1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 I want you to know what God is doing in this passage, but I want you to know what God is doing in this passage. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:20,000 I want you to know what God is doing in this passage, but I want you to know what God is doing in this passage. 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 I want you to know what God is doing in this passage. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Yes, I think he is. Testing, testing, testing. Test, test, test, testing. One, two, three, testing. Testing. One, two, three. 5 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,000 . 6 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 . 7 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 . 8 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:25,980 Thank you. 9 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:55,980 Thank you. 10 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:25,980 Thank you. 11 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:55,980 All right. Hey, good morning, everybody. We're going to get started. There's new coffee in the back if you need coffee, so. All right. It's good to see everybody. I know it's pretty rainy out there, so we actually saw snow there. 12 00:04:55,980 --> 00:05:25,960 The other night, I thought we were done, but I guess not. Today, as we begin our time of worship, we're going to be, Brandon's going to be continuing in Acts and Peter's sermon, and we're talking about how refreshing, the refreshingness that God gives us. And we, in our lady's study this week, we're talking about some times in Saul's life and how he had gotten to a point where 13 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:55,940 he was pretty far from God, and God wasn't really responding to him. And I was just thinking about how, what a dry time that would be. How could you not thirst for what God would have for you? And so I was thinking about that and what Brandon's going on, and it pointed me to Psalm 63. And those are the verses we're going to read together this morning. So if you guys want to go ahead and stand, we're going to read together. 14 00:05:55,940 --> 00:06:08,940 And even if you don't want to read it, I would say just look at the words and think about them and think how they would be refreshing for your life. And what? Oh, okay. We're just waiting. So... 15 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:12,940 Oh, that's cool. We can do whatever. 16 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:25,920 Do 119 while we're at it if we want. All right. So we're going to read these together and just as we begin our time of worship today, starting 17 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:55,900 in verse one, "O God, you are my God. Earnestly I seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory, because your steadfast love is better than life. My lips will 18 00:06:55,900 --> 00:07:25,880 praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live. In your name, I will lift up my hands." This is the word of the Lord. And I wanted to take a moment to just say why we do this when we start our service. When I was growing up, one of the things I hated in church was responsive reading, because we all sounded like robots. And as I got older, I realized 19 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:42,860 that reading the Bible together to start our service really gets us in the mind of why we're here and why we gather together and why it can be an encouragement to us as we get together. So we're going to go ahead and pray, and then we'll begin our service today. 20 00:07:42,860 --> 00:07:55,860 God, we thank you for everyone that's gathered here today and the safety that you gave them to be here. We thank you for those watching online, and we ask that the service today is an encouragement to those here and to those watching. 21 00:07:55,860 --> 00:08:14,840 And we just thank you so much that you are the one that can quench our thirst in these, when our life feels like a desert. And we thank you for your grace and for your mercy and just help this service to glorify you in Jesus name. Amen. 22 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:25,840 Our first Song we're going to do is a newer one. It's called Jesus Messiah. So if you don't know it, just read the words. That's cool. 23 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:34,840 And we'll get through it together. So just focus on the words and just as it talks about what Jesus has done for us. 24 00:08:55,820 --> 00:09:25,800 He became sin who knew no sin that we might become His righteousness. He humbled Himself and carried the cross. Love so amazing. 25 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:55,780 Jesus, Messiah. Name above all names. Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel. The rescue for sin. 26 00:09:55,780 --> 00:10:25,760 Jesus, Messiah. Lord of all. His body, the bread. His blood, the wine. Broken and poured. 27 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:55,740 Out all for love. The whole earth trembled and the veil was torn. Love so amazing. Love so amazing. Yeah. Jesus, Messiah. 28 00:10:55,740 --> 00:11:25,720 All names. Blessed Redeemer. Emmanuel. The rescue for sinners. The ransom from heaven. Jesus, Messiah. 29 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:55,700 Lord of all. All our hope is in You. All our hope is in You. Oh, the glory to You, God. 30 00:11:55,700 --> 00:12:25,680 The name of the world. Jesus, Messiah, name above all things. Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel. The rescue for sin. 31 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:55,660 The ransom from heaven. Jesus, Messiah, Lord of all. Jesus, Messiah, Lord of all. 32 00:12:55,660 --> 00:13:25,640 All right. If you want to remain standing, we're going to move to our next song, and then we'll do our prayer time together. If you're watching online, there's going to be a link, or I'm sorry, a phone number posted. If you have any prayer requests and you want to text that, we'd be happy to pray with you about whatever you've got going on. 33 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:55,620 So, our next song we're going to do is Great Is Thy Faithfulness. 34 00:13:55,620 --> 00:14:25,600 O God my Father, there is no shadow of turning with Thee. Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not. As Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be. 35 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:55,580 Thy faithfulness, morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed, Thy hand hath provided. Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 36 00:14:55,580 --> 00:15:25,560 To sin and the peace that endureth. Thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide. Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow. Blessings all mine with ten thousand beside. 37 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:55,540 Great is Thy faithfulness. Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hands hath provided. Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 38 00:15:55,540 --> 00:16:25,520 Thank you. 39 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:55,500 Let's pray. 40 00:16:55,500 --> 00:17:25,480 Let's pray. 41 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:55,460 Let's pray. 42 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:21,660 Be with Jonathan and Amy and their family. Watch over them. 43 00:21:25,340 --> 00:21:27,340 Amen. 44 00:21:55,340 --> 00:21:57,340 Amen. 45 00:22:25,340 --> 00:22:27,340 Amen. 46 00:23:25,340 --> 00:23:54,340 As we move on to our time of communion, I just wanted to share some of the--what the writer wrote--excuse me. 47 00:23:54,340 --> 00:24:23,340 In the devotional for Psalm 63, it says, "Consider the language of Psalm 63. David speaks of God as the thirst-quenching water for his dry and barren soul in verse 1. He speaks of God as a delicious meal for his hungry soul in verse 5. He speaks of God as his shade and protection, like the wings of a great bird in verse 7. David needs one thing in life, God. Not truths about God in the first place, 48 00:24:23,340 --> 00:24:52,340 rather God himself. And what is it in knowing God that gives David life and strength? Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you." In verse 3. It is God's steadfast love that does so. The Hebrew word is chesed, God's covenant, loyalty, his refusal to give up on those whom he has taken to himself. And how do you know that God will never give up on you? Because he has sent his son to prove it. 49 00:24:52,340 --> 00:25:21,340 And so I thought that was a good summary of just what the psalmist was saying there, and that it's easy to just tell somebody, "Well, God's not going to give up on you." But it's hard to actually believe that when it seems like everything in life is not good. And so I would just encourage you to just remember what the psalmist says about how God is there, 50 00:25:21,340 --> 00:25:50,340 and that He's never far from us. And I think that was when I finally started to understand what the gospel actually was, that it wasn't that I had to follow all these rules and God would love me or God would give me good things or anything like that. It's just that God is good and He does love us. And all that He asks is just that we trust Him, that He will do that. And so as we continue just in our time 51 00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:58,340 of communion, we're going to sing the song "Cornerstone." And again, if you need anything, it's on the back table there, so. 52 00:26:20,340 --> 00:26:22,340 God, be the glory of God. 53 00:26:50,340 --> 00:27:19,000 My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. 54 00:27:20,340 --> 00:27:36,840 I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly trust in Jesus' name. 55 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:50,320 My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. 56 00:27:50,320 --> 00:28:04,320 I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly trust in Jesus' name. 57 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:20,300 Christ alone, cornerstone, weak made strong in the Savior's love. 58 00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:31,300 He is Lord, Lord of all. 59 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:50,280 When darkness seems to hide His face, I rest on His unchanging grace. 60 00:28:50,280 --> 00:29:09,280 And stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil. My anchor holds within the veil. 61 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:35,280 Christ alone, call us Lord, weak, made strong. In the Savior's light, move the storm. He is Lord, Lord our Lord. 62 00:29:35,280 --> 00:30:00,280 Christ alone, call us Lord, weak, made strong. In the Savior's light, move the storm. He is Lord, Lord our Lord. 63 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:29,280 When He shall come with trumpets sound, O may I then in Him be found. Dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless than before the throne. 64 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:58,280 Christ alone, call us Lord, weak made strong, in the Savior's love through the storm. He is Lord, Lord of all. 65 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:27,280 Christ alone, call us Lord, weak made strong, in the Savior's love through the storm. He is Lord, Lord of all. 66 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:56,280 Let's pray together real quick. God, thank you once again that we can be here today, and thank you for all that's gathered here, and we thank you that through everything in life that you are steadfast, and we thank you for your grace and your mercy, and I thank you for the patience of everyone here as we sometimes struggle through our service, and we just ask that it glorifies you in Jesus' name. Amen. 67 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:25,280 All right, before we gather around the table together, Evelyn's gonna come and read to us a couple verses from the Psalms. Tell them what you're reading. 68 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:32,280 107. 107. 1 and 2. 1 and 2. 69 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:54,280 O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. 70 00:32:54,280 --> 00:33:03,280 Who He has endured from trouble. 71 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:23,280 Now what I like about what Evelyn read is that she says, the way that psalm ends is, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so." That we are to declare with joy 72 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:33,280 the good things that God has done for us. And we're maybe not used to declaring things very loudly, and one of the interesting things to me, 73 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:44,280 I think the younger you are, the easier it is to declare things loudly. And so we hear our young children declare things loudly very often. 74 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:52,280 So yesterday, when we were in the car a bunch, Luke loudly declared his displeasure with the situation. But as Christians, 75 00:33:52,280 --> 00:34:04,280 you and I are called to declare the good news about God. And in 1 Peter, the second chapter, Peter says this, beginning in verse 9, 76 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:12,280 "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, 77 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:20,280 that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." 78 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:32,280 And so, Peter begins in that section. He's contrasting with who we were to who we become in Christ. And what he does is he reminds us of our identity. 79 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:43,280 This is who you are, that you are chosen, that you are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, that God possesses you, that he cares for you, that he watches over you. 80 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:53,280 And he does so for a purpose, that we can proclaim the one who brought us out of darkness into the marvelous light. 81 00:34:53,280 --> 00:35:08,280 And as we gather around this table, Paul, in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, will tell us that this meal, this tiny little bit of bread and this little cup of juice, is a proclamation of the gospel. 82 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:23,280 It's a proclamation of what Jesus has done for us. In fact, in verse 26, he will say, "For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." 83 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:35,280 That Jesus, on the cross, takes all of our brokenness, and he pays the price for our sin. He rises again, giving us his victory and his righteousness. 