To Live Is Christ

What you say.

God, would you open our hearts this morning?

Would you speak to us and cause us to be sensitive to your words by the power of your spirit?

It's in Jesus' name I pray.

Amen.

So our text today is Philippians 4, 21 through 23.

So we did this last week, if you all would stand for the reading of the word.

Here it is, Philippians 4, 21 through 23.

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus.

The brothers who are with me greet you.

All the saints greet you, especially those in Caesar's household.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Thank you.

You can be seated.

So it's really easy to gloss over the closing of a letter, especially one that wasn't written specifically directly to you.

But it's important to remember that Paul is speaking to a real audience, real people with real names in a real city called Philippi.

He can see their faces in his mind as he's writing, and he knows them and loves them.

And so as he wraps up this letter, he is concluding it sort of like you might, with kind words of greeting.

And for us onlookers, these greetings at the end of a letter don't seem to mean that much.

But to the intended recipients, it meant quite a lot.

And so this is why we must, as we read the Bible, consider what it means to the intended audience.

Sure, it means something to us, but it also means something very important to the people of the time.

And we are reading holy scripture, which is profitable for teaching and correcting and training in righteousness, but we're also reading a letter.

So what did they get out of it?

It's become common practice for people nowadays to try to interpret the Bible by what they feel, what it means to them.

What do they feel this says?

Two people in the same passage could come to the complete opposite conclusions, different interpretations based on what they feel.

And I'm telling you that this is dangerous to your soul.

To try to answer the question, what does this mean to me?

We can very easily get the wrong idea about Scripture when we determine what it means.

Simply, it means what the author meant it to mean.

We don't get to determine the meaning of a passage in the Bible.

All throughout history, people have tried to do this.

And they sometimes have done some pretty serious mental gymnastics to try to get the Bible to mean something to them.

In other words, to get it to mean something that is other than what it says.

Many heresies have been contrived with that method of interpreting the Bible.

So we need to understand what the author intended and meant when they were writing.

What did Paul mean?

And only when we understand that can we understand the real meaning of Scripture.

So what was Paul communicating?

Well, first he says, Greet every saint in Christ Jesus.

He tells them that the brethren who are with him greet them.

So remember back in verse one, Paul opens the letter by saying that he and Timothy were writing to them.

And then there was also Aphyroditus.

He was with Paul also, having been sent by the Philippians to him.

So we have Paul and Timothy and Epaphroditus, but there were more.

He also says, All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household.

The Philippians sent Paul gifts to sustain him while in prison, and they were his primary benefactor throughout his ministry.

They sent him gifts as often as they could, which resulted in the advancement of the gospel wherever he was.

We know this because he says so.

Starting in verse 15 of chapter 4, he says, And you, Philippians yourselves, know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving except you only.

Even in Thessalica, Thessalonica, you sent me help for my needs once and again.

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.

The saints in Caesar's household were the fruit.

They were the increase to the credit of the Philippians.

These new saints in Caesar's household were prison guards and servants who worked there while Paul was imprisoned.

He says in chapter 1, verse 12, I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel.

So it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and all the rest that my imprisonment has been for Christ.

The prison guards heard Paul going on day after day, teaching and preaching the gospel, and some actually ended up believing.

Paul is saying that these people have heard and believed the gospel because of your encouragement and sustenance.

God used the giving of the Philippians to advance the gospel through Paul.

And that is what church giving is all about.

He says that in chapter 4, verse 13, that they shared in his afflictions by sacrificing their excess and giving it to him.

And God used that mightily.

Many were saved because Paul was able to preach the gospel thanks to the gifts from the Philippians.

So he tells them, We, all of us, old brothers and new, are here together greeting you there.

And this good fruit that the Lord has brought is credited to you.

That alone is great significance to the Philippian church.

But then he adds a line that's interesting.

He closes finally with verse 23, and he says, The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

That line is as Pauline as they come, Paul-like.

