asked me to come up with some creative titles. So you heard those tonight. And when I went ahead and composed these things and sent them on to Brother Ron, I bounced them off my wife and daughters. And the wife said, honey, you've got to be kidding me. And the daughter says, that is so cheesy, Dad. So anyway. I've had the reputation of coming up with some pretty weird titles at times, so hopefully the content of these messages will come somewhat close to fitting the titles of those words in the upcoming hours. I've got to tell you, I've asked the Lord, and I told my wife, I said, you know, honey, The only thing that I feel like is lacking right now, the only thing I really feel like is lacking, other than the fact I wish they could have another preacher or perhaps I could do a better series in what I've sought the Lord for, but I feel like I really need some illustrations. And I had no idea that God in His infinite wisdom and by His good hand of providence As soon as we left the house yesterday to come up here, five minutes down the road, we have a major full-blown argument. So the Lord is giving me these life-sustaining, life-giving illustrations as we're going down the road. I mean, illustrations on communication, illustrations on humility. and just the principle of love in general. And I tell you, it took about an hour to reconcile things, but at least the redeeming part of it is I came up with some great illustrations. I'll probably not share those during these sessions, okay? But anyway, we're blessed to be here. Thank you so much, once again, for your support here at LeMoyne Baptist Church. I appreciate your prayers, appreciate your encouragement, and just the financial support that you've given my family and I and our ministry over the years. We continue, you know, as Pastor Ron said a moment ago, to work with HeartCry on the side. We're not living in Virginia, we're still living in Alabama, but Paul says, Don, As long as you are committed to it and you enjoy doing it, we'd love to have you stay on our staff at HeartCry. So we continue to do that. And then, of course, the itinerant ministry, as well as pastoring our little faith family there in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Well, we want to get right into the word tonight, if you would take your Bibles and turn with me to a very familiar text. And of course, when you go to Ephesians chapter five, The tendency is, is I've squeezed all the juice out of that content that there is to squeeze, therefore, what are you going to share with me that's different? I mean, is there something significantly different in the way of doctrine or implication from that passage that you have for us tonight, Brother Curran? Well, I'll be honest with you, whether it's counseling people or mentoring young people or preaching to my faith family or sharing in conferences, really it's just echoing what good men and good servants of the Lord have said over and over and over again. And I find what it boils down to is do people have ears to hear what the Spirit has to say? Are you open? Are you really desperate for God to come and do something? Well, what you'll hear is a more sure word of prophecy. It is the Word of God. And so, I'm probably going to share a few things that you've heard before, but tonight, particularly, we're going to sort of look at this passage from a different vantage point, and I hope you will be encouraged by what you hear, because I believe in my spirit that God will be glorified as we look at this exposition. So if you would, begin with me tonight by looking at Ephesians chapter number 5, and I want to begin in verse number 22. The text here is profoundly relational as it takes place in the context of the Christian home and particularly the marriage. In v. 22, wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. You'll want to make note of that phrase, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and He is the Savior, the Deliverer is the idea, the Preserver of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband." I meant no humor when I said this recently on Facebook. But quite honestly, whether it's a very pitiful sermon or a great sermon, a very edifying sermon, the best part of the message is the reading of the text. Isn't it? It is the Word of God that speaks. It is the Word of God that quickens. And so we've looked at the text here at a glance. And now what I want to do is just draw out some things that I trust will be an encouragement to your heart. As we look at this particular passage of Scripture, we find that the great emphasis is on the duties that are to be discharged among husbands and wives toward one another for the glory of God. There's been a great deal of preaching and teaching on that subject. There's a plethora of books and different resources on the importance of reciprocating love between the husband and wife. But what I want to underscore tonight for the next few moments is the importance of putting hearts in your relationship. Putting hearts in your marriage. You see, it's interesting here that there is an objective principle, and that is comprising or embracing these domestic duties of husbands loving your wives, and wives submitting and reverencing your husband, and those are extremely important. But