Okay, so clean up business from last week, and where is Ozzie? Ozzie, okay? Ozzie, what was your question coming out of last week? One, the disciples couldn't see the obvious thing. Jesus said, whoever I dip this bread and give it to is the one that's gonna betray me. Okay, and? The disciples saw Jesus give him the bread, and they're still asking, who is it, who is it, who is it? They couldn't see what was in front of their eyes. Okay, so after pondering that for a week, what was your conclusion? That they still needed the Holy Spirit. Okay. Anybody else have a thought on that? Anybody else think that that was strange? Yeah. You've seen it all your life? No, I've thought of it all my life. Maybe I have a thought that brings it to our understanding. Well, I think to make it worse, none of the others he dipped bread in and handed to, they came and dipped their bread in his cup. I don't like what Ozzie said, Holy Spirit. You do or don't? No, I do. You do. I think you really don't see it clear until the Holy Spirit makes it clear. Yeah. That point will become really clear. We're going to talk about a segment about what happens to the apostles. you know, what actually happens to them after Jesus leaves, you know, because we kind of get to lose that connection. And so we'll talk about that some, but it's, I mean, we've got to face facts. Holy Spirit is absolutely critical to our life and our salvation and our growth. And not only does he tell us and teach us, he shields us sometimes, our eyes on what we can and can't do. Isn't that wonderful that he doesn't give us what we pray for? Elizabeth and I, we took a trip, and we had a lot of time to talk. And she said, do you remember such and so a house that we were praying for God's will? Of course, you're always praying for God's will, saying, I want this, and unless there's some disastrous reason for it not to, we'd really like to have this. And we didn't get it, and it ended up being an absolute disaster. One of those times that he just shielded us. For what? Shielded us. Okay, so that was Ozzie's thing, and the disciples lacking the Holy Spirit, blind men, right? Just like we are, just like the people you talk to trying to share Christ. You know, you talk lots of times talking to a post, just like we were. All right, that would be discernment. You know, because the church today is lacking discernment. And that's what gets churches in trouble. Because they're lacking in discernment there. And they'll let anybody just come walking in and teach and offer all kinds of false teachings, and not even aware of what's going on. So discernment is something that the church needs to really be on top of it all times, and I'm afraid that we're all guilty sometimes. We let our guards down, and we need to be careful about letting our guards down. And that's true. You let somebody in the pulpit, and what do you get? Yeah, that gets tough. Of course, we get criticized for being too restrictive on that. Yeah. I mean, I think you'll notice that nobody gets Sunday preaching time. 30% is Christian. And occasionally, you're going to get an elder, but that's it. We don't have guest preachers, and to the dismay, maybe, of even our missions committee. We're not free to just give the pulpit to people that are not really known quantities, for the reason you're talking about. OK. So I think Mr. Rothkopf disagreed with me last week. Probably. OK, probably. It's kind of a weekly affair. OK, but last week I think you took some disagreement with, I said, There was a season, a fashion there that Jesus offered what he did, the bread, to Judas as a final chance. And you disagreed with that. Is that right? Am I misrepresenting your position? Because I'm about to flay you, so. Take your best shot. I'm kidding. But yeah, you disagreed, right? Anybody else? You didn't like that either. I failed to mention that this week. You had 15 hours. You could have brought that up. Terry, what did you think about that? I was not here, but I did listen to the class, as I always do, to your teaching. You and 79 other countries. Yeah, and growing. I love that. He offered it. He didn't have to take it. He didn't tell him to do it. This is your last chance. Did you agree with that? This section of the scripture is heavily symbolic. You get the washing of the apostles' feet. You don't want to miss the heavy symbolism of all that. I mean, Jesus says, do you understand what I have just done? They could have said, yeah, you just washed our feet. Well, that's not what the point of it was. He was talking about how they are to serve one another, and how humility is supposed to be an aspect of the Church, which, by the way, humility in that time and place with either Jew or Gentile, Jew or Roman. Humility was a despised characteristic. Okay, so in deference to Mr. Rothkopf, here's what D.A. Carson says. Now, you've weighed the two, okay? D.A. Carson, Steve Rothkopf, just what can you weigh the two? He says this, commenting on John 13, the dipping of the piece of bread and the offering of it to Judas which in itself is a gesture of honor, must be regarded as a final appeal to the betrayer. Think