1 Corinthians 15:12-28

We've looked at man as ruler, man as ruined, we've looked at the proper man, Jesus Christ.

! This morning we looked at man as renewed, and this evening we're going to look at man as resurrected.

Death, whatever you think or feel about it, you cannot ignore its statistics. One out of one people die.

Yet despite its statistics, it's the most avoided subject in our society. Death is taboo. Nobody wants to talk about it.

Yet the fact is, you can't hide from it, and if you try, it will find you.

As the late Christopher Hitchens said, you don't have to get out of bed for death. Wherever you happen to be, they bring it to you, free.

Death is the all-conquering dictator, which is served by wars, terrorism, murder, its loyal servants are AIDS, cancer, disease, infection.

Nothing and no one escapes its dominion. Death is the ruthless tyrant who comes uninvited into our lives and steals our loved ones, never to return them to us.

The gaping hole in our lives, the unused cot, the empty space at the dinner table, the bed not slept in, are all reminders of its unwelcome visit.

I read last year that for the memorial of those 77 victims of Anders Breivik, they're going to cut a hole right across that little island in Norway.

What a poignant reminder of death's deadly work.

So what then are we to do with this unconquerable enemy called death?

C.S. Lewis said there are only three things you can do with death.

Desire it, fear it, or ignore it.

Some people's approach is to ignore the reality of death and view it simply as a doorway into nothingness.

So Bertland Russell, the British atheistic philosopher, was once asked what he believed would happen to him when he died.

He replied, I believe that when I die, I shall rot.

Richard Dawkins in The God's Illusion writes,

Being dead will be no different from being unborn.

I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror, or the dinosaurs, or the trilobites.

There's nothing to fear in that.

In other words, according to Dawkins and Bertland Russell,

When we die, we will return to the prior state of nothingness, of non-being,

just like all the other potential non-being people who were never born.

Others remain agnostic about death.

Sam Harris, one of the new atheist clans, says,

He doesn't know what he believes about death.

Quote, I'm not pretending to know that you get a dial tone after death, he says.

I don't know what happens after the physical brain dies.

End quote.

The Christian approach to death is neither pessimistic or agnostic.

The Christian approach to death is optimistic.

Because while death may be an enemy to the human race,

it is a wounded enemy.

And one day, it will die.

Death will surrender its dead.

Jackie and I traveled to Germany a number of years ago,

and we went to the city of Wittenberg.

And we walked down the cobbled streets from the church where Martin Luther

nailed the 95 Theses to the door.

And we went to the church where Luther preached regularly.

It wasn't actually the church where he nailed the Theses to the door.

It was St. Mary's down the other end of Wittenberg.

And I wanted to go to this church not just to see the building and the pulpit in which Luther preached,

but I wanted to go for another reason.

And I walked to the front of the pulpit and then moved round to the right,

and there was the thing that I wanted to see.

A headstone to Magdalena Luther.

Luther lost his daughter when she was 14 years old.

He spent the final hours with her by her bedside.

He told her that she was about to go and be with God.

And then when she finally died,

it is reported that Luther broke down with inconsolable sobbing.

And as they placed his daughter's body in that coffin,

Luther stood on the other side of the door.

And as he heard the nails being driven into the coffin,

he shouted to the undertaker,

She will rise at the last day.

And then by her grave later that day,

he said,

There is a resurrection of the body.

How can a man like Luther have such confidence?

Is this blind faith, as the atheists tell us?

Has his reason lost, left him?

She was dead.

And yet he shouts from the other side of the door,

She will rise at the last day.

How could Luther have such courage

in the face of this great enemy called death?

Well, the answer lies in our passage this evening.

In 1 Corinthians 15,

Paul is writing to a church

that no longer believed in the future resurrection of the dead.

Teaching had infiltrated this church

that there was just a true spiritual state

that could be achieved this side of death.

An angelic existence,

which meant that the body was unnecessary and unwanted.

And if you could reach this true spiritual state in this life,

then who cared whether there was a resurrection of the dead or not?

And so Paul addresses this question head on

in 1 Corinthians 15, 12 to 28.

Will there be a future resurrection of the dead?

Now it's important to note what the Corinthians were not denying.

They were not denying the resurrection of Jesus.