84 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:48,280 And as a people, we have hope in the midst of a world filled with turmoil and trouble because of Jesus. This is what we proclaim as we break this bread and drink this cup. 85 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:53,280 Let's pray, and then we'll read some Scripture together and eat the bread and drink the cup. 86 00:35:53,280 --> 00:36:03,280 Father in heaven, thank you so much that you have redeemed us, that you have saved us, that you have called us to yourself. 87 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:09,280 And so help us to proclaim your goodness, to proclaim the good news of the gospel. 88 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:17,280 Not just externally, but in our lives, to our discouragement, to our fear, to our worries, and to our struggles, 89 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:23,280 that we would proclaim the good news that you have loved us and you have saved us. 90 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,280 It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 91 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,280 If you would, take the bread with me. And Paul writes this: 92 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:37,280 "For what I received from the Lord, that which I delivered to you, the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took bread, 93 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:47,280 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and he said, 'This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.'" 94 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:52,280 In the same way, also, he took the cup after supper, saying, 95 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:59,280 "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me." 96 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:09,280 "For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." 97 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:20,280 Let's pray. Father, thank you for this message to our hearts and to the world, that there is hope, that in you there is joy, 98 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:27,280 there is peace, and there is a future. Encourage us this morning. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 99 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,280 Amen. 100 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:45,280 This morning we'll be reading from Acts 3. 101 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:56,280 When he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them 102 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:05,280 in the portico called Solomon's. And when Peter saw it, he addressed the people, "Men of Israel, 103 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:14,280 why do you wonder at this? Or why do you start at us? As though by our power or piety 104 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:25,280 we had made him walk. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, 105 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:33,280 the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in 106 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:42,280 the presence of Pilate when he had decided to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous 107 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:54,280 One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you. And you killed the author of life, whom God raised from 108 00:38:54,280 --> 00:39:04,280 the dead. To this we are witnesses. And in his name, by faith in his name, has made this 109 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:12,280 man strong, whom you see and know. And the faith that is through Jesus has given this 110 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:23,280 man this perfect health in the presence of you all. And now, brothers, I know that you acted in 111 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:33,280 ignorance, as did also your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his 112 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:42,280 Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent, therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be 113 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:52,280 blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the 114 00:39:52,280 --> 00:40:01,280 Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all 115 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:10,280 things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. Moses said, "The 116 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:17,280 Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall 117 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:24,280 listen to him in whatever he tells you, and it shall be that every soul who does 118 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:31,280 not listen to the prophet shall be destroyed from the people. And all the 119 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:38,280 prophets who have spoken from Samuel and those who came after him also proclaimed 120 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:46,280 these days, "You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made 121 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:54,280 with your fathers," saying to Abraham, "And in your offspring all the families of the 122 00:40:54,280 --> 00:41:02,280 earth shall be blessed." God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first 123 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:11,280 to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness. This is the word of the Lord. 124 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:27,280 Let's pray. Father, thank you for your word. We thank you for Dr. Luke, who wrote these down 125 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:35,280 to share with us. May we be encouraged by Peter's sermon. May we be strengthened. May we be helped. 126 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:42,280 And may most of all we be directed to the good news of the gospel. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 127 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:49,280 So I don't remember the name of the TV show. I know I was probably in second or third grade, 128 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:56,280 and I was over at a friend's house, and they had a whole lot more channels than we ever had because we had no channels. 129 00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:03,280 And we were watching TV after school, and it was one of those situations, maybe you've seen something like this, 130 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:10,280 where somebody, some lucky child gets to go into a toy store, and they get like 45 seconds or a minute, 131 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:16,280 and they get a shopping cart. And as much as they can grab in that time and fit into the shopping cart, 132 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:23,280 they get to keep. Now, growing up in a grocery store, I was pretty critical of this kid's plan 133 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,280 because if it would have been me, one hand would have been on the shopping cart, the other hand would have been on the shelf, 134 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:32,280 and I would have just gone down the aisle like that. But he was picking and choosing. 