Praise God for the Promise! - DuPont Campus

Good morning again. Uh, we're, we're so glad that you're

here. A lot of familiar faces, some newer faces, and some new

faces today. So I hope that after the service you don't run

outta here, uh, that you stick around for just a few minutes, maybe even grab

another donut. There might be donuts left. Um,

say hello to somebody, get to know somebody next month. One of the things we

should have announced that we didn't, we do have a slide going at the beginning.

We'll have it going at the end is we are gonna be doing some community

group launch type stuff. During August where we'll

meet as a whole church or anybody that wants to come, community group type

thing at the park. We'll provide the main dish, people bring sides,

we'll hang out for a while and then kind of relaunch into community groups in

September. Now it doesn't mean there aren't community groups meeting now. There are.

So if you can't wait till August, come talk to one of us and we'll

push you towards community groups. Um, but that's something at least to look forward to.

I should have announced that during announcements because in August that's going to be a

lot of fun. Uh, to be able to spend some time together. We do find

ourselves today in the middle

of our study in the book of Galatians. If you are,

um, if you're visiting today, we're going to be in Galatians

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chapter 3, but the slides are going to be popping up here that'll

have the verses on them so you can follow along through that,

uh, if, if you don't have a copy of God's word with you.

We do have some Bibles on our Grab a Bible table that you are

welcome to grab and make your own if you don't have a

Bible. Uh, we encourage everybody to have their own copy

so that they can read, take notes, study, go back to it during

the week. So we have some copies of God's word back there that we'd love

to give you as a gift. Um, and then yeah,

let that just be a gift from us to you. So we're in Galatians chapter

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3, starting in verse 14,

and we're only going through verse 22 today.

So I'll start reading here, and, uh, guys are working on

trying to get the slides up.

Oh, she's enjoying church. She's not on today,

so she's running back to save the day. Let's give a round of applause to

Alyssa, please clap it up. Thank you, Alyssa,

for bailing the guys out again.

I love it. We'll see if it pops up there. Perfect.

There we are. Let's start. Let's go through God's word, see what he

has for us today, starting in verse 15.

To give a human example, brothers, even with a man-made covenant,

no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to

his offspring. It does not say and to offsprings.

Referring to many, but referring to one, and to your

offspring, who is Christ. This is what

I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not

annul a covenant previously ratified by God so as

to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by

the law, it no longer comes by promise,

but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions until

the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made,

and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.

Now an intermediary implies more than one,

but God is one.

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God?

Certainly not, for if a law had been given Uh,

that it, that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by

the law. But the scripture imprisoned everything under

sin so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might

be given to those who believe. Father God, we do come

before you today asking that you will enlighten our hearts.

Help us to see, uh, what you want us to see this

morning in this passage of scripture. Help us

to be encouraged to move towards a faith that

relies solely on Jesus Christ and his finished work,

even though you have given us a lot of work to be done after we

become followers of Jesus. Help us to see that clearly

this morning, and it's in his precious name that we pray.

Amen. So we find ourselves in the middle of Galatians, a study

that we titled Christ's lives in me. And we're

going to look at the law and the promise. We've been talking

about this for a couple of weeks, so if you're new or newer today,

it kind of pops in almost like you are walking

into the middle of a discussion, and you kind of are.

So I'm going to catch you up just a little bit. Paul has been telling

the Galatians that salvation comes to you by

faith in Jesus Christ alone, period.

No works, period. Works are after

salvation. You got it, period, right? Because the Judaizers,

this group of Jews, was coming up into Galatia, which was a Gentile

area, and they were saying you need to become

Jews, you need to be circumcised, you need to

and they would list off a bunch of the Jewish law that

did not apply to the Gentiles as

requirements for a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And, and Paul is like, we are not

going to allow that sort of compromise

or corruption to come into the church.

And so our passage here today started out with to give a human example because

he's been building up to what we're gonna talk

about today by talking about these Judaizers that have

come up to these churches, multiple, in the Galatia area.

So we're gonna back up just a few verses to remind

you where we're coming from so that we see that

the works that were being thrust upon new believers

were not God's intention at all.

