1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,980 Thank you. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:59,980 Thank you. 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:29,980 Thank you. 4 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:47,860 We are thankful that you are here. 5 00:09:47,860 --> 00:09:51,140 We're thankful that we get to gather to worship together. 6 00:09:51,140 --> 00:09:54,380 We're going to begin with a word of prayer. 7 00:09:54,380 --> 00:10:02,320 We're going to read from the 75th Psalm, and then begin our time of worship through Psalm this morning. 8 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,800 Let's go ahead and pray. 9 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,140 Father in heaven, we thank you for your goodness and for your grace. 10 00:10:09,140 --> 00:10:12,960 We thank you for all the ways in which you have blessed our lives. 11 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:20,820 We thank you for those who have been faithful through generations, who have had a great impact on our life. 12 00:10:21,180 --> 00:10:27,860 And we thank you for those who have served so quietly and so faithfully. 13 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:32,100 We just ask you to encourage us to strengthen us. 14 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:38,960 And as we look at the life of Timothy and his family, we would encourage us to help us. 15 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,540 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 16 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:45,900 We're going to stand and we're going to read from Psalm 78. 17 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:49,060 We're going to read verses 5 through 7. 18 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:53,040 Let's read together this morning. 19 00:11:19,060 --> 00:11:24,360 and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. 20 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,160 This is the word of the Lord. 21 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,380 We're going to start by singing about God's faithfulness, 22 00:11:30,380 --> 00:11:37,080 followed by singing about his glory and how he works for our kids. 23 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,080 So let's start with that. 24 00:11:49,060 --> 00:12:00,140 Great is thy faithfulness, O God, my Father. 25 00:12:00,140 --> 00:12:07,180 There is no shadow of turning with thee. 26 00:12:07,180 --> 00:12:14,400 Thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not. 27 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:21,040 As Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be. 28 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:28,500 Great is Thy faithfulness, great is Thy faithfulness. 29 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:34,800 Morning by morning new mercies I see. 30 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:41,900 All I have needed Thy hand hath provided. 31 00:12:42,980 --> 00:12:49,100 Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 32 00:12:49,100 --> 00:13:01,600 Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, 33 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:08,360 sun, moon, and stars in their courses above. 34 00:13:08,620 --> 00:13:15,540 Join with all nature in manifold witness 35 00:13:15,540 --> 00:13:22,280 To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love 36 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:29,620 Great is Thy faithfulness, great is Thy faithfulness 37 00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:36,140 Morning by morning new mercies I see 38 00:13:36,140 --> 00:13:43,040 All I had needed, Thy hand hath provided. 39 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:50,260 Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 40 00:13:50,260 --> 00:14:02,140 Pardon for sin and the peace that endureth. 41 00:14:02,140 --> 00:14:09,460 Thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide 42 00:14:09,460 --> 00:14:16,180 Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow 43 00:14:16,180 --> 00:14:22,840 Blessings all mine with ten thousand beside 44 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:30,780 Great is thy faithfulness, great is thy faithfulness 45 00:14:30,780 --> 00:14:37,400 Morning by morning new mercies I see 46 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:44,180 All I have needed Thy hands have provided 47 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:51,380 Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me 48 00:15:00,780 --> 00:15:30,760 Let's pray. 49 00:15:30,780 --> 00:15:44,080 When I gaze upon His beauty, when I see Him as I should, then my eyes are lifted upward for His glory and my good. 50 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:56,160 There is hope in every trial, for I can trust the Lord. 51 00:15:57,020 --> 00:16:03,140 He will turn my heart towards him, and help me bear the thorn. 52 00:16:03,140 --> 00:16:10,320 So in faith I follow Jesus, on the road not understood. 53 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:17,640 For I know that he is working, for his glory and my good. 54 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:49,420 To our God be the glory, to our God be praise, He alone, the name above all, I will all stand ever only in the Lord, my God, for I know His glory is my good. 55 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,960 See the open arms of Jesus 56 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:01,060 Upon the cross that day 57 00:17:01,060 --> 00:17:05,000 What they understood His weakness 58 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,200 Desserted by every praise 59 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,080 For the charge that was against me 60 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:15,300 It was nailed to the Lord 61 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:19,260 Yes, I know that He has sent me 62 00:17:19,260 --> 00:17:22,860 For His glory and my good 63 00:17:22,860 --> 00:17:28,000 To our God be the Lord 64 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:33,060 My God be the rest, be alone 65 00:17:33,060 --> 00:17:37,440 The name above all names 66 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,960 I will boast ever only 67 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:47,680 Oh my God, for I know 68 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,000 His glory is my good 69 00:17:52,000 --> 00:18:06,960 Would I gladly be made nothing 70 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,240 That Christ would be made more 71 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:14,000 Would I seek the only kingdom 72 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,420 That far outweighs them all 73 00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:31,520 I will stand before my Father where the faithful saints have stood, and with joy my heart shall praise Him for in my good. 74 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:38,820 And with joy my heart shall praise Him for His glory in my good. 75 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,360 To our God be the glory. 76 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,820 To our God be the grace. 77 00:18:50,820 --> 00:18:56,880 He alone, the name above all names. 