Managing Expectations – Luke part 21 – Grant Vissers

Hey, man, good morning. Welcome.

Good morning. Hey, if you are new, if you're

just checking us out, maybe you're visiting with someone.

Welcome, special welcome to you. My name is Grant and I'm one of

the pastors here at the church. We are going to be hopping into

the Gospel of Luke. So Chapter 7 is where we find

ourselves and we are working our way through the chapter.

We're not going to finish Chapter 7 today, but we're going

to make a good run at it. So we're going to read through

from about verse 18 to 35, I believe is where we end off.

Yeah. So we're going to make a good

run through, but we'll do that in a minute.

Before that, we're going to pray.

And before I pray, I just wanted to say one word of thank you.

And the thank you is in two-part 1.

I want to say thanks to everybody who showed up and came

out yesterday to our team meeting.

And we had a great time and I walked away.

I hope you walked away as encouraged as I did from that

time together, we worshipped, we prayed together, we dreamt

together and talked about how we can continue to grow into what

what God is calling us to be and to become as a church.

So I, I thought it was, it was a wonderful time together and the

food was great and the coffee was great and it was, it was a

good morning. So if you're curious about what

that is and how you can get in on the next time we do that, you

can feel free to come and talk to me or to Pastor Justin,

anyone of the staff wandering around.

We'd be happy to chat with you. But thank you for those of you

who came out to that. And I want to say thank you to

those who helped lead that so well yesterday.

So it was it was a good time together.

And again, like I said, I hope you walk away as encouraged as I

did from that. I also want to say thanks for

sticking around longer than I did to help clean up and put

everything away. I had to with my family Dart.

We went N couple hours for for my grandfather's birthday.

So it was again, I'm just I'm so grateful for this community and

I want you to hear that want you to hear that from from me and

from our family. So that's the thank you.

Alright, Luke 7, maybe that gave you enough time to find it.

And if you want, you can, you can pull out a phone and and get

it up in front of you that way as well.

Let me pray. God, Thanks for your love.

Thanks for your grace. Thanks that you're with us and

we don't need to wonder or wait. Thanks for your presence here in

this place. Yeah, we're grateful to be

gathered together and to worship you.

Thanks that we have this amazing freedom and privilege to lift

high the name of Jesus and to shout boldly, like declare your

goodness, your love, your mercy toward us and toward this world

thinks that as we do it, we believe like one of the things

we do and we gather, we lift high the name of Jesus.

We push back a little bit places of darkness in the world.

So God, I pray that as we continue to read, work our way

through the gospel of Luke, you would do that, do that in US,

push back the little pieces of darkness in us and in the world.

How would we be at church that pushes back the darkness?

We pray God, your Kingdom come right here as it is in heaven in

Jesus name, Amen. So Luke 7, beginning at 18,

these are messengers sent from John the Baptist to Jesus.

So the disciples of John reported all these things to

him. And John, calling two of his

disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, are you the

one who is to come, or shall we look for another?

And when the men had come to him, they said, so now they've

gone to Jesus. They've said to Jesus, John the

Baptist has sent us to you, saying, are you the one who is

to come, or shall we look for another?

In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues

and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed

sight. And he answered them, Go and

tell John what you have seen and heard.

The blind received their sight. The lame walk, the lepers are

cleansed, the deaf here, the dead are raised, the poor have

good news preached to them, and blessed is the one who is not

offended by me. When John's messengers had gone,

Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John.

What did you go out into the wilderness to see?

A Reed shaken by the wind. What then?

Did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing?

Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in

luxury are in King's courts. What then?

Did you go out to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a

prophet, this is he of whom it is written.

Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will

prepare your way before you. I tell you, among those born of

women, none is greater than John, yet the one who is least

in the Kingdom of God is greater than He.

When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they

declared God just having been baptized with the baptism of

John. But the Pharisees and the

lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having

been baptized by Him. To what then shall I compare the

people of this generation, and what are they like?

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling

to one another. We played the flute for you, and

you did not dance. We sang a dirge and you did not

weep. For John the Baptist has come

eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say he is a demon.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say look

at him, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax

collectors and sinners. Yet wisdom is justified by all

her children. So there's a lot in that passage

and there's a lot that we're not going to get into.