The law was there to point out the curse. The promise was made

for salvation through Jesus Christ alone,

and Paul is making that difference. So here, let's click back just

to a couple of verses that'll kind of give us a

little bit of what you might have missed if you weren't here last week.

For all who rely on works of the law are under the curse, For it

is written, cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written

in the book of the law and do them. Now it is evident that no

one is justified before God by the law, for the righteous shall

live by faith. But the law is not of faith.

Rather, the one who does them shall live

by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the

law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is

everyone who is hanged on a tree. So that Christ Jesus,

the blessing of Abraham, might come to the Gentiles,

so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Paul had been making the point that the law leads only

to the curse, not to salvation.

The only end of understanding the law in the

Old Testament is a realization that I can't keep

the law. So it's impossible for me to please God on

my own. My works will always fall short,

and the law was there to point that out. Then in the final verse,

uh, he introduced Abraham, right? We see that up there,

the, the introduction of Abraham, so that Christ Jesus, the blessing of

Abraham, might come to the Gentiles. So again,

for you and I, the majority of us here, if not all of us who

are here, are not Jews. We are Gentiles, and we

are thankful that the promise was made to Abraham that

would bless all nations. So even though

the Jews were God's chosen people and a very important part

of biblical history and history,

salvation came to everyone. And today Paul's going to contrast

the law with the promise so that we can

see the difference. This promise that was made to Abraham.

Now, a Jew would understand that there were 2 covenants that

they based their religion on. Today we

see the law, and that is referring to the Mosaic Covenant,

or the law that was given to Moses on the mountain that he then

brought down to his people in, in the form of the Ten Commandments.

And then after that, there was another 603

laws given. I think in the Old Testament there are 613 total laws,

right? So God was telling his people, this is how I want you to live.

This is the standard for followers of me. Even though I

will fall short, you will fall short. I will be faithful

in the promise that I gave to your forefather Abraham,

redemption in another way. So the Mosaic Covenant

was this covenant that was made between God and Israel that the

Judaizers loved. These were law-following

people. They wanted everyone to see them as perfect,

even though their hearts were corrupt. They would stand on the street corners

and pray loudly to look holy in righteousness.

Well, this same group of people, after Jesus had ascended back

into heaven, started going to these Gentiles saying, well, it's great that

you want to believe in the Jewish Messiah Jesus, and that's

okay, but you need to become a Jew. And they started to put that heavy

burden of the law onto all of these converts. And Paul,

this whole letter is writing about saying, no, we are

not going there. We're not gonna allow salvation to be compromised

by adding human effort. And so the law that was given

to Mo— uh, to Moses was to,

to remind them really of the

Abrahamic covenant, which was given 430 years earlier,

that you are going to fall short, but God says,

I will come in and make a way. The Abrahamic covenant,

referred to also as the promise, is the

really the thing that Paul is trying to show the difference between trying

to earn salvation on your own by doing good

works or accepting the free gift that comes from the promise.

The law is, is the inferior. The, the, the promise

is the superior if you're looking at these 2 covenants.

And so Paul's gonna take a little bit of time and he's gonna explain the

difference in the verses that we had already read. So let's go back to where

we were. To give a human example, brothers,

even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once

it has been made. Paul's been rolling in this letter. Now remember, they didn't

have verses or chapters back then. They would get together and they would read this

letter. So they were already like 3+ chapters

worth of verses into hearing this, and Paul's making these points and

he says, hey, I'm going to give you a quick example. It's kind of this

lesser to greater argument. He wants to talk about what the Mosaic

covenant was, what the Abrahamic covenant was.

But before he finishes in verse 17, he gives us kind

of the first superiority statement in verse 16.

So let's look at that. It says in verse 16,

now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring.

It does not say and to offsprings,

referring to many, but referring to one, and to your offspring who is

Christ. The promise was coming through Jesus Christ.

When God made the promise with Abraham, he was talking about

Jesus. Okay, so this Abrahamic covenant,

covenant, this covenant made between God and Abraham was a deal made

by God and through God alone.

Man was not invited in to do anything.

There was nothing necessary to ratify this agreement other

than God being faithful to his own word.

Now, if you're taking notes today, write down Genesis chapter 15.

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We're not going to jump back there right now. But this is the passage in

Genesis that reiterates the covenant of God that he made with

Abraham after he had been called to move a

long ways away from his home, and God's

promise to him that he would make a great nation out of him.

