Sunday, June 26, 2022 AM

Here this morning. We have much to rejoice in today, much to rejoice in. We are praising the Lord for the decision on the overturning of Roe versus Wade. That is something I know in my lifetime I wasn't sure if I would ever see come but we've tried pray faithfully toward that but we have much work left to do though.

So we continue to ask for the Lord's favor and blessing as we go forth. A few announcements as we get started this morning. Come back tonight for our evening service. We'll be having that at our regular time at 530 after that truth group for the young adults for the month of June.

Looking ahead to Wednesday the 29th our regular meal time at 545 and then at 630 prayer meeting for the adults and Children's Choir for the kids. Looking ahead to a couple Sundays and Saturdays in the future on July 3rd Sunnyside will celebrate their 70th birthday on that day.

So if you know people who maybe came here in the past and you still have contact with them invite them to come out for that evening service. We'll have a time just a fellowship that night and remembrance.

And then Saturday July 9th the words of life women's retreat is going to be from 9 a .m. to 4 p .m. here at the church. We continue to try to clear out the big mission house. It's scheduled for demolition on July 9th so if you could just get with Hannah Hamilton she will help you kind of if you're interested in anything that's in that house maybe taking it home there.

Is there anything there's plenty left in there? There's still quite a bit in there. So okay plenty of stuff in there. Get with her and try and get some of that stuff out of there in preparation for that demolition.

Any other announcements this morning? Right our fighter verse for this week comes from 1st Peter chapter 5 verses 9 10 and 11. Resist him standing firm in the faith because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings and the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ after you have suffered a little while will himself restore you and make you strong firm and steadfast to him be the power forever and ever amen.

Preparing Hearts in Prayer

We're gonna have a time to prepare our hearts in prayer and then at the conclusion of.

That Dwight will come up and open us all in prayer. Father what a blessing it is to be able to call you father. You are our God. Our souls thirst for you our flesh faints for you as in a dry and weary land where there's no water.

So we have come here today to this sanctuary to your place of worship to behold your power and your glory. So may we put away the things of this world and focus our thoughts on you your son the Lord Jesus our Savior and the forgiveness that we have through your son the Lord Jesus.

May we worship you in spirit and in truth that is with the right attitude and according to your word. We thank you and we praise you for who you are for your holiness your power your glory your love your son the Lord Jesus.

In his name I pray. Amen. Would you stand with me for.

Call to Worship from Psalm 78

Our call to worship we're continuing in Psalms chapter 78. We'll be reading verses 40 to 45. Read with me together how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert. They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe. When he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zion. He turned the rivers to blood so that they could not drink of their streams.

He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them and frogs which destroyed them. So if you would turn to your Psalms for worship page 78 G and we'll sing this very sobering song that we just read about page 8 we'll sing praise to the Lord the Almighty.

Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem

The book of Isaiah 8. Isaiah.

Chapter 28. We're going to be reading verses 1 through 15 together. Some of you may have the heading in your Bible. Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem. Isaiah chapter 28 verse 1. This is the word of the Lord ah the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of its glorious beauty which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine.

Behold the Lord has one who is mighty and strong like a storm of hail a destroying tempest like a storm of mighty overflowing waters he cast down to the earth with his hand the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot.

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty which is on the head of the rich valley will be like a first ripe fig before the summer. When someone sees it he swallows it as soon as it as soon as it is in his hand.

In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment and strength. To those who turn back the battle at the gate.

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They reel in vision. They stumble in giving judgment.

For all tables are full of filthy vomit with no space left. To whom will he teach knowledge. Into whom will he explain the message. Those who are weaned from the milk. Those who are taken from the breast.

For it is precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little there a little. For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to his people to whom he has said this is rest.

Give rest to the weary and this is repose. Yet they would not hear. And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little there a little that they may go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken.

Therefore hear the word of the Lord. You scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. Because you have said we have made a covenant with death and with Sheol we have made an agreement when the overwhelming whip passes through it through it will not come to us.

For we have made lies our refuge and in falsehood we have taken shelter to pray with me our gracious and merciful Heavenly Father. We come before you now sobered by this passage a passage of righteous judgment to a people committed to sin admitted to lies and falsehood.

Let it be a warning to us father to repent and believe to turn to the glorious face of our Savior. Put our trust in him. Put behind all selfishness vain glory that we might bend our knee to our sovereign King Jesus.

Father as we continue to worship this morning grant us the ability to do so in spirit and in truth that we with unveiled faces might behold your glory this morning as we gather around your table and share in the sweet communion.

