Love God and Love Your Neighbor | Mark 12:28-54

Good morning, church.

I hope you can hear me.

Yeah?

Okay, wonderful.

I had to use a stand because I'm short and I forgot my glasses.

So I need to be able to see.

It is so wonderful to be here with you all today.

It is exciting to share a little bit about Mark 12, but more importantly, what I really want to share today is the heart of Mark 12.

And that's where we're going to exposit that text that we just read.

Mark 12, 28 through 34.

And just to give you a little bit of background, first about myself and then about the text.

My wife and I, Laura, back in 2018, we felt the Lord really calling us to ministry.

We had been at Mercy Hill for a few years at that point, and I had was getting ready to become an elder at the church.

And so we decided to go on a mission trip to Scotland with an organization called 20 Schemes, and that's where they're planning churches in the poorest parts of Scotland.

So they call ghettos schemes over there.

And we went over there on this mission trip in the summer of 2018, and we were like, man, this is awesome work.

We could see where they were working, where they were planning these churches, and I will tell you, it was so crazy to go to a country that speaks English-ish.

My wife still thinks it's a second language, but it is very hard to understand them.

But they don't know the word Jesus.

They don't know who Jesus is.

Only about 2% of the UK is Christian at this point.

About 68% of the UK would claim that they are atheist.

And so we were there, and it was just an amazing, amazing trip.

And then we came home, and it was a beautiful summer day here in Bullock County.

And I don't know how many of you guys like us like to sometimes take a drive after Sunday church.

And it's just a beautiful day, and we were driving around, and I looked over to Laura, and she's crying.

And so, usually when she's crying, it means one of two things.

One, I've screwed up.

I didn't feel like I'd screwed up.

And second is it's a move of the Holy Spirit.

And we sometimes joke.

She just can't hold it in.

And I looked over and I was like, what's going on?

And she said, I feel like God had taken us 4,000 miles away to show us that our mission field was four miles away.

Because what we saw that summer afternoon in this beautiful county was the same depravity, the same poverty, and the same lostness that we had just seen 4,000 miles away in Scotland.

You see, Bullock County is one of the most lost counties in the state of Kentucky.

So out of our over 100,000 residents at this point here, only 7.4% claim to go to a church.

So I'm going to say it again, real quick, is if the trumpet sounded on high right now.

Now, of course, I'm not saying that church attendance gets you into heaven.

But what I'm saying, if the trumpet sounded on high right now, 93,000 of your neighbors would go to hell in just this county.

And that was that's a that is a stark contrast that what God has called us to.

And so being a part of a church plant, Mercy Hill, we planted 14 years ago from First Baptist Mount Washington.

So from the church right here downtown, they planted us in Shepherdsville.

Because at the time, Paul Chipwood, who was the pastor there, saw the need for healthy gospel-preaching churches to shine the light in this very dark community.

And so it was that thread that led us to believe that God was calling us to ministry right here in our own home.

And so we didn't know what that looked like.

We were just like, okay, God, we're going to give it to you.

And my missional community, which is what we call like our home groups, we decided to start praying and fasting.

And I did a little exercise with them, which I thought was funny, and they thought was funny too.

I went to Dare to Care and I got a food box.

And we had we have dinner with our missional community.

We're Baptists, we like to eat.

Just going to put it there.

And so we have food before we do our Bible study.

And I said, for tonight, instead of us doing the dinner like we normally do where everybody brings a dish, we're going to open up this food box from dare to care, and we're going to make what's in it.

But we're not going to use any tools.

We're not going to use like a pan or it's just as if we were homeless and we got this box of food.

And let me tell you, we opened up that box, and every can needed a can opener.

It had a ton of pasta and a ton of rice in it, which I don't know what you're going to do with that.

And we would have gone hungry if we were homeless that night.

But what that showed us was, oh my goodness, how are our friends and our neighbors living without resources?

How can they go get a food box and they can't even eat the food that's in the food box unless you have a house?

Right?

There was an assumption that you would have a can opener and a microwave and a stove and all those things.

And so God really started to urge us to think about the unhomed and the impoverished in our community.

And a big part of it was many of you guys, I don't know, show of hands, who knows Charlie?

Anyone know Charlie?

