The Inspiration of the Word

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If you want, you can open your Bibles for this to 2 Peter chapter 1. 2 Peter, it takes a while for me to find. So if it takes a while for you, that's okay. It's near the end. While you're turning there, I want you to think about a situation that would be kind of strange. I want you to think about a trusted friend. Okay, I want you to think about who that trusted friend is. Maybe somebody who's been to your house several times. Somebody who you know you've known them for a while and one day they bring up a conversation with you about your house Or your apartment or wherever you live right there They're talking about your house and they and they kind of begin remembering the story and they say yeah, don't you remember? Don't you remember when the crane? lowered your house Like it picked it up from Chicago, Illinois And it moved it all the way over here to Burleson or 4th or wherever you live and it dropped it right there

And you begin to look at them very strangely, because that's not how your house got there. Your house was not prefabbed in Chicago and somehow lowered on a crane. Your house was built in an entirely different way. It would be confusing for them to start talking to you that way about just that they're remembering this false memory. But instead of your house, I want you to switch it to our church building. And if you do not know, many of you may not, this church building, all of it was rebuilt in 99 after it had burned down to the ground, okay, like to the slab. It was gone. It was rebuilt in 1999 by the Texas Baptist Men, which is an organization that just, they just do work, just retired dudes doing awesome construction and carpentry work. Um, them and many people from our church at that time built this whole thing back from nothing. Okay. But what if somebody came in to our church and they started talking about

how this church building got here, about how this church was rebuilt. And they start saying something like, yeah, I remember when the towns people of Burleson all just came together by the Spirit of God, each of them had a two by four, we all put them together and magically like the church just appeared. That would be a weird story. That would be confusing. That would be frustrating because they are starting to tell a different story than what's real. And they're, you know, they might have been trying to glorify God in the midst of it. But they're saying, hey, don't you remember whenever just everybody came at once? You're like, no, no, no, it was the Texas Baptist band. It was people from this church. It wasn't just the town people with two-by-fours. That's crazy. But what if they didn't just say it once in front of you? What if they were a part of this church and they kept saying it?

They kept talking about what a true story that was. They kept having these false memories from, they just remember all these people and they start naming the people that came from the town of Burleson to put all the two by fours together and bam, the church was here and God did it. It would be more than just frustrating because if they would keep on insisting that it happened, they would tell others that it happened, they got ahold of a newspaper reporter and they started telling that story all over Burleson, that that happened, it goes from weird to dangerous. It's strange, but it's not just strange. Something's off. The reason why that's so strange, so off-putting, so frustrating for us is because they are turning history into myth. They're turning history into myth. Today, we are continuing our series on the Word. This whole summer, we've been talking about

the Word of God. And we've been, really, we've been helping us, getting us all on the same page with the Bible, no pun intended, or maybe the pun was intended. We've been talking about the Word, so we've been talking about the person of the Word, Jesus. We've been talking about how we should read the Word. We've been talking about how the Word contains wisdom. We've been talking about how the effect that the Word should have on us. We've been talking about how we should take action in light of the Word. Today, what we need to talk about is the inspiration of the Word. We need to talk about how we received the Word of God in the first place. This was a major concern in the New Testament. This, the scenario that I talked to you about, about how the church building got here, is very similar to what the first century church was dealing with, except it wasn't about a church building

and we're gonna see what it was about. So to discover this, we're gonna be in 2 Peter chapter 1, we're gonna start in verse 12, and they go all the way through 21. Second Peter, you need to know, was written by the Apostle Peter, that Peter, the one who opened his mouth all the time and would not say things that were always beneficial, but was quick to speak. And he wrote this letter later in his life, and he wrote it to several different churches. It was one letter meant to be circulated. So it's not to particularly any church, it is to lots of different churches. And we find the reason for the letter here in verses 12 through 15, it says, starting in verse 12, therefore, I intend always to remind you of these qualities. Hang on, what are these qualities? Well, he just listed all those qualities, virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love.