135 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:39,280 Out of all of the wonderful things he wanted, he was trying to get them all. And when we come to this text 136 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:45,280 that Brent just shared for us, Peter's sermon after this healing of a man who is unable to walk, 137 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:51,280 what we find if we begin to think about and consider and meditate and dig into this text, 138 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:57,280 it's like this wonderful place filled with all of the things that we could want. And we're trying hard 139 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:08,280 to pick out as many things as quickly as possible. Or maybe consider it like a diamond where light sparkles 140 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:14,280 from every facet. So let me just point you in the direction of a few of those things from this text, 141 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:20,280 and then we will go to sort of the center point of what Peter is saying. 142 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:25,280 So one of the things that I love about Peter's text, and remember the context of this, 143 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,280 is they have gone to the temple to worship, there's a guy sort of sitting in the doorway, 144 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:34,280 and he asks them for money, and Peter and John look at him and say, "We don't have any silver, 145 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:41,280 we don't have any gold, but what we do have is in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk." 146 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:46,280 And this guy who has been unable to walk since birth, who's more than 40 years old, 147 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:52,280 begins to jump up. Peter pulls him up, he jumps up, and he begins to walk, and he's leaping, 148 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:59,280 and he's excited because all of a sudden, everything works. And so a crowd understandably gathers 149 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:05,280 because for the last probably 35 years, they've seen this guy sitting there, asking for money, unable 150 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:10,280 to walk, and now he's walking. And so Peter begins to speak to the crowd. And what I love, first of all, 151 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:18,280 is Peter's humility. Because we have a tendency to take credit for things we did not do. 152 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:23,280 So we'll have somebody over for dinner, and Rachel will cook something wonderful, and they'll say, 153 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:28,280 "Oh, this was so good." And I'll say, "Thank you. I spent weeks and weeks preparing it." 154 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:37,280 We all have a tendency, maybe not that blatantly, but we have a tendency to want to be the focus of attention. 155 00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:45,280 We want to take the credit for ourselves. And what I love about what Peter says, something amazing has just happened. 156 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:51,280 And Peter, rather than standing up in front of everybody and patting himself on the back and saying, 157 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:58,280 look at how great and good and wonderful we are. Look at what he says in verse 12. 158 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:09,280 Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us as though by our own power or piety we made him walk? 159 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:18,280 And down in verse 16, "And his name, by faith in his name, he has made this man strong whom you see and know, 160 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:24,280 that faith is through Jesus who has given this man perfect health in the presence of you all." 161 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:31,280 And so Peter says, "Why are you staring at me? It's not like I'm super holy or super powerful. It's all about Jesus." 162 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:38,280 And I love that Peter, in the midst of this situation where he could have patted himself on the back and taken credit 163 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:45,280 and probably profited from this situation, says, "No. It's all about Jesus." 164 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:52,280 The second thing we see about Peter is that he begins to speak some hard words to this crowd. 165 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:58,280 He has a hard and difficult conversation with the people who have gathered. 166 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:03,280 And what he doesn't do is he doesn't hesitate and he does not equivocate. 167 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:12,280 What he will say to them is that you delivered, denied, and killed the promised Messiah, the Son of God. 168 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:18,280 He doesn't pull his punches. He doesn't say, "Well, guys, have you considered this?" 169 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:25,280 No, he blatantly says, "You denied, you delivered, you killed the Holy One of God." 170 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:33,280 Now, while this is hard and difficult to hear, especially when we are confronted with our mistakes and our wrongdoing, 171 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:39,280 it is an act of love that Peter does that. 172 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,280 We have hard conversations because we care about the person. 173 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:49,280 We have hard conversations because we want what is best for them. 174 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:53,280 I remember the street we first lived on when we went to Vermont was this little one-way street, 175 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,280 and I remember one day we were out playing with some kids in the neighborhood, 176 00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:02,280 and this lady goes driving by in her car, and she has her purse on top of her car, 177 00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,280 and so all of us kids just start screaming at her, 178 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:10,280 and she pulls over and gets out of the car, and she has this look on her face like, 179 00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,280 "Well, we're in trouble now," right? She's like, "Why are you guys yelling at me?" 180 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:18,280 and we just kind of scared because we were like third graders just pointed at the top of her car, 181 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:25,280 and she looks and she sees her purse is like, "Oh," and then just takes her purse and gets back in the car, right? 