Sermon Transcript
जेल तो पार भी नहीं, खटाखट नहीं कर रहे हो, जोगर खोते पार भी नहीं और वो तटकाई कर रहे हो, पसंद खोते पार भी नहीं। तो कौन देखते पाएगा लेकिन खूब, हम उन्हें बहुत से खूब भाल रहे हैं। You need more of heart than your hand in doing service for children. Anita and Sonia come from a very poor family. If they are not operated, they remain blind for life, and what happens in most of the cases They are used by the family as beggars.
Amen.
So if the window is still closed, she’ll touch it on me and I’ll look and she’ll say, Mom, it’s a dead bird.
Good morning. I love that video. Inspires me. Makes us think about the gift of sight. Sometimes we need reminders of how precious it is that we’re able to see.
And especially for those who have gone through a period of time when they weren’t physically able to see, to be able to have their eyes open, it’s a, it’s a really, really powerful thing. So we need videos like that. I remember whenever I got contacts for the first time, a lot less dramatic than what we saw up there, but if you knew what my eyesight was, you would not get into a car with me while I’m driving without some sort of corrective lenses. I am really, really poorly sighted, and I’m not a candidate for any kind of surgery or anything like that. But whenever I got contacts for the first time, all of a sudden my baseball playing and basketball playing got better.
I could recognize people from, you know, 10 feet away. I literally cannot see very well without my contacts, but with my contacts in, I have this little teeny tiny Bible. It has a 6-point font, and I’m able to, to be able to see all of those things. How much more dramatic is something like that whenever we see a person who is not able to see able to see? And we take something like that for granted, and we forget because we haven’t been in science class in a while, or at least many of us.
Those of you students who are like in science all the time, maybe you marvel at the eye, and those of us who haven’t been in science in a while kind of forget about how incredible it is. That this kind of gelatinous membrane is held together and how God made the cornea to sort of be this window to the eye to let light in, and then how the lens focuses that light. And then you remember from your class how iris— the iris would sort of receive and regulate the amount of light by opening up the pupil or closing up the pupil so that you could regulate the amount of light that came in. And then you have the retina, which would receive and then convert that light into light signals and send it on to the optic nerve, which then converts those— that light in such a way that it moves on into the brain, which is really the sensing or seeing part of our body. It’s an amazing thing, and it all happens simultaneously.
As you’re able to look at me, as you’re able to read something on the page or watch a video like that, or whenever you wake up in the morning, it all happens in a split second, and it makes you say Wow, God’s really amazing that He would make something like this. Even Charles Darwin, in thinking about the eye, began to question a little bit about his theory of evolution. Charles Darwin said this, to suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. That’s just a fancy way of saying, wow, our eyes are amazing. These chemical reactions and electrical impulses and light waves coming together in a split second, and yet we take it for granted.
And as amazing as our eye is— and really, the point is, if, if you’re not sure what to thank God for, thank him for your eyes. Thank him for the ability to be able to see. But As amazing as our eyes are, every eye in this room has a limitation. It has a flaw, and we’re often not even aware of it. And the main flaw is this, is that we are able to see physical reality, but we can’t perceive spiritual reality with our eyes.
We can’t. We’re incapable of doing that. Our eyes are useless when it comes to seeing the spiritual world, and we need help. If you think about a definition of blindness, blindness is essentially this: whether physical or spiritual blindness, blindness is an impaired ability to be able to recognize the truth. Isn’t it?
It’s an impaired ability to be able to recognize the truth physically or spiritually or in some other way. It’s an impaired ability to be able to recognize reality, to recognize the world the way that it really is. And we need our eyes to be opened. And many of us have experienced that when maybe you used to believe one thing and then you stopped believing that, and then you started believing a different thing, and your eyes are sort of open saying, why did I used to believe that? Now I believe this.
I was blind and my eyes were now open to that. Well, that can happen for us spiritually. It’s got to happen. And we’ve got a great story, one of my favorite stories from the Old Testament, a great miracle that I want us to take a look at because it’s got a story of several different people who thought that they could see and they couldn’t see. It’s a little bit like us.
