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Remain standing and take your
Bibles in hand and turn to Luke chapter 7, 11 for the scripture
reading. Following the scripture reading,
we'll remain standing for the glory of pottery. And it's my privilege to welcome
to the pulpit Pastor Mark Wheat. Luke 7, 11 through 15. Soon afterwards, Jesus went to
a town called Nain. And his disciples and a large
crowd went along with him. And as he approached the town
gate, a dead person was being carried out, the only son of
his mother. She was a widow. And a large
crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his
heart went out to her and he said, don't cry. Then he went
up and touched the coffin and those carrying it stood still. He said, young man, I say to
you, get up. The dead man sat up and began
to talk and Jesus gave him back to his mother. This is the reading
of God's word. If you would go ahead and turn
in your Bibles one more time to John chapter 11. John chapter
11. I'm going to try to save talking
about, well, I do love you. And I have had a wonderful opportunity
to serve you going on these five years with John, with our pastor. And I want to say this for him, but God only knows how much I love
this God down here. So let's begin. Three times in
the New Testament, Jesus raises someone from the dead. Three
times. We just read one, Luke 7. He
raised the only son of the widow of Nain from the dead by the
power of his own word. And then we see these beautiful
words that Luke gives us, he says, and Jesus gave the young
man back to his mother. Now, in John chapter 11, you're
holding your finger there at John 11, verse 43. Let me just
give you just a little context. Mary and Martha have sent a message
to Jesus that his beloved friend, Lazarus, is dying. with the idea
of, please come. Well, Jesus tarries, and he doesn't
show up on time. He shows up four days late. But
Jesus knows what he's doing. He's ever and always operating
according to the will of his Father, and he knows that this
death is not the end of the story. He knows that what he's about
to do is going to bring strength and strength to their faith,
and so he tarries. Once he shows up, there's a little
consolation, and there's a little weeping. And then in verse 43,
we read, Lazarus, he says this in a loud voice, Lazarus come
out. Verse 44, the dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped
with strips of linen and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to
them, take off the grave clothes and let him go. Now turn in your
Bibles to Mark chapter 5 verse 41. So here in John 11, Jesus
by the word of his power raises up Lazarus, and he says, take
off the grave clothes and let him go. Now, if you hold your
finger at verse 41, this is a rather long, I can give you a little
thumbnail sketch of this passage, but hold your finger at verse
41 in chapter 5. Jairus, a synagogue official,
is coming to Jesus. He's requested that Jesus come
to his house. His daughter is lying on a bed
and she is too is dying. So Jesus agrees to go, and they're
on their way. And there's a big crowd, and
there's lots of pressure, and people are pressing against him.
And there's a woman in the crowd who's been sick with an issue
of blood for 12 years. She's gone to all kinds of doctors.
She's only gotten worse. She believes that if she just
touches his clothing that she'll be made well. Well, she's made
well. And in the midst of all of that, everything kind of slowed
down. Took a little bit of extra time.
There was a hold up. And so immediately after this
issue with this woman is dealt with, men came to Jairus and
said, your daughter is dead. Why bother the teacher anymore? Well, Jesus heard these words,
and he said, don't worry. Don't be afraid. Just believe. And now we come to verse 41.
Jesus drives all the mourners out. He puts them all out, and
he took the little girl by the hand, and he said to her, Talitha,
Which means, little girl, I say to you, rise or get up. Immediately, the girl stood up
and walked around. She was 12 years old. At this, they were
completely astonished. He gave strict orders not to
let anyone know about this. And he told them to give her
something to eat. So he raised her by the word
of his power, Talitha Kuhm, and then he said, give her something
to eat. So what I want to do this morning
is from these three texts, we can draw four points. The first
point is this, just as each one of these people had to be raised
from physical death to physical life again, you and I, we must
be raised from the dead by the word of the gospel, which is
the power of God. The second point we want to look
at this morning is, just as the only son of the will of name
was raised from the dead, from death to life, you who are raised
from death to life are placed, are given into the family of
God, just as he was placed back into his family with his mother. Also, number three, just as Lazarus
was raised from the dead by the power of the Word of Christ.
You who have been raised from the dead by the power of the
Word of Christ, just as they told those around him, take off
those gray clothes. Gray clothes are not for people
who are alive. You can't run around and do what you want to
do when you've got gray clothes on. You and I, we are commanded as
those who have been raised from the dead spiritually to put off
the old man and put on the new. And finally, just as the little
girl was giving something to eat at Jesus' command, Jesus
commands his under shepherds to what? Feed my sheep. So let's look at these four points
this morning. First, just as each one of these,
just as the only son of the widow of Nain and Jairus' 12-year-old
daughter and Lazarus were physically raised from the dead to life,
you need to be raised spiritually from death to life. What happens
when people die? There's no more conversation.