And so I'll give just like a little quick plug for podcast

and other mechanisms and ways in which you can continue to work

your way through this passage. Because I think if I worked, I

like our way through it today, we'd be here until tomorrow to

look through every single thing going on there.

There's a lot. And so if, let me just say this,

if at any point you walk away with more or different

questions, hey, I think that's a wonderful thing.

And BI would encourage you to invite you send them to me by

e-mail and maybe they'll make it under a podcast for discussion

and we can continue that kind of conversation together throughout

the week. So I just want to get that out

of the way. We're not going to work our way

through the entirety of what we read this morning.

But let me tell you this, one of the things that I have

appreciated so much about our city, and especially so given

where Connie and our family moved from Hamilton.

And this is, I'm like, no shade on Hamilton, but I love this

about our city. The lack of billboards, the

lack, if you've ever been to Hamilton, you'll know that this

is different here or that's different there.

I don't know which one. But I absolutely love the lack

of billboards that there are in this city, at least on my

commute. Which is a little bit of an

insider joke, I realize. But for those of you who don't

know, I live about 700 meters away and I cross the park to get

here. So there are no billboards on my

commute. There's nobody telling me who to

call when I'm injured. There's nobody telling me which

real estate agent is going to be able to sell my house.

There's nobody telling me why Coca-Cola is better than Pepsi.

I don't need to know that every day is going to get tastier if I

eat McDonald's or I don't. You know, I certainly don't need

somebody telling me to have a break and need a Kit Kat.

Like, I'm not trying to buy a new car.

Whatever you're selling, I'm not buying it.

At least I'm trying desperately to not buy it.

I don't know about you, maybe you have a different experience

of this, but like I've never seen a billboard while driving.

Stopped my car reversed on the road and thought I'm going to

take down that information. That sounds like something I

need in my life. I certainly have never called up

a company and been like, hey, I got your information from a

billboard or a bus bench. Like, I don't want more things

and I really, to be honest, I don't want more things vying for

my time and my attention. I'm trying to block out the

noise, not allow more in and and it's why, you know, my phone

doesn't have social media on it and it's why it's most of the

time in black and white. Like I'm trying to silence as

much of the noise in my life as possible.

There is advertising everywhere and that's not news to you.

You're not. Oh, I hadn't noticed.

Like, be it billboards, radio, YouTube, video streaming

services, which at one point prided themselves in having no

advertising, now you gotta pay extra for the no advertising

version. Yeah, yeah, there's advertising

everywhere. Listen, I'll tell you the only

ad that I've paid any attention to recently, and this was an ad

that taught me to knock on my cantaloupes before buying it.

And that's not even the point of the commercial.

Again, I don't need to tell you this, but one of your most

important commodities is your attention.

It is your attention and it is how your affection follows your

attention. Companies in the I believe North

America are projected to spend $491 billion on advertising in

2025. Like just to hopefully grab 30

seconds of your attention. Like to grab it enough to make

you take one step? Where to plant one idea, one

piece. You're like, well, this phone

that I have, like now, it's not good enough.

Our culture is saturated in advertising and marketing and

messaging. Jesus's day, not so much.

There wasn't mass media vying for attention and affection.

So try to imagine with me, just for a moment, the majority of

the people. No reading or writing, right?

No books, no billboards, no e-mail marketing campaigns, no

targeted advertising on social media.

No wondering if my phone is listening to me so that it can

determine the best. Next add to stick in front of my

face. It sounds pretty peaceful.

And so in Jesus Day, maybe you see like a mosaic image or an

inscription on stone if you're lucky.

But again, maybe you don't read or write yourself, so you're not

100% sure what it, what it means, what the messaging is.

Is the only mass media available in Jesus Day?

During the time of Jesus was money that was the single

greatest mass marketing campaign.

Was the inscription, the image, the symbol that were placed on

coins? And to your right says coins

were the principal way of getting across a symbolic

message to ordinary people because they were created to

contain a message from the king to all of the people that he

ruled over. Herod Antipas, whose name you

don't need to remember, but this is King Herod for much of

Jesus's life, not when he's born, but certainly through his

ministry. This is the king when we refer

to King Herod in a lot of the New Testament, he chose for his

coin ahead of Jesus public ministry.

