Hebrews 4:14-16

Going through the book of Hebrews for quite some time now, I think most of you would probably know the main context of Hebrews.

! Obviously written to a Hebrew audience and talking about how Jesus is better than the Old Covenant.

He's the fulfillment of the Old Covenant so that all the priests, sacrifices, everything that came before was a foreshadowing pointing to Christ.

And this writer, whether it be Paul or Apollos or someone else, is writing to these Hebrew believers to help them see that they don't need to go back to the Old Covenant.

Some people are telling them, you need to come back. You need to come back to the law of Moses.

And others may be on defense, and they're trying to figure out which way to kind of jump.

Do we believe Jesus is the Messiah and that He's the fulfillment of these things?

Or do we stay with the idea that the Pharisees and others carry?

And so, it's addressing all these things.

So, we pick up today in verse 14 of chapter 4.

It says,

Let us then, with confidence, draw near to the throne of grace,

that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Just join me in prayer.

Lord, we are very grateful that we have an eternal, perfect High Priest that stands between us and Your holiness.

That we can draw near with assurance and confidence to You because of Him.

And during this time, I pray that Your Spirit would be our teacher,

that You would help us to hear the Word, believe the Word, and apply Your Word to our lives.

That You would just meet us wherever we are in a state of doing very well and confident,

or someone who is very downtrodden and discouraged.

That You would just apply Your Word where needed.

That You would just be honored.

That Jesus would just be clearly seen.

We just ask that in His name. Amen.

So, our passage today has a lot of really awesome things to look at, as always.

But today, I want to focus in on this idea of confidence.

Confidence to face God one day and to stand before God one day.

And even now, while we're in this life, to have confidence before God.

Would some of you say that, in general, you lack confidence?

Just in general, in an earthly manner.

You lack self-confidence just to face the world around you.

Maybe it's like social situations where you go to a party, or a wedding, or a family gathering, or a job interview,

and you just shut down.

Like, you have no confidence just to face people around you.

You're terrified of being for someone looking at you and then evaluating you and finding you lacking in some way.

And so, you struggle with anxiety and self-doubt and uncertainty.

You lack just confidence to face the normal, everyday things.

And all of that is just a part of the human story, to some degree, of just originating in sin.

So, don't worry.

This isn't a self-help, get-some-confidence kind of message at all.

You're the wrong place to hear that.

On the other hand, a lot of pop psychology therapists, psychiatrists, they all understand why there are such things as guilt and shame and anxiety.

They understand those things.

And they'll say, like, well, you know, it came from your childhood.

You were treated really harshly, and therefore you carry a very low self-esteem, and that's why you have anxiety.

But the problem is, they can't answer the question of, like, why did those things exist?

Why do things like anxiety even exist?

And self-doubt and fear, like, where do they come from?

They can't really understand the source of those things.

And we have the answer.

It's sin.

And others of us here may be on the other side of it, where we're very confident, very assertive.

We think that there's nothing that we can't face that we can't overcome, and we have a track record of accomplishments to kind of show us that.

You're not very timid.

You feel like you're sort of invincible.

And our culture kind of breeds this kind of confidence in a lot of ways.

We make people want to think that way.

There are people who climb Mount Everest or won some championship fight or competition, engineering the world's greatest structures and machines and generals that have conquered empires, etc.

Just a very strong confidence that you think that you think that you can do anything.

But whether you're lacking confidence or you have a kind of a false self-confidence, all of us need to ask this question.

Like, in this very hour, would you lack confidence to stand and approach a holy, majestic, sovereign God?

And the truth is, even the most confident of you would shriek.

Like, you would be decimated.

You would fall apart in terror.

No argument you would bring to the throne and no sacrifice would be enough at all to make you stand before God that you would bring on your own account.

We read in Scripture a lot of stories of very, like, moral, upright, good men, better than any of us, who were all of a sudden taken into God's presence.

Isaiah, Isaiah, John, these men who knew God and worshipped God, but when they were faced with, like, the burning presence of God's holiness, they were, they couldn't even lift their head.

And they were decimated by fear.

And that's how it is.

A lot of the people in this world who don't know God, I've met some before, maybe you have, they think they're just going to, like, walk up to God one day and just say,

Hey, I'm not afraid of you.

Like, here's kind of the deal.