about this within his context. In his opinion. Okay. And he's dead, right? Jesus offers that. What you do, do it. And that gives Judas the opportunity to either betray, or to stay loyal. So you're saying he has two chances here. I'm saying he has two chances. Yeah, he has two chances. Except that Satan has entered him, and probably the one that he's going to carry out is, of course, the betrayal. Okay, so we talked a little bit last week about those, the The way the Scripture will lay the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man, and put those two side by side, and never try to reconcile them. The Scripture does not try to bring you to a conclusion where you'll understand how exactly that works, other than to say that the sovereignty of God is always, just by irresistible logic, God's sovereignty is always going to be primary to man's sovereignty, if you want to put it that way. God's freedom versus man's freedom. In God's sovereignty, he allows Satan to enter Judas at the exact time that he did. In lots of cases, it's just God just takes his hand off. Okay, go ahead, do what you want. Knowing what he's gonna do. I don't think anything happens outside the will of God. So there's a lot being done. Here's a lot being said here. But I've got a question. Was he addressing Judas? Or was he addressing Satan? Good question. Well, I think it was... I've always considered he was Judas. I think it's Judas because he said, go and do what you're going to do. And I think that was addressed to Judas. That's just what I think. Yeah, me too. I've never thought about it. He was the personal, you know, the physical one here who carried it out. But ultimately it was Satan. And that's a challenge to Satan because the Pharisees, they didn't want to do it. at that time. Pharisees didn't want to do what? They did not want to take Jesus at the time of the feast. Because they were afraid of what people's responses were going to be. And we see how clearly today it represents the sacrificial lamb. And so if it wasn't done quickly, if it wasn't done at that time, And so that was the whole. Totally God's timing on that, wasn't it? Yes, it was. Absolutely. So I'm saying what Elizabeth's saying, it was God's sovereignty. So he not only had Judas and his choices, quotes, to deal with, but he was in a battle with Satan. It was always according to God's will and God's plan, which Jesus went about willingly. I mean, the scripture is very clear. He was not dragging his feet going to Jerusalem. I mean, isn't that... I mean, it talks of courage and... Okay, so let me finish flaying Rothko. Before you do that... I've been wanting to do this all week. He's filibustering. On page 405 of the book, number 168, Jesus identifies his betrayer. When Jesus has said these things, as He was troubled in spirit and testified, He said, Most assuredly, I say to you, one of you who eats with Me will betray Me. Period. There's no, well, maybe he will, and maybe he'll change his mind. Oh, you're so totally missing the point. How can this be? Hold the hand of the betrayer who is with me on the table. Totally missing the point here. I see. Let me finish. Go for it. We all betrayed him. Must be considered as a final appeal to the betrayer. John's comment that as soon as Judas took the bread, and notice here, as soon as he took the bread, Satan entered into him, and that must have been the result of considerable subsequent reflection. Anyone who could act like Judas must have been under, must have been under satanic influence. Once again, John relates an occasion when the disciples' understanding failed them. So, Ozzie, that's to your point. Their understanding totally failed them. They could think only in terms of buying food or almsgiving as an explanation of Jesus' words to Judas, for Judas was their treasure. John sees a symbolic significance in the fact that it was night when Jesus to Judas departed. There was spiritual darkness in the mansoul. Okay? New Bible Commentary, page 1054. Okay, so that's last week's stuff. Just for consideration, and we're on page 407 now, in the book, One Perfect Life. Okay, this is a little segment, more rivalry among the disciples. Now it's important to understand when and where this was. So they had just gone through all of the drama of what is commonly referred to as the Last Supper, all right? Is it me? Is it me? The whole thing with Judas. Judas leaves, there they are in that, And then it picks up in Luke, now there was a dispute among them as to which of them should be considered the greatest. Now does anyone find that disheartening in the Apostles? Yeah. You know, why now would you be talking about that? Sometimes I get the impression that he called them, and they followed him. But all the time, they were clueless. They were just almost like sheep following their shepherd. They didn't, I don't think until Pentecost, they never really truly understood what was going on. They just did what he told them. Yeah. Well, the whole rising, raising of Lazarus was a demonstration by Jesus to explain to the disciples what resurrection looked like. Alright, think of it this way. The