O Come O Come Emmanuel

Joy to be with you being a resident here for four months of being so written to muscle by one of the driving convictions I've had is to benefit and blessed summer church. As you will blessed us and as you commission us out in April. Los Angeles is just this kind of thing in the back of my mind. I like how can I benefit the summit family and I think is video this morning really encourage me if I could impact JD's life in such a way that he would reference Tupac and Biggie at the same time say East Coast rappers don't dog summer church. I think that my job so ventured out to the glory. I left some form of an infernal pastor, JD, so main rate may use the phrase that somehow so, but with that been privileged to work through the reality of overcoming many well and I want to read two passages of Scripture.

I think that the theme of what I want to work through is the tension that we live in. We live in between the two.

Cummings of Emmanuelle was the first coming. The advent that were celebrating the season but then there's the second coming that we anticipate when our glorious Lord will return for his bride, the church and trouble to read two passages of Scripture Isaiah chapter 9 verses six and seven, the Connor really encapsulates the first coming of Emmanuelle read first Thessalonians 416 to 18, which then kinda highlights the reality of the second coming of Emmanuelle the word of God says for two was a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful Counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, Prince of peace of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end and on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forever more. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. First Thessalonians 4 tells us, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left will be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air so will be always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words so as we open up 20, come, Emmanuelle. Just the reality of the history of this Carol or him is deeply encouraging first and foremost, it's the oldest one that we see in modern-day nobody knows who the author was.

But it's agreed-upon that it was a priest or a monk, but pin these very words in the year of A.D. 800 and this Carol encapsulates the glorious incarnation of Christ highlights the mission of why he incarnated and that was to save sinners from the penalty of their sin, and so as we look at this. I think there's one main thought that I want us to grapple with together.

It's this since Emmanuelle already came.

We can receive and share comfort of knowing we have access to him now while awaiting his promised return.

We live in the moment of redemptive history where we are in this interval between the two advent of Christ in this interval. Our lives are dominated with pressures intentions, there is death there is sin there were broken systemic structures in our society we feel pain we feel grief we feel neglected all those things are felt by believers and nonbelievers. But where we are different is the fact that we know the menu well is God with us present tense ongoing and so as we look at this theme of man.

This is a comfort that we have. We need to share that comfort not be stingy with because there was a lost world knows not the affection of Emmanuelle and it is our responsibility to steward the gospel message to such a point that they are intersected with that reality at any given moment of their life. So I think that that main theme is kind of seeing and greater respect with three truths that were to look at today. The first is the meaning of Emmanuelle.

Once we understand the meaning of this term in this phrase I think that will leverage our hearts to be prepared to unpack the mission of Emmanuelle and when we understand the mission of Emmanuelle and his success. I think will leverage our hearts to now declare the majesty of Emmanuelle so the opening lyrics to this him are oh, oh, come, Emmanuelle is a direct reference to Isaiah chapter 7 verse 14 the word of God says. Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.

Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuelle. Now this passage is nestled wonderfully in a context.

The context in the immediacy of Isaiah 7 is verses 10 through 17 so was right in the middle and really set it up so you can understand the meaningful reality of this civic prophecy. So you have this King by the name of Ahaz Ahaz when he first became king developed on by coupling nations. He took some defeat. Early on in his career as King and now there was an imposing threat of somebody threatening to defeat him and conquer the nascent so he feels fearful he spreading the security of his people and his rule to the Lord raises up Isaiah to speak directly King Ahaz Ahaz will not forsake God in his protection by seeking an unholy alliance with a neighboring nation, a superpower known as a serial because of Syria's approach is that a brother.

We know you know what the problem want to help you out. So for a nominal fee. We can step in your protection if you want us to be so Isaiah is speaking these words from God to Ahaz. Ahaz is the recipient of these words and God says not what you believe me to the point that Brown give you a sign. All you gotta do is tell me what side you want to know that I'm still riding with my people Ahaz says not God see man I can even do you like that just sovereign your holy what you say is yesterday man. So for me to respond. How dare I put you to the test is really meek and humble, but the reality of it is a false human false humility. The reason we don't false humility because brother Ahaz already struck an alliance with Assyria.