182 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:32,280 At first, she becomes confrontational, right? Why are they yelling at me? Who do they think they are? 183 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:37,280 And then she sees the reason for it, and her attitude and demeanor changes. 184 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:46,280 What Peter is doing is he's not saying these hard things intentionally to try to hurt or to get revenge on these people, 185 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:53,280 but rather to point them to what they are missing, which is the salvation that is found in Jesus. 186 00:47:53,280 --> 00:48:02,280 And Peter also goes to great lengths to temper the truth with love, right? 187 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:08,280 Because we can speak the truth in ways that is harsh and unloving, but that's not what Peter does. 188 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:16,280 Look at verse 18, "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance as did your rulers." 189 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:21,280 When Peter says that, I don't think he means that they didn't know that they were going to crucify Jesus. 190 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:30,280 I think what he's saying is that you don't understand the magnitude of the sin that you were committing. 191 00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:34,280 In the same way that as Jesus is on the cross, he says, "Father, forgive them." 192 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,280 They don't know what they're doing. They don't understand the magnitude. 193 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:45,280 And so he points to their brokenness, and he says, "You do not understand how the magnitude of what this is and what you were doing." 194 00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:52,280 And so Peter speaks to them bluntly and directly, and I love that he speaks to them from a foundation of truth. 195 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:57,280 And so he says, "First of all, we are witnesses. We have seen these things. We were there. 196 00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:04,280 This isn't just a good story or something that I heard from somebody. You heard it from somebody else, but I saw this with my own eyes." 197 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:13,280 And then he backs it up with scriptural support by going back to Moses and to Samuel and to Abraham 198 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:21,280 to credential his message. So you have these things that Peter humbly points to Jesus. 199 00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:32,280 He speaks the truth in love directly, even though it's hard and difficult and likely for him, makes him fearful over what will happen to him. 200 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:41,280 He speaks the truth in love. He builds upon a foundation of what is true, and then woven through every part of this text 201 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:46,280 is the good news about Jesus, who he is, and what he has done. 202 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,280 He talks about the gospel, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. 203 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:56,280 He talks about his servant, which hearkens back to the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, 204 00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:01,280 the author of life, the holy and righteous one, the power of his name. 205 00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:08,280 And so throughout all of these things, Peter weaves together the goodness of Jesus. 206 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:14,280 And right in the middle of all of these things that Peter is doing and saying, you hear these words, 207 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:21,280 "Repent, therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, 208 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,280 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 209 00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,280 and that he may send the Christ appointed to you, 210 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:34,280 Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for the restoring of all things, 211 00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:40,280 about which God spoke by the mouth of the holy prophets long ago." And so, first of all, Peter says, 212 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:45,280 here is the bad news, right? You killed the promised Messiah. 213 00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:49,280 You betrayed him, you turned him over, and he was crucified. 214 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,280 Now, here is what I am calling you to do, which is to repent. 215 00:50:53,280 --> 00:51:00,280 Now, repentance, at its heart, is not simply feeling bad about what we have done wrong. 216 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:04,280 We've all been in those situations where we felt bad that we have done something wrong, 217 00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,280 and then we said, "You know what? Can't do anything about it," and we just keep going. 218 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,280 The picture of repentance isn't simply feeling bad, 219 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:20,280 but it's that knowledge of wrongdoing that leads to that feeling of understanding that we did wrong. 220 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:26,280 And the most important part, and you get a glimpse of it in this verse, where he says, "Turn back." 221 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:31,280 That at the heart of repentance is we are changing the direction that we are going. 222 00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:35,280 Like when your GPS says, "Turn around where possible." 223 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,280 That's a picture of repentance. 224 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:43,280 And when we biblically talk about repentance, what we are talking about is the direction in which we are going, 225 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,280 and we turn around and go the other way. 226 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:52,280 And so he calls these people to repentance, and he says, "If you will repent, and if you will follow Jesus, 227 00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:56,280 He says, "Here is what is happened. Here's what will happen." 228 00:51:56,280 --> 00:52:04,280 And first of all, he says this, "That sin will be removed, that your sins may be blotted out." 229 00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:12,280 Now what that means, and that Greek word literally means, to remove totally. 230 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:19,280 And in fact, it's even more than that. It became used as a picture of a debt that was completely cancelled. 231 00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,280 And so we don't do that today. We sign things. 