Thank you for Jesus we love you. We ask all these things in his name. Amen you may be seated. Do you.

Know Christ Jesus the King. Do you sing praise to him for he's worthy. Is he your protection through the storms of life. Is he your strength when you're going to fears failures and disappointments. Will he be the one that carries you when you pass from this life into eternity.

So join with us in singing praise to the Lord forever. Jesus and the people plot a vain thing the kings of the earth set.

Themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bonds and pieces and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh.

The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the Lord has said to me you are my son today.

I have begotten. You ask of me. And I will give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel now.

Therefore be wise. O kings be instructed. You judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling kiss the Sun lest he be angry and you perish in the way when his wrath is kindled.

But a little blessed are all those who place their trust in him. Maybe perhaps in the great grand history of the world that what has happened in our lifetimes and the overthrow of Roe v. Wade may not seem like a big deal in the grand scheme of things but in our generation it has been the fight of a lifetime and the nations are given to Christ.

He is King. The nations have been given to Christ and when he makes his decision and as he rules and reigns people rage people rage and they plot a vain thing. And do you know what God does when he beholds the absurdity of those who rage against him.

He laughs he laughs. And what is the message for everyone that we are to bow the knee to Christ. For the rod of iron has been given to him and this whole world is filled with nothing but pottery clay vessels.

So let us fear him and rejoice in him. And can we give praise to Christ for answering our prayers. Right praise be to Christ. And so we see that he answers prayer and let us continue on to follow him and to rejoice in him and to keep doing his will.

This is not an ending point this is a victory launching us to even further obedience and further repentance and further glory for Jesus. Let me pray for us this morning. Father I thank you so much for this day.

We do rejoice in your work for it is not something that we can do. And Lord we know that you are good and you are righteous and you are strong and you are true no matter what is done in the political realm no matter what is done in the social realm.

Lord we know that you are still keen and what we rejoice when you answer our prayers. And we ask for more answers to prayer. And we continually may we come to you and ask for you to move and do your work in ways that many have always bemoaned and said that we're impossible.

And yet we see here you did you do something that is impossible. So Lord we give you the praise mass now that as we turn to your word and consider the necessity and the power of the Holy Spirit that you would bless our time in your word and that you would bless our communion together as we partake of the Lord's table.

And we pray all these things in Jesus name. Amen. I invite you to open your Bibles and turn with me to the New Testament book of Acts and we're going to be reading verses 1 through 11 again as we consider this introduction entitled the king in his kingdom the king in his kingdom.

And now for three and a half years Jesus preached the gospel of the kingdom in every village. He came to city by city. As he went along healing the sick he said his priority was to preach the gospel of the kingdom though many would want him to stay and to and to heal the droves of people that were gathering in he would say no my priority is to preach the gospel of the kingdom.

And he would move from city to city from village to village. And he instructed all who would hear by parable and by discourse and by rebuke of religious leaders he would he would teach the gospel of the kingdom.

And he centered the gospel of the kingdom on who he was and what he came to do because he's the king and it was his person and his work that has brought about the kingdom. Now after he rose from the dead for 40 days he made a priority of again instructing his apostles in the gospel of the kingdom the kingdom of God.

And this is telling us where the priority should be. This is telling us how we should think about things that Jesus has now risen from the dead and that he is ascended to the right hand of the father that he has been seated at the right hand of the father and that all authority has been given to him in heaven and on earth.

We are to think about life in the here and now and what comes beyond even our time in regards to the kingdom of God the kingdom of heaven. And in this first 11 verses of Acts chapter 1 we've been seeing an exclamation point given to Christ's teaching on this kingdom.

I invite you to stand with me now as I read Acts chapter 1 verses 1 through 11 this is the word of the Lord Jesus Christ by his Holy Spirit through his servant Luke the former account I made O Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach until the day in which he was taken up after he threw the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen to whom he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs being seen by them during 40 days.

And speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God and being assembled together with them he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said you have heard from me for John truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

Therefore when they had come together they asked him saying Lord will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel. But he said to them it is not for you to know times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority.

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. Now when he had spoken these things while they watched he was taken up a cloud received him out of their sight.

And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel who also said men of Galilee. Why do you stand gazing up into heaven. The same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will so come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven.

This is the word of the Lord thanks be to God you may be seated. We just read this passage about the ascension of Jesus Christ. Now having been raised from the dead he bodily ascends up into the into heaven and is taken out of the sight of the Apostles by a cloud.