Aside from the Lord would actually uncover his own hypocrisy and the same time, it would show that he does not trust God. But you allows me think of my own life and perhaps your life as well. How many times have you without meaning.

As God show you his will for your life knowing good and well, you won't obey what he wants you to do attention to you when I wrestle with the know the why would God want to show me the glimpse of what he has designed me to do when I get to put my blank check of obedience on the table for him to write but so we can also if you know Ahaz because we've been guilty of those things as well but what I love about our God is. Even despite Ahaz is false humility and even beside our frustration and our lack of trust in God.

God still gives him a sign, a sign that he benefited from. We also benefit today you see in that day there was a child name Emmanuelle that was born to remind Ahaz and the nation. God is with his people. That's what the name means Emmanuelle God is with us, but for us in the wording of that Hebrew prophecy shows that there's also going to be a future fulfillment we find fulfillment in Matthew chapter 1 verses 21 through 23 and the word of God says this she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord spoke to the prophets, behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuelle now would be candid, unveiled my heart and before it was you. I see two different names in this passage.

I'm a little confused. I like it. Emmanuelle is in Jesus God make up your mind will I call it. What is he going to be what we call Emmanuelle Wisner, Carol safe, come Emmanuelle when you say right here. The brothers names will be Jesus was the real was the real name of my Savior. Well, I think, in order to understand that. Let's go back to the passage I read in Isaiah chapter 9 Isaiah chapter 9 there was this key phrase that you see all the while the old and New Testament, he shall be called. That phrase is a premise that sets up the characteristics that the Messiah would personify so it's not as if his name was a wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of peace, and that was his government issued birth certified name.

No that's not it is the characteristics that Emmanuelle would personify and showing that he was God with us that you look at Jeremiah Jeremiah chapter 23 and also Jeremiah 33 it says that the Messiah would be the personification of Yahweh's righteousness. So it's not because they would be quite sick canoe. The fact that he would personify the moral perfection of God because he himself is fully God.

So when the text says that he is the forthcoming of Emmanuelle personify it means that God now welding man.

His name is Jesus, the Hebrew Yeshua, which is the masculine form of Yahweh is our salvation.

So understanding the meaning of Emmanuelle and God being with us allows us to understand the mission of Emmanuelle.

Why did Emmanuel come to be with us and I believe that we will see as the Carol highlights three specific reasons. One, to ransom the spiritually dead to be renting the spiritually exiled to redeem the spiritually enslaved and three to restore the spiritually emaciated, so the mission of Emmanuelle this work to be through three nuances one. The Carol says and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here until the son of God appear. This is a direct reference to Isaiah chapter 35 verse 10 it says in the ransom of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing everlasting joy shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Now, this prophecy was immediately fulfilled. So to understand the context of this passage we got to know the history of Israel. Israel made a covenant with God is God made a covenant with Israel and they lived perpetually in disobedience and because of their disobedience. God allow them to be captive and exiled into Babylon so that they would spend 70 years in Babylon and once the 70 years was up. God released them from exile and allow them to come back into the promised land. So they were rejoicing and they were singing that they were coming back to the promised land God had promised to their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but the reality of it is, is when Emmanuelle incarnated in his first coming goal is real was monotheistic though Israel was inhabiting the promised land that they were no longer in physical exile, the truth remains that they were still in spiritual exile, just like human beings today are we in spiritual exile is very simple.

You see, if God is life, and he is the personification of life, and we inject the definition of death, which simply means an absence of life we have to look at the Scripture the tellers because of the sin of our first father Adam because we've inherited a sinful nature because sin always leads to death because the Scripture in Ephesians chapter 2 tells us that we are by nature children of wrath who are spiritually dead.

We are disconnected and separated spiritually exiled away from the presence of God, so Emmanuel had to come to ransom the spiritually exiled. How did he ransom the spiritually exiled. I think Mark 1045 tells us that just for even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, to give his life as a ransom for many. That word ransom in the Greek literally means an exchange of currency someone that is making a payment to buy a slave who is currently in that enslaved position, that slave cannot make the proper payment to get their own freedom, so someone must pay the ransom on the behalf of that slave but the word for he came to give his life as a ransom for many.

