The Need for Grace

Alright.

Well, if you um if you want to follow along uh with your own copy of God's word, you can follow along in the screen.

But we're gonna be in Luke chapter 7 and also uh Luke chapter 18 uh and we're we're beginning this new series on the grace of God, titled Grace Upon Grace.

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And um the reality, I believe, for us is that we probably all have trouble understanding, but not just understanding, but personally experiencing God's grace in our lives, especially to the extent that He wants us to experience it.

Um grace is one, if not the most important doctrines of our faith, but many of us, or few of us, truly understand our need, and we truly miss out on the depth of God's grace.

And I believe all of us fall into one of two categories.

Um there are those of us that don't feel like we need God's grace, and so none of us are beyond God's grace, or we don't believe it, but this false assumption permeates the church and those of us who are followers.

People, especially maybe that have grown up with a familiarity of God's grace, God's teaching, God's work, and it and it's become a bit common to us, and we fall a bit too comfortable.

And and we we think of grace as that thing that I needed when I was younger, and I realized I needed salvation rather than believing and living and trusting and walking, knowing that not only do I need grace at the time of my salvation, but I need to depend on God's grace for the sustaining work that God has in my life: the work of sanctification, the work of Him drawing me into a life of holiness.

And so we we have this trap.

We fall into this trap thinking that our righteousness, our salvation, our standing before God isn't quite enough.

And here's what we think: we have to fill in the gap between God's grace and God's work of salvation and sanctification.

There's a gap there.

And I need God's grace, but but it simply fills the gap between what I can do and what God does.

We need reality.

He is the one who fills the whole gap.

I can't do anything.

I'm holy incapable.

I I fall short.

I can't do anything in and of myself, in my own strength.

And we miss the reality, we miss the depth of our sin.

We miss out on the grace of God as long as we think I'm not that bad.

And so we think in our mind that we fill the gap with our behavior or our goodness, our moral behavior modification.

When in reality, it is it is all of God's grace that brings us into the standing, right standing with God and provides for our righteousness.

And so the first category is those who don't who feel they don't need God's grace.

The second category is God's grace doesn't cover all our sins.

We wouldn't say that out loud, but in our own private life, we struggle to believe that God's grace covers all of our sin.

And we we struggle with this idea, and we put our eggs in the basket of God's grace doesn't cover all our sins.

There are those among us, and and I have those conversations regularly, who believe that they're too far gone.

I'm too far gone.

And here's what I hear, Russ, if you knew, if you knew about how I lived before I came to Christ, if you knew what I did, if you knew what my background was, you wouldn't probably want me to walk through the doors of your church.

Here's something I hear.

Man, if I walk into that building, the roof is gonna cave in.

That's literally been said to me.

If I walk into that building, the roof is gonna cave in.

Or God's gonna strike me dead.

Some of you that feel like you've just blown it, there's nothing that could ever happen to make me really right with the Lord.

And so we we live our lives hoping that we can fill the gap, that we can make up the difference between God's grace and our strength and our ability to produce a right standing with God, righteous life.

Here's what we think.

We believe we've outsinned the grace of God.

And so the first category misses the need for God's grace, the second category misses the depth of God's grace, but both categories miss out on what we know and sing called the amazing grace of God.

And so over the next seven weeks, we'll talk about and examine the power of God's grace.

And so today is a little bit of an introduction to this series.

And so if you miss a week, make sure you try to keep up with us.

And today the big idea is this God's grace is not just something to be experienced, or it is actually something to be experienced, not just understood.

God's grace is something we are to experience personally, not just something we mentally give our belief to or mental assent to.

And so I'm gonna pray again for us, and my prayer is this simply let us not just understand your grace, God, but let us experience your irresistible grace.

Would you pray with me?

Father, as we dive in to two specific stories that give us a picture of how you worked in individual lives in the day of Jesus.

My prayer is that we would not just have a mental understanding, mental ascent, intellectual belief, but it will permeate our whole being.

As Brandon said, we will experience the reality of the kingdom.

We are citizens with dual citizenship.