He's kind of our Bullock County homeless guy that some think is the only homeless person in our county.

Great guy.

This is when he was living right next door to our church.

And so we're like, maybe we start with Charlie.

But we started praying and fasting that fall of 2018.

And when you know is about a year ago this month, that some concerned citizens and a few elected officials approached Mercy Hill as a church and said, would you consider opening up a winter shelter?

See, Bullock County is also the largest county in the state of Kentucky without a homeless shelter.

So we have no resources.

I don't know if any of you got to see the documentary or the series 60 Days in Narcoland on AE back in 2019.

But we are considered a resource desert, Bullock County is, which means our population has far exceeded the resources that we have to maintain it as a community.

And so it was at that point that we really knew what God had in store for us.

And it was the Sunday that we opened the shelter, we had been preaching through Luke for about two years at that point.

So at our church, we exposed the text, we start in a book and we preach through the entire book.

And what I love about doing that is, first off, uh you don't get to skip the hard stuff, right?

So you've got to preach what is next, what the next chapter is.

But also what I love is I am nowhere smart enough to figure out what Bible verse to preach the day we're opening a shelter.

But God is.

Yet, we know Jesus is always ready for the challenge.

And in this text, we see a scribe is kind of watching Jesus really answer all these questions well.

And I feel almost as if, in an innocence, you don't feel the venom that you do in some of the other questions that Jesus gets, right?

Some of the other questions you can really tell that the scribe or Pharisee is trying to trip Jesus up.

But in this, we see the scribe, I think, very earnestly asking in 28.

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing one another, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked them, which commandment is the most important of all?

And so we see the scribe is really coming to Christ and asking Jesus, well, we we know all the laws.

We, you know, these scribes and these Pharisees, that's all they did was read the Holy Scriptura, the Torah, the Tanakh.

They just read it over and over again.

Many of them memorized the words of the Torah, which is the first five books of our Bible.

And Jesus answered them.

The most important is hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

So that's the first commandment that Christ answers to this scribe.

And I'd ask if you would all turn to Deuteronomy 6 for me, real quick.

So if you turn, or as you're turning, to Deuteronomy, see many would, as they're reading the Bible, would would think, well, this is just uh, you know, this is Jesus telling it like it is.

But what's interesting is that Jesus himself was quoting Scripture.

So if you look at Deuteronomy 6, 4 and 5.

So starting in 4, Moses writes, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

So Moses is writing this commandment.

This is the opening of the Shema.

This is the opening of basically the guidelines of how the Israelites were to live.

Is first, know that our God, our Lord, is one.

Now, interestingly enough, they weren't even talking about the Trinity back then.

But they were already answering the question.

They were saying that the Lord, our God, is one, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

And so Jesus, right here, is quoting the scripture.

And many would say that as he's talking about might, he's elaborating on not just that we should love God with all of our strength, but in that might, that Christ is also covering our mind.

That mind and strength are tied together, and he's elaborating on that.

That is our heart, that is our soul, it is our mind, and it is our strength that we should love our God.

And what I love about this passage is strength.

Strength means there's an action assorted to this love.

It would be easy to sit in the corner on our hands and love God with our heart and our soul and our mind.

Right?

But Christ says strength.

Now, I don't like to do dishes.

Not very big fan of it.

But my love, my my wife's love language is service.

And so there are times that I will sneak into the kitchen and I'll make sure that all the dishes are done, not because I want something from her, but it's because I love her.

And I know that by doing that, she is going to feel that love.

Well, that's just such a minuscule way.

But this is what Jesus is talking about.

Right?

He's talking about loving people that can't give you anything back.

He's talking about loving God for his character, not from what we're getting from God.

Right?

That we are loving the character of God, his mercy, and his grace.

A lot of times we forget to talk about the mercy part.

The grace part is lovely to talk about, right?

Getting the things we don't deserve.

I love talking about grace.

But what about the mercy?

The mercy is we're not getting what we do deserve.

And what we do deserve is to hang on the cross.

Right?

I oftentimes tell my daughter when she begins, she's 19 and she thinks everything should be fair.

I appreciate that.

I love her for that.

But I remind her, I'm glad life is not fair.

Because if it were fair, we would be all in hell.

That's what fair looks like.