We don’t recognize how blind we are sometimes until our eyes are opened. And God wants our eyes to be able to open— to be open so that we can perceive him and see him. And relate to him the way that he created us to. So let’s look at 2 Kings chapter 6 at this story. And there’s several verses here that I’m gonna read through, and then we’ll come back and we’ll talk about it a little bit more.
But I want us to get a sense of all of the verses here in the story. 2 Kings chapter 6, to remind us of the power of sight and how God wants us to be able to relate to him, but we’re unable to because of this impaired ability to be able to perceive spiritual truth and spiritual reality. Start with verse 8, 2 Kings chapter 6. Now the king of Aram, which is really Syria, so I’m gonna say Syria, very powerful nations. The king of Syria was at war with Israel, and after conferring with his officers, the king said, I will set up my camp in such-and-such a place.
The man of God, the man of God being Elisha, I introduced you to him a few weeks ago in the chapter just before this when he healed the Syrian general Naaman. You remember that? The stubborn general who wanted to be healed but not the way that God wanted him to be able to be healed. The man of God is Elisha. Verse 9: The man of God sent word to the king of Israel, beware of passing that place because the Arameans, or the Syrians, are going down there.
So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by Elisha, the man of God, time and again. Elisha warned the king so that he was on his guard in such places. This enraged the king of Syria. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, tell me, which of us is on the side of the king of Israel? Who’s our mole?
Who’s our spy? Who’s telling them what we’re doing? None of us, verse 12, my lord the king, said one of his officers. But Elisha the prophet who is in Israel tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom. Hello.
Verse 13, go find out where he is, the king ordered, so I can send men and capture him. The report came back, Elisha is in Dothan. Then the king sent horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city. Verse 15, when the servant of the man of God, the servant of Elisha, got up and went out early the next morning, an army The Syrian army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city.
Oh no, my lord, said the servant. What shall we do? Verse 16. You might want to underline or highlight this. Don’t be afraid, Elisha answered.
Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.
Those who are with us are more than those who are with them. And Elisha prayed, open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see. Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes. He looked, saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the Lord— this is interesting— strike this army with blindness.
So he struck them with blindness as Elisha had asked. Verse 19: Elisha told them, this is not the road. Elisha’s playing a game now with them. They can’t— they have no idea that they’re talking to the very person that they’re looking for. This is not the road.
This is not the city. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. Follow me and I will lead you to the man you’re looking for. I will take you to the person you’re looking for, who, by the way, is the one talking to you. And he led them to Samaria, of all places, a place that Assyrian officer would not want to be.
It’s the capital of Israel at the time. The king of Israel lived there. They had no idea. After they entered the city, Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes of these men so that they can see. Then the Lord opened their eyes, and they looked.
There they were inside Samaria. When the king of Israel saw them, he very mercifully— not— asked Elisha, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them, my father? Don’t kill them, Elisha answered. Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow?
Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master. Elisha offers grace. Verse 23: So he prepared a great feast for them, and after the Syrian army had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away. They returned to their master, so the bands from Syria stopped raiding Israel’s territory. There are certain spiritual realities to which we are blind more often than not.
And this story, I think, brings out 3 spiritual realities that I think we tend to be blind to, that God would want to open up our eyes and help us to see. You’re blind to these realities. These are things— the spiritual reality is every bit as real as the physical reality. But we tend to be blind to these things. One of the first things that we tend to be blind to is the extent of our own blindness.
We’re blind to how blind we are. We think we’re blind, we think we can see, and yet we’re blind to our blindness. Where did that come from? Well, as with most things having to do with our deficiency, it goes back to the Garden of Eden, where because of sin entering into the world, we were struck blind and incapable of seeing spiritual reality in the way that we had prior to sin entering into the world. And not only were we unable to see spiritual reality, not only were we physically and visually impaired at that point because of sin entering into the world, we didn’t realize it, and we don’t realize it now.
We are unable to see how blind that we are, and we’re unaware that we’re blind, so we need some help. In the case of the Syrian army, they thought that they were just following orders. They didn’t realize they were fighting God. In the case of Elisha’s servant, he thought that he was dealing with the physical forces only, and he didn’t realize there was a whole other spiritual reality that he was blind to. For us, again, aren’t there times in our lives where God tries to get our attention and we’re just blind to it?
