

But what better leading of the Spirit can there be I don't mean to put down leading following the Spirit We believe in that but what better leading of the

Spirit can there be then what the Holy Spirit that what we know He has led the

Word of God as it was actually written and inspired talk about following the leading of the Spirit If we really want to do that Then let's follow the book whose every letter

He led right. This is led by the Spirit In other words, we teach and we preach

The Word of God as it is given to us We don't come up with topics that we want to hear about and then selectively take a verse here verse there

Sew them together and our own little concoction that we think support our beliefs about those topics

But that is exactly the advice given today on how to attract people to church to preach to them about the topics they want to hear about and Then you know and then find the verses here and there that you think support that topic

But if we do that, when will we ever when will we ever tell them about their need for salvation? about sin and judgment and damnation

How will they ever understand what the good news is? Why is why why it was necessary for Jesus to die on the cross to buy their salvation for his blood?

It's all something. I think it's just yesterday the Babylon be on online says picture of a woman and she said

Woman totally puzzled why the pastor who just spent 30 minutes telling you how great she is just told her that she needs

Jesus Right, you understand this what goes on so much today telling people how great you are

How terrific you are and then you try to tackle on what you need Jesus and people why? You just I thought

I had it. I thought God loves me as I am We don't come up with topics we want to hear about but but we need to proclaim all the

Word of God If we just stick with what people want to hear When will we ever get?

To why they really need Jesus. How will they ever stand understand the good news, but also

When we do that We show who we really believe

Do we really believe that God knew what he was doing? when he inspired the

Bible as it is I Mean do we understand that do we really believe that God is all wise and the way he put the

Bible together Or do we deep down wish maybe the Bible was in the order that we'd like it to be in And the topics there were interested in you know, it's six ways to find a spouse seven steps to a happy marriage eight signs of the end times

Nine keys to prosperity these kind of things that people love to hear about now true arrogance

You know is editing the Bible together to be the way we want it to be It's saying that if God really knew what he was doing.

This is how he he should have put the Bible together The true humility and notice how

Paul points to his humility at the beginning of this passage. I humbly you know Serve you now true humility bows before the word and admits that God was right all

Along that he knew what he was doing the way the Holy Spirit led scripture is better than how our feelings

Think we're being led Now, how are we to see the whole picture? Well, we need to talk about it.

He says here. There's verse 20 Paul says he went from house to house

As he was visiting people right in their houses and their kitchens around the kitchen table over dinner Talking about the

Bible not just about football and the weather and politics or basketball here I guess you should say I don't know if he was from North Carolina or not

Helps, but the whole counsel of God that's what he was talking about Christians should want to talk to each other about what the word teaches.

That's why we have our Wednesday nights like we do We just basically talk about the passage. That's why we're willing to listen to other

Christians. It means we're Because they might bring to our attention

Passages that we might not know about or he might have forgotten about something We overlooked because we were dwelling on our favorite few verses to see the whole picture

We need the whole body now No, sola scriptura Scripture alone scripture alone is our final authority.

Sola scriptura doesn't mean solo scriptura just me and scripture

How are we to see the whole picture? We need we still need Preaching in verse 20.

He says not only you go house to house, but he declared to them publicly Oh as they had meetings and he preached to them

Preaching to gatherings One of the keys to hearing the whole counsel of God is expository

Preaching that is expositing declaring what the passage says an Expository preaching the main point of a of a passage like here in Acts 20 is the main point of the message

Normally, that is what normally that's what we do here We look at whole passages. We seek to see the whole picture of it

We can feed on everything that God has provided for us and like someone eating a well -balanced diet

We can grow up healthy and strong But that means that you You need to eat it

We can feed it to you, but you need to eat it Come prepared to listen Pray ahead of time for a good appetite to be eager to listen take notes if that helps you

That's what we have, you know place to take notes at the back of the bulletin Listen again online if you need more

Paul preached publicly that means that you need to gather publicly with a church and listen to preaching

How do we see the whole picture? We need to sing it to pray it to talk about it with each other and here listen carefully to Expository preaching in which the main point of a passage of Scripture is the main point of the message now

