All Hail the Power of Jesus | Earth, Wind, & Fire

We continue the sermon series, Earth, Wind, and

Fire, where we're looking at the first eight

chapters of the book of Acts, the start of the

church. And we just sang, again, one of my favorite

hymns, I'll hail the power of Jesus' name. And

power. And as I was trying to write this sermon

this week, that, I almost had the worship team

and the worship group change the hymn because

that word power just really, really threw me

for some reason. As being a lead pastor of a

church, do I have power and authority? Sure.

In a position of leadership, we do. Do I have

that as maybe a husband and a father? Sure. That

in these positions that the Lord has put me in,

there is power and authority. You in your job.

or your families, you may have that, right? Especially

if maybe you're an owner of a company or you've

climbed that corporate ladder. This understanding

of power is a great thing, but it can also be

devastating. That when we think power and authority

is assumed in of ourselves in a non -believer

way, I'm just going to call it the way I see

it. It gets tainted, it gets dark, it gets perverted,

it gets kind of D all of the above when it's

done through kind of sinful man. We just prayed

that the Lord be the lead of our households,

the lead of our lives, all of those things. And

in order to pray that prayer, in order to mean

that, that means we have to check our power,

our authority at the door. And for a lot of us,

that's hard. But we sing. Hail the power of Jesus'

name. Let angels prostrate fall. What that means

is they fall reverent on their face. Let me just

ask. If you are the breadwinner of your house,

whether that's male or female in your house,

that's not the conversation. When you come home,

do people in your household just fall prostrate

at home? When you show up, When you get home

from work, right, I'm just, who am I going to

pick on? A bunch of you are going like this,

right, and that's totally fine. So Randy, right,

brand new member of the church as of last week,

right, when you come home, does Brenda just fall

prostrate before you? That's the wrong answer.

That's now on the internet. Okay, he shook his

head yes, but it's opposite day. That meant no,

okay, that we don't do that because that would

be super weird. That would be an elder call for

sure if that was the case. Now, the same holds

true in church, right, when we are in our governance.

When I show up to an elders meeting, do the elders

do that when I walk into the room? No. That took

way too long. Way too long. Seven years in, that

has not happened once, right? Or if I show up

to a room of elders, do I have to fall? Good.

I'm glad you said no. No. Because that is designed

and destined and belongs to one person. And that

is the creator of the world, the savior of our

soul. That is Jesus the Christ. And that is the

church. The center of the church. And then it

got me thinking how... I want to say easy, and

I know that's not the case, how easy it would

have been to be the church in this time. And

I know that that culturally wasn't because you

had the Romans, right? You had the Pharisees,

the Sadducees. We learned that they wanted to

try to, you know, the religious elite wanted

to kind of hide the story of Jesus' resurrection

and now his ascension because they were scared

that the power was going to be taken from them.

Because how can any earthly power beat The death,

resurrection, and ascension of the Savior of

the world. It can't. But they were so scared.

They were so paranoid that the church of this

guy, Jesus, was going to spread and it was going

to take all of their power. All of their power.

But think about how easy it would have been to

believe back then. And that's where I landed.

It was actually, I think, easier to believe because

if I'm friends or mere acquaintances with, let's

say, doubting Thomas. Now, I doubt that that's

probably, that people didn't call him that. It

was probably just Thomas. But understand that

if I knew Thomas and Thomas and I were friends

and he sat down and was like, Jim, I saw him

with my own eyes. I saw his body dead on the

cross. I saw them put his body in the tomb. I

saw him alive. I put my hands in the holes in

his side, his wrists, his ankles, all of the

things. Is there any other response but belief?

Because it's so mind -boggling, even in the first

century. And remember, many people had claimed

to be Messiah up to that point, lowercase m.

That's a whole other history sermon. But many

people did. But Jesus doubled down on it, went

to the cross for it, rose again for it, and started

this movement. Now, it wasn't called Christianity

then. That was a few hundred years later. It

was called the people of the way. I wonder where

they got that from. How about John? I am the

way, the truth, and the life, Jesus says. But

at Pentecost, the Spirit fell. People were amazed

and confused. Some mocked. Some were curious.

