Two Witnesses

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Truth if you would to Revelation chapter 11 will be.

Look at verses three through 14 this morning, and I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1260 days, clothed in sackcloth.

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. If anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. Anyone would harm them. This is how he is doing to be killed.

They have the power to shut the sky that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of play as often as they desire when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them. Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt with the Lord was crucified for 3 1/2 days, some from the peoples and tribes and languages nations gaze their dead bodies refused to let them be placed in a tomb, those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make Mary exchange presents because these two prophets had been a torment of those dwell on the earth after the 3 1/2 days a breath of life from God entered them, they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, Peter. They went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them and at that hour there was a great earthquake and 1/10 of the city fail 7000 people were killed in the earthquake.

The rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven, the second lowest past the whole. The third was his soon to come that with me as we go to our Lord in prayer. Heavenly father. What a passage we are dealing with today.

One Lord that is filled with just sadness and yet power in action.

And Lord, a testimony to who you are a testimony Lord to what the church is called the pray heavenly father as we look at this passage today that we might understand our calling that heavenly father we might leave this building today realizing that you have called your people to a fight at this Christian life is spiritual warfare that we have responsibility before our God to be a loving and yet an uncompromising people who stand for truth is stand in the love of Jesus, who love Jesus more than life itself got indirect disloyalty this passage today. I pray father that is we are here and our young people are away on trip to the beach Lord, where they are studying your word. We pray father that you would give them grace is they are they are in. Bring them safely back to us or just bless the service today. May Christ be honored by this congregation be benefited will give you praise and honor and glory for all you do for us and it's in Jesus precious name we pray. Amen. You may be seated. Saw a bumper sticker the other day that said getting old is not for sissies.

For those of us of the have a little bit of snow on the roof we could say amen to that for arthritis and sore joints and neuropathy in the feet and all that kinda goes with it is not a piece a cake and sometimes when you're getting older you just have to kinda grit your teeth and lower your shoulder and forge ahead while got another idea for a four bumper sticker and that he is serving Christ is not for sissies. I want to share with you today. Just some verses do to help remind you of our calling, especially in the light of what were going to be looking at today in Revelation chapter 11 Jesus said in Matthew chapter 16 verse 24 demand coming to me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me flipping chapter 1 in verse 21 Paul said for me to live is Christ to die is gain.

Philippians 129 Paul said, for it is given to you on the behalf of Christ not only to believe upon him, but also to suffer for his sake. Second Timothy chapter 2 verses two and three. Also the things that was heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, which you will be able to teach others also share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. In Revelation chapter 2 verse 10 it says that says DS that be frightful under death, and I will give you the crown of life. I have people from time to time, asked me why is it that preachers don't preach more on the book of Revelation, and I think that perhaps one little reason might be that it it's tough interpreting apocalyptic literature. Your but I don't think that's the main reason I think the main reason is this, I think the main reason is that that the it's the toughness of the subject. I people don't want to hear about persecution and suffering and tribulation and trial.

Who wants to hear about that.

I think the answer is I do and I believe you do and why should we want to hear about it. We need to hear about it so that we will be prepared for the fight. We will be prepared to be dependent all the one who died for us brothers and sisters, we need a testimony like the testimony that the apostle Paul had when he was getting ready to die, wrote his own obituary and what did Paul say hey said this, he said from now ready to be offered in the time of my departure is at hand. Rough all the good fight, I finished my course of The faith.

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but all them also who love his appearing today.

Would you be looking at the two witnesses, and who the two witnesses represent now as I think back on this as I look at the two witnesses. My mind goes back in time to the year 1685 and that was the year when King Louis of France, the 14th, King Louis XIV of France that revoked in edict.

It was a needing which guaranteed religious freedom for the Protestants and in France were call Huguenots and when that edict was revoked immediately. There were thousands of Christians who were just horribly keeled their lives were taken from them, and the Reformed Church in France was almost completely annihilated.