Actually just a few years before Jesus public ministry, he chose

to rement the coins for his rule to contain a Galilean read.

So read that you'd find beside the Sea of Galilee that would

blow in the wind, like just beautiful, fertile, representing

life and lush area land, all of it.

That was the symbol that he placed, that Herod Antipas

placed on the coin and that galleon read, like I said, it

was a symbol of beauty. It was a symbol of fertile and,

and that was his message. That was Herod's message to his

people, that when you pick up a coin and you see the Galilean

read, you were meant to think of fertile, healthy life, giving

land, luxury. Everybody has enough to eat

where there's food and there are things flowing, waters running

like you were meant to picture this image.

And, and what King Herod wanted people to think of then is when

they thought of King Herod, they thought of a Galilean Reed,

which made them think of lush, beautiful, fertile land.

Herod wanted to connect who he was with prosperity.

He wanted people thinking when they thought King Herod

prosperity, AW, Tozer wrote. What comes into our minds when

we think about God is the most important thing about us.

What we think about when we picture God, our God image in

other language matters. So Herod's there.

He's saying, hey, what comes to mind when people think about

Herod? I I want to control that.

What comes to mind when you think of God matters?

And so when Jesus asks the people, what did you go out to

see? What then, did you go out to

see? Right.

Is it a Reed shaken by the wind? Is it a man dressed in soft

clothing? What Jesus is asking here is

he's He's not saying. Did you go out into the

wilderness to find a read? He's saying.

Did you go out into the wilderness to find a king?

Did you go into the wilderness to find a new Herod?

Are you looking for a new king? Are you looking for someone to

take that place and, and in case they missed it, which they

probably wouldn't have. He double s down.

What did you go out to see? Is it a man dressed in soft

clothing? We hold those who are dressed in

splendid clothing, live in luxury, are in King's courts.

So now he names it. Are you looking for another

king? What did then?

Did you go out to see continues, right?

Did you go out to find a profit? I tell you in more than a

prophet. And he goes on to talk about who

John is. So Jesus, what Jesus is doing

from the very beginning here in his interacting with.

Now at this point in the story, John's messengers have left, but

the people who have heard all of this encounter what Jesus is

doing is he's locating himself between Herod as king and John

as great prophet. And what Jesus wants to do is to

make us think and, and the crowds who are there is to

encourage them, challenge them to think, who is this Jesus?

Is he a king? Is he a great king?

How does he compare to Herod? Is he a prophet?

Is he a great prophet? Is he better than a great

prophet? Is he better than John?

Who is Jesus? He's locating him himself as not

simply a new Herod and not only a great prophet, but as

something more. So Jesus wants the crowds

asking, who is this guy? Who does he think he is?

Who is he claiming to be? Who is this Jesus?

And Luke wants us asking the same question, the reader Who is

this Jesus? Who is it who stands between

Herod and between John? Who is it who stands between

Herod as king and John? Who is prophet?

And how we answer that question matters.

How we wrestle that question out in our own lives matters.

And how we wrestle it out as a church, as a community together

matters. Who do we say that Jesus is?

John the Baptist is asking the same question.

Who is this Jesus, really? Who's this guy?

Which is a really interesting question given John's

relationship to Jesus. Because if you've been with us

since the very beginning of of Luke, you maybe remember that

this isn't the first time we've seen John.

John the Baptist has appeared before in this story at the very

beginning of Luke, John appears as a parallel narrative to

Jesus. We see John's birth.

We see Jesus's birth before that.

We see the announcement of John's birth.

We see the announcement of Jesus birth side by side.

We see Mary, the mother of Jesus, go to Elizabeth, the

mother of John. And what happens?

The baby in her womb? John's leaps and Elizabeth

expresses this great joy of the baby's leaping in my womb,

recognizing Jesus as the Messiah and Mary as the mother of an

Elizabeth's words, My God, the mother of my God, has come to

me. Why am I so blessed?

And so this John is not just somebody wandering, preaching,

teaching in the wilderness who's wondering about who Jesus is.