what really makes those things savory and affords a rich and fruitful marriage is when they are discharged with hearts. Now brethren, we're not picking tonight on the Reformed Church, but we're talking about Christianity in general. Very few marriages, it seems these days, really have heart in them. The husband does not love his wife with his whole heart. The wife does not submit and reverence with her heart. Heartless marriages make for a very poor testimony before a lost world. And so tonight, we're talking about energy, pathos, feeling, Joy. Where you can sense that the couple takes pleasure in ministering to one another before the Lord. You see this, by the way, which I call a subjective principle in such phrases as v. 22, Why submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. as to the Lord. And then you see also in regard to the husbands. Husbands, love your wives even as Christ loved the church, watch the phrase, and gave Himself for it. As Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. It's interesting, three times you see that the husband is referenced in regard to loving in a particular way. Husbands, love your wives as Christ's of the church. But then in verse number 28, it says there, so husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. With heart. With enthusiasm. with joy, with conscientiousness. And then he says again in verse 33, Nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself. Once again, there's something being underscored here, and that is a subjective principle that we are to do it with heart as unto our God. Now, let me say this. Marriages suffer immeasurably when there is an absence of heart in the relationship. Have you ever been in a relationship with someone, whether it's a relationship in general or it's a relationship with your marriage partner, that you can tell that the person you're married to doesn't enjoy it? It's like a monotonous routine. It's like they go through the motions of the functionality of their responsibility in loving or respecting, but there's no pleasure in it. You see, for example, when he says, we're to love our wives as Christ loved the church, The great sin of Christian men is not in the fact that they don't love their wives, it's in the fact that they don't love their wives as Christ does the church. And when you really delve into that in the way of practical implication, it's not just speaking of the ways Christ loves His church, but the passion in which He exercises in loving His church. I don't sit in judgment against people. I don't go up and down the aisles in my church or other churches policing relationships. But quite honestly friend, if there's heart at the center of a relationship when it comes to marriage, it's conspicuous to everybody around us. You know if you're loved. And your partner knows if she's loved. if you really care. But I hate this listless routine, this complacency that you see so often in relationships. How does that bring glory to God? How is that a sweet-smelling savor before the Lord Himself? The Bible tells us in Colossians that we are to do all things as unto the Lord. All things. In 1 Peter 1 and verse 22, Peter says that we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently. Guess what it implies there in the Greek language? With a whole heart. Oh, I know those texts that I just mentioned are not in relation to marriage, but they certainly are very fitting. So where we really stumble in our relationship with our marriage partner is the fact that we're not discharging our duties as husbands and wives with a thriving, heart-driven love and respect for one another. And so herein lies the problem. We want to look at the subject of putting heart back into marriage. Now let me give you a definition of heartily, of doing these things with heart. It means to take pleasure in, to find motivation in fulfilling one's task. Can I ask you something? Do you really enjoy loving your wife's men tangibly? Is it really conspicuous even in your own eyes? Ladies, when it comes to this thing of respecting your husband, I mean, is at the center of that, is there great joy? You see, this matter of discharging these duties with a heart implies vision, vigor, and care. It calls for determination and thoroughness, which involves both sacrifice and endurance. Therefore, by looking at our text, We can see principles that are critical in restoring heart in Christian marriage. Now, here's a few questions just to sort of set things in a more stable, more foundational way, OK? First of all, have you ever been given a responsibility that you lost heart in performing? How do you know when you have? I mean, you're sluggish about it. You don't find it rewarding. Have you ever been in a relationship with a person that you no longer enjoy being with or carrying out your duties for? Ever? I mean, sometimes people, you know, work for someone, and they really enjoyed it for months, or perhaps even for a few years, and suddenly they became very disillusioned with the person, they lost heart, not only toward the individual, but also in the whole occupation. Have you ever been in a marriage with someone that had lost heart to be with you? who go through the motion of performing their nuptial duties, but the emotion has died. Perhaps