232 00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:29,280 But in those days, when a debt was recorded, a piece of wax was melted on to the debt, 233 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:34,280 and the owner of the debt would take his signet ring, the person from whom the money was borrowed, 234 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:38,280 and would place his signet ring into the wax, leaving his imprint, saying, 235 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:44,280 "Yes, this debt is owed, and I, as the lender, am certifying that it's owed." 236 00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:48,280 And so what would happen is when that debt was finally paid, 237 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:53,280 they would take a stone or a stick, and they would scratch out that wax seal, 238 00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:59,280 signifying that the debt had completely been paid. That seal was removed. 239 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:04,280 And the picture here is that Greek word describes that process when you pay your debt, 240 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:09,280 and the person to whom you owe the debt takes it and scratches that out, 241 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:15,280 saying that it's been paid in full. In Colossians 3, this word is used, 242 00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:20,280 "You who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, 243 00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:25,280 God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses," 244 00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:35,280 verse 14, "by canceling the record of the debt that stood against us with its legal demands." 245 00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:43,280 The word is also used in Revelation 7:17 and 21:4, 246 00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:48,280 where God says of his people who are experiencing sorrow, and they're crying, 247 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:54,280 and he says, "I will wipe away their tears," and what it means is to take those away completely. 248 00:53:54,280 --> 00:54:03,280 And Peter says to this crowd, truthfully and lovingly, belt upon a foundation of who Jesus is and what he has done, 249 00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:08,280 and he says, "If you will turn to Jesus, he will blot out your sins. 250 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:15,280 He will remove that record. He will forgive them. And no longer will that shame and that fear 251 00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:20,280 and that uncertainty and that guilt be weighing down upon you, but he will take it away. 252 00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:27,280 Your sins will be blotted out. It will be removed." 253 00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:31,280 If you've ever wondered why Christians sing that old hymn, "My sin." 254 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:37,280 "Oh, the bliss of this glorious thought, my sin not in part, but the whole, is nailed to the cross, 255 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:42,280 and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul." 256 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:46,280 It's because our sins have been taken away. We are no longer guilty. 257 00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:51,280 We don't have to hide. We don't have to try to fix it. We don't have to try to make excuses 258 00:54:51,280 --> 00:55:00,280 because Jesus has taken our sin away. And I love this text because it's not just, 259 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:06,280 it's not just what is taken away from us, the guilt and shame of our sin, but it's what is given to us. 260 00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:13,280 He says that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. 261 00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,280 Now we understand a little bit about refreshing, right? 262 00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:21,280 It's hard to imagine on a rainy, cold day like today, but on those hot days of summer, 263 00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:27,280 and when you come into the air conditioning for being outside, and you are just refreshed, 264 00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:35,280 or you're so thirsty, and you go get a glass of nice cold water, or in our kids' case, 265 00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,280 you know, a glass of Chick-fil-A lemonade, right? 266 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,280 That's their refreshing thing on the hot day. 267 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:47,280 We understand a picture of refreshment, and the picture here in our text 268 00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:52,280 is that God doesn't just erase the record of our debt to blot out our sins, 269 00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:57,280 but He then refreshes us in the depths of our soul. 270 00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:02,280 And so what you find is that Jesus is the one who satisfies our thirsty souls. 271 00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:11,280 In John, the fourth chapter, Jesus is sitting by a well, and this shady lady shows up. 272 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:15,280 She's had several husbands, and the man she's living with now is not her husband, 273 00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:20,280 and she's coming to the well in the middle of the day because she's been sort of ostracized from society. 274 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,280 Everybody has looked down on her and treated her badly. 275 00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:30,280 And you know what Jesus does to the woman that everybody whispers about and laughs at and judges? 276 00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:36,280 Jesus talks to her, and he talks to her respectfully so much so that she looks at him and says, 277 00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:41,280 "Why would you, a Jewish man, talk to me, a Samaritan woman?" 278 00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,280 And Jesus does it because he loves her, and he respects her, and he says, 279 00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:49,280 "If you knew who you were talking to, you would ask me for a drink of living water." 280 00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:54,280 So she's coming to the well to get her water for the day where hopefully nobody sees her, 281 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,280 so she has to deal with those accusing glances and stares and whispers. 282 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:02,280 And Jesus says, "I want to give you water that you're never going to have to thirst again." 283 00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,280 And she, in her mind, thinks, "Well, I'll never have to go back to that well again." 284 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,280 She says, "Give me this water." 285 00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:19,280 And Jesus says to her, "I that water. You drink of the water of me, and you'll never be thirsty again." 