So he's writing, so that he was reminding them of these qualities. Let's keep going. Though you know them, these qualities, though you know these qualities, and are established in the truth that you have, verse 13, I think it right as long as I'm in this body to stir you up by way of reminder. Skip to 15. And I will make every effort so that after my departure, you may be at any time able to recall these things. So Peter in verse 14, he talked about how he's leaving soon, but like dying soon. So this is late in his life. So Peter in these verses he's saying look I'm leaving you soon and I want you to be able to recall These things I want you to be able to remember verse 15 remember the truth that you have I want you to verse 12 to be established to be rooted down to be firm in That truth in what is true and what he points to next It talks about it's the object of what he wants to ground them in verse 16

It says, for we, me and the disciples, Peter and the disciples, for we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For Peter and the disciples, they're writing to these churches, and this is, he's not writing to them that the history of their building is off. Peter's not concerned with whether people came with two by fours or it was the Texas Baptist men. That's not what Peter's concerned about. Peter's concerned about something actually much more serious. He's concerned about the resurrection of Jesus. He's concerned about the life and ministry of Jesus. And he's saying to them, look, don't follow, don't follow these cleverly devised myths. Don't do that because we saw him. 16, we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. Peter is writing to these churches and

saying, look, we saw it, we were there. And Peter goes on, verses 17 and 18, it says, For when He, when Jesus received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was born to Him by the majestic glory, this is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased. We ourselves heard this very voice born from heaven, for we were with Him on the holy mountain. Peter is saying, we saw and heard all of these things firsthand. Why say this? Because there were people in their churches trying to turn history into myth. There were people in churches trying to say, well look Peter's talking about Jesus and this thing happened over here, but it didn't happen. It wasn't real. It's a myth. Maybe they were saying something like, look Jesus is a great guy. Jesus is a great teacher. I'm sure he did great things. miracles? Worshiping Him as God? Are you sure? Are you sure that you have your story

straight? This is the question. This is what people in these churches were dealing with. They were not sure that they had their story straight. Today this sounds a little different, but it's the same mentality. It might be somebody saying, did you really, did you really feel the Holy Spirit move when you were praying? Or was that just an emotional charge from a positive state of mind? Was that just endorphins kicking in? Or was that the Holy Spirit? Was it really a decision that you made to follow Jesus? Or were you simply manipulated in a church service? Or were you simply doing what your parents wanted you to do? Are Are you sure? Are you sure Jesus is real? Or is that just what you believe because you have spent your life in organized religion? This is how these questions look today.

These questions pick at this gnawing thing of, you didn't see for yourself that Jesus is real. Now we understand that today, Like nobody claims to have lived 2000 years ago and have eyewitness testimony of Jesus. Nobody, if they did, we would understand that they're crazy. The churches that Peter is writing to are faced with the same dilemma because they didn't see Jesus either. They didn't see or hear them. They have Peter and the disciples word for him. These are questions that we all ask. These are doubts that we all go through and they are difficult, but they are necessary as part of our spiritual journey, as part of following Jesus. If you have followed Jesus for any amount of time and you have not seriously asked and answered the question, am I sure this is real? I would encourage you to ask. I would encourage you to start that conversation with yourself.

We need to understand that what we believe is astounding. What we believe doesn't reckon with common human experiences with how the world normally works. We should understand that. We should understand that those questions of doubt are going to come up. And when the churches that Peter and the disciples are writing to are facing those kinds of questions, the disciples, and Peter give them wisdom through the Spirit. And here's where I want to lean on today. Here's where I want to press in in verse 19. Because in 19 Peter says, and we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed. I want to stop there just the first part of verse 19. And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed. Peter is saying, Look, all that we heard from Jesus, all that we saw, all that we experienced with Jesus, confirms the Word to us, the prophetic Word.

For them, the prophetic Word is the Old Testament, right? It is more fully confirmed to them. Peter is saying, look, we had the Old Testament, we had the prophetic Word, and then we had Jesus, we had the fulfillment of this prophecy. We had Jesus living and breathing right in front of us, and it was more fully confirmed. It's that word more fully confirmed. It's a metaphor of an anchor, right? What we saw, what we experienced, roots us down into everything that had gone before. It anchors us in the Scripture that we already have. Here's how the writer of Hebrews says it. That's Hebrews chapter one, verses one and two. Don't, you don't need to turn there, but it's a great reference. It says, long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, the prophetic word. But heavy contrast, in these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son.