John knows Luke begins with Jesus and John, and the

narrative progresses with them in a parallel, side by side.

Jesus goes out to the wilderness to be baptized by John.

John's entire life has shown who Jesus really is.

This is John's ministry to proclaim the coming of the

Messiah, to prepare the way all of who John is declares all of

who Jesus is. But what we see here is that the

disciples of John reported all these things, all the things

that Jesus is doing, the way in which he is teaching and healing

the message that he is proclaiming, the way in which

he's healing people. The disciples of John reported

all of it to him, and John, calling two of his disciples to

him, sent them to the Lord, saying, Are you the one who is

to come, or shall we look for another?

And when the man had come to him, men had come to him.

They said, John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you

the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?

And again, I say this often. I remember repeating myself

about the Bible repeating itself.

When something occurs twice like this, it's like an exclamation

mark. Luke could have just said the

disciples of John's report, they reported all this things to him

and he sent them and they asked this question, but Luke takes

the time to put it down twice. Are you the one, or shall we

look for another? Messages about Jesus have

circulated. John's own disciples have seen

Jesus teach. He's healing.

He's casting out demons. And now John has some questions,

and the questions sound like this.

Jesus, who are you really? What's going on?

Why? Why do things look the way they

look like? Why does the Kingdom look

different than we expected? Why are you doing things

differently than we thought you would?

Why am I not being freed from prison?

Like where's the Kingdom? Where is its coming in power and

with authority and might and force?

And why aren't you overthrowing the Romans?

And why aren't you driving them out of our land?

And why aren't you restoring our our people and our buildings and

our places? Like why, why am I still in

prison? And and to, to add to the fact,

hey, Jesus, like, while we're at it, why are you healing the

servant of a Roman centurion? Like, do you not realize that

guy's the enemy? Is Jesus really the Messiah?

That's the question that John's asking.

What he's asking is, have we gotten our hopes up?

Like, have we? Have we put all of our eggs in

the wrong basket? Have we counted on this guy and

and has he led us down? Should we be waiting for

another? Jesus doesn't live up to John's

expectations. Jesus doesn't live up to John's

expectations about who the Messiah is, about what the

Messiah should do. And so John's wondering, like,

are you really the guy? Are you wrong?

Was I wrong? What's going on?

And listen, like, I think we gotta remember this is the same

John who says not in Luke, but in the Gospel of John, he must

increase. I must decrease.

Like this is a guy who's got faith.

This is a guy who knows a thing or two.

This is a guy who's seen Jesus run around and grow up and then

begin to teach and preach and do all of these things.

John saying boldly like he has to increase.

It's not about me. I must decrease only now in

prison, probably right in and around the sea or the Dead Sea

Desert. Hot, dry, arid, just nasty place

to be locked up. Does decreasing might mean John

has to die? Like that's the kind of stuff

rattling around in his mind. Why was Jesus not bringing the

Kingdom in power? Like where?

Where's the army? Who's gonna breakdown the walls

of this thing and tear me out of here?

When's it my turn? Why is the revolution not

beginning? Why isn't Rome being overthrown?

Why? The answer to that question is

because Jesus wasn't a nationalist.

Jesus wasn't a Christian nationalist.

The Kingdom of God was never meant to be contained and

confined to a lower case K Kingdom.

The Kingdom of God wasn't meant to just simply replace a Kingdom

on earth. It's not a Kingdom of human

making or design. It's not a Kingdom of earth

simply taken over by Jesus and ruled by Jesus.

Like this is something completely new.

There is, I think, a danger in wanting Jesus on our own terms.

There's, there's a danger to wanting Jesus and the benefits

of living life inside the Kingdom, but only when and if

that life comes on. And according to my terms and

conditions, like accepting him as Savior, as Lord, as King,

because of what he does for you, because he lives up to your

expectations and does the thing that you've asked.

And I think here's the subtle creep that can push its way into

faith and into a life of faith and into Christian spirituality

and formation is the, this subtle lie that if I trust God,

if I believe in Jesus, if I lived correctly, if I go to

church, if I do the things, then I ought to have a life that's

free from suffering or free from temptation or free from

relationships that are hard or free from marriages that are

broken. There should always be money in

my bank account like I shouldn't go without.