286 00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:26,280 Now what Jesus means is that all of us in the depths of our soul have things that we desire and we want and we thirst for. 287 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:36,280 And He says, "Ultimately, I will quench those desires of your soul. Those things that you thirst for, I will fulfill them in you." 288 00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:44,280 You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to run. You don't have to hide. But rather, I will satisfy the desires of your heart. 289 00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:52,280 You see, we try to do that in this world. We try to distract ourselves. We try to fill ourselves up with the wrong things. 290 00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:57,280 We pretend we're fine. We slap a little bit of tape on it and call it a temporary fix. 291 00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:02,280 But if you want to know what your soul is truly longing for, it's ultimately Jesus. 292 00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:08,280 He's the only one who can truly satisfy the thirstiness of your soul. 293 00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:15,280 And so Jesus restores our life with times of refreshing. And He quenches the desires of our soul. 294 00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:26,280 But He also gives us rest. This past week, all of our kids went to visit friends and family. 295 00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:35,280 And Friday night, I went to bed at like 10 o'clock at night. And nobody woke me up. Nobody was up early. 296 00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:40,280 And I had the best night of sleep. And I woke up with all kinds of energy. 297 00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:45,280 5:30 Saturday morning, which is, I'm like, "Let's go. Let's get this day over." 298 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,280 Because I slept. I was so rested. 299 00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:52,280 And Rachel says, "Is this what it's like to feel well rested?" 300 00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:57,280 The answer is, "Yes." And it's wonderful. Look at what Jesus says. 301 00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:03,280 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 302 00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:08,280 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, 303 00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:12,280 and you will find rest for your souls." 304 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,280 God promises us rest. 305 00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:19,280 He refreshes us by energizing us with His Spirit, Acts 20. 306 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,280 You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 307 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:27,280 He also refreshes us with God's people. 308 00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:31,280 When we're together with God's people, it is a refreshing thing. 309 00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,280 Paul will say this in 2 Timothy 1: 310 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:45,280 "May God grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. 311 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,280 But when he arrived in Rome, he searched for me earnestly and found me. 312 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:52,280 May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day." 313 00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,280 And you well know the service he rendered at Ephesus. 314 00:59:55,280 --> 01:00:01,280 And Paul says, "Here I am in jail and in chains and likely discouraged and struggling." 315 01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:08,280 And then there's a friendly face. And because he is a brother in Christ, it refreshes my soul. 316 01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:15,280 And I love how you see the gospel play out in this text that our sins are taken away. 317 01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:19,280 The times of refreshing come. 318 01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:23,280 And then Peter says, "Hope for us is revealed." 319 01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:28,280 He will say this, "That he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, 320 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:33,280 whom heaven must receive until the time of restoring for all things." 321 01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:38,280 Now you and I, we don't have to look very far in this world to find brokenness. 322 01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:43,280 We see it in every facet of our life. 323 01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:49,280 We see it in the news. We see it in the direction of our society. 324 01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:54,280 We see it in our lives. We see it in our families. We see it in our workplace. 325 01:00:54,280 --> 01:01:00,280 We feel the brokenness of this world, that things are not the way they should be. 326 01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:04,280 Paul will say this in Romans 8, that feeling that things are broken. 327 01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,280 He describes it this way. 328 01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:13,280 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 329 01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:18,280 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, 330 01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:23,280 groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 331 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,280 That this world is broken, and we feel it. 332 01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:31,280 And we groan out in anguish over the brokenness that we face. 333 01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:35,280 Well, what Peter says is that hope is coming. 334 01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,280 Our sins are taken away. 335 01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,280 Our lives are refreshed. 336 01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:44,280 And then he says this, that he may send the Christ appointed for you, 337 01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:50,280 Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all things. 338 01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:55,280 In Revelation 21, we find this, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth. 339 01:01:55,280 --> 01:02:00,280 For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 340 01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:07,280 And I saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 341 01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,280 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 342 01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,280 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 343 01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,280 "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. 