The Legacy of the Journey

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We pray that as we open your Word that you would bless our time together, that you would make it alive, that you would make it real, and that you would speak to our hearts together, even as you already have during our time of singing. As you're near, we pray. Amen. I want to start off by thanking David Steele. Thank you very much, brother. That was a great time of worship. If you enjoyed it, let him know. So to do something a little bit different today, this is our last week of the journey. And so I wanna do something a little bit day to look at where we've been, but I really want you to see yourself on this journey. And so I thought maybe a little audio visual would kinda help us kinda figure it out. We're just gonna walk through the woods together. It's gonna be so great. I promise. Here we go. All right.

Oh good. The sound's on. Perfect. Hollis, can you fix that? Thank you. I don't actually want the sound. Oh, there we go. Okay. Sometimes a good idea really does work out and sometimes it does not. All right. The last week of our journey, this is where we are. We are talking about the last week, or are we talking about kind of where we've been? And I want you to kind of see yourself on this journey. So I wanna give you a sense of the whole, right? So you kind of start out, you're wandering through life and all of a sudden you see a campfire and you stop at it. And you meet people who are on this journey. They're talking about this journey, they're talking about following Jesus, you don't really know what that's about, but you find through that, through those conversations, those relationships that you are being called by Jesus to go on this journey.

And so you make a decision to follow Jesus. So you receive a passport. You are now on the journey with these people and to guide you along the way, you also receive a compass telling you where to go. This is the Holy Spirit inside of you. You also find that you are a part of a group or a spiritual family, We call this a church. But on the journey, we express it this way, that there's a rope, a rope around you, tying you to the whole group, tying you even to the people that have come before and the people that will come after. That's really good because this journey is treacherous. It's full of things that are very unexpected. You also have a backpack that equips you to serve. Your backpack is full of supplies, of weapons and of tools. Your group also has a shared map to show them the terrain of following Jesus. So making disciples is the objective, but you all follow Jesus together.

Eventually, you see that the group packs firewood, and you see the campfires and you remember the campfire that you sat at where Jesus became real. And you remember how people were open and vulnerable with you. Also on this journey, you receive shoes. You didn't have any of your own. You needed to borrow somebody else's, but they fit really well. And you're actually on the lookout to see if anybody else needs your shoes to walk in. And so for this last week, you're on this journey. You and your spiritual family, you actually reach a summit. Not the summit, but a summit. A place that's open, it's safe, there's lots of space, there's just room to kind of sprawl out, a lot of natural resources. And at this, on this journey, it is time to rest.

It's time to reflect on where you have been. It is time to remember the destination of this journey. And so today's item that we will be discussing is gonna be a sleeping bag. Today's item is gonna be a sleeping bag. That's the last thing. And if you've ever been camping without a sleeping bag, you know that's a bad thing to forget, okay? I went camping recently, totally forgot a sleeping bag, and I forgot that there were air mattresses just sitting unpumped, like, uninflated in my car. And so I slept on the ground on a very small mat and I was freezing.

It's good to have a sleeping bag because it's good to have a time to rest and reflect and to kind of consider what's happening. When you are walking with the Lord Jesus, during these periods of rest and reflection, you are gonna be asking kind of the bigger questions of yourself. And maybe, maybe the period that you're in doesn't feel restful, but period that you're in, maybe you're being taken out of something that you were in for a long time. Maybe it's something that has completely disrupted the normal flow of your life. Whatever it is, take that as an opportunity to consider your life, to consider the decisions that you've made, the decisions that you're making. Consider your investments. Consider where your time is going. Jesus himself often spoke about these things with the question, think about how, how are you investing? Jesus would often pose these kinds of questions and tell parables along the way

to kind of make people think about where they were investing their, their life. Today, we're going to look at one of the more famous instances of Jesus doing that in Matthew 25, 14 through 30. And while you're turning there, I will tell you this is also known as the parable of the talents. It is helpful to know for this parable, a talent is not what we think of as a talent today. We think singing karaoke is a talent. This is not mine. It's not my talent. I'm not Tim Perkins. So the talent in these parables are, it's money, it's actual money. So that's going to help you kind of figure it out as we go. And so Jesus addresses this idea of investment head on. So here's the setup. Jesus is speaking about the kingdom of God. And he's saying, and he's saying like, this is what the kingdom of God is like, or for our purposes, for our illustrations, here's what it's like to follow me on the journey.