I think it's properly translated instead of someone essence per se. Jesus did not come to die for us.

He came to die instead of us. I think this was highlighted this weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee, a horrendous act of injustice took place with the murder of 15-year-olds Evian Dobson's Evian was a promising football star young African-American young man he saw some suspects walk up and down his street and he saw three girls about to become victimized with shooting and he jumped on top of three girls as the bullets rang out. They penetrated his body's Evian was the only one that was shot's Evian was the only one to die's Evian willfully died instead of those girls that when you think of that reality.

Let's pull back and let's look at the sacrifice of Emmanuelle Hamm who was fully God.

He who knew no sin willfully, obediently, according to the plan of redemption sent by God the father volunteered himself to climb onto a cross so that he could die instead of you when I die, because even our death. We could not pay off that send at the Rio because he is eternal. The debt that we have in the offense that we have against the holy, righteous, God is an eternal debt where finite creatures of finite being cannot pay in eternal debt get only that eternal can pay off that debt. Praise God. Emmanuelle is eternally God because he incarnated in the flesh to climb on the cross to become a sponsor of the father could pour out in totality. His wrath that is due for you when I and Jesus absorbed it down to the last drop he died instead of us to ransom us out of our spiritual state of XO being exile. In addition, he came to redeem spiritually enslaved. The lyrics says I will come down route of Jesse free Dino from Satan's time. Many from the depths of hell by people saving give them victory over the grave.

I think this is really pointing back to Isaiah 11 one where it says there shall come forth a shoot or ride a branch from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruits. This messianic prophecy like prophecy expresses the humility as well as the brokenness of the lineage, the Messiah would come from humility and the fact that Jesse is mentioned a root of Jesse, arguably the most famous person in Jesus's lineage post. The patriarchs was King David Jesse is David's dad. So the fact that they would reference Jesse and this shows that the Messiah would come from a very humble state of being, but at the same time.

The fact that it shows that he comes from the Davidic line when he was born at the right time under the law of a woman, according to Galatians for the sociopolitical climate could care less about King David Rome was in power, and prior to that, the world powers prior to Rome could care less about David and what he did in this conquered nations past. So Jesus was coming from a broken and fractured timeline and a broken and shattered lineage, but gets the fruit that he would bear would be greater than that of King David in his prime.

So what's the fruit. Isaiah 11 verses two through nine oversimplified says that this would be justice for the poor and the oppressed that he would bring ultimate security for his people, and finally an act that nobody could replicate the absolute removal of death you see Satan's greatest weapon against the human race is the fact that he is holding people in the human race hostage to sin and death. We are enslaved by sin to death, to the reality if you will about person holding someone else hostage against their will, and that they are armed with a weapon. The weapon is keeping the person in check because they have no way to free themselves from the person holding them hostage because of that weapon. The great news about the coming of Emmanuelle is that because his mission was successful. We recognize that his resurrection disarmed Satan completely.

First Corinthians 1554 through 57 says death is swallowed up in victory death, where is your victory over death, where is your staying the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is in the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ with the resurrection of Jesus. It proves that God was pleased with the payment that Jesus made for the sins of sinful people could never pay themselves out of their own spiritual death. In addition to his resurrection, allowing him and him alone to disarm Satan. So now you and I no longer have to be slaves to sin and death.

When Christ is conquering King. We are free from sin and death, but it doesn't stop there.

You see, I think also the benefit of Emmanuelle's first coming is for the believers as well. Not just for us to be saved, but the process of sanctification until we see our Lord and Savior face-to-face in eternity. That's why say I think he also came to restore the spiritually emaciated lyrics says outcome Dell dayspring come and share our spirits by thine advent here disperse the gloomy clouds of night and dense dark shadows put to flight.

Dayspring is a throwback term is old school word what we call the sunrise and I think of Luke chapter 1 verse 78 was Zechariah in his song says because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise will visit us from on high.