that's the case now. I'm saying it's nothing to be ashamed about. If I could jump ahead just for a second and make a comment in passing, friend, this is a faith issue. And it's something you've got to fight for and it's something worth fighting for. It's something worth fighting for. Listen, you can see the loss of heart in that there's no joy in the eyes. No enthusiasm in the discharge of that task. No vitality in the bodily functionality. There's no smile in the relationship. There's a sort of foreboding upon the countenance. There's an emanating of despondency from the spirits. It's just the same old, same old day in and day out where I'm going through the motions and there's no emotion in it. This is what we're talking about when it comes to restoring heart in the marriage. So let me give you just a few things here to consider tonight as our foundational message for the conference. Number one, the heart of Jesus toward his bride. Now brothers and sisters, listen to me. I touched on this last time I was with you. What a privilege to be at LeMoyne Baptist Church. I love Ron Schenkel. I love the faith family here. And I'm so grateful every time I receive an invitation to come back. But the last time I was with you, as I looked over what I shared, I touched on this, and this was kind of my spiritual pilgrimage. But you've got to understand tonight, and this is a wonderful, wonderful hope. that everything in your life should be Gospel driven. You have no idea the power that is packed in the Gospel. The very Gospel that is the power of God under salvation to those who believe is also the power of God under sanctification to those who also believe. So there's great hope. And everything needs to be gospel-driven. This, by the way, is the premier catalyst for becoming heart-motivated in your marriage, is think about Jesus and think about what He did for you on the cross. as your elect spouse, the Lord Jesus Christ. Once again, the text in Ephesians 5, speaking to men for a moment, husbands love your wives. That does not imply a formal choice, but rather it speaks to a wholehearted passion. This is how we are to love our wives. And I reiterate again, it's not in the ways that Christ loves His church only, it's also with the passion that He loves His church. Let me ask you something. When you go up Calvary's road, when you follow in His steps, when you consider what He went through in the Garden of Gethsemane, When you think about what He endured in the way of the wrath of God on the cross. When you consider how He was raised from the dead, and He dealt with the cynicism and unbelief of disciples along the way. When you think when He was ascended into the heavenlies, and there He sat down on the right hand of God. Let me ask you a question. Do you think He did any of that casually? Do you think he did any of it just matter-of-factly, despondently? Never. Never. He said, well, what about the garden? He said, Father, If it be Your will, let this cup pass from me. He's looking at that from a vantage point of Himself. In His relationship with His Father, that His Father would turn away from Him as He would drink those bitter dregs of that cup on the behalf of His people. But I tell you, friend, even beyond that, it was done with extraordinary, infinite passion. Heart. And that's the way I'm to make a stab at loving my wife. I'm to fight for heart and joy and motivation and energy and reality. Being married to my wife should not be a monotonous routine. In studying and meditating on the heart of Jesus for His church, the Spirit provides heart motivation. Friend, listen to me. We're talking about, once again, passive tense Christianity. I can preach in such a way tonight as to guilt you into perhaps making some resolutions. That's wrong. That's wrong. We've had enough preaching like that over the years in so many different churches and circles where the preacher will shame people. And therefore, in response to that, they think, I can pull myself up by my own bootstraps and I can make this thing happen. And guess what happens? They only exasperate the situation more because they do it in the arm of the flesh. But here's the key. As I relish in the Gospel, In this God-man Christ Jesus and what He's done on my behalf as His bride, friend, guess what happens? The Spirit of God imparts a divine dynamic that not only gives me desire but enables me by His grace to carry out the ministry of my duties to my precious wife. Think about it. One of the greatest verses in the Bible, and I believe probably the greatest on devotional life, is 2 Corinthians 3, verse 18, where the Scripture says, "...but we all, with open face, beholding as in a glass, are changed into that same image from one degree of glory to another, even as by the Lord the Spirit." What's my responsibility? It's to think on Christ. To feel Christ. To plumb the depths of Christ. To behold the wonders of the Gospel. To recognize how much Christ loved me. The nature of that love. The ways it is manifest. and the passion by which it's carried out. And guess what, friend? As I meditate upon those things, the Spirit of God gives me the ability, the grace, to carry out that in my relationship with my wife with heart. With heart. Is that simple? Yes. Listen, how did Christ love