Abraham is given this call and he responds.

God comes to him again and he graciously reassures

him of his promise with a visual of

his presence. He asks Abraham in Genesis 15

to find and kill a heifer, a ram, a goat,

a dove, and a pigeon. Now that sounds

really weird to us, but back in the day this sort

of thing happened all the time. The,

the, the scene would be way off nowadays, probably something you might see in

a horror movie, but this is what they would do. They would lay out the

animal carcasses cut in half and on each side.

And then the 2 people that are ratifying their covenant would

walk down the middle of that together, as if to

say, if I break the covenant, this is

me. Isn't that kind of weird? Like, this is— they took things serious,

though. They're like, I'm putting my word down. And this is what God did with

Abraham. But God caused Abraham to fall into a deep sleep.

And God walked through these sacrifices

by himself, again showing that it's from God and

by God. God doesn't need Abraham to do anything.

He invited Abraham along for the ride,

much like what he's done for us. We've been called to do great things for

the kingdom, for God. We've been told how to live. There are things we need

to do and strive to do. To look more like Jesus every day

and a little bit less like ourselves. But that has nothing to do with salvation,

and it has everything to do with a desire to follow God. And so it's

kind of— if you can get past kind of the blood and this idea,

it's a really cool thing. God's saying to Abraham, I want

you, I'm making this promise to you, and I

don't need anything from you. Whereas another covenant between

2 men or women or whoever it might have been, they would be saying,

I'm going to hold up my end of the bargain. I'm going to hold up

my end of the bargain. If we don't, this is— I mean,

I'm as good as dead. Like, this is so important. And they would ratify it

that way. And yet God said, this is on me.

This blood covenant that's being confirmed here,

it's all on me. In Genesis 12:2-3,

Genesis 12:2–3

God had made the promise to Abraham that you will have heirs,

you will have land, and you will have blessing.

That was a promise that was made to a man that really didn't have much

of anything. And God said, I'm gonna make a

great nation out of you.

God passed through, his presence was all that

was needed. Nothing depended on Abraham in

this promise. Jesus Christ and what would happen through

him coming to earth was all dependent on God.

God's faithfulness is what's on display.

God promised something and made it come to pass, and Paul is

writing about that in Hebrews 6. It recounts the story

like this: for when God made a promise to Abraham,

since he had no one greater by

whom to swear, he swore by himself,

saying, surely I will bless you and multiply you.

And thus Abraham, having patiently waited,

obtained the promise. This was guaranteed.

God was not going to break his word. He's not going to back

down, and he can do it all on his own. God doesn't

break his promises. Why would

he break his promise that he has made to you and I?

Salvation comes through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

Everything else is in addition to that. The promise

from God is superior to the law because none of us here,

none of us that have ever lived, could have

obeyed the law without breaking a single one of them.

And, and God is saying the law is there to point you

in a direction, but my Son is here to

pay the penalty of your sin, to fulfill the

promise. So praise God for that promise,

for sure. The promise is by God and to

God. The promise is by God and to God.

Let's move on.

Verse 17. This is what I mean. The law, which came 430 years

after, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God so

as to make the promise void.

God's promise came before the law, tied together.

Verse 15. Uh, imagine Congress passing

a law that violated the Constitution itself,

right? The Constitution came first. And so Congress

needs to keep that in mind as they are making laws.

A deal's a deal. God says, I promise this,

I'm not going to go back on this. And if it works this

way with man, like Congress, why, why would

you not think that God would hold to that perfectly?

In other words, we're going to use a human example here Nobody

adds to it, nobody annuls it. Once it's been made, it's as good as gold.

And God is saying, you can trust my promises too.

God's promise to Abraham came before the law came to Moses.

It doesn't annul it, it doesn't change it. The promise

still exists.

God's promise came before the

law. And we need to keep that in mind.

The law did not replace the promise. And finally,

we see God's promise guarantees us an inheritance.

For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by

promise. But God gave it to Abraham by a

promise. God's promise included an inheritance.

Previously, the law led to curse. Right.