I was hoping Pauline would be here.

I could point to her, but didn't work out.

He opens this letter to the Philippians with grace to you, and he ends it with grace be with you, grace to you, and grace be with you.

In fact, this is how he opens and closes every single one of his letters, all 13 of them.

So this line, these lines are not an accident or mindless habit.

It wasn't part of his email signature that it just gets tagged on to the end.

He wrote these words in each of his letters for a reason.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

The pastor John Piper speculates that perhaps what Paul means when he adds these is that grace is coming to you, in the very beginning, grace is coming to you in this letter, and that God's grace in Christ Jesus, the living word of God, is going with you as you go into the world to live the words out.

Grace to you and grace with you.

Grace is the thread throughout all of the Philippi, all of the book of Philippians.

And you, you need to see how God's grace goes with you as you live out the scriptures.

So this is the last message in our series of Philippians called To Live is Christ.

The series title comes directly from the text in chapter 1, verses 18 through 21, which I'll read to you now.

Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage, now as always, Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

And here it is, for me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

So as you've heard many times, we've said it a lot now, Paul's imprison.

The whole account of Paul's imprisonment can be found in Acts chapter 21 through 28, if you're interested, but I'll summarize it for you.

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In Jerusalem, Paul was accused of compelling the Jews to forsake the law in favor of believing in Christ.

He says, Christ is the fulfillment of the law, the ceremonial laws have been fulfilled, and now we are to obey Christ, the Messiah.

Well, this enrages the Jewish leaders so much so that they form an angry mob to try to kill Paul in the streets.

And Roman soldiers come down and they rescue him and then throw him in prison, where he spends the next two years.

After appearing before ever-increasingly higher authorities, he is now waiting to have this case heard by the most powerful man in the world, the emperor of Rome.

And while awaiting his trial before the emperor, he writes this letter to the church in Philippi.

Two possibilities await Paul: deliverance or death.

And the emperor has full authority to carry out the judgment, and he can end Paul's life for any reason.

But he's not dismayed.

He does not despair.

Instead, he says, I will rejoice, for I know by the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or death.

For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

That's a pretty incredible statement for someone who is in such dire circumstances.

And the point of writing this isn't to highlight himself.

The point isn't to say, hey, look at me, I'm Paul the super Christian.

It's not a nice story about a great guy who persevered through tough times.

No.

This is God's word on how you should think.

You should say, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Paul wrote something very similar to the church in Galatia.

Galatians 2.20.

I have been crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

This is the way of a real Christian.

You, your desires, your will no longer live.

They are dead.

But Christ lives in you, and that life that you have left now, you live by faith in the Son of God.

By faith, and nothing less.

This is what it means to be born again.

And this tone rings out through the letter of uh to the Philippians: to live is Christ.

And that's no small thing.

To Christianity, it's essential, it's irreducible.

Christianity itself cannot be boiled down anymore.

To live is Christ, Christ lives in me.

And that's the point.

That's why this series was chosen.

You cannot read through Philippians and miss this point.

Don't miss it.

And it's a simple concept.

To live is Christ.

It's easy words to say, but it can't be left there.

You can't just say, Christ lives in me.

And now you're a Christian.

Declaring something doesn't make it true just because you said it.

Our culture is now built on this idea of my truth.

But that doesn't work that way with God.

Just simply declaring your Christianity.

An example, the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence in 1776.

But the peace treaty was not signed with Great Britain until 1783.

Declaring their independence was not enough.

It had to be one.

Declaring that you're a Christian isn't enough either.

It too must be one.

If you are to say to live is Christ, you're now saying Jesus is my life.

If you're going to live as a Christian, you had better know what that means.

Jesus is my life.

Paul's letter to the Philippians is all about Jesus.

Jesus is the center, Jesus is the focus.

Jesus is the whole point.

Paul starts the letter with the gospel of Christ is preached, even in my imprisonment.