His church? From the Word of God we find that Jesus, this is just a very short list, but we find that He demonstrated His love toward her in many ways. First of all, it includes praying for her. John 17, look at the specific things that He prayed for His church, for His bride. Secondly, also by praising His bride. You never find where Christ condemned His people, where He belittled His spouse, His elect ones? Never did He demean or belittle them in any way. But you look at John the Baptist, who had virtually, it seemed like, turned his back on Christ in denying His very person, when in Matthew 11, he sends his disciples to inquire of the Savior, are You really who You say You are, or should we look for another? And Jesus said, what did you go out to see? A reed shaken in the wind? No, I tell you, you went out to see one that was great. And so he commends John. He doesn't hurt his reputation in the eyes of those that are inquiring. He commends him. He praises his bride. Furthermore, He also is persevering with her. He's persevering with you. Listen, the only reason we're here tonight together, I don't know how many years you've been saved, but the only reason you're here and you're doing as well as you're doing is not because of your performance, but because of His perseverance. And more importantly, His propitiation. And when you really allow that to sink into your hearts, It has a reciprocating effect back to Him. I love Him. I want to glorify Him. I want to serve Him. I mean, no price seemingly at that moment is too high to pay because of what Christ has done for me. Listen. The heart that Christ exhibited in His sacrifice, patience, and even in the earning of His reward is extraordinary. His sacrifice. He gave Himself for her. We've seen in our text. The question that we should ask ourselves, brethren, is how much investment have we made in our marriage? We just take it for granted. All will be well. But how much sacrifice, investment have you made in your own marriage? How much sacrifice? How many deaths to self have you died? for the help of your mates, to the glory of God. How many rights have you yielded to restore heart in marriage? Think about the Savior. What drove Him? What was the thing that fueled this heart-driven ministry? Who for the joy? that was set before Him, He endured the cross." Joy. Joy. By the way, that's not Piperish. That's Bible. That's what He longed for. It's a joy that the Father would be pleased that all of His elect would be gathered into the kingdom through the joy that was set before Him. His endurance. Think about it. Think of that passage of Scripture there in John 13 v. 1 where He's gathered around the table and He knows full well what a rebuke to the open theist that says Jesus didn't know everything. He knew that they would betray Him. And yet the Scripture says He looked in the faces of those betrayers. And John records these words. He loved His own even unto the end." You're going to tell me that there was no heart in that? And that is what I'm supposed to emulate in relation to my wife. And then we see in the reward that he attained, and that was the purchase of his people. in Ephesians 5 and verse 27, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church. And by the way, you know how this unfolds? You know why it's carried out? Not because it was predetermined only, but because of the great love He had for her. He through His love, through that dynamic of His love for her, she wanted to be washed. She wanted to be cleansed. as the text says, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. He could have done it independently of us, friend. But let me tell you something, I want to have it done in my life because I recognize how much He loved me. And that carries over to our relationship in the home. If I'm loving my wife with heart, and it's reflected in sacrifices, and in meaningful conversation, and in death to self, and yielding of rights or whatever, and more and more you see the reality of grace in that, and my wife witnesses that, guess what? It makes her want to be cleansed. It makes her. Am I determined, here's the question, are we determined to persevere in understanding and kindness for a lifetime? By the way, your wives were not created to be understood, they were created to be loved. No. Why did you have to disclose that in her presence? Because that's the reality of it. I still have 40 years of marriage. I'll be honest with you, this is no reproach on my wife, but I am really, I mean, in the car yesterday morning, five minutes down the road, I mean, we got this significant misunderstanding. I'm saying, I don't understand this woman. 