If you were trying to obey the law, all it did was show

you that you couldn't do it. Right. They instituted

a whole sacrificial system because of that. And God said,

obey the law. And if you don't, these are the

consequences. The law, again, was there to point that out,

and it led continually to us feeling like we couldn't

be good enough. And yet God is saying

through the promise that I give to you, you don't need to

earn this. And it will include an inheritance and

an eternal promise that you will spend eternity

with God. Now, God promises this inheritance,

right? He gave the inheritance and the promise to Abraham, and that's continued on

through, through Jesus Christ to you and I.

So while we're making this case about how deficient

the law is, we're also then making the

case of how important the promise is. The law

by itself cannot hold. But Paul loves

to ask questions. Remember last week when he says, I got a question for you,

and then he rattles off like 8 or 10 questions and we went through that

section? Well, here he again starts out saying, hey, then why the law then?

It was added because of transgressions. And Paul's going to say,

no, there are deficiencies in the law,

further proving that the promise of peace that comes

through Jesus Christ is more important. But he's going

to answer this: why then the law? He says it was added because of

transgressions. Now, transgressions, for you and I, it's another way of saying sin

or breaking the law. Breaking the covenant that we have with God

as we try to live. The law highlights sin.

And again, there was a cost to that. There was a sacrificial system set in

place. If you steal,

this is the consequence for that.

And then Jesus came and it changed everything.

The, the law itself pointed towards the

way people should live, but because they couldn't

do it, it brought condemnation upon themselves. It never brought the cure.

No matter how good you were, you were never good enough. The law

can diagnose, but it can't cure. It's kind of like an X-ray

machine, right? Most of us have probably had an X-ray.

The X-ray machine can show us what's broken,

but have you ever seen an X-ray machine repair the

brokenness. I haven't,

and I've been under an X-ray machine a few times, right? It's there to

diagnose the problem, to point, say, to say,

this is what's broken, let the doctor fix it.

And the law was the same. It's gonna show us what we're doing wrong,

and then it points us towards Jesus. And for us, for you

and I, we need to make sure we understand that. And that we're not trying

to fix our brokenness with

a machine that just points out the brokenness.

The law came, it had its purpose,

but the law can only diagnose the problem.

It cannot cure it.

As we continue on here, it says, until the offspring,

singular, Jesus should come to whom the promise had

been made.

The second thing we're gonna look at is that the law was temporary,

like scaffolding being put up around a building. The scaffolding

is there so that men and women can work

on the exterior of the building till it's done,

then they come down. Now, wouldn't it be a shame if they did all the

work on the building and they made it beautiful and then they left the scaffolding

up, right? It's there, it's blocking it,

it's confusing the person who's trying to look at it. It's not as

beautiful as it will be once the scaffolding is moved.

When the project is done, they tear down the scaffolding, they pull

it away, and then what's left is the beauty of the

exterior of this building that they were creating. Well,

the law was established for you and I to

know what we need to do to look more like Jesus each

day. It's not our choice. We don't get to just do whatever

we want to. We've been given a guideline,

a book that has guidelines for you and I.

And for anyone that says when Jesus came, he abolished

the law, the Old Testament doesn't matter anymore, you don't need to read it because

it doesn't matter, is wrong because Jesus actually, whenever he spoke

of the law, he honored it. And whenever he spoke

about what we should and shouldn't do, he usually was taking

an Old Testament law and actually raising the bar.

We've talked about it, this, I think even in Galatians before. It used to

be do not murder, but Jesus says if you

hate someone in your heart, that's like committing murder.

He's called us to a higher standard.

So Jesus came as the substitutionary

atonement that you and I needed. I know those are some big words, but he

came because we could not pay the price that the law would have

demanded. But he did not come and say, do as you

please. What he said was, continue to follow

God, do your best. And where

you fall short, I will come in and pick you up.

And when you get to heaven and God says, why should I let you in?

You get to point to me and the sacrifice on the cross and

the blood that was shed, that, that payment that was applied to you.

You don't need to talk about yourself.

Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe,

right? Everything. He's done it. And it's beautiful.

The law was for a time until Jesus could come,

the offspring to whom God made the

promise. Let's continue on here. At the end it

says the third part: this law,

right, was mediated by mere mortals.