I've put my trust in you, Jesus. Now it's time for you to fulfill

your end of the bargain. I'm in prison.

When am I getting busted out of here?

If I do all of the things, we start to believe that we ought

to receive a good life. The lie is that belief in God

will equate to my own expectations about God and about

life being met all of the time. And so again, I pictured John

rotting away in prison. Life has not met his

expectations. Like, it's not.

It's not said explicitly, but I think it's a pretty safe

assumption that life for John has not gone the way he had

anticipated it. But the reality is that Jesus

isn't Messiah because he meets John's expectations.

And Jesus isn't Lord and Savior. He's not King because he lives

up to my expectations or yours. If he really is king, then the

Kingdom is his design, and we need to allow the design of the

Kingdom to get into our lives and to begin to shape it and

redesign it and transform it to just shape our hopes and our

dreams, to change our our expectations of ourselves and

others and of God. So I love what Jesus does, it

says in that hour. So like this is as this is

happening. He healed many people of

diseases and plagues, evil spirits and many who were blind.

He bestowed sight. So what does Jesus do?

Like this is Jesus in the most Jesus way possible.

He doesn't give them a simple direct answer that they can take

back to John the Baptist. He doesn't say to them, hey,

John, you asked a yes or no question.

Are you the one we're waiting for?

Should we wait for another one? Yes, I'm the one.

Like that's not the way Jesus answers the question.

There's no moment where he says, like, I am Iron Man.

Like that's not how Jesus's Kingdom works.

It's not the way of Jesus, but what he does is he begins to do

the things of the Kingdom right in front of their eyes.

Jesus doesn't stop and give them an answer.

He just continues living it out. And then he invites them into

that process. He asks them to watch how he

lives his life and what he does in front of their faces and come

to their own conclusions. He doesn't spoon feed it.

He doesn't force them to think it or believe it.

He demonstrates it and then he invites them to draw their own

conclusions. Cyril of Alexandria and I want

to read this quote, says this. The beautiful art of the Saviors

management is this. He does not simply say I am.

If he had spoken this, it would have been true.

Instead, he leads them to the proof given by the works

themselves. Jesus doesn't say yes I'm he go

and just think differently. Jesus shows them what he is

capable of and what life inside the Kingdom ought to look like

and does look like. He just continues doing the

things of the Kingdom and invites them to draw their own

conclusion. Go and tell John what you have

seen, he says. Go and tell John what you have

seen and heard. The blind received their sight,

The lame walk leper is cleansed and the deaf here.

The dead are raised up. The poor have good news preached

to them, and blessed. As the one who's not offended by

me. I kind of wonder if he adds that

last line in for John. But here's the reality.

The Kingdom of God is probably going to offend you once or

twice in your life, especially when Jesus doesn't live up to

your expectations. You need to allow yourself.

I need to allow myself preaching to the to myself.

We need to allow ourselves to be offended by the Kingdom when it

challenges our expectations, not just when it hasn't lived up to

our expectations, but when it confronts our expectations and

forces me to confront my own expectations about Jesus and

life inside the Kingdom. And I thought things were going

to be OK and they're not OK. And I need to look in the mirror

and go, am I pushing my expectation on Jesus or am I

allowing the Kingdom to shape who I am despite situation and

circumstance? So he says, go and tell them

what you've seen and what you've heard.

All of these things are happening.

Jesus is pointing us back to Isaiah 61 and he's pointing John

back to Isaiah 61 as well. Isaiah 61 at the beginning of

Jesus ministry is the verse that he quotes about himself.

He unrolls the scroll. So this moment Jesus is in the

synagogue and he unrolls the scroll and he begins to read

from Isaiah and then he essentially says this, this is

about me in a little bit more words that sound better than I

do, but this is what Isaiah 61 sounds like.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has

anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He sent me to bind up the broken hearted and to proclaim freedom

for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, a day of vengeance

of our God. To comfort all who mourn and to

provide for those who grieve. To bestow on them a crown of

beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning.

A garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.

And says they'll be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of

the Lord for the display of his splendor.