Our earthly passport might have the name of a country on it, but we also have a heavenly passport given to us by the grace of God that says that we are citizens of the kingdom.

And we are all in transition in a journey.

And it is by God's grace that we carry that passport that says that we are part of God's kingdom.

We are citizens of God's kingdom.

We are part of his family, we are part of a household of faith.

So, God, help us move past just understanding, but help us experience personally your irresistible grace in Jesus' name.

And everybody said, Amen.

So Luke chapter 7, and we read through the Gospels, these biographies of Jesus, and I'm just personally, I'm I'm going back on a reading plan where I'm reading through the four gospels in a month.

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And and my plan is to do that for several months.

Just go back and read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John every month.

Uh up to a year is what I'm looking at.

And just pay attention to the person of Jesus.

Pay attention to how he taught, but also how he interacted and how he led people to experience his personal touch, his personal grace.

And what we see in the life of Jesus is he taught about grace.

He was a mediator, a dispenser of God's grace, and he was drawn to people like you and me who maybe didn't grow up in church, and he was partial to the sinners over the saints, or those who thought they were the saints.

As a matter of fact, Jesus rebuked the probably what was most of the people that were spiritual leaders, and he challenged them with their hardened hearts to soften their hearts.

He was asking and teaching, so their hearts might be moldable and shaped by the grace of God.

Verse 36 of Luke chapter 7.

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Then one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him.

Now, in the Middle Eastern culture, as it is today, in other places in the world, we kind of missed out on that probably a little more in the United States, but in the Middle Eastern culture, to have a meal with somebody was a very personal, intimate thing.

You met with people to get to know them in a very personal, up-close way.

And so he invited the Pharisees to eat with him.

And I want you to pay attention to how many times he uses the word Pharisee to describe who he's talking about.

So then one of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him.

He entered the Pharisees' house and reclined at the table.

And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house.

Do you think that Jesus is trying to get it across to us that he is meeting with the Pharisees?

And you say, well, who's a Pharisee?

Well, it was the it was the religious leaders of the day, particularly those who missed out on the grace of God, and they believed that God's grace would allow you to enter into a relationship, but but only so far, and there was still a gap between God's grace and our ability to produce the righteousness, the life of a righteous follower.

And we believe that God, we believe that we believe, and the Pharisees believe often that we've got to fill in the gap between what God can do through his grace, and then what we can do by our own strength.

And that gap is found in our good works, our good behavior, our ability to live up to the standard of the law, to follow all the rules and regulations that we see laid out by the Pharisees and what they made the law to be.

And so it says she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, years, a year or more.

It would cost a year or more of wages for this little container of extremely expensive perfume.

It says she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wash his feet with her tears.

She wiped his feet with her hair, kissing them and anointing them with perfume.

And listen to the response of the Pharisees.

When the Pharisees who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him.

She is a sinner.

You see the religious leaders, Pharisees, imposing the identity that they want to place upon her as a sinner rather than a believer or a follower.

That's important.

The Pharisees of the day were appalled that Jesus would allow someone like this woman to come into his presence, much less let her touch him.

They had a self-righteous, pious attitude.

They didn't believe they needed God's forgiveness.

While at the same time, they see this woman as someone who is beyond receiving God's grace.

So these religious leaders, Jesus was intimately acquainted with their way of life, the way they thought, and so he decides then to tell them a brief story.

Almost as a way to come into the back door of people's hearts.

So in verse 41, he says, a creditor has two debtors.

One owed him 500 denarii, the other 50.

Since they could not pay it back, he graciously forgave them both.

So which of them will love him more?

Think about that for a second.

Which of them would love him more?

Those that knew they couldn't pay him back, or those that thought they had already achieved in their own strength enough righteousness to fill the gap.

So Simon answers him.

I suppose the one he forgave more.

And Jesus says, This, you've judged correctly, he told them.

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, Did you see this woman?

I entered your house.

You gave me no water for my feet, but she with her tears has washed my feet and wiped them with her hair.

You gave me no kiss, but she hasn't stopped kissing my feet since I came in.