When people ask well where is Jesus Christ today he is at the right hand of the Father the the scene here in Acts chapter 1 as he is taken out of view. The story doesn't end there. You can pick up the other side of the cloud and where he goes by reading Daniel chapter 7 verses 13 and 14 you can even see another another perspective on it.

As you read Revelation chapter 5 we know exactly where Christ ascended to and we see the glory of Christ enthroned at the right hand of God. And yet here we are on this last Sunday of the month which is our traditional time to to partake in the Lord's Supper and we call it communion communion.

And clearly we have communion here in our profession of Christ in the in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. We have communion with one another. But this is also communion with our Savior and our sovereign Jesus Christ this is his table and our communion is incomplete if it's just with us it's us communing together with Christ and Christ who is the mediator brings us into fellowship with God.

All of who God is we have communion with him through Christ by the Spirit. We are to think about how it is that we can commune with Christ whom we cannot see who apparently is absent but indeed he is not absent.

We are not to think about the Lord's Supper or communion as a kind of postcard on the back of which we all sign our names. And then the front of it says to Jesus wish you were here all right. This is not a this is not a postcard of saying too bad we're so far apart and distant hope we can get together sometime soon as we look forward to our fellowship with him.

Now the Lord's Supper is indeed communion is indeed a coming together a Christ has given us his his word so that by through the Holy Spirit. And my pulpit just broke. I hit it a little too hard last week sorry about that it was already limping when I got here.

I know brother Harry hit it pretty hard before I got here. So God bless brother Harry. As we look at the fact that Jesus Christ has given us his word so that by his Holy Spirit we are seeing Christ in the word that we're not we're not cut off from him but that we see who he is and rejoice in his in his truth by his scripture which is given to us by his Holy Spirit he's also given us this this sign in which we participate and he promises us that he is present with us by his spirit.

Indeed we are the body of Christ and he is the head. And and as we perceive the love that he has poured out in our hearts we realize who Christ is again by the power of the Spirit by the Holy Spirit. The scripture tells us that we are in Christ and Christ is in us.

So that we are not to think about Christ being absent. That just because we cannot see him now does not mean that he is not with us now. Indeed he assures us that he is. And I want us to remember that today especially as we think about the power of the Holy Spirit on Communion Sunday as we've been looking at verses 1 through 11 of Acts chapter 1 we are to remember this that the kingdom is all about the King.

If we want to understand what the kingdom of God is about what the kingdom of heaven is about we only have to look at the King who gives himself to us and reveals God to us and speaks to us about what it all means.

We've been talking about the presentation of the kingdom in verses 1 through 3 of Acts chapter 1. And indeed as we look here at the at the elements of the bread and the and the cup as we think about the elements of communion we are reminded that here the kingdom is presented to us that it's all about the King all about what he has done to win for himself a bride everything that he did to bring about the fulfillment of the Old Testament shadows and types to bring about the new covenant and indeed a kingdom of which will have no end.

And we've been talking about the progress of the kingdom in verses 4 through 8. And indeed the kingdom is about progress. In Matthew chapter 28 and verses 18 through 20 we hear something that we call the Great Commission.

And verse 18 begins this way. Jesus came and spoke to them talking to his Apostles spoke to them saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth unless that's everything right that is all authority.

And then he says go therefore meaning go. That's the word for progress right there that you can't get around that that word means advance and therefore means on the basis of his authority on the basis that he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

So we have kingdom and we have progress. All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations that's not political that's that's ethnic tribal.

God loves the tribes. Go go make disciples of all the different people groups no matter what their language is no matter what their culture is. Go make disciples of all of them and baptize them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you and lo I am with you even to the end of the age even to the throughout the entirety of this and of this project throughout the entirety of this advancement of the kingdom as he rules and reigns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords throughout this entire age of the kingdom Jesus promises to be with us.

How is that. How is that. Well the progress of the kingdom. It brings us to think about the promise of the Holy Spirit. And this is how this is how Jesus is going to be with us throughout the entirety of this age.

So in John chapter 14 verses 15 through 20 let's refresh our memory about the promise of the Holy Spirit. Now verse 15 says if you love me keep my commandments. Well that's very simple. And we'd have a really important commandment here at the end of the Gospel of Matthew which is repeated in the first chapter of Acts about the preaching of the kingdom the proclamation of who Christ is to all the nations.

And this is an important commandment. Jesus says if you love me keep my commandments. Yeah. But your commandments are huge. You just say it so quickly Jesus but it's so complicated. But go into all the nations all the tribes.

I mean we haven't even found all of them yet. I mean the Amazon jungle in Brazil is massive. We haven't even found all the tribes there yet. We haven't made it to all the tribes. And this is now 2 ,000 years from when he said it.

