[00:00:00] Speaker A: You're listening to the message podcast of High Ridge Church, Longview, where our vision is to help you know God, find freedom, discover purpose, and ultimately make a difference. We are so glad that you're here and we pray that this message impacts your life as you apply the spiritual truths from God's word in practical ways.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: Let's listen in. Thank you, everybody. Come on, let's give it up one time for Jesus this morning, for our King, for our Savior.
I want to take a moment and welcome all of you watching online from all over around the world. Come on, High Ridge Church family. Let's say what's up to everybody watching through the miracle at camera lens. Come on, let's give them a big warm round of applause.
We are glad that you are here. We want you to know that at some point in this service today, we're going to take communion together. So if you are at home and you got some Cheetos or some Diet Coke, whatever you got, we're going to participate in that. And even if you're home, if you're sick, if you're struggling, if you're traveling, wherever you're at, maybe you don't have a home church today, we want you to know that you can participate in the taking of the Lord's Supper together with us right here today. As we dig into our words today, I want to make sure. As we dig into the Word, not our words, dig into the Word today, I want to make sure that you know how grateful I am that you guys are such a generous and a giving church. It is a beautiful thing to be able to do the things that we're doing, not just here in the church, but in the community and around the world. God's called us to do big, huge things. And it's a. It's a. It's a big undertaking to take on all of the things that the Lord has asked for us to do. But you guys have been so generous to provide us with all the resources that we need to make sure that we can resource God's people around the world that are doing incredible things. Let me just say thank you for that. Grab your Bibles, if you will. We're going to spend some time into two passages of scripture. John chapter 13 and Matthew 26, John 13 and Matthew 26. You can kind of put your finger in Savior's spot in Matthew 26, and we'll start in John chapter 13.
As we celebrate today, not just Palm Sunday, but I want to kind of focus on Holy Week. This is Holy Week, the Last week of Christ's life before he goes to the cross. And I want to kind of paint a picture and bring us into the story of what was happening not only in Jesus life, but in the city itself, what was going on, so you can get a better understanding of what it meant as Jesus was about to go to the cross for my sin and my shame and your sin and your shame.
And so history tells us all kinds of things. And so as we take a deep dive into Jesus life, as we look at this snapshot of one week, it's interesting that we know more about this week of Christ's life than any other point in his ministry. We get to see every single day. We kind of see how Jesus prioritizes this time. We see what Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday look like in the life of Christ. And here's the thing that kind of gets me is that Jesus is walking towards Jerusalem and he knows what's coming.
Now, I don't know about you, but there are parts of scripture where I feel like, oh, okay, I can relate to Jesus. I can relate to Him. And then it gets to this part where he's walking into Jerusalem knowing that he's going to be crucified there. Jesus knows that the end is coming in just a few short days, and he walks towards it. I don't relate to that at all. I relate to somebody else a few thousand years before named Jonah, who God says, you're going here? I'm like, mm, mm.
That's for somebody else a lot more holy than me. I'm going this way. I get that I relate a lot more to that part of the story, but the amount of anxiety and dread that must have been going on inside of Christ's heart as he walks towards his destiny, towards his purpose, towards the reason why he came, knowing that the cross is coming, he walks towards it.
And so as we're looking at Christ's life, as we're looking at Holy Week, it's important to take a. Take a quick snapshot of not just his week, but what's going on in the city. So history tells us that there are three specific times of year that the Jews would gather back to Jerusalem from all the surrounding regions and cities. And those three particular moments of the year were the feast of Tabernacles, Pentecost, and then the Passover. So this would have been the Passover, the time where the Jews celebrate what g. What. What God did for them when he brought them out of slavery in Egypt.
So notice this, that Jerusalem itself is not Necessarily that much bigger than Longview now. It would be a lot more compact. Now, in Longview, kind of everybody has at least a piece of grass in the front of their yard. It's not like New York City, where they haven't seen grass in 50 years. Like, this is a beautiful place. We're kind of spread out. It doesn't feel like we have 80 or 90,000 people in this city, but Jerusalem is about 100,000 people within the walls of a beautiful city.