So you have Jesus then speaking in the same way this prophetic word is speaking. So Peter and the disciples are helping the churches that they're writing to understand, and us, they're helping us understand the same thing, that Father God in heaven still desires to speak to us today personally. Father God still desires to speak to us today personally. In the Old Testament, you use prophets, law, writings, poetry, all of that. But Jesus is the fulfillment of those things. So that means a couple of things, but really, it means that he's both the living embodiment of God speaking to us, so Jesus is literally the Word of God, but also his life and death provided a way for God to continue speaking to us. Jesus more fully confirms the prophetic word.

This is how we have it that way. And so when Jesus came, another way that we could say it is that the prophetic word came to life. Because of that, Peter and the disciples can say, all that we knew before has come true before our eyes. eyes. We have the prophetic word, more fully confirmed, yet, yet the churches that are receiving this letter have not seen that. They have not witnessed Jesus in person. It's a different experience. They deal with doubt in a different kind of way. And so what Peter does is encourage them. I think as we look at that encouragement, we can find our own. Let's keep reading verse 19. It says, and we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place

until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. So stay with me on this. Peter and the disciples started with the Old Testament and then had Jesus confirm it. They are now encouraging these churches to start with the confirmed word, to see what it falls in line with Jesus. Let me say that again. The disciples started with the Old Testament and had Jesus confirm that word. They're telling the churches now, you can start with that confirmed word. You don't have the eyewitness, you have our eyewitness testimony and you can believe that or not, but you don't have that eyewitness yourself. You did not personally witness that. You have the more confirmed Word. Now you can see what lines up with Jesus through the more fully confirmed prophetic Word. This is what Scripture calls discernment. Verse 19 is effectively saying, take what has been fully confirmed through us.

Take that, study it. attention to it. It is your lifeline. It is a beacon. Jesus will use all that we taught you, and he will turbo charge it. It will make more sense to you as you keep going. When people want to come into your life and begin turning history into myth, when they want to say, oh, you experienced it this way, but here's an alternate explanation. Oh, I know that you think You think you did this you think you had this spiritual experience. I understand that that felt so real to you But really here's what happened over here when people start doing that to you and if you have not had anybody do that to you Um, I recommend getting out more it happens a lot Okay, it happens a lot in our culture Um, it happens a lot, uh, just in gosh, it happens a lot in family reunions. I mean it happens everywhere Okay? And when you have people doing that to you, when you have people giving you alternate explanations for what happened in your life,

you need discernment. You need discernment to see what is real and what is not. So what does this discernment look like? How do we know we're using it? How do we know we're using it? Well, Scripture gives us two ways that we can think about discernment. And really, I would say that these are kind of the two sides of discernment, if you will. That discernment uses your heart, something that you feel, something that is intangible, something that you cannot quite put your finger on. Discernment lives there. Discernment also lives with facts. Concrete, measurable things. Okay? That it's not just heart, it's not just facts, it's both. And that discernment works on both levels. Let's look in scripture and kind of work that out. And if you look at the end of 19, what we just read, it says, pay attention to the prophetic word, the more fully confirmed prophetic word as to a lamp shining in

a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Listen, even biblical scholars look at that sentence and say, that's weird. Okay. That's, that's a weird sentence. The morning star rising in your heart is not a common biblical metaphor. It's not anywhere in the old Testament. It's just a strange, according to biblical scholars, that it is a strange way to state something. What I believe it's getting at here in verse 19 is it's saying, you're going to feel it. You're going to feel it. that discernment is going to resonate in your heart. That when the word of God is telling you something in particular, you are going to feel it the same way you feel it getting warmer in the room.

Okay. If somebody says, uh, oh, you know, how are you feeling? Like, Oh, it's maybe you just noticed like, Oh, it's feeling warmer in the room. Well, you don't, you don't feel a temperature. You just feel a difference. You feel something. What you feel can't be denied. But there's no way to really measure it. There's no way to really, really stand it up against argumentation. Somebody say, well, it's not warm in the room. You say, well, I still feel warmer in the room. Just because it's not warm in the room doesn't mean I don't feel it. Dissearment is going to resonate in your heart. This is what scripture is talking about in Ephesians 3:16 when it talks about being strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being. If somebody said the spirit strengthened me In my inner being, I have no way to measure that. I can't tell them to like, you know, uh, you know, put a Q-tip up their nose.