Peter stood up and preached. Right? He wasn't

a preacher up to that point. He had foot and

mouth disease up to that point. All he did was

kind of wreck himself in front of Jesus. He denies

Jesus all of those things. They knew that. But

all he did was preach Christ. Crucified, risen,

and reigning. And friend, that's the heartbeat

of the church in its beginning, in its infancy.

The power of Jesus' name. So what does that look

like? We're going to be in Acts chapter 2, starting

Acts 2 · chapter mention

with verse 22 this morning. So if you have the

Bible app or you brought a Bible, feel free to

get it out. It will be on the screen. Again,

we use the ESV, English Standard Version here.

Whatever version you have is fine, though it

may read a little different. We're going to go

a little verse by verse and then a couple chunks

here and there. But we're going to first look

at Jesus' ministry affirmed. Okay? That's a weird

way to say that, but verse 22 is going to help

us out. In Acts chapter 2, verse 22. Men of Israel,

Acts 2:22

hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested

to you by God with mighty works and wonders and

signs that God did through him in your midst

as you yourself know. That was the beginning

of his sermon. That was the beginning of a message.

It wasn't smoke machines. It wasn't laser light

shows. It wasn't a building campaign. It wasn't

anything like that. It was simply... Jesus of

Nazareth. You all know about him because they

all did. Died, resurrected. That was what he

started with. Peter begins with common ground.

Everybody there would have known this. Jesus

was known among them. His miracles, his wonders

were public. Undeniable signs and wonders that

not only does God exist, but God existed through

this person of Jesus Christ. What does this emphasize

as the start of the church? That the gospel is

rooted in history. It's not myth. It's not fable,

as the world would like you to believe. Or they'd

like to just put all of the religion, this kind

of, you know, cosmic soup that you could just

kind of pick what you want. Like you go to the

store and pick out what you want. But the gospel

is rooted in history. As you yourselves know,

he says, the crowd couldn't deny. what they had

seen. Again, this is the first layer of people.

These are the first church members, are people

that walked with Jesus or walked really close

to kind of first -hand accounts. There was trust.

What would it look like if the church really

trusted each other? What would it look like if

churches trusted other churches? Back in the

day, it happened a lot more than it does now.

That's a whole other rhyme for another time.

But to start the movement of the church, Jesus'

ministry is not only affirmed, but the plan is

laid out in verse 23. God's sovereign plan and

our human responsibility. I love this. Jesus'

ministry affirmed. Now there's going to be this

give and take. We need to recognize and we need

to do something about it. Verse 23. This Jesus

delivered up according to the definite plan and

foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed

by the hands of lawless men. He's working through

the historical account of what had just happened

a couple months earlier. Okay? 40 days was the

ascension after the resurrection. This is a little

bit of time after that. Peter holds two truths

together. That Jesus was delivered up. according

to a plan. Not man's, not Rome's, not Sadducees,

not Pharisees, not Zebulites or Amalekites or

Babylonians or any of the ites. It was God's

sovereign plan. But the people were the ones

responsible for crucifying him. I paused here

this week and just thought to myself, what would

it have looked like if Jesus decided, no, we

don't need to do this. Maybe the midst of the

trial, the mockery, maybe even the flogging.

What if you were to just pause and be like, no,

I'm out. This is too much. We wouldn't have this.

That Jesus' sacrifice, fully God, fully man,

perfect sacrifice for your sin, my sin, the sins

we just prayed for in our congregational prayer,

the sins we're going to pray for next week in

our congregational prayer. He died for those

sins so we can do something about it. The cross

is not a tragic accident, but part of God's redemptive

design for you and for me. Because we needed

it. Your sin on the cross, or your death on the

cross, my death on the cross, would accomplish

nothing. But it was part of God's redemptive

plan. And yet, those who rejected him are accountable.

I find that fascinating. That Paul needed to

remind. the people. We had a hand in this. We're

not sinless. I think part of that is to undergird

and underline that Jesus is the only one sinless.

And the wages of sin are death, but yet death

could not hold him, we're going to hear in verse

24. We sing about it. We love it that death could

not hold Jesus, and that's the key point. Jesus

does, and we hear this in Paul later in the epistles,

if he doesn't rise from the dead, right, our

faith means nothing. Your faith is a joke. My

faith is a joke. We shouldn't even be here then,

but he does in verse 24. God raised him up. Loosening

the prangs of death because it was not possible

for him to be held by it. That is the ultimate

resurrectional flex I have ever heard. That death

could not hold him. Oh, death, where is your

victory? Oh, death, where is your sting? They

don't have one. It fell. It lost. Jesus won.

