Jesus Covers All, the New Covenant — August 4, 2024: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:14 Off with this scripture Psalm 90 verses 14 and 15 satisfy us in the morning with your faithful love so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days make us rejoice for as many days as you have humbled us for as many years as we have seen adversity and I just wanted to remind you that one thing I always say is stick with Jesus and you’ll have a happy life and this scripture is telling us to be we’ be glad all our days and the majority of our days should not be sorrow Jesus is the man of sorrows not us we should be filled with gladness at his faithful love and we the majority of our days at least as many as we have been afflicted we should be rejoicing but that’s not what I’m going to talk about I just always have to share that whenever I get up is stick with Jesus and you’ll have a happy life we’re going to talk about the new covenant and I know it’s been brought up a lot lately I hear it um uh being spoken by a lot of uh the messages that we had and we’re going to go to Hebrews the 8th chapter and it’s quoting directly from Jeremiah chapter 31 for this is the covenant I will make I

▶ 1:44 will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more and it is so important everybody should know what the new covenant is this is the new covenant and something I found out to remember to help me remember it is is count it one two 3 four it’s four parts count it on your fingers as you’re trying of learn it and it will help you remember. It.

▶ 2:35 So so what’s the old covenant then if we have a new covenant that God made what’s the old covenant and Hebrews chapter 9 he explains it now the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary for a tent was constructed and which where the lampstand the table this is called the holy place behind the second curtain was a tent called the holy of holies in it stood the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant of these things we cannot now speak in detail but you see the little illustration there there was a there was a place it was a physical place and it had ceremonies and rituals and regulations.

▶ 3:22 And it’s also called the Old Testament so this is the covenant and the testament that God made with Israel through Moses way back then it was a physical place and it had rules and it was a representation of the future Hebrews 10 says since the law that Old Testament that old covenant has only a shadow of good things to come and not the true form of these realities it can never by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year and there was a ton of different sacrifices of all description and they were offered every year they were offered often they were offered in scheduled times and they were offered in unscheduled times and it said that those offerings could never make perfect those who approach for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away.

▶ 4:28 Sins so the old covenant was not the goal remember it said it was the form but not the reality of those things and Jeremiah uh he says plainly God says plainly that that old covenant with all its sacrifices and rituals and ceremonies was not the goal Jeremiah chapter 7 the prophet saying through go God is saying through the prophet when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice however I did give them this command obey me and then I will be your God and you will be my people you must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you when the people were rescued out of Egypt God was telling them I didn’t command you at that time build me this and build me that and do this and do that he says no obey me this was the command I gave you and he repeats it in uh he chapter 2 yet now be strong and work for I am with you says the Lord of hosts according to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt so that my spirit remains among you fear not.

▶ 5:55 So and he did too uh in Jeremiah and he that was way after when Moses when God commanded Moses to do it but here it is right at the source Exodus 19 Moses went up to God on the mountain and the Lord called to him out of the mountain saying tell the children of Israel you have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bear you on eagle’s wings and brought you to myself now therefore if you will obey my voice inde deed and keep my covenant then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel so he did too he said that was not my intention to build a place to build a a tent to build a building to build a a all these things that were used in it and to have sacrifices no it was to for you to obey my voice and that was his intention from the beginning so now we’re looking from that Old Testament that old system to the cross we’re looking forward now so uh all the time of that old covenant that Old Testament it was clearly laid out that it was going to end and a new covenant was coming so we’ll go back to Jeremiah 31:31 and he says the days are surely coming when

▶ 7:26 I will make a new covenant with the house of of Israel and with the house of Judah and he said further in the next verse it will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt it won’t be like that because they broke it they broke my covenant. And God is telling us that rituals and offerings was not what he wanted and we’re going to go look at Psalm 40 the old covenant I mean the new covenant is in the old covenant it wasn’t some new thing that was planned at the spur of the moment it was from the beginning Psalms 40 sacrifice and offering you did not desire but you have given me an open ear who’s.