I can't, I can't, there's no test, right? There's nothing I can do to figure that out. Galatians five, 16 and 18. And it talks about walking by the spirit being led by the spirit. Well, there's no pathway. There's no road. Right. It's not, it's not clearly marked out. Sometimes that actually changes from situation to situation. If I'm in line at Walmart, the Spirit of God might be saying, hey, go talk to this guy. But if I'm in line the next day, the Spirit of God might be saying, hey, please don't talk to this person. It's not something that always follows this thing. Romans 8 and 11 talks about the Spirit giving us life. The New Testament often talks about people being filled or full of the Holy Spirit, even Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit. Was he unfold before? Did he not have enough? What's that mean? What's that like? Don't try to measure it. John 16 13 talks about the Holy Spirit guiding us into all truth,

declaring us things that are to come. There's no way to measure that. When the Spirit of God is telling you to do something, when you're trying to figure out what you should do next, There will be feelings involved. The Holy Spirit can use those feelings. And we've all had times, we've all had times whenever we sensed that something was wrong and we didn't know why or how. But we knew, we knew something was wrong. We knew that we might have known something about somebody else. We knew that somebody was hurting and they needed us to ask them about it. them about it. We knew that somebody was lying and we needed to confront them on it. We knew that somebody was being deceived and they needed encouragement. We knew. And if you would take somebody aside and say, how'd you know? Or somebody would take you aside and say, how'd you know? You'd be, I don't know. I don't know how I knew. You sure you didn't know? No, I didn't know.

My wife, she's not here to defend herself. She's in the back preparing things. But But when she was pregnant with twins, maybe my wife hates the story, I'm sorry, I'll just tell it though. Come what night? My wife knew when she had twins that she was going to have twins before she knew she was going to have twins. She kept thinking that she was going to have twins. She never said anything. She never said anything to me even. She never said anything. But she knew the whole time she was going to have twins. Now she doubted it. She's like, oh, I don't know. Maybe it's in my head. Maybe I'm going to, huh? But she felt it. She couldn't tell you why she felt it. She had maybe like these small little indicators. She felt a little sicker some days, maybe, sort of. And it wasn't until the ultrasound that we knew we were going to have twins. One of the ultrasound texts said, shut up.

There's two in there. That's an exact quote. Let me check if there's three, was what she said next. It's really funny. It's a great story. My wife cannot explain that, which frustrates her. That's why she doesn't like when I tell that story. But she knew. It's those kinds of things. We can't explain them. We can't figure them out. There's no way to really talk about it. But this is what 1 Corinthians 12 is talking about. Whenever it says, some of you have the spirit, and through the spirit, you have an utterance of wisdom or you have an utterance of knowledge. Well, OK. But really, all that is is a spiritual way to say, you said the right thing at the right time. How'd you know to do it? I don't know. Spirit, it's no way to measure that. DisseRment does not always follow these lines. However, however, this part of disseRment,

even though it is strange, it is not complete. In other words, if all you have to go on is your feelings, I would tread lightly. I would not go declaring things that feel true to you, but that are not true. Somebody that's talking about our church being built magically by townspeople having two-by-fours, they can feel that's true all day long. They're dead wrong. It didn't happen. It's not in history. sermon then, then you're fighting off doubt, right? If all you have to fight off doubt is positive vibes, you're sunk. You are. You're sunk. Because there will be a day when you don't feel it. There will be a day when you do not have positive vibes. When it will not feel fun. I tell everybody this, when you start following Jesus, you're going on for, I mean, it's a good six months to maybe a year and then you hit a huge bump. You didn't know where that bump was, you didn't know it was coming, but now you're experiencing doubt,

frustration, nothing's easy anymore, you feel like all your prayers are hitting the ceiling, falling to the floor, you don't feel nothing. You go to church, you don't feel it, you sing your favorite worship song, you don't feel it, nothing feels right. That's not just, I mean that's almost a rule. There's exceptions to that, but that's almost a rule. It happens to everyone. It's part of your maturity process when the feelings leave you high and dry. So all you're going on is your feelings. Be careful.