78 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:03,660 I will boast ever only in the name of the Lord. 79 00:19:03,660 --> 00:19:10,980 I am the Lord, for I know His glory is my good. 80 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:25,560 To our God be glory, to our God be great, be the Lord, the name above all names. 81 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:39,400 I will boast ever only in the Lord my God, for I know His glory is my good. 82 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:46,400 Yes, I know His glory is my good. 83 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:40,620 Thank you. 84 00:20:40,640 --> 00:21:10,620 Thank you. 85 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:40,620 Thank you. 86 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:56,820 Turn your eyes upon Jesus 87 00:22:56,820 --> 00:23:04,260 Look full in His wonderful face 88 00:23:04,260 --> 00:23:11,760 And the things of earth will grow strangely dim 89 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:19,020 In the light of His glory and grace 90 00:23:19,020 --> 00:23:29,700 Turn your eyes to that hillside 91 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:36,540 Where justice and mercy embrace 92 00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:44,340 There the Son of God gave his life for us 93 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:50,700 And our measureless death was embraced 94 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:58,720 Jesus, to you we lift our eyes 95 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:05,760 Jesus, our glory and our Christ 96 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:10,040 We adore you, behold you 97 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,140 Our Savior ever true 98 00:24:13,140 --> 00:24:18,420 Oh, Jesus, we turn our eyes to you 99 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:37,700 Turn your eyes to the morning 100 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:44,220 And see Christ the lion away 101 00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:48,960 What a glorious dawn 102 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,620 Fear of death is gone 103 00:24:52,620 --> 00:24:59,260 For we carry his life in our veins 104 00:24:59,260 --> 00:25:07,040 Jesus, to you we lift our eyes 105 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:14,180 Jesus, our glory and our prize 106 00:25:14,180 --> 00:25:18,420 We adore you, behold you 107 00:25:18,420 --> 00:25:21,420 Our Savior ever true 108 00:25:21,420 --> 00:25:27,480 Oh Jesus, we turn our eyes to you 109 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:39,460 Turn your eyes to the heavens 110 00:25:39,460 --> 00:25:45,740 Our King will return for his own 111 00:25:45,740 --> 00:25:50,300 Every knee will bow 112 00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:54,040 Every tongue will shout 113 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,080 All glory to Jesus 114 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:08,280 Jesus, to you you lift our eyes 115 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:15,440 Jesus, our glory and our prize 116 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:22,700 We adore you, behold you, our Savior ever true 117 00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:29,200 Oh Jesus, we turn our life to you 118 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:36,140 Jesus, to you we lift our price 119 00:26:36,140 --> 00:26:44,320 Jesus, our glory and our prize 120 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:51,360 We adore you, behold you, our Savior and you. 121 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:56,880 Oh, Jesus, we turn our eyes to you. 122 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:08,280 Oh, Jesus, we turn our eyes to you. 123 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:44,300 Thank you. 124 00:27:44,320 --> 00:28:14,300 Thank you. 125 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:44,300 Thank you. 126 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,920 Outlast darkness 127 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:21,240 Hope that's in the blood 128 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:26,800 This future grace that's mine today 129 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,700 That Jesus Christ has won 130 00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:35,420 So I can face tomorrow 131 00:40:35,420 --> 00:40:40,420 For tomorrow's in your hands 132 00:40:40,420 --> 00:40:45,840 All I need you will provide 133 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,920 Just like you always have 134 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:55,380 I'm fighting a battle 135 00:40:55,380 --> 00:40:59,740 You've already won 136 00:40:59,740 --> 00:41:06,400 No matter what comes my way 137 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,500 I will overcome 138 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:14,120 Don't know what you're doing 139 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,660 But I know what you've done 140 00:41:18,660 --> 00:41:23,580 I'm fighting a battle 141 00:41:23,580 --> 00:41:27,320 You've already won 142 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:34,800 There's mercy in the waiting 143 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:39,240 Nana for today 144 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:45,460 When it's gone, I'll know you're not 145 00:41:45,460 --> 00:41:49,180 You are my hope and stay 146 00:41:49,180 --> 00:41:54,080 When the sea is raging 147 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:58,720 Your spirit is my help 148 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:04,500 He'll fix my eyes on Jesus Christ 149 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:08,280 I'll say that it is well 150 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:13,960 Oh, I know that it is well 151 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,600 I'm fighting a battle 152 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,320 You for anyone 153 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:29,640 No matter what comes my way 154 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,720 I will overcome 155 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:37,300 Don't know what you're doing 156 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:41,600 But I know what you've done 157 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:46,800 I'm fighting a battle 158 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,720 You've already won 159 00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:59,380 I know how the story ends 160 00:42:59,380 --> 00:43:07,420 We will be with you again 161 00:43:07,420 --> 00:43:15,840 You're my savior, my defense 162 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:24,180 No more fear in life or death 163 00:43:24,180 --> 00:43:33,360 I know how the story ends 164 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:40,920 We will be with you again 165 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:49,200 You're my savior, my defense 166 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:57,280 No more fear in life or death 167 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:03,220 I know how the story ends 168 00:44:03,220 --> 00:44:07,480 I'm fighting a battle 169 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,760 You've already won 170 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:18,680 No matter what comes my way 171 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,980 I will overcome 172 00:44:22,980 --> 00:44:26,680 Don't know what you're doing 173 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:30,580 But I know what you've done 174 00:44:30,580 --> 00:44:35,680 I'm fighting a battle 175 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,180 You've already won 176 00:44:39,180 --> 00:44:45,100 I'm fighting a battle 177 00:44:45,100 --> 00:44:48,980 You've already won 178 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:45,080 Thank you. 179 00:45:45,100 --> 00:46:15,080 Thank you. 180 00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:45,080 Thank you. 181 00:56:45,100 --> 00:56:59,380 Just a few moments ago, probably for you as well, maybe spark some memories of those godly women in your life. 182 00:56:59,380 --> 00:57:03,840 I remember when I was just like a new wee baby preacher. 