Now, at this point of the year, at this point of Passover, the city would have swelled to almost a million people. So you can imagine what that might have felt like, what it might have sounded like. The anxiety, the pressure, that many people coming, that much commerce, that much noise, that much buzz. And all of them are talking about and discussing, thinking about the exact same thing. Jesus, this person that they're hoping, believing, discussing, arguing about, is he the Messiah? Is he our next king? Is he the one that's going to come and lead us in a great revolt against Rome? Is he going to take over the city? Is he going to storm the building and make sure that he takes this back? And we're going to set off a revolution? Why? Because they heard that Jesus is not only a good preacher, not only just a good teacher, now he's raising people from the dead that has a tendency to spread like wildfire. They heard the stories of Jesus opening blinded eyes of him helping people that couldn't hear to hear again of him doing great miracles.
And now Lazarus comes along, dies for four days. Jesus brings him back from the grave. Jesus has conquered death itself that has spread throughout the region. A million people coming together at one city at one time, wondering is Jesus going to show up?
And then they hear word that he's coming.
Can you imagine the anticipation of that moment? Now what they're believing is about to happen and what Jesus is coming to do, completely different.
But those two worlds meet and what we call the triumphal entry, where Jesus comes and they hear that he's. That he's approaching the city. So they come out with. With palm branches. They start laying those. Laying those cloaks down as his feet. And Jesus does something strange that. That. That they weren't. They weren't quite sure what he was. He. What he's doing it this way. He comes riding in and not on a military horse of a conquering king. He comes in riding a donkey.
You see, that would have. That would have been symbolic to them of someone that. That comes in peace, not here to start a Revolution. Well, that's a little bit different, Jesus. That's not what we expect. But okay, I mean, I get it, okay? You're coming in a different spirit. Jesus comes in and they're praising him. Hosanna. Hosanna. Hosanna. Which means, lord, save us, save us, save us. You're the Messiah. You're the king. We believe in you. There's a million of us gathered together. We can do anything.
Lead us, show us what to do.
And what does Jesus do in that moment, as the crowds begin to follow him, as they're chanting and shouting, as the city just gets turned on its head? Jesus doesn't go to the palace.
He goes to the temple.
Now, imagine in that moment, some were thinking, well, I mean, okay, I guess let's get our priorities in order. Let's honor the Lord first, and then we'll go.
But Jesus doesn't come to worship.
He comes in a completely different spirit. Jesus makes a whip and starts flipping tables.
He says, what are you doing? This is supposed to be a house of prayer. You made it into a den of thieves. You're ripping God's people off for these sacrifices. Can you imagine this long line of people with all of their livestock trying to get into the temple to make atonement for their sins, to sacrifice these animals?
They're waiting. We've been waiting for two days to get in here. And Jesus comes and starts flipping tables. That's a problem for a lot of people. This is when people's hearts begin to turn on Him.
Why? Because he's not doing what they thought he should do? The same part of that exact moment still exists in the hearts of us today as part of our human condition. We have these moments in our life where God doesn't do what we think he should do. And in that moment, can we trust that he knows better than us?
Or do we back up and say, I'm not sure if I'm buying into all this?
Jesus doesn't go to the palace. He goes to the temple.
People's hearts begin to change.
He's not doing what I think he should do. It shows us very, very clearly that sometimes what we want isn't what we need. Come on, somebody. Sometimes what we want is not what we need.
Jesus knows better. He has something different in mind.
And then Jesus does something that's really, really special. In spite of the million people gathered together and the noise and all of the people standing for him, supporting him, that have now turned. Everything has gone into mass confusion. He has turned the city on Its head. Well, what are you doing? You can raise the dead. You can do anything. You have all the power, like be our next king.
Jesus takes his disciples and said, there's a place that's been prepared. We're gonna go and celebrate the Passover there, Just us. What are you talking about? Like, let's go take over the palace. No, no, no.
Let's go celebrate the Passover.
And we see that in the life of Christ and in the life of his disciples, Jesus does three important things that are still very relevant to us today. Very symbolic, very, very, very important in the life of every believer from the time of the Last Supper to us today. He does three things. Here's the first thing that I want you to see. Number one. Jesus removes the distractions.
He removes the distraction of all the people, all the things that are going on. Removes the distractions of what just happened in the temple. When he makes a whip, when he starts flipping over tables. By the way, this was probably the last straw for Judas. Judas had already had major issues with Jesus in his heart when he saw what happened. When a woman approaches Jesus at the meal and she breaks open the alabaster jar full of very, very expensive, very costly perfume, and she lays it on his feet.