In first, in 2 Peter 1, so we just read 19 where it talks about the morning stars rising in your hearts, right? A very kind of ethereal, you know, impossible to prove intangible thing. But now we're in verses 20 and 21, it says, knowing this, first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. Let's just stop right there. No prophecy of Scripture comes from one's own interpretation. Why? Because we have Jesus. Right? Somebody can say, oh, the Old Testament, you can make that mean whatever you want. No, you can't. Jesus can make think it mean whatever he wants, but you don't get to do that. Our interpretation isn't up to us. Let's keep reading verse 21. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. Disserement is going to resonate with the rest of Scripture. I had this experience Friday when I was driving

to Dallas Love Field, I put the wrong address in my phone and I went to the wrong place. I went to Love Field Drive, which you must know, it's about 16 minutes from Dallas Love Field Airport. And when you're trying to catch a plane, when your daughter's trying to catch a plane, her very first plane, her very first solo ride plane, you want to be on time. And if you're driving somewhere and you realize you're not going the right way, you don't say, well, how do I feel about it? You put the right address in your phone, and you go that way. Or if you don't have a phone, you bust out a map, an atlas. Kids, there was this thing. It used to be called an app. Let me just keep going. Stop. No Rand McNally AMENS right now, OK? Gracious. Have you ever heard somebody talking about something that was completely untrue? and they're declaring it to be true, but something feels off.

Now, you might not be able to refute them or know exactly what the argument is, but you hear them talking and it doesn't sound right. It doesn't square with the rest of what you know. When we know scripture, when we spend time with Jesus, we are able to then pick those things out of an argument and say, listen, that's right there, that's false. I know there's a lot of things around it I feel true, I get it. So you get this a lot with people that have been hurt, right?

People that have been hurt by a trusted counselor, pastor, somebody in authority of a teacher, somebody in authority over them. What they're gonna say is, like you can't trust those people. And what they mean is people that have authority over you, people in power over you. And what their experience is telling them is, I trusted this person and then I was completely betrayed. So that will never happen to me again. And let me tell you that feels truer than true. You want to tell some victim that whatever they experienced wasn't true, good luck. Because you weren't there. They're going to feel it 110%. However, we know the reality is not everybody Everybody in authority is going to take advantage of it. That's the reality. That there's going to be some that will and some that won't. There's going to be people that are perpetrators and most people are not. You need discernment.

You need both. In fact, part of somebody like that, somebody a victim, part of their counseling is going to be walking through that difficult fact that not everybody is trying to take advantage of them. through that fact, that stubborn fact, even though all their feelings are telling the opposite. That's difficult to do as a human being, right? It's hard. What we are talking about with Scripture that discernment, when it talks about in 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17, when it says that all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for proof, for correction, for training and righteousness that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. When the Holy Spirit is inspiring people to write scripture. It was all God. God used people to write scripture like we draw a straight line with a crooked stick. God used the particular histories,

flaws and perspectives of specific people in specific times and in specific geographies to declare His perfect, inerrant, authoritative truth. And so, if somebody says to you, and they will, if somebody says, you know, you can't trust scripture here because it was written by a man affected by ancient Roman standards, who thought this way, came from this perspective, right? In the end, and they're not probably even consciously saying this, but in the end, their argument amounts to, I'm smarter than the Bible. I'm smarter than the Bible. What they're saying is that their perspective now is better than whoever's perspective they can identify in the Bible. I can see things more clearly, I'm more educated, I'm less inhibited, I'm less patriarchal, I'm more whatever, compassionate, I'm more this, I'm more that, I see people differently, I see women differently, I see minorities differently.

And because I have that perspective, I can somehow have a better perspective than the Apostle Paul. My perspective is better than his perspective. No, it's not. It's just different. And the same way that God can speak through you and bless other people with it is the same way that God spoke through these authors to give us the inspired, inerrant, authoritative, normative Word of God with all, with all of its quirks, with all of its things that don't fit with culture, with all that. Look, I know what I'm talking about. I've made it my life's work to study this. I get it. I know where people say their contradictions and they're not. I know what people say is misogynistic and it's not. I know what people say about slavery in the Bible. I know it. And it's all false. And it's been false for a really long time. I agree that Paul, the Apostle Paul, was a Jewish, Roman, unmarried, heterosexual man.

