A Promise Higher Than Sin

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Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Robin, for your testimony. That was a blessing to me. I'm sure it was a blessing to many others. If you want, you can turn to your Bibles and your Bibles to Hebrews 7. We're going to be in Hebrews 7 and 8 today. You know, anytime somebody starts reading their Bible in earnest, they really start trying. Maybe they've never read before, But they're really trying to read their Bible and they're you know, they started Genesis and Boyd Howdy They're gonna they're gonna plow right through right? The thing that I see two people shaking their head like oh no

Yes It is it is difficult to do is difficult to start in Genesis because then you then you get to Leviticus And when you get to when you get to there even before Leviticus now when you're in the middle of Genesis and Exodus The thing that trips a lot of people up is names. All those names, and the Old Testament names often sound like Star Wars names, okay? And I wanna prove it to you. Up here are three Old Testament names and three Star Wars names. I swear to you, Lobot, Taut-Ra, Ariac, Kedor-Leomir, Tidal, and Zet. Go ahead, tell me which ones you think are Old Testament or are Star Wars. I'll tell you what, let's take a vote, just because it's fun for me. Let's take title down there on the bottom left, title. How many of you think it's a Star Wars name? A few. How many of you think it's an Old Testament name? How many of you had no idea? It's no idea, okay.

Title is an Old Testament name. Winning, winning. Lobot, Lobot. How many of you guys think we're not gonna do all five? I mean all six, just this one now. Lobot, how many of you guys think Lobot is an Old Testament name? How many of you think it's a Star Wars name? You're right, Star Wars. Star, Lobot is General Calrissian's aide, the guy with the big headphones on, that's Lobot. Okay, not gonna geek out that hard. I'm gonna keep it rained in right now. When we see, when we see the name Melchizedek, We are squarely in Star Wars territory. Okay. That's exactly, we're thinking, when we see Melchizedek in Hebrew seven and eight, which is where we're going to be today, it feels very odd, very foreign to us. It sounds like we're going to see his picture on, you know, like a 1600 BC piece of pottery in a museum. Okay. Melchizedek is a strange name. And he's a really, it's a fun, it's actually a fun little study, but what we need to do today,

we need to wrestle down Melchizedek. And we need to understand him, not as something foreign or something odd, but we need to understand him as an icon. And if we're going to do that, we need to know a little bit about him. Now, it might surprise you to know that before Hebrews 5, 6, and 7, where he's mentioned eight times, He receives two mentions in the entire Old Testament.

One's in Genesis 14, one's in Psalm 110. And in Genesis 14 is the actual narrative. Psalm 110 is a prophecy about, and we'll get to that, but in Genesis 14, Melchizedek the priest comes out of nowhere after Abraham wins a war. Bet you didn't know Abraham fought a war, but he did, and he won it. And so this guy, Melchizedek, comes out of nowhere, the king of Salem, and he goes by another title. He's the priest of God Most High. This is all Genesis 1418. That's it, just one verse in Genesis 14. And in that little episode, Melchizedek receives a 10th of Abraham spoils from war. So everything he gets from the war. He gives a 10th of it to Melchizedek. And then Melchizedek disappears, gone. End of story, we don't hear from him again, nothing. And then, then he's mentioned in Psalm 110 when it says, it says, the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

We'll get to that in just a second. But he's mentioned there one time, that's it. And then in Hebrews, in the book of Hebrews, we get more Melchizedek than we were bargaining for. There's no reason for us to really see a lot of Melchizedek based on all the non-mentions he got in the previous 39 books of the Old Testament. But here he is in Hebrews, and we learn way more about him, and we need to understand just a few things. So I wanna direct your attention to Hebrews 7:3, Chapter seven verse three, it says Melchizedek, he is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he continues as priest forever. That's going to come back to be a little bit more