And so a couple of things, like Jesus simply uses life inside

the Kingdom, continuing to live it out, to point people back to

Scripture, which confronts our expectations.

Jesus is gently telling John, I think, and us that it's not

Jesus who has let John down, it's John's own expectations of

Jesus that have failed him. And so I think one of the

challenges becomes rather than allowing our thoughts and our

expectations and our experience to shape what we think is true

about God, we ought to allow, and it's difficult, it is not as

simple practice, but we ought to allow Scripture to shape our

expectations of Jesus. Now here's the rub, and I'm sure

you feel this in a dominant worldview of secularism.

You are told and I am told that authority lies and ought to lie

in the human being right in human reason and empirical

evidence and at most in collective human agreement that

wear authority hole sits where it lies, where it rests where it

is, is in these three things, human reason, empirical evidence

and collective human agreement. That I myself and and us

together hold the key to human flourishing and understanding

that we should be suspicious of anyone who who tells you

anything along the lines of the fact that you are not your own

ultimate source of authority over your life.

But what happens when we begin to disagree?

And what happens when there's no ultimate authority to appeal to?

And what happens when we are overcome by the weight of having

to define and redefine ourselves, with no anchor point,

with no narrative to make sense of struggle?

What happens when power and authority by the many are used

to oppress with no common foundation and grounding for

ethics and justice? Like, I think to myself, it's no

wonder that anxiety that loneliness and and depression

are skyrocketing. It's not a mystery to me that

we're increasingly divided and angry and that we rage at one

another on social media because we're too afraid to do it in

person. Like it's no wonder to me that

we see a world that is in conflict.

It's no wonder to me that we wrestle with these things

ourselves, but I think the promise and the hope of the

gospel is that Jesus does offer a better way forward.

AW Tozer's line, I think, is true that what we think about

God matters. It is.

It's important. Whether it's the most important

thing about you, I don't know. In a sermon called The Weight of

Glory, CS Lewis disagrees with AW Tozer, which I love.

Like, man, back in the day, you would just get like sermons

where people would just openly disagree with, like just back

and forth, back and forth. That was like a lot of it.

CS Lewis, he disagrees that it's the most important thing about

you. He says that it's important, but

he says how God thinks of us is not only more important, but

infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is

of no importance except insofar as it's related to how he thinks

of us. Like that's the reality.

How God thinks of of you is far more important than how you

think of God. What God says about you is far

more important than what you say about yourself.

The challenge, I think for those of us who call ourselves

followers of Jesus, but I actually think for all of

humanity is to determine, rather do allow Scripture to determine

our expectations of God and to allow Jesus to define the

Kingdom and to allow the Kingdom to confront our lives and to

really wrestle this out. Do you know how God thinks of

you? Let me pray, God, thank you for

your love and for your grace, and thank you for your presence

with us. Thank you for Scripture which

unfolds your heart before us. So, God, I do pray that we would

learn to listen. Each of us, all of us, would

learn to listen to how you speak and think what you think of us.

And I pray that we'd find our identity in you.

I find that. I pray that we'd find all of our

meaning and narrative, the things that help us make sense

of the world inside of your Kingdom.

And I pray that we'd allow your Kingdom to confront us,

challenge our expectations, pray that we be ones who kind of hold

even our expectations lightly, openly waiting and kind of

wondering, like, what are you gonna do with this for us as a

church God? I pray that we would learn to

listen and that we'd be bold to follow.

That we'd allow you to shape us as a community to change and

challenge our expectations of who we are and how we are in the

world. Because God at the like, at the

end of the day like this. None of it makes sense without

who you are, with how you are toward the world.

None of it works without your death and your resurrection.

Our lives, God, we know we find meaning inside of who we are as

your people. So would you remind us of that,

that we are yours, we belong to you, each one of us.

Would you challenge? The expectations need to be

challenged. Would you confront the things

that need to be confronted? Would you change the things that

need to be changed? Would you encourage us where we

need encouragement? Yeah.

Not because of who we are, but because of who you are.

So things that you're good, that you're loving, you're powerful,

you're strong, that your Kingdom is coming.

Thanks. So we get to see it happen

inside of our lifetime. We pray for more of that in

Jesus name, Amen.