Death could not hold him. This language is vivid.

It is impossible for death to keep its grip.

on Jesus. And though one thing we all have in

common, we've all been born, and unless Jesus

comes back before our last breath, we will all

die. But death cannot hold us because we are

bought by the blood of Jesus. Those of us in

Christ, we have a second act, right? Though our

physical bodies in the earth today will be gone,

we will be with him in glory. That's why he's

using such vivid language. And think about it.

The resurrection was only a couple months old.

I think about Easter. And I remember my very

first Easter here. I've never preached an Easter

sermon before. I was always the associate or

one of the other teaching pastors. And the senior

guy always got Easter. And I had encouragement

from pastors that knew that this was my first

one. And some were hilarious and some not appropriate

to say from the stage. But understand that I

was just so excited to preach my first Easter.

And then I got excited for preaching my second

Easter. And I've done seven of those. And those

are exciting. And we need to be excited. But

being in the church now 20 years, sometimes Easter

can just feel like a regular Sunday. And I just...

I hate myself for having that mentality at times.

Or like, oh man, we just got to get through Easter.

Time out. No. Easter is, Easter's it. We call

it the Super Bowl Sunday and the church staff

for a reason because that is what everything

we do. Every Sunday, every day of the church

calendar points towards Easter Resurrection Sunday.

That's why I think the language here is so vivid.

That the resurrection is not just a reversal

of death, but a defeat of death itself. You all

in your families have tasted death some way earlier

than you wanted to. Family members, siblings,

loved ones, spouses. And for some of you, that

death was a sweet relief to a struggle. A physical

struggle. An earthly struggle. And though you

would never want to pray it out loud, you thought

it in your soul. Lord, if you could just take

them and relieve them from this pain. There's

a reason why we pray for that. Let me kind of

put the opposite in there. If Jesus didn't conquer

death, would you pray for that for a loved one?

Probably not. But there's a hope and a comfort,

as Lord's Day 1 of the Heidelberg Catechism says,

our only comfort in life and in death is our

faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. That the resurrection

is not a reversal of death, but a defeat of death

itself. Now he's going to go into a little bit

of history. He's going to go into David. He's

going to follow that line because there's going

to be people that want to make sure that the

Messiah, that's in fact what happened. That needs

to underline Messiah because that was the language.

So we're going to start in verse 25. For David

said concerning him, I saw the Lord always before

me, for he is at my right hand, that I may not

be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my

tongue rejoiced. My flesh also will dwell in

hope, for you will not abandon my soul to Hades

or let your Holy One see corruption. You have

made known to me the paths of life. You will

make me full of gladness with your presence.

Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about

the patriarch David that he both died and was

buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Being therefore a prophet and knowing that God

had sworn an oath to him that he would set one

of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw

and spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that

he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh

see corruption. This is messianic texts fulfilled.

That David knew it. David as prophet. You see,

even one of the very first sermons in the church.

He's quoting somebody else. Preachers, we do

that all the time. We just hope we give the right

credit to them. But he quotes Psalm 16, showing

that David was pointing beyond himself to Christ.

What I love is he goes to the physical example.

We have David's tomb. We have it among us. It

is a sacred place at that time for the Jews.

Still is. If you go to Israel, you go to Israel

and go to the Holy Lands. But I love the contrast.

David's tomb is still with us. You can go see

it. Take your shoes off. You can pray. You can

do all the things. But guess what? Jesus' tomb

is empty. The contrast here is the power of the

church proving that Jesus was the promised Messiah,

is the Lord and Savior of our lives, and is the

director of the church. But unfortunately for

some of us, we look at history, we look at all

that stuff, and we can be doubtful, we can be

cynical, we can be skeptical. And I love that

because even in the first church, even in one

of the very first sermons, he calls out the skeptics.

The resurrection witnessed in verse 32. As Jesus

God raised up and of that we are all witnesses.