344 01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,280 He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, 345 01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:22,280 and God himself will be with them as their God. 346 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,280 And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. 347 01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:27,280 Death shall be no more. 348 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,280 Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. 349 01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:34,280 For the former things have passed away." 350 01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:39,280 I love that. "He will wipe away every tear from their eye. 351 01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,280 Death shall be no more. 352 01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,280 There shall be no mourning, crying, or pain any more. 353 01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,280 For the former things have passed away. 354 01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:50,280 There is, for God's people, hope." 355 01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:54,280 And I love what you see in this text, 356 01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,280 that you take the brokenness and the hurt, 357 01:02:56,280 --> 01:03:00,280 and it's met with forgiveness and restoration and hope. 358 01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:03,280 And in many ways, the first verses of this chapter, 359 01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:07,280 where Peter and John see this lame man who is unable to walk, 360 01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,280 and through the power of Jesus, they pull him up to his feet, 361 01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,280 and he begins to walk and leap and praise God. 362 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,280 What happens to him physically is what happens to you and I, 363 01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:20,280 spiritually, when we come to the good news of the Gospel. 364 01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:24,280 That here we are, broken and hurting, 365 01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:28,280 and seeking for something that might meet a temporary need. 366 01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,280 And the good news of the Gospel comes, 367 01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,280 and it heals us, and it pulls us to our feet, 368 01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,280 and we respond with joy, 369 01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,280 because our sins have been blotted out, 370 01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,280 times of refreshing have come, 371 01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,280 and hope is laid before us. 372 01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,280 Would you pray with me? 373 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,280 Father in Heaven, 374 01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:49,280 we thank You for how You have 375 01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:51,280 loved us and cared for us. 376 01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:53,280 We thank You for the good news of the Gospel. 377 01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,280 We thank You for hope. 378 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:58,280 We thank You for forgiveness. 379 01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:01,280 We thank You that You have equipped us with Your Spirit, 380 01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,280 that You have refreshed our souls. 381 01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,280 It's in Jesus' name we pray. 382 01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,280 Amen. 383 01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,280 We're going to stand and sing. 384 01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,280 Oh, just hit cancel. 385 01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:15,280 Amen. 386 01:04:44,280 --> 01:05:14,260 To God be the glory, great things He hath done. So loved He the world that He has done. 387 01:05:14,260 --> 01:05:30,260 He gave us His Son, who yielded His life and atonement for sin, and opened the life gate that all may go in. 388 01:05:30,260 --> 01:05:44,240 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the people rejoice. 389 01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:57,240 Come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. 390 01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:14,220 O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, to every believer the promise of God, the vilest defender, 391 01:06:14,220 --> 01:06:44,200 who truly believes that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice. 392 01:06:44,200 --> 01:07:14,180 And give Him the glory, great things He hath done. Great things He hath taught us, great things He hath done. And great are rejoicing through Jesus the Son. 393 01:07:14,180 --> 01:07:31,180 When Jesus we see. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the people rejoice. 394 01:07:31,180 --> 01:07:44,160 O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son. And give Him the glory, great things He hath done. 395 01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:59,160 We want to thank you for being here with us this morning, whether you are here in person or watching with us online. We are thankful that you are here. 396 01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:14,140 A couple things coming up this week. One of the things we've been doing on Mondays on our Facebook page and YouTube page and website is we've been walking through the Psalms. Tomorrow we're going to finish out Psalm 8 to see sort of the greatness 397 01:08:14,140 --> 01:08:44,120 of God and the humility of mankind and how God works and loves and cares for His people. So you can join us for that on Facebook or YouTube or on our website. Also, this Wednesday we're going to continue in the book of Job. I don't think we have a slide for that because today it seems like everything technological has been a struggle. And as you read through the book of Job, what you find is that's what life often is, right? 398 01:08:44,120 --> 01:09:14,100 A struggle of brokenness. And so we're gathering together Wednesday night at 7pm here or online and going through Job. There are some study questions in the back. We're going to be going through Job chapter 3, chapter 4, and chapter 5 where Job finally speaks and begins to talk about his brokenness. And then his buddy Eliphaz begins to speak and just makes everything worse. 399 01:09:14,100 --> 01:09:44,080 On Wednesday night at 7pm. Are there ladies? Ladies are meeting this week. 1 o'clock? 1 o'clock. Alright. So ladies Bible study this Thursday at 1pm. We'll go ahead and have a word of prayer and then we'll sing the doxology and be dismissed. Father in heaven, thank you for your church and your people. Be with us as we go through this week. We thank you so much for how you encourage us and help us. Just help us to see your goodness. 400 01:09:44,080 --> 01:10:14,060 To be thankful for it. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 401 01:10:14,060 --> 01:10:15,040 Amen.