There's such a huge command. How in the world are we going to get the the gospel of the kingdom to every every tribe tongue people the nation. How in the world are we going to accomplish this. Don't you know how complicated it is.

Don't you know how impossible this is. Jesus said if you love me keep my commandments. But he doesn't leave us under the crushing weight of an impossible burden for Christ's commandments are not burdensome and his joke is easy and his burden is light.

And listen what he says. I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper. And oh what a helper that he may abide with you forever. This is how we have an abiding with God forever. This helper is named the Spirit of Truth verse 17 of John 14 whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.

But you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. How does he come to us. He comes to us by the Spirit. He will come again bodily but he's not absent from us entirely.

Now is he verse 19 a little while longer. And the world will see me no more. But you will see me. The world's not gonna see me anymore. I'm gonna be invisible to them. But you are going to see me because I live.

You will live also meaning based on the fact that he is risen from the dead and alive. So also we will live at that day. You will know that I am in my father and you and me and I and you. And this is how there is an eternal abiding living fellowship with God with Christ is by the gift of the Holy Spirit as the promise of the Holy Spirit.

We've looked at that in great detail. But also we are to be reminded of the priority of the Holy Spirit as the disciples ask Christ about the restoration of the kingdom to Israel. And Jesus explains by using language from the servant songs of Isaiah that the kingdom is restored to Israel in the sense that he's the fulfillment of Israel and the kingdom is indeed given to him.

The pictures that we have throughout the old covenant is that the restoration of the kingdom to Israel has to happen because there's a great destruction a great judgment upon idolatrous unjust immoral Israel.

And there needs to be a restoration of the kingdom. And this restoration comes by the people of God including the Gentiles are gathered together from the four quarters of the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit and brought into the the shadows of the old covenant places such as Zion and Jerusalem in the temple but are brought under the rule and reign of himself.

And that picture is given time and time and time again in the old covenant and we get to the New Testament. It's interpreted in terms of the person and work of Jesus Christ but consider the priority of the Holy Spirit.

And we didn't get to this passage last week but we can consider the two chapters that you might want to read and meditate on Ezekiel chapters 36 and 37. In Ezekiel 36 there's this promise of the new covenant a restoration of the kingdom of Israel.

God promises to restore Israel to restore the kingdom to Israel. He says here's how we're going to do it. It's going to be a new covenant and all the members of this covenant are going to have the Holy Spirit enlivening them and they're not going to be dead anymore but alive.

And then comes chapter 37 of Ezekiel and it's a vision a vision of a valley full of dead bones dry bones. Bones that have been laying out in a mass grave thrown about baked under the Sun so that there's not any life in them at all.

And God says to Ezekiel he calls him son of man. He says son of man can these bones live. And he says Oh Lord God you know. And then he says to Ezekiel prophesy Oh son of man to the dry bones to these bones prophesy to them.

And and he does. And he proclaims the Word of God to them. And then these dry bones begin to reassemble into our proper connections. I think there's an old spiritual about that. And they come back together.

And then the muscles come upon them and then the skin comes upon them and all of a sudden this all these human bodies are put back together but they're not breathing. The breath is not in them. And so God says to Ezekiel son of man prophesy again prophesy to the breath so that the breath by the four winds will come into these and make them live and breathe again.

And so the son of man Ezekiel begins to prophesy again. And indeed the breath of God comes into them like its creation all over again with Adam. And these all stand up and now they're alive. And in this vision of the people of God of the restoration of the kingdom of Israel God takes what was destroyed and under judgment and he brings back life to these people.

And at the very end of Ezekiel 37 it says it very clearly. So I will put my spirit within you clarifying the priority of the Holy Spirit. Indeed we see that Israel's kingdom is not restored until the Spirit by the Word of the Son of Man is proclaimed.

So then we come to the power of the Holy Spirit. Now when we think about the great projects of our world we may think of maybe the Great Wall of China we may think of the pyramids and Giza. I remember watching a solid miniature documentary about the Erie Canal.

I mean the Erie Canal. I mean how important is that to the history of these United States that connected the whole upper Midwest to the Atlantic that made New York the Empire State as wealthy as it is today all because of the Erie Canal and all the efforts that were made to move these these unbelievable amounts of rock out of the way to connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

It required a great deal of TNT and it cost many lives as immigrant laborers died very often and trying to blow up all of this rock that stood in the way between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic it required a great deal of money.

A lot of investment was made. They had to pour money into that project a time and time again. It required a lot deal a great deal of political power as those who wanted to see it happen had to sway the politicians to keep it going.