How are we to see the whole picture? We not only study it We live it

We experience it. We have to do it to feel it to practice to practice it

You know our actions also teach And we can we can deny or obscure part of the counsel of God part of God's Word just by not living it

There's not by not doing it If we say it's more blessed to give than to receive But we don't really give you know, maybe just a few

Dollars or cents here and there while we splurge on ourselves people see that and they just think that's just empty words if we say well, we want a biblical reformed

Church, then we don't sing Psalms or Even when the Bible says to or we don't practice church discipline because we live in a culture that hates discipline

Or we teach with our lives that those passages they just can be ignored If we say well

Jesus is for all kinds of people but our church is only made of our kind of people people notice that people notice what they see

Not what we say If we say I love the Lord we quote

Psalm 45 my heart overflows with a pleasing theme I address my verses to the king But then worship that singing to the

Lord is dreary or routine or boring to us, you know There's no sense of being pleased by it

Then our lives declare that Psalm 45 isn't true. It's not for us If we say

I love the Word of God But then we skip on Bible study. We can't muster the self -discipline to endure it when it's you know, when it's not exciting or immediately inspiring

Isn't because sometimes it's not I'm just got to do it like training for athletics basketball.

You got to do the drills Our lives but if we if we do that we don't do the drills our lives teach something else if we say

I want to serve the Lord But then we don't feel like the Apostle Paul here I do not count my life of any value nor as precious to myself of all him

I finished my course may testify to the gospel of the grace of God if we

If we don't really believe that we don't really show that with our life our actions teach

That we don't really believe what we say Notice how Paul shows his vibrant experience with God in this passage he begins by pointing to how

I lived Remember how I lived among you Ephesians, I didn't say remember my teaching.

He doesn't keep reminding him was teaching. But first of all Look at my life. I lived it in front of you twice in verses 19 and 31

He mentions his tears Paul was a passionate man, you know, he deeply felt the value

Of what he taught the reality of it Just theory he experienced God himself, especially

God the Holy Spirit or what he was teaching notice that in verse 22 He speaks of being constrained or bound by the

Spirit The other was the Holy Spirit had such a grip on him that he had to go the way the

Spirit told him to go Then in the next verse he speaks of how the Holy Spirit has been testified to him or what is going to happen

So these are just theories about abstract doctrines he was talking about realities that he was living he was a doer of the word

Unlike some people today who want a lot of people do they like experiences of the Spirit just you but they like it more like for The thrill of it, you know, some people like drugs some people like the

Spirit. It's kind of their drug and But Paul's experiences with the

Spirit actually led him into more trials in this life people like sometimes like drugs or because they want

To escape from their trial. So people want to thrill in the church shout hallelujah run around Because they want to escape from the trials of this life.

Well, that's not what it's really for Because Paul's experience with the Spirit actually led him into more trials

And why does he follow the Spirit into change and the suffering says constrained is bound and he follows the Spirit into Imprisonment verse 24 could be

Paul's personal mission statement. Why does he follow the Spirit into that suffering? He says

I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself If only I may finish my course and test and and the ministry that I received from the

Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God Paul had what the Prophet Jeremiah said was was fire in his bones

This was his life and it should be the life of our church We're not so concerned with being respectable or or being big or successful or on the cutting edge or are being comfortable

Old -time religion if only we may finish the course laid out for us

Of testifying to the gospel the grace of God Not just to talk about it

Not just words because we like the religion. We like the sound of it But to practice it to live it to run that course

How we're to see the whole picture is by singing praying talking to each other hearing expository preaching and Doing it

Letting it be our life But why that's the third question

Why would we want to give up, you know all the advantages and there are probably lots of advantage to kind of cutting and pasting

Parts of the Bible we like putting the rest. We don't like a way and just putting it back together is it suits us

After all is for a church. Why not give the customer what he wants, you know today's commonly believe the customer is

King They want to hear about Whatever. What do they want to hear about? They want to hear about how to be successful how to find the right spouse how to raise nice kids

That kind of stuff. They don't want to hear about their sin. Don't worry about that Something about God's judgment on sin