understandable, we're gonna get to that in a second. But in this chapter, in Hebrews seven, the first 10 verses establish one point, And that is that Jesus is of a priestly order that is higher and better than that of Levi or Aaron. So Levi and Aaron, the Levitical priesthood, according to the law that was given on Mount Sinai, like the law, the capital L law, that established a certain priesthood, okay? And the first one of those priests was Moses' brother Aaron. But then the line was set through Levi. Levi was one of the 12 tribes of Israel, and so they were called Levitical priests after Levi. Okay, I promise, no more Star Wars names after this. Okay, Melchizedek is important because he's an icon of the Messiah. Okay, so we see it here. He continues, he resembles the Son of God, the Messiah. He continues as priests forever. And that's why Psalm 110:4 points to that, and he's saying, the Lord has sworn and will

not change his mind, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. So the pastor in Hebrews, let me just kind of bring it on home real quick here. The pastor in Hebrews is bringing up Jesus' priesthood yet again for the third time in three chapters, Hebrews 5, Hebrews 6, Hebrews 7. He's mentioning him again because he wants to talk about the law. He wants to help these Hebrews that are reading this text in Hebrews 7 and 8. He wants them to say, okay, let's make this connection between Melchizedek the priest and the law. So skip to verse 11, Hebrews 7, 11. It says, now, if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood, okay, that's the priesthood that the law set up. For under it, the Levitical priesthood, the people receive the law. What further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek rather than one named after the order

of Aaron? Okay, I need you to see this. The timeline. Melchizedek comes first. The law and the Levitical priesthood and all that comes 500 years later. And And what this verse is asking is what we can understand. If the law actually defeated sin, if following rules actually made you pure, and this actually ties right into Robin Rickards testimony, if following the rules made you pure, okay, then why not run with it? If the law was going to solve all the problems that everybody was dealing with, Why not just maintain that? Why not just press in further to that? Why not equip the Levitical priests to administer the law better? And the answer is because it doesn't work.

That priesthood didn't work. Why don't we run with the law? Why don't we let the Levitical priesthood serve? Why, why, which is what this is asking, why go through the trouble of resurrecting a different line of priests altogether. Why get rid of Levitical priesthood and start trying to establish this priesthood that is after Melchizedek, a Melchizedekian priesthood? Yeah, I had to practice four times to say that.

Why resurrect a different line of priests? It's because the law doesn't defeat sin, And that's what Robin's testimony was about. She saw that following the rules, doing it a certain way, wasn't bringing her close to God. She didn't feel even, feel like she was in God's presence. It was only eventually shame and guilt because she wasn't doing it right, wasn't doing it perfect. The law doesn't defeat sin, the law doesn't perfect anything, and the priesthood, according to that law, doesn't really have any power. And so now let's connect the dots. The next verse Hebrews 7 12.

For when there is a change in priesthood from Levitical to Melchizedekian, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. Aha, aha, we are here. It is helping us understand that the magnitude of what Jesus the Messiah has done is a change in the law. Let me just help you understand something. Do you know there's a really big divide in your Bibles? It's about two thirds to three fourths of the way through. And before that mark, before that divide, you have what is called the Old Testament. Okay, you guys tracking? And after that we have the New Testament. Okay, there's a reason we have that divide is because the word Testament is another word for covenant or promise. And so what the first 39 books that take up the vast majority of your Bible, what they talk about is an old promise that God established with his people. Genesis through Malachi discusses, examines,

and applies that old promise. Okay. It is tempting to think that, it's tempting just to kind of simplify it, like the Old Testament is bad, the New Testament is good. But frankly, that's simplistic and it's wrongheaded. It doesn't help you. The Bible actually doesn't talk about it that way. Jesus doesn't talk about the Old Testament that way and we shouldn't either. It's not that there's another separate God in the Old Testament. God's the same in both. So what does that mean? Because the Bible doesn't speak in terms of Old Testament, bad New Testament, good. The Bible speaks in terms of fulfillment. Fulfillment. In other words, when we talk about in Hebrew 712, when it says there is a change in the law, what that means is that Jesus took that old promise that we have the first 39 books in our Bible about, he takes that old promise and he fulfills that promise. He completes the necessary requirements of that promise.