They were denying the resurrection of the dead.

Their problem was not with the first resurrection.

Their problem was with the future resurrection.

And Paul answers their question

over whether or not there will be a future resurrection

by doing two things.

He first of all plays along

with the hypothetical scenario

that the dead are not raised.

That's the first thing he does.

He plays along with the hypothetical scenario

that the dead are not raised.

That's verses 13 to 19.

And then in verses 20 to 28,

he argues for the real scenario,

the true scenario,

that the dead will be raised.

So let's look at the first scenario,

the hypothetical scenario.

What if there is no resurrection from the dead?

Verses 13 to 19.

And in this scenario,

Paul basically says,

okay, for the sake of argument,

let's say the dead are not raised.

Let's say the dead are not raised.

And then he makes two points.

First, if we are not raised from the dead,

then not even Christ has been raised from the dead.

If we are not raised from the dead,

then not even Christ has been raised from the dead.

Verses 13, 15, and 16.

His second point is this.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

then we're in big trouble.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

then we're in big trouble.

Verses 14 and 15 and 17 to 19.

And Paul, in verses 13 to 19,

he swings back and forth between these two points.

So in verse 13, he makes the first point.

But if there is no resurrection of the dead,

then not even Christ has been raised.

Then in verses 14 to 15,

he makes the second point.

And if Christ has not been raised,

then our preaching is in vain,

and your faith is in vain.

We are even found to be misrepresenting God

because we testified about God

that he raised Christ,

whom he did not raise,

if it is true that the dead are not raised.

And then he switches back to the first point.

For if the dead are not raised,

not even Christ has been raised.

And then he returns to the second point,

verse 17.

And if Christ has not been raised,

your faith is futile,

and you are still in your sins.

Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ

have perished.

If in this life only we have hoped in Christ,

we are of all people most to be pitied.

So those are Paul's two points

in this hypothetical scenario.

If we are not raised from the dead,

then not even Christ has been raised from the dead.

And if Christ has not been raised from the dead,

then we're in big trouble.

Let's look at both of these points.

If we are not raised from the dead,

then not even Christ has been raised from the dead.

Did you notice the back-to-front logic

in Paul's argument?

He does not say,

if Christ is not raised,

then the dead are not raised.

He doesn't say that.

He says it back-to-front.

He says,

if the dead are not raised,

then not even Christ is raised.

He's working backwards, not forwards.

This is because, remember,

the Corinthians,

they're not denying Christ's resurrection,

the first resurrection.

They're denying the Christian's resurrection,

the future resurrection.

That's why he argues back-to-front.

But the back-to-front logic reveals a key assumption of Paul's,

and it's this,

that there are not two resurrections.

There's only one resurrection,

with two distinct but inseparable moments.

Paul is teaching us that the resurrection is like a coin.

Imagine I had a coin on me this evening,

and I rolled it on this table.

Let's say the head side of the coin was on the left,

and the tail side was on the right,

and I rolled the coin,

and it fell to the left,

to the head side.

What happens to the tail side?

Well, it falls with it.

And what happens if I rolled that coin,

and it fell to the tail side,

to the right?

What happens to the head side?

Well, it falls with it.

Why?

Because there's only one coin,

with two sides.

Two distinct sides,

but they are inseparably connected.

And that is what Paul is teaching us here,

in his logic.

There are not two resurrections.

There's only one resurrection,

with two distinct,

but inseparable moments.

You cannot separate the two sides of a coin,

without creating two separate coins.

And Paul is saying is,

you cannot separate Christ's resurrection,

and the Christian's resurrection,

without creating two entirely different kinds of resurrection.

Paul is saying,

that because Christ has been raised,

we will be raised.

And if we're not going to be raised,

then Christ himself was not even raised.

To deny one of these resurrection episodes,

is to deny the other.

To negate one,

is to negate the other.

To nullify one,

is to nullify the other.

To deny the resurrection of the dead,

is to keep Jesus in the grave.

The one who makes all resurrections possible.

That is Paul's first point in this hypothetical scenario.

If we are not raised from the dead,

then Jesus Christ was never raised from the dead.

Let's go to the second point in that hypothetical scenario.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

then we are in big trouble.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

then we are in big trouble.