It even required rhetorical power as people need to be motivated and convinced of the need of this project. And finally finally it was accomplished and all manner of flourishing came out of it. As we think about the commandment of Christ as we look at the project that Christ has commissioned it is something that is far more impactful far greater far more important than any kind of canal.

Erie Canal Panama Canal Suez Canal doesn't matter whatever it is whatever a project of man that has to be planned out and so much put into is nothing compared to the to the project that Christ has commissioned.

For he says in verse 8. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. You lay that alongside of Matthew 28 verses 18 through 20 and you see the size of the project.

But this project is not going to be accomplished by manpower. Manpower it's not going to do it. This project is not going to be accomplished by fiscal power. You're gonna have the manpower. We've got to have the money to back it.

It's not going to be accomplished by political power. If only we could get the politics and in line then we could finally accomplish this great Commission. It's not going to be accomplished by rhetorical power by persuasion and just convincing people of the good of it.

This is a project that can only be accomplished by spiritual power namely the power of the Holy Spirit. For Christ tells his disciples in verse 5 he says that they are to a verse. For he tells them to to to wait to not depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father.

He has a commission for them. They are to make disciples of all the nations. They have a huge project ahead of them. And he says to them to go wait in Jerusalem. But they're not waiting around for more people to show up.

And they're not waiting around for more money to show up. And they're not waiting around for the politicians to get their ducks in a row. They're waiting for the power of the Holy Spirit. Christ says this is what you need.

You need the promise of the father. This is who you need. You need the Holy Spirit if you're going to keep my commandments if you're going to be about my work in my way. And so it is important for us then to meditate today this morning on the power of the Holy Spirit.

He says you shall receive power. Verse 8. You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. Evidently what they need in order to be Christ's witnesses in all these places. Evidently what they need to carry out the Great Commission is power.

They don't have it and they need it. They need the power of the Holy Spirit to do the work that Christ has given them to do. And we need to reflect upon that this morning. Consider the way in which Luke talks about this at the end of his first volume in Luke chapter 24 in verse 46.

Well this could even begin in verse 45. And he opened their understanding that they might comprehend the scriptures. This last chapter of Luke Luke 24. And he opened up their understanding that may they may comprehend the scriptures.

Then he said thus it is written don't you understand the Word of God. Thus it is written. And thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day. And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations beginning at Jerusalem.

In other words repentance a turning unto Christ of submitting to Christ as as King and remission of sins the forgiveness of sins by his blood. That this message was written in the scriptures that's necessary to be preached from the scriptures to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.

And he says. And you are witnesses of these things you are going to be the ones to bring this forth. Behold I send the power the promise of my father upon you. But Terry in the city of Jerusalem until you were in dude with power from on high.

So the very first thing we recognize is that this this Commission this great project of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ the gospel of the kingdom to all the nations requires an understanding of and a proclamation of the scriptures that the Bible has to be proclaimed.

Well the power of the scripture is the Holy Spirit. The power of the scriptures is the Holy Spirit and not not how many we can publish though that's a good thing not many how many we translate that's a great thing is the power of the Holy Spirit at work.

And so in 2nd Timothy chapter 3 in verse 16 it says to us that all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for training in righteousness inspiration.

This word needs to be breathed out by God even as Christ breathed upon his disciples and said receive the Holy Spirit just as the breath of God was was was was called upon by Ezekiel as the Son of Man to to call the breath to fill these dead bodies they may live.

So so also scripture is breathed out by God and thus it is profitable for a doctrine for reproof for a correction and for instruction in in righteousness. This is why over the last many generations Christians have been involved in translating the Word of God into the heart language of everybody who lives in the world and much as we can.

Why. Because the message of Jesus Christ is in the Word of God and so we want to proclaim that message to the nations. How else are we going to make them disciples and followers of Christ if we don't have this message that was breathed out by God's Holy Spirit that holy men were born along by the Holy Spirit to write the very words of God.

And so we have to depend upon the Holy Spirit because the power of the scripture is in the Holy Spirit. But also as we preach the Word of God we have expectations we have desires. We have an aim to this and it is nothing less than the conversion of sinners the saving of sinners the so that the lost may be found.

The Jesus Christ is come into the world to save sinners and we proclaim the Word of God to them that they may know who God is and their need to repent. We want to see people born again. We want to see people who are who are dead and trespasses and sins alive made alive by the grace of God in Jesus Christ.

We want to see those who are those who are dead to come alive. We want to see those who are enslaved to be set free. We want to see those who are servants of the of the enemy to become the children of God and the servants of Jesus Christ.