He keeps that promise in full. And when he does, he makes a way for a new promise. He keeps the old promise and he makes a way for a new one. And this is what the next chapter in Hebrews spells out. And if you look, if you just jump ahead to Hebrews 8, verses seven and eight, it's gonna talk about the first covenant, which means the Old Testament and the second, right? So it says, for if that first covenant had been fought, Huh? Let's try again. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says, Behold, this is God, behold the days are coming declared with the Lord when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. That new covenant that he's establishing, that he's talking about here in Jeremiah, 600 years before Jesus comes,

This covenant that he's talking about right here is what we call the New Testament. That new covenant, that's what we call the New Testament. And what the pastor in Hebrews is trying to help this church understand, and what we need to see this morning is that this idea of an Old Testament, New Testament, this was the plan all along. That this was the plan in the Garden of Eden, This is the plan whenever whenever God's people couldn't keep the covenant is the plan all along the Old Testament anticipates God in heaven establishing making a new promise Again, he's quoting Jeremiah 31 versus 31 and 32 a full 600 years before the new covenant is actually established and what we need to understand as we are looking at Hebrews and we're talking about a first and a second covenant or old in the New Covenant and we're talking about Star Wars names. What we need to

see, what we need to see is that in your whole Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, the whole thing, right, is that God desires a people for his own possession. I'll say it again. In this book, as you read Old Testament, New Testament it's the same. God desires a people for his own possession. That's his words. I want to show you where those words are. I want to look at Exodus 19 first. So Exodus 19 is really, it's a big deal because it's right before the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments are Exodus 20 verses 1 through 17. Exodus 19 is whenever God is bringing his people and he's saying here's what it's gonna be like and what does he say he says to his people you yourselves have have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on the Eagles wings and brought you to myself listen to the heart language there this is Old Testament this is what people call mad God this isn't mad God this is God being gentle

and gracious and bringing a people to himself now therefore verse 5 now therefore if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant listen Listen, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples for all the earth is mine. And then let's just stack on verse six, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. When it's a kingdom of priests, think about this for just a second, because this was very much on their their their forefront as they were listening to these words, a kingdom of priests, If your whole kingdom is priests, then who are you priests to? The nations. You're priests to everybody else. Does that make sense? He's saying, I want you to be my treasured possession. Why? Because the whole earth is mine. I'm concerned with everybody, but you are going to be my treasured possession. You're going to be my priests. You are going to usher everybody else in this whole world to me

so that people can find healing and hope. You are going to be my priest, the whole lot of you, not some of you, all of you. And we know from the Old Testament that that did not work out. That was not that did not end well. However, now that we have all this in our brain, I want to fast forward. I'm going to look at 1 Peter 2 9. And it's going to be up here. You don't have to turn there if you don't want to, but you can listen to 1 Peter 2 9. but you are a chosen race, a royal preset, or kingdom of priests, a holy nation, a people for his own possession. Why? That you may proclaim the excellencies of people who called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light. It's the same thing. Exodus 19 4-6 and 1 Peter 2-9 say the exact same thing. One's old covenant, one's new covenant, but it's the same thrust. God wants people. He wants to work through His chosen people to bless everybody.

Old Testament, New Testament, it doesn't matter. God invites people into relationship with Him. Because even though, even though He's talking about Israel being His treasured possession and all of that, you can read all through the Old Testament. And even as they are leaving Egypt, this is actually just a fun bit of information, even as they're leaving Egypt, even after God in heaven has judged Egypt and is bringing his people out, look very carefully at who is in that procession because it's not just Israelites, it's also Egyptians. It's also people that said, you know what, I believe God and I'm gonna put the blood on my doorpost And I'm going to march out with these people. I'm now like a grafted in Israelite. And you look through all the Old Testament, there's tons of people that aren't ethnically Israel that are lumped in with God's people. Ruth the Moabites comes to mind.

But a lot of people who aren't ethnically in are just God's like, yeah, come on. You can be in relationship with me. That's awesome, let's do it. The pastor in Hebrews then elaborates on this, but we gotta go back to chapter seven to see it. Hebrews seven, 18 through 19. It says, for on one hand, a former covenant is set aside, it's former covenant being the Old Testament, a former covenant is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness, 19, for the law made nothing perfect. But on the other hand, a better hope is introduced through which we draw near to God. The former commandment is weak and it's useless precisely because it does not do what Jesus did for us.