Scripture says she's anointing him for his burial. Now, they don't understand what she's doing.
Now she pours this upon his feet, begins to dry his feet with her, with her hair.
Judah speaks up. He said, what a waste. Do you have any idea what that is worth? Do you have any idea what we could have done with that valuable perfume? She's putting it on your feet. What a waste. It's a horrible use of resources. Something begins to change inside of his heart. He says, you could have taken that and you could have gone and helped the poor.
Isn't it incredible how at the very heart of the mesh, of the mission of Jesus, there's always been a disagreement on how finances ought to be used.
Isn't that interesting?
And Jesus tells Judas, not what I would say. He tells him, you know what? You're going to always have the poor. You're not always going to have me with you. She's preparing me for burial. She's doing what's right. And from now until the end of time, this story is going to be told. This is important. Don't stop her.
But that is not what I would have said. I speak fluent ssl, which is sarcasm as a second language, baby. And I don't know, when Judas says, what a waste. You could have used this money to help the poor. I would have said something sneaky snappy because I know me. I would have said something like, why don't you use those 30 pieces of silver that you just got? I just think it's funny how I would have, I would have launched into something else like, oh, you didn't know that I knew about that. Hmm.
But that's me.
But Jesus responds, he says, you're going to always have the poor with you, but this is special. You're not always going to have me.
So in this moment where Jesus takes his disciples to what we know as the upper room, they begin to celebrate the Passover there together. Jesus removes the distractions of all the things that have happened, all the crazy conversations, all of the buzz, all the momentum, all of the craziness that's happening in the world and brings them back to a simple candle lit, quiet room away from the noise.
In those moments, I can't help but think of Psalm 46 where David writes, be still and know that I'm God.
You know, God still calls us today to be still. There's something about the silence. There's. Sometimes we just need to sit in the quiet and say, God, would you speak? Will you remind me of what's important? Will you remind me, Lord, that there's so much. I'm so overstimulated by everything happening in the world. Can you just, can you just remind me of who you are? I need your help. I need your wisdom. I need your guidance. Would you center me, focus me, help me to see what's most important in this moment. Jesus takes his disciples away from the noise of all that stuff, removes all the distractions and tells him, be still.
They begin to celebrate the Passover meal together. A very, very symbolic meal, not a normal meal.
Here's the second key that we see that Jesus does for his disciples. Number two. Jesus changes the focus, removes the distractions and changes the focus. I can imagine what their conversations must have been like as they're sitting around in this room. Like, can you believe what just happened today? Can you believe what's about to happen? Like, this could be this and this could be that. This could be this. We've been following around Jesus for three years and now is the moment where he's about to step in and just go crazy. Like, why didn't he do this? Why didn't he do that? You should ask him. No, you should ask him. I'm not asking him, asking them.
And Jesus is beginning to serve this Passover meal And I can imagine in those moments that they're having crazy conversations, looking at each other like somebody should say something like what are we doing here?
Jesus dramatically shifts the focus. He downshifts to bring that noise back to something that is holy and sacred.
Reminds them of his purpose, reminds them of why he came, reminds them of the point. We know this, that the disciples had multiple conversations between each other about who was the most important.
Even John himself writes, I'm the one that Jesus loved.
We know that James and John are arguing back and forth. Who's going to be the most important, who's going to sit on his right hand, who's going to sit on his left hand. And Jesus constantly redirects all those conversations by saying stuff like my kingdom is not of this world. The things that you think are going to happen are completely different. You're seeing things through only one lens. I want to show you something much, much better on this side. But they're going back and forth about who's going to sit on his right, who's going to sit on his left. We're going to be your cabinet when you come into throne and you get to be, you get to be the king. Can I be Secretary of State? Can I be Secretary of Treasury? Not you, Judas.
Jesus dramatically shifts the focus to what's important.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Scripture says he begins to wash their feet.
Reminds me of what it says in Matthew chapter 20. It says, the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. He said, I came to die.
I came to give my life as the ransom payment for many.
And that really is the heart of the gospel. It's what it should confront in each and every one of our, of our own hearts. You see, the Gospel removes the question what's in it for me? And replaces it with how can I serve?