You didn't anoint my head with olive oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume.

Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven.

That's why she loves so much.

But the one who is forgiven little loves little.

Then he said to her, Your sins are forgiven.

So what we see in this story and in the life of this woman is our forgiveness determines our love.

Our forgiveness determines our response to God and our response to people around us.

Jesus taught this in Matthew, I believe, in chapter 22, it's what we call the great commandment.

He says we are to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

And this is the greatest of all commandments and what our life should be about.

It's impossible for us to love God with everything we have.

We don't fully understand often the depth of his forgiveness.

And sometimes, even if we mentally understood it, we haven't experienced it personally.

The blood of Jesus flowing over us.

And so the religious leaders prided themselves on being men who love God by the way they have followed the law.

A self-righteous, pious attitude.

So until we understand the depth of our sin and our need for forgiveness, we'll never be able to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

And so all of this correlates with our ability and the degree which we acknowledge our need for God's grace.

So the more I recognize the ugliness and the depth of my sin, the more I can appreciate the beauty of God's grace.

And so he goes on.

In Luke chapter 18 and verse 10, he shares another brief personal story.

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He says, Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other tax collector.

So I've explained a little bit about Pharisees.

What is a tax collector?

It was the means or the way that Jesus would describe someone who is far from God.

Tax collectors were hated and despised.

They were uh most often they were pulled out of the Jewish from being a part of the Jewish faith and Jewish nation of Israel, and they aligned themselves and gave allegiance to the Empire of Rome, and on behalf of the Roman Emperor and the Empire, the tax collectors would collect taxes from the Jewish people.

And it was a very high percentage of their income.

And the people were already broken and poor and had no means to live the kind of life that probably you and I have become accustomed to.

And so two men go up to pray.

One's a religious leader, and the other is just a terrible sinner.

And Jesus defines them as a Pharisee and a tax collector.

Pharisees were known as the men who were close to God.

But here's what Jesus says in regard to these two men.

He said the Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself.

Here's what he prays.

God, I thank you that I'm not like other people.

Greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Can you now, have you ever been around people and you're in a conversation and there might, it might be you and them, or it might be multiple people listening in.

And they say something like this, and you think in your mind, I can't believe they thought this, but I can't even believe more that they said it out loud.

Have no self-awareness.

You ever been around people like that?

And you walk away and you're like, how did they make it to this age in their life?

I mean, I mean, there are animals that eat their own children in the animal kingdom.

And you think, how did they make it out of adolescence?

He said, I thank you that I'm not like other people.

And then he describes other people, or those people.

I I've I've been in years ago, I was in a conversation with another pastor, and we were talking about reaching people, unchurched, people from terrible backgrounds, lifestyles, and and the pastor said, Well, we really don't have many of those people in our church.

And I had to bite my tongue.

And I said, Well, we're our church is made up mostly of those people.

I being the chief, I am those people.

And he says, greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

And then he says about himself, I fast twice a week, I give a tenth of everything I get.

Have you ever been around people that in a in a kind of very nonchalant way they they brag on their own self-righteousness?

I'm a pretty good person.

And so self-righteousness comes out of their mouth because it's their state of mind in their heart.

And so we see in this two traps that we often have when it comes to God's grace, two enemies of God's grace.

One is comparison.

The other is we believe that good outweighs the bad.

So, what do we mean by comparison?

The sin of comparison or the or the trap of comparison, the enemy of God's grace that we know as comparison.

So the Pharisee says, Thank you that I'm not like other people or those people.

He looked around and saw that compared to others, he was better.

Compared to others, he was better.

He followed God's commands to the best of his ability.

He was better than the greedy, the unrighteous, adulterers, and even the tax collector who stood before him.

Makes me think about the man who came to the pastor after his brother had died.

He said, Pastor, I know that my brother is a no-good thief, adulterer, cheater, backstabber.

I mean, one of the worst people I know.

But I want you to stand up at his funeral and tell everybody that he was a saint.

The pastor said, I can't do that.

He said, Pastor, here's a check for$50,000 to stand up and tell people he was a saint.