Paul gave six consequences,

if Christ has not been raised from the dead.

Just glance down these verses with me.

Verse 14,

Paul's preaching is useless in vain.

Verse 14,

Our faith is useless.

Verse 15,

Paul is a false witness about God.

Verse 17,

Our faith is futile,

and we are still in our sin.

Verse 18,

Christian believers who have died

are lost forever.

They perish.

Verse 19,

We are the most pitiable people on earth.

So those are the six consequences.

Two for gospel ministers,

your preaching is pointless,

and you're a liar.

Four for believers,

our faith is futile,

we're still in our sin.

Those who are already dead are lost eternally,

and of all people on earth,

we are the most to be pitied.

And you can just hear Richard Dawkins and co.

giving a loud amen

to Paul's hypothetical argument,

can't you?

And they would be right, wouldn't they?

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

then we are in big trouble.

But there's a catch.

And I wonder if you've spotted it.

Someone has said that

the resurrection of Jesus from the dead

is the nail upon which

the painting of Christianity hangs.

You know at home you have a painting

or a photograph on the wall.

What is it that keeps that on the wall?

Well, it's the nail in the wall

on which it hangs.

And someone has said that

the resurrection of Jesus Christ

is like that nail in the wall.

Take it out.

What happens to the painting?

Falls to the ground.

But that's the catch.

It falls to the ground.

And what do you have around you?

A smashed painting

with glass around your feet.

The painting,

when you pull the nail out of the wall,

doesn't disappear into thin air.

And Paul's argument is

if Christ has not been raised from the dead,

if you take the nail out of the wall

for the sake of argument,

Paul's point is

you've still got a problem.

Look at verse 15.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

then there is still a God.

We have misrepresented God.

God.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

verse 17,

we are still sinners.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

verse 18,

there's still a hell.

Do you see that?

If you disprove the resurrection,

God doesn't go

and disappear into thin air.

If you disprove the resurrection,

your sin doesn't evaporate.

If you disprove the resurrection,

hell doesn't all of a sudden disappear.

Do you see Paul's point?

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

you are still in big trouble.

Though Paul plays along

with the hypothetical scenario,

he doesn't get rid of his theistic,

moralistic,

life-after-death worldview.

If Christ has not been raised from the dead,

you are not free to do as you choose.

To do as you choose.

You're still in trouble.

Pull the nail out of the wall.

The painting doesn't evaporate.

It falls to the ground

and you've got broken glass

that you need to tidy up.

So next time you're talking

to a non-Christian friend

and they say they don't believe

in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead,

maybe catch them by surprise

and play along with them.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay, let's say Jesus isn't risen from the dead.

What are you going to do about your sin?

Okay, let's say that Jesus isn't risen from the dead.

How are you going to escape hell?

Because just because you prove

that he's not risen from the dead

doesn't mean you've disproved hell

or disproved the existence of God

or disproved your sin.

It's a surprising but powerful apologetic, isn't it?

Well, that's the hypothetical scenario.

In Paul 9, verses 20 to 20,

it turns to the real scenario.

The real scenario.

There is a resurrection from the dead.

And in this real scenario,

like in the hypothetical scenario,

Paul makes two arguments.

Number one,

But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead.

And so we also will be raised from the dead.

But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead.

And so we also will be raised from the dead.

Verses 20 to 22.

Paul states the point emphatically.

But in fact, indeed,

Christ has been raised from the dead.

And then he gives two analogies.

The first is agricultural.

The second is anthropological.

Or the first is agricultural.

And the second is Adam versus Christ.

The agricultural analogy is in verse 20.

But in fact,

Christ has been raised from the dead.

The first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Now the first fruits were not merely a sample

from the whole crop,

but a symbol of the whole crop.

They were the first ripened fruit picked from the crop

as an indication that the rest of the crop was to follow.

So at harvest time,

a farmer would walk down into his field,

into his vineyard,

and he'd look at his grapevines.

And on them,

he would look for the first signs

of a deep purple-colored grape on a bunch.

And when he saw such a grape,

he would pluck it and taste it.

And when he knew that that grape tasted just right,

he knew that the rest of the harvest was coming.

That was the first fruit.

And what did that first fruit symbolize?