ministry of Jesus. Kathy, are you still trying to find where we are? It's not on this, either. No, we're beyond that now. OK. OK, we're beyond that. I miss one Sunday. Yeah, OK, you miss one day, you miss a lot. It's for a sentence. No, I have it in the book. It's just his printout. Yeah, the printout is over. We've done that. Consider the ministry of Jesus. I mean, we think about it in general terms, that he was preaching to great crowds, and he had lots of followers, and you know, the reality of his ministry is that there were 120 people in the upper room after he ascended. You can think about those 120 people of maybe being the sum total of his total general ministry at that time. Now, what I'm saying to you is that the first thing that Jesus was doing was he was fulfilling the redemption plan of atonement. That was absolutely primary. The second part of the ministry was he had to bring the disciples, the apostles, along because they were the guys that were going to be responsible, temporally speaking, to go out and spread the gospel and build the foundation of the church. And then the third level, you might say, are the people that got what was extra. Here's an example, the Sermon on the Mount, for example. The Scripture says clearly he was talking to his disciples to his apostles, but there was a crowd of people that came around that heard what Jesus told the apostles. Big crowd. So they got the leftovers, if you will. I mean, not that there's leftovers in a negative sense from Jesus, but the primary target was the apostles, and the primary target was almost always the apostles. Now you also consider in there the Pharisees. They were a primary target about a quarter of the time. We tend to think that he was always banging on them, but they didn't hang around, it was always bad news. So you have these specific targets for specific reasons, but it was not this Billy Graham evangelistic crusade. It was not that at all. So Jesus is always trying, and right up here, here we are, he's about half a day, maybe, from his suffering and death, and he's still trying to teach the apostles the way they should be. Now, there was a dispute among them of which of them should be considered the greatest. He had just washed their feet and was talking to them about the way they are to treat each other in humility and service. And they started arguing as to who was greatest. You almost can't make this up. And he said to them, the king of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors, rulers. But not so among you. On the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the youngest, and he who governs you as he who serves. For who is greater, he who sits at the table or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table, yet I am among you as the one who serves you. But you are those who have continued with me in my trials, and I bestow upon you a kingdom. Now, this is going to be important. I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as my father bestowed one upon me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel, giving prominence to the apostles on the New Testament side of this. This is coming off of the new commandment that is in Jesus' blood, moving away from the ritual of the Old Testament, you're going to get the destruction of Jerusalem that finalizes that, Jesus moving into the New Testament realm, and now it's the Apostles on the New Testament side that will judge Israel. Okay, we clear about that? Again, the heavy symbolism of all this. Do you think, seriously, do you think the Apostles are going to be sitting on thrones in some eternal judgment seat? Do you think that's literal? Sure. I knew you would say that. Yes, OK. I mean, I'm not one that thinks there's going to be thrones to sit on. That's to give us a visual of what their position is. Yeah. My question is, judging Israel Why would you be judging anybody? Exactly. I mean, the judgment of Israel is done. I don't quite understand what he means by that statement. I think he means authority, I guess. Do you recall that that position in place was supposed to be the leaders of the 12 tribes of Israel? that was going to be their place in what they were going to do. So what Jesus is doing here is he's replacing those patriarchs off the 12 tribes and he's putting his apostles as the founders of what we consider the New Testament side of the church. But that's all symbolic. It is symbolic. There's heavy symbolism in this, where Jesus is giving a visual and giving the spiritual read on it. But what is the symbolism of judging? I think of that, I think, in court of law, you know. Yeah, exactly. So Terry? I mean, this is what you were talking about, what judgment is necessary at this point. If it's glory, you've already been judged by God, so that's what, you know, what... There's no judgment by anybody else. The words that they would speak to the Christians would be judgment against the Old Order Jewish people. the order of the Jewish is gone, is passed away. And so there is some sense of judgment to say, that has passed away. Right? Is that, yeah. Revealing the truth. Yeah. I'm going to give you