There's no more communication. There's no more love that can
be shared reciprocally because the relationship is broken by
death. And spiritually, when we come
into the world, our relationship to God has been broken by spiritual
death. We're spiritually dead. We're
dead to the things of God. We're dead to the reading of
God's Word. We're dead to the preaching of God's Word. The
little girl was lying on her bed. When Jesus got there and
she was dead, the young man was in a coffin. He was being taken
out to be buried. Lazarus was behind a rock, laying
in there with other bodies. They were dead. And no matter
how loudly you cried out to them, they would never have returned
a word back to them, back to you. No matter how loudly. And you see, when you come into
the house of God, when you come up against the Word of God, when
you come and you hear the preaching of the Word of God, if you're
spiritually dead, you hear it with your ears, but you do not
love it. You do not desire it. In fact,
you seek to push it away from you. It's telling you to do things
you do not want to do. Because you see, as those who
are spiritually dead, you are dead to God's means of conversation. God's means of conversation come
through the Word of God read and through the Word of God preached.
But we don't want to have anything to do with it. But just as Jesus
spoke to this man who's in this coffin, young man, I say to you,
get up. He got up. When he said to the
little girl, Talitha, come, she rose up. And when he said, Lazarus,
come forth, he came out. These human words that Jesus
spoke, they were words that were accompanied by infinite power,
the infinite power of God that was within him. His words raised
up the son, the daughter, and Mary and Martha's brother. And
when this word that is preached, when this word that is preached,
when it's declared by ordinary ministers, and God forbid it
is to the world a laughing stock. I've had people tell me, why
in the world do you want to do this? Why do you do this? Why don't you just go become
somebody who helps people by telling them good things to do
in their life, like Tony Robbins or the guys on TV? Why preach
this stuff? Because it's the power of God
unto salvation. When the Spirit of God accompanies
the Word of God read and preached, it becomes that which God breathes
life into people's hearts and lives. They're given ears now
to hear. They're given hearts to believe.
Paul writes to the Christians in Thessalonica. He says, For
we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you. I know that you're the elect
of God. And then he says, Here's how
I know. Because our gospel, this message, this good news came
to you not simply with words hitting into the eardrum and
bouncing back off. but also came to you with power,
with the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. So the gospel
is the power of God into salvation, and it raises you from spiritual
death to spiritual life. It takes you out of sin and places
you into righteousness, out of misery, and it gives you into
God's family. That's the next point. The next
point, you see, just as the only son of the widow of Nain was
raised up and given back to her. Once you've been raised from
the dead by the power of Christ's gospel, you're given into the
family of God. Now, think about this woman.
This woman had a son. Life before Jesus came on the
scene, her life was terribly bad. Total despair. All the weeping and all the crying.
There's more to it than just somebody dying at this particular
issue in Luke 7, because this woman not only is losing a son,
she's already lost a husband. And now, after he dies, she thinks,
well, I have a son. He can still take care of me.
But then her son dies. And now she's destitute. And
when Jesus saw her and saw this son and knew this situation,
it says that his heart went out to her. And so he said, told
him to get up. So he got up. And then he gave
her, as Luke tells us, Jesus gave her back to his mother. Once you've been raised from
spiritual death to spiritual life, what does God do? He places
you in the family of God. He puts you in a church where
people can love you and take care of you. When the Word of
God comes to you and brings new life to you and pardons all your
sins, that's justification. And justification is a judicial
act where you are made right before the judge of all the earth. Yet there's another judicial
act that takes place. We talked about this a few weeks
ago on Wednesday nights. And it's the judicial act of
adoption. Now, you know there are two ways
for a person to become a member of a human family. The first
way to become a member of a human family is the ordinary way. You
have a woman and a man who love each other, they're married,
and they have a child. And the second way that a person becomes
a member of a human family is by adoption. Now the second way,
when a person is adopted, that person, it must be done in a
court. It must be done in a judicial
manner. There's a judicial act that takes
place. In justification, the judge stands
up and basically says, you are not guilty based on the righteousness
of Christ which has been imputed to you. It's a judicial act.
In justification, you are at peace with the judge, because
your sins have been punished on another for you. In adoption,
it is, too, a judicial act. It takes place outside of you,
and in the case of adoption, the judge must rule, he must
make a statement and confer upon you a new status, a new name. He must say, you are the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Where's Don at? Is he
here today? You know, son of Mr. and Mrs.
who? Smith. You always have to use Smith
or Johnson. They're the most common names
in the human language. You're the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson now. You have this new status. And
you see, in justification, you're at peace with the God of the
universe. But in adoption, the judge who's declared you righteous
in his sight, now, by judicial act, he says that you're my child. John said this on that Wednesday
night a few weeks ago. He said, the judge basically
says, you're no longer guilty before the law of God, but now
I'm going to take my robe off after I've declared that you're
my son. I'm going to take my robe off,
and I'm going to take you home. I'm taking you back home with
me. You're my child, and you may
call me father. Robert Raymond says that adoption
is the apex of God's grace. Now, it's so interesting to me.
It's the apex of God's grace, but our confession has one little
bitty paragraph about it. But it's a great paragraph. Being
a member of the household of God is the greatest of all privileges.