Not a sample of the harvest,

but the whole harvest that was coming.

If these first plucked grapes were ready,

then the rest of the bunch would soon be ready.

Why?

Because the first fruits belong to the same crop.

There was an inseparable connection

between the first fruit and the crop.

That's the key to this analogy.

The first fruits represented the whole harvest of that crop.

The farmer didn't pick the grape,

taste it and say,

there's the first fruit,

it's ready,

and then walk two miles down the road

into another field

and start harvesting another crop.

That first fruit was inseparably connected

to that crop in that field.

And that's the field that was going to be harvested.

And that is what this analogy is for.

Christ's resurrection is representative

of our resurrection

because there is this inseparable connection between them.

We're back to the coin.

One coin, two sides.

One resurrection, two moments of the resurrection.

Christ's resurrection, the first fruit,

and then our resurrection.

As our minister in Cambridge put it so well,

he said,

after Christ's resurrection,

it's as if he ran into God's presence,

into his Father's presence,

and said,

I'm here,

and the others are coming.

We're back to that idea of two,

not two resurrections,

one resurrection with two episodes.

And in order to underline the certainty

of the link between Christ's resurrection

and our resurrection,

Paul makes another analogy.

This time,

it's anthropological.

In other words,

this time,

it's about two men,

Adam and Christ.

Verse 21.

And as I read this,

note the little word for that keeps coming up.

Verse 21.

Christ is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

For,

as by a man came death,

by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

For,

as in Adam all die,

so also in Christ

shall all be made alive.

Now,

if we're going to understand these two verses,

boys and girls,

we need to go back to that picture

that I gave you this morning

in Sunday school

and also in church,

of the two giants.

Remember?

You've got these two giants.

Their feet would fill this building.

So they are big,

big giants.

And they've got a belt around their waist.

And they've got little hooks on that belt.

And there are people

hanging on those hooks.

The first giant is Adam.

The second giant

is Jesus Christ.

And when one of those giants

goes for a walk,

what happens to everyone

attached to their belt?

They go with them.

If one of those giants

trips and falls to the ground,

what happens

to those who are attached to the giant?

They fall to the ground.

And what if the second giant

is walking

and he goes somewhere?

What happens to the people

on his belt?

Well,

they go with him.

And what happens

if he trips

and falls to the ground?

Well,

the people on his belt

fall to the ground.

But what happens

if he gets up

after he's fallen?

What happens

to those people?

They get up with him

because they're attached

to his belt.

And that is the picture

that Paul gives us here.

It's a picture

of effectiveness,

of inevitable effectiveness.

As in Adam,

all died.

As all those

attached to Adam's belt

fell with Adam,

so in Christ

all those

attached to his belt

will be made

alive.

Adam and Jesus

are the two great giants

of human history.

What Adam does

affects those

united to him.

And what Jesus does

affects those

united to him.

And this is

an analogy,

a comparison

of effectiveness.

And what Paul is saying,

if Adam's fall

into sin

was so effective

to bring death

to all those

united to him,

how much

more effective

will Christ's

resurrection be

for all those

united to him?

It can't

but not

affect them.

In verse 22,

Paul explains

how each giant

can be so effective.

for as in Adam

all die,

so also

in Christ

shall all

be made alive.

It is

an analogy

of effectiveness.

It's as if

someone has said

to Paul,

Paul,

will there be

a resurrection

from the dead?

And Paul said,

sheesh,

did Adam,

do all

in Adam

die?

Will there be

a resurrection

from the dead?

Did all die

in Adam?

Yes.

Well then,

of course,

there's going to be

a resurrection

of the dead.

Why?

Because all those

united to Christ

will be raised.

That's Paul's

logic.

Just as Adam

was effective

in bringing death

to all,

so Christ

will be effective

in bringing

the resurrection

of the dead

to all

united

to him.

over the years

I have

listened to

various talks

on singleness.

I married

when I was

30 years old

and in my

20s I would

keep hearing

these talks

on singleness

and I was

always fascinated

that Jesus

was upheld

as this

single man,

an example

to me

as a single

man as I

went through

my single

years.

The problem

is that in

1 Corinthians 7

when Paul deals

with singleness

he never talks

about Jesus

Christ as

the example

of singleness.