What was the result of all that happening. The result was the French Revolution in France. The French Revolution did great damage and is still doing damage, even unto our day as we see France filled with agnosticism and atheism, and this hatred for Christianity lite was going on in England during that time England found out about the Huguenots and they open their borders up to them and Huguenots came over and they made their home in England. During that time, George Whitfield and John Wesley were preaching the gospel and while while France was covered with blood and violence and death.

While all that was going on in France, England, was experiencing the glow of revival know what you just remember that time in history as we today look at these two witnesses, three wit 33 points that I want to share with you today. The first point is this identifying the witnesses look again at verses three through six and I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1260 days closed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire porcelain, their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them.

This is how he is doing to be keeled. They have the power to shut the sky that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying.

They have power of the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they desire. If you grew up in the dispensational church. Then you grew up in a church that would that would force a literal interpretation on this particular passage and so who would you say that these witnesses were, you would automatically say these witnesses are Elijah and Moses and what did God do God and sometime in the future after the rapture the church would take place. God would raise up Moses and Elijah bring them back from the dead and they would preach the gospel for a liberal. A 3 1/2 years and why would they say that these are Elijah and Moses goes. What do they do well.

One of them stops the rainy keeps the rain from falling in order that there might be this great drought and who did that that was Elijah and theirs, then the Scripture says that they were turning water into blood who was responsible for that in the Scripture at what Moses prayed for God sent the play and so they would say the two witnesses have to be a resurrected Moses resurrected Elijah. I think that's a horrible interpretation and I think it's a wrong interpretation. Now why would I think that good end of verse four and you will see there in verse four that the Scripture refers to these two as to lampstands. Now what does that mean to go over to Revelation chapter 1, you will find who the lampstands are and it's not questionable.

The Scripture says of the seven lampstands are the seven churches, the lampstands, or a picture or representation of the church folks. These two witnesses are not to Old Testament heroes that God raises from the dead, in order that they might preach the gospel and I don't come just to preach for a literal 3 1/2 year. Sometime after the rapture of the church. That's not what's going on. What is this a picture of it is a picture of the church of Jesus Christ, the true church of Jesus Christ, the genuine believers those who love the Lord.

Those who are faithful to Christ. Those who stand for truth because were willing to suffer and be persecuted and even be martyred for their faith. If called to do so, they share the uncompromised gospel with anybody who will listen to them and they live a Christian life that makes them stand out like a diamond in a coal miner, a gardenia in a garbage can. The world sees the holiness of God in their lives and the world looks and sees the joy of the Lord in their countenance and that makes the world angry in the world and the world gets mad with them because they feel convicted and that conviction stings in verse three tells us that they are clothed in sackcloth. What's that all about. Will that is a picture of the church who is deeply, deeply sorry over there sin there sorrowful over there sin and not only are they sorrowful about it, but it leads them to a responsive repentance to a genuine repentance and what is repentance, lot of people have the idea that all a person needs to do to be saved is to believe in their head that Christ is say it is, as their Savior so you changed your mind about Jesus, she said I did used to believe that Jesus was my Savior. Now I do believe it. So that's all I need. I don't need and are a real genuine repentance, but repentance doesn't mean just a change in your mind. It means a change in your mind that leads to a change in your heart that leads to a change in your attitude that leads to a change in your behavior that leads to a change in your actions, the Scripture goes on to tell us here that this church is not holding it's not arrogant is not condescending, but it is humble and it is broken and it has a deep deep compassion for lost and dying world Stephen one of the first seven deacons was a man who was on fire for Christ Manny preach the word of God without compromise. And he preached it so strongly that the religious leaders of his day in Jerusalem got angry with Ian. They took in the thawing then to a pit and I took stones and they stoned him to death. What was his preaching was it mean preaching was it angry preaching wasn't hateful preaching any hate these people he was preaching to, absolutely not.

