It's been refreshing to be with you folks and Sunday morning in the adult Sunday school hours began to. launch ahead in our conference here over these days, and considered, first of all, the expected responses to missions as we considered Matthew chapter 13 and Christ's parable of the soils, which explain how differently people do respond to the gospel worldwide, and what a great faith builder that is. We anticipate that not everyone will respond the same way. Some will respond negatively, some will respond positively, some will respond very positively to the gospel. And Jesus really prophesied about that. He told us that would be the case. That lifts our hearts, that encourages us and strengthens us in our faith as we work hard personally to give people the gospel, and as we urge others to go to the mission field, support them in that, and pray for them in that ministry. We considered Sunday morning the heart of Christ for missions. As we looked at Luke chapter 15, verses 1 through 32, the three parables, one after another, of lost things. The longest passage in the Bible about men and their lost condition, telling us what Christ's attitude is about them. the great heart that the Lord Jesus had for lost people. He came to seek and to save that which is lost, he said in Matthew chapter 18. And so like the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to be people who are compassionate, who are determined, who are optimistic, and not only in our actions, but also in our prayers as we desire to see people come to Christ. Sunday evening, we consider the great power for missions, the great grace of God. Paul said the great prototypical missionary of all time, really, and a model of all missionaries to follow, and for us as believers each individually. By the grace of God, he said, I am what I am. and I labored more abundantly than they all. Yet not I, but the grace of God, which is with me." Paul credited all that he did in traveling to 30 some cities over a period of 12 years in the Roman Empire as strengthened, compelled, motivated, and made possible by this wonderful favor and strength from God, which is available to every believer, according to 2 Corinthians 9, 8. As that remarkable promise says, God is able to make all grace abound unto you, that ye, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound unto every good works. Last night, we turned our attention to the hidden ministry of missions, that no good thing or good work is going to happen unless we go to the throne of grace, we seek God and beseech God to help those who are carrying out the ministry of spreading the truth. We ask God to give them the courage, to give them the endurance, to give them the material support that they need, as was modeled by Epaphras, the pastor of Colossae, and doing what I called Epaphrastic Intercession. We can and we must all be engaged in that ministry of fervent intercession and prayer, more and more and more. I mentioned last night that there's not a single theme that is mentioned more frequently to me by evangelists, by pastors, by professors, by Christians generally, that they feel deficient about and they feel a lack of within the church. Well, that can change now. That can change here. That can change in your life. That is a matter of choice as God the Spirit works in you. Now tonight, I want to speak with you about the great message of missions. But as I begin to talk about that, let me say that for this opportunity to come and be with you for a few days, to interact with you, to learn your names, a little bit about your lives, has been very encouraging to me. Of course, seeing Pastor Andy and Pastor John Mark and to see how Pastor Blaze is coming along so well in ministry here in this place is the kind of thing that just really strengthens me and encourages me. I've devoted my life to training men for the ministry, and these men are models of what I'd like to see the outcome to be. And here they all are in one place. That's remarkable. That is a remarkable fact. In fact, so much so, that I really wanna give you an exhortation about this. If I may, I'm presuming a little bit, I'm a visitor, I barely know most of you, but as a servant of God and a trainer of men in the ministry, I wanna exhort you, encourage you with the fact that they have given these men as a gift to you, God has. He has given them as a gift. That's what Ephesians 4, verses 11 and 12 say. And then there's this remarkable statement in 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 12 and 13. But we request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you, and have charge over you in the Lord, in charge of you in the Lord, and give instruction that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work." That's inspired scripture. That's from the heart of God through the mouth and the pen of the apostle right to us today. This is to be our spirit and our attitude toward the men God has graciously granted or given to serve in leadership pastoral roles in the ministry. And certainly, certainly he has been kind to the Hardingville Bible Church in the men that he has granted to serve in this place. And I hope you do understand I never utter a word like this in an attempt to be flattering