He grabbed the check and said, Thank you.

I'll do it.

So he stood up at the day of the funeral and he pointed at the casket and he said, The man who was in this body that's inside this casket was a dirty, rotten, cheating scoundrel, adulterer, cheater.

One of the worst people you could know.

But compared to his brother, he was a saint.

So he got to keep the money and tell the truth at the same time.

Yeah.

Any of you want to go ahead and plan your funeral?

It's a trap we all fall into.

It's not that we claim to be perfect.

We kind of know we're not perfect.

We know, but we compare ourselves to others, and compared to others, I don't seem that bad.

It's not that big of a deal.

Surely I sin, but at least I haven't.

And you fill in the blank.

Here's one of the common things.

I I have heard and still hear.

Well, I never I've never murdered anybody.

I've never killed anybody.

I'm like, well, is that the standard for getting to heaven?

And of course, Jesus taught, he said, I'm I'm gonna take what you have defined as the standard, I'm gonna raise the bar.

If you've ever been angry with somebody, you're just as guilty as murdering them.

He said, So we're all guilty.

If you ever had lust in your heart, you're just as guilty as the one who has physically committed adultery.

And so we we think, at least I haven't.

And whatever it is, we fill it in.

And if our righteousness measured by how well we're doing compared to others, here's the truth.

We all miss out on God's grace.

He does not hand out grace dependent upon our ability to live a good life.

Listen, he gives grace as his unmerited favor.

It is freely given to those who are the worst.

And the reality is we all fit in that category.

Whether you like to think that or not, we're all in that category.

You are completely, wholly, dependent, and incapable of producing anything in your own strength morally to attain a place where you can stand in the presence of God and live a righteous life.

Let me make this clear.

You are all destined to hell.

Every one of us, until we embrace and experience personally the grace of God.

Well, my my initial response, how good is good enough?

How good is good enough?

Well, you think, well, if I can, if I if I have 50.1% of good behavior that outweighs the bad.

Well, first of all, how do you know you've attained over 50%?

Who's the one that sets the standard?

Who's the one that's going to measure you?

I mean, you know, it's kind of like a a six-year-old that's able to walk out of the corner store and they've grabbed a few pennies off their dad's nightstand.

And they go down and they load up on candy, bring it to the counter.

They don't know they are completely incapable of paying for the few things that they have with those pennies.

The owner of the store looks at that and he's he's just he's moved with compassion.

And this child who doesn't even know that they're incapable of paying for the little that they have, and and he says, Hey, thank you.

You you take your candy and go.

And we're we're we're like we're like that six-year-old.

We don't even know.

We don't know what the standard is, we don't know what what what a dollar is.

We we're just completely unaware of our spiritual bankruptcy.

See, that's that's why we don't we don't we're not able to produce anything.

We are spiritually bankrupt.

The Pharisee says I fast twice a week.

I give a tenth of everything I get.

That is his that is his LinkedIn resume.

That's his online profile.

I want to brag on my ability to produce something good.

He doesn't even know that those things, I mean, they're not they're not even something that we should be bragging about or anybody should be bragging about.

It's like my son loves cars.

My youngest son loves cars.

You know, when I say cars, I mean he loves Lamborghinis, Bentley's, Rolls-Royce's.

I mean, we're driving down the road.

He's driving.

I am, listen, I have discovered a new depth of God's grace in the last six weeks.

I can't drive.

I'm completely at the mercy of other people.

And I'm married to Jill Butcher.

There is no mercy.

There's no grace.

She says, go ask James, who's my neighbor, to drive you, take you to work, take you to meetings, take you to church.

James dropped me off in front of the church this morning.

My wife couldn't even get up.

Bring me to church.

That stays right here between us.

I mean, I and and and and on a on a serious note, that's how I felt this week.

Wednesday morning, I I mean, my I would have jumped in my truck and I would have driven to Winder, but I couldn't.

My wife's at work.

I couldn't, I couldn't get I couldn't do anything.

I mean, I'm I I make phone calls, but I can't.

I I felt so bankrupt.

And my ability to do anything.