Here's how things work. Here's kind of the ground rules. Here's what you can expect. Here's what you cannot expect. Here's how it all works. So Jesus tells many of these kinds of parables. In fact, in Matthew 25, there are several parables kind of all in a row. This is the middle of a few. And so we're going to start in verse 14. Jesus says, for it will be like a man going on a journey. The it would be the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is like a man going on a journey who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one, he gave five talents, to another, he gave two, and to another, he gave one. To each, according to his ability, then he went away." All right, that's the setup. The master leaves his fortune to three servants, and this functions as a test of their stewardship, right? So these servants are not being given this money as if

it is their own, they are being entrusted with this money to do something with it. And each one is being tested according to their ability. So you get the sense that the master knows these servants, knows their capabilities, knows what they should do, shouldn't do, should be entrusted with, shouldn't be entrusted with. And so to one he gives five, to one he gives two, and to one he gives one. And so I want to, for the sake of time, I want to summarize a little bit of what happens in verses 16 through 18, five talent guy, because I don't get names. So five talent guy, two talent guy, one talent guy, okay? Five talent guy and two talent guy are successful with their money and they double their money. Okay? They go exchange it, they trade for it and they double their money. One talent guy buries his talent in the ground. You're not told why yet, but just that he did that.

And then the master comes back. So this is verses 19 through 23. Five talent guy and two talent guy are rewarded with the exact same phrase. Jesus repeats this phrase for each one. The master says to the servant, well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little. I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master. Okay, so this is kind of formulaic. This should help us understand the master had full expectation That these guys five talent guy and two talent guy and one talent guy would give a return on the investment well done good and faithful servant, so the That he calls them good and faithful helps you understand What the intention of giving them that money was now? it's one talent guy's turn. And this is where we're going to spend really the rest of our time. We're going to look in depth at this. And this is interesting. What happens with one talent guy is

interesting for two reasons. And I want to look at it, but let's read the verses first. We're going to pick it up in verse 24. So we've summarized 16 through 23. 24 and 25. It says, He also who who had received the one talent came forward. This is one talent guy. One talent guy came forward saying, Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seeds. So I was afraid. And I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, have what is yours. So one talent guy, here's that the master's coming back, goes back to where he buried the talent in the ground. digs it back up and has it. And so he's saying, look, I was afraid, but here, here's your talent back. And this is the first thing that's interesting. I wanna ask and answer the question, what is the talent guy afraid of? He's afraid of failure. One talent guy is actually afraid of failure.

He's actually not afraid of the master. And the wording in those verses can be tricky. It can make you think that he's afraid of the master. He said, you know, like I knew you were a hard man. I knew you read where you didn't sow. And you gather where you scattered no seed. So I was afraid. He was afraid of failure. Let me explain what I mean. Let me make the case here. Five-talent guy and two-talent guy took the exact same risk as each other. They could have lost all their master's money. Five-talent guy could have gone to try to trade and lost two-talents and only had three back. They could have lost the master's money, but they took a risk in trading with people and it worked out. It was beneficial. One talent guy fears failure and he rationalizes that fear under faithfulness.

He rationalizes that fear under the guise of faithfulness. And let me show you what I mean. Let's modernize this a little bit. Let's take Elon Musk. Elon Musk, I think he's the richest man in the world. I'm not sure close. He's definitely in the top five Elon Musk the guy who owns Tesla Let's just say Elon Musk gives you a million dollars And he says to you. Hey, I'm giving this to you. I'm entrusting this to you didn't say give I'm entrusting this to you I'll be back in a year Well, what's the expectation the expectation is that you're gonna give him that money back with something that you've invested in Right, then you're going to put that money to use. Now, there is an inherent risk in that proposition that Elon Musk is aware of and you are aware of. You don't need to know much about the stock market to understand that there are some things that you can invest that money in that are high risk and high reward.