a chance here, okay? How do you see that, how do you see that scene? Give me your picture of what that scene is. The apostles. Now, it's not 12 at this point. It's only 11. They add a 12, OK? But there's always kind of 12. What's that scene look like in your mind? The thrones, the apostles judging. How do you view that? Are you talking about? what happened there specifically, or what you're talking about in the future? Well, you see that as being prophetic, right? Yeah. Okay, what I'm saying is this is way more symbolic to talk about the position the Apostles have in the Church. You see it prophetic and literal. Well, but I think I see both. In other words, you can still be the prophetic. Remember, how many times did Jesus do things, talk about things that were present and also in the future? Near and far, sure. I agree. So I see it both ways. But it's not a millennial kingdom, Judge. Well, we're going to get there. We're going to get to that concept. So he's got more air time to come. All right. So what is this kingdom? And let's talk about this a little bit, this kingdom that Jesus says that, and I bestow upon you a kingdom. Well, what's he talking about? What's the kingdom that Jesus is bestowing on these apostles? Pardon me? Okay, well, it's still, it always belongs to God, but I mean, what he's talking about here is the church. And the absolutely unique position that the apostles have in the formation of the church. What he's talking about, okay, this kingdom. the kingdom of God will prevail. I mean, as you think through the Scripture, there are people in the Scripture that have absolutely unique spots in the history of mankind, right? I mean, when you think about certain guys, there is nobody else that could do what some of those people did. for good and for bad, okay? Adam is a good example. Absolutely unique position that was the only one that God made to sit in that position was Adam. Absolutely unique to the history of God's working with man. Abraham was just a second example. Abraham had a unique position, only one, and of course, God's sovereignty overruling Abraham's nonsensical way of following the dictates of God. So, unique. And here is the apostles in this unique role that they have. Okay, so I just did a little bit of work on what did the apostles do? What was the kingdom that they had built? What were they responsible to do? And you remember after Pentecost, the Holy Spirit comes upon them. Peter turns into a guy that couldn't understand anything about what was going on with Christ. He turns into an evangelist and ends up writing a couple of books in the New Testament. So Pentecost was the turning point And I don't know if it was Ozzie, one of you guys a couple weeks ago pointed out that Pentecost was really the turning point, the coming of the Holy Spirit, okay? And the apostles turned into the builders of the kingdom that Jesus is talking about, okay? So what happened to them? And if you're, you know, you know some of the guys, right? Okay, well there were, There was Simon, who became Peter. There is James, who is the son of Zebedee. And John, his brother, who was the son of Zebedee. Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas. I used to know all these names. James, the son of Elpheus, Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus. Matthias was added. Now, this is a very minor point, but the adding of Matthias is a debatable point within the Church, because very well Paul could be considered the twelfth apostle. Now, here's where they went. And here's how they died in order for this kingdom building we're talking about. And that's what Jesus said. You've got to appreciate his language. He says, I bestow upon you a kingdom. Well, what did the apostles have to do to get that bestowing? Yeah, okay, so we're gonna get there. So Peter, all right, I'll just start with him. Peter was, by tradition, crucified in Rome in the mid-60s. Again, by tradition, a lot of...boy, there's a lot of stuff, a lot of fluff around Peter. If you listen to If you read Philip Schaff, eminent Christian historian, he makes a very strong statement that there is very little evidence that Peter was ever in Rome. Looking at the historical side of it, again, you've got to understand what Schaff does. If you read any of him, the first thing he does in any particular section He says, OK, here are the people that I used in coming to the conclusions that I have concluded. And he said, I used him, him, him, him, him, him, him, him, him. So he goes through the list. And he says, and if you take what guy number one says, that's totally useless. I mean, it's so full of errors it's almost not worth having. And then, so he assesses the value of the people that he's using for historical purposes, okay? He says, no good point to even think Peter was in Rome. Now, there's a lot of traditional stuff, right? Who's Catholic? Who's ex-Catholic? Yeah? Okay. How about the stories of Peter, the great story about Peter, was in prison in Rome, he escaped, he's running away from Rome, and he meets Jesus, dragging his cross back to Rome. Where'd that come from? Catholic tradition. Oh, Catholic