Jesus gives them a heart check because they're entitled to and they're excited.
They have anticipation of what's about to happen.
He said, I'll tell you what's about to happen.
You're going to serve.
Scripture tells the story this way. In John chapter 13, Jesus got up from the meal. He wrapped a towel around his waist. He poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples feet, drying them with a towel.
Verse 12. He says, do you understand what I just did for you? Do you get it?
Do you see the point?
I'm not just washing your feet to wash your feet.
There's a point to this. Do you understand?
Then he Clarifies it. He says, you call me teacher and Lord, and rightly so. That's what I am. But now that I, your Lord and your teacher, now that I've washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I've set an example that you should do as I have done for you.
He reminds them that your entitled hearts need a checkup, need to come back to reality for a moment. It's not about what's out there and what's going on. It's about right here. He's like, center yourself. Focus yourself.
That the calling on your life is not to be powerful and rich and popular.
Your calling is to serve.
You're gonna serve with humility.
Like, are you serious, Jesus? Cause you have any idea what this kind of social media buzz can do for you? This is a good thing. No, no, no, no, no.
It's like we're doing something different. Jesus comes. I love this. We see this over and over in the story of this week. He always comes in the opposite spirit.
He shows us something beautiful as he begins to serve and wash their feet. And of course, in this moment, Peter does what Peter always does, completely misunderstands, just like I would. And he's like, you're not. Hey, you're not doing that. Jesus. Get up. Like, this is embarrassing. You are the Messiah. You are the King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Stop washing feet.
He said, you're not doing that to me. And then Jesus looks at him in love and says, peter, if I don't do this, you don't have any part in me. Well, then just wash my whole body then. Like, wash everything. Do you have any idea, like, how clearly we see somebody's bipolar? Come on, come on. He's like, you're not doing this. Yes, I am. Okay, then do it all. Like, calm down, Peter. Like, it's gonna be all right.
And Jesus explains to him. He says, if you're with me, I've already washed you clean. You're saved. You're clean. But he says, there's a reminder. We live in a sinful world.
We're called to serve one another as we walk in a very dirty, dirty world. There are moments that we need to come back to Christ and saying, cleanse me. Cleanse my heart.
I know you saved me. I need forgiveness. I still need that today.
You know, Peter, I think he would remember this lesson for the rest of his life. When Jesus shows him with absolute clarity, kind of the point of why he's here, something begins to change in his heart. And later on we'd see that Peter writes this. In First Peter, chapter four, he says, each of you should use whatever gift you've received. To do what? To serve.
To serve.
I think very clearly we can say we are called to use what God has given us. To serve his purpose and his people.
God calls each of us to serve with humility. And by the way, those are two words, serving and humility, that we use a lot in church circles, but we don't necessarily use them in reality.
In our Americanized version of Christianity. Serving.
No thanks. Humility. What are you talking about? Like we're Americans. We're back to back. World war champs, baby. Get some. We're the top of the food chain.
But I think today is an incredibly important reminder of what Jesus offers in response to what we want.
Inside of each of us is a heart to do great things. The question is, are they God things? Are they done with the right spirit? Would these disciples accomplish great things? Yes, but not like they thought.
Jesus says, greater works than these shall you do. Are you going to do it? Yes. He does. Yes.
But each of them goes on to lay down their life just like Christ did.
It's a call to die.
So we see that not only does Christ remove the distractions of what's happening in the city, not only does he change the focus, but then he calls them to communion.
He calls them to communion. Now the word that we use today is communion. They would have used the word Passover. In Hebrew circles. We'd say the word Seder, a Seder meal as we celebrate the passovers. You've never been a part of a Seder meal or Passover meal. If you don't have Jewish friends, if you've never seen that, you might not understand that this is not a normal meal. This is a very symbolic. It's a 15 part meal. That would help us understand the difference between just eating a meal and doing something that is a reminder of how you got here.
It's something that's given as a testimony to those that are coming with the next generation, like we. You need to know the story of our people.
And so history tells us that Jesus would have first done the Kadesh, which is. This is the setting apart the saying, you're holy. It's. It's a. It's a blessing that he would speak, calling everyone to the table and saying, you're set apart, you're different. This is a holy night. This is not a normal meal. You're not a holy, you're not a normal person. You, you're something that God chose you and called you out.