183 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:13,000 This had been back right after the end of the century, moving into the 2000s. 184 00:57:13,020 --> 00:57:19,820 And I was doing what our school did to help us get some experience, which is supply preaching, 185 00:57:19,820 --> 00:57:26,020 which means that you go, essentially there's churches that need a preacher, and you drive to them. 186 00:57:26,020 --> 00:57:30,300 And so I would drive from central Missouri, all over actually the state of Missouri, 187 00:57:30,300 --> 00:57:36,960 into the edges of Illinois and one to the southern part of Iowa. 188 00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,500 And I remember one of the first times that I was doing this, I was super nervous. 189 00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,840 And I said, you know what, I've got to get there really early, make sure everything's okay. 190 00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:49,120 And so I'm driving from our schools about 90 miles to the church. 191 00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:54,500 And, you know, I go through the last part over the bridge to Mississippi into Illinois. 192 00:57:54,500 --> 00:58:00,900 I have, like, 15 minutes left, and I'm stuck behind this little 20-year-old little blue Chrysler. 193 00:58:00,900 --> 00:58:05,180 And in front of me is just this big poof of white hair. 194 00:58:05,180 --> 00:58:07,760 And they're doing, like, 10 miles an hour. 195 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,880 This thing's doing 10 miles an hour at the speed limit. 196 00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:17,880 I am a young man, very accustomed to the accelerator, and I was like, you know what, I'm just going to pass this old lady. 197 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:23,080 We took one more turn, and I realized that, you know what, there's not that many turns according to the map that I have. 198 00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:27,900 I better be careful, because I bet this lady is going to the church that I'm about to preach at. 199 00:58:27,900 --> 00:58:31,900 Sure enough, it was a pretty good guess. There's no other cars on the road. 200 00:58:31,900 --> 00:58:38,740 She pulls into the parking lot right in front of me, and I feel really bad for tailgating her very closely for the last 15 miles. 201 00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:48,860 Now, this lady was the backbone of this little church that used to be on the banks of the Mississippi River, and the river moved, and the town died. 202 00:58:48,860 --> 00:58:55,180 She was there every morning, rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, like the U.S. Postal Service. 203 00:58:55,180 --> 00:58:59,220 The doors were unlocked, the heat was on, the building was clean. 204 00:58:59,220 --> 00:59:03,640 It's interesting that later on, I would go to preach at this church. 205 00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:07,320 They would hire me, and I was there for, I think, two, two and a half years. 206 00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:12,600 That two and a half years, the only time I'd meet her to church was when she didn't come to church. 207 00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:17,260 It didn't matter how early I left in the morning, she was there before me. 208 00:59:17,260 --> 00:59:21,480 Once we had a guy who worked for Local Correction System, and he's like, 209 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:26,400 hey, I'm bringing the work release guys to clean up the church, which was new for me. 210 00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,600 And she baked them all pies. 211 00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,640 So they're out there cleaning it, and she has just a bunch of pies sitting there. 212 00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:38,840 And to think about what we want to do and what we traditionally do on both Mother's Day and Father's Day 213 00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:50,260 is go to the Word of God and take a look at those men and women who have had such an impact on our lives and on God's people. 214 00:59:50,260 --> 00:59:52,760 Sometimes they're really well known. 215 00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:57,800 Sometimes they're quiet and faithful in ways that they don't always see. 216 00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:02,220 We want to be encouraged this morning, specifically by the lives of God's people. 217 01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,580 So before we do that, let's go ahead and have a word of prayer. 218 01:00:04,580 --> 01:00:08,600 Father in heaven, thank you for Jesus and for grace, 219 01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:12,820 and we thank you for those godly women, for their mothers, 220 01:00:12,820 --> 01:00:19,700 for those who have chosen to care for children that were not theirs biologically, 221 01:00:19,700 --> 01:00:25,860 but who have sacrificed and given of themselves and given of others, 222 01:00:25,860 --> 01:00:32,080 for those who have shown us by example in both their words and their actions. 223 01:00:32,480 --> 01:01:02,220 So I have, and I've shared this with some of you, 224 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:12,220 I have a sticker on my water bottle that I take everywhere that says be patient with me I'm from the 1900s and it has a little wagon train there as well. 225 01:01:12,220 --> 01:01:19,360 And I was thinking about the experiences that I've had that my kids don't always quite get. 226 01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:24,480 When I was growing up if I wanted to hear a song I had to listen to the radio until the song came on. 227 01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:31,720 If I wanted to listen to it again I remember at one point sitting with my tape recorder next to the radio recording the songs that I wanted. 228 01:01:31,860 --> 01:01:34,740 And they're just like, hey, Google, play whatever song I want. 229 01:01:34,740 --> 01:01:35,600 And there it is. 230 01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:39,080 And they can listen to it a million times in a row if they want. 231 01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:45,620 I remember one of the first times we were somewhere, maybe staying in a hotel, and we were watching a show on TV. 232 01:01:45,620 --> 01:01:48,520 And all of a sudden the show stops and commercials start playing. 