The Haunting Grace of God
Well again, it is good to be back and I am so thankful to be with you all a Happy Father's Day to all the fathers in the room and we are thankful for you. This is typically one of the I just across churches everywhere. This is one of the less attended Services of the entire year for churches everywhere. I kid you not and I wanted to say something before we get into it. I want to encourage you to get out and go be with your family and friends and have a good time this summer. I do feel like the church has historically put a lot of guilt and shame on people who take vacations during the summer go have fun. We will be right here. Okay, or I wanted to make I wanted to make that clear. So I've already got them already getting apology texts. I am not going to be able to make it got something going on and there's like this under under pending sense of guilt about it. Go rest and have time with your friends and family. If our church is not well rested. We will not be a good church. So I want to encourage you to get out and enjoy summer while we have it. I know that's a risky to say because churches really like attendance and don't get me wrong. I love having you here. I think it's really good. But please don't feel guilty for taking a break. Don't feel guilty for taking a breather a man. All right about that good at what we are in the series called with words for wisdom words of wisdom and we are looking through the wisdom literature exploring getting to know what God says to us through poems through songs Through songs of lament through songs of praise their hymns through nice nicely stated directives. It's very very inspirational. I guess is a word that you can use for songs not in a Cheesy way of inspirational. It really inspires our vision of who God is and so today we're going to be in Psalm 139. You can go ahead and turn in your Bible there and as you get there What I wanted to do as I wanted to take just a few moments. And I'd like you to just spend. Sometime and ask the Holy Spirit what he would want to do in you this morning? We talked about being ushered into the presence of God often as the church. He is already here. And so what I would like to encourage you to do for just a moment is to ask God to tune your heart to his presents before we get into scripture this morning. So just take a few moments. And reflect on this week and ask how God wants to speak to you this morning.
father we struggle with silence We struggle with slowing down. We struggle with creating space for you to speak to our hearts.
father forgive us for that and helped us individually and corporately as a church be attuned to your spirit this morning. As we look to your word.
Holy Spirit, we know you're here help us come to know your son Jesus at a deeper level today.
We have thanks for your presence we have thanks for your work. Lead us in your word lead us in our conversations in Jesus name. Amen. Amen Psalm 139 it says oh Lord, you have searched me and known me, you know when I sit down and when I Rise Up you discern my thoughts from afar you search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways even before a word is on my tongue behold. Oh Lord, you know it all together you hem me in behind and before and lay your hand upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your spirit or where shall I flee from your presence? If I Ascend to Heaven you are there if I make my bed in sheol, you are there if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me. If I say surely the darkness shall cover me and the light about me be tonight. Even the darkness is not dark to you.
The night as bright as the day for the darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward Parts. You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made wonderful. Are your Works. My soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you. When was being made in secret intricately woven in the depths of the earth your eyes saw my unformed substance in your book were written every one of them the days that were formed for me. When is yet? There was none of them.
How precious to me are your thoughts? Oh God. How vast is the sum of them? If I would count them, there are more than the sand I wake and I am still with you.
Oh that you would slay the wicked ho God. Oh men of blood depart from me. They speak against you with malicious intent your enemies. Take your name in vain. Do I not hate those who hate you? Oh Lord, and do I not low those who rise up against you? I hate them with a perfect complete hatred. I count them my enemies.
Search me o God and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. And see if there be any Grievous way in me. And Lead Me in the way. Everlasting
this song
historically has been a meditative reflection. for Spiritual formation for church worship It's been used. And social issues. It's been used in the private room when somebody is wondering if God is there. this song that has been pervasively one of the most popular songs in one of the most important things about this song is that you and I you and I you and I this out of all the songs of the most personal Very few times in scripture does the panoramic vision of God zoom in on an individual? This is one of those places.
And David is riding the song if you are acquainted with the story of David. It is a messy one. He is a man. Who intended good fell into evil? Was lured by his desires. acted on those desires
murdered a friend tried to cover it up. His wife pregnant.
He's lost a child.
One of his Psalms one of the Psalms elsewhere says I have been young and I have been old but one thing I'm never seen as the righteous forsaken left begging for bread. What are you saying? Is you this think about everything David has seen and done? I think if we were to compare morality, I think we've got a foot up on it on David. I don't know about you guys, but I don't go around killing people everyday.