Who does he

use?

Himself.

Why does Paul

not use Jesus

as an example

of a single

man?

Because he

wasn't a single

man.

He was a

betrothed

man.

Jesus died

as an engaged

man and he

walked out

of the tomb

with his

bride on

his arm.

Just like

the first

Adam fell

into a deep

sleep and

from his

riven side

came his

bride,

so the

second and

last Adam

fell into

a deep

sleep and

from his

riven side

came his

bride.

Jesus didn't

die as a

single man.

He died

as a

betrothed

man.

He died

with us

united to

him.

and he

rose from

the dead

with us

united to

him.

That is

why there

are not

two

resurrections.

There's

only one

with one

episode in

Christ's

resurrection

and another

episode with

our

resurrection.

So that's

the first

point that

Paul makes

in this

real scenario.

Christ has

in fact been

raised from

the dead

and so

we also

will be

raised from

the dead.

And then

his second

point.

When we are

raised from

the dead

the end

will come

and God

will be

all in

all.

When we are

raised from

the dead

the end

will come

and God

will be

all in

all.

Verses

23 to

28.

Paul has

shown us

that there

are two

episodes of

one

resurrection

and that

those two

episodes are

inseparable.

But now

what he shows

us is that

those two

inseparable

episodes are

distinct and

they are

separated with

a time gap.

Look at

verse 23

and 24.

But each

in his own

order.

Christ the

first fruits

then at

his coming.

Do you see

the time gap?

The time

delay?

Then at

his coming

those who

belong to

Christ.

Then comes

the end

when he

delivers the

kingdom of

God to

the Father

after destroying

every rule

and every

authority

and power.

And what is

Jesus doing

in the time

gap between

his resurrection

and our

resurrection?

He's ruling

verse 24.

He is

destroying

every rule

and authority

and power.

Verse 25.

For he

must reign

until he

has put

all his

enemies

under his

feet.

The last

enemy to be

destroyed

is death.

So Christ's

reign now

at the

Father's right

hand is

real but

it is not

yet completely

realized.

Christ's

reign is

current but

is not yet

complete.

he has

all authority

over all

things in

heaven and

on earth

but that

does not

mean that

all opposition

has been

removed including

death itself.

Death

still has

some power

in between

these two

episodes of

the resurrection.

I think the

best way to

illustrate this

is to take

you back to

the Iraq

war.

Do you

remember when

the USA

toppled,

went into

Baghdad,

took control

of Baghdad

and then

they finally

had conquered

the city

of Baghdad

and they

went in

and they

found that

statue of

Saddam Hussein.

Do you

remember standing

with a raised

fist?

And they

put a big

chain around

his head

and they

dragged it

with a

digger and

that big

statue toppled

to the ground.

And in that

place they

raised the

American flag.

There was a

new regime

in Iraq.

There was a

new power

had come

into rule.

It was the

United States

of America.

But did that

mean that all

of Saddam Hussein's

men and all

the opposition

just evaporated?

No.

They just

changed their

strategy.

They went

into guerrilla

warfare and

insurgency

combat.

And there

was years

of fighting

even though

a new regime

had been

established.

And it's

the same

with Christ.

In being

raised from

the dead

God put

Christ in

charge of

a new

world order

that we saw

this morning.

But death

still rages

against that

new world

order.

And Paul

singles out

death as

one of those

powers that

still serves

Satan.

Death is

still fighting.

Death is

still deadly.

It's why it

is called

here the

last enemy.

death.

Jesus is

conquering his

enemies and

the last one

to be defeated

is death.

Christ's

resurrection

dealt a

death blow

to death.

It is

wounded but

it is still

walking around

taking people

with it.

There is a

reaper whose

name is

death and

with his

sickle keen

he reaps

the bearded

grain of

the breath

and the

flowers that

grow between.

And what

Paul presents

us with here

is the

tension,

the now

not yet

tension

between

Christ's

resurrection

and our

resurrection.

And we

must respect

the tension.

I think so

much damage

has been done

at funerals

because pastors

have not

respected the

delay between

these two

resurrection

episodes.

I have heard

at funerals

that Christ

has swallowed

up death

in his

resurrection.