233 01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:49,900 And our kids are like, what are these? 234 01:01:49,900 --> 01:01:52,420 We don't have commercials on our streaming TV. 235 01:01:52,420 --> 01:01:53,020 Yeah, I don't know. 236 01:01:53,020 --> 01:01:59,820 I remember once, actually very recently, the other day, one of the kids asked for something. 237 01:01:59,820 --> 01:02:01,520 And they were like, just order it, Dad. 238 01:02:01,540 --> 01:02:03,640 And I was like, it's not going to be here in time. 239 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:05,460 And so it was like 7 o'clock at night. 240 01:02:05,460 --> 01:02:06,420 I ordered it on Amazon. 241 01:02:06,420 --> 01:02:10,440 Next morning at 6.30, there's a guy in a civic in the yellow vest 242 01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:14,500 throwing it on the picnic tables in front of the church over here. 243 01:02:14,500 --> 01:02:18,000 And back in my day, right, if you wanted to order something, 244 01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:18,900 you had to have a catalog. 245 01:02:18,900 --> 01:02:21,760 You had to talk your mom into writing a check for it, 246 01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:23,720 borrowing a stamp and an envelope for it. 247 01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,680 And then you had to wait six to eight weeks for it to get here. 248 01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:28,360 And now I can order stuff. 249 01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:33,660 And in some cases, right over to the grocery store, you're going to pay for $25 million. 250 01:02:33,660 --> 01:02:39,580 It's interesting. 251 01:02:39,580 --> 01:02:46,140 This has, I think, maybe a detrimental effect on my patients, right? 252 01:02:46,140 --> 01:02:50,640 So I expect this now, because I live in a culture where everything happens so quickly, 253 01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,160 I expect it to happen quickly. 254 01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:56,800 I planted a pasture a couple weeks ago. 255 01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:01,260 Two days later, I'm out there going, huh, must have been a bad batch of seeds 256 01:03:01,260 --> 01:03:02,740 because I don't see anything growing. 257 01:03:02,740 --> 01:03:05,280 Remember the first time I went and worked out with Dave? 258 01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:05,880 I got done. 259 01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:07,800 I said, I don't feel any stronger whatsoever. 260 01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:10,160 Obviously, this is a waste of time. 261 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:13,440 Now, that's a joke, but sometimes we approach life with that. 262 01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:18,980 Everything in life for us so often happens so quickly and so instantly 263 01:03:18,980 --> 01:03:24,480 that we become very, very impatient. 264 01:03:25,340 --> 01:03:29,260 And it's not just being surrounded by everything that happens so fast. 265 01:03:29,260 --> 01:03:32,800 We live in a world that's also filled so deeply with comparison. 266 01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,980 It's not just that we're used to getting things quickly. 267 01:03:35,980 --> 01:03:38,760 It's that we see everybody's good moments. 268 01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:42,300 And oftentimes people don't share their bad moments when we're sharing things. 269 01:03:42,300 --> 01:03:47,140 We generally share those things we're proud of that are good and that are great 270 01:03:47,140 --> 01:03:51,580 because we don't want to publicize our weakness or our failure. 271 01:03:52,880 --> 01:04:05,640 So not only are we impatient, so often we're surrounded by this view that everybody around us, their life is perfect, their life is good, and my life is filled with struggles. 272 01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:18,380 And these two things, both being surrounded by constant comparison and being impatient has an impact, not just on our attitudes and our physical life, but I think it has an impact on us spiritually. 273 01:04:18,380 --> 01:04:22,140 Comparison makes us feel weak and small. 274 01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:32,000 And our impatience tells us that even though I'm working in something, nothing really matters because it hasn't worked out in the end because it hasn't worked yet. 275 01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:41,280 And it's so easy for us, I think, to find ourselves discouraged and struggling, not just as we look at our lives, but as we seek to grow spiritually, 276 01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:48,700 maybe as we seek to share the gospel, maybe as we seek to live faithfully, surrounded by impatience and comparison. 277 01:04:48,700 --> 01:04:54,000 We're simply being told continually, if it doesn't happen fast, it's not going to happen. 278 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:58,740 And secondly, compared to everybody else, we're doing terribly. 279 01:04:58,740 --> 01:05:03,360 This morning, I want us to look at two people, a mom and a grandma. 280 01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:07,100 They're only mentioned in the Bible by name one time. 281 01:05:07,100 --> 01:05:12,020 In fact, although the mom is referenced in another verse, not by name, though. 282 01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:19,800 And in this one short verse we find a deep and encouraging truth, I think, for our people. 283 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:21,840 There is no part of it. 284 01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:26,880 Now Paul is writing the letter that we're about to look at from a Roman prison. 285 01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,860 It's likely his final imprisonment. 286 01:05:29,860 --> 01:05:35,120 He knows the end is there, and it's likely this may even be the last letter that he writes. 287 01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:41,340 And he doesn't write it to a church, but he writes it to a young man by the name of Timothy. 288 01:05:41,340 --> 01:05:44,700 And he called this young man, like a child, to faith. 289 01:05:44,700 --> 01:05:54,560 And one of the parts in 2 Timothy, you know well, is where Paul will encourage Timothy to be bold. 290 01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:58,300 Timothy was facing opposition. He was young. 291 01:05:58,300 --> 01:06:04,380 Sometimes he was discouraged, so Paul will tell him to fan into flame the gift of God. 292 01:06:04,380 --> 01:06:07,200 He'll say, God didn't give you a spirit of fear. 293 01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:14,300 But to group and to ground Timothy in the confidence of who God is and what God has done. 294 01:06:14,300 --> 01:06:19,340 He doesn't talk about all the great things that Timothy can do or that Timothy has done. 295 01:06:19,340 --> 01:06:22,700 In fact, he looks in a completely strange direction. 