Zechariah was a priest Zechariah heard that his wife who was on post bearing a child age was pregnant, Zechariah, and believe it because of that God made a Zechariah mute. He could not hear any could not speak. Then when their child was born. They were arguing over what we get to name the child got his tablet got his pin wrote down his name is John everybody was befuddled but why would you name your son John got Johnny a family know, since the Lord opened up his ears and loosened his tongue. The first words he said are praise be to God that he articulates this song and right in the crux of this verse we just read is fully verbally recognizing my son is the forerunner of the Messiah is through the ministry of my son the people would be back until to see that the sunrise is coming through the Messiah is the sunrise they chase away the darkness of the clouds in the darkness of night. We know the first coming of Christ that he was successful.

We know that life in the sunrise of Jesus Christ overwhelms us to the point that it pushes back the darkness. But let's be real.

Let's begin. We know in North Carolina. The weather can be a little tricky at times. We know every now that a storefront will ride doing for three or four days in a row. You do not see the sunshine.

It's as if like the sunset. I'm checking out for three day vacation. I got some PDL to earth. You can't govern yourself now. I'll be back a little bit.

I need a break now rationally would like all mass scientifically. That's foolishness that that would that would hold up. Anyway but you know what after those three or four days of the storm in the sun finally comes back out. My family has a specific say go there you are Mr. son is we see the sun will remind the sun didn't go anywhere. The clouds just block his visibility.

You know what so often in life when the storms of life. When loved ones are taken from us when relationship shattered when we flunked that semester exam. We got repeated in our scholarship is no longer ours. Those kind of situations that we endorse in the storms of life come in. They roll in. We assume because the visibility of the sun, the God man is not there that all of a sudden he is no longer Emmanuelle. He is not God with I know that tension. I know that pain and I know it as a believer and I know it is a pastor being a pastor does not make me exempt from the same sufferings that your enduring as well. These past few weeks have been very taxing on my heart and my spirit and I would say that I was literally spiritually emaciated. I was down to my last bearings apathetic and I did not care. A close cousin of mine passed away the day after Thanksgiving to hear how she past agrees me to the core of my soul not being able to go to her funeral, crushed my heart within that same day hearing people diagnosed. Possibly my son with the disorder. It just took me far back even deeper and then when I thought I was making headway. The news of a dear friend of mine was close of the brother since childhood, unexpectedly passed away drove my face into the ground. I was spiritually emaciated. I was broke.

I felt like God was not with me no more. And the reason that I was in that tension in the reason that I was put there because I took my eyes off my source of encouragement. The Bible in the body of Christ. It was in that moment that I cried out to the elders, the North Raleigh campus to pray for my wife and nine. It was in that moment, I reached out to the some elders that I just need to process. I need to confess where I am right now. I just don't care about planting a church in LA my wife is got MS my son possibly has this my cousin died this way you my homey from birth.

I'm emailing to know he's in heaven do not like broken right now I can't get up in front of God's people and express the glorious riches of his truth.

When I myself am obliterated almost nothing.

It was in that moment that the body and the Bible said he is still Emmanuelle. He still God with its in that broken is that I'm sympathetic towards those who were in seasons of suffering, especially in this season when depression seems to put the stranglehold on you when suicidal thoughts tempt you in the midnight hour when you're frustrated that your loved ones are no longer there. When you don't have money to pay for the gifts we've been swept away by commercialism and you forgotten about the real reason for the season being the incarnation, the substitutionary death, the literal resurrection and anticipating the return of the menu. Well I know what that's like. Perhaps this message today is for you to be recalibrated to know he can restore you and he wants to restore you see as I look at this text and I look at all the pronouns from all the passages that talk about the blessings and the benefit of Emmanuel's coming about will care for you. First we had you which was in the plural in Isaiah chapter 7, so it's not an individual. It's a community. The got is addressing.

Then there are these pronouns there they us in our listen today because one about to say is anti-American Christianity. Christianity is not of faith crafted for the individual is a community, a body, a family of people who have collectively said I can't save myself and I need Jesus to be my soul Savior I need Jesus to be my sole source of redemption, and when we have professed faith in Christ, we are born again, and God the Holy Spirit takes up residence inside of us and he who has begun a good work in us will be faithful to see it through to its completion. We will see our Savior-based face so it Messiah has taken us to be read in a him out of the confines of slavery.