▶ 8:20 Me who’s. Me who’s me. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required then I said who’s. I here I am in the scroll of the book it is written of me I delight to do your will oh God your law is within my heart who is I who is my me. Jesus okay.

▶ 8:54 And um the writer of Hebrews which we think is Paul the apostle he he is quoting this when Christ came into the world he God said sacrifices and offerings you have not desired but a body you God have prepared for me Jesus in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure then I said I is Jesus see I have come to do your will oh God in the scroll of the book it is written of me when he he said above okay now the writer is saying when he said above you have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and birth offerings and sin offerings and these all were offered according to the old covenant law that that ritual that shadow of what was coming of the reality that was coming then he added see I have come to do your will who came to do God’s will Jesus he abolishes.

▶ 9:59 The first in order to establish the second so uh just uh aide here if you are wanting to understand the new covenant better the book of Hebrews lays it out step by step if you want to read that also uh the book of Galatians is a very good place to get understanding about the old covenant versus the new covenant but in case we make. A bigger deal out of the old covenant than we should which was the rituals the sacrifices the rules the the physical place now the religious people of Jesus day did that they made a big deal out of the old covenant and the temples and stuff like that and they had a hard time understanding that there was a new covenant coming and there’s people today that say that the temple and the sacrifices are going to be set up.

▶ 11:01 Again uh and you shouldn’t think so much of that old stuff because it was just a shadow it was just a form of what was coming and but we shouldn’t disregard the scriptures of the Old Testament because they’re full of wisdom and truth for us so either extreme is is not good to indulge in to to say oh we disre everything in the Old Testament or oh it’s going to be set up again and I have found reading the Bible that the new covenant is all over the Old Testament scriptures right along with the practice of the rituals and the ceremonies the new covenant is all through the scriptures for people to to read and to understand and it pops up everywhere and I was reading oh that’s the new covenant oh that’s the new covenant and it’s the old covenant shadow the rituals the ceremonies that was being done away with not the truth of what God wanted if you obey me then you will be my people that’s what he was looking for not the sacrifices the animal sacrifices and the incense and the this and the that so the Old Testament is the old covenant the Old Testament is only a promise of what was coming in the new

▶ 12:32 now we’re going to go look at the new covenant itself and where where it can be found uh number one okay remember there’s how many parts four parts I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts Isaiah 59 the redeemer will come to Zion and to those in Jacob who turn from transgression this is the lord’s declaration as for me this is my covenant with them here comes the new covenant my spirit who is on you and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouth of your children or from the mouth of your children’s children from now on and forever says the Lord Psalm 25 what man is he that fears the Lord him will he teach in the way that he shall choose that’s a new.

▶ 13:26 Covenant Ezekiel 11 and I will we’ve heard this a ton of times lately it seems to be in every lesson we get and I will give them one heart. And well that’s the air conditioner and I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out and will give them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and do. Them okay I number two I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people Jeremiah chap 24 they will be my people and I will be their God well that’s obvious because they will return to me with all their heart that’s the new covenant Psalm 33 blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he has chosen for his own.

▶ 14:22 Inheritance Hosea 13:4 yet I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt and you shall know no God but me for there is no savior beside me I am the Lord your God and Ezekiel 11:20 and they shall be my people and I will be your God and Zechariah chapter 8 I will save my people and I will bring them to live in Jerusalem we’ve been uh in other lessons we went into how Jerusalem is now the church. They shall be my people and I will be their God in faithfulness and in righteousness they shall call on my name and I will hear them I will say it is my people and they shall say the Lord is my God.

▶ 15:16 Okay number three you shall not they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest and I Jeremiah 24 and I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord I will give them a heart to know me Isaiah 52 therefore my people shall know my name therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that does speak behold it is I Hosea 13 uh we just read this in the last one yet I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt and you shall know no God but me for there is no savior beside me and Psalm 25 the secret of the Lord it with is with them that fear him and he will show them his covenant so are we beginning to see that uh hey the the new covenant is in the Old Testament is in the old covenant we can see it.