anybody. I have absolutely nothing to gain by making these comments. It's true. It's biblical. It's right. And I hope your heart will just well up in joy over the... Listen, folks. I've seen a lot of, been in a good many churches, and I've seen a lot of circumstances, and I've known a lot of men in ministry. You're fortunate. You are fortunate. And I praise the Lord for this thriving ministry right out here in the beautiful country of South Jersey. Never even believed there was country in South Jersey, didn't know that, didn't know anything like this. No wonder they called the Garden State, it really is a beautiful place. And here's this magnificent thriving ministry right in the middle of a beautiful area. What a blessing to be here and to serve with you. Now as we turn our attention to this great message of missions, I want you to turn or think with me together about a remarkable statement that's found in Galatians chapter two. You can turn to that passage right now. Galatians chapter two, it's gonna be verse 20. And we're gonna be meditating in this passage. But this passage is reflective of an emphasis that Paul gives in his writings throughout. In fact, Pastor Blaise actually didn't give the chapter and verse, but he quoted part of one of these verses in Romans 1 16, where Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to the Jew first and also to the Greek. I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, the good news about Jesus Christ, because it is the power of God. And then Paul later said in 2 Corinthians 4-5, we preach not ourselves, but Christ, Jesus, the Lord, and ourselves, your servants, for Jesus' sake. There's really a most powerful and instructive statement that the Lord, that Paul makes in the book of Colossians, actually, in the last few verses of chapter one. Listen to these verses. He says, to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Christ in you the hope of glory. It is about Christ that we preach, that we teach, that we seek to bring people to the place of being perfect in Christ Jesus or fully mature in Christ Jesus. It is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm mentioning this because out of this verse that we're gonna look out tonight, Galatians 2.20 and scripture that I'll try to pour through that passage as well as we talk about this. It's tragically common and not infrequently a problem with believers that the focus of their life and their experience, even people in ministry, even those who go to the mission field to focus on other things other than Christ and his great work on the cross. You know, they're drilling wells, they're helping with agricultural projects, they're setting up medical clinics, and somehow all of their work and all of their activity that they're engaged in becomes the primary focus of what they talk about, the primary focus of what they're doing. Even for believers in a local assembly, this can be true. As we do good works, we do good things in the various ministry dimensions of the church, our life becomes a life of following a set of rules, of standards, of engaging in practices, and this is kind of the essence of our Christian experience. Should we do good works? Of course. Should we have ministry? Of course. Is that pleasing to the Lord? It is pleasing to the Lord. But at the very heart and the very soul of everything we do and everything we are as Christians is to be a living, powerful, dynamic relationship with Christ, a Christ-focused life. so that we are thinking and living always in communion with a real living person who is at the right hand of God the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ. I wanna talk to you about this great message of missions, that it is living a Christ-focused life. having him be the very soul and heart of everything that goes on in your life and everything that goes on in the lives of those that carry the gospel to the ends of the earth. And there are some ideas in this verse of scripture that really help us with this, this Christ focus. And I mean focusing on what happened at the cross, focusing on what happened because of the resurrection and the dynamic effect and influence that is to have on us every single day as Christian people. Read the verse with me in verse 20 of Galatians 2. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Gonna do it again. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." This, men and women, this statement is the answer to the dynamic Christian life for every living, breathing son and daughter of God. Every person sitting in this room, every man who ever steps into a pulpit, every man or woman who's ever called of God to the mission field, This is what their life is to be. The Christ-focused life. And notice with me, first of all, that the apostle says, I am crucified with Christ. Have you been crucified with Christ? That's a very interesting statement that we find here. And there are five freedoms that come to us because we have been crucified with Christ. Now you know, I know, Christ's crucifixion was a point in time historical event. It happened just in the environs of Jerusalem on a hill called Golgotha. You've read the descriptions in the Gospels countless times. You're aware of this, a universally