Okay, the, the— it was made, it was put in place through

angels, through Moses the intermediary,

right? It implies more than one. It's, it's put

together pointing us again towards God, but in no

place taking the place of the promise.

The law was mediated by mortal. God used Moses and

even angels to put this law in place. That's what Paul is telling

us there. And in fact, it was maintained as well by human

high priests who were the only ones that were even allowed to

approach God on behalf of the people. You would go to the temple and

then you would give your sacrifices and your offerings, and then

they would go and approach God with that offering and that sacrifice for

you. So God used men, he used mortals

to implement the law, but it's so different with the

promise. It could only be completed

and fulfilled by Jesus Christ. It didn't require any

mortal mediator. Most of us

have supervisors at work that tell us to do

this or to do that, but how

much more seriously do we

act if the owner of the company Or

the top dog comes into our office, right? The supervisors

can tell us what to do, and we have to decide whether we're going to

do it or not. How much trouble will I get in if I don't do

this? But if the owner comes in,

a lot of times we act differently. For myself, I worked for about

almost 18 years at Costco Wholesale, and I had

supervisors and I had managers, and I worked there. I had a great time.

When Jim Sinegal, the creator of Costco, would come annually

to visit our building, there was a little more

pep in my step. Like, I wanted it to look perfect.

And as I moved up through being a supervisor and into management,

I wanted my people to even work harder when we knew Jim was coming

than when it was just us for the day. Now, probably shouldn't have been that

way. We should have worked that same with that same energy

every day. But if Jim was popping into the building,

we wanted that place looking great, right? And so as

we, as we work for— or we—

I was going to say, as we work, we got to keep in mind,

right, that the supervisors are the

law. They're telling us what we need to do. Right? You see

what I'm saying? And, and so we work and we need to be doing that.

But, but when Jesus showed up and he fulfilled that and we

see what he has done for us, we need to know that

he has done it all and our work is for him. The effort that we're

putting in is for him, not for salvation, but because we love him.

Paul is proving his point that the law is inferior to

the promise. The promise gives us hope. If we're

looking at just the law, some of us could become discouraged. I try so

hard, but I fail all the time. And yet when

we think about Jesus and what he did for you and I, we find

hope in that. His argument has been that the

promise is superior to the law,

but he's actually proven not only that,

But that the law was— or he's

proven that we need the law to point us in the right direction,

even though the promise is superior.

Paul goes on to say, is the law then contrary to the promise of

God? Someone might say, okay, you're telling us about this promise, the promise to

Abraham, that's all we need. We don't need the law anymore. That we fail when

we try to live up to the standard of the law. Is the law

contrary to the promise of God? And Paul says, certainly not.

He just wants to show that the, the promise is over the law.

It's superior to it. He's not saying that the law is contrary to

the promise, but it wasn't meant to be a permanent fix.

And, and you and I, we can praise God because

as far as the law is concerned, It did its

job, and it still shows you and I what we need to do

today. And, and so even though it's been proven as

inferior to the promise, it has a benefit for

mankind. Paul says here,

for if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed

be by the law. Again, this idea that we can work hard enough

to earn our salvation is, is something

that he is combating here in this book and other letters

that he wrote to churches. And he's saying, no, praise God that

the law can only diagnose the problem. It doesn't need to save us.

The promise came through Jesus Christ, and he is the one who would save us.

Because if that was the way to righteousness, living up to the law, it would

be miserable. Because every time you made a mistake, every time you sinned,

You would feel you had fallen short, and you would have, and there would be

a crushing burden that you would be living under. And so God, through his

word, wanted us to understand that he has called us

to live in a certain way, and it's important, and yet it's not

what we have to do to be saved. The holy God sent

his Son to be the sacrifice for you

and I. Praise God that the

law only diagnoses the problem.

It's not the cure.

Paul continues on, but the scripture imprisoned everything under sin

so that the promise that was made by faith will stop there.

In fact, we can also praise God that, that this was temporary, a temporary necessity.

Think of how wonderful it is when they remove the detour signs.