That's what just looks like because we are sinners.

We are rebellion and in rebellion against the holy God.

But he loved us so much, he sent his son, who wrapped himself in flesh, like the song said, and he lived the perfect life.

He humbled himself from the crown and came here to live among his creation.

And so the first command is to love God in that way.

And then going on, what Jesus says, the second is this you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

There are no other commandments greater than these.

And so I'm going to have you turn your Bible again to Leviticus.

And Leviticus 19, 18.

Now we know Leviticus is kind of the rule book for the Israelites.

This is where the 630 some other laws, rules, and things that they were trying to do to gain righteousness.

But again, Christ is quoting Scripture.

And I have to bring this up.

We're preaching through ecclesiastics in our church right now.

I highly recommend you read that book.

Especially in this season of life that we are here, if you watch CNN.

What is amazing about ecclesiastics is somewhat attributed to Solomon, but at 800 BC, he's talking that nothing new is under the sun.

And believe it or not, 20 or 2,000 plus years later, nothing new is under the sun.

Christ was saying, I've already told you this, right?

God told Moses this in 18, you shall not take vengeance or bear grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

I am the Lord.

So all Jesus is doing is quoting his dad.

He's quoting his father, who had had Moses write these words down as a commandment.

And then further on in Luke, Jesus opens the gap as he tells the story of the Good Samaritan because they ask, Well, who's our neighbor?

Because it's easy to love your neighbor that lives right next door and you grew up with and you've known him for 20 years, and they asked to have you mow their yard.

Well, of course I'll love you and I'll mow your yard.

But even the Gentiles do that.

That's what Paul would say.

But it's the person that can't give you anything.

It's the neighbor that is the homeless person.

Loving on them is a little bit different because they have nothing to give in return.

They don't have any material possession.

You're not going to gain some type of incredible credibility by taking care of one of the least of these or loving on them.

And Jesus, as he is talking about the good Samaritan, what's crazy is we can't even get our heads wrapped around how crazy it would have been for a Samaritan to help an Israelite.

And the only thing that I could even liken it to today is could you imagine the headlines?

You know, a Hamas soldier rescues an Israelite soldier and puts him in the hospital and pays all his hospital bills.

Could you imagine that being the headline on CNN?

That's the closest that we get to a Samaritan.

Jesus says, first a priest goes through, doesn't help the Israelite.

Then a Levite, someone who comes from the priestly bloodline, passes by.

Yet a Samaritan comes and helps that Israelite up who have been robbed and beaten.

So that's who our neighbor is.

You see, we live in a life and we live in a world where a relationship has become transactional.

Right?

And it's mostly, what am I getting out of it?

What's in it for me?

But see, what we learn in Christ is that love is so much bigger.

Love is so much deeper than what you get out of it in the moment.

But a love that Jesus is talking about in Mark 12, as we love our God with everything, we love our Father with everything, that love that He has poured out, that mercy and that grace that He has poured out on us, we then are turning.

It outward.

And we're loving everyone we come in contact with.

No matter if they might yank your chain a little bit.

No matter if you might not have the same kind of personality or the same upbringing, we're still loving them as we would love ourselves.

And as we started to think about this in our missional community before we actually became a ministry, we started to ask ourselves the question: would I like to sleep outside when it's too below?

In a tent?

Probably not.

Would I like to go days and days without food and be hungry?

Probably not.

So if I'm thinking of myself, and Jesus said that I should love my neighbor as myself, then how can I sit by?

How can I sit by and say that I believe in a holy, loving God and not do something about that?

How can I watch people that live in the richest nation in the history of civilization go unhoused and go without food?

And so God had really called us to this ministry.

But what I really love about what Jesus is doing here is he's really balling it all up and it's making it easy.

And as I was talking to the youth today, I'm a simple man.

I like to think of things simply.

And this is what I see.

Christ gave us two commandments and one commission.

And if we can think about our life this way, I know it makes it easy for me.

But the commandment is to love God with everything and love our neighbors as ourselves.

And our commission is to go.

Right?

Matthew 28.

We are to go and we are to make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.

And then verse 20 says, And teach them all that I have commanded you.

I will be with you till the end of the age.

And I will tell you, Jesus taught a lot.