Ladies and gentlemen, the body of Christ we are God's PR team for the gospel message nobody else has stewardship to the gospel outside of the body of Jesus Christ. And with that being said, we have the responsibility that when we hear our family members when we hear our coworkers when we hear our neighbors cry out in the best of my crisis Christians where the heck is your Christ where is God outcome. God is not here. Why did he not save my child why did he not save my marriage. We can say God is not abandon society because he is present in his that's our responsibility. It's a corporate blessing. Salvation and the gospel to Christ proclaim his kingdom. Salvation.

It's not an individualistic part in the sky after I die is we have been grafted as a family we are in the tension between the advance to gather we lean interdependently on each other to model for the world family really looks like and once we grapple with that and we come to that understanding the world will then see through our lips and our lives.

The majesty of Emmanuelle put on display the lyrics says oh, calm down key of David, and open wide our heavenly home.

Make safe the way that leads on high and close the path to misery. This is a clear reference to heaven and what I love about is that that phrase key of David points us directly back to Isaiah 2222 in that passage, it talks about how the Messiah will bear the key of David on his shoulders. Literally what that means is all kingdom authority and administrative responsibility that weightiness is put on the Messiah because it's his shoulders alone that he can take that deep burden that when he declares kingdom business and decrees it, it will be done as he has declared. So as we look at that and we see that he is the key of David. He is the key that unlocks the door to heaven. But not only is he the key that unlocks the door to heaven. He's the pathway that leads to heaven, and not only is he the pathway that leads to heaven is the very door to heaven closer Jesus Christ alone. Being the only qualified Savior for humanity that can lead the sinful mass into a right relationship with their father, who created them. He's the one that said in John 14 to I go away to prepare a place for you. He is the one that is building this dwelling place for those with embraced him. So understanding is you would have and I have a question that I want to ask you rhetorically, would you still want to go to heaven if Jesus wasn't there. It sounds like a silly question, but you think your spouse would want to go to heaven if Jesus wasn't there. What about your children whereafter friends, your fiancé, your coworkers and your neighbors.

It's a serious question because if they don't know Jesus. Now they're living a life of contentment without Jesus on earth.

So what makes us assume that their picture of heaven includes Jesus being the so that's the attention that I'm talking about and we look at the examination of the worldview of heaven know what it appeals to our flesh. It does being born a raise in the hood. I mean, seriously, in all honesty, when the person to influence my worldview from essay was to possible. If you will laugh at me when I tell Natalie understand I came from a very socioeconomically depressed environment okay from a ganglion environment.

I was one house away from the crack house I grew up in the Obama the park is always talking about the reality of pocketknife that he was a voice for the voices. I couldn't articulate the pain of the frustration that I was sensing, but Tupac hoisted for he was a prophet to my generation like that's blasphemous, real, that's why was Tupac spoke about God is shaped my theological worldview.

When Tupac talked about having that's where I want to go where there is no systemic oppression. There is no systemic racism.

There is no poverty.

There is no pain. There is no drug abuse. It's my family, my friends.

That would show them together. We never have to break fellowship again. That's the heaven. I wanted that's the heaven the Tupac proclaim it appeals to my flesh.

But then I met Jesus. And then I heard from the mouth of Jesus himself.

The genuine description of the only heaven that God is building for those who are in his body. When I began to understand the words of Jesus. I had to learn how to unlearn the words of Tupac which you know what, there were many there still to this day the desire that picture of heaven. The park proclaim. In fact, if I could quote him an assault does mention he said just think of all the people that you knew when the past. They passed all day in heaven. They finally found peace at last picture replace that they exist together. There's gotta be a place better than this. In heaven before I go to sleep. Dear God, what I'm asking.

Remember this face save me a place to mention the rain no place I'd rather be in Chile with my homies and my family and I out paradise in the sky.

Ain't no place I'd rather be pain or the place that's right for me the chromed out mansion in the sky sucks mention who wouldn't want that picture heaven. Who would want heaven to be filled with the never ending family reunion. Everyone you knew that God is there automatically wouldn't want that appeals to my flesh. Even in this day. It appeals to me one when I hear about the suicides of people that I love all the dozens of people not know that emerged in the streets of our nation all that reality compresses in my heart and I even told my wife two weeks ago. It's so much easier to trust inside the mansion to the biblical reality of heaven that we see in the Scriptures. It appeals to mop but that's I have to tell my flesh you don't run this.