accepted historical fact. Jesus died at a certain time or point in history in the first century in Palestine, in Jerusalem. But what this is talking about is something different. That point in time historical event suddenly comes rushing into the present in its import, in its impact, when people turn their hearts in faith and repentance to the Lord Jesus Christ and are saved. They are themselves crucified with Christ. Their sins are put to death and their ability to destroy. to control. I remember like it was yesterday, July 28, 1970, lying on a bunk bed in a room full of young men, teenage Christian guys, among whom there was a revival of Christian faith and faithfulness going on, who were praying for their friends and their family members to be saved, to come to Christ, and to be more fully committed to the Lord Jesus Christ. And I was lying there, a 17-year-old guy. My birthday was that day, actually, in July 28, 1970. I mean, my physical birthday. I had heard the gospel of Jesus Christ scores of times. I was a rebel. I was a rejecter. I was one living apart from God and engrossed in sin I won't even discuss, don't care to, don't need to right now with you for years. And at that moment, that night, lying on that bunk bed, hearing those guys praying and calling out to God, men and women, the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ shone into my heart. I was changed. I out loud prayed to the Lord Jesus. I submit myself to you. I give myself to you. I surrender myself to you. And all that rebellion, all that warfare against Christ, all that resistance melted. I was crucified with Jesus Christ that night. The old life was put to death. I had died with Christ, to use the words of Colossians 3.3, and my life was hidden with Christ in God. And here's what happened. And here's what happens to everyone who embraces Christ, the message of the gospel because of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. They are freed from the enslavement of sin. You know what that is? That's redemption. The invincible power and control of sin in their life is broken. Romans 6, 6 and 7 says, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin, for he who has died is freed from sin. Does that mean Christians stop sinning? No, if we say we have no sin, we lie and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. At the moment of being crucified with Christ through repentance and faith, suddenly the invincible power of sin, its binding power, its enslaving power is broken and I no longer have to choose to sin and live a life dominated by sin. I am redeemed. My passions and my desires of iniquity are broken. Galatians 5.24 says, now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires, have crucified the diseased condition of their own soul and the resulting thoughts and words and behaviors. You know something else that happened at that moment? When I was crucified with Christ, reference to sin, the world was broken. That external, seductive, satanic system that wants to crush us into its mold. Listen to the words of Glace in 614. But may it never be that I would boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. The allure of the culture, the crushing mold of satanic ideas and philosophies and lifestyles, broken. I don't have to be conformed to that and live that way any longer. This is the message that missionaries carry. This is the message they bring. A message of freedom from enslavement to iniquity, to sin, to false ideas and false religions. It is the answer. It's redemption. It's not only redemption, it's freedom from condemnation. They, the cross and the message of the cross for those who place faith and repentance in it brings justification, which is an elimination of condemnation for that person. The person's no longer guilty. They're no longer living a life burdened because of their sins and their iniquities and the wrongs that they have done. They are declared righteous on the basis of what the Bible calls imputation. Listen to the words of 1 Corinthians 5, 21. He made him, Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Our sins are placed on His account. His righteousness is placed to our account. We are justified and we are relieved from condemnation. as a result of repentance and faith in the work of Christ. I am crucified with Christ, so I'm freed from enslavement. I'm freed from condemnation and guilt. I'm redeemed and I'm justified. And I'm also freed from the fear of wrath. When we are in sin, we are under the wrath of God. but listen to what 1 John 4, 10 says, and this is love. Not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins, the wrath bearer, the one that would take all the just wrath of God for our sin. No more fear, no more apprehension, and it gets even better. We are freed from alienation. I mean, if I know there's a wrathful God who has his eye on me because of my iniquity and my sin, that really causes a sense of very serious and real alienation, but through the cross and faith and repentance in the cross, I am crucified with the Lord Jesus Christ and I am reconciled instead of alienated. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus from Psalm 22, 1, quoted by the Lord Jesus from the cross? Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani, were the words That was my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Don't ever try to understand it or figure it out how the second member of the Trinity is alienated from the first member of the Trinity, the Father, but it happened and it happened completely. It happened totally. He bore all the alienation, your alienation, your distance from God on the cross that that alienation would be removed. And Romans 5.10 would be true. For while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son. much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Not only reconciled at that moment when Christ died and when we repented and had faith, but for a life of reconciliation, a life of communion, no more sense of being forsaken. Men and women, if you feel forsaken by God, if you feel a distance from God, That may be a temporary condition because of sin that has come into your life, but immediately with confession, reckon on the reality that you are reconciled to God. You are not alienated. He loves you as your father and as the one who watches over you, and that leads us to the next great thing that occurred. When I was crucified with Christ by faith and repentance, as this glorious message of the gospel teaches, I was freed from satanic fatherhood, and no longer a child of wrath, but became a child of God. Listen to Galatians 4, verse 4 and 5. But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, so that we might receive the adoption of sons. Those who enjoy the privilege of fatherly care, protection, provision, and guidance constantly by the God of heaven, the God of earth, the God of the universe, unbelievable. We aren't any longer under this horrible, dictatorial, brutal fatherhood of Satan who is out to destroy. No, men and women, All of these things can be summed up by Romans 8, 31 and 32. What shall we say to these things? If God before us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him over for us, how shall he not also freely give us all things? I'm trying to really I'm trying to really bold print the good of the good news right now for you and for those who God will compel and drive into the mission field because this is good news, this is better news than any news can ever be given to any living, breathing human being. This is the best news of all. that people can be freed from enslavement, redeemed, freed from condemnation, justified, free from wrath, propitiated, free from alienation, reconciled, free from satanic fatherhood, adopted into the very personal family of God. So when I say I'm crucified with Christ, when you say that, that's what you're saying. That's what's happened. It's all about the Lord Jesus. It's all about what he did achieve for us and what he ongoingly achieves for us at the right hand of God the Father. And so I think you will with me certainly say in the words of the hymn writer in the famous hymn, Beneath the Cross of Jesus, the third verse, I take, O cross, thy shadow from my abiding place. I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of thy face. Content to let the world go by, to know no gain nor loss. To know no gain nor loss. My sinful self, my only shame, my glory, all the cross. Because of what happened that day, 2,000 years ago, what happened that day in 1970, July 28? And what happens now every day of my life? Because I am crucified with Christ and my life has been transformed. As Paul put it in First Corinthians 1531, I die daily. Yes, we do. with the Lord Jesus. As the Lord Jesus himself said in Luke chapter nine, verse 23, deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow him. But then Paul goes a step further with this Christ-focused life that is the good news. Not only am I crucified with Christ, Christ lives in me. What? There it is, right in the Word, right in the Bible, undeniable in straightforward language. You say, well, Steve, I don't understand that really. How is it that since the Lord Jesus was actually ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father making intercession for me, how can he also be in me? Well, Paul said in Colossians 127 as well, Christ in you, the hope of glory. In Ephesians 3-7, the apostle wrote, so that Christ may dwell in your heart through faith. And both those verses are reflecting the words of the Lord Jesus himself in John 15-4, abide in me and I in you. What is the answer to this? How does this happen? How can this be so? How can it be so that tonight in this place, Christ is in you? And Christ is in me. And Christ is in the hearts of every missionary who goes to the mission field and every soul that's reached with the gospel on the mission field. It can be said to be so because of John 16, verses seven and 14, where Jesus said in the upper Rome discourse, I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the helper, Parakletos, will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. He that glorify me, for he will take of mine and will disclose it to you. Who is this helper? Who is this parakletos, as I just described, the word of the New Testament for that, this comforter, this one who's within us? It is none other than the Spirit of God. But now listen. In Romans 8, 9, listen to how the Spirit is