Just think about the depth of the things that David dealt with the recovery of David.
I didn't think about the personal nature of the Somme.
This should confound us.
We asked those questions.
Of other people to somebody murdered somebody. somebody walks away from God somebody does something wrong and we immediately begin to critique. Are they worthy of God's love? In the song tells us. Yes even still and it's hard for our minds to grasp.
The song is about a deep thinker who is aware of his own inadequate knowledge and then he's Amazed by God's knowledge and the song the song is about hunting Grace. Haunting Grace. In fact that is the title for this morning teaching is the haunting grace of God.
The song is also about knowing that there's a reality that this way from creation that there's darkness and that evil and Brokenness are things that we have to deal with.
As you can tell there was a really dramatic shift in tone.
Throughout the song and we'll come back to that. Ultimately what this song is about is that God had ordered has ordered all things in such a way that they were designed to move us towards knowledge of him. And when we arrive at the knowledge of him, we realize it's only because he has known us first all of our pursuing of God is only possible because he has pursued us first. We realize that our search. Turns into the fact that we have been searched.
pretty remarkable
our knowledge of him and we arrived at the reality that we need him to know us if I'm very convinced that the deepest desire and human need is to be known valued loved and heard.
That is the deepest need of the human heart. We known to be value to be loved and heard any Uprising that you find whether it be legitimate or not legitimate. Is the result of some people feeling like they have not been heard value known or loved. All we need to do is flip a couple of pages of history back to look at the Civil Rights Movement.
The deepest needs to be known value loved in heard. I met a man named Steve during my doctoral work in part of our part of our course was to sit with him and listen to him. He was he is a Japanese man who who count was growing up in post Pearl Harbor? Where is my parents were put into internment camps?
His brother in fact died in internment camp due to lack of care. Brothers, Osborne In the internment camp and died four days later because no access to care. But they were able to get out and go to work and do some things and bad things about Steve as he was born blind. So he was born blind and he was living in post Pearl Harbor as a Japanese man in the West Coast contacts awesome mix for not very good upbringing in that time. And so when he was at school, he was often times marginalized because of his blindness and because of his race and at the end of the day and you specifically more talking about his blindness in this context him and his friends who were also blind had a group of blind friends as they would go up into their room after class and they would say Who said hi to us today? Who used my name?
He said they could count on both hands the amount of times people pursue them. And ask for their name. I was a deep wound for Steve.
You want to be known valued loved and heard?
Switching gears we can even look into cartoons things like Winnie the Pooh one of the most annoying characters on that show is Tigger. That's probably my most controversial statement I made. It was bouncing around like chill man.
But he bumps into me or one time. Sorry your I'm so you there. ner says That's okay. Nobody ever does.
That is our deepest need though to be seen to be known to be loved to be heard many conflicts in marriage and individuals and groups can be solved the people just feel known valued hurt in love.
Most complex. Can you boil down to that? If you talk about it? I didn't feel valued when you said this. I didn't feel loved when you made this comment. I didn't feel heard when you cut me off.
Isn't it's woven into the very fabric of our DNA. and so the song begins
we're going to look at in four ways. The intimate knowledge the inescapable present the intentional purpose and the invitation to know God in myself.
So the song begins with the intimate knowledge it says you have searched me and known me. Immediately were thrust into reality that God knows loves values cares deeply for us is as you have searched me. Now. This is not this is not the type of search that I encountered a couple days ago with the TSA. I was on the plow in Bozeman folks in Bozeman. I'll get slagged getting getting through the gate. They need to search me. They need to do a thorough investigation of what's happening in my luggage and they pulled me aside and they're not very cheerful people. The grab my backpack and of course they hold a whose bag. Is this my bag? Thanks and please.
And I need to be sourced over something that in the bag that was bothered them deeply and they needed to investigate it so they pulled me to the side and he immediately asked me. Is there anything in this bag if I reach until it's going to hurt me and I said, I don't think so. We don't like that answer of uncertainty. He gave me this look like What do you mean? I don't think so. I don't know how you reach your hand in the bag of might be a pain that pokes you I don't know. I don't think so. And so we started the opening my bag. The reason why I was flagged as because I had too many books.
Threat Level reading folks too many books And I had the Bible in there. Of course, I thought about making a joke when he said is there anything in here that will hurt me? I'm thinking the sword of the Spirit by man.