40 years of marriage. God said it's not your responsibility, it's your responsibility to love her. This resolve will often resolve in a corresponding... Listen, if I make that resolve, and that begins to become a part of my life, and I do it heartily as to the Lord, and loving my wife as Christ of the church, it has a corresponding effect. It produces a corresponding willingness on her part to yield to Christ directives for her to love and respect me. Now that's the ideal, I know. And it doesn't always work across the board because you may have an unregenerate wife. She's just religious, but she's lost. And then again, maybe she is a Christian, and yet, there's some things in her life that die hard. But they're going to be a lot quicker in dying hard in her life if you'll continue to love her perseveringly. So this is the heart of Jesus toward His bride. Here's another thought. Number two is the corresponding, as I mentioned here in the last statement or two, the corresponding heart of the bride for Christ. To know that she's loved with an infinite love, as she recognizes that more and more by divine revelation, she reciprocates back to Him. She yields to Him. In all of life, she begins to see more and more things with him from God's vantage point. Listen to this. Listen. Heart begets heart. Heart replicates heart. If you're tired of your wife not showing you any heart in life, or perhaps particularly the bedroom, maybe it's because you're too preoccupied with yourself to the point it's reflected in your heartlessness. As the husband becomes heart driven toward the wife, she receives grace to respond to his obedience. Likewise, often when the wife exhibits heart toward him, he corresponds to her loving submission. She submits, and she does it heartily as unto the Lord. And guess what? She has very little to say, if anything to say, but she does it willingly out of love. And God uses that to drive the cross deeper in his life. And all He can do is respond in brokenness and say, oh God, how can I take advantage of this woman that You've given me? She is really the love of my life. We are to love our wives Once again, not only in the same way as Christ loved His bride, but with the same passion or motivation, gentlemen. My heart and my relationship engenders hearts in him or her. I think of John the Beloved. I wish I was like a John Beloved. I wish I was like the disciple John the Beloved. I have a long way to go before I can honestly say I come anywhere close to resembling that character. But why is it John said four times, referring to himself as a disciple whom Jesus loved? There was a unique revelation of Christ to John that perhaps the other disciples at that time in their lives didn't come anywhere close to in recognizing. But as a result of that revelation, John was so moved to suffer persecution, to endure imprisonment, to be exiled to Patmos, all because he recognized that Jesus loved him. Recent days, I've been thinking, I'm quite impressed with the fact that Jesus loved the world. I can't deny the fact that He loved the world. And I'm really enamored with the fact that He loved His church, His people. But here's the thing that really has grabbed me. He loves me. He loves me. And when you grasp that dynamic of how much He loves you, the whole Christian life takes on a whole different dimension. I was telling some of the men tonight before we came to church, this afternoon we were fellowshipping together, And I'm into the second volume of Charles Spurgeon's life. And I read all these different biographies the last few years. You know, Jonathan Edwards' biography by Ian Murray and David Brainerd. And then it was the two large set of George Whitefield. And then last year, it was Mark Lloyd-Jones and J.C. Ryle and all these guys. And I was blessed and enriched, friend. But I'll tell you, this autobiography of Charles Spurgeon, phenomenal. And here's the one thing that stands out about Spurgeon. He says this over and over. And interestingly enough, I've heard Paul Washer say this to me no less than five times. If there's one thing I know, it's that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Now friend, I want to tell you something. You say, you're academically reformed. No, perhaps you're academically deformed. So I know all about that. I mean, I've got books on my shelf at home that speak of that. I've got a good preacher that reminds me of that and all. But listen, friend, has it really taken root in your heart subjectively? Do you know anything of practical religion? Does love reign in your heart? How much Jesus loves you? No wonder the Apostle Paul would say, the love of Christ constrains me. And when you know that, you're invincible. You're fearless. Your invincibility does not come from yourself. It comes from the Lord. So what drives me is the more and more I, as Spurgeon put it, plumb the depths of the atoning beauties of Jesus Christ, the more I recognize how much He loved me. And it's a driving force in my life. You know why? Because I see the heart of Christ in that. I see the heart of Christ. Listen, John loved because he knew he was loved. the disciple whom Jesus loved. But let me give you one more thing, and that is, let's talk just for a moment in the way of practical implication on the importance of putting heart into our marriages. Putting heart into marriage. One verse of Scripture, again looking back at our text, Ephesians 5 and verse 33, You see a cycle here. Nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. So here we're talking about, once again friend, Passive tense Christianity. What does that mean? It means I'm not doing the acting. Oh, I'm going through the obedience. I'm doing what God's told me to do, friend. But listen, in my pursuit of understanding more of His great love for me, the Holy Spirit is acting upon me and giving me the capacity to manifest my love toward Him in my allegiance