How many of you in this last week or two have been caught up in

some of the southbound traffic? Any of you? Like, they're closing 3

lanes, 4 lanes, and we're getting stuck. I mean, people are getting stuck

in traffic for hours. They're trying to sneak through the base. They're trying to sneak

through any back way that they can. But when they remove those signs

and those lanes are finally open, we see the

results of all of that work. The detour was necessary,

but the hope was that there would be a permanent cure

to the road, right? That it would be fixed and that we could all cruise

southbound without all of the issues that have

been going on over the last— it seems like 25 years that I've lived here,

right? I mean, the law was necessary. It highlights

the need for faith, right? This faith

in Jesus Christ, that's the permanent cure.

So you and I, we read the law and we need to remember that it's

pointing us towards Jesus. The law

is necessary to show us that we can't

do it on our own, but that Jesus came and through faith in him,

he allows us to break free from the prison,

right, of sin. Because if we try to do

it on our own, we wouldn't be able to.

Its temporary nature pointed towards the Messiah as

the final solution for man's problem.

Praise God, it was temporary. And finally, we see he,

he closes out, Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Praise God for the mediator. Our mediator is Jesus Christ.

He sits at the right hand of God the Father.

Interceding for you and I. That's what the scriptures say.

If I got to have a mediator, that's the one I want. I want him

speaking on my behalf. But again, not based on anything

that I do, but because what he paid for me.

This promise is to all who believe,

right? 1 Timothy 2:5 says, for there is

1 Timothy 2:5

one God and one mediator between God and mankind,

Jesus Christ. Hebrews 9:15 says,

Hebrews 9:15

uh, the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are

called may receive the promise of

the eternal inheritance. This is what

Paul was talking about. This is what he was writing about. The confusion of

the Judaizers throwing all of these restrictions on the Galatian

believers was one that Paul was not going to take sitting down.

He stood up for those who had come to faith in Jesus Christ.

The law had its purpose, but you need to remember what

the purpose is.

The Son of God mediates for you and for I,

for all of us who believe. And so we need

to remember that. We can't do it on our own, but we have Jesus who

can. The verses we're gonna study next week begin by comparing

old status under the law, and it

kind of explains it as being a guardian until

Jesus came. Kind of like the law

was our temporary foster parent or

a babysitter until we're placed in that permanent

home. Then it will go on to show how beautiful it

is that Christ and our relationship with

him through faith brings us into a family where you

and I are called sons and daughters of the King.

And so as we continue to build on this chapter, I hope you see that

we serve an incredible God. We have a beautiful

Savior who loved you enough to die for you, and we can live

in the promise that was given to Abraham.

So let's praise God today for his grace. Let's pray.

Father God, we thank you for what you have given to us through

your Son, Jesus Christ. We thank you for

the free gift of salvation for all of

those who believe. We thank you that we don't have to

earn it, that it's a give— a grace gift given to

us because of our faith in the sacrifice of your

Son. Help us not to live under the weight

of the law, the weight of the things that you have called

us to do, but help us to joyfully move towards

them To become the people that God has created us to

be. So that we'll want to obey your word because of

what you have done for us. The love that you showered

on us, that you lavished upon us through your Son,

his death, his burial, and his resurrection.

Help us to desire daily to follow you,

not out of any thought that we might actually earn our

salvation. But because of our salvation.

And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. As we go into a

time of worship, we have a couple of communion tables set up in the back.

We want to invite you, as the Lord leads you, to move back

there, take a piece of that bread that represents Christ's body that was

nailed to the cross, dip it into the juice, and then we ask that you

just step away from the table so other people can get to it.

But during the few moments maybe that you spend with the Lord, whether alone

or with family members, or friends, reflect on

the cross. Reflect on the promise.

Jesus Christ came to earth to live a perfect

life, to die for you, to, to bleed so

that that holy righteousness could be applied to your balance

sheet. So that when God looks at you, he sees his Son Jesus Christ.

He knows you. He calls you his son. He calls you his daughter.

Because of the sacrifice that Jesus made for you and for

me. So as we stand, if you're able to worship, stand with me.

Uh, use the next couple of songs, uh, to, to worship also

through communion.

I cast my mind to Calvary

where Jesus bled and died for

me. I see his wounds,

his hands, his feet, my Savior

on that cursed tree.

His body

bound and drenched in tears,

they laid him down in Joseph's

tomb, the entrance sealed by

heavy stone. Messiah still.