That's right have to take my emotions and my pain in my hurt and my resentment and my questions that are not being resolved. In my mind taking the authoritative word of God, give me a good narrative of heaven because I need to be recalibrated to truth that happened that the world is proclaiming this false advertisement. So father what does heaven look like in Revelation 20 134 it says and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be there God will wipe away every tear from their eyes shall be no more, neither shall there be any morning or crying, nor pain anymore because the former things are passed away.

My brothers and my sisters listen to me, the greatest glory of heaven is not a family reunion the greatest glory is not streets of gold is not shown mansion is not a never ending buffet. The greatest glory of Jesus Christ email you while God with us in the reality of heaven is this and it pains me to tears to say not everybody will be there. Satan and his demons will not in the presence of God.

They will be enduring punishment in the lake of fire throughout all of eternity. Those who reject God only plan of salvation found exclusively in Jesus Christ alone. They will not be here. That's my loved ones. That's my homies.

I was on the block with preach to weekend and week out and they said no Jesus. They will not be in heaven. I know that's not politically correct but is biblically accurate and the only thing I could do was back in the body of Christ to ride with me. This biblical understanding of heaven and Satan.

We will personify collectively as the summer church to the Triangle area. Colossians 128 that says it is him.

Jesus, do we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, we may present everyone mature in Christ Jesus is the Emmanuelle that the world is hearing about sonically. The carols are playing as they shop through the aisles of Colton Walmart and target Jesus is the Emmanuelle that came to save us from our own spiritual slavery. We could never free ourselves from Jesus is the Emmanuelle that came to restore the spiritually emaciated were broken and downcast right now. The proper response that we can give to Jesus is by reflecting on the truths of his two Cummings the first one that already took place that he lived a successful mission to redeem the lost, but the second one that is his glorious return there. We anticipate so the tension that we have in this moment in this season of life. Let's deal with it now.

The best way we can deal with it is by coming to the Lord's table as God's people. Those who are in the covenant community of God.

Those who have exchanged their life of sin in their pursuits of trying to save themselves and said I want Jesus to save me because I trust in his person and his work is to us alone, or been regenerated born again. That can come to the Lord's table. So, as our servants come forward with the trays.

I would read this passage of Scripture in first Corinthians 1123 through 26, it says, for I received from the Lord, which I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and he said this is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.

In the same way. He also took the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood.

Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. And here's the key for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. We are to do this as the covenant people of God as the church as the body of Christ.

This is our privilege to come to the Lord's table to celebrate the first coming of Emmanuelle. It is successful mission. While we anticipate his second coming, but for the nonbeliever for those who don't know Jesus. Although you are not welcome at this point to celebrate with us the Lord's table. I got good news for you.

The good news is today can be the day of salvation for you but if you have heard the gospel and recognize that you were so off-center incapable of freeing yourself from the bondage of sin. You understand that you're being held hostage by the enemy by death and sin you can receive freedom today through Jesus. Emmanuelle the reality of you trusting in what he did for you. You can actually today be a recipient of the bread of heaven will shed his blood to wipe away all of your sin. So when this moment of reflection.

I pray that you would cry out and asked Jesus to save you. Let us pray father as we have looked at your word, as we understand the testimony of grace, Holy Spirit, I pray that you would do the supernatural work in the lives of people that I myself cannot do.

I pray that you would bring to salvation those who don't know Jesus, I pray that you father God would be the sunrise that pushes away the darkness of death and sinful addictions. The idolatry that they found their identity and smashed every idle prohibiting them from seeing Jesus clearly pray that they would trust you, Jesus.

Father, I also pray for the body of Christ. My brothers and sisters like me feel the pain of this life the missing of loved ones. The brokenness of a failed marriage. Perhaps abortions drug addictions relapses into alcoholism. Father I pray that you would comfort us in this moment that we would reach out to the Bible into the body. We cry out to the leaders of summer church to pray with us and for us.

Father, we trust you and we thank you for being Emmanuelle would never leave us nor forsake us, and you promised to be with us to be in the written Jesus mattress name I pray, amen