tradition. Dracula, remember that story? No. No? Oh, this was a big one. Okay, so he meets, he's walking, he's running away, and he sees Jesus. Honestly, I have never heard that story. Okay, well trust me. I've never heard that either. He meets Jesus, and he says to Jesus, Lord, where are you going? And Jesus says, I am going to my crucifixion. Now he is, of course, not crucified in Rome. Okay, so there's a lot of fallacies, okay? And Peter, guilty, turns around and goes back to prison, and that's how he got crucified. A lot of stuff like that. I'll get off this, but it's really interesting. There's a guy by the name of Simon Magus. Anybody recognize the name Simon Magus? Anybody? Heard of him? Heard of him? What? Simon Magus. Boy, you could make a whole preaching series out of Simon Magus. Simon Magus was in the Book of Acts. He was a magician. He was a magician, he was doing all these wonderful things, and then he says, wow, he said that stuff's great. Give me the Holy Spirit so I can do that stuff. All right, that's the Simon Magus, all right? Historically, Simon Magus ends up in Rome, really and truly, ends up in Rome, and now the fiction takes over where he's got an act where he fools people into thinking he can fly. Simon Magus, I'm going to get off this, but this is kind of interesting. Okay, Simon Magus has the Flying Act, and so he's really charging money for people to see him. It's a scheme, okay? Peter hears about it, goes to Rome, Simon is in the mid-flight, and Peter says, Simon, the Holy Spirit does not belong in you, or something dramatic. Simon Magus hits the ground breaking. Do you ever, Dolores, don't tell me you haven't heard that one either. I have never heard any of this stuff. OK, that. I have been a teacher for teachers. Maybe they didn't teach stuff like that. OK, all right. Schaff even talks about some of these. So anyway, there's a lot of nonsense that surrounds this. So tell us about what happened to them. I'm sorry, yeah. I just thought the whole Simon Magus thing was fun. Hey, excuse me. Okay. Yes, I know, I know. Official timekeeper. Okay, so James, obviously, first person really put to death, first apostle, he was killed in Jerusalem, all right? John, who ended up not being martyred, wrote the Book of Revelation, was exiled to an island, had a lot of ministry in Ephesus, Antioch. And see, there's a couple of connections here, how the apostles built the church beyond themselves. And Peter does seem to have some impact on a guy by the name of Clement. And Clement was in this first century period, and he was the bishop of Rome, prolific writer. We get a lot of church tradition that comes out of Clement, but it comes through Peter. So Clement can point to Peter and say, that's the guy that taught me the gospel. in turn, taught Polycarp, is a name that you'll recognize. Polycarp, in turn, discipled Athanasius. Now why is Athanasius important? Those of you that know your church history. Very good. Athanasius was the person that turned around the Council of Nicaea in the proper direction. So you get this direct connection to the kingdom of the New Testament church through the apostles by their ministry with some of these other guys. Okay, Andrew went to Russia. So Russia got evangelized was from Andrew. He also, Turkey and Greece, and he was run through with a sword for his efforts. Philip ministered in North Africa and what is considered Asia Minor, that mid, used to call it the Orient, they don't call that anymore. Okay, North Africa, Asia Maya, his body is supposedly just been discovered with the historical records of the church that he founded there. Philip was beaten to death for his efforts. Bartholomew, Matthew went to India. what is currently India. And he was there with Thomas, who also ministered in India. Other areas, Ethiopia, the southern Arabian regions, Egypt, for example. That's where Bartholomew, one of the Twelve Apostles, that's where he went. This says he was just martyred, there was no clear indication how. Stoning was very popular in that time. Matthew, okay, Gospel of Matthew. Iran is where he went. And Ethiopia. Now, he was stabbed in Africa. Thomas. really got a bad rap, I mean, one little mistake, you know? One little mistake he makes and all anybody talks about is Doubting Thomas. But he went to what is now Syria, Iraq, ended up in India, there's a whole section of church, Marthoma Christian in India, And they claimed Thomas to be their founder, and he was stabbed by not one, but four soldiers. They wanted to be sure he was good and dead. James stayed pretty close to home. This is the other James, the one that wasn't killed in the first century. James, I think they call him James the Younger. Okay, so northern Israel is where he went. Simon the Zealot, he went, he was pretty well-traveled. Turkey, Greece, Rome, Jerusalem. I mean, he stayed after it. And Simon This was particularly brutal. The majority view of history says that he was killed in Persia and sawed in two. And it's like that. I mean, they're pierced with arrows. So when you pick this up in Hebrews about all the heroes of the faith, and Hebrews says, it'll