Turning 0n The Lights! – Tuesday, September 24, 2024. 1 Cor Church, Church, and More Church!
Good Morning, Good Morning my brothers and my sisters and welcome to another episode of Turning On the Lights! It is Tuesday September 24, 2024 and today we get back on track in 1 Corinthians as we talk about how we are called to worship only Christ – not people, not churches, not philosophies, or politics.
We learn first-hand from Paul as he deals directly with this subject in his letter to the Corinthians, and I pray that it is helpful to many people on many levels.
May God bless you and keep you and, as we always say, KEEP LOOKING UP!
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Hey, good morning. Good morning, my brothers and my sisters. Welcome to the Church Town Church of God where we are turning on the lights for this Tuesday morning. I believe it is the 24th. Anybody want to go to Camp Eulidua? There’s a lot of winter, excuse me, winter camps, fall, fishing, derby, all kinds of different things going on. Have you visited the neighborhood in Arthex? Do you know anybody that could use a little something? You know what I mean? The dollars aren’t stretching the way they should at the grocery store. There’s a lot of stuff in there. I’m telling you, man. I’m telling you a lot of stuff in there. And may I say that this Sunday is a fifth Sunday celebration. We are going to knock it out of the park with some great teaching and preaching and some great music. Also here coming up, coming up October 13th, Kids for Our King. Part two. The butterfly craft. Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, and let’s not forget. This is a very popular Narnia. Prince Caspian Friday, October four, right at seven o’clock. Always something going on. Churchtown Monthly. I write that. Oh, yeah. Hey, get signed up for the December hymnsing. December 6th. I think it’s Sunday, December 1st. I think I better fix that. I think I better fix that. So here we are walking into the church. I’ve already been here, as you know, because I don’t like to get things all set up while I’m holding the phone. It’s chilly in here now. Oh, my goodness gracious. Don’t don’t. Sixty six point six degrees. Oh, no. All the mini splits are shut down. Good morning, altar of the church. No, that that means nothing to me. That was fun and games. And it will be a human number. If you’ve ever heard me preach a revelation, then you know how I feel about all that stuff. OK, let’s get you on here. Where are you? There you go. I think the last time it was used was probably for the picnic. There we go. It was all out of whack. Are you ready? Good morning. Good morning, my brothers and my sisters. Good morning, Brynn. Ryan, there you are. Brynn and Ryan. May I tell them they’re waiting to have a baby. They’re together in the hospital waiting to have a baby. Watching, turning on the lights. What an honor and a privilege to be apart. It’s like I’m there, man. It’s really touching. Actually, it’s I’m just in a goofy mood this morning. Goofy mood. It’s one of those weeks I’ve gotten. Evening engagements. Good morning, Miss Brady. I’ve got meetings tonight, tomorrow night, Thursday and Friday. And it’s just it’s one of those weeks that we talked about a little while ago. You know that, OK, I get it. Everybody has other jobs during the day. We can only meet at night, but it’s just part of the job, part of the job. We talked about how I’ve spoken with several young pastors who have families. And when I used to be able to speak with pastors before they went into the ministry, I would say, hey, this is part of the deal. Like you’re the individuals who are helping. I hate to call it volunteer staff because I don’t believe there are any volunteers in the church. We are all called. We are all gifted and we are all called to exercise those gifts. But those other folks, as I work from home during the day, they’re working elsewhere. And then when you got church business, you’ve got to meet in the evening. And so a pastor is gone three, four or five nights a week. And that can wear on a young family and children and all of those things. So I always talk about that. And we always talk about families being called into ministry. You know, if if somebody were to come to the table that I used to be chair of and say, yes, I feel this strong call. Well, how does your wife feel when she’s attending a different church? Has anyone else in your life affirmed this? Well, no, not really. What do you mean by that? Has anyone said, you know, this is for you? This this is something I always thought about for you. This is what? However, it’s it’s like I said, it’s you can tell. We’re reading through the prophets, we’re finishing up the minor prophets in one of our reading plans, and each and every one of them speaks about all of the other prophets who are called called, but not. They’re claiming the name of Christ. They’re claiming the name of Yahweh. They’re claiming to speak for Yahweh. They’re claiming all of these things and they’re charging people to hear their message. The red flag. So we talk about actual callings on individuals left to do this job. Everybody has a calling. Everybody is gifted. But vocational ministry is something that whether the Lord is whittling down the church to a remnant or not, people are just not recognizing or fulfilling or walking in their callings into vocational ministry. Who knows? But I know that we have 10 or 12 churches open just in the