Yeah, but I don't think they would have liked that any tossed my phone I went to reach it goes don't touch the table, sir. Okay, so this is not that type of searching. The searching here is search me o God and know me this searching is the intentional relational Pursuit Of God is the same type of searching that you that you come to when you meet somebody you love or you be friend and you want to get to know them. Is that type of searching? It's not searching to find fault. It's searching to find you.
Search me. Oh God, he says and it says you hem me in you hit me in the sounds like a sweet thing, but this can be interpreted one of two ways. It could be interpreting. The sense that God is surrounding us in our time of need. He hands us an from front behind the very comforting surrounding present that can be read that way but it also can be read this other way. Where is it's what happens when an army surrounds another army or a city. This is the type of language that we see in scripture does hemming in securing at making sure that the enemy is not getting out. So I can be viewed in both ways. as a sweet surrounding or the surrounding of God who wants to conquer our hearts. And perhaps it's both perhaps this hemming in is meant to sit to surround us with his presence. But also meant to invite us to surrender to him as an army has surrounded our city of self-reliance and pride that needs to come crashing down so that we can know him and know ourselves better. It takes surrender in order to understand who God is and who we are and maybe it's both are implied. Here you hem me in for safety and for me to surrender to you because with God it's both.
It goes on to say such knowledge is too great for me.
Too high and says it is unattainable. It is an unscalable Mountain to reach the knowledge of God, I think about the Tower of Babel. Impossible even in its impossibility. God said you're trying to displace me.
Rather than to be displaced by him. The have whatever's ruling our hearts be dethroned and put the proper King on his throne. And so it's interesting Cove my son. I'm getting kind of upset and sad because he's growing up and because he's starting to realize I'm not as smart as he wants thought. He used to feed my ego all the time. We be in the car and he would ask me a question. I give him the answer he be like, you know everything.
It's right son. Don't ever forget it. I know so much. I get searched at TSA for my knowledge.
Don't forget it. But now I started to realize I'm not as smart. Ask me a question something else. I don't know cuz You don't know anything. That's like two opposite ends of the spectrum. My knowledge is no longer to high. He is learning that he can become like me as father knowing certain things as he grows, but there's no matter how much we grow. We will never connect to the knowledge of God. He gives us what we need to know when we need to know what how we need to know it and it whatever he has given us a sufficient for the moment that we are in and that's the challenge we have. Is being okay with his knowledge and not our own?
At least that is definitely the challenge for me until this knowledge is so high that we can't comprehend at this wisdom is so high that we can't comprehend it. So, you know what he does. He comes down in Jesus. In the beginning was the word and it says the word became flesh the word. The Greek word is Lagos there and it has to do with the complete and total Divine wisdom and revelation of God too high for us. So it's somewhat he comes down so that we can wrap our minds around who he is if you wanted to get to know God we look to Jesus don't look to the person next to you first. Look to Jesus first. That's how you get to know God.
Look to Jesus. That's who he's like. He was too high so he came down.
How does a sit with you knowing that he has searched you and known you? How does that sit with you? Is that comforting? Is it discomforting and why?
song goes on It talks about the inescapable presence of God says where shall I go? It's funny David seems divided. It kind of seems them ambivalent toward these like your knowledge is too great for me. I love it. You search me and know me.
That means he knows where can I go to flee from you? He's divided. It seems like he wants God to be there completely. But then on the other side of the coin, he does not want got around at all. And we do that with our hearts are certain areas of our hearts were like God. I want you all in to do this thing in my life here and now but when it comes to the other things that we don't want to deal with
You're to stay out of the corner of my life. But here it says where shall I go? Where shall I go?
He says if I go to heaven you are there if I go to Sushi Yoshi old as the grave and an Old Testament literature. It's the absence of God's presence. So something interesting is happening in this song. It's a again it's hyperbole. It's the poem were not meant to read it literally and developed the Systematic Theology out of it. This is a song. So things are okay if there's some tension in a little bit of contradiction, it's a song. But what he's saying is no matter how high or how deep I go you are there but it's funny that this is a song but it's the field in Jesus because what we find in the New Testament is that Jesus does actually go to the grave and comes back out.