By the way, all of this is based back in Exodus, chapter six, that you can read along with it and see that there's four I will statements that God speaks to his people. I will call you out, I'll deliver you, I'll redeem you, I'll restore you. I'll give you a future, a purpose, a home. There's all kinds of ways that we can see the statements that God gives to his people.
But then Jesus would have had the washing of his hands. I think this is the moment where Jesus takes that ceremonial water and doesn't just wash his hands, he starts washing their feet. And he's saying, you expect me to go left? I'm going right. Jesus goes off script and establishes a new covenant.
He begins to wash their feet. He shows them that there's something practical happening in each of their lives.
Scripture tells us this in Matthew chapter 26.
While they're eating, Jesus took bread that he had given thanks for, and he breaks it and he gives it to his disciples. He says, take this and eat. This is my body.
You know, they would have already had the very first cup of wine, which is the cup of sanctification.
And they're about to drink the second cup, which is the cup of deliverance.
And Jesus would have been very symbolic in what he's showing them as an example of not only what has happened to us to get us to this point, but what's about to happen next.
Which is why I think it's important that as we approach Holy Week and as we approach what's going to happen in just a few short days in Jesus life, that we remember what the disciples did in this moment. So if you're located on the far, far right of any row underneath your seat is a small plastic container that has the communion elements. If you'd be so kind as to grab that and begin to pass it down your own. We're going to take the Lord's Supper together today. If you're at home, we want to invite you to go ahead and take communion along with us. You don't have to be a member of our church to take communion with us, but you should know that Jesus is your own personal Lord and Savior.
So once you've got those elements, go ahead and remove the top layer. If you would, remove that bread and hold it in your hand for just a moment.
So tradition tells us that this would have been a piece of unleavened bread.
And God specifically told his people you will use unleavened bread when you celebrate the Passover, when you remember what I did for you. It's the bread symbolic of not having yeast in it. That means that there's no sin. Symbolic of sin. There's no sin in this bread.
So when Jesus takes that bread and he blesses it and breaks it, he goes off script. He says, that which we just broke, he said, that's my body.
I'm the bread of life.
In just a few short hours, Jesus body would go through incredible torture.
And they would understand from a different perspective what that bread represented. So this is my body.
They would see it be broken.
They would hear the stories of the whip across his back. They would see the spear in his eye, the nails in his hands and feet, the crown of thorns on his head, the incredible torture he would go through. He reminds him, I know what's coming.
I want you to know that I'm not just doing this for myself. This is for you.
Scripture says he takes the bread and he blesses it. He breaks it. He gives it to his disciples, saying, take and eat. This is my body.
Hold the bread in your hand for just a moment and let's pray.
Lord Jesus, we thank you for what you did for us.
Every time we participate in the taking of the Lord's Supper, we remember.
We remember.
We receive this today with grateful hearts.
In Jesus name, Amen. Take it and eat.
Turn the cup over and pull back the second layer with the juice.
This would have been the second cup of wine in the Passover meal, the Seder meal, the cup of deliverance.
It's a cup that's symbolic of the second part of their journey. Not only does God say, I'm going to take you out of Egypt, God says, now I'm going to get the Egypt out of you.
There's a process by which God pulls out the things of our life that don't belong and fills them up with his spirit. He says, I'm gonna give you a new heart.
I'm gonna take away that old heart of stone. I'm gonna give you a heart of flesh.
Says, then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them. Said, drink from it, all of you. This is the blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
The cup of deliverance.
Thank you, Jesus, for what you did for us.
We drink this cup today as a reminder of the blood that was poured out on that cross so that today we could have forgiveness for our sins. Lord, there's Not a single person in this room that's ever lived a perfect life. Lord, we have all messed up.
We thank you, Lord, that today your blood was good enough, strong enough, powerful enough to forgive us of every single sin, past, present and future.
Thank you for what you did for me.
We receive it today with grateful hearts. In Jesus name, take it and drink.
On the far left hand side, there's a small plastic container. If you go ahead and grab that and begin to pass it down the road, you can put your communion elements in that, you know. Jesus finishes his statement here with his disciples, and he tells them as soon as they're finished drinking that he tells them a very important statement. I want to show you this. He says, I tell you this, I will not drink from the fruit of the vine until the day that we get to drink it together.