That there

is no longer

a sting

with death.

And I

look at the

mother with

tears rolling

down her

cheeks and

I think I

thought the

sting had been

taken out of

death.

When Paul

speaks it

later in this

chapter of

death being

swallowed up

and the

sting of

death being

conquered,

he's talking

about the

when and

then of

the final

trumpet of

the last

day of

our

resurrection.

And until

then,

death still

stings.

And it

is more

than okay

to cry

about it

because death

is an

enemy.

After Luther

lost his

daughter, he

wrote to a

friend, I

and my

wife should

joyfully give

thanks for

such a

felicious

departure and

blessed end by

which Magdalena

escaped the

power of the

flesh, the

world and the

devil.

Yet the

force of our

natural love

is so great

that we are

unable to do

this without

crying and

grieving in

our hearts

or even

without experiencing

death ourselves.

her features,

her words,

her movements

of the

living and

dying daughter

remain deeply

engraved in

our hearts.

Even the

death of

Christ,

listen to

this,

even the

death of

Christ is

unable to

take all of

this away.

You

therefore give

thanks to

God in

our stead.

had Luther

stopped

believing what

he said

through the

door to the

caretaker?

She will

rise at

the last

day.

Had he

stopped

believing what

he said by

her graveside?

There is a

resurrection of

the dead?

No.

He was

simply

experiencing

the pain

of death.

And didn't

our own

Lord cry at

the grave of

Lazarus?

Even though

he knew he

was about to

raise him

from the

dead.

Death is

an enemy.

It is the

last enemy

to be

destroyed.

And until

then it

will always

hurt.

But,

but,

we do

not mourn

as those

without hope.

Death has

an end.

There was

a man

who felt

the sting

of death.

death,

but

kept

the other

end.

There was

one man

who walked

through the

valley of

the shadow

of death

and heaped

upon himself

all the

shadows of

death

so that we

might come

into the

light of

his resurrection.

There was

one who

clothed

himself in

death

so that we

might be

clothed in

life.

There was

a son

who broke

the winter.

Spring

is on its

way.

There will

be a

resurrection

from the

dead and

there shall

be no

resurrection

for death.

Christ put

death in the

grave and

the sun

will never

rise on

that grave.

Death

will never

see spring.

Death

shall die.

Death

shall know

only its

own winter.

And when

that day

of resurrection

spring finally

comes, it

has not yet

come, when

it finally

comes, when

the resurrection

of the dead

occurs and

death surrenders

its dead to

the living

Christ, then

all things

will be

subject to

Christ.

In

fulfillment

of Psalm

8, look

at verse

27,

for God

has put all

things in

subjection under

his feet, but

when it says

all things are

put in

subjection, that

is Psalm

8, it is

plain that he

is accepted

who put all

things in

subjection under

him, that

is God.

When all

things are

subjected to

God, then

the Son

himself will

also be

subjected to

God, who

put all

things in

subjection

under him, so

that God

may be

all in

all.

God

will be

supreme in

every place

and in

every way

in the

new heavens

and the

new earth.

God

will

simply

be

amazing.

You

think God

is amazing

now?

Just wait

for the

resurrection

of the

dead.

There was

a real

railway

accident,

said Aslan

softly.

Your father

and mother

and all

of you

are, as

you used

to call

it in

the

shadow

lands,

dead.

The

term is

over, the

holidays

have begun,

the dream

is ended,

this is

the morning.

And as

he spoke,

he no

longer looked

to them

like a

lion.

But the

things that

began to

happen after

that were

so great

and beautiful

that I

cannot write

them.

And for

us, this

is the

end of

all the

stories.

And we

can most

truly say

that they

all lived

happily ever

after.

But for

them, it

was only

the beginning

of the

real story.

All their

life in

this world

and all

their

adventures

in Narnia

had only

been the

cover and

the title

page.

Now at

last they

were beginning

chapter one

of the

great story

which no

one on

earth has

read, which

goes on

forever, in

which every

chapter is

better than

the one

before.

Why will

every chapter

be better

than the

one before

after the

resurrection

of the

dead?

Because God

will be

to us

all in

all.

died.

And as

he spoke

he no

longer

looked to

them

like a

lion.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

Let us

pray.

!