It's weak and useless because it did not defeat sin, it couldn't defeat sin. And that's why the New Testament is a better testament. So in verse 22 it says this makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. Jesus has established a new and better promise, a promise that ships us straight to God's presence. No obstacles in the way. What a freeing thing. And man, I wasn't even planning on, like I didn't know Robin's testimony and she didn't like tell it to me before this. I didn't share the sermon with her. There was no collusion. But it just matches right in with what we're talking about today, because this promise, it stands higher than that shame and that guilt that you were feeling because you weren't getting everything right. It stands higher than even our negligence or our anxiety. We've been talking about this the last few weeks. And this new promise stands higher than sin itself.

The new promise that we have in Jesus Christ is higher than all those things, and it's higher than sin itself. The power of sin has no standing on this promise. Our reaction when we sin, when you and I sin, our reaction to that, not only is sin toxic, but our reaction to it is also toxic. Why? Because we want to run and hide. We want to curl up in a ball. And when God in His great mercy and grace exposes our sin, either if we're personally confessing it to him or if other people are finding out we want to crawl up in a ball and forget it ever happened. That's a very toxic reaction. Moreover, let me just pour it on, moreover we feel disqualified. We feel disqualified to to enjoy the things of God, to be around the people of God. Perish the thought that we are trying to somehow after that moment trying to live right, trying to do right, Trying to be moral or trying to act like anything else

other than a complete failure when we sin and We really face it We're sunk When we sin and we really face it if we face without any hope we're sunk. I cannot blame someone Who does not follow Christ? I can't blame them for wanting to avoid ever facing any of their sin for the rest of their life. That's a horrible thought to face that with no hope. Jesus in his mercy forever changed that whole process so that we don't need to go through guilt and shame because Jesus in what he does actually makes us obedient. Jesus makes us obedient and we see this explained further in the next chapter. In Hebrews 810, in Hebrews 810, this is what we're still, we're quoting, we're quoting Old Testament but we're still talking about kind of what this new covenant is going to be and it says, for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, so new covenant, declares the Lord.

I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be be their God and they shall be my people, a people of my own possession." You see the echoes of the Old Testament there. How will, under the New Covenant, how will people obey? The law will be placed in them. God doesn't abolish the law from the Old Testament, he stamps it on us. And I've talked with many people and they, ignorantly and maybe kind of casually say, God could have just brushed his own law aside. No, no, because the law is still good. The law is still a blessing. It still displays God's holiness. It blesses us, it blesses our families, it blesses the people around us. It's still good. God takes that good law and he stamps it on our minds and our hearts. And not only does it mean that we have it on our mind and our heart, it also washes us. Look at the next two verses in verses 11 and 12 of Hebrews eight.

It says, and they shall not teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities and I will remember their sins no more. What a beautiful promise. But we're not going to, we're not going to, you know, say like, oh, okay, you're a Christian, you know, let me introduce you to the Lord. They're all going to know me. They're all going to know me personally. I'll be merciful toward their iniquities and I'll remember their sins no more. And here, bringing into focus something foundational to the Christian faith. And yet, honestly, it gets glossed over many times. explained and expanded on very well in Hebrews 7, 23 and following. Let's look at verse 23 and 24 of Hebrews 7. It says, the former priests, we're back to priests here for just a second. The former priests, the old priesthood, the way it

used to work, the former priests were many in number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office. But he, Jesus, holds his priesthood permanently because he continues forever. What does he continue to do forever? He continues being a priest. He continues to make intercession. Look at the next verse. Verse 25, consequently, he, Jesus, is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them. The overlooked foundational truth is this. For anyone who followed Jesus, salvation is continually achieved and protected by Jesus himself. In other words, you and I are washed of our sins on a continual basis. We are made new in a continual fashion. Jesus does not ever stop making intercession for us. It is a continual forever process. That's why Melchizedek is such a big deal because it's a new priesthood.

It's an icon of the Messiah because it's a priesthood that doesn't end. Jesus Messiah right now, and if you don't know him, just ears up, listen, eyes on me. Jesus Messiah is at work right now making people clean, drawing people to himself, giving giving you ideas, inspiring you toward things. Did you wake up one morning and thought, man, you know what, I'm gonna try to live better. You know where that came from? Jesus. You might wake up one day, you might be be bopping along, just doing nothing, and you're just thinking, you're just thinking to yourself, man, wouldn't it be great if I was just this huge blessing to somebody else? You know where that came from? They came from Jesus Messiah, who is continually making intercession for you to help you begin to understand What it is to follow him on a continual basis. When we understand this, this shifts everything.