and obedience and commitment and faithfulness and sacrifice. Certain principles must be implemented for the restoration of heart in marriage to occur. These call for humility, perseverance, mutual respect in the relationship between the husband and the wife. Listen, brethren. Humility is needed in the dying of any tendency to want to manipulate my mate in responding the way he should or she should biblically. In other words, it would be really easy to look at this and say, well, if I really love her, she's going to submit to me. Or if I really submit to him with a whole heart, he's going to love me. Many times it doesn't work that way. But as I've said before when I've been here, friend, I do my duty in regard to my wife and loving her as Christ of the church, not so I can manipulate her to submit to me, but because it glorifies God. You see? It's the difference. It begins though, listen, with a diligent pursuit. as a husband or as a wife, the diligent pursuit of the revelation of Christ's love displayed in the Gospel. Can I ask you, friend, I challenge you, I challenge people all the time. If you'll take, I want to give you an insurmountable task, okay? And you think, man, it's just way beyond my reach, I'll never attain this, but I'm going to give it to you anyway. Because perhaps some of you would take 30 minutes a day to do this, and this could be your devotional time. is write a biography of Jesus Christ. And begin by looking at every text in the scripture on His gospel, His good news, His propitiation, His justification. Look at that friend, and as you look at it, Believe that he is able by his spirit to give you a greater depth of understanding that will be nothing short of radical in your relationship, not only with your mate, but also with everyone around you. You must be diligent in doing this. In being diligent, in plumbing the depths of the Gospel again, the atoning work of Christ, guess what? The Spirit of God comes and He enlivens and He imparts heart and me to carry out that revelation on a practical level. Number two, it continues this process in our contemplation of Christ and the heart in which motivated Him to keep on persevering to die for and pray for His church. What do I mean by this? Once again, we've lost the art of meditation. I commend you. Listen, I commend anybody these days that will engage in a systematic Bible reading daily. And I have one. I use the McShane Guide. And I read four or five chapters every day of the Bible. That's a good thing. It's a necessary thing. But listen, friend, don't stop short. Go beyond that and look at these texts on the atonement of Jesus Christ being manifest. And as you dwell on those things, contemplate those things, suddenly you find the grace of love comes up in your heart and begins to drive you, not only in your relationship with Him, but also in your relationship with others, and particularly your mates. It continues in a contemplation of Christ and the heart. We meditate upon Christ, His person, and His heart, His passion, His drive, in which motivated Him to keep on persevering to die for and pray for His church. His perseverance culminated in His death. And now this very hour, it moves the Savior to pray for us as our advocate before the Father. as He ever lives to make intercession for us. Another thought. The Spirit imparts heart to love and honor my spouse with heart-compelling joy in reflecting faithfully on Christ's love for me. Think about it. His love unconditional, unwavering, and persevering even to the end. I tell you, friend, He will love you. He does love you. And He will love you even until the end. And friend, when it grips you, obviously, it grips you in every relationship of your life. And this is what makes a difference. And then finally, my encouragement is not found in my spouse's obedience and willingness to change. If I say, wow, my wife's beginning to change. I'm so encouraged. Now listen, my encouragement is not found in her obedience or her willingness to change, but in the Savior's heart and sacrifice for me. This is what keeps me motivated. This is what perpetuates love and commitment, friend, is how much Jesus loves me. So tonight, do you really care about putting heart in your marriage? The worst thing we can do is to exercise a reformed yawn. If you do that in your spirit, you know nothing of heart in marriage or heart in your walk with Him. Has your heart ever, through the regenerating work of the power of the Holy Spirit, because you looked away from yourself and looked to Christ, has a heart of change, transformation ever occurred in you? That's the beginning. But out of that as we begin to relish in His work on the cross and what He's done on our behalf and continues to do on our behalf, it spawns such a love that that love is manifested in our relationship with our mate, our partner. That's how we put heart in marriage. But please, friend, once again, I can't reiterate this enough. It's not you trying to change, trying to make that happen. I've got to have heart. I'll do everything I can to stir myself up. No, no, no, no, no. The stirring comes by the Spirit as you look upon Jesus. and you recognize more and more the depths of the beauties of what God has done on your behalf through His love. Let's pray together.