He speaks of a future for them. He says, I'm going to wait for you.
We're going to get to celebrate together when all of this is over.
He reminds them there's a hope, that there's a future. He reminds them that this is not heaven.
You may walk through some horrible things, you may see some things that freak you out, but I'm making you a promise.
It's reflected in. I love what John says. He says, I will not leave you as orphans. I will come for you.
He gives us a promise still effective today. He will not leave us. He's coming again.
You know, at this point of a Passover meal, we don't have anything else recorded as far as what's going on. From this point, Jesus takes a hard left turn and does not do what tradition says he should do. He's done something new. He's established a new covenant. But normally at the place, if you've ever been to a Seder meal, what would happen is the youngest person at the dinner would have to ask four questions of those that are eating the Passover meal with them.
And those four questions would be the telling, the telling of the story of where we came from and what got us here. The first questions that the youngest person would ask is, why is this night different than all other nights?
Why is this night special?
It would ask questions like, why do we only eat unleavened bread and bitter herbs tonight?
What does that bread mean?
What are these bitter herbs? Why are we eating something that's bitter?
And they would talk to them about what it meant to live as slaves.
They would ask questions like, why do we dip our food twice? Why do we dip it once in salt water and Then one inside of this nut and fruit like a sweet paste. Why do we do that?
So one dip is symbolic of the 400 years of the tears of our people crying out for a Savior, crying out for deliverance. And the other is the sweet taste of freedom.
It matters.
Every bite a reminder of bitterness, of pain and sorrow and regret, of what it's like for people like us to have to live in our sin. Desperate for Savior. Why do we dip our food twice? It would ask. And then the last question is, why are we reclining? Why are we not sitting in chairs like a normal meal?
So we recline. Because we're in the posture of peace and freedom.
Because God has set us free.
You know, at the conclusion of this meal, they would have drunk the. The third cup.
Not just now, the.
The cup of sanctification or the cup of deliverance. But that third cup would be the cup of redemption.
He's redeemed me. He's given me a purpose.
Have a reason to get up.
I know who I am. I know whose I am.
And they would finish up with the fourth cup, the cup of Hillel. This is meaning the cup of praise.
They begin to sing songs, songs of thanksgiving of what God has done for us.
A fantastic reminder that he's worthy. He sees something special in each of us.
And we have a reason to tell God. Thank you.
Everything that we see in the Passover meal and the Passover celebration, everything that we see in there. We've built the vision of our church around that.
See, they call it the four cups, but you might see it on our walls as four steps. We want people to know God. That's the cup of sanctification. We want people to find freedom, deliverance.
We want people to discover their purpose of why God made you that cup of redemption where God has redeemed your life and restored you to who you were always supposed to be.
So that lastly, you can drink from that cup of praise, the cup of Hallel. You can make a difference with the rest of your life. You can live the life that God has called you to live. That's the High Ridge vision here. That's what we have in store for you.
So it's not just words that we put up on a wall. They mean something. It's the history of what got us here and the very man that came, God in the flesh to give us a new covenant.
That which we still live under today.
I'm going to ask you go ahead and stand to your feet.
And as you do, I'm going to have our elders and their wives step forward. As we finish up our service today, these guys are going to be available to pray for you about anything that you might need prayer about. If you're walking through a dark season, if you're in a difficulty, these people would be more than happy to pray for you.
And because today is different, I'm going to ask that we do something a little bit different than we would normally do on a Sunday. We like to encourage you. We like to strengthen you. But today is different. I'm going to ask that today as we exit, that we exit in silence as a reminder of what it costs for us to walk in freedom, as a reminder of the tears of slavery. Today we remember why. Because next Sunday we explode with joy because we don't serve a savior that everything finished on the cross. No, he got up from the grave.
Next week we get to celebrate. But this week we remember.
Let me pray for you, Father. We finish this service in silence.
We finish this service in an attitude that is somber.
We remind ourselves that there was a high price to pay for my sin. There's a high price to pay for my redemption.
And we are thankful for what you did for us. Father, I pray that you would bless my friends, help us to never forget what you did for us, and to walk this week in gratitude for the lamb that was slain for the sins of the world.
We ask these things in the mighty name of Jesus, and all of us said amen. God bless you as you go.
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