▶ 16:19 There and number four I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities I’ll remember no. More for your name’s sake oh Lord pardon my iniquity for it is great Psalm 89 oh this is a really. Really uh I don’t want I don’t want to say deep spiritual it is a really it’s a focus it’s a real focus for what you can possess in your life I have made a covenant with my chosen who’s my chosen.

▶ 16:56 Jesus my chosen I made a covenant with my chosen if his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail my covenant I will not break nor all alter the thing that is gone out of my lips he will be merciful he will correct us but he will keep his covenant and his mercy with us our job is just to say I messed up I was wrong I turn from that that’s our job he will not break his covenant he will not take his mercy away from you and Psalm 25 all the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies you do your job he will do his no.

▶ 18:09 Question and Jeremiah 33 and I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return and will build them as at the first and I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against me he will keep his covenant and he will keep his mercy if we will admit we are wrong if we will turn from our wrong the new covenant is also better than the old. Covenant and Hebrews chapter 8 but Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted on the basis of better promises for if that first covenant had been faultless there would have been no need to look for a second one in speaking of the new covenant he has made the first one obsolete God always planned to do away with that old covenant Jesus being the one who accomplished the best better covenant the complete covenant which was also the original.

▶ 19:35 Plan and uh Hebrews chapter 7 I didn’t put this on the board by so much was Jesus made a guarantee of a better testament a better covenant a better. Contract and he’s reminding us in Hebrews chapter 12 you haven’t come to a mountain that could be touched that was a physical place in the desert instead you have come to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant his covenant that he made with us is a better covenant than the one that was before which was always meant to be done away with so why look to set it up.

▶ 20:17 Again and the new covenant is also the last covenant we don’t go looking for another covenant Hebrews 9 but when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come he entered once for all into the holy place he entered into heaven itself not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood thus obtaining eternal redemption Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many Jesus what Jesus did is the final work the new covenant is the last covenant and the best covenant there will not be another one so don’t go looking for something else and uh these next couple of verses I was thinking about these verses we always apply them to the last days and the end times.

▶ 21:15 But I think they’re very relevant to the new covenant Jesus because Jesus did the complete work of reconciling us to God and there is nothing to add to it there is nothing to modify it. Matthew 24 and Jesus answered and said unto them take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and deceive many and he repeats it in Luke 21 and he said take heed that you be not deceived for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and the time draws near go go not therefore after them if there are teachings or opinions that are trying to add or modify somehow Jesus’s work on the cross recognize them for what they are don’t follow that they’re trying to draw attention to their themselves or their uh teachings and they’re trying to draw away attention from Jesus Christ like Paul he had to write to the galatian church he said oh foolish Galatians who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ had evidently been set forth crucified among you so they were taught that

▶ 22:45 Jesus died for your sins okay this now I’d learn of you did you receive that did you receive that spirit by the works of the law by the rituals and the ceremonies the sacrifices or did you receive salvation by hearing of faith so he’s saying are you isn’t that kind of foolish you began in the spirit and now you want to go to maturity with a fleshly teaching with a with a shadow that was done away with why do you want to do that so he did away with the ceremonies of the Old Testament so don’t look to try to revive them somehow or to belittle the work that Jesus did on the cross he said again lo if that any man shall say unto you oh lo here’s Christ or there he is don’t believe it for there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect uh.

▶ 23:59 Wow that’s that’s a pretty strong warning and others have tried to overwrite the new covenant with their own customs and beliefs and opinions like uh for example Islam teaches that Jesus did not really die he did not die and the Latter-day Saints they teach that Jesus is not God they’re trying to modify the new covenant don’t whoops excuse me don’t believe it don’t go after that or as there’s another one um I think is still roaming around is that if you’re a if you’re a Jew if you’re the race of the Jews you have to still keep those Old Testament rituals so that uh the shadow law you still have to keep it that’s another one uh that’s that’s belittling the work that Jesus did.