This is a prosthetic telling of what Jesus would do. Jesus says elute. I fulfill the Psalms. Can we look at the songs we need to be asking. How does Jesus this song? What song what is the song singing about the person of Jesus? We see this in Ephesians 4:8 through 10. It says therefore it says when he ascended on high, he led a host of captives and he gave gifts to men.
In saying he ascended what does it mean but that he also descended into the lower regions of the Earth. He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all things. There is no escaping. The presence of God has displayed through his son Jesus.
Talked about the Ascension and descension but what about East and West that says if I go to the wings of the morning, you know what that is. It's a beautiful image of the wings of the morning. You know, when you're up early. Is anybody here morning person. Most of us don't know but when you wake up in the morning and you see the Rays coming up, Austell Wings But the song is talking about. He sees the sun rays as a wing the wing of creation. moving forward if I go to the east is there that's a symbolic person talk about the east by going to East or the wings of the sonar you're there is any says if I go to the depths of the sea the ends of the sea, that's the West this is written in the land where the Seas on the west so we can go to the West for their north south east and west you are everywhere.
everywhere
When's Old Testament scholar and theologian Jason by I see he said this about this moment? about this song
you might say it. Jason alright, see you says the song misuses every point on the compass to illumine the Divine omnipresence the wings of the morning. So just the East is to be in Israel's ography is to the West every direction has been marked as a as a resplendent with God's presence ancient Christian interpreters were impressed with the way that the cross stretches in all directions Christ is one way and another with his nail down hand signaling the extent of his Global rain.
North south east and west three weeks ago. We talked about how distress comes from all directions. And here we see where God's grace extends to all directions. Is that not a beautiful image of the power and love of Jesus and his where shall I go with almost again a question of haunted Ennis? You're just there. You're just there. It's kind of like when I'm watching my kids. Sometimes they love it when I'm watching them Daddy watch me. That sounds I hate it when I'm watching them.
You know what? That's like when you were little kid and you were trying to do something wrong and then your mom looked at you like
the same thing where shall I go people who are acquainted with grief often find themselves asking this question in fact I have permission to share this Frank and Janet who's part of our church family here. I'm going to lunch with Frank and you guys know some of the things medical challenge that they're having right now. In fact, but I met with Frank for lunch Monday. I just listened to him talk and man. If you don't know Frank story crept lunch with him, but a few years back the four years ago. If I'm close to four years ago from some correct. They lost a child.
And as Frank was telling me this. We're sitting at the table. He was telling me how people were surrounding him going. How do you how do you keep going and he told me to stay look me in the eye or sitting at the little Burger Joint. He said where else would I go?
Where else would I go? Because every other alternative is bankrupt. There is no other religious philosophical framework. That does Justice in reality to the pain that we feel and instill the sense of gracious. Hope that we need to move through it. Where else would I go? Frank minister to me that day where else would we go?
Be praying for them. Goes on to say surely the darkness shall cover me. Now. The darkness here is not about moral perverseness. I think we were dealing with that in the former sections. This is a different sort of Darkness where you haven't quite lost faith, but you're simply devoid of any desire to move. It's our feelings kind of rule us. We feel sort of helpless.
We really don't know how to put language to this a darkness that we feel this is where religion has failed. You wear your spiritual disciplines no longer seem to matter. I'm just struggling to find and see and since God.
Best description of read about this type of darkness comes from Ronald rolheiser.
He says this.
He calls it The Dark Night of the Soul.
This is what happens in The Dark Night of the Soul has when we run out of gas religiously religious experiences that once sustained us and gave us fervor dry up or get crucified in a way that leaves us with no imaginative effective or emotional sense of either God's love for God's existence. No effort on our part. Can I can conjure up the feelings and images we once had about God and the security we once felt within ourselves about our faith and religious belief the heavens empty and inside ourselves. We feel agnostic. As if God didn't exist and we are no longer able to create an image of God that feels real to us. We become helpless to generate a sense of God inside ourselves. But that's precisely the beginning of real face. In that darkness when we have nothing left when we feel there is no God. God can begin to flow into us in a pure way because our interior religious faculties are paralyzed.
We can no longer manipulate our experiences of God. We can no longer fudget fake it project ourselves on to it or use it to rationalize Divine permission for our own actions real Faith begins at the exact point. Where are atheistic critics think it ends and darkness and emptiness and religious importance in our powerlessness to influence how God flows into us.