ERC. No pastors. Good morning. And you wonder if very well could be the Lord saying, OK, I’m not going to allow false callings, if you will. I don’t know how to put it. You like where a person thinks it’s in their own head. They think that they’re having a calling or they think they want to be in vocational ministry. What the Lord is not calling them. Maybe he’s dwindling that all down. I don’t know. So we’re talking about the church, we’re talking about Corinth last week, I addressed those social topics and the political topics because people ask me about that all the time. And we talked about the gun culture in America. And it’s better to embrace it and make it more safe and get people more mentally healthy and get people off all these pharmaceuticals than it is to try to start a civil war by confiscating everybody’s guns. We talked about the political process and all of the propaganda and all of the lies. And we talked about as a Christian being discerning. If you’re looking for the perfect candidate, you’re not going to find the perfect candidate because they are a human being. And so you gather as much information as you possibly can and you do your civic duty, you do your diligence and you vote and you might walk away feeling distaste because that candidate is close, but no cigar. But where are your choices? One of the things that just blows my mind when you look at how how corrupted and I’m not going to talk politics all the time. This is just something that blows me away when you look at how sick and corrupted our political process is. Right. You figure there’s three hundred three hundred and ten million legal citizens of the United States. Maybe a thousand of them would be really, really good presidents. And we have these two. That should tell you everything that you need to know regarding our joke of a political process. And so there you go. But again, as we look into scripture, we are supposed to. Do the best that we can as we are guided by God’s Holy Spirit and our intellect. Now, like I said, deal breaker for me is any political party that has. The destruction of God’s image bears in their platform. And I said when we’re talking about the death cults that are consuming American image bearers of God in particular, but really globally, we talk about the transsexual movement, transgender movement, the homosexual movement. And we talk about abortion, talk about these death cults that are determined to destroy human beings. That’s not of God. That’s not of God. So anyway, you destroy them from the inside out. You can destroy them from the outside in. So there we are. Not the more things change, the more they stay the same. On Sunday, we talk about that as well. Father God, we do pray that you would inspire our words today that are based. They’re coming from your word today. In Jesus name. May they touch hearts and minds and grow the kingdom of God. Amen. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. And welcome to turning on the lights. I told you about all of the events we have coming up shortly here. We have the full fall festival thing, the young adult fall festival on Friday. And then we have our own. We have trunk or treat coming up on Halloween night. And we have at least a fall festival. We’re having real trouble getting a hay wagon to have a hay ride. November three. But we’re still working on it. Still working on it. I had come up with. Huh. I think you got tagged. I hit the seas and Sandy Clouser comes up so you can look in the tag and maybe I maybe I failed to tag you. I wanted to do something fun for fifth Sunday celebration and just have three individuals come up and present a Bible passage at that time. And then I would contemplate upon it and preach, exposit it. Right. But there doesn’t seem to be much interest in that. So we’re heading toward the week. I’ll give it a little bit more time. But there doesn’t see I thought it was a fun idea, but I guess not everybody thinks it’s a fun idea. So Stump the pastor is probably not going to happen this Sunday, which. You know, I thought it was interesting, but there’s just no interest, no volunteers happening. Hi, Trace. Well, talking about the church and what better way to talk about the church. And this is one thing that I talk about all the time is that the letters are written for believers. The letters sometimes we think are speaking into the big, bad, dark world when. In nearly every aspect, they are speaking into the early church. They are speaking into those who are not only followers of Yahweh now, as we discussed with the minor prophets, their followers of Jesus Christ. And that is causing a bit of dissension, of course, we’re reading in the men’s group, the Book of James. And the Book of James is a giant book of dissension as James in Jerusalem. Is talking about following Jesus Christ and what that looks like and what that sounds like, particularly as his culture in Jerusalem, his anti-Christian culture. Good morning. And that letter was dispersed, but you definitely get the flavor of the immediacy and the commitment and the faith and the prayer and what it looks like. Are you called to be holy? As it says in scripture several times, be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect. The word we talked about that word last Thursday night or Wednesday, Thursday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night. That word is very difficult to translate. Doesn’t mean perfect in your behavior. Perfect