Then he says, to live is Christ.

In chapter two, he says, have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus.

In chapter three, he says, all things are lost compared to the value of knowing Christ, Jesus my Lord.

Jesus Christ is everywhere.

And if you're going to be a disciple of Christ, if you're going to identify yourself with him, then Jesus ought to be everywhere in your life.

It's not good enough to merely agree with Jesus' teachings.

It's not good enough to even believe that he was the Son of God and that he was raised from the dead.

James 2, 19.

You believe that God is one and you do well.

Even the demons believe and shudder.

In Mark chapter 1, Jesus is teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum, and a demon-possessed man shouts out, What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth?

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I know who you are, the Holy One of God.

So obviously, belief alone, mental acknowledgement doesn't cut it.

You can acknowledge the historical account of Jesus or agree with Jesus' morally good teachings.

But it doesn't end there.

It's not enough.

That is not faith.

Agreement or acknowledgement is not faith.

Faith comes with something.

I said it has to be won.

Faith has to be won.

In one sense, it has been won through the victory of Christ on the cross.

But in another sense, we have to win it for ourselves as well.

Which I realize it might sound like I'm crossing into works-based salvation.

And it does sound like that.

It's paradoxical.

We know that we cannot earn our salvation with works.

All through the New Testament, we can read that our works can't save us.

Ephesians 2, salvation comes not by works, so that no one can boast.

Galatians 2, know that a person is not justified by the works of the law.

Titus 3, he saved us not because of the righteous things that we have done.

But it also says in James 2, faith by itself, if it has not works, is dead.

So which is it?

Do I have to work or don't I?

And that's the paradox.

You see, a paradox consists of two different ideas that at first seem completely opposite to one another, like magnets, they repel each other until upon further investigation you find that they actually complement one another.

You can turn one of the magnets around and now they attract.

So how does it work?

That if works don't save me, but I actually must work if I'm saved.

How does believing in your heart and works complement one another?

I'll give you the answer.

It's obedience.

Obedience is the key.

It's the shift in your thinking that unlocks the puzzle of the paradox.

It turns the magnet around, if you will.

So then our premise this morning will be this: God enabled obedience.

With the theme of Philippians being to live is Christ.

Faith absent of obedience is nothing.

Every action, thought, word, deed is Christ.

Our whole identity is Christ.

That's what it means to be a Christian.

And the spirit behind our actions is obedience.

To be a real Christian, we must be obedient.

So obedience is the premise, and under that premise, I have three points to support it.

The first of which is this, church.

Obedience is not works.

They are not the same thing.

Works being a self-righteous way to earn your way to heaven, as so many other religions propose.

They're not the same thing, but they do require you to do something still.

So what's the difference?

Two identical actions can have completely opposite results based in the spirit in which they are done.

Obedience and works, yes, are both work in the simplest definition, but obedience is right and works are wrong.

That's the difference.

And the difference is the spirit in which they're done.

Work says, I follow the rules.

A person wrapped up in works is content in their own goodness.

They think their good outweigh their bad.

If they can, by some stretch of the imagination, perceive themselves to have any bad, they see it as minimal.

It's just a white lie.

It doesn't hurt anybody else.

No one will find out.

It's no big deal.

They minimize the times when they fail to follow the rules.

But most egregiously, the worker, that's what we'll call them, the worker.

Worker denies that they need any help.

Their attitude is that they are good enough.

So why would they need any help?

And our world is full of this kind of thinking.

Ask anyone on the street if they are a good person and they will overwhelmingly tell you that they are.

And I'm here to tell you that these thoughts are not restricted to the outside world, they're rampant in the church as well.

These thoughts and attitudes invade all of our hearts.

You think this way.

You might not see it.

Let me help.

Do you ever go a day without meaningful prayer?

Do you ever go without reading God's word?

Do you minimize your sins before God?