To something that He’s trying to do to get our attention, and maybe it’s after the fact that we kind of wake up and our eyes are open Okay, I see what God was doing that whole time. But during the process of it, we tend to be blind. There’s spiritual truths and spiritual realities to which we tend to be blind, and that affects us. One of the things, or one of the ways that it affects us, is how we view sin. Many of us think of sin as just simply making a bad mistake or breaking a rule.
But when your eyes are open to spiritual reality, you begin to grieve over your sin, and you see it as something much more pervasive. Something much more prevalent in a person’s life of, I’m actually grieving God. This is something I’m not just doing or not doing. I’m actually incapable of doing the things that I should do or not doing the things that I shouldn’t do. And you begin to— your eyes are open to that.
And when a person receives Christ into their life, they become a Christ follower, what essentially happens is God gives that person sight. Becoming a Christian is not just turning over a new leaf and trying harder. You and I could do that on our own, couldn’t we? We need our eyes to be opened. And so that’s literally what happens when a person comes to faith.
Their eyes are opened for the first time. And when you pray for a person to come to faith, you’re praying for God to do something that is humanly impossible. You’re asking God to open up the eyes of this person so that they will see him and recognize spiritual reality. Apart from that, we are separated from the life of God and blind and incapable of being able to see. And many of us just don’t even realize it.
In John chapter 9, Jesus tried to reinforce this lesson about spiritual sight and spiritual blindness when he healed a man who was physically blind. He’d been born blind. You remember the story, maybe? John chapter 9, Jesus Heals this man physically who had been born blind, but He also brought this person to faith. So, in a sense, He helped this man who had been born physically blind to be able to spiritually see.
And the Pharisees, as they often did, and the religious leaders, were upset about the whole thing, so they confronted Jesus. You remember, Jesus answered them by saying, I’ve come so that the blind can see, and so that those who see will be blind. And the Pharisees started arguing among themselves, saying, what, are we blind too? And Jesus said, since you claim you can see, your guilt remains, which is a fancy way of saying, yep, you’re blind.
And what Jesus’ point is, is that those who claim to be spiritually sighted, that’s actually a sign that they’re spiritually blind. And if you know something of your spiritual blindness, that’s the sign that you’re becoming more spiritually sighted, is it not? We need our eyes to be opened to our blindness. And if you want to be able to see, it starts with admitting, I can’t see.
I’m not able to recognize spiritual reality.
I’ve never met a person who is physically blind who denied that they’re physically blind.
Rather, like the girls in the video, they learned to cope with it and make adjustments so that they can function in life. But when it comes to our spiritual blindness, boy, we try to cover that up, don’t we? We don’t want people to see us. We don’t want people to feel that we, you know, are blind, despite the fact that the Bible consistently, again and again and again, reminds us that all sinners are blind. Sin and fall short of the glory of God, and the sin has rendered us unable to see.
You want to see? Start by admitting that you can’t and turn to the one who is able to open up your eyes. We’re also blind to another spiritual truth, and it’s one that I love how it is portrayed in here, and that is earthly opposition is no match for God. We know that intellectually, right? But when you’re facing chariots and you’re facing horses and an enemy army, or whatever it is that you’re facing, it’s hard to remember that enemy and earthly opposition is no match for God.
When I was a kid, if I wanted to spy on somebody, I did the old glass-on-the-door trick. Like, you ever try that? Doesn’t really work. I saw it in the movies, so I thought that that would work. And then, at some point, the CIA and other covert agencies started developing these cool devices to be able to wire a room or debug a room.
2,500 years plus before all of that, you have Elisha being able to look and to anticipate everything that the king of Syria is trying to do here. And how frustrating was that for the king of Syria who was trying to accomplish something and trying to surprise God, or trying to surprise Elisha? You can’t surprise God. The CIA has nothing on God. God sees all, knows all, is present, omnipresent, everywhere at one time, knowing all, all-powerful, and nothing can limit Him.
And yet, Elisha’s servant and Elisha faced the same physical reality, but for some reason, Elisha’s servant, who responded with panic, Elisha had a different response, one of peace. How can 2 people face the same opposition and one respond with panic and the other with peace? Verse 16 gives us again the secret to Elisha’s power, so to speak. Don’t be afraid. Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.