▶ 25:00 And Paul is reminding them in the Galatians in the Galatian church but though we are an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you which was Jesus the new covenant Jesus died for our sins on the cross and he shed his blood let him be accursed as we have said before now say I again if any man preach any gospel unto you than you have received let him be accursed. Wow that’s that’s pretty strong. So Jesus finished the work you don’t have to go looking for anything else and in. Summary the new covenant is a clear and a simple work that God established from the beginning from before the creation of the world and for you make it your goal and your prayer to participate.

▶ 26:05 Completely in the new covenant and what is that new. Covenant I will put my laws into their mind and write them in their hearts I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest you don’t need any other mediator than Jesus you don’t need any priest you only need Jesus I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more and in Hebrews 13 uh at the end of that book when he’s finished talking about the new covenant he says God brought Jesus again from the dead and he’s the great shepherd of the sheep through his blood of the ever everlasting covenant so hold on take that new covenant learn it hold on to it and don’t go looking for something else he finished it he did everything that you need and it’s accessible to.

▶ 27:18 Everyone yes yes and amen yes thank you Rita for that reminder of God’s good word and his covenant. And like she was saying we. Want. To renew these things we want to make that agreement with Jesus Christ and we don’t have to go to anyone else but Jesus and again that’s why we worship today to bring his presence good morning everybody thank you for coming it’s good to see everybody today um we are the Vine Cluster Church here in Lake Elsinore at the outlets and our senior pastor is not here today but we still have our call to praise and to learn and to come and honor our Lord and savior Jesus Christ so that awesome um today I would just like to point out some things um as far as how we do worship uh for some new people here and also a reminder why I’ve visited many churches I’ve been at this church for many years and I know it’s a little different I realized this but I would like to just give you my testimony and ex and express the feeling from other people here who have been here for many years as well you can see here we have a banner of how

▶ 28:49 to praise and worship these are scriptures in the Psalms specifically that have directions of how to praise and also we have to remember that the Lord commands these things as well but from my own experience been doing this for many years and what I have seen is praise is also a gift from God it’s a gift to be able to express our appreciation and devotion to him and the Bible says that praise stills or freezes the enemy. And there are many things that happen in our lives that are like so overwhelming but when we praise we can find that expression that release and that connection with our our savior.

▶ 29:42 Amen and in the Bible we have examples of Jesus followers who were praising him in horrible. Situations for instance the apostles in the New Testament is specifically in the book of acts praised when they were in prison when they were chained and they were in prison because they were arrested by you know the soldiers in that time and they were shut down for sharing the gospel in a very tyrannical. Government they didn’t have instruments or word sheets yet they praised they found peace and deliverance even in I mean they were doing a good thing for the Lord and they were arrested and they found peace and deliverance during that time and then also in the Old Testament king David he’s.

▶ 30:36 Um the at that time was hunted by another king Solomon he was hunted by the king and his soldiers and fought many battles and in the Psalms he wrote so many expressions of just like horrible things he was going through and how he had lost and he had doubt but he ends these thoughts these different Psalms and different passages he ends up with praise and exaltation of God like saying hey I know that I’m going through this but God is my deliverer I can still lean on him and it’s just a beautiful thing and um many of us in the room have been through difficult times we’ve had anxious moments we’ve had unex expected like sorrow bad things happen but time after time we have found renewal in praise we find hope for tomorrow in praise God’s promises include joy peace hope love and faithfulness these are promises from God I wish that I could just hand them to you like a present I just want to give it to you so you can have it because it’s beautiful thing to have but I can’t but I know God can when we come before him when we praise and and other things as well but

▶ 32:07 specifically praise we’re talking about when we do these things he comes and he can give us exceedingly more abundantly is what the Bible says and it may seem so hard when we look around and we look at the world and we look at the news or whatever that is distracting us it may seem so hard for us to have those things that especially peace right now amen uh joy it may seem so hard but God says nothing is impossible. Nothing so let’s just you know have that tone in our in our thoughts in our hearts when we have worship today and let’s sing this song together amen and ask God come before him and just be ready to receive those gifts from him yes and amen amen. Oh praise the Lord praise the Lord all you nations praise all you people for his merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of the Lord endures forever oh praise the Lord praise the Lord all your nations praise them all you people for his merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of forever.