Okay? So if you're investing in things like futures in the stock market, it's you could lose Is it all or you could triple it, right? But there's not a lot of in between, okay? But then also in that same stock market, I'm talking about the stock market today, there is low risk, low return, low risk, low reward, where you can put your money in some kind of hedge fund or some kind of small mutual fund and you put a little bit of money back and you might make four or five percent for the whole year. And you know what, if Elon Musk has given you a million dollars and you make four or five percent on it and you give it back to him, I'm sure that's fine, right? You've made more money, okay? So you would understand inherently for you to take that million dollars and to bury it in the yard is a little counterintuitive to him entrusting you with anything. Because you could easily understand, well, why isn't he burying the money?

Why isn't he putting it in the stock market? And so we know that he's afraid of failure, even though he could, I mean, you could still argue he's afraid of the master, he's afraid of like the wrath that the master's gonna have. But when we keep reading, it becomes clearer that he is not afraid of the master, he's afraid of failure. Because we can see how the master answers him in verses 26 and 27. Matthew 25, 26 and 27, but his master answered him, You wicked and swatheful servant, or lazy, wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed. Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest." This is a really interesting reaction by the master because the master calls out the one talent guy And he said, if you were actually afraid of me,

then you would have at least gone with a low risk, low reward investment. You would have at least done that. But the servant was not afraid of the master. The servant was afraid of failure. The servant, and we're really left to wonder at this point, it's a parable, so we're just gonna put this on the servant. The servant gets so locked up by the choice of what to do, that really the servant chooses to do nothing. Burying the talent in the yard is not what you're supposed to do. It's like a non-decision. And the master is locked in on that. The master understands that. And that's why he doesn't call the servant stupid. He doesn't call him ignorant. He doesn't treat him with any kind of grace. He calls him wicked and lazy. He calls him those two, and that's actually kind of a surprise. Whenever you're reading this parable, you're going through and you're thinking,

man, maybe the master's just gonna be mildly disappointed. No, the master's upset, really upset. And he calls him wicked and lazy. He's saying, you just didn't wanna push through for fear of the wrong thing. You just opted to not choose. You didn't want to sort out the what-ifs and the possibilities and maybe this could go wrong and maybe not. You feared actually making the choice. You feel failure, so you tried to just opt out of the whole thing. The one talent guy tried to opt out of what his master had set before him and he thought, hey, I'm being faithful. Look, I'm being faithful. I hit it in the ground. really, he's rationalizing the fear of investing anything. How many churches, how many Christians are wicked and lazy for the same reason? If our talents are opportunities to make disciples, how many conversations fall by the wayside? How many relationships are squandered simply because

because it was too complicated. Because we feared failure more than we feared the master. How many conversations just took a left turn simply because, oh, what if they say this and then I don't know what to say and then I'm going to look dumb and then I don't know, like then they'll never want to become a Christian. Or I don't know, I don't know what's going. But the idea is that our church, we have been given talents. And it actually doesn't matter how many talents we've been given. The master does not show extra grace because it's the poor, dumb, one talent guy. That's not the rhetoric we see in this parable. That's not the attitude of the master. The master is not thinking, oh, you know, five talent guy. He knew what to do. Two-talent guy, I was a little nervous, but okay, he really came through. One-talent guy, no clue. We'll just kinda see if he messes this up or not.

That's not the attitude of the master. The master calls the servant, the one-talent guy wicked and lazy. And those aren't just kind of terms you throw around. Those are intentional terms. This is the first reason that the parable is interesting because the master points out the true fear of the servant, which is failure. If he actually feared the master, he would have done the very least he could do, but he actually did less than that. He could have just put it in a bank, earned a little bit of interest off of one talent, and then gotten some money back and given that to the master, but he didn't even do that. The The second reason this is interesting is because this parable, as compared to many other parables that Jesus tells, works opposite. It works different. This parable works in the opposite direction that most parables work. And you can look these up.

You can, or, you know, I'm not making it up. You can look these up. Mark four, for example, Jesus tells the parable of the mustard seed. In the parable of the mustard seed, what Jesus is illustrating is that a small thing, this really small thing outperforms all these big things. In the parable of the talents, that does not happen. The one that is small actually doesn't work and the other two do. In Matthew 20, Jesus tells a parable of the workers in the vineyard. And when he's illustrating, eventually what you find is that he's illustrating that the first will be last and the last will be first. If that was working in this parable that we just read, then the one talent guy would have outperformed the five talent guy. But again, that did not happen. In the parable of the talents, the one talent guy is the least of these and he comes in last.