And it reminds me of Romans 8:31. If God is for us, who can be against us? And we hear that and we say, I’ll tell you who can be against me. And we start thinking of all the people who are against us, the individuals and the groups of people that we feel are against us. And we may even feel God is against us.
The point of Romans 8 is to remind you, look at all the ways that God has demonstrated kindness to you. He’s given you of His Holy Spirit. You are not under condemnation if you are a Christ follower. That He’s put His Spirit inside of you. He’s adopted you into His family, and nothing can separate you from His love.
And if God is for you, nothing can stand against you. This doesn’t mean you won’t face earthly opposition. I wish it did. It just means that the earthly opposition— your foes may be against you, but not against you successfully if you commit your ways to the Lord. Earthly opposition cannot stand against God.
What does it mean that God is for us? What does it mean that He fights for us? It means that He is working all things out for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose, Romans 8:28. That God is working for our benefit. He’s working the whole time, including in ways that we might not want Him to.
And you just have to go throughout this— throughout Scripture, and you see story after story after story of a person whose back is up against the wall And God saying, be still, I’m fighting for you. You see that first— I believe the first time we see it is in the book of Exodus, chapter 14. The Israelites are in front of the Red Sea with the Egyptian army coming behind them after having been enslaved in Egypt for years and years and years. They finally get out of Egypt, and yet now they’re confronted with the Red Sea in front of them and no way to turn around and nowhere to get out. And that’s where in Exodus 14 God says, I will fight for you.
I am fighting for you. Be still, which means don’t be anxious. This anguish and disappointment, discouragement that you feel right now, don’t let that rule you, because if God is for us, who can be against us? That God is much greater than countless armies. Some trust in chariots, Some trust in horses, the book of Psalms tells us, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God who fights with us and for us and on our behalf and does for us what we could never do for ourselves.
In the case of the Syrians, they couldn’t stand against God. They thought they were fighting against Elisha. It was really the Syrians versus God. Didn’t stand a chance. I don’t know what you’re facing right now.
You may feel the walls caving in around you. You need to know that God is aware. He’s even probably allowed you to be in that situation so that he could demonstrate that he is your deliverer. Why did God allow Elisha to be in this situation and Elisha’s servant? He allowed that to happen to demonstrate that he’s a comforter and a deliverer and faithful.
And we need our eyes open to that because Too often we’re blind, saying, God’s against me. God’s not able to deliver me. God’s not able to comfort me. And that’s a spiritual reality that we tend to be blind to, that God is on our side. If you are part of His family, a child of God, He fights for you.
There’s a third spiritual reality to which we tend to be blind, and it goes in sort of coordination with the second one, and it’s that God’s presence is always with you, even whenever you can’t sense it. We tend to be blind to that. For us, reality is what I can see, smell, hear, taste, feel. That’s reality. And in the case of Elisha’s servant, that’s the physical reality before him.
Thousands of soldiers, thousands of chariots, horses surrounding the city of Dothan, which they could wipe out in an instant.
Elisha’s spiritual reality, though, contrasted with that, which is that God’s presence is always with you even whenever you can’t sense it.
And that is the reality that can’t be measured.
For many of us, whenever we go through seasons of life, which we inevitably do, and can’t sense God’s presence and we can’t feel God’s presence, we wonder What do I do in this circumstance? And it may be that we’re blind to it, but it may be that we intellectually know that He’s with us and we’re just not feeling that. This story helps us to see one of the best things you can do in that moment is to lean more into the community of the body of Christ. You see, what Elisha was able to provide for the servant was community and prayer and support.
When the servant lacked the faith that he needed, Elisha was able to come alongside him and help bear that burden, say, Lord, open your servant’s eyes.
And it’s a tendency for many of us to isolate ourselves when we go through dark seasons, but it’s a reminder that God has created us for relationship, not only with Him, but with one another. Hebrews 10 says, Don’t forsake assembling together, as some are in the habit of doing. Continue to encourage each other and spur each other on to love and good deeds. Build each other up. You may be lacking faith right now, or a sense of God’s presence, and there may be another brother or sister who can come alongside you and encourage you.