So that's not something that happens in an afternoon or a weekend.

Right?

That discipleship, that love is about relationship.

God is calling us into relationship with one another.

First off, as his body, right?

As we gather as the bride of Christ in his church, but also then outwardly.

We are to go.

Or the Greek is in your going, go make disciples.

Meaning it is a constant action.

It doesn't mean, hey, on Thursday nights we're going to go knock on doors.

It is every day when I wake up and I die to self and I carry my cross and I think of Christ, every person I'm coming in contact with, am I excited about the Lord?

Am I telling them about Jesus?

Am I telling them about my best friend?

About my Savior.

And you can tell that Jesus is desiring for us to live a life that reflects that and reflects him.

And he even gives a little bit of a high five to the scribe, right?

And the scribe in 32, and the scribe said to him, You're a right teacher.

You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.

And to love him with all your heart, with all the understanding, and with all the strength.

And to love one's neighbor as oneself is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

And when Jesus saw he answered wisely, he said to him, You're not far from the kingdom of God.

And after that no one dared to ask any more questions.

See, Jesus says, You're almost there.

You get it right.

Love God with everything, love your neighbor as yourself.

And really, what the last thing for this scribe to do is just to surrender to Jesus.

Just surrender to me.

Surrender to me, which is the gospel, and live this out.

Seems pretty simple.

Yet we love to make simple things hard.

But also, what I love about these two commandments, to love God with everything and to love our neighbors as ourselves, it really wraps up the Ten Commandments.

Now you could be legalistic about the Ten Commandments, but if you really look at them, and I'm not going to make you turn there, but I've got a list of them right here.

The first four are about loving God.

So, no other gods before me, no graven images or idols, don't take God's name in vain.

I'm going to real quick have to stop there.

That doesn't mean don't say GD.

Now that is part of it.

We don't want to say that.

But what God is talking about is what unfortunately is a sin of many of the wolves and sheep's clothing in the American church today.

And what I mean by that is the people that proclaim things in the name of God for their own personal gain.

It's the pastors that we see on TV that talk about the prosperity gospel.

Those are the ones that are actually taking God's name in vain.

Because they are promising something that God never said.

Right?

And it breaks my heart because we work with a lot of folks that come out of the detention center.

And we had a gentleman that came to us mad as heck.

He came to Mercy Hill and he came to us as elders.

And he was mad as heck because he said, I got baptized in jail.

When does it get easy?

See, because the gospel he had heard, right, was not the gospel.

It was the gospel that Paul warned about.

Right?

It's the false gospel.

Hey, accept Jesus and it's easy street.

And I told him, I'm sorry that you're mistaken.

But the actuality of it is when you believe Jesus, it just got harder.

Right?

Every person that comes into our program, into Pathway Home, or comes into one of our Healing Together support groups, I always give them kind of a caveat.

I said, Today begins now your hardest part of your journey.

Because a lot of these folks are coming out of jail, they're coming out of rehab.

And like I tell them that the devil is not at the bar next to the alcoholic who's pulled up to the bar side.

Right?

Because that's a battle the enemy has won.

He doesn't spend his time there.

Where he spends his time and where he sends his demons are to those who are getting out of his grasps.

They're the ones that are beginning to understand this faith in God and that God can actually bring the real truth and that God can bring the real joy and the real happiness.

I don't need this substance anymore.

I can have Jesus.

But see, that's where the devil is.

The devil's trying to pull them back down.

And I tell them, it's not easy street.

This life is not easy street.

But I will tell you, there's nothing more grace and peace-filled and joy-filled than living a life for Christ.

Right?

And then the next was to remember the Sabbath, the fourth commandment.

And then five through ten is loving our neighbors as ourselves.

Right?

So number five is honor your mom and dad.

I don't know why mom gets to go first, but even in the Bible, mom is first.

Alright?

So even God said mom's important.

Dad takes second hand.

No killing or murder, no adultery, no stealing, no false witness or lying, and no coveting.

So really, when you take the five through ten, that's loving your neighbor.

Because if I'm loving my neighbor, I'm not doing any of these things.

Right?

So it makes the Ten Commandments go from a legalistic list to if I love God with everything and I love my neighbor as myself, I really got this Christian life wrapped up.