And Psalm 68 has something very scary to say.

It talks about God's enemies.

And it says,

They will flee before Him.

As smoke is driven away, they shall be driven away.

Listen to this.

As wax melts before a fire, so the wicked shall perish before God.

They won't stand.

Like, even the most confident of us will be decimated.

So, what kills our confidence to face God?

Well, in general, there's a deeper spiritual answer.

It's sin.

But what decimates our confidence in a lot of ways is guilt and shame.

Real things that are born out of sin.

There's one writer I like that said this.

He said,

Guilt and shame are twins.

Born in the Garden of Eden.

Only moments apart.

And even though they're twins, they are not identical.

Guilt is usually tied to an event.

And it says,

You did something bad.

Shame is tied to a person.

And it says,

I am bad.

Guilt is the wound.

And shame is the scar.

When you violate God's laws and rebel against Him, you feel guilt.

And that emotion is simultaneously joined by shame.

Guilt says you did something wrong.

Shame says that's why you need to hide.

You're no good.

You deserve to live in darkness.

That's like how those two are kind of tied together.

So, they will steal your confidence before God.

And even as believers who have already given our lives to Christ and had our sins forgiven and paid for,

we still struggle with guilt and shame a lot.

And that's a gospel issue that we have to keep coming back to.

But our writer today, he gives us a few things to hold on to.

If you look at verse 14, it says,

Hold fast.

So, grasp on to this for dear life.

Hold on to these things tightly.

And a right understanding about what I'm about to say will give you confidence to approach God's throne.

All right?

So, I'm going to break this down in three different ways.

But hold fast to these things.

The first one is, hold fast.

Jesus is our great high priest.

Verse 14.

Since then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens.

Jesus, the Son of God.

Let us hold fast our confession.

This isn't the first time this idea of Jesus being the high priest has been introduced in this book.

Usually, someone would have just read this straight through.

They would have just, you know, broken it up into chapters and verses.

But the point being, Aaron and his descendants in Levitical priesthood were only serving an earthly copy or shadow of what's in heaven.

They fell short in many ways.

They only could carry out their duties in a physical thing like the tabernacle or the temple.

But they were a picture of what is like in heaven.

And God temporarily appointed these sacrifices and these priests to be a substitute that he just put up with by his mercy, right?

That we're going to point to a greater fulfillment in Christ.

But no earthly priest ever has ascended into heaven.

No earthly priest has gone before God's actual throne in heaven and made intercession for sinners.

They all tasted death.

And they can't continue in their office.

And they were sinful, so they couldn't become a sacrifice for other sinners.

They fell short in so many ways.

And I wanted to share with you probably my favorite word in the book of Hebrews.

And oddly enough, it's not a word that's even in our text.

But it's used in chapter 2 of Hebrews.

Hebrews 2:10

Chapter 2, verse 10.

And then the very well-known Hebrews 12, verse 2.

Hebrews 12:2

And the word is archegos.

Archegos.

One of those words I think I know how to say okay.

It's such an amazing word.

Just dive into this word.

It's got a really rich history.

William Tyndale, who first, well, one of the first to translate the Bible into English,

was a master of language and words.

And when he was studying this, it was a word that he really took a lot out of.

So that phrase in Hebrews 12 that we know,

Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith,

he was the first one to actually write that in English.

And it was from the archegos that he got that from.

But what it means is a leader, a prince,

someone who goes before others and affords an example,

a pioneer, someone who kind of goes and clears the way for others to follow.

And kind of a picture, if you would, like an elite military group kind of going through the jungle.

And all of a sudden, they reach this huge canyon they can't really get across.

There's no way around it.

There's no time.

And so this one guy is kind of the leader of the group, says,

I got this.

And he figures out a way to get a line over across that little ravine.

And he ties it to a tree on the other side.

And he crosses over himself first.

And it secures everything and makes it safe.

And then he says, come on, you guys follow me.

Like after that.

That's sort of a picture of the archegos.

And even though it's not mentioned in this text, the principle of it is applied all throughout Hebrews.

This idea that Jesus did a work and that he prepared the way for a lot of other people to follow him.

Right?

That's kind of where we get this.

And example in Hebrews chapter 2, it says,

Hebrews 2 · chapter mention

But just keep that word in your head throughout our study of Hebrews.