And then you can provide that same service for somebody else at some point. God has created us for community, and Elisha was able to be helpful to the servant in that regard. Another thing that we can do when we lack a sense of God’s purpose— or excuse me, a sense of His presence— is to lean not only into community but into God’s Word, to lean into the truth, because our feelings betray us, don’t they? Our feelings cause us to sense that God is against us and that He’s not with us, that God has abandoned us when we go through those seasons. And you can’t rely on your feelings.
The truth of God’s Word is a firm foundation upon which we can stand. And you won’t immediately feel the presence of God whenever you turn to God’s Word, but it does help renew your mind with the truth of God’s presence with you. And you can feel His presence through that truth in your life. The point is, here’s what I’ve learned, is that with all of these things, these spiritual truths to which we tend to be blind, The battle to see is really a battle to believe, isn’t it? The battle to see spiritual reality is really the battle to believe.
Do I really believe these things? I’m not talking about blind faith, faith that is in just not reality at all. I’m talking about faith in things that we know are true spiritually speaking, and the battle to see that and the battle to believe that go together.
I love this story because it reminds us of those spiritual truths to which we tend to be blind, but it also gives us a sense of where our blindness can be cured. What is the remedy for the condition of our blindness? We can’t heal our own blindness ourselves. Who’s the one who opens eyes? It’s God himself.
We see that multiple times in the story. God Open their servant’s eyes. God, open these soldiers’ eyes. God is the one who opens the eyes, and we see that time and time again, really throughout the miracles that we’ve looked at throughout this series. And we’ll talk about those more here in just a moment, but just a reminder that God is often putting us in difficult circumstances so that we will have our eyes open to see just how faithful and Sufficient that He is.
He’s the one who opens eyes, and if you want to be able to see, then you simply ask, God, help me to see. Come into my life. Or if God has already come into your life and you’ve already committed your life to Him, God, open up my eyes. Help me to remember the truth about Your presence and Your power and Your provision and all of those things. You want to see?
Simply ask. When Jesus encountered a man who was lame and blind named Bartimaeus, Jesus came up to him and said, what do you want me to do for you? He said, I want to see. We could say that, couldn’t we, to God? God, I want to see.
I want to see you right now in this situation. I need to see you. I need to see that you’re able and that you’ve got all this under control. Help me to see you, because right now I’ve got other things that are sort of blinding me. And we want those circumstances to change when what we really need is our eyes to be open.
I want these things to change and for me to not have to deal with it. That would be much easier when God is saying, I want to open up your eyes. And it starts with saying, I can’t see. I don’t see myself or the world or these trials with the degree of accuracy that I could. God, open up my eyes.
And here’s a question: how is spiritual sight even possible? Why would God even do that for us?
Why would God make spiritual sight available for us after all that we’ve done? Why would God allow the Syrian soldiers who’d done so many horrible things to be able to enjoy a feast and to get grace? It’s the same reason why God offers us spiritual sight and gives us kindness and mercy and grace. It’s because centuries after this event here in 2 Kings, There was another prophet who was being chased down by a group of soldiers who wanted to hunt down and kill this prophet. And when they found the prophet, the prophet knew that he could call upon legions of angels to come around him and to surround him in his time of need and to wipe out everybody, but he chose not to do that.
Why? Because the prophet said at that point, so that the Scriptures would be fulfilled. And Jesus took upon Himself our sin so that we could be made right with God. And the reason why spiritual sight is available at all is because Jesus took our blindness upon Himself. He became our substitute so that we could have a relationship with Him.
You want to be able to see? Just ask. You want to have a relationship with God? Just ask. Receive Him into your life.
After you’ve received Him into your life, many of us have made that decision, and we’ve tried to follow Christ, our eyes still kind of betray us at times, don’t they? We need to allow God to continually adjust our eyesight, because the moment trials come, we tend to fix our eyes on that rather than on a heavenly perspective that God wants us to be able to have. So our eyes need to continually be improving. That’s where a great prayer like what Paul prayed for the church in Ephesus in Ephesians 1 comes in, where Paul prayed, I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, and His incomparably great power for us who believe. Even— you notice Paul’s not writing a group of unbelievers.