People love them. How do we know that he loves them because when those stones were pelted. His body looked up to heaven and he said father lay not this the end of their charge. John is not just speaking to some future generation that that a will minister on this earth for a little 3 1/2 year. Sometime after the rapture and has nothing to do with us right now all known we tell you John is speaking to every Christian and every generation John to speak into his own generation, he is speaking to Stephen's generation is thinking of the Huguenots generation. He is speaking to our generation. And he says the true church is clothed in sackcloth.

The true church is humble and repentant. It is broken and is faithful to Jesus.

Verse four. They are not only call the two lampstands. They also call the two olive trees really get that from his back to the Old Testament is what John's been doing all through the book of Revelation goes back to Zechariah chapter 4 if you go back to that chapter you will see what the what what the olive trees are, how they relate to the lampstands how they relate to Israel have a relate to the church. This is what Richard Phillips said about it.

He said this is a picture of Israel in that dark time.

Just as Revelation use lampstands to depict the church in John's time next to the golden lampstands.

Zechariah was shown to all the trees, each of which had a pipe that fed old to the lampstand to keep its light burning one olive tree referred to the Prince's ruble representing the royal kinship. The other referred to Joshua the high priest representing the anointing priesthood, the oil flowing from the trees stood for the Holy Spirit, God gave the message to's ruble listen, not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord.

In verse five. The Scripture says that no one can harm them. How in the world could John say that we just a few verses down we're gonna find out the think that these two witnesses get keeled and they are there martyred their bodies lay out in the streets for 3 1/2 days, and people celebrate over there rejoicing over it and mocking them and leave their bodies after to decay how in the world can we say that that no one can harm them.

This is reminiscent of what Jesus said in Luke chapter 21 verse 15 through 19. When Jesus said this fry will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends and some of you, they will put to death. You will be hated by all men for my namesake, but not a hair of your head will perish by your endurance, you will gain your lives while they not one hear their head will perish. And yet the Scripture says they might die at the hands of me and what does that mean what is the meaning of the us. It means this it means the message of the true church cannot be stopped. Listen to that carefully the message of the true church will not and cannot be stopped. Herod couldn't stop it.

Nero couldn't stop it. The mission could not stop it. Louis XIV couldn't stop it. Hitler couldn't stop it.

Idi Amin can stop it. Farrakhan can't stop it. Satan can't stop it, brothers and sisters. The message will continue to reach the hearts of the lost and the gates of hell will not prevail against the church, the true church may be mocked, it may be criticized. It may be persecuted. It may even end up in martyrdom, but Christ will never forsake us. Never when the Christian dies. Whether he dies through old age, or whether he dies through martyrdom.

We will not die alone.

Christ will be with us. He will say when we die. When whether it's by martyrdom or whether it's by old age and we go to be with the Lord and we get our first glimpse of him in glory. We will say this, it was worth it all to serve Jesus persecution and suffering even martyrdom does not mean failure.

We will not be left alone, but it does mean that he is used us for his glory and that all the way through eternity. You and I are going to experience a sweeter fellowship. As a result of the persecution that we experienced Revelation chapter 11 verse six were being told of the churches witnessing power through prayer, through prayer, John reminds us of how Elijah prayed for God to judge Israel's idolatry by withholding the rain and bringing about this terrible drought and that drought happened and how did head of the Lodge use it. He brought the people together, knowing that the crops were dying in the field and the animals were dying. People were even died and everybody was thirsty and he said guises will do we have a contest and is going to be a contest between Bale and Jehovah God and set up tell you what you do priest to bail so you get over here and you build up an altar to your faults, God and any settlement you kill a sacrifice a bull and put it up on it and then you put your you put your dried twigs up under you pray that your God will send fire and then once you've done that I'm in a him to build my altar to Jehovah. I'm a kill my bull woman to place it on the altar and then I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna pray and let the God who answers by fire, let him be God. And so the priest to Bale did that and I went they built their altar. They killed her bull like Plaisted opponent. I could always dried twigs up hundred and they tried to invoke their God to do something and they prayed and they begged and they play and they cut them sales and nothing happened. Absolutely nothing. Finally, Elijah said guises my time and he built his altar and he built this altar up and he kill the bull and he placed on it. He did something very strange. He dug a trench all around the altar that he said go out and get 12 barrels of seawater from the. The Smith seed not far from there I brought the 12 barrels back support over the sacrifice they ported over the sacrifice noted altar drench the bullet drench this the altar, and it filled up all the way of the trench with water and it was just sitting there.