And he underperforms. In fact, in addition to all of that, even what he has is taken away. Look at the next two verses in 28 and 29. So this is the judgment of the master on one talent guy. He says, so take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has, for to everyone who has will more be given and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is really interesting because what you have is one talent guy who was the least of these, totally should have been first, totally should have outperformed five-talent guy, didn't, squandered, opted out, is punished, and even what he has then is given to five-talent guy. And Jesus then is laying this down very clearly. There are sharp edges to this parable. Jesus is making a point, he's helping us understand that reproducing

What we have been given is the only thing that counts. Reproducing what we have been given is the only thing that counts. It doesn't matter how much you started with. It doesn't matter if you're the least or the most. It doesn't matter if you were first or last in the vineyard, it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters, the only thing that the master is going to come and judge his servants on is reproducing what we have been given. And when we lay down in our sleeping bags, when we are on the summit and there are natural resources aplenty and it's a season of rest, even if we're a little restless in it,

and we consider how we are investing our lives. Really, really, we've got two options. We've been, we're either gonna say to the master, I've invested what you've given me, or we will be punished. That's it. The parable that Jesus tells in Matthew 25, again, has sharp edges because Jesus is making a point. Jesus is making a point to the people that were listening to that parable. Jesus is also making a point to us today

that there are things that we have been given, And we have been given stewardship over. Okay. So as you follow Jesus, man, there's bumper stickers galore, right. And there's cross stitch galore with this on it. But like, Hey, you know, like my life belongs to Jesus, right? Like I belong to Jesus. My, my decisions, like everything I have belongs to Jesus. Look, all that is true. It's probably truer than even than we act. But your life, your career, your hopes, your children, all of it, all of it, belongs to Jesus and not you. You and I, in fact, are stewards of those things. We do not own those things. And you know how I know? Because you can't take it with you when you die. It's just not there. Right? You're steward over it. Now we can think like I'm a steward over my car, we can think I'm a steward over my house, but when you start thinking like I'm a steward over my life,

my children, my conversations, my relationship, I'm a steward over those things and one day I will be held responsible for how I have reproduced those things. It should make you think a little bit about what your motivation is. It should make you think a little bit about how that conversation is going to go with the master. You don't have to answer to your spouse, you don't have to answer to your parents, you don't have to answer your pastor, you don't have to answer anybody except the Lord Jesus Christ, except the master. And when the master asks you, what did you do? How did you invest? When you're laying on your sleeping bag, it's a good thing to remember. And it's as if Jesus is pressing the point in, the way you have is not your own. So let me put it in positive terms. If you follow Jesus, if you have made a decision to follow Jesus, you are walking with Jesus, then you are currently a servant

with talents in your hands already. Okay? Even if it's not that many talents. Look, you could be a one-talent guy, that's cool. I think most days I feel like a one-talent guy, okay? That's cool. It doesn't matter how much you have in your hand, but as you reflect on your life thus far, you should ask yourself soberly, how am I investing in the lives of other people? How am I investing in the lives of other people? And there's really three answers to this, like three ways that you can kind of deal with this. According to this parable then, three options. First option, how am I investing in the lives of other people. First option would be that you're not. No investment at all. You're not putting any life down into it. You're not investing your life into other people according to your time. And this is a really harrowing thing to do. But if you were to document your time for a week,

How much time did I spend doing this and this and this and this? And there's all these fun statistics with how much time you spend in the bathroom your whole life, or how much time you spend sleeping your whole life, and all that, that's totally fun, that's cool. But what I would want you to do, and again, not for the faint of heart, but begin to document all that you do in a given day. How much time you spend investing in other people? It's probably less than you think. Some of you though, some of you have not made a commitment to follow Jesus. You don't have talents. You are not made new.