And so, you know what I could do?

I could pray.

I could encourage with a phone call or a text.

And so if you'll notice, Pharisee doesn't compare himself to wicked people of the day.

He talks about the good things that he does.

He's completely self-absorbed.

He's devoted to a couple of practices.

And listen, we believe, we have leaned into spiritual disciplines, but not as a means to earning God's grace.

We lean into the disciplines, knowing that to even discipline ourselves, we need God's grace.

And it is through the disciplines of prayer and practicing Sabbath and giving out of generosity and fasting and other spiritual disciplines, being a part of a church family, being in a community group in relationship with other people, we know that those are the conduit to receive God's grace, not to produce it ourselves.

But he thinks that not only is he better than those around him, but he can somehow earn God's favor by his actions and deeds.

A few years back, y'all probably know the name, Michael Bloomberg.

He was the former mayor of New York City.

At the time he was 72 years old, he had been the subject of uh the subject of death had come up, the end of life came up in a conversation and an interview.

And here's the quote from Jeremy Peters, the interviewer.

He says, But if Bloomberg senses that he may not have as much time left as he would like, he has little doubt about what would await him on judgment day.

Pointing to his work on gun safety, obesity, and smoking cessation, he said with a grin, I'm telling you, if there is a God, when I get to heaven, I'm not stopping to be interviewed.

I'm heading straight in.

I have earned my place in heaven, it's not even close.

At that point, I would have removed myself from the same building he was in.

I don't want to be close to him.

How brazen is that?

Not many would have the courage to say that out loud, much less in a public interview.

But this idea permeates us.

We don't say it, but sometimes we think it.

I feel pretty good about myself today.

And if I happen to step into eternity today, I think that I'll make it into heaven.

And we hear this over and over.

I'm basically a good person.

I think that my good outweighs the bad, and this is an enemy of grace.

We think we can live in such a way to tip the scales in our favor.

Verse 13, but the tax collector standing far off.

And so that that gives you the picture of the Pharisee.

But now let's look at the tax collector.

They're both at the altar, they're both coming before God in worship.

But the tax collector standing far off, he wouldn't even come up close, would not even raise his eyes to heaven.

He kept his head down, striking his chest, saying, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

You see the difference between the two?

One thinks he is a righteous man, leading his people into the presence of God.

Another knows that he is unrighteous and that he is taking advantage of his own people for financial gain.

He comes with empty hands and a bowed head and a humble heart and a simple prayer.

God have mercy on me, a sinner.

Which prayer was heard?

Which prayer moved the heart of God?

Verse 14, I tell you, this one who went down to his, this one went down to his house justified, the tax collector, rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humble, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.

And so, this idea, we understand that God is closer to sinners than to saints.

And that's a play on words.

I want to tell you something.

Your identity outside of Christ is the identity of a sinner.

When you come to Christ, your identity changes.

You're no longer seen by God as a sinner, you're seen as his child.

And so we still have this view in our humility that we're a sinner, but our identity changes.

As we have shared, a couple of us have shared, we come before God boldly because he has brought us into his grace.

I love what Tim Keller says in his book, The Meaning of Marriage.

He says, the gospel, the good news, is this.

We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared to believe.

Yet at the very same time, we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

This is the only kind of relationship that will really transform us.

God's grace is to be experienced, not just understood.

So in the fourth century, there's a theologian by the name of Augustine.

The church gave him sainthood.

So we we we know him as Saint Augustine.

And he was a dreadful, dreadful person, a a dirty, rotten, cheating, adultering, scoundrel.

And he had a dramatic encounter with the Lord.

While he is sitting in a garden, literally God comes to him and calls him to a place of forgiveness and salvation.

But before he came to the realization of God's grace, he had to realize he was a sinner and he had to know the depths of his sin.

And so he is radically transformed.

And there was another theologian in the church at the same time named Pelagius.

We don't know him as well because he's not quoted as much, but he's known more in Catholic circles.

But he preached that we had not only to receive God's grace, we had to produce a righteous life and our own strength.