Encourage you to pick up this book wrestling with God. but Ron rolheiser
What he is saying? Is a God does his best work in the dark?
In creation let there be light from the grave Lazarus come out from the other darker grave. Jesus came out. The stars are only beautiful against the backdrop of The Dark Knight.
So in those dark moments when we feel like God is not there. What is this song telling us he is there.
The light of God means little if we haven't sat in darkness.
All of us at some point in time. We'll go through this. Maybe you have maybe you are maybe but you certainly will. What this song is teaching us is in those moments are the most dark. That is the moment where God is actually about to be or already is an intense work in your life to purge you of things of what faith is and what faith is not it is in those dark season 3 you learn Faith must not be about getting what I want when I want and how I want you learn a lot about what faith is not which is profoundly important as we grow in our faith in God. So, how does this sit with you?
Weekly in all directions, but he is there we can keep running.
You know, she's in all directions notices as you're not following us, but that is already there. You're not trying to chase you down. He's waiting for you. That's what happens. If you run to the north to this regard to the west or east and south to this or this or this and we see um, Amigo know and we go the other direction. No, no now you're here. You must not be over there. So we go back we do this cycle of Never Fully committing to God at our arrival because we're scared to again surrender. And so what he is teaching us is that there was no where you can flee from God. So the only thing you need to flee to is God himself. That's who we fleets are you're going to be running into a no matter what he is a haunting Grace that haunting desire in your heart for more to hunting element of you want significant satisfaction security it lingers there because he is waiting for you to respond to him. He's not forceful. He's not cursive. He will let you run in all sorts of directions.
What happens if we don't?
We set ourselves against him.
moves into Nowhere, you can go. He's always there in darkness and at distances. He is there in all directions. Then we moved into this intentional purpose.
A passage and 13 through 18 that provides a very strong sense. of a theology for human life
and again did these passages have been used a lot in the political social sphere?
Only thing I want to say here.
this text moves us towards valuing all human life from womb to tomb. from womb to tomb
every person is Worthy Of the dignity and value and love of God no matter what. You should see what they have done. What about David? You got me. The minute we said you don't deserve the grace and love of God is a very same minutes. We line up on the side of the Pharisees. I don't care what political Spectrum you are on both sides can produce Pharisees.
from womb to tomb this means that there is no place in the church for racism that the pro-life issue if you want to call it that
We've got to have an ethic of life that is shaped not by politics, but by a theology.
That's the important elements if I'm dealing with a topic it is because it is first theological not political. the Theology of life
is that God values all it doesn't mean that our actions don't have consequences and that we won't have to deal with the actions of our consequences, but it means that no matter what God values us and has purpose for us do this can't this can't be just about The womb and though it is I'm pleased to see The Ledges legislation that is supporting life. I love that. I think it's a kingdom thing not a conservative or a Democrat. I think it's a kingdom life again though from room. the tomb
Everyday, it says it's marked out for unintentional purpose from God. That means we need to be thinking about the life-giving power of God every single day for ourselves and with those whom we interact with because again our deepest needed to be known valued heard and loved and people might people might be on the wrong trajectory and life but you never know just by hearing them by knowing them are responding and Grace how that trajectory could change why because they now feel known valued hurt in love.
That's what it means to Value human life is to know love value people.
Everybody is worthy of the dignity that God has created them to have. We cannot be Pharisees who robbed them of their dignity.
So is all goes on to say how precious are your thoughts?
God's thoughts on our life and how we live our important. very much, so So when it comes to issues relating to All Things life your marriage sexuality.
The way you handle alcohol.
The way you talk to others. If we begin with what is God's think?
That is the most precious thing that will that will formulate life and flourishing in our lot in our hearts and minds and life and relationships. How often are we doing The Thinking Cup? What do you think about this? What do you think? So often we say here's what I think and if I don't hear from you God, I'm going to take that as permission. So much is already so clear. God speaks to me. He's like I did Genesis to Revelation man pick up the book.
What does God say about this topic in the Bible? Send it. And then ask yourself. Do I value his thoughts are in my thoughts?
I love that. I'm a charismatic like I'm a charismatic but when people say I'm waiting for God to speak to me most not all. All the time. I'm like, have you been listening to him through his word?
Couple minutes here and there day.
Okay.