And because you have not said yes to Jesus, in this case, you are investing in nothing. And I wanna say it particularly that way, you are investing in nothing. If you are not following Jesus with your life, okay? If you aren't doing that, then anything you are efforting toward, okay, any college fund that you're building for your child, any, you know, like that new boat you just bought or that new house you just financed or that new car you just financed or really even anything religious that you're doing, all that church attendance, all that stuff that you're doing, this would if you are not following Jesus, that will amount to nothing that won't, That's not building anything. It's nothing. It's nothing. If you don't follow Jesus in a 10 church, it's not like God's gonna be like, yeah, okay, I mean, no. I mean, it's Jesus or nothing. It's investing in other people's lives

in Jesus' name or not, or nothing. What are you investing in? It is common, and I said it before, it is common to say, well, you can't take it with you, but it's probably more appropriate to say, You're investing in nothing. I can see why that's not on the t-shirt. I get it, it's a little harder to swallow. You cannot take it with you. And that really is the first option. If you don't follow Jesus, you have nothing to invest, and you will invest in nothing. Second option. The second option would be like to be the one talent guy, that you're burying your life.

And if you're following Jesus and you're not investing your life in someone else's life, and at least one other person's life, then Jesus says, according to this parable, he says you're wicked and lazy. But why? Why does Jesus say that about the guy who buries his life? Well, you're wicked because you're effectively saying, If you follow Jesus and you're not investing in anybody, you're effectively saying, you know what? I'm saved. This really small group of people around me, they're saved. I'm good. I'll see you guys in heaven. I'm done. I'm done here. Everybody else, you could fend for yourselves. Me? I've got it. That's wicked. That is wicked. It's selfish. Why is it lazy? Burying your life is lazy because really, you don't push through things that are hard. It's easier to binge watch the office again than it is to call up somebody that you met at work that you are developing a

relationship with. It's easy to hang out with a bunch of people that you already know rather than including somebody else in your life who doesn't know the Lord or isn't involved in a church. So they don't know the Lord to the best of your ability. You don't want to sort through the what-ifs and the possibilities. You don't want to push through the difficulty of actually arranging your life to invest in other people. That's lazy. That's why the master calls that lazy. If you have not made disciples, if you haven't done that, if you haven't invested your life in other people's, then your legacy, what you think about in your sleeping bag will slip away before your very eyes. You are going to have some spiritual fruit here and there, but you will ache because they are so small and so fleeting. The fruit that lasts, the investment that lasts is being faithful to what the Lord has given

you, making disciples, investing in the lives of other people. The only bad move, the only bad move is squandering what you already have. And this is the second option. This is burying your life. The last option, and really it's the one that Jesus is showing us as good, is investing your life. The talents that we have as people, as church collectively, are opportunities to make disciples. They are how many people are around us who are exploring the gospel without anybody to to guide them, how many, or worse, how many people are groping for some kind of truth and all they have is Facebook. And look, that's funny, but that's real. All they have is a Google search engine to let them know how to deal with what they're going through. They don't know anybody who's living some kind of victorious Christian life where they're dealing with sin and they're being open with them or anything like that.

There's a dearth of that in their lives. They're waiting for you to invest in them. They're waiting for you to talk to them, but they are just groping for something. They're exploring the gospel. When you invest your life, your conversations are precious. You can push past the, if I say this, I'm gonna look dumb feeling, because the person that you're talking to, to the person that you're praying for, their future is more precious than how you're going to feel for five seconds. Let me just put that their eternal destination and you feeling dumb for at most 15 minutes and maybe losing some sleep that night, like truly what's worth more every conversation is precious. When you invest your life, relationships are grown, they're developed. Right. And let me just say, I understand that some Christians, they just want to like knock on doors and tell people about the Lord.

And that's cool. I don't need to throw rocks at that, right? I'm not trying to say that that's a terrible move. What I'm saying is that though, when you are making disciples like Jesus made disciples, then you are growing relationships with people where you know their first and last name. You know their kids, you know their family, you know what they're going through. Relationships are grown. I want to emphasize, Jesus here in this parable is not setting up a talent show. See what I did there? He's not setting up a talent show, right? It's not about having more or less. It's not about how good your life looks. Okay. It's not about how many disciples that you can make, because some of you are equipped to make four disciples your whole life.