If you do, like I do from time to time, could it be that your actions are saying, God, I don't need to spend intimate time with you today?

I'm too busy with other important things.

God, I don't need to hear from you today.

I'm too tired.

It's too confusing.

I'm not a reader.

God, my sins aren't really a big deal.

It was a small thing I did or didn't do.

And listen, the point of this isn't to point out that you should read more or pray more, because if you don't, God's gonna get you.

Like, that's not the point of what I'm trying to say.

The point is that our actions reveal our hearts.

What we do reveals what we believe.

Your actions reveal what you believe.

And this is deadly serious.

People that espouse their own goodness and rely on their own ability to do good and reject God go to hell.

Their actions deny that they need anything or anyone to help them.

Their actions say that we don't need Christ or the Holy Spirit, regardless of what their words might say.

These are the people who will say, Lord, Lord, do we not prophesy in your name?

And in your name cast out demons, and in your name perform many miracles.

To which Jesus will reply, Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.

I never knew you.

Doing more good things to cover your back isn't the answer.

It's not the answer.

The only cure for this is total repentance and then unrestricted obedience.

It's hard.

It's hard to hear these things.

It's hard to say these things, but they're true.

And if you're feeling uncomfortable in your seat, I beg you, repent.

Repent of your self-reliance and turn from it.

Trust God.

Now, obedience is the opposite.

Obedience says, I refuse my own ideas in favor of someone else's.

An external authority determines what is right and wrong.

And that authority has the right to judge and to show mercy.

The authority receives the glory.

When the subjects are obedient.

When you walk in obedience to Christ, you accept that he is the full and final authority.

You do your work unto him because it pleases him.

See, works in obedience couldn't be more different.

The actions can look the same, but the heart in which they are done are polar opposites.

Perhaps you've heard that God loves a joyful giver.

Now the giving here is irrelevant.

It doesn't matter if the gift is big or it's small.

Two people from the exact same financial position could give the exact same gift, but one is reluctant and upset about their gift, and the other one is joyful.

God is pleased with the joyful gift, not the reluctant one.

Same gift, same action, different heart, different results.

Now the same could be said for your prayer life or your Bible study.

When they're done with a genuine heart to seek and know God, they become pleasing acts of obedience instead of self-serving works.

All of our obedient actions are those things.

God is pleased by our obedience in faith.

You could say that faith is our obedience in action.

That's what it means to have faith in Christ.

And without faith, we know it's impossible to please God.

So living in Christ is only possible when you walk in obedience, which brings me to my next point.

What is the object of our obedience?

What must you obey?

Jesus says in John 14, 23, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words.

So simply we are to obey Christ's words.

If we are to live in Christ and He in us, then we must obey His words.

Jesus spoke, and it was recorded, which is incredible, but it goes much further than just the four Gospels that tell the accounts of Jesus.

All of Holy Scripture are his words.

Jesus is the literal word incarnate.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.

From Genesis to Revelation, we have preserved for us Jesus' words.

So if we are to obey it, then we must know it.

And how can we possibly know something?

Obey something that we know nothing about.

This is central to who we are here at Watkins Church.

Without this book, we are nothing.

Scripture is our only authority.

This is why we preach the way we do, going through verse by verse in order through the scriptures.

We preach this way because it reveals the mind of Christ to you and us who are preaching it as well.

We don't choose topics that we think you want to hear or that you'd like to hear or that are fun to talk about.

We don't talk about the news or we don't talk about politics or current events.

We bring the word of God week after week.

We labor in studying and explaining God's word so that you'll hear and understand what God is saying to you.

We want you to grow in your knowledge of the words of Christ.

Knowledge is powerful.

It's true.

But knowledge alone doesn't change your heart.

Sadly, there are plenty of pastors, and I heard a few accounts of them this week.

Few of pastors in history who could probably tell you a lot about the scriptures, but they ended up dying as apostates.

They fell away from their faith and never returned.