But Augustine taught the truth and what he had experienced personally and what he had read in God's word, that we are incapable.

We are wholly held captive by our sin until God reveals and moves us by his grace.

And so that begins with the realization that we are sinners in desperate need of God's grace.

And we can't even become aware of our need for salvation until God makes us aware of the depths of our sin.

And so Augustine begins to write, he begins to teach, he begins to preach, known as one of the great theologians of the church, certainly the early church.

And he is transformed.

Here's what he says: He said, My sin was all the more incurable because I did not think myself a sinner.

And so we've got to come to grips with the reality and the truth that Jeremiah taught.

Jeremiah 17, 9, first part of the verse, he said, The heart is more deceitful than anything else.

The apostle Paul, and a little, maybe a few different words, he says, For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

John wrote in 1 John 1.8, if we say we have no sin, then we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

And Jean LaRue says, if the biggest sinner you know isn't you, then you don't know yourself very well.

And it hopefully will lead us to a place that Martin Luther discovered in the late 15th century, early 16th century, when he broke away from the Catholic Church to launch what we now know as the Reformation.

And he he had been haunted by the reality that he was headed for hell.

So much so that he he decided to become a monk.

But even in his role as a monk, he was haunted by feeling condemned.

That led him to a genuine encounter with Jesus.

And it radically transformed his life.

And he decided to go into the the to go back to theological school and seminary to train and then eventually to become a teacher.

And he he wasn't trying to bring reformation.

That wasn't part of his agenda and vocabulary.

He simply wanted to bring a fresh, reformed perspective to the church and to reorient the church, reorient the church to the truth of God's word, where we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone.

And the word of God and the disciplines, spiritual disciplines, simply are conduit for us to grow in grace.

And so I want to invite you this morning.

If you fall into a trap, if you fall into one of these categories where you are unsure of where you stand with the Lord, you are still plagued by doubt, condemnation, and guilt.

And you need, you didn't think you needed it, but you now know you need to experience God's grace up close and personal.

You thought you were saved, but you realize that maybe your salvation was placed with a false sense of security in your own ability to produce righteousness.

And now you know that you've got to count on the Lord to fill the gap between your sin and your righteous standing with the Lord, and that is a gap that you have no ability to fill yourself.

If you were here this morning and maybe you are genuinely saved, but you still struggle with this idea and concept of grace, and you need God to give you confidence and assurance to walk knowing that you can confidently go before the throne of God.

And that's what we need in this season.

That's what we need in light of what we all have been watching and experiencing this past week.

I love what this one verse, this short, short little verse in Romans chapter 4 that Martin Luther read that changed his life.

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It says, verse 3, Romans 4, verse 3.

Romans 4:3

For what does Scripture say?

Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.

As righteousness.

Verse 4.

And that of the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift, but as his due.

And to the one who does not work, but trust him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.

Those two verses changed Martin Luther's life.

And when he read them, he was showered with God's grace.

He knew it was the blood of Jesus that covered his sin, not his own ability to produce good works.

And so this morning, I simply want you to ask yourself, do you know you've experienced God's grace?

Do you need to experience a fresh work of his grace?

Would you pray with me?

Let's pray together.

Father, we ask that you would move in our hearts this morning, move in our lives, and bring us into your presence.

Shower us with your grace.

Help us understand that we are incapable, wholly incapable of doing anything in our own strength to attain right standing with you.

And so, God, we ask, we plead the blood.

Would you change us?

Would you transform us?

Not so we can have a good moral life, but so we can walk in grace.

Confident that you hold our salvation in your hand.

Awaken us to the reality of our need for grace.

Awaken us so we can turn and put our faith in you that we can believe and trust in the gospel, the life and the death and the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ.

This morning, if that's you, I want you to, you can do it while you're sitting, while you're standing.

You can come to the altar.

If you want somebody to pray with you, please feel free to come and I'll pray with you on this front row.

But let's come before the Lord.

Let's sing a response back to him believing that he is able, that he is good, that he is the one who saves.

Father, we love you.

We thank you.

It's in Jesus' name we pray.

And everybody said, Amen.