▶ 33:28 That’s why we praise him amen oh praise the Lord praise the Lord all you nations praise all you people for his merciful kindness in his great toward us and the truth of the Lord endures. Forever oh oh Lord we praise you for you are good and as th word has commanded that everything that has let’s say oh Lord we thank you oh Lord we thank you for you are good and as your word has commanded that everything that has. Pressur oh Lord we thank you for you are good.

▶ 34:28 As my word has commanded that everything that has rest good oh praise the Lord oh praise the Lord all you nations praise them all you people for his merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of the Lord forever oh praise the Lord oh praise the Lord all you nations praise him all you people for his merciful kindness his great toward us and the truth of the Lord endur forever for his merciful kindness is great toward us the truth of the Lord endures forever so let’s pra to the Lord Lord we give you thanks today.

▶ 35:25 Hallelujah we praise you Jesus Jesus. Hallelujah I will sing to the Lord and I will lift my voice for you have heard my cry I will sing to the Lord and I will lift my hands for you have brought me out out of the pit oh you have brought me out of the we sing glory. Hallelujah I lift your name on high I’ll sing glory cuz you’re worthy I’ll praise you in the dance and I will sing to the Lord and I will lift my voice.

▶ 36:28 For you have heard my cry I will sing to the Lord and I will lift my hands for you have brought me out of the p and I sing glory. Hallelujah I lift your name on high. Glory for you’re worthy I’ll pra you in a dance I will praise you. In now this song is telling us some things to do we’re lifting our voice we’re lifting our hands and we’re dancing people there it is right there scriptural reference amen let’s do this again I will sing to the Lord.

▶ 37:28 And I will lift my voice for you have heard my cry yes he has I will sing to the Lord and I will live my voice for you have brought me out of the p and I sing glory. Hallelujah I lift your on high sing holy cuz you’re worthy I’ll praise you in the I sing glory. Hallelujah I lift your name on high I’ll sing holy cuz you’re worthy I will praise you in the dance.

▶ 38:21 Oh I will praise you in the dance I will praise you in the dance I will praise you in the dance hallelujah. Jesus we praise you hallelujah let’s lift our voices let’s praise him in unison today let’s clap our hands unto him and shout to God for his merciful kindness his goodness toward us hallelujah hallelujah. Praise. Jes. Hall thank you Jesus anybody want to shout.

▶ 39:13 A u your voice in thanksgiving or praise I do I want to thank the Lord because of all the things he’s done in my life he found me when people say oh I found Jesus he literally found me and I was in a place that I should not have been and he just came to me I wasn’t looking for him and I could almost tell you and it’s my testimony I should know I was there what happened he said girl maybe he didn’t say girl but that’s what I heard girl you are done you are done you call your sister she’s going to pick you up and you’re going to church bam it was this fast. Whoa and you cannot tell me God is not real and he is not a merciful God our sin puts us in the pit our sin is what moves this world in directions of such darkness and wickedness but as it was spoken earlier God has gifts for us he has chosen to do good we got to find him we got to seek him and he will he’ll do us good all our days amen.

▶ 40:30 So we have something to thank him for. Amen I come before you. Today and there’s just one thing that I want to say say it thank you. Lord thank you. Lord for all you’ve given to. Me for all the blessings that I cannot see I want to thank you. Lord thank you. Lord with a grateful heart with a song of praise with an outstretched arm I will bless your name.

▶ 41:27 Thank you. Lord I just want to thank you. Lord I just want to thank you. Lord I just want to thank you. Lord for all you’ve done in my life you took my darkness you gave me your life thank you. Lord thank you. Lord you took my sin in my chain you took my sickness and healed all my f thank you Lord.