like Jesus lived a perfect moral life. The word means more like be whole, be made whole, be in communion with your holy God. Right. Be made whole as God is whole. It’s very difficult to translate. We’ve said it before here and in church to use the modern vernacular, the best version of yourself. Everybody wants to say I want to be the best version of myself. Well, the best version of yourself is to be indwelled by God’s Holy Spirit and to be learning and growing and becoming the disciple that he wants you to be. That’s what that word means. Do that, it says, be a part of that, be a part of this. I am in the father and he is in me and I am in you type of relationship that is discussed throughout scripture. And so when we’re talking about, we say the letters are the very first commentaries, if you will, on the gospels. And now we’re looking at the practical application of these teachings and some of the letters Paul will say, this is not God’s Holy Spirit. This is uninspired teaching. This is just me saying things. And then he’ll say and other areas as it was commanded by the Lord, or we see the Lord do this and say that, or as the prophet spoke. And we know that God’s Holy Spirit is inspiring him so they can be a little bit confusing in that way. Not much, but we do have to read them with some discernment, understanding that God’s Holy Spirit, right? Was moving through a human being to write these letters, not just Paul, but Peter and John as well, and so on and so forth. And so taking them with that big generalized context and understanding that is very important because there are very practical applications. Not everything is super spiritualized. As my daughter likes to say, yes, everything happens for a reason. And sometimes that reason is that you made a stupid decision. We talked about that last Sunday. Can you even make a stupid decision or is God in charge of all of that? Well, I do believe that there are times when God directly intervenes and perhaps even controls. And there are times when we go to him seeking his will and direction. And there are times when we are left to our own devices. Maybe we’ll talk about this again on this Sunday, but the analogy would be parenting. You’re you’re the parent of a toddler. You’re the good parent, a good parent of a toddler. You, for all intents and purposes, are sovereign over that toddler. There are times when you take charge and you intervene directly. You get that toddler away from that dangerous situation and sitting back down in the living room. There are times when you’re moving through your day and your toddler is going, why this? Why that? What can I do next? They’re seeking direction. They’re seeking wisdom. They’re seeking answers. And there are times when they’re just off playing alone. So the analogy translates to human relationships. And I see in the in the word sovereignty that it doesn’t have to be either or it can be both and it can be an all of the above answer. OK, it is hard to you can imagine how God feels, right? Because here we are. Human race is a bunch of toddlers, right? And we’re either getting into trouble or we’re badgering him constantly or he’s had enough and he’s left us to our own devices. But in his sovereignty, he can do that any way he wants. So that’s what we’re talking about here. The very practical application, the very practical nature of the letters. There are some super spiritual things in the letters. And God, through Paul and John and Peter, are trying to bring out those spiritual things. Right. And there are some very practical things. And it’s not that God does not have his hand in those. But there are times when Paul says, look, everybody, sit down and be quiet for a minute. We’ve got to get this thing in order. All right. And so we read for those and we listen for all of that when we listen. A Corinth isn’t there’s not a better example. I mean, the letters are obviously. All jam packed. But let’s just look at. First Corinthians, Chapter four, and we’ve been dealing with this. Everybody, we’re using the word silos, right? Everybody in Corinth is in their silo because they’re following Paul. They’re following Apollo’s. They’re following another teacher. And he’s like, why are you following teachers? If all of your teachers are legit, they are all preaching the same message. Christ and him crucified. If that is the case, then get your eyes off all of the teachers and on Christ and hear the gospel. If that’s not the case, then you have a situation where a human being is trying to create a cult saying, look at me. I have a special interpretation of scripture. And that is very bad. Because anybody who is preaching or teaching, expositing scripture, speaking the word of God, and here’s the word of God should be directing individuals into the word of God, should be directing their eyes on Christ. And so you must be discerning in that area. You know, it doesn’t even always have to be the individual. It can be the church. It can be the environment that is created, created, that is the idol that is worship, that creates the cult like atmosphere. Because look at this. This is, you know, it’s very unique and whatever the case may be, you’re the way the worship is, the way the building is constructed, the way they have programs for every single whatever the case may be. The church itself can become the idol and that can create that sort of cultish idol worship as well. I go to this very special church and they do all of