We are all witnesses. That's the truth of the

church. It wasn't theological. It wasn't I'm

a Baptist. I'm covenant. I'm kingdom. I'm AG.

I'm CRC. I'm AT &T. I'm KFC. It's none of those

things. It was all about two things. Three things.

Jesus alive, Jesus dead, Jesus alive again. Amen?

That is the church. Yet, we've made it about

so much more. Peter goes in the New International

Gym version, we've seen this happen. How can

you not believe that? How can you not believe

someone who has conquered death? Peter declares,

this Jesus God raised up, and of that we are

witnesses. You see, Christianity, the way, I'm

not even going to use Christianity, the way at

this point, is what it was called, is grounded

in eyewitness testimony. The resurrection was

not private. It was public. It was attested to

by many. And that's one of those things why we

see the apostles martyred for their faith. Sitting

before a Roman emperor, sitting before people

that wanted to kill them, and they just said,

denounce what you saw and you'll live. We're

not going to denounce what we saw. We can't.

We're convicted. We saw him alive. We saw him

dead. We saw him alive again. And they were killed.

That is a martyr for the faith. And what does

Jesus do? He exalts. Jesus was exalted and he

will exalt us. Jesus is exalted at the right

hand of God. Peter's going to get practical now.

He's going to tell them what this means in verse

33. Verse 33 through 35, therefore being exalted

at the right hand of God and having received

from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit.

He has poured out this that you yourselves are

seeing and hearing. For David did not ascend

into the heavens, but he himself says, the Lord

said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I

make your enemies your footstools. They all praised

David. It was a what would David do culture back

then. It's not anymore. David didn't ascend.

David was flesh and blood. Was he anointed? Sure.

Jesus, flesh and blood, but conquers death. Why?

Because he is God. Jesus is not only risen, but

he's reigning. He has been enthroned. He is sharing

the authority of the Father. He is the one who

poured out his spirit, and the people saw and

heard the evidence of his lordship. I was talking

to a couple pastors about this passage and just

kind of what it brought out to them. And I think

you've heard it before where like if Jesus were

to come again, how would he come again? And there's

conversation about that. Or if Jesus came to

your church, would you even recognize him? And

again, that's kind of a cheap understanding of

things, but it made for an interesting conversation.

Maybe for some of us, we've gotten so caught

up in our theology, so caught up in our exegesis,

so caught up in church history, so caught up

in all of the things that we wouldn't even recognize

him if he was here. I don't know if I would.

Maybe I would. Maybe you would. I'm not sure

if the first day of him on earth, he'd come to

214 Ridge Road. I have no idea. But he's omnipotent

and omnipresent, so maybe he'd go everywhere.

But he's the one who poured out his spirit. And

the people saw and heard the evidence of his

lordship. The biggest thing is do you recognize

him as lord of your life today? I don't really

care about yesterday. I don't really care about

tomorrow because we're not guaranteed that. But

today, do you recognize him as the lord of your

life? Psalm 110 is applied to Jesus. David calls

him Lord, showing his superiority. And David

was the top of the top in the Israelite understanding

of their history. They worship David. They look

to him as the anointed one. They're now separating.

Peter is now separating. No, Jesus is higher.

Jesus is the reason. His life, his death, his

resurrection. That we all... like we just sang,

should fall reverent to his authority. And what

does that mean? That means we have to give up

our own. We have to give up our own authority,

our own understanding, our own narrative of church

history, our own narrative of theology, our own

narrative of interpretation, and fall at the

foot of Jesus and recognize his lordship. And

then... Peter starts landing the plane, as I'm

going to today, with verse 36. What I call the

punchline of Peter's sermon, verse 36. Let all

the house of Israel therefore know for certain

that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this

Jesus whom you crucified. There's some conviction.

Let all Israel know this. is that point, right?

This is where it's turning. This is exactly where

the Spirit was leading Peter to tell them, Jesus

is not only Savior and Lord, but he is the forever

King. What is he saying to the people? And when

the Spirit uncovered this for me, I read this

anew. Stop looking for another. He is it. Period.

End of sentence. End of paragraph. End of that

part of the book. Now on to the church. Pointing

to those parts. And the crowd becomes convicted.

As we should. We should be convicted in our spirit

every day. That his mercy and his grace convicts

us of where we fall short. The crowd was convicted.