296 01:06:22,700 --> 01:06:29,740 He takes a look back at two women in Timothy's line. 297 01:06:29,740 --> 01:06:32,480 He says, I'm reminded of your sincere faith. 298 01:06:33,620 --> 01:06:37,400 A faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, 299 01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:41,840 and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. 300 01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:47,820 And as we consider those who have changed us and taken back on us, 301 01:06:47,820 --> 01:06:53,040 as we consider the legacy of faith, 302 01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:58,680 I want us to consider faith that shapes generations. 303 01:06:59,860 --> 01:07:03,500 I know it is how it begins, a sincere faith. 304 01:07:03,500 --> 01:07:10,460 I am reminded of your sincere faith, Paul will tell Timothy. 305 01:07:10,460 --> 01:07:13,860 This is a compound word in Greek, and it just means without a mask. 306 01:07:13,860 --> 01:07:20,200 And in Greek theater, actors would wear a mask, they would depict their character, they would speak through the mask. 307 01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:25,200 And in Greek theater, this was a normal thing, and it was an accepted thing, right? 308 01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:28,320 And it was an understood thing, because they're simply doing their job. 309 01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:34,220 But by the time we find ourselves in 2 Timothy, this picture of wearing a mask in a theater, 310 01:07:34,220 --> 01:07:40,040 it had left the theater and had become common part usage in culture of the day. 311 01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:45,680 And the word for it goes to wore a mask and spoke for a mask. 312 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:56,780 It had become a word for pretender, someone who performed outwardly that didn't match who they really were. 313 01:07:57,060 --> 01:08:04,000 And so when Paul speaks to Timothy about his sincere faith, he is saying, I am reminded of your sincere faith. 314 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:08,080 What he is saying is your faith is genuine. 315 01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:09,200 It's without a mask. 316 01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:10,780 It's not pretending. 317 01:08:10,780 --> 01:08:20,080 And the solution to the trouble that Timothy faces, the fear that he has, wasn't necessarily a pep talk. 318 01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:21,740 Timothy, I know you can do this. 319 01:08:21,740 --> 01:08:22,240 You're good. 320 01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:23,320 You're strong. 321 01:08:23,440 --> 01:08:27,240 It wasn't some kind of motivation or guilt trip, right? 322 01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:29,920 Who's going to do it if you don't, Timothy? 323 01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:34,800 It wasn't Paul getting behind Timothy and driving him down the road, 324 01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,000 sort of pushing him to where he would have him go. 325 01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:43,440 He says this, I am reminded, looking back, of your sincere faith, without a mask. 326 01:08:43,440 --> 01:08:47,660 Faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, 327 01:08:47,660 --> 01:08:51,800 and now I am sure dwells in you as well. 328 01:08:53,180 --> 01:08:56,640 In a world filled with impatience, that it needs to happen now, 329 01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:00,020 or comparison, I want to look good right now. 330 01:09:00,020 --> 01:09:07,380 Let our hearts go to a place where instead of taking off a mask, we tend to put one on. 331 01:09:07,380 --> 01:09:12,840 We have an impression that sometimes our faith needs to appear perfect. 332 01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:17,580 And so maybe we disguise our weaknesses and try to pretend like we're not struggling. 333 01:09:17,580 --> 01:09:21,100 Or on the other hand, maybe we expose our weaknesses 334 01:09:21,100 --> 01:09:25,200 and we spend a lot of time making excuses and explaining. 335 01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:32,060 And in both of these things are matters of humility, 336 01:09:32,060 --> 01:09:36,660 which sincere humility is very good. 337 01:09:36,660 --> 01:09:47,120 So sin, sincere faith, looks like this. 338 01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:52,780 Sincere faith shows up beyond just sort of our plan and action. 339 01:09:52,780 --> 01:09:55,880 It's easy to sometimes go through the religious motions. 340 01:09:55,880 --> 01:10:01,420 Jesus talks about this on the Sermon on the Mount, whether it is praying, whether it is giving, whether it is fasting, 341 01:10:01,420 --> 01:10:04,180 that it's easy to sort of go through those motions. 342 01:10:04,740 --> 01:10:07,620 The issue is, and one of the ways in which we see sincere faith, 343 01:10:07,620 --> 01:10:10,360 is what happens when things don't go according to faith? 344 01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:12,280 When you're caught by surprise? 345 01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,800 What's your reaction? 346 01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:17,440 What comes out of you when you're startled? 347 01:10:17,440 --> 01:10:22,400 How do you live when nobody is watching? 348 01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:26,420 What do you do in those moments when you're struggling? 349 01:10:26,420 --> 01:10:28,300 What do you do when you're struggling? 350 01:10:28,860 --> 01:10:45,260 That even with tears in his eyes, he continues to follow Jesus. 351 01:10:45,260 --> 01:10:49,240 And here's the testimony of Timothy. 352 01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:52,860 And here's what Paul reminds this young man who is likely struggling. 353 01:10:52,860 --> 01:10:54,660 He says, a sincere faith. 354 01:10:54,660 --> 01:10:58,260 He says this, a faith that dwelt first. 355 01:10:58,860 --> 01:11:06,060 In your grandmother, Lois, and your mother, Eunice, now I'm sure dwells in you as well. 356 01:11:06,060 --> 01:11:12,340 What we'll see in these moments is this is not necessarily a polished performance of faith. 357 01:11:12,340 --> 01:11:16,500 But their faith was an honest, persevering, trusting God. 358 01:11:16,500 --> 01:11:21,440 The kind that shows up in the ordinary and the messy and the difficult situations in life. 359 01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:26,600 And that, from these women, became the foundation of Timothy's faith. 360 01:11:27,020 --> 01:11:33,060 And it's interesting, in just a few verses over, in verse 14, 361 01:11:33,060 --> 01:11:34,820 Paul will say this, 362 01:11:34,820 --> 01:11:37,120 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, 363 01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:41,940 guard the good deposit that is entrusted to you. 364 01:11:41,940 --> 01:11:47,040 That same word for the faith dwelling, the Holy Spirit dwelling, 365 01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:51,420 on the same thing, Paul is drawing a line between the two. 366 01:11:54,180 --> 01:12:01,120 that our faith that it welcomes ultimately is brought about by the power of the Holy Spirit. 