these amazing special things. Yeah. And I read and I say this and I always say this in great love, Rick. Because I had another individual say, why is God not speaking to me? And we’re we’re trapped in the modern age of wanting to hear from God. What is God saying to you? What is God saying to you? Well, this is not to say that we do not seek and discern his will through his word, through godly conversation, through prayer. But a lot of the implication when I hear this is I’m just sitting around and I’m wondering something or I feel lost. Excuse me, or I have a big decision ahead of me and God’s not talking to me. And that is it’s it’s more of a modern twist on the individualism that we want our religion to be. And it’s not like that. And I always say, what do you mean? Do you I said, do you own a Bible? Well, of course I own a Bible, Pastor. Open it. There’s God speaking to you. And don’t do one of these things. I mean, you can I don’t think it offends God where you’re like, I’m seeking an answer to my my question. And you thumb through scripture and you stop and you read. I don’t know if that’s blasphemous or offensive to God. I don’t know if it works. Maybe God’s sovereign. But as you are in the word every day and you have the depth and the breadth of scripture in your body, you’ve ingested the word. God will never be silent because you have a situation in your life. And you will remember 10, 20, 30 examples in scripture of how this situation was similar, how God worked in the lives of those who were experiencing it, how it ties from Old Testament into New Testament, all those different things. That’s the key. God is speaking to his church today through scripture. And like I said, as we individually and corporately in church seek to submit ourselves to him, seeking his will, seeking his word, seeking his purpose, right? Discerning what he would have us do and be godly conversations, prayer, individual and corporate and time shared in the word. God will reveal himself in these ways. So. Good stuff. So we’ve been talking about these silos and this is the first part of the letter saying, stop looking to people and start looking to Christ. Chapter four. So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries, expositing scripture, as we would say today. Now, not all of the scripture was available, right? At the end, when Paul is doing his preaching and even his letter writing, because the canon was not created for a couple of hundred more years. But he did have the scriptures. He did have the law and the prophets. And he did have all of these things that were being written down, including the things that he was writing down and including all of the oral testimony of God, of Jesus Christ on Earth. So getting that all out there is his driven purpose in life. Right. And so now a person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful. As for me, it matters very little how I might be evaluated by you or by any human authority. I don’t even trust my own judgment on this point. I love that. Good heavens. I walked away from Sunday thinking it was the biggest disaster I have ever preached. I did. Good morning. I am the worst judge. Regarding my own calling and the results of my own calling. You know, I don’t even trust myself on these issues, he says. My conscience is clear, but that doesn’t prove I’m right. It is the Lord himself who will examine me and decide, and that’s where I need to be and live in submission to the Lord. So don’t make judgments about anyone ahead of time before the Lord Lord returns, for he will bring our darkest secrets to light and will reveal our private motives. Then God will give to each one whatever praise is due. Dear brothers and sisters, I have used Apollos and myself to illustrate what I have been saying, if you pay attention to what I have quoted from the scriptures, the word of God, expositing the word of God. You won’t be proud of one of your leaders at the expense of another for what gives you the right to make such a judgment. What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift? Now, the opposite is implied as well. If you are attending a church, a gathering, you’re a part of a congregation, and that individual who is in leading is not of God, not appointed by God, seeking individual recognition, individual power. So the opposite of that is true. My point is, if you have two or three excellent teachers in the church and they are all teaching. The gospel, according to Jesus Christ, the good news that he lived and died and rose again, and they are faithfully dividing the word of God. Then. Pay attention. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. But the opposite can be true if all of that is there and it’s not happening. Good morning, Jane. Right. It’s all about them and not about Jesus, not about the kingdom of God. If it’s all about you. And how great you are and they’re telling you how great you are, if it’s all about just say this prayer, so you can go up to heaven. It’s not about going up to heaven. It’s about heaven. The gospel is about heaven coming to Earth. Right. These are the things that we’re always discerning. And how do we discern them? We have the word of God ourselves. We can do that. And so he’s giving you an example. Evidently, he and a policy have been doing a good job and he’s telling the people to knock it off. Stop looking at us and saying, well, Paul’s better at this. Paul, whatever. They’re on the same page and he’s