And I'm sure we'll dive into it more in Hebrews chapter 12.

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

But in our text, it gives us this idea that even though all the other priests of the Old Testament have died,

never to live again in this life, it's over because Jesus put them out of business.

He is the final high priest between God and man.

And as Hebrews 7.16 says,

He has his priesthood by an indestructible life.

Such awesome.

Our lives are so destructible.

We fall apart so easy.

Can you imagine having a life that is indestructible?

And Christ is our indestructible high priest.

It says in our text that he passed through the heavens,

which calls to mind his ascension that his followers witnessed in Acts chapter 1.

Acts 1 · chapter mention

It says,

When he had said these things, as they were looking on,

he was lifted up and a cloud took him out of their sight.

He ascended into heaven through the clouds into the very presence of God.

And so before Christ, the holiest place was in the temple,

in the Holy of Holies, where a priest would only enter once a year, right,

to make atonement and make intercession for the people.

But Jesus didn't ascend into an earthly copy like the temple.

I think if any of you ever get a chance,

we have a lot of people here who have been to Jerusalem.

My favorite thing to go and see would probably be like the,

what's left over of the temple mount.

And just see, that's all that's left of that temple.

It's like, what clearer way could God say,

this is over.

No more.

There's a,

we are now the temple of the Holy Spirit.

And Jesus didn't ascend into an earthly copy,

but he ascended into heaven itself.

He passed through the heavens.

In chapter 9, verse 24, it says,

For Christ has entered,

not into holy places made with hands,

which are copies of the true things,

but into heaven itself,

and now appears in the presence of God on our behalf.

Where our high priest lives right now,

this very minute,

he has immediate access to God day and night.

In chapter 7, verse 25, it says,

He always lives to make intercession for us.

Because of the sin, we need someone to be our advocate.

We need someone to make intercession on our behalf to a holy God.

And also, in verse 14,

we see that Jesus is the Son of God.

So, point being,

he's not just some creature that's been exalted to a heavenly place.

He's the divine Son of God that created all things.

I read about that in chapter 1,

if you want to go back and look.

He's the divine Son of God that created all things.

He's perfect in every way.

And that's why his sacrifice matters so much.

That's why God can look at that and accept it.

So, when Jesus goes into that place,

he doesn't take the blood of lambs or bulls or goats.

He takes his own body, his own blood.

And when God looks at that,

he says,

That's enough.

The debt's been paid,

and my righteousness is vindicated.

Because of the weight of that sacrifice.

Nothing that we could ever produce.

So, God overlooks our sins

so that we can come into God's presence

because of our great high priest

who gave us his own blood

so that we can stand in that place with him.

And he always lives forever,

making intercession for us.

So,

that's number one.

Number two,

hold fast.

Jesus is our sympathetic high priest.

Verse 15,

For we do not have a high priest

who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,

but one who in every respect

has been tempted as we are.

So,

this would be huge in the Greco-Roman world

because they had this idea

that God

was

apothea.

He did not have

any kind of emotion

or feeling

like we do

as

human beings.

They thought that

if God did have emotions,

he could be kind of manipulated

to do a certain thing.

You ever

notice that?

You can manipulate people

by getting them to feel

a certain way.

Well,

they thought,

that can't be God.

So,

stoic philosophers

like Seneca,

Emperor Marcus Aurelius,

you know,

gladiator,

they believed that

that was a central attribute

of God,

apothea,

without passion

or suffering,

making him

a very indifferent God,

very stoic God.

And

we also know

that the scripture,

from the scripture,

that the Jews

had a much clearer picture

of who God

actually was.

They knew that he did,

he wasn't void of emotion,

but he was sovereign

and that he was almighty.

So,

yes,

God is God,

but some of you

may think

he still has no idea

like what I'm actually

going through,

how terrible

life is down here

and all the

weaknesses

that come in this life.

Some of you

are in great weakness

right now.

He has no idea,

God has no idea

what pain

or abandonment

or suffering

or hardship,

he doesn't know

what that's like.

So,

you know,

people kind of push

God aside

because of that.

But we read

in our text

that Jesus

is very,

very sympathetic

towards our position.

and why is that?

How is that?

Because Christ

is the divine

Son of God,

but he was made

a man.