367 01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:07,060 And he sees that in both his grandmother and his father. 368 01:12:07,060 --> 01:12:10,120 And so here's a young man, Timothy. 369 01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:13,200 We'll learn a little bit more about him in a moment. 370 01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:18,140 But when Paul looks at Timothy's faith, he sees not the greatness of Timothy, 371 01:12:18,140 --> 01:12:25,920 but he sees God's work in his life brought about by the sincere faith of both his grandmother and his mother 372 01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:28,760 and how that has been shared through the generations. 373 01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:33,980 And for some of us, we feel like our faith is weak. 374 01:12:33,980 --> 01:12:35,960 Or maybe it's not strong enough to share. 375 01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:38,760 Or I might have doubts or I have difficulties. 376 01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:44,960 What we'll see is that sincere faith doesn't mean that faith is perfect, that it's honest. 377 01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:50,840 That Lois and Eunice kept going, even through those difficult moments in life. 378 01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:58,160 It wasn't a faith, it was a void of any kind of struggle, but it was a faith that was on us. 379 01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:06,080 And he shows us, called us, what sincere faith does. 380 01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:07,740 Sincere faith, called us. 381 01:13:07,740 --> 01:13:09,240 Here. 382 01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:13,480 Listen to these words from Deuteronomy chapter 6. 383 01:13:13,480 --> 01:13:16,320 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 384 01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:20,660 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and all your mind. 385 01:13:20,660 --> 01:13:24,980 And these are words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 386 01:13:24,980 --> 01:13:27,560 You shall teach them diligently to your children. 387 01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:32,660 You shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, when you rise. 388 01:13:32,660 --> 01:13:34,900 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand. 389 01:13:34,900 --> 01:13:37,420 They shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 390 01:13:37,420 --> 01:13:42,940 You shall write them on the doorpost and on the house and on your gates. 391 01:13:43,480 --> 01:13:47,060 God gives a man to his people. 392 01:13:47,060 --> 01:13:51,740 The faith isn't simply about learning the facts, 393 01:13:51,740 --> 01:13:56,260 but it's about immersing your family in the reality of this faith. 394 01:13:56,260 --> 01:13:57,640 Notice what he says. 395 01:13:57,640 --> 01:13:59,260 Talk of them. 396 01:13:59,260 --> 01:14:01,900 When you sit in your house, when you're walking by the way, 397 01:14:01,900 --> 01:14:03,960 when you go to bed, when you get up, 398 01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,120 write them on your hand, stick them in front of your eyes, 399 01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:11,480 put it on the door of your house and on the gate to your property, 400 01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:16,560 That wherever you go, you're sitting, you're standing, you're walking, you're talking, you're sleeping, you're waking up. 401 01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:20,980 Every time you open your eyes, the Word of God is in front of you. 402 01:14:20,980 --> 01:14:29,040 These commandments aren't just about their actions, but it's about teaching and action. 403 01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,820 Talk about where you go. 404 01:14:31,820 --> 01:14:41,200 The picture of faith in families is life consistently with God. 405 01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:44,020 And this is what Lois and Eunice do. 406 01:14:44,020 --> 01:14:49,000 They didn't just speak about God, although that's incredibly important. 407 01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:52,600 They've demonstrated what it looked like to trust in God. 408 01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:58,540 He heard their teaching and saw their lives, and the reality is both of those things matter. 409 01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:02,740 Our struggle is that we tend to prioritize one over the other. 410 01:15:02,740 --> 01:15:06,100 We tend to either prioritize teaching or living, 411 01:15:06,100 --> 01:15:10,620 and the reality of Scripture is that it comes down to both. 412 01:15:10,620 --> 01:15:16,620 We either talk well about our faith or we live our faith well 413 01:15:16,620 --> 01:15:21,920 and we're called to go to speak of the truth of God and to live it out. 414 01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:26,800 We live powerful lessons all in our lives. 415 01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:36,820 credibility to our words but if you look at Eunice's situation she's a Jewish believer she's 416 01:15:36,820 --> 01:15:42,440 married to a Greek man we find that in Acts chapter 16 Timothy had not followed any of the law although 417 01:15:42,440 --> 01:15:51,060 he knew the word of God his family hadn't been obedient to it maybe because of the influence of 418 01:15:51,060 --> 01:15:56,400 His father, the reality is that his house was not completely tight. 419 01:15:56,400 --> 01:16:01,140 The home was spiritually mixed, circumstances were imperfect. 420 01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:06,980 And then Paul will write in 2 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 15, 421 01:16:06,980 --> 01:16:12,320 that he will be a sacred right place in the Bible. 422 01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:31,780 And what they are doing as they share their faith is they are planting seeds. 423 01:16:31,780 --> 01:16:37,660 And the reality is, somebody said when we were first having children, 424 01:16:37,660 --> 01:16:40,460 the children are sponges and they soak up everything. 425 01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:43,080 And it always comes out at the worst time, right? 426 01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:45,660 In the most awkward ways. 427 01:16:45,660 --> 01:16:49,860 Our kids see how we respond to disappointment and conflict. 428 01:16:49,860 --> 01:16:53,460 I think faith is a seed that is great. 429 01:16:53,460 --> 01:16:59,700 Not just in our children, but in those around us who see our lives. 430 01:16:59,700 --> 01:17:03,340 And often we think it's our job to grow the tree, 431 01:17:03,340 --> 01:17:08,600 but the reality is that we plant the seed and have given the opportunity to water it. 432 01:17:09,140 --> 01:17:20,260 But ultimately, God is the one who gives the angels to the lowest in the midst of the plant in the seeds. 433 01:17:20,260 --> 01:17:29,920 He gave them the soil and the roots of the word of God to share it with the Scriptures of the son of Jesus. 