Yes. I agree that all of those things affected what he wrote and the way he wrote it. Yes, a hundred percent. But I also believe that the Holy Spirit is powerful enough to use Paul in all of his quirks, in all of his idiosyncrasy, to say exactly what the Holy Spirit wanted him to say, using the words that the Holy Spirit wanted him to use. In 2 Peter, when it says that no prophecy, verse 21, no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit, I believe it. And if I don't believe it, man, if you can't believe that, if you start declaring certain parts of the Bible untrue, man, just throw the whole thing in the trash. Do yourself a favor, because that's where you're going to end up.

If you are going to say, I'm smarter than the Bible, have a better perspective than Scripture. Okay, well great. Then you should start prophesying. You should start writing your own, because that's kind of what it amounts to. I don't mean to be cheeky or flippant. I believe people actually have real problems with Scripture, and I can actually, I'm pretty compassionate. I've had my own before. I've worked through a lot of those, and I've walked other people through those things. However, the temptation, and I just want to just plow right on through that, the temptation to believe that you're smarter than the Bible is strong, especially when you don't agree with it, especially when culture doesn't agree with it, especially when it butts up against something that you really want to do or a way that you really want to live. Discernment begins with understanding that Scripture is authoritative,

but it doesn't just end there. Discernment is heart and mind. It is measured by Scripture, and you should feel it in your bones. The sermon is both. And when the waves of doubt are crashing, we have a beacon of hope. It is the word of God. And it's not just words on a page, it's also a person. The word of God is both. And the word of God resonates with your heart and your mind. It calls you back to the truth. I want to end with an observation and an encouragement. First, the observation. and the Word of God, if all that's true, and it is, if all that, if all of what I said is true, the Word of God then is an extremely powerful tool. It is the sharpest knife in the drawer every time, in any drawer. You need to handle the Word of God carefully. It's called a sword for a reason. You don't just whip a sword around. You gotta take training classes on how to handle that, okay?

Don't just whip that thing around. When it is combined with myths, like we talked about in verse 16, it will destroy it. When it is combined with haughtiness, it will also destroy it. You hear me on that? It's not just about getting your facts right. It's about having the right spirit. If you want to say the Bible says it and I believe it's true and you want to pound your fist on the table, then you better come with a humble heart. You better come with no pride. You better understand that that is going to exact from you so many things that you don't want to give up.

You come with fear and trembling when you declare what is true. You make sure that you know, you always bring it back to the person of the word. You don't separate the Bible from Jesus. Never, never. That's my observation. It's a powerful tool. My encouragement would be, let's use the word correctly. Let's use the word to build a righteous life, a life that is loving, a life that is good. And let's use the word to build a righteous church. Imagine our family ministering together, our church family ministering together as we are declaring the truth of the word and we are living out the reality of the word. As we sing, I'm going to be standing right over there. I won't be standing off of anything, but I'll be standing right over there. During this time, this is whenever discernment kind of happens, right? There's times when you've heard truth, you're wrestling with that.

What do you need to do with that? Do you need prayer? Do you need, you just need someone to talk to about it? There might be an action you want to take. Maybe you want to join the church. Maybe you want to be baptized. You want to give your life to the Lord. I'm going to be up here and I would love to come and see you. Right now I'm going to invite Joel up and I'm going to pray for us as we're about to stand and sing. Jesus, thank you so much for this morning, this moment. I pray that your people declaring your truth is what you will use to be a blessing to many, many more. Jesus bless us as we sing and worship. That's your name that we pray.

You conquered captain, and you break every chain O God, you have done great things, intensive Your free date, your name lifted high O God, you have done great things And faithful through every storm Be faithful forevermore Got you to create things And I know that you're doing it again For your promise is yes and amen Got you to create things Got you to create things We sing O hero, O hero of heaven, You conquered the grave, You free and recaptured and You break every chain. O God, You have done great things. We dance in Your freedom, Awake and allow You. O Jesus, our Savior, Your name lifted high. Oh God, You have done great things. And hallelujah, above it all. Hallelujah God, unspeakable. And hallelujah, have done great things. Can we sing that again together church? Hallelujah God, above it all. And hallelujah, unspeakable. I've done great things, you've done great things

Even in heaven, you conquered the grave You free and recounted and you break every chain Oh God, you have done great things We dance in your freedom, wake in the middle For Jesus our Savior, your name lifted high. Oh, God, you have done great things.