Just open his word and ask God. What do you think? Sometimes it's good to set aside the pin the journals and then is going to set those things aside and just ask him. with the word in front of you
so does our lifestyle our politics are home. Does it honor God with what he thinks about things and how does that sit with you? How's that sit with you? And lastly the invitation to know God and myself and 19 verses 22. This is where we read. Oh that you would slay the wicked. escalated quickly
What do we do with this is been so discomforting that some people on the more liberal interpretive side of scripture has said we need to remove that because that doesn't fit the rest of the song. No, it does it really does because that's what your heart am I Does this reflect those moments or one day you're like God you're great in the next day or like would you just take care of that? Do you see that? If you don't do something about I'm going to write we we have this immediate flipping our hearts that happens. So often David is just blunt and real and honest about what he's about what he's feeling and I think the reason why he starts with God, you know all things because he's in a situation where he realized he knows nothing and not how to do it not how to deal with it notice. He doesn't say God, what do you want me to do about it? Because I don't know what to do about it. So you're going to have to do something and this should also be a comforting text because when you look outside of the world no one looks at the world says yeah things are weighted out to be No, we should pray for justice. And justification, you can pray for Salvation And Justice at the same time. That's okay.
This word this represents. Are authentic self and no notice notice. He can only be honest about this because he's been honest with God.
I hate them. We turn it into like an emotional 21st century understanding the word actually has to do with this relational distance that exists between them. That's what actually has to do with this have to do with I hate you. It's more like I do not see upset myself completely at odds with those who are allies with you I R refused to linger in that camp.
I want people who were after you exploring you wanting to know you. That's what he saying that there's a distance. I'm sitting between myself. So don't turn this into permission to hate you would be drastically of using the text.
This is in touch with reality and it's a picture of the relational disconnections with the things that God says are not good or conducive to human flourishing and worship and then he goes on to close with search me. Oh God. Search me he opens with you have searched me any ends with do it again. Is ongoing posture of putting yourself before God putting myself before God saying search me if I'm wrong. I will repent and I will come to a more healthy understanding of life, but search me he's wanting to know if he's wrong and what he is feeling. Ask God. The search you so often we begin with L. He searched me once I'm good. If there's no transformation. There's a problem. So we begin and end our days with search me. Search me. present tense John Calvin who has the highest you've got somebody I've ever met and again what we talked about this a few times. I don't land on side of the fence on certain things. But John Calvin says, this is very very powerful. He says man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked up on God's face and then descends.
John Calvin says you have to get to know yourself through getting to know God. The only reason he can say search me o God is because he knows God knows him.
The last thing here, how do you feel? Is this a comforting Psalm of God's unrelenting and haunting Grace the fact that he knows you is that comforting or is it discomforting the fact that he's aiming you in? Is that comforting comforting lean and dab? It's a beautiful part of what does God do with the knowledge that he has of us. All he gets Grace and forgiveness. John 1:14 Is this and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we have seen his glory glory as of the only son from the father full of. Grace and Truth not 50 Grace, not 50 truth. Full of grace full truth that's what he does. When he searches us and knows us. We recognize who we're not who we ought to be in him, and he gives us Grace forgiveness and in truth.
Our deepest needs to be known values in love its first and foremost fulfilled in God in Christ. No one else. When and what does Tim Keller quote Tim Keller says this
to be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. It's those people who say You must be a great husband and you like how yeah, I am, but they don't know you it's nice, but it's superficial. To be loved but to not be a button. Sorry to be loved but not known is comforting but superficial to be known and not loved is our greatest fear.
But to be fully known and truly loved as well a lot like being loved by God.
In God we are fully known just think he knows the depths of your heart and invites you to still know him. We are fully known and fully loved by God. and with that knowledge, we should go and do likewise and then Thank you for your word. We thank you for your presence in your power. Holy Spirit as we have some free conversations. I ask that you would guide them. Let them be seasoned with salt. Let them be filled with grace and truth help us reflect your son Jesus in the way that we love live and treat others. We love you, and we thank you for our we thank you for our church family in Jesus name. Amen. Amen table still one up and let's have a couple minutes of conversation of Daniel closest outlets in Horsham.
Yeah, we often judge our worst moments by people's highlight reels on social media. And then we don't realize that much of social media is a facade veneer. So getting to really know God helps us know ourselves and we can be authentic and so it's awesome lead us out and and they all come up and just closed at 5 in the final version. Mid II.