described. The Spirit is called the Spirit of Christ. It says, all those that are born again have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them. And if you have not the Spirit, you are none of his, in Romans 8, 9. In Galatians 4, 6, the Spirit of God is called the Spirit of the Son. He is the perfect representation in every way and every particular of character and behavior of the Lord Jesus himself. Our God is a Trinity, yes, but our God is one and the Spirit is representing the Lord Jesus in our hearts as he dwells there. And how does he dwell there? In what sense is he in you? He is in your heart. What does that mean? Well, you have an inner person. You have an inner, immaterial person. You know about it because you make choices, don't you? You have emotions or feelings, don't you? You have a conscience that either commends you or condemns you. You have rational processes, thought processes. You have an immaterial person. It is you, it is your personality. And you know what's 1 Corinthians 1, 21 and 22 says? It says, now he who establishes us with you in Christ, anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the spirit in our hearts as a pledge or a down payment. The Spirit literally is in your conscience. The Holy Spirit of Christ is in your thought processes. He has access to your emotions. He has access to your will. And here's something that's very encouraging, men and women, when you get up tomorrow morning and you open your Bible to read it, Think of this from 1 Corinthians 2, 9 and 10 and verse 16, amazing, concerning Christ's presence and dynamic, powerful action in you. But just as it is written, Paul says, things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those that love him. For who has known the mind of the Lord that he will instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ. You sit down and open your Bible. You lift your voice to the Lord, either out loud or in your heart. Lord, help me. Help me understand. Help me see what I need to see. You have the mind of Christ. because the Spirit of Christ is in you to help you see things that eye has not seen and ear has not heard, neither has entered into the very imagination of mankind to really understand the Lord and really understand His will. The Spirit dwells in our hearts. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me by His Spirit. and not only in my heart, but he lives in my body." What a great comfort this is in light of the reality of our physical bodies, the temptations that come through them, the frailties, the weaknesses, the challenges. What beautiful words are in 1 Corinthians 6, 19, and 20. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you? who is called by the way the Spirit of Christ, the temple of the Holy Spirit, who you have from God and you are not your own, for you have been bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God with your body. As Romans 6.13 says, we're to present ourselves as those alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness. We have the wonderful assurance of the presence of the Lord Jesus by His Spirit in our bodies to assist us, to help us, to strengthen us, often to protect us. I've been protected from near-death accidents numerous times in my life, from tumors that have appeared and disappeared, from heart attacks that have threatened my life. The Lord Jesus is ever in the business by His Spirit of protecting us in a physical way and strengthening us in a physical way to do His work for His glory. This is the great message of missions. This is the great message of the Christian life. I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And then Paul caps this off by explaining, I live by faith in the Son of God. This one with whom I was crucified and by whom I've been delivered. This new life that I now have, I live by faith in the Son of God. Let's consider this faith from two vantage points. looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Faith is dependence upon God, assurance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen, according to Hebrews 11, verse one. It is the opposite of self-dependence. You remember the words from Habakkuk 2.4? It's quoted three times in the New Testament, that little minor prophet book. But it says, behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not within him, but the righteous will live by faith. Not self-dependent, not arrogant, not just relying upon one's own thinking and behavior, but by faith. Now let's think about this faith from God's vantage point for just a moment. concerning his nature and his perspective. One time I was in my living room and my daughter and her many children, she has six kids, were visiting our house. And her oldest daughter, who was very young at the time, about three or four years old, was standing about seven or eight steps up the staircase going to our second floor, and I was walking by the staircase from the living room into a den, a family room area, and right when I passed before the steps, I saw out of my peripheral vision something flying toward me, and I turned, and it was Abby, and Abby's got her hand stretched wide out and says, Papa! And I mean, she's flying through the air right at me. Fortunately, she was