Verse 37. Now when they had heard this, they

were cut to the heart. and said to Peter and

the rest of the apostles, brothers, what shall

we do? This is not human persuasion. They didn't

come by this conviction on their own. It's by

the work of the Holy Spirit. I think it's hilarious

that Jesus said, wait for the power of the Holy

Spirit to come and bring the church forward.

And what does the church do? It doesn't bring

him out to all these places right off the bat.

No, he wrecks them right then and there. We need

to get some things covered. This is the mission.

This is the vision. This is what you need to

believe to be the church. Friends, there's a

belief system here. Notice the slides that Samuel

answered, the questions that he answered. It

wasn't about all these other world religions.

It wasn't about all these other ideas or theologies.

Do you profess Christ as Lord and Savior? Everything

the church believed at this point now, do you

believe that? Not because being a part of the

church brings salvation, but that the church

should be full of saved people pointing to the

resource, the person of Jesus Christ for that.

Because then from the conviction is the call.

The call to repent and be baptized, verses 38

and 39. And Peter said to them, Repent and be

baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus

Christ, who forgives your sins, and you will

receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the

promise is for you and for your children and

for all who are far off. Everyone whom the Lord

our God calls to himself. Boom! Baptism. Now

we see baptism. John was doing it. We see Jesus

even baptized. But now it changes. Repentance

means turning from sin towards Christ. Why? Because

we can do it now. If Jesus didn't rise from the

dead, repenting to him would mean nothing. You'd

just be tacking it on. It wouldn't give you any

kind of freedom. You wouldn't be free from your

sins. Baptism is a visible sign of forgiveness

and belonging to God's family. We saw the culmination

of that today. And I would have loved to be able

to say that the Shankles and I had a hand in

crafting all this for this sermon. Totally didn't.

But isn't it great to see the culmination of

that? Now, some of you are going, well, why wasn't

he rebaptized? Because we're affirming the baptism

that Will and Bethany had for him and offered

for him when he was a baby. That's the difference

of covenant theology. We believe that God has

been working through their good, their bad, and

their ugly, through the church's good and bad

and uglies that they've been a part of, through

the life that Samuel has lived, good, bad, and

ugly. Why? Because he's in good community, because

we all have that, that we are affirming what

is being done. Fast forward to Romans. If you

confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and

believe in your heart that God raised him from

the dead, you will be boom. That's what it is.

That's the church. That's the church message

at work. I love this. This promise is expansive

for you and your children and for all who are

far off. Already. First church sermon. Already

the gospel is stretching beyond Jerusalem. And

we're going to see the Gentiles. We're going

to see every tribe and tongue. Something we also

sang about. And now we have the birth of the

church. Verse 40 and 41. And with many other

words he bore witness. That's all he did. Bore

witness. And continued to exhort them saying,

save yourselves from this crooked generation.

So those who received his word were baptized,

and there were added that day about 3 ,000 souls.

Now we could all, oh, 3 ,000 souls, that would

be great. It's not about the number. It's about

the start of the church. Because those 3 ,000

souls, I'm going to say many of them maybe have

even seen Jesus in his ministry. But some of

them, it was just the power and the conviction

of the eyewitness accounts. Well, let's fast

forward to 2025. How many of you were there when

Jesus walked the earth? Nope. But it's through

the eyewitness accounts of those that have gone

before you, through the power of the Holy Spirit

at work in your life, that you have come to recognize

Jesus as Lord and Savior. And that is the church

at work. That is the Holy Spirit at work. If

the Holy Spirit is devoid of the church, the

church means nothing. The church is going to

do nothing. But it's the power. of the Holy Spirit

to bring filthy, dirty, no good sinners like

me and you together. That's the power of the

Holy Spirit. That is the birth of the church.