This is because they may have had knowledge, but they lacked affection.

They knew the words, but not the one who said them.

It's like if I wanted to share a great music artist with you, but I only gave you the lyrics, but not the music.

Sure, you might appreciate the poetry behind the words, but you simply cannot appreciate the artist because you haven't experienced the music.

We want you to know Christ's word and to read the word and experience the God who wrote them.

We want you to grow in knowledge of the words, but we also want you to grow in affection toward God.

Remember, Jesus Himself is the word incarnate.

He is who we want your affections to point to and grow in.

And when your knowledge and affections grow, so will your convictions.

Conviction is what compels us to act.

Our desire and constant prayer for you is this: that you would hunger for the words of Christ, that you would cry out to God in dependence on him, that you would be shaped and transformed by what he says and obey it diligently, depending on the grace given to you, all for the glory of God.

That's our prayer for you.

And if we too are to say, to live is Christ, then we must act like him.

We must be obedient as he was.

Christ was completely obedient to the Father.

Chapter 2, verse 8 says that Jesus humbled himself by becoming obedient even to the point of death.

So if we're going to live as Christ, then we too must be obedient.

But there's a problem.

Obedience to God does not come naturally to us.

Which brings me to my last point.

You can't obey.

You can't.

Romans 8, verse 7 says, The mindset on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:7

In the flesh, we can't subject ourselves to Christ's word.

In the flesh, we can't please God.

The heart is exceedingly wicked.

We cannot change our own hearts.

Toiling to obey out of natural ability is folly.

But remember, in John 14, Jesus said, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Jesus goes on to say, But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

He will come.

Jesus will come to you with the Holy Spirit, and they will make their home with you.

And this is the intersection of our passage today in the theme of Philippians to live as Christ.

This is the connection.

In your natural state, in your flesh, you cannot obey.

This is what the worker tries to do: will themselves to goodness, and that won't work.

You need help.

You need the helper, the Holy Spirit.

Remember, the key verse of today's text is the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is that grace.

Paul is saying that as you go and as you obey all Christ's words, go with God's grace, go with the Holy Spirit.

Walk in joyful obedience.

And to do that, we need the Spirit's help.

We need the Spirit to unlock our minds, to show us the truths in Christ's word, to break down our pride, to change our desires.

The Spirit is what takes that knowledge and builds affection and stirs up conviction.

The Spirit does that.

The Spirit is our convincer and our convictor.

The Spirit works in your conscience, convicting you in and of what is right and wrong.

He convinces you of the truth.

To ignore the spirit and to walk in indifference is sin.

Don't leave here.

That's a great fear of mine.

That you would leave here today and go to lunch and forget all about this.

That you would go and be indifferent to the words that God is saying to you.

It's really easy to do.

Hey, we did church today.

Just go, have a good time, and forget.

I don't want you to forget.

I don't want you to be indifferent to the Spirit's work in your life.

I want you to seek him, to help you, to reveal your sins, to correct your thinking, to change you continually.

Remember, it wasn't enough just to say one time, I'm a Christian.

I want this to be continual.

God wants this to be continual in your life, continually changing you.

And if you ask God, if you seek him, he will answer you.

The obedient, listen to him, and act accordingly.

The Spirit also helps us through others.

Jesus' first command to his church addresses this.

Matthew 18, Jesus says, If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.

If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you.

That every church may be, or I'm sorry, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.

And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

That's Jesus' first command to the church.

Now, this passage is less about church discipline and more about obedience to Christ.

Through the Spirit and the Spirit's help, we also help each other obey the words of Christ.

If your brother sins against you, if you see your brother sinning, go to him.

This is Christ's command to you.

This is what we at Watkins Community Church should be doing.

Go to that person in love and in truth and reason with them about the words of Christ.

Living in sin is disobedience, and a disobedient Christian is an oxymoron.

They cannot coexist.

We should not be living in habitual or willful sin.