saying, submit yourself to the faithful exposition of the scriptures. But be discerning so that you can know that it’s a faithful exposition of the scriptures. You think you already have everything you need? You think you are already rich? You have begun to reign in God’s kingdom without us? I wish you really were reigning already for then we would be reigning with you. Instead, I sometimes think God has put us apostles on display like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade condemned to die. We have become a spectacle to the entire world, to people and angels alike. Because he will not compromise what he is teaching in this very hostile environment in which he lives. And if you know of Paul’s adventures and if you know of all of his torture and you know of all of the attempts on his life and you know all the beatings that he took, you know that he is speaking truth. I feel he says at one point in time, basically, I feel like a garbage bag. And here he says, I feel like a prisoner of war put on display just for people to gawk at. You know, the holiness with which I live sticks out like an absolute societal, religious sore thumb. And everybody seems to want to do their own thing. And it’s the pull to join in that crowd is great, but I won’t because I live by the power of God. And he then is desperately trying to share that with people. I know that the pull to worship people, worship things, worship money, go this direction or that. I know that it is strong, but I am telling you the truth about Christ. And if you want to be rich, if you want to have everything, have Christ, have the power of God within you. It can be a tough sell. And that’s why all the business in scripture about rich people being more difficult and all of that stuff. Because it is. It can be a very tough sell to say to a very rich person, if you really want to be rich, right? Remember the rich young ruler? Give up everything you own. Come follow me. No, he says. That’s too much. Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools. But you claim to be so wise in Christ, we are weak, but you are so powerful. You are honored, but we are ridiculed. Even now we go hungry and thirsty and we don’t have enough clothes to keep warm. We are often beaten and have no home. We work weirdly with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us. We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. We are treated like the world’s garbage. Thank you very much. Like everybody’s trash right up to the present moment. Now, this reminds me so much. And again, I said we’re finishing up the minor prophets and we’ve been in, of course, the prophets for a long time. And this always. Is something that I want to bring up again to people who feel that they’re being called read through scripture when prophets are called and look at the life that they lead after they’re called. Today, we have people running around saying that they are prophets with a 56 percent accuracy rate. And I’m a prophet of God. I’m a prophet. I’m a prophet. Really? You’re a prophet and you’re selling your prophecies and you want to make money and that is directly spoken against. Look at the prophets and the calling that they receive. You will go. Nobody will believe you. You will be beaten. You will be abused. I will ask you to do things that are so weird to try and demonstrate my message. You are going to be outcast, ridiculed. And you read prophet after prophet after prophet in the Old Testament saying, I will go. I will go and I will live by faith alone. Now you come to the New Testament and those who are called to be apostles first in the early church and we who are called to be disciples. And we expect something different. We don’t expect any pushback from the world. We don’t expect to be called the names at the very least, to be marginalized at the very least, let alone, as we see throughout the world, persecuted and murdered. The more things change, the more they stay the same. And there are many facets to that conversation, but one of them is living by faith, living by faith. Living by the power of God, that understanding with the peace that surpasses all human understanding as to whether whether or not this this whole this thing last another five minutes or 50 years. I’m good. I’m living by the power of God. I’m doing what he’s asking me to do. If I go today, I die in a right state with God. So you want that calling. You want zero responsibility. This translates back to every letter that’s written in the Bible or in the Bible in the book, and it translates particularly to the letter of James. You want your calling, but you don’t want to do anything with it. You want Jesus, but you don’t want to do anything with it. We’ve been talking about this for months. What are you doing with the bags of silver that you have been given? I’m afraid to do anything with it. Then you God looks at you and says, Where’s your faith? Why are you afraid to do anything with the gift that I’ve given you the gift of myself, by the way? And you’re afraid. Okay. Finishing up here. I am not writing these things to shame you because he’s telling them that this is the way they make them feel. But to warn you as my beloved children, for even if you had 10,000 others to teach you about Christ, you have only one spiritual father. For I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the good news to you. So I urge you to imitate me. That’s why I have