434 01:17:29,920 --> 01:17:36,320 Oftentimes, when it comes to sharing the gospel, it's a kind of thing that we make it harder than it is. 435 01:17:37,380 --> 01:17:39,860 And simply the reality of sharing the gospel is this, 436 01:17:39,860 --> 01:17:44,660 to know whom we have believed, to be convinced that he is able, 437 01:17:44,660 --> 01:17:51,280 when everything's falling apart, when it's shaking, 438 01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,640 when home feels like a mess, when we feel weak and hopeless. 439 01:17:54,640 --> 01:17:57,980 And that's in Deuteronomy chapter 6. 440 01:17:57,980 --> 01:18:02,940 Every year we have a life, a life, a life, a life, a life, a life, a life, a life. 441 01:18:02,940 --> 01:18:06,940 Sometimes we might say, well, I'm trying to. 442 01:18:07,380 --> 01:18:12,080 I'm trying to live faithfully, but doesn't even mean to me. 443 01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:21,120 Lois and Eunice had no idea the impact their lives had while they were living. 444 01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:27,220 They're faithful in their ordinary experiences, in their ordinary lives. 445 01:18:27,220 --> 01:18:30,440 And what we would often view is just simply unremarkable. 446 01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:41,440 And one day, their child, their grandchild, they had rocked through that ordinary life and became a man who lived through the world's home. 447 01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:47,620 They couldn't have seen it coming. 448 01:18:47,620 --> 01:18:50,260 That's how legacy works. 449 01:18:50,260 --> 01:18:56,300 You plant, you water, you live faithfully, and God brings growth in ways that we might not even understand. 450 01:18:56,300 --> 01:18:57,220 Take a look at this. 451 01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:02,860 In 2 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 2, here's what Paul says to Timothy. 452 01:19:02,860 --> 01:19:06,920 And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, 453 01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:11,280 entrust to faithful men who will also be able to teach others also. 454 01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:14,840 And so Paul says to Timothy, you heard it from me, telling it to you, 455 01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:17,940 you tell it to faithful men, they're going to tell it for others, 456 01:19:17,940 --> 01:19:22,040 and you're going to see this sort of generationally move through. 457 01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:25,180 And it's not just moving forward, right? 458 01:19:25,180 --> 01:19:29,940 but the chain goes backwards to his mother and to his grandmother 459 01:19:29,940 --> 01:19:32,860 and, in fact, all the way back to the book of Deuteronomy. 460 01:19:32,860 --> 01:19:38,220 And you find this picture of generational faith. 461 01:19:38,220 --> 01:19:43,720 Lois, we never saw the result. 462 01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:47,800 And maybe we never see the impact of our faith in this picture. 463 01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:49,780 It does not mean we're not changing generations. 464 01:19:49,780 --> 01:19:52,820 Legacy is rarely visible in the moment. 465 01:19:54,260 --> 01:20:00,440 We don't always have to see the heart of this in order to keep the belief that we trust in God and in our sin. 466 01:20:00,440 --> 01:20:03,860 And some of us are pouring out faithfully. 467 01:20:03,860 --> 01:20:06,180 And you're not seeing any fruit. 468 01:20:06,180 --> 01:20:10,520 You've planted seeds that haven't come up like that. 469 01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:16,440 You wonder what's happening when God honors faithfulness. 470 01:20:16,440 --> 01:20:20,380 His faithfulness in their lives in God. 471 01:20:22,620 --> 01:20:26,120 Let me zoom out just for a moment on this entire story. 472 01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:32,080 If you go back to Deuteronomy chapter 6, God will tell his people, teach your children. 473 01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:35,880 Talk about my words when you sit, when you walk, when you lie down. 474 01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:41,960 When you go to sleep, when you get up, write them on your hands, put them on your gates, put them on your front door. 475 01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:46,620 And for centuries, imperfectly, exactly that. 476 01:20:46,620 --> 01:20:49,840 Right, some faithfully, some incredibly unfaithfully. 477 01:20:50,260 --> 01:20:57,000 But through that time, there is a chain that runs of faithfulness to the promises and the commands of God. 478 01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:05,040 Generation after generation, in exile and in return, through occupation, through oppression, through silence and through waiting. 479 01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:09,660 And then you come, in the book of Acts, to a small town called Lystra. 480 01:21:09,660 --> 01:21:17,520 And a Jewish woman named Judas marries a Greek man, and they have a baby, but they're not necessarily tiny. 481 01:21:20,260 --> 01:21:23,700 Faith comes not from both parents, but from one. 482 01:21:23,700 --> 01:21:27,120 Grandmother Lois keeps teaching the Scriptures. 483 01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:32,400 Grandmother Eunice keeps living out her faith in ways that often aren't easy or simple 484 01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:34,900 in a household where circumstances aren't ideal. 485 01:21:34,900 --> 01:21:37,280 And then one day a preacher comes to town. 486 01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,040 He gets stoned from what they think to death. 487 01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:43,280 God protects him. 488 01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:45,060 He gets up and walks back into town. 489 01:21:45,060 --> 01:21:48,420 And then leaves. 490 01:21:50,020 --> 01:21:57,220 And that little boy grows up, and the next time Paul comes to town, however many years later, 491 01:21:57,220 --> 01:22:02,780 he sees this young man, and he sees something with him, and he says, come with me, and he does. 492 01:22:02,780 --> 01:22:08,380 And Timothy becomes Paul's most trusted co-laborer in the history of the early church. 493 01:22:08,380 --> 01:22:10,500 Paul writes him two letters. 494 01:22:10,500 --> 01:22:13,000 Now think about those two letters. 495 01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:13,820 They get carried. 496 01:22:13,820 --> 01:22:15,680 They get copied. 497 01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:16,660 They get preserved. 498 01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:20,440 They're collected into the canon of Scripture. 499 01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:24,280 That canon of Scripture survives the Roman Empire. 500 01:22:24,280 --> 01:22:26,480 It survives the Middle Ages. 501 01:22:26,480 --> 01:22:29,140 It moves through history, the Reformation. 502 01:22:29,140 --> 01:22:32,960 It crosses oceans, and it arrives in Virginia. 503 01:22:32,960 --> 01:22:35,000 And here we sit on a Sunday morning. 504 01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:40,920 And the impact of the church is going to be one of the most important things. 505 01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:50,360 In those moments where it feels like our labor is throwing seeds in the fields 506 01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:58,180 that will never sprout, to understand that Lois is faithfully planted in the Word of God 507 01:22:58,180 --> 01:23:00,780 in a thousand years, in a harvest. 