Why did he do that he did that because he wanted everybody to know that when God sent the fire. One spontaneous combustion. It was not just an accident that when God sent the fire God was saying.

I alone am God. As we said to the people unless you want your beard since you better move because God's get ready to sin the fire and he looked up in heaven.

He said father God. Sin the fire and the Lord shot a fireball to heaven hit the sacrifice. It burned up the sacrifice, it burned up the altar. It licked up all the water in the trench and melted the stones to nothing in the people fail down their faces and they cried out the Lord he is God, the Lord he is God. I think of Moses when he prayed for the place to come and God sent the plague took of the, the Nile River and turned the river to blood books in James chapter 5, James gave us instruction in the New Testament to pray like Elijah did he figure serving the same God and is a righteous man, you need to pray fervently like what like Elijah did. That God might answer and be glorified, and this is what he said.

Therefore confess your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed.

The prayer of a righteous person has great powers it's working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed fervently that it might not rain for three years and six months. It did not rain on the earth, James Hamilton said the following, taken as a whole.

John's vision Revelation 11 shows the power of the witnessing church through the word sacraments in prayer by the power of God's spirit by these ordinary means of grace. The church is unable to declare the truth of God's word prevail over evil and deliver sinners from judgment. This is what makes the church potent not money, not political influence, not marketing gimmicks, not anything that involves whirly strategy, the world's power is in spirit empowered father protected proclamation of Jesus Christ and him crucified. A man .2 the war against the witnesses look at verse seven through 10 when they finish their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them in their dead bodies lined the streets of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified for 3 1/2 days, some from the peoples and tribes and languages nations will gaze at their dead bodies refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make Mary in exchange presents because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth, but there's only two categories of people in the world in which we live, and that is the saved and the lost. That is, those who are in the light. Those who in the darkness as those who know and love the Lord Jesus Christ and those who don't. The seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.

Verse seven says the beast that that that rises from the bottomless pit will make war with them.

The two witnesses that represents the church and conquer them and kill them. You member back to to chapter 9 when we looked at the sounding of the fifth trumpet, and there was an angel.

It was sent to open the bottomless pit. When he opened the bottomless pit. There was a angel they are. There was a fallen Angel.

I called him a polygon and a Paul Young was released for what purpose, in order that he might attack the Christians in order that Christianity would be devastated that folks is all out spiritual warfare is spiritual warfare that this is spiritual warfare where Satan will inspire his people to do as much damage to God's people is absolutely possible to go to war with them and he will do this by sending them a strong delusion, that they should believe his lie. If you'd asked me when I was 10 years old. If America would ever reject biblical creationism and embrace Darwinian evolution.

If you had told me when I was 10 years old that there would be a law that would allow a mother to to slay her own baby in the womb. If you told me that there would be constitutional law in America that would allow a man to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman and is look at how America right now is falling over transgender is him and making statements like we can have a baby, but were not going to name it and were not gonna just try to influence it would've lit yet grow up and then make its own decision about whether or not it wants to be a boy or girl I would have laughed in your face at 10 years old. I'm not laughing anymore. For if you don't conform embrace and promote these perversions of truth.

Then he was a Christian, or labeled as a bigot and you were to be muzzled and you are to be shut up and destroyed if necessary.

We give an example.

The terrorist organization and T4 has an agenda of destroying Christian organizations on college campuses and sat they have a new strategy. I call it Doc seen. I never heard of Doc seen before. So I looked it up on Google.