▶ 42:28 Thank you. Lord with a grateful heart with a song of praise with an outstretched arm I will bless your name thank you. Lord I just want to thank you. Lord oh thank you. Lord I just want to thank you. Lord with a grateful. Heart with a song of praise with an outstretched. Arm I will bless your name with a grateful.

▶ 43:21 Heart with a song of praise with an outstretched arm. I will bless your name. Thank you. Lord I just w to. Thank you. Lord thank you. Lord I just want to thank. You Lord. Thank you Lord let’s thank. Him oh I just want to thank you. Lord you’ve been so good to me and I want to thank you.

▶ 44:16 Lord I just want to thank you. Lord oh I just want to thank you. Lord oh we thank you Jesus thank you. Lord it’s only. Because what you’ve done I can be called a friend of God oh beautiful savior what else can I do but lift up my voice and say thank. You oh it’s only because of his love oh it’s only because of all you’ve done that I can be called a friend of God oh beautiful saor what else can I do but lift up my voice and say thank.

▶ 45:32 You so I enter the gates of the Lord with thanksgiving I enter the courts of the Lord with praise I enter the gates of the Lord with thanksgiving I enter the court of the Lord with. Praise it’s only. Because of all you’ve done that I can be called a friend of God oh beautiful savior what else can I do but lift up my voice and say thank. You thank you. Jesus for finding me.

▶ 46:28 Like a good shepherd your mercy leads back to your arms where I’m meant to be so I thank you Jesus for finding. Me it’s only because of all you’ve done that I can be called a friend of God. Beautiful savior what else can I do but lift up my voice and say thank. You I thank you. Jesus for loving me shame lost is hold when you set me free every fear has to.

▶ 47:28 At your feet so I thank you Jesus for loving. Me yes he loves us only because of what you’ve done that I can be called a friend of God oh beautiful savior what else can I do but lift up my voice say thank. You so we enter your gates with thanksgiving we enter your courts Lord with praise I enter your gates Lord with thanksgiving I’ll enter your courts oh Lord with praise so I’ll enter your g oh Lord with thanksgiving I’ll enter your cour oh Lord with praise I will enter your gates oh Lord with thanksgiving I’ll enter your course oh Lord with.

▶ 48:48 Praise it’s only. Because of all you’ve done that I can and be called a friend of God oh beautiful. Savior what else can I do but lift up my voice and say. Thank. You I lift up my voice and say. Thank you. Thank you Jesus thank. You praise the lord.

▶ 49:45 Hallelujah so I am enter the gates of the Lord with thanksgiving I enter the gates of the Lord. Amen that’s what we did today we entered right into his gates he’s here in our midst the Bible says when we’re gathered together he’s in our midst.

▶ 50:19 Amen hallelujah praise the Lord stephanie yes let’s bow our heads together. In this transition to the message Lord I just pray Lord God and thank you again for what you’ve done in our lives and also for coming and visiting us again today thank you for your presence I pray you would help us to hear your word today and help us to carry on and grow stronger each day and continue to have the the strength and motivation to to come back to you to connect with you here in church but also on our own Lord Jesus oh God that we could just make that that commitment and that that routine of coming before you Lord Jesus that we can grow stronger and stronger every day and the struggles we have today would just fade away in the renewal and the restoration Lord God that you give us Lord Jesus thank you Lord in your precious name.

▶ 51:33 Amen amen you may find your seats as we transition to the message again I want to thank you guys for coming it’s great to see. Everybody I also forgot to say something earlier is for us who are on the stage you know every week um we we want to be an example of the praise that I was talking about and the testimony that we have in our lives uh we’re not trying to put on a show we’re not trying to look better than anybody here we we want to be an example of what God can do when we seek him and when we try to connect and of course you can do these things through prayer at home through reading the word at home but when we’re together we can worship together and encourage each other and here in this body in this congregation we want the freedom to do that to do it in a more expressive way.