He’s writing a group of people who’d already professed faith but needed their eyes to be enlightened.
People who had already been granted spiritual sight but still needed to see even better. And maybe that’s you.
You want to be able to see and have your eyes enlightened to know God’s power in a more perfect— in a better way. You want to be able to see God’s glorious inheritance that He has for you and just His love, the riches of His grace, all of these things. God, open our eyes. Open the eyes of my heart. So that we can see you and trust you, that you are with us, that you are for us.
This Sunday concludes our little miniseries that we’ve been doing this summer on miracles, specifically in the Old Testament, and I’ve loved all of them. And they seem to have been, for the outsider, you know, just random stories. But one of the things that I found in working with our children’s ministry, one of the things that we always talk about is the big God story. It’s that these are not just individual characters who are random and have nothing to do with us. The main character in all of Scripture is God.
We tend to lose sight of that. We tend to get more caught up in the genealogies and the timelines and losing sight of who these different people are instead of saying, what does God want to say to us through each of these individuals? We started off several weeks ago, Pastor Dave talked about how God led Israel through the wilderness, a cloud of— a cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. And God provided for them in the wilderness, not only what they ate, but just he directed them. And they needed their eyes to be opened to see how he was providing for them.
And so we have the book of Deuteronomy to remind us of time and time and time and time again of God’s provision. Open up your eyes, look at what he’s done. And we had Phil Tuttle from Walk Through the Bible, who talked about Elijah and his showdown with the prophets of Baal. That was just an incredible message of God’s power coming in a moment to show that He is the true God, that all other gods are false gods. I shared with you a little bit about the healing of Naaman, this Syrian general who wanted to be healed but on his own terms, and God had something else in store for him.
God demonstrated grace. We talked about Balaam. Remember Balaam and his donkey? And Pastor Dave shared about that. One of the things I love about that story is there’s a point in Balaam’s story where it says that God opened up Balaam’s eyes.
Kind of like what we talked about here. Balaam didn’t realize that he was opposing God, or he might have realized that but just sort of been blind to that in that moment. But using this donkey, Balaam’s eyes were opened to see God’s intervention in an incredible way. Dan talked to us about Jonah and how God allowed Jonah to be in a difficult circumstance for his eyes to be open to see, Jonah, you’re not just running away from the mission that I have for you, you’re running away from me. Jonah’s eyes needed to be opened.
Talked also about The story of Abraham and Sarah not being able to have children until they were quite old, and in a very humorous story, it’s a reminder that God’s timing and His ways are perfect, even if they’re not our timing and our ways. They needed their eyes opened to remember that God is a God who keeps His promises. Talked about Gideon last week and how this army that kept getting smaller and smaller and smaller, yet God was going to demonstrate His power. And His faithfulness in that moment in a really amazing way to demonstrate to Gideon and to all of Israel that there is no God like our God. All of these stories, God is the centerpiece of all of them.
And God still does these miracles today.
We need to pray for God to open up our eyes so that we can trust Him more. Lean into community, lean into His Word, and call out to Him for His provision and His power and His presence. To be felt more than ever before. Let’s pray.
Father, we come only because you grant us that opportunity. Forgive us when we are blind to that fact, when we overlook it.
Lord, I thank you that you are faithful. I thank you for how you’ve used this message to teach me and perhaps others here in the room. That we don’t see as well as we think we should, or as much as we think we do. And I pray that You’d open up our eyes to reality, all the ways that You provide, all the ways that You deliver, all the ways that You save. Would You open the eyes of our heart that we might see Your power and know You more than ever before and draw closer to You?
Thank You, God, for this message. Thank you, Lord, that this week you are for us. And I pray that you would turn us away from anything, Lord, that would blind us and keep us from walking in obedience to you. May we follow you. May our eyes be open to the opportunities around us to share your love with people.
May our eyes be open to what you’re doing in the world around us. Thank you, Lord, for sending Jesus to be our sin substitute. To. If there’s anyone here, Lord, who’s not received Jesus into their life, I pray that today would be that day. Thank you, God, that we just simply need to ask.
Well, Lord, we love you. We pray all these things in your Son’s name. Amen.