But the distractions, right?

But the noise.

But that is what God has called us to.

God has called us to live a life reflective of Him that loves in a way that is countercultural.

I was teaching a Bible class, our men's Bible class, uh last month.

And we meet once a month as a men's group.

And as I was teaching them, I said, you know, guys, every once in a while we need to kind of do a self-check-in.

And what I mean by that is, am I uncomfortable?

Do I feel like life is a little uncomfortable?

Am I feeling some heat for living a Christian life?

Am I suffering just a little bit?

And I'm not trying to tell you this gospel of poverty and all that.

But all I'm saying is that in the book, Jesus said, They hated me, or they will hate you because they have hated me first.

And no servant is better than the master.

And so what I was telling our men of the church is if you're not uncomfortable a little bit in your Christian life, you've got to ask, am I living my Christian life?

Do I look more like the world?

Or do I look like Jesus?

Because I'll tell you, if you look like Jesus, the world will hate you.

The world will hate you.

I remember a conversation we had when the elders we prayed about is this a ministry of Mercy Hill?

Or is this going to be a ministry that is like a parachurch organization where we gather the body of believers?

And we started to think this has to be this is bigger than a church of 70 people.

The problems here in Bullock County.

And so we decided to do Mark 12, and we decided to partner.

Obviously, with the amount of lostness, we these are eternal relationships.

All the churches here that are preaching the gospel, we are going to spend eternity together, so why not work together now?

Right?

Like let's lock arms and let us all work together.

I love telling the story of, you know, you come into the wife like shelter, and there's a Methodist and a Baptist and a Catholic, and it's not the start of a joke.

That's who's working the shift that night.

Right?

They believe in God.

And they believe that we should love our neighbors.

And what a beautiful picture to those who are being served.

Right?

Because we have all these earthly things that get in the way of the divine.

Why are we bickering about carpet color and organs and things that don't matter to the gospel?

When we can follow Jesus and live for him together.

When God talked about his body, I don't think he was talking about any one of us having the keys to the kingdom solely.

I look a lot of times at denominations as diversity, as long as we don't allow the division.

How we celebrate Christ and worship him on Sunday morning should not stop us from working together for his kingdom and to his glory the other six days during the week.

But also, as we were talking about Mark 12 and if it should be a ministry of the church or another church, I said, well, guys, and I kick myself to this day, I said, well, guys, at least we're not doing a pregnancy resource center because you know those are very divisive.

Because of, well, anyways, I didn't realize how home how divisive homelessness is.

I did not realize the true gravity of spiritual warfare until nearly eight years ago when we started this ministry.

Because there are times that I will walk into an office of elected officials, and they'll hate me and they don't know my name.

Because the enemy has gone before me.

That's the spiritual warfare that you will feel if you're living your Christian life.

It's stuff that doesn't make sense.

There are people that still ask about a particular city in our county that really gives it to me when it comes to any time I come before them to present.

And they're like, why do those folks talk to you that way?

You're a pastor.

And I'm like, exactly.

Exactly.

I'm not surprised by it.

And I pray for them.

I pray for them because the scales are still in their eyes.

They have not received the Holy Spirit in their hearts.

So how else would they know?

They are still caught up in living for their own God, which they have made in their own image.

And it's heartbreaking to see.

But it is the fact of the community that we live in.

The enemy has controlled Bullock County for longer than this has been a nation.

It's amazing if you do a little history.

You know, Shepherdsville was a battleground for Indian tribes as they fought over the salt resources.

So this goes way back before any settler had come here.

The enemy had already been dividing.

And what's this county built on?

It's been built on liquor.

It's been built on sin.

And so it's heartbreaking to think that only about 7,500 folks go to church or at church this morning in this county celebrating and worshiping God.

And 93,000 folks are watching the football game that's being televised in Europe right now, I think, right?

Didn't that game start?

I mean, it's pretty sad when we live in a nation now where the NFL has found it to be profitable to have a football game that's on TV during church.

Can anyone imagine that?

Like I'm only 54 years old, and it still blows my mind that there's an NFL game during church service time televised because the NFL knows no one's going to church.

So, friends, we have quite the mission.

We have quite the mission.

We have a mission to go out and to love on our community.