fail me to go on and talk about all the people that Founders. Now, my point here in doing that with you is Jesus saying, I bestow on you a kingdom. But how do you get to the kingdom part of it? Thank you. Brutal death for, of course, the vast majority of John, and it's even said that John was boiled in oil, he didn't die, and they let him go. You're talking about John of Zebedee? John, the son of Zebedee. That's one way you left it out, okay. Yes. This is probably a horrible thing to say or a horrible thing to ask. But every country that you mentioned, where they ministered, it is not Christian and hasn't been for centuries. But wasn't that the whole known world? Why do we How do we explain that? There's a sect of Christians in Syria that are being slaughtered right now, along the coast. And then you have Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian Bible is supposed to be the oldest Bible. There's pockets of Christianity, but I'm talking about nations. It's not Christian. It's predominantly Muslim and has been for centuries. See, I have the same puzzle you do, the church of Ephesus, you know, for example, or any of the churches that Paul planted, Corinth, Ephesus, Galatia, those, but using Ephesus as an example. That was a hotbed, wasn't it, at one time? And you go there now, and what do you see? Do you see a hotbed? No, I mean, you don't. I agree with Terry that the gospel is being communicated and spread faster than it ever has before. But yeah, the danger is what Jesus said in Revelations. Unless you stay on it, you're going to lose your lampstand. And it's a warning to any church, anywhere, that it doesn't take much for you to fall into apostasy. Judy? Well, doesn't it seem apocryphal that because Christianity was spreading fast, that Satan was fast on their heels trying to destroy it? Because he only comes to kill to destroy. Oh, yeah. know, we're, it's like, we might be one step ahead. And he's right behind us trying to destroy everything. Yep. I mean, we should not be deceived. Right? Well, look how soon the Aries turned up in the church. And they wasn't paying attention till it was actually I mean, they happened to overhear what he was preaching. And that's when they realized And his side of it, his version of Christianity, probably continues to this day. Yeah. And that's early. I mean, that didn't get corrected until the third century. And even then, I mean, his influence lasted for two centuries beyond that. Talking about Arian and denying the divinity of Jesus. Yeah. We all know from hearing that one. Sure. We all know from Paul's ministry that he fought idolatry after short periods of time of being away from churches that he had planted. So my way of thinking is that Satan was, as you just said, was on the heels of all of the apostles. and throughout Christian history. I mean the pressure is constant. And I have a niece who was a missionary in China and they had to meet in secret. Sure. And one day they had a huge scare and she was absolutely petrified that she was going to be killed. And I think that probably If you just take the human side of things, the apostles went through that. All of the missionaries, even today, go through that, and some are murdered. And so fear played a part in some of these people. It's a possibility. It's just real interesting when you think about God and his kingdom and the challenge the apostles had. And when you look at it today, it's So sad. Yeah, well and also, you know, you've got you got Jesus going 30 years, you know, I mean it's 30 years 33 34 and had so yeah, three or four years five years of ministry All right you extend the Apostles past that and you get another 30 out of them because it by by the mid 90s for sure all the Apostles are dead That was it you know, for worldwide expansion of what Jesus talked about. Jerry, doesn't it go back to the way you opened the class, though? Saying that our denomination and grace sometimes is being criticized because they're so tightly run and protective of the Word and Church doctrine. When the leadership loses sight of that, things go south pretty quick. Yeah, I agree. It does happen. Okay, so next week is the 11th, and so we're going to be, if you're following along in your book, in your table of contents, That's item 173, 174, 175, and 176, okay? We are doing four at a time on consecutive Sundays, okay? 173 through 176. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for your word. Thank you for the fact that you give it to us both ways. You don't hide from the fact that the sacrifice may be necessary in our part, certainly was necessary on the part of the apostles who all died violent deaths. You don't hide that. You did it first. You don't hide it from us. You don't ask of us anything that you haven't done first. Lord, the prayer we make is that we be found faithful in whatever you ask us to do. That we use the spiritual gifts that you've given us, whether it's help, or teaching, or mercy, whatever it is, Lord, whatever gift you've given us, that we do that and use that to the extreme of our being, that we'd honor you in all ways. In the name of Christ, we pray.