Certainly not that their sins are are so bad that their only hope is if the perfect man God himself

Took those sins on himself on the cross that they that they needed to be bought from death

They couldn't just work their way out of it They need to be bought out of it that it took blood to purchase them. A lot of people don't like to hear that You know, there are many teachings of the

Bible that are not very popular So so why bother? You know, what

I just give those parts Just just bury them somewhere give the people with the parts they like sweep the rest under a rug

Call it's called some teachings. They're unpopular called the big a family secret. I've heard that we have some things that are family secrets

They're right there in the Bible. They're not family secrets. But anyway, but in other words don't talk about it because they put people off well

Maybe maybe man is not the measure of all things. The third and last question is why is the counsel of God?

necessary the truth is Without everything that God has revealed The message we present falls apart if we only talk about grace and never sin and judgment and repentance people think that they can they're saved no matter how they live and continue and sin like that that Cartoonists all yesterday woman puzzled about why she needs

Jesus if she's so great as the pastor just said she was you know people Yeah, you know you only hear part of it

You you don't understand the gospel if we only present what people must do You know, you've got to be good.

Don't come in adultery. Don't steal. Don't go to church least occasionally Then people become proud of their life

They're and they're the religion. They think they can do it. They can accomplishment. They don't think that they didn't really need the grace of God People need the whole message and we need to present it all or we will be held partly responsible

For holding it back. Why do we need the whole counsel of God? Why is the whole picture necessary?

Because without it We become badly nourished, you know, that's somebody who eats only sweets his diet is

Twinkies and coca -cola Only hearing the sweet themes. We naturally prefer is like only eating sweet foods that we crave if we only

Only eat cake and ice cream and drink coke Eventually, we will get fat and very sick a poor diet makes you vulnerable

So to does a poor spiritual diet Paul here in verses 29 to 31 mentions the savage wolves

They will attack attack God's flock. The savage wolves are looking for weak strays

Those who aren't being protected by a shepherd They're not they're not in the church who don't hear the whole counsel of God when we miss some of what

God has revealed We will be vulnerable to wolves wolves are prowling around Today on TV on the

Internet. Sometimes they'll come knocking at your door They're looking for your weak spots Looking for people who only know part of the truth

Half truths that become complete untruths So in verse 32 Paul inspired by the

Spirit he commends us Oh, where's he refers us to me? He gives us over to in his absence as he's about to leave here and he's left us in his absence

He entrusts the church can trust us To what he's been proclaiming all along the word of his grace

God's Word which comes from And shows us God's grace

Paul was a passionate man She had tears and his zeal for the truth for God's truth.

He was passionate his care For his love for the church here. He he calls us to have the same care

Notice how he refers to the church and verses 28 29. He twice calls the church the flock

It's the flock and verse 28 is the the Church of God The gathering the assembly of God the people whom

God has called for himself the church should be precious to us Because it is precious to God so precious

He bought it He actually purchased it with what was precious to him

His own blood notice that last phrase of verse 28 says the Church of God Which he obtained

God obtained with his God's own blood Quite a striking statement of Jesus's divinity, isn't it?

It's God's blood Which bought the church? Because Jesus is God The word they're obtained or acquired can be translated as bought

God bought the church with the money of his own blood

Jesus cared for the church so much. He was willing to bleed for it to die for it

How much do you care for the church Why do we believe it teach the whole

Word of God Because it protects the church, you know this this precious gathering of people that God has bought the great

God of the universe became flesh and died and rose again for this Special group of people his flock

The church the Word of God incarnate in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was

God the Word of God became flesh Jesus Christ our Lord spit his blood

To purchase us. He said it is more blessed to give than to receive and he gave his life

He practiced what he taught he gave his blood Because he loves the church the flock

The diaspora of God's people spread to the ends of the earth and the Word of God in the flesh

Commends us to the Word of God in Scripture to the word of his grace

To keep us to nourish us to defend us to be a pillar

That holds us up to give us our inheritance the salvation. He spent his blood to buy

That's our inheritance Now Now don't you want to be steadfast in his