We read in

John chapter 1,

John 1 · chapter mention

in the beginning

was the Word,

the Word was with God

and the Word,

the Lagos,

was God.

further down,

and the Word

became flesh

and dwelt

among us.

And we have

seen his glory,

the glory

as the only

Son of the Father

full of grace

and truth.

So we know

that he was divine

and we know

that he was fully

man at the same time.

But we know

that he didn't

account his equality

with God

as something

to be held on to.

But he came down

and emptied himself

taking on the form

of a servant

in the likeness

of man.

He became a living,

breathing man

just like

us.

He took on

human flesh,

emotions,

and all its

inherent weaknesses.

He didn't just

imagine how we feel,

he actually experienced

how we feel.

Huge difference.

He sympathizes

with us,

he's tasted

our struggles.

When you read

the Gospels,

you'll just

watch the interactions

that he has

with people.

Jesus suffered

emotionally,

greatly.

Weeping,

persecution,

rejected,

grief,

anguish.

Isaiah calls him

the man of sorrows.

Like he defined

what sorrow was.

So,

if that's how you feel,

he can relate.

Physically,

he grew hungry,

he grew fatigued,

he got tired,

he had to eat,

he felt physical pain,

he was whipped,

and killed,

and beaten,

and then we know

that he was tempted

by all the forces

of evil,

even by Satan

himself.

He was tempted

to turn down

power,

prestige,

indulgence of

natural desires

on his way

to the cross.

You realize

he could have had

a hundred different

ways out

if he really

had desired,

he could have

just backed out,

but he didn't.

He chose to honor

his father

and chose to

save us.

He lived as a child,

lived as a boy,

and then also

as a man.

He covered

that whole sphere.

So,

some people

catch this.

Yes,

he endured

all that we endured

for his,

you know,

30-ish years,

but he was tempted

just like we're tempted,

but yet,

it says,

without sin.

So,

he never caved in,

he never broke

to sinful temptation.

It's helpful

to be reminded

of that.

Just to be tempted

does not mean

you've sinned.

You don't cross

into it.

You're being

allured by it,

but by God's grace,

you can turn

away from it.

So,

Jesus was tempted

in every way

we are,

yet without sin.

Peter wrote,

Jesus committed

no sin,

neither was any

deceit found

in his mouth.

When he was reviled,

that's the worst,

when he was reviled,

he did not revile

in return,

and when he suffered,

he did not threaten,

but continued

entrusting himself

to him

who judges justly.

So,

Jesus endured

all these things,

but did not sin.

A lot of wise people

throughout the history

of the church

have pointed out

that

this makes

like Jesus'

temptations

not weaker

than ours,

but stronger

than ours.

So,

one of those men,

C.S. Lewis,

in his book

Mere Christianity,

written not too long

after the Second World War

in 1952,

talks about this

idea of temptation

in regard to Christ.

He says,

no man knows

how bad he is

until he has

tried very hard

to be good.

A silly idea

is current

that good people

do not know

what temptation means.

This is

an obvious lie.

Only those

who try to resist

temptation

know how strong

it is.

After all,

you find the strength

of the German army,

because they just

fought the German army,

by fighting against it,

not by giving in

to it.

You find out

the strength

of the wind

by trying to walk

against it,

not by laying down.

A man who gives

into temptation

after five minutes

simply does not know

what it would have

been like

an hour later.

This is why

bad people,

in one sense,

know very little

about badness.

They have lived

a sheltered life

by always giving in.

We never find

our strength

of the evil

impulse inside us

until we try

to fight it.

And Christ,

because he was

the only man

who never yielded

to temptation,

is also the only man

who knows

to the full

what temptation

really means.

The only

complete realist.

So,

my analogy

is I like to go

to the gym

and work out,

can't you tell?

But one of my

favorite things

to do to meet

new guys

and have gospel

conversations

at the gym

is just to walk

in the middle

of these guys

that are just

enormous,

lifting these huge

dumbbells

and barbells.

And I met

one guy,

he's with the

Hall County SWAT team,

so he's pretty jacked.

But I actually

met him because

he was just lifting

some serious weights.

I think he had

almost every weight

on the little thing

on his bar.

he just did a set

and he was doing

like the catching.