The Spirit's power brought immediate fruit. And

I think for a lot of churches, we kind of, we

really want that. Man, we'd love to have an altar

call and do all that, yet I did that here. It

makes all of us uncomfortable, right, because

we're just not used to that. But we're like,

man, look at the instantaneous power of the Holy

Spirit at work. Well, think about it. This was

the start of it. I look at the same awe and wonder

of that as this church has been around for 155

years. Not that we should celebrate that in any

kind of salvatic way, but that is perseverance

of the saints. 155 years of people being the

church, of going through all of the things. I

mean, one of the church struggles here, years,

decades ago. I don't want to have my church,

my main service, be in English. Are we having

that fight now? How many of you actually know

Dutch? Okay. And I love Max. He's never demanded

that this has been done in Dutch, right? Evie

has, but Max is not, right? And so, I mean, that's

just one person. But think about all the things

that we, think about all the churches that have

left each other or schism because of different

things. Again, I joked about this a couple weeks

ago, but we just saw the start of the church.

What was the church worried about? People recognizing

their sin, believing in the one who conquered

death to give them new life. In a couple weeks,

maybe a couple months, we're probably going to

vote on a building project. Whether we do it

or whether we not, is what we just read still

true? Absolutely. Well, if we don't build this

building, I'm going to leave. Well, friend, then

your faith is in the brick and mortar, and I

rebuke it. Well, if we build this building, then

I'm going to leave. Same thing. The church didn't

care about that stuff. They met on street corners.

They met in people's homes. They did all the

things because it was the start of it. Look what

we've made it. Some of that's really great. A

lot of it is not. Because if our mind goes anywhere

but the church's rhythm of life, what is the

church's rhythm of life? What should our rhythms

of the church be? If it's devoid of the Holy

Spirit, then it's not anything good. Verses 42

to 47. And they devoted themselves to the apostles'

teaching, which is witness teaching, and the

fellowship and to the breaking of bread and of

prayer. Seafood needs to be a part of it. It's

biblical. And awe came upon every soul, and many

wonders and signs were being done through the

apostles, and all who believed were together

and had all things in common. And they were selling

their possessions and belongings and distributing

the proceeds to all as any had need. And day

by day, attending the temple together and breaking

bread in their homes, they received their food

with glad and generous hearts, praising God and

having favor with all people. and the Lord added

to their number, day by day, those who were being

saved. They devoted themselves. They devoted

themselves to having the best GEMS and cadet

program ever. Nope. They devoted themselves to

having a women's Bible study that meets on Tuesday,

this Tuesday, 9 .30, in the basement. Well, I'm

not going because it's not called coffee break.

Ooh, I'm going to call that out. Friends, I love

you. That's ridiculous. People that drive down

the street, they don't know what coffee break

is if they haven't been in the CRC or the RCA

church. What are you doing? You're studying the

Bible. That's what they did. They studied Jesus.

They studied the eyewitness account of Jesus.

What do they devote themselves to? The apostles'

teaching. The doctrine, the scripture, fellowship.

They devoted themselves to fellowship. The breaking

of the bread and prayer. The results, awe, generosity,

gladness, favor with people, and daily growth.

None of that has to do with our thoughts and

opinions, our wants and needs of what church

needs to be. This is the model of spirit -filled

community, centered on Jesus, grounded on the

gospel, and lived out in love. Let's be about

those three things first and foremost. Let us

be a people centered on Jesus, grounded in the

gospel, and lived out in love. How are you going

to do that? How are you going to do that? Through

the power of the Holy Spirit, you're going to

do that. All hail the power of Jesus' name. It's

not just a hymn. It's an anthem of the church.

Because in his name, sins are forgiven. In his

name, the spirit is given. In his name, lives

are transformed. Munster Church, this is our

calling. To live out, or to live so that everything

we do points to Jesus, crucified, risen, and

reigning. To be a community where people are

cut to the heart, not by our cleverness, but

by the spirit's conviction. to be a family marked

by repentance, forgiveness, generosity, and joy.

And finally, and I swear we're going to be done,

here is the gospel truth. The Jesus who was crucified

is alive. He has conquered sin and death. He

reigns at the right hand of God, and everyone

who calls on his name will be saved. This is

our firm foundation. This is the song of the

church. And that is why we sing, crowned him

Lord of all. Please stand if you are able. And

we will close in prayers in unison. Prayer will

be on the screen. Lord Jesus Christ, you are

Lord and King. We confess our sins and turn to

you. We thank you for the cross, for forgiveness,

and for new life. Fill us with your spirit. Make

us a community of faith and love. And use us

to proclaim your name to the world. All hail

the power of Jesus' name. Amen. And as you go

out into your week.