And all alone.

Oh, praise the name of the Lord

our God. Oh, praise his name forevermore.

For endless days we will sing

your praise. O Lord, O Lord

our God.

On the third, at break of dawn,

the Son of Heaven rose again.

O trampled death, where is

your Sing, the angels roar

for Christ the King.

Oh, praise the name of the Lord our

God. Oh, praise his name forevermore.

For endless days we will sing your

praise, oh Lord. O Lord,

our God.

Shall return in robes of white.

The blazing sun shall

pierce the night, and I

will rise among the saints.

My gaze transfixed on Jesus'

face.

O praise

the name of the Lord our

God. O praise his

name forevermore.

For endless days we will

sing your praise, O Lord.

O Lord our God.

Oh, praise the name of the Lord our

God. Oh, praise his name forevermore.

For endless days we will sing

your praise, O Lord,

O Lord our God.

O Lord, Oh Lord, oh God,

I need you to

soften my heart and break me

apart. I need you to

open Open my eyes to see every

shape in my life.

All I am,

I surrender.

Give me faith to trust what

you say. That you're

good, your love is great.

I'm broken inside, I give you

my life.

I need you to

something In my heart and break me

apart. I need you to

pierce through the dark, to cleanse every

part of me.

All I am,

I surrender. And Lord,

give me faith to trust what you

say, that you're good,

your love is great.

I'm broken inside,

I give you my life.

I may be weak, your spirit

strong in me. My flesh may fail,

but God, you never will.

I may be weak, your spirit strong

in me. My flesh may fail,

but God, you never will.

Give me faith to trust what

you say, that you're good and

your love is great.

I'm broken inside. I give

you my life.

Help me,

faith, to trust what you say,

that you're good, your love is

great. I'm broken inside,

I give you my life.

'Cause I may be weak,

but your Spirit's strong in me. My flesh

may fail, but God, you never

will. 'Cause I may be weak,

but your Spirit's strong in me.

My flesh may fail, but God,

you never will. Never will. Give me

faith to trust what you say,

that you're good and your love is

great. I'm broken inside.

I give you my life.

All right, I'm gonna teach you guys a new song. It's a little

syncopated. You will get it, I promise. Uh,

but it's kind of a confession to God, like,

hey, this is what I want to be true. It doesn't feel all true all

the time. You guys know songs like that where the words are on the screen

aren't matching up exactly with what's going on in your life?

Well, those songs are like, this is what I want it to

be, God. And so I'm, I'm praying this. I believe in this. I believe

this is the truth. So this is one of those kind of songs. It's called

Every Day.

Say, Lord, it's you gave me life, and I

can't explain just how much you mean to

me now that you've saved me. Lord, I give

all that I am to you, that every day I can be

a light that shines your name.

Every day, Lord, I'll learn to stand upon

your word, and I pray that I, that I

might come to know you more, that you would guide me in every

single step I take, that every day I can

be a light unto the world. Every day it's

you I live for. Every day I'll

follow after you every day.

I'll walk with you, my Lord.

Every day, Lord, I'll learn to stand upon your word.

And I pray that I, that I might come to know you more,

that you would guide me in every single step I

take. Every day I can be

a light unto the world. Every day it's you

I live for. Every day I'll

follow after you. Every day I'll

walk with you, my Lord.

Let's sing that again. Every day, every day

it's you I live for. Live for every

day. I'll follow after you

every day. I'll walk with you,

my Lord.

It's you I live for every day.

It's you I live for every day.

It's you I live for Every day.

This is what we want to be true, God, that we do, that we do.

It's you I live for every day.

It's you I live for every day.

It's you I live for every day.

One more time. It's you

I live for every day.

It's you I live for every day.

It's you I live for every day.

Every day, it's you I live for.

Every day, I'll follow after you.

Every day, I'll walk with you,

my Lord.

Every day it's you I live for.

I'll follow after you every

day. I'll walk with you, my Lord.

Amen. Well, let that be your prayer today, that you are living for him

just like we all want to. Amen. All right, go away and say

hi to people on your way out. Yes.

To say hi to people. What was that? I said don't forget to say hi

to people. Seems unnecessary. It's very important. Get out

of here! Get out of here! Oh, I love you!