A life of disobedience is antithetical to the Christian life.

Jesus is deeply concerned about sin in the church.

If one of you or me is sinning, someone must say something.

It's the most loving thing we could possibly do for them.

We just had communion together, and it was glorious.

But in 1 Corinthians it says this in chapter 11 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and the blood of the Lord.

Let a person examine himself then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For any one who drinks or eats without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Don't you think it would be really the most loving thing you could do for someone is to say something when you see them living in sin, when you see some sort of sin in their life?

People living in sin and partaking in the sacraments of the church, like the Lord's Supper, they got sick and died.

It's serious.

Now the answer isn't to stop taking communion, it's to stop sinning.

That's the answer.

And we can help each other do that.

And sure, it might be awkward.

It might be awkward to go to them and bring up their sin to pull them aside.

But I assure you, if you do it in love and in truth, it will not be mean-spirited.

It's loving and it's a direct command from Jesus.

And here's the hard part.

If they won't listen, take someone else.

And if they still won't listen, we'll tell the church and deal with it that way.

And if they still won't listen, we'll throw them out.

And thus the church is purified.

And that's hard.

That is a hard statement for me to say right here, because it's so.

But it's true.

This is Christ's command, and this is our obedience.

He is deadly serious about sin in his church and the purification of his church.

We are for him.

So let's be obedient to Christ.

So wrapping up this morning, it's my prayer that you will joyfully say for yourself, to live is Christ, and that it won't stop at words.

That your life will be in Christ, that you will carry out Jesus' words in obedience.

That's the theme of Philippians, to live as Christ.

That you would be found in Christ, and that your life would be complete in Christ, and that you would be like Christ.

And it's hard.

It's difficult to walk in obedience.

You cannot do it alone.

You need the grace of God that goes with you.

You need the Holy Spirit to convict and convince you.

You need the Spirit to turn your knowledge of Christ and of His words into affection for Him and then to develop deep convictions.

Strong convictions that cannot be broken.

And the Spirit of Christ can do that for you.

In addition to the Spirit's help, let us each help one another in love and in truth.

Let us take Jesus at his word and go to one another and lovingly address sin.

And if someone does approach you, maybe somebody already has.

Hear what they have to say.

Examine it.

Bring it before God together.

Jesus, like I said, is serious about a pure church.

And this is how he says to go about it.

So let us be obedient together, with hearts full of love for him and each other.

And if all this talk of obedience is troubling you, you're worried about it.

I don't know if I can make it.

You're in good company.

You cannot make it.

But the Spirit will help you.

And I would encourage you to start here with these words, chapter 4, verse 6.

Do not be anxious about anything.

But in everything, by prayer and supplication and thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Let's pray.

Heavenly Father.

This is hard.

Obedience is hard.

It's difficult to read your word and then do what it says.

Our flesh wars against it.

We make a lot of mistakes.

Will you help us?

Will you help us to be obedient to you, to carry out our faith to you in obedience, in the right spirit, not of self-serving, self-glorifying goodness, but in sincere love for the Son of God, love for Jesus Christ, who died and rose again.

Will you move us by the power of your spirit?

Will you show us, reveal us, convict us, convince us of our sins against you, of our attitudes that are yet to be revealed in our minds, of our actions that when we say one thing but do another?

God, will you help us?

We are wholly dependent on you.

You are the vine and we are the branches, and we can do nothing without you.

God, will you please help us?

Will you purify us as your church?

Will you give us a heart that loves you, a heart that seeks your word, seeks to obey out of love for you?

I'm sorry for my sins, Lord.

Will you forgive me?

And will you help us spurn each other on in obedience, even when it's difficult or awkward or weird.

That we as a church would love you in our obedience, that we would hate the things you hate and love the things you love, that our minds would be set on what is pure and what is right, what is good.

And that's you, Lord.

Thank you for this morning.

It's in Jesus' name I pray.

Amen.