What is it mean to docs this is it to search for and publish private or identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet. Typically with malicious intent. So here's how it works. They get the names of Christians who are or who were going to to talk with organizations like RUF or FCA and when they find out that they're going and perhaps going to join these organizations. They send them a message and let them know that if they do this than there to be docs how what what what is that mean that means that they are to get on the Internet and they're gonna spread all kind of lies about them and they are going to absolutely destroy the reputation and so we got Christians all over America today that are absolutely afraid to go and be part of a Christian organization on the college campus. Why because they are afraid that their reputations can be destroyed in their life will be ruined brothers and sisters that evil that is evil and that's where we are today. Someone asked Carrie Reeder one Thompson Harry what's the definition of spiritual warfare and he said the Christian life. And that's true that's true.

We Christians America been blessed for centuries, with freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but those days are quickly coming to an end and you better expect to get hit. What is that what am I talking about here means if you're Christian you may lose your job if you're trying to to be on a sports team, you may lose your opportunity to do that. There was a young lady this and she was the best soccer player on the soccer team lady soccer team that just won the world championship and she was the best player on the team but she was a Christian and a few games before they play for the final world championship. They were the whole team was supposed to wear a uniform that had on it the pattern of the rainbow in order that they might celebrate the the gay pride week. She said I'm a Christian. I can't do that and they kicked her off the team. They said you don't have the right to your own opinion your Christianity may soon keep you out of college. It may get you thrown in jail for hate speech, but I promise you this, you will get hit. Here's what we gotta make a decision about folks when we gonna do when we get hit. We looked picture light. We had a compromise or we can get in Gibeon or are we going to stay in the fight somebody saw the movie lone survivor's a true story of five Navy SEALs who were in Afghanistan who were on a mission to go after a man name Ahmad Shah who is a tele-bandleader, extremely wicked, he killed a number of of American soldiers so they were to go after him and four of the five Navy SEALs did not make it. They were killed was one particular scene where they were all kind of together in this wooded section and and they were being scaled and after each shale would explode the squadron leader would scream out safe are you here yet one of them would spring back. Yes, I'm here yet. And then he would ask this question. Are you still in the fight and he would respond yes I'm still in the fight. The squadron leader said this, no matter how dark it gets, or how hard you fall, you are never, never out of the fight, but since the attitude that we as believers must have in the culture in which we live in. If you're an uncompromising Christian, you're going to be hit in this culture so you gotta ask yourself a question. What am I going to do when I get hit will be able to say in the depths of my heart. I'm still in the fight. I'm still in the fight.

John portrays the true church is still in the fight. The true church is in the fight. Paul said finally met my brethren, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you might stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities and rulers of darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress. He does a masterful job in explaining our fight with Satan he Satan is in in his in his allegory here is called a polygon and what we see John saying in Revelation chapter 11 and what John Bunyan is saying Pilgrim's progress is very very similar I will redo this little section pilgrimage all but a little way before he spied a file thing coming over the field to meet him.

His name was a polygon pilgrim resolve to venture and stand his ground. The monster was hideous to behold and coming up to Christian he beheld him with a disdainful countenance a polygon. I perceive you're one of my subjects Christian. I was born in your dominion but your service was hard in your wages. The wages of death a polygon go back go back and what our country will afford a promise to give you Christian. I have let myself to another, even to the king of princes I've given him my faith and swore my allegiance to him. How can I with fairness go back with you a polygon. Consider what you are like to meet with in the way for the most part, his servants come to an ELA and because they transgressed my ways. Many have been put to shameful DS Christians. Christian present deliberate present deliverance. We do not expect. We wait for glory. A polygon you find it at your first setting out Christian all that is true, and much more. But the prints whom I serve and honor his merciful and ready to forgive then a polygon broke out into a grievous rage saying I am an enemy to this prints I hate is person's walls and people and I'm come out on purpose to withstand you Christian beware what you do for I'm in the Kings Highway.