small enough that I could catch her. And fortunately, she wasn't so high up that I could catch her. But in Abby's mind, there was no question what was gonna happen. Papa was gonna catch her. There was no doubt in her mind that she could rely on me to rescue, not rescue her, she thought it was great fun, but to catch her. As she dove from the staircase, you see, there's really nothing magic about faith. Faith is just trusting who our Father is, our God is. He is the object of our faith. And that changes everything. It's not about the quality of your faith. It's not about some magic essence about the faith. It's about who you are trusting. God is willing, God is able, God can do the impossible, God delights in the faith of His children. I live by faith in the Son of God who lives in me because I've been crucified with the Lord Jesus Christ. And as I quoted earlier, what then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? But what about faith from the human vantage point? From your vantage point, my vantage point, faith is really what makes this Christian experience of ours real, really real. It's a confidence that waits. We're small, but we have a very big God. It's a confidence that believes what it does not yet see. It is prayer that defies doubt and defies fear. It may be very small, men and women. Think of what the gospels say. As small as a mustard seed. And what did Jesus say about that faith? He said it can uproot a mulberry tree by the roots. It can wither a fig tree with a spoken word. It can move a mountain, an obstacle in life. Great faith is shown by belief. Though the Lord Jesus is not visible, his promises are there for us and we trust them. And this great faith needs to be humble faith and dependent faith. Think about the centurion and his servant who was paralyzed and he said, Lord Jesus, don't even come to my house. I'm not worthy to have you come to my house, but I'm a man in authority and I have people in authority over me. Just speak the word right here where we are and my servant will be healed. And Jesus said, I've not seen great faith like this in all of Israel. Amazing. Humble guy. a man of military authority, but he knew his own character and his own life. What about that Syrophoenician woman, that Gentile woman, where she begged Jesus to help her with her demon-possessed daughter? And Jesus really wasn't initially responding to her because he was sent primarily to the Israelites in his earthly ministry while he was preaching and proclaiming in Palestine. But she said, he said, you know, I can't give the bread to the dogs. I mean, it's really a strong statement, you know, by the Lord Jesus. He said, this really wasn't meant entirely for you primarily right now. But then she says, but Lord, even the dogs get the crumbs that fall from the table. Please help my daughter. And Jesus said, woman, your faith is great. Be it unto you as you ask. Humble. Dependent, desperate. And when you read through the gospels over and over again, which is a great practice as a believer, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, just continuously be reading through them while you're reading the scriptures elsewhere, you're gonna face and see all kinds of physical illness, material and monetary needs, impossible obstacles, dangerous and threatening circumstances, spiritual needs and oppositions. And basically what you see is this, a magnificent record of impossibilities, it seems, that people are facing. But impossibilities are invitations. That's what they're intended to be. I just can't see how this will ever work out. I don't see how this problem will ever be solved. I don't see how we'll ever overcome this situation. What are we going to do? Impossibilities are invitations for the person From our vantage point as a human being, we're looking at it as impossible, as insurmountable, as so difficult, it cannot be done. And Jesus is saying, would you believe in me? Believe in me. You know, faith, as I've said earlier, lived long, can devolve into a simple set of rules. lifestyle, actions, things we do. But what we have encapsulated here in Galatians 2.20 is really the essence of the great message of the Christian life and the great message for the world. I can be crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. and the life that I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me." Focus on the benefits of the crucifixion. Focus on his presence in you. Focus on dependence upon him. Christ today, every hour, all of our lives, our living savior, our master, the one who is alive. Christ is all and in all, as Colossians 3.11 says. It is Christ who is the great message of missions. Father, thank you for this opportunity to be in your word tonight. I pray you would strengthen your people, help them, encourage them, bless them. May their own hearts be strengthened in a significant way by the reality of what you've done for them as they have been crucified with you and that you live in them and that you can be trusted. Help them knowing that this is the great message they have to take it to others. Help them to be compelled and concerned about others taking this message to the far ends of the earth as they pray, as they give. We pray in Jesus' name, amen.