508 01:23:00,780 --> 01:23:10,000 They didn't see it in their life, maybe not in ours, but in God's grace. 509 01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:14,120 That's the end of the story. 510 01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:20,720 It's our faith. 511 01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:21,620 It's our faith. 512 01:23:21,620 --> 01:23:24,000 It's our faith. 513 01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:27,880 That's the reality, I think. 514 01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:31,780 We have to be willing to take off of it. 515 01:23:31,780 --> 01:23:33,160 To address our struggles. 516 01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:36,700 But also to listen to what God says. 517 01:23:36,700 --> 01:23:42,060 We have to be willing to hear those answers in our questions. 518 01:23:42,280 --> 01:24:12,260 Thank you. 519 01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:34,220 I want you to understand the power of the gospel. 520 01:24:34,220 --> 01:24:40,780 The question is not, again, isn't Lois and Judas, aren't they impressive? 521 01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:46,820 will it pour out of me 522 01:24:46,820 --> 01:24:47,760 not just 523 01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:49,880 in the areas where everybody sees 524 01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:50,920 but when I get the moment 525 01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:52,480 I'm surprised 526 01:24:52,480 --> 01:24:55,460 I'm struggling with my trust 527 01:24:55,460 --> 01:24:58,940 I'm struggling with my trust 528 01:24:58,940 --> 01:25:00,500 I'm struggling with my trust 529 01:25:01,780 --> 01:25:03,980 Father in heaven 530 01:25:03,980 --> 01:25:05,680 and I thank you for your grace 531 01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:11,080 may you encourage our hearts today 532 01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:11,880 that are so often 533 01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:35,720 We're going to stand. 534 01:25:41,880 --> 01:26:00,260 When this life of trials tests my faith, I set my hope on Jesus. 535 01:26:00,260 --> 01:26:10,140 When the questions come and doubts remain, I set my hope on Jesus. 536 01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:15,740 For the deepest wounds the time won't heal 537 01:26:15,740 --> 01:26:20,000 There's a joy that runs still deeper 538 01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:25,700 There's a truth that's more than all I feel 539 01:26:25,700 --> 01:26:29,880 I set my hope on Jesus 540 01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:35,620 I set my hope on Jesus 541 01:26:35,620 --> 01:26:41,640 My rock, my only trust 542 01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:46,700 Who set his heart upon me first 543 01:26:46,700 --> 01:26:50,620 I set my hope upon Jesus 544 01:26:50,620 --> 01:27:03,420 Though I falter in this war with sin 545 01:27:03,420 --> 01:27:07,680 I set my hope on Jesus 546 01:27:07,680 --> 01:27:13,580 When I feel the fight in sync with Him 547 01:27:13,580 --> 01:27:17,600 I set my hope on Jesus 548 01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:23,040 Though the shame would drown me in its sea 549 01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:27,660 And I drain the wave of justice 550 01:27:27,660 --> 01:27:32,580 I will cast my life on country 551 01:27:32,580 --> 01:27:36,660 I set my hope on Jesus 552 01:27:36,660 --> 01:27:43,020 I set my hope on Jesus 553 01:27:43,020 --> 01:27:47,840 My God, my only trust 554 01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:53,360 You set His heart upon me first 555 01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:56,900 I set my hope on Jesus 556 01:28:02,580 --> 01:28:32,560 Thank you. 557 01:28:32,580 --> 01:28:33,760 Oh, Jesus. 558 01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:39,280 Though this heart of mine is prone to stray, 559 01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:44,440 give me grace enough to finish. 560 01:28:44,440 --> 01:28:49,900 Until I worship on that final day, 561 01:28:49,900 --> 01:28:54,100 I set my hope on Jesus. 562 01:28:54,100 --> 01:28:59,660 I set my hope on Jesus. 563 01:29:00,440 --> 01:29:04,840 My rock, my only trust 564 01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:09,800 You set His heart upon me first 565 01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:13,840 I set my hope on Jesus 566 01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:19,300 I set my hope on Jesus 567 01:29:19,300 --> 01:29:24,640 My rock, my only trust 568 01:29:24,640 --> 01:29:29,620 You set His heart upon me first 569 01:29:29,620 --> 01:29:33,460 I set my hope on Jesus 570 01:29:33,460 --> 01:29:38,440 I set my hope on Jesus 571 01:29:59,620 --> 01:30:06,200 Next Sunday, our normal time, also in the entryway, there are flowers and pots for all the ladies. 572 01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:09,600 So grab one as you're heading out. 573 01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:15,380 Take those home, and may they write and encourage you. 574 01:30:15,380 --> 01:30:17,400 We're going to have a quick word of prayer. 575 01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:21,920 We'll read a verse, and then we will meet his Father in heaven. 576 01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:23,280 Thank you for Jesus. 577 01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:25,700 Thank you for how you care for us. 578 01:30:26,860 --> 01:30:33,880 Thank you for these examples of everyday faithfulness, in fact, in generation after generation. 579 01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:40,180 May by your grace and glory and glory, the work of your spirit, may you make that a reality. 580 01:30:40,180 --> 01:30:43,240 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 581 01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:46,580 Deuteronomy chapter 7 says this, 582 01:30:46,580 --> 01:30:56,360 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his covenant and steadfast love for those who love him. 583 01:30:56,860 --> 01:31:00,200 He keeps his commandments to a thousand generations. 584 01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:03,660 So as we prepare to leave this morning, 585 01:31:03,660 --> 01:31:08,320 may the God who keeps his steadfast love to a thousand generations, 586 01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:13,220 may he make his faith at home in you, 587 01:31:13,220 --> 01:31:17,480 may the sincerity of your faith come not from our own strength, 588 01:31:17,480 --> 01:31:20,700 but from his spirit that dwells within us. 589 01:31:22,020 --> 01:31:36,460 So we go in peace with the faithfulness of our covenant. 590 01:31:36,460 --> 01:31:51,980 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. 591 01:31:51,980 --> 01:31:57,060 Praise Him, all creatures here below. 592 01:31:57,060 --> 01:32:03,180 Praise Him, above ye heavenly hosts. 593 01:32:03,180 --> 01:32:08,840 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 594 01:32:33,180 --> 01:33:03,160 Thank you. 595 01:33:03,180 --> 01:33:33,160 Thank you. 596 01:33:33,180 --> 01:34:03,160 Thank you.