God bless you. That's fine. That's how the Lord made you. That's the situation He set you up in. Fantastic. Some of you are equipped to make 400 disciples in your whole life. And some of you, I say that number and you're like, yeah, that's me. I totally could do that. Some people are equipped, I'm sure, to make 40,000 disciples in their life. But whether you are equipped to make four, 400 or 40,000, it doesn't matter. It's not a talent show. It's not how much you have, not how much you've been given, only how much you've invested, because there are people that are equipped to make 40,000 disciples for the Lord and they bury it. They just hang around with people that they know, they don't have awkward conversations with people they don't ever see if like their actual physical neighbor knows the Lord or even their co-workers or anything like that. They're not having spiritual conversation. They are

praying for people to come to the Lord. They just go to church, sing a hymn, hear sermon and go home and call it good. No, no, no, never, never. Let that not be true of us. Let that not be true of you. No. The life, the invested life is what we are called toward where conversations are precious, where relationships are grown. And when you invest your life, multiplication happens. Now look, I'm not saying that, you know, if you're faithful, like you're going to have four disciples in the first year and then 16 the next year, and then, you know, exponentially gross in there. That's not really what I'm on right now. What I'm going to, what I'm just going to say is from the parable, from the parable, when you invest in making disciples, then your legacy, what you are considering whenever you're in sleeping bag, whenever you're kind of like, just kind of taking your whole life in. When you think

about that, your legacy is going to leap ahead of you and multiply itself several times over. And if you've invested your life, you have a legacy that you are training up those that are younger in the faith and you are releasing them for ministry, much like parents and children. And And look, if you've done a good job with your child, you don't need to act like their parent anymore. Right.

If somebody is 55 years old and their parents still are treating them like they're eight years old, that's failure to launch. There's something wrong. Okay. When you are investing your life, you are investing in people and you're watching the Holy Spirit empower them and you're watching them go out and make disciples. You're watching them go out and take risks for the Lord. You're watching them figure out these hard decisions that are in front of them and you're encouraging them and you're praying for them. But that thing is going on without you. You're not, you're not sitting there. You're not, you're not spinning them up every five days or every, every couple of months. You're not doing that. They love the Lord. They're following the Lord. They're making disciples and you helped invest in that. But the Lord is the one that is doing that. When that happens, your legacy takes on a life of its own and goes on way past you.

And your legacy ends up a reality in heaven. In this way, the effect of how you invest your gifts, how you invest your life is magnified. Because when you invest, it goes double and then goes beyond. And when you don't, even what you have is taken away and given to those who have abundance. What I want for you to consider today is this, there is no safe bet in this life, period. There's none.

You're either going to lose your life investing in people or you're gonna lose your life squandering the investment. That's really it, right? Everybody dies. Everybody has a legacy, whether they want one or not. You have one. What's yours? As we enter into our time of reflection, invitation, what I want you to do is I want you to begin praying. David, I'm gonna call you up here. I want you to begin praying. I want you to begin asking yourself the question, what am I investing in? Or more specifically, who am I investing in? Where is that time going? Is that time just building myself up? Is that time spent just in my own cocoon? Am I isolating myself? Where is that time going? As we pray, as we sing. If you want somebody to pray with you, feel free to ask somebody next to you to pray with you, but if you want to pray with me, I'll be right up here, And you can just come and talk to me and we'll pray.

If you want to join the church, this is also the time to kind of make that known. If you want to join our church and if you want to be baptized, this is also the time to make that known. But as we do, as we consider all those things, we're going to, David's going to lead us in one song, but as we sing, I want you to consider all those things. Consider what your step is going to be, what your next step is going to be. and consider how you're making your investments. Let me pray for us. Jesus, thank you for this morning. I pray that as we sing, as we pray, that you would make things clear to us. That's your name that we pray, amen. Would you stand? You give light, you are love, you bring light to the darkness, As you give hope, you restore every heart that is broken and greater. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise. We pour out our praise. your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise to you oh you give life you

give life you are love you rely to the darkness you give home restore every heart that is broken and great are you Lord it's your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise pour out our praises your breath in our lungs so we pour out pour out our praise to you only. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise, we pour out our praise, it's your breath in our lungs. So we pour out our praise to you You only will shout Your praise Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing Great are You Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing Great are You Sing that again And all the earth will shout your praise Our hearts will cry, these bones will sing Great are you It's your breath in our lungs So we pour out our praise, we pour out our praise your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise to you oh it's your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise we pour out our praise it's your breath in

in us, so we pour out our praise to you.