It shifted something for Robin, something huge. It's a big shift. I wanna point out three shifts this morning and then I'll be done. And no more Star Wars names, I promise. Shift number one, we shift from following rules to pursuing God. When you make this shift, you switch from the old promise of following rules, right, that in the old promise, Jesus teaches people the law. This is how to follow me. This is what to do. When somebody sins, do this. When somebody accidentally kills somebody, do that. When somebody, you know, is convicted of stealing, here's what to do there. That's pretty much all the Old Testament law. In the old promise, and you had to follow that law, in the new promise, God stamps that law on our hearts and minds, and it means, not only do we know right from wrong, inside. We know that because the law is stamped on our hearts. We call that a

conscience. Deep down we know to avoid sin. We know that sin hurts. We can be deluded. We can be tricked. I'm not saying that, but we know, everybody actually knows that it's wrong. It also means that we interact, that excuse me, that God is interacting with us on a heart level to be more in line with his heart. This is what it means to be made into the image of Jesus. It's not because I start looking more like physically like a Jewish man from the first century. That's not what that means. That means that my heart, my desire, what I wanna see for my life, my dreams, my interactions, the way I love my family, the way I conduct every part of my life looks more like Jesus. My heart is in line with his or at least getting there. And we shift at that point from following rules to pursuing God personally. And this should make us pray, Lord, I'm confused and I need your wisdom.

Please help me, this should make us pray. Lord, from what I can see, this seems like the best decision I can make, but I need you to confirm that. When we understand that we don't need rules anymore, And it's not to say rules are bad, but it is to say that rules can't change you. They can't change your heart. They can address behavior, but they can't change your heart. Second shift, from self-effort to spirit effort. In the old promise, God gives people life. In the new promise, through the spirit, God lives through us. Let me say that again. In the old promise, God says, I promise to give you life. In the new promise, through the Holy Spirit, God says, no, I'm not just going to give you life. I'm going to live that life through you, in you. So often we fall into thinking that we must muster up our own will and our own gumption to struggle through this Christian life.

And I will say this, this Christian life that we are in, it does take effort. It takes strenuous effort. But the kind of effort that it takes is very specific. It's not self effort. Self effort essentially says, God did something for me, now I've got to measure up. God did something for me, now if I'm not measuring up, people are watching me and I need to be on my best behavior. Which is basically Robin Rickards testimony. I've referenced it three times now, I think. I'm definitely gonna make you embarrassed, I'm sorry.

The struggle, whenever it's self effort, the struggle is finding more of yourself to rely on. That's the struggle. That's the effort that you're going for. How do I muster up more strength? How do I save more time? How do I do all these things to keep it under my own power, self-effort. What's spirit effort? Spirit effort is through the Holy Spirit. God is living in me right now. I can cooperate with the Spirit as I seek Him first, right? I can listen to that and instead of sinking out my own courage, my own understanding, I can just freely come before the Spirit and say, Spirit, I don't, listen, I need you to help me out right here. And the struggle is not finding more of yourself rely upon, the struggle is actually putting aside self-reliance. The struggle is putting aside your distractions and actually listening to the Spirit. So we should pray, Lord, I'm

tempted to take over right now. I want to do things my own way. Help me rely on You. Lord, I'm stressing. I'm feeling the pressure of handling everything perfectly. Help me me to see your sovereign control and direction that is playing out right now that I can't see. We shift. We need to make that shift from following the rules of pursuing God, from self-effort to spirit effort, and third shift, last shift. We need to shift from guessing to trusting. In the old promise, God saves people. In In the new promise, because of Jesus's constant intercession on our behalf, God keeps saving us on a continual basis.