C.S.

Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity.

There's two books I read every January to get my year going.

I read the Screwtape Letters.

I don't know if you guys have ever read that, C.S.

Lewis.

It's a wonderful fictional way to think about the enemy.

And then Mere Christianity, because it reminds me how to live as a Christian.

But C.S.

Lewis says, do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor.

Act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.

Right?

Kind of like fake it till you make it.

But I will tell you that as you begin to love people that you never thought about loving before, you will see Christ.

I am more blessed doing this work than I've ever been in anything I've ever done.

I get to meet people that have some of the most fascinating stories.

And I will tell you that I've yet to meet someone that says, I want to be homeless.

So if you hear that from anybody, that is just baloney.

And I've never heard anyone say that they woke up one morning and said, you know what?

I want to be a heroin addict.

That looks great.

Right?

It doesn't happen that way.

I promise you.

Most of the addicts that I run into after hearing their story, I'm like, well, no kidding.

Right?

Like, it's no wonder you fell into this.

Because no one had told you about Jesus before.

Right?

The prescription to solve homelessness and addiction in this world is the gospel.

See, the reason that folks end up in these situations is a traumatic experience where something goes wrong and they don't have the hope of Jesus.

And in many cases, they've never even heard his name.

And so what blows me away is I went to Scotland, and earlier I said it was weird to hear English people who had never heard the name Jesus.

Well, I'm here to tell you there are people in Bullock County that only know Christmas because they get gifts and they don't know that it's Christ that we're celebrating.

And they may have gone to a vacation Bible school, drinking there by their grandmother when they were four years old, but they can't tell you anything about it.

And so when life got hard, they had no idea.

So they looked to the world, and the enemy loves that.

Look to the world for the answer.

When we know what the true answer is, is right here in Christ.

And so that's the heart of Mark 12.

We believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior.

And that we believe that is so important that we need to tell everybody about it.

And in our particular context, we just mostly tell it to those that are marginalized, the impoverished and the unhomed.

Because there is a real hope that's past what's in this world.

If you've got questions about how we do that, I'd be happy to answer those for you.

We're gonna leave some of our brochures about the five programs that we have.

We have an awesome thrift store, which last year we just it's been an amazing blessing.

But I can answer those questions for you.

But I wanted you to know what the heart of Mark 12 Ministry is that our heart is to serve an amazing.

Amazing God that sent his son to die for us.

And the next is to love our neighbors as ourselves.

And that's everybody.

That's everybody in this county.

It's everybody in Louisville.

It's even UK fans.

I'm sorry, I'm a Cardinal fan.

But it's everyone.

Everyone.

Right?

We gotta love everyone.

Join me in prayer.

Holy, merciful, Father.

Great are you among all nations.

We thank you, Lord, and are grateful for this time that we live in a nation where we can gather as your body and not worry about if our family is going to be taken off in the middle of the night or if we're going to lose all of our property or even our lives.

God, we are grateful that we live in a nation where we can say your name freely and not worry about going to jail, but that our biggest concern is a cross-look from a coworker or from a neighbor.

But God, I ask you that with that freedom, Lord, that we would find the conviction and the urgency to know that so many in this community are heading to eternity away from you.

God, I cannot even imagine being away from your love and from your light and from your joy.

God, I cannot imagine spending an eternity in darkness and away from you.

So Lord, I'd ask that you would stir in all of us a heart to go and to speak about the gospel.

Lord, to praise you and all the things that we do.

Lord, to remember that you are the most important thing, God, and that you are our Savior.

That God, there's nothing that we can do, there's nothing we can muster up in our own strength.

But it is your son's blood covering us that gives us the righteousness to approach the throne.

And Lord, I'm thankful for that.

God, I am just so blessed to be able to speak to this church today.

Lord, I thank you for that.

God, I ask that you would bless them.

God, that you would work in this church.

And that God, that they would see that the mission is outside the doors.

That they would long for everyone to know you in this community.

So God, I ask that you give us the words.

God, that you would give us the strength to go.

To go make disciples.

To love all of our neighbors.

Whether they live in the big house on the hill, or they're sleeping under the viaduct.

That we would love them all as you've loved us.

It's in Jesus' precious name we pray.

Amen.