I just kind of

walked up beside him

and I reached down

and I didn't even

know him

and I was like,

and he was like

going,

and I was like,

man,

I don't want to

show you up

and I just walked

away.

but that's like

how I met him.

But,

example

with weights,

you know,

I can bench press

my weight,

which isn't that bad.

But,

there's no way

I could like

take the full weight

of like what is

actually on

that little weight

holder thing.

I don't even know

what it's called.

I look at that

and I'm like,

yeah,

I couldn't bear

all that.

So,

I don't really know

like how much

weight that really is

because I've never

done it.

If I did,

it would just

pin me and kill me.

And,

but,

like a guy

like my buddy

can pick up

that whole thing

though.

So,

it is sort of

a little

silly picture

of what it's like

with us.

We can only

do so much

and then we break.

We capitulate

before we feel

the final

full assault

of what sin is.

We cave in

very easily.

But,

Jesus

endured

the full

pressure

of temptation.

A lifetime

of it.

A whole lifetime

of it.

And then it

climaxed.

It even got

worse

at the

spectacular

abuse

and abandonment

that he faced

at the cross

and the passion

that he had

in that last

week.

So,

he is capable

of like

unparalleled

sympathy

towards us.

He went

through far

more than

any of you

have

and far

more than

all of us

combined.

And because

of that,

I know

deep down

a lot of

is to say,

I just want

somebody to

understand me.

Like,

I get they

can tell me

truth and I

get they can

tell me the

right thing to

do,

but I

just don't

care.

I want

someone who

knows what

it's like,

who's been

there.

You might

have the

privilege of

doing that,

but you

might not.

You just

need to

listen to

truth sometimes.

But,

you do in

Christ.

He knows.

He knows

what it's

like.

No one

suffered more

or endured

more abuse.

No one

deserved it

less or had

some reason

to fight back

than him.

We read

earlier,

just hold

your place.

Look at

chapter 2.

Rewind

Hebrews 2

Hebrews 2:17

verse 17.

Hebrews

Hebrews 2:17

chapter 2

verse 17.

Nathan

kind of,

I think,

preached on

this and

nailed the

same idea

pretty well.

Hebrews 2

Hebrews 2:17

verse 17

says,

See that?

There's the

grounds of

his sympathy.

He's been

there.

And if

you're getting

wiped out,

getting your

clock cleaned

by sin

and temptation,

he can

help you.

He knows

what it's

like.

He's

sympathetic

towards where

you are.

And so

right now,

if you look

back in

Hebrews 4,

we can go

to him

in prayer

right now

and just

say,

get me

through this.

Pray for

deliverance

from temptation

and he

will do

it.

I remember

one time

I was being

tempted to

do something

I shouldn't

do and I

just cried

out loud,

like,

Lord,

everything in

me right

now wants

to do

this.

But I

know that

you created

me and

you have

power over

everything

that's in

me.

So help

me in

this moment

deny what

this wants

and to

endure.

And I'm

telling you,

he delivers.

He can

sustain you.

He understands.

He can help

those who are

being

tempted.

He's

tasted our

struggle,

like it

says,

in every

respect.

So this

has meaning

for us

right now,

like in

the present

as believers

that can

go to

God in

prayer and

get help

and deliverance

from our

sin and

temptation.

But it

also has a

great future

meaning that

when we stand

before God

one day,

we're standing

with a high

priest who

knows,

again,

like where

we're coming

from.

He knows.

Have you

experienced that

deliverance

before?

Have you

watched and

prayed that

you didn't

fall into

temptation?

Most of

us don't

even want to

put up a

fight where

it's like,

okay,

and we

break and

give in.

But Jesus

can sustain

you,

and He

has.

Thirdly,

and lastly,

back in

chapter 4,

verse 16,

number 3,

hold fast.

Jesus,

our high

priest,

gives us

confidence.

Jesus,

our high

priest,

gives us

confidence.

Verse 16,

let us

then,

with confidence,

draw near to the

throne of grace,

that we may

receive mercy

and find grace

to help in

time of need.

Something I

learned in my

studies was this

word confidence

has a great

usage in

classical Greek

literature that

denotes free

and open

speech between

citizens with

one another.

Free and

open speech of

citizens with

one another.

But the

Greeks never

used it to

apply to having

free and open

speech with a

deity like

Zeus or

Athena.