sent Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of how I follow Christ Jesus, just as I teach in all the churches wherever I go. Boy, that’s very boastful, isn’t it? No. Well. Yes, but righteously so. Do you think the good Lord put a lot of Paul’s letters into our holy Bible because he was a false teacher? Because he didn’t preach the truth, because he was not inspired by God’s Holy Spirit. No, the opposite is true. And he says, I’m doing this as an apostle, as an individual who met and spoke with Christ. And then 10 years I spent. In prayer and supplication, in learning and growing and becoming, and now I’ve been commissioned to teach and preach. Am I beaten? Am I outcast? Am I poisoned? Am I shipwrecked? Am I imprisoned? Yeah, but I’ve been commissioned to teach and preach. And he knows that he is being true to his calling. He says, if you want to imitate anybody, imitate me. I was the one that first brought you the gospel. I will never teach or preach anything. But what I brought to you. If you ever need centered, then hear my preaching. If you never need centered, hear my teaching. Some of you have become arrogant, thinking I will not visit you again, but I will come and soon if the Lord lets me. And then I’ll find out whether these arrogant people just give pretentious speeches or whether they really have God’s power. For the kingdom of God is not just a lot of talk. It is living by God’s power. Which do you choose? Should I come with a rod to punish you or should I come with a love and a gentle spirit? I love man. It’s all about love. Man. Yes, it’s loving people enough to say you’re doing that wrong and you’re becoming arrogant. You’re living outside of the word of God. You’re living outside of the will of God. Your your worship services are chaos and you are worshipping people as idols. This is not what I taught you. If you want to get grounded again, then remember what I taught you. Look to me as an example. And humble yourselves before the Lord as you see the Apostles humbled before the Lord, taking their beatings and being treated like the garbage of the world. I don’t want any of that. Then go. He says, do you want me to come and bring the spiritual smack down on you? Or do you want me to come in love and we can gather again and recenter on the gospel and seek the will of the Lord for this gathering congregation? Your call. Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. And that’s why I wanted to sort of bring that piece of the scripture out because he’s not being arrogant for this in his own human ness in his manliness. He’s not being arrogant saying look at me. Follow me. I’ll start this cult. He is an apostle who met and spoke with Christ inspired was ordained and apostle. A preacher that directly knew Christ a church planter who directly knew Christ and so he says did that guy over there do that? Did this guy you got to be realistic? You have the Apostles among you. What are they all teaching their tail teaching the same thing? And you have this dude that pops up over here. He’s preaching something else. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yep, and that’s what we’ve been saying and part of my little thing the the turning on the lights last Thursday was about that. It’s not that our theology has become more political. It’s that politics have become more theological. And you’re beginning to pass mandatory laws right laws that are going to be enforced to take children from their parents because they want to transition. And so the state takes them at the age of 12 and starts feeding them puberty blockers and then starts mutilating their body. That’s a problem. That’s a theological problem. Politics is becoming more theological because the enemy is using it more and more and more always has right the poser of God’s will always has used human political systems in this way. Just look at the rise of Marxism in the 20th century. And the hundreds of millions of people who died as a result of the godless religion. But now here we have again. Him poking his head in there saying we’re going to pass laws to destroy God’s image bearers from the inside out. And we’re going to pass laws to make it okay to destroy God’s image bearers from the outside in. Tough times. Right. Ephesians six. The times are evil dress. Accordingly. Good time together today. Good morning, Miss Brittany. You just popped in there right at the end. I was creeping on you yesterday. Not really. I was upstairs working out and I saw you guys get your daughter off the bus. That’s all very, very sweet. So anyway, God bless. That’s not really a great way to end. But when I go up in the afternoon, I see they got the elementary bus, the middle school bus, the high school bus. And that’s when I’m working out. I’m like, oh, the kids are all back from school. God, thank you so much for our time together. We do love you and we appreciate you and we submit ourselves to you and to your word and to your will for us in our lives. May your kingdom grow through us one conversation at a time. One baptism of the Holy Spirit at a time. One baptism at a time. One repentance at a time. Oh, Lord, yes. We live by the power of God and we are not afraid. We are your disciples. Where you go, we will follow and where you tell us to go, we will go. In Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Everybody, we should be able to see you again on Thursday morning. For turning on the lights.
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