The way of holiness therefore take heed to yourself, a polygon straddle the whole way and said, prepare to die. I will spew your soul with Addie through a flaming dart. It is breast but Christian had a shield in his hand while wrestling with team Christian began to despair of life as God would have it, while polygon was fetching his last blow Christian grasped his sword gave him a deadly thrust upon you and spread his Dragon wings and sped away. Christian saw him no more. Verse seven says it that when they finish their testimony, the beast from the bottomless pit represent Satan and his people take their lives to kill them in the place of their martyrdom is is given by three locations. The first one is Sodom what is Sodom represent Sodom represents sexual perversion and sexual hedonism brothers and sisters where's the battleground for Christians in America today it is in the culture.

The culture and you as a Christian are called to holiness in your call to integrity.

The culture is offended by that because it attacks their lifestyle and it attacks their mindset, they won't know restraint. They won't know law they want no hindrance to their hedonism. They won't want to live by the motto if it feels good do it. The culture wants you muzzled the culture wants you to shut up. The culture would rather have you dated the second place that is mentioned is Egypt what happened in Egypt. Egypt was a place that took the children of God in bondage is a place that takes away freedom of place. It takes away choice. The third location is where Jesus died. Where did Jesus die. He died in Jerusalem.

What happened to Jerusalem.

They took perfect holy righteousness.

Jesus Christ himself, and they nailed him to a cross here. The two witnesses are killed and their bodies lay in the streets as the world shows its full contempt for the church. What they do. They mock they laugh, they they give presence to each other. They show them all the content they can. They won't even give them a decent burial.

John is sandal.

This is the way the world is going to view the true church looking to view us is dead is ineffective is unproductive and no one is listening to you anyway church, you may as well just be quiet. That is never been like this in America before but is becoming worse and worse folks is hard to take the hit and stay in the fight but it's imperative that we decide and we must remember this they don't have the final word text me my third point the witness is resurrected versus 11 to 14 that of the 3 1/2 days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, come up here and they went up to heaven in a cloud. The enemies watch them and at that hour there was a great earthquake and 1/10 of the city fail 7000 people were killed in the earthquake. The rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past. Behold, 1/3 was is soon to come. No doubt the beast in John's vision sees the deaths of the two witnesses is a great victory for him. He said this is great this war looking for and thought he was victorious in the same thing happen with Satan when he crucified Jesus. Paul said in first Corinthians chapter 2 verse nine that if the princes of this world had known what they were doing they would never of crucified the Lord of glory. Why because three days after the cross, Jesus Christ was raised from the dead and Satan's doom was complete, passages telling us that this world's victories over the church are temporary and they are empty they are empty because of Christ resurrection power will give you a quick example them will close with this in a minute witnessing great song hallelujah praise Jehovah as song was written by man named Darwin Jordan eroded 1982. Darwin Jordan is dad was an avowed atheist. He was a Darwinian evolutionist. He named his son, Darwin, in order that of that son would hopefully grow up to be an atheist and evolutionist himself. We say something God had the final word because God saved Darwin Jordan. He saved them for all of eternity. Instead of listening to his earthly fathers untrue words.

He listened to his heavenly father's true words and he was saved. King that of Christ as Lord and Savior and the Lord has used him to it to produce hams to write hymns for God's glory folks God has the final word. As we sing this song to the doctor today I will ask you to think of the two witnesses. I want you and Alan ask you to consider what God has called us to be as a church. God has the final word.

And what's the final word in the book of Revelation. It is this Jesus wins. And if you belong to Jesus, you win to spray heavenly father we come before your throne to praise you and thank you today. Your great, mighty, marvelous and wonderful God, we thank you Lord for the privilege of serving you and father, help us, that we might realize that the Christian life is is spiritual warfare that Lord you have not called us to sit back in and be passive. You've called us to forge ahead and be very aggressive, loving, humble, broken but obedient to you aggressive with the gospel. Heavenly father.

We love you tonight today. Praise you and thank you for your love and goodness to us. Pray that you would help us Lord, that we might carry out the mission you given to the church, we might bring honor and glory your precious name and is in the name of Jesus that we pray. Amen