It was never

applied in that

context.

But what's

really cool is

the writer of

Hebrews took

that word and

he applied it to

a relationship

with God.

We can have

free and open

speech before

God.

Don't run too

far with that.

Like freedom of

the press kind

of stuff.

That's not what

it means.

It just means

that we can

speak honestly

to God with

reverence and

we can pour

out our hearts

before him.

And the

real blunt

term is frank

boldness,

an outpouring of

our heart to

God.

We can

confidently

approach him

and speak

with him.

Because of

Christ,

our high

priest,

we can

receive mercy

and find

grace to

help in

time of

need.

So,

question,

where does

your confidence

to face

God one

day come

from?

Church

attendance,

doing good

works,

giving generously,

being a good

moral person,

not going to

cut it.

The last

place I want

you to look

is just in

our Hebrews

as well,

everything in

Hebrews

today.

Hebrews

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention

chapter 10,

we'll get

there eventually.

Hebrews

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention

chapter 10,

just flip over

to verse 19.

Here's another

picture of what

we're talking

about.

10,

19,

says,

therefore,

brothers,

since we have

confidence to

enter the

holy places

by the blood

of Jesus,

by the new

and living way

that He opened

for us,

through the

curtain,

that is,

through His

flesh,

and since we

have a great

priest over the

house of God,

here's the same

kind of language,

let us draw

near with a

true heart

and full

assurance of

faith,

with our

hearts sprinkled

clean from an

evil conscience

and our bodies

washed with

pure water.

So,

Christ's

blood,

the torn

curtain

of the

temple at

that time,

and Christ's

great sympathetic

high priestly

work is our

confidence and

our assurance

to stand before

God one

day.

So,

get this in

your head.

Our

confidence and

our assurance

to approach

God is

created by

realizing we

have access

to Him,

not because of

anything in us

or anything we've

done.

Throw that

away.

The confidence

that we need

is created by

realizing that

Christ has done

the work for

us and that we

are found in

Him, not by

something that

you have

done.

So, it's not

self-confidence,

it's Christ's

confidence.

So, we can

stand in God's

presence again

with full

assurance,

not because we

paid our dues

and we approved

our mettle to

God, but because

Christ has

done all that

is required

to help us

stand there.

So, if you

want to face

God's judgment

one day, you

want to approach

the throne,

like now,

freely, but

also in the

future, to

have fear, a

reverent fear

of God, but

to approach

with confidence,

you have to

realize that

that's based on

your acceptance

in Christ and

not anything you

bring at all.

God's love.

It's all about

Jesus being our

eternal high

priest.

High priest

language may

sound really

foreign to you,

right?

But, point

being, you

need someone to

go and stand

between you and

a holy God,

because you're not

going to be able to

do it on your

own, and Jesus

is that person.

So, imagine

yourself in a

context like

Isaiah, where

he was facing

the throne of

God, or John

in Revelation

4, where he

looks upon this

throne that has

lightning around

it and peals of

thunder, tying to

what Paul said,

he lives in

unapproachable

light, God

does.

And, you're

lying on your

face in terror,

afraid to

approach and

ascend those

stairs to stand

before God.

You see the

cherubim and

other creatures

singing the

praises of God,

and you're

terrified.

You think, if I

approach that

throne, I am

done.

I'm finished.

I'm too sinful.

I'm not

confident.

And then you

feel like a

real strong

but gentle

hand come on

you, and you

look up and you

see the radiant

face of the

Son of God, and

he says, you're

right, if you

approach that

throne by

yourself, you're

finished.

But I know, like

the dark world

that you came

from, I've been

there, I've

tasted it, I

know, I

understand your

weakness, but

if you've given

your life to

me, you won't

be consumed

before this

throne, and my

father won't be

dishonored.

If you come

through me, he

will not turn

me away, so he

will accept you.

He won't only

accept you, but

he'll bring you

into his family

and love you and

make you one of

his own.

So come with me

and approach this

throne of grace

with confidence,

only through

Jesus.

that's our hope,

and that's where

our confidence is

founded in his

work.

But he

understands our

weakness, he

gets it.

So no matter

what you're going

through, he's

been there, he

understands.

So go to him

now and ask for

the grace to

endure whatever it

is, and he will

help you.

Let's go to the

Lord in prayer.