And I know some of us, it's like, oop, what I'm not saying is that somehow our salvation is in jeopardy, that's not what I mean. What I do mean is that our slavery is still being taken from us. We are still being made into his likeness. It means that the work of intercession Jesus is doing on our behalf is not finished. It's not complete and that's why he's a priest after the order of Melchizedek and not Levi or Aaron. We can trust Jesus to finish saving us and that's kind of the point. It's trust. Let me let me kind of show you it's when we pray we should pray Lord I'm tempted I'm tempted to return to slavery I need a way out Lord I'm overwhelmed here I need a lifeline. Help me out. If you think that you are too mature in your Christian faith to pray those kinds of prayers, you are deluded. That's just not realistic. You don't graduate from needing the Spirit's help. You don't

graduate from feeling overwhelmed. You don't graduate from those prayers. You grow into those prayers. It's a mark of maturity when you can say, you know what? I've done this a thousand times, but I don't have it figured out right now. I need the spirits help When we are tempted when we are tempted if we're guessing right we imagine that Jesus is standing by and saying listen

Look I know you're in a tough spot, but I already saved you So just figure it out for yourself, right? It's the equivalent of a husband telling a wife. I said I loved you at the altar Right jeez When we were tempted we imagine Jesus saying something similar right way. I look already saved you I saved you why it's that should be enough Go figure the rest of it out for yourself And if you act on that belief your only hope is guessing It's your only hope the only thing that you can see is the future that you might create or that you might mess up That's the only thing you could see How you're going to mess it up, or how you're going to have to rely on yourself. That's guessing. That's like fingers crossed, maybe this will work. It works in movies, but it doesn't work in real life. Our call is not to guess, but to trust. Our call is to trust. To trust that Jesus is working in us.

To trust that Jesus is making intercession for us. trust that Jesus is moving through us, that trust that Jesus is speaking for us. And in Jesus, in Christ, that's the only kind of salvation that's there. It's not it's not like, oh Jesus thanks for punching my ticket to heaven, I've got it from here. It's not how it works. The only salvation that we have in Christ is one where he continually makes intercession over half. He continually is a is a priest for us. Yes, we, you and I as Christians, we are called to be priests. First Peter 2:9, right? We're a royal priest in a holy nation. Yes, all of those things are true, but Jesus is our high priest. Jesus is the one that's making intercession for us. Jesus is the one that's making us pure and clean. And we need to trust him for that not just once but on a continual basis

So many times what happens is that that people say okay? I'm gonna make a decision for the Lord well cool But that's not your last decision that you're gonna make for the Lord right It's not just crying out at camp, and then you're on your own after that right It's not just you know get baptized after a VBS and then you're on your own. It's a continual basis. What I want to encourage you, we're gonna have our time of invitation, what I want to encourage you to do is to consider, consider where are you on that new promise? Are you still living under that old promise? Thinking, okay God did it for me but now I've got to kind of do it on my own. That's a pretty lonely place, that's pretty frustrated, frustrating. And that is going to lead to some pretty rough seasons. My encouragement to you, take today, take time now, even as we sing, to really begin to ask and answer,

you know, Jesus, what am I trusting you for right now? How are you making intercession for me today? What does that mean? How do I act on it? I would encourage you to pray. I'm going to be up here if you want to make a decision for the Lord in any capacity. If you want to become a Christian, I'll be right up here. We can pray. If you want to be baptized, if you want to join our church as a member, man, just come on down, come forward, and We will just help you take that next step, whatever that is. Would you pray with me? Jesus, we ask for your grace in this time. We pray that you would help us to listen to what you're doing as NBL media. And it's your name that we pray, amen.

Would you please stand? When peace like a river attended my way, Well, it is well with my soul Those Satan should buffet, though trial should come Let this last assurance control That Christ has regarded my heavens the same And this shame is on the path for my soul It is well, it is well, my soul It is well, it is well, my soul My sin, O the best of this glorious thought, My sin not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross and not barren no more. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! It is well with my soul. And Lord, it is the day when the face shall be sighted The clouds be rolled back as the scroll The trump shall resound him, the Lord shall be sent Even so, it is well with my soul It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well. It's great to be together as a church family. I'm glad that you guys are here. If you're a visitor, please stick around.

We have name tags for a reason. We'd love to shake your hand and get to know you. Be blessed. You are dismissed.