Justification is dealing with me and my relation to the lawgiver
and his law, but adoption deals with my relation to God himself.
I'm no longer guilty before the law, but now the judge says I'm
his child. Now the judge calls me a child
of God. You have conferred upon you that
you are now a member, Ephesians 2, of the household of God. Nothing's better than that. Folks,
listen. Nothing's better than this. I
don't think sometimes we really get it. But what's going on today? What's going on right now? It
doesn't get better than this in the world until we go home
to be with Christ. It doesn't get better than this. You have access to the Father
through the Son and by the Spirit you have joy as a member of his
very household. in his household, you have this
habit where we do what we're doing, we meet together and we
worship the one true and living God and we have this habit where
we spur one another on to love and good deeds. It's your habit
to encourage each other and to confess your sins to one another.
It's your habit as the brothers and sisters and mothers of Christ
to do His will until Jesus returns. Well, that's number two. Let's
look at number three. So we become part of a family of God. Well,
what do we do in this family? And we saw just a little bit
of that, what we're doing in the family here. That comes out
of Hebrews 10, 24, and you can look at that if you want to.
But the third point this morning is this is something that's going
on even in the service today. Just as Lazarus was coming out
of that tomb and Jesus said to those standing around, take off
those grave clothes and let him go, you and I, we are exhorted
to put off the old man. and put on the new. Lazarus was
bound up. Hand and foot had a cloth around
his face. He had been buried. He was in a tomb, folks. Jesus speaks this word and the
power of death is broken and the man's alive and people who
are living don't need to have cloths wrapped around their bodies
and little things wrapped around their face where they can't see.
So Jesus tells them to take all this off. And you and I, spiritually,
we are made alive. And Ephesians 4 and Colossians
3 says that there's a mighty break with death that has gone
on as we've been raised from the dead. We were in a state
of death. We were in a state of sin. 1
Corinthians says, and such were some of you. You were dead, spiritually
speaking, but now you're a new man in Christ. You're in grace. You're completely new. You're
not perfectly new. That's for later. That's for
glory. But you are completely new. And
as a completely new man in Christ, you are to put off the old man
and you're to put on the new man. Put off the grave clothes. What does that mean? Put off
the thinking of the old man. Put off the ways of the old man
and you put on the Lord Jesus Christ and you renew your mind. as you hear the Word of God preached,
as you read it and meditate upon it. You must live out the implications
of this great break with sin to new life. So the reality of
this putting off the old man and putting on the new man is
a discipline. It's a discipline. Putting off the old and putting
on the new is a discipline. It's the desire we have because
we are new in Christ. Now, this discipline has so many
times of putting off and putting on, has so many times been thought
of as a personal and a private discipline that the Christian
must do on his own. Now, is that important? It is. It's private. It's personal.
I'm over here, and I'm meditating, and I'm reading my word, and
I'm praying, and I'm putting and mortifying sin to death. I'm to do that. I think that's
important. But let me ask you a question.
Who did Paul write the book of Ephesians 2. And who did Paul
write the book of Colossians 2? He wrote it to a what? A church. Absolutely fascinating. I think
that what I'm about to tell you right now is just so absolutely
wonderful. Of course, I think all this stuff
that we preach is wonderful. But you must remember Paul spoke
of this discipline in the context of the church. This discipline
takes place in private, yes, but most importantly, this putting
off of the old man and putting on of the new man takes place
in the church. So what goes on in the church?
What's discipline in the church look like? Now, the obvious thing
when we talk about discipline in the church, it takes place
in what we would call in Presbyterian church, the courts of the church. Now, when a person joins Presbyterian
church, they take a vow. to submit to the rule of the
elders. Oh, man, I tell you what, try
to explain that to people outside this building. Oh, that's scary. It's for your good. I'm going
to withhold, keep from, I'm trying to stay on task here. But what
does discipline at home really spell? L-O-V-E. So you submit to the discipline
of the elders. And if you're found delinquent
in faith or life, you want those men to come to you and show you
where you have sinned or show you where you are not believing
something correctly or accurately. It's for your good and it's done
in love. And so in humility you hear what
they may say to you and you turn from your sin and you turn from
maybe a wrong thinking pattern. These are the obvious things
we think about when we think about discipline in the church.
But what's not so obvious when we think about discipline in
the church or putting off sin and putting on the Lord Jesus
Christ is what's taking place behind the scenes and here even
now. Let's think about what's going
on behind the scenes. Yes, you become a member of our church
and you submit to the discipline of the session if you're found
deficient in faith or life. But the minister and the elders
are already under the discipline. Now this is the part maybe you
don't see and you don't think about as much, but let's look
at it. You as a church, you elect someone
to be an elder. We put someone forward and that
man is first set with a pastor and he's trained that man to
believe and to work through the confession of faith before he
can be presented as someone that we vote into eldership. And after
his training and after he is taught and after he submits to
the confession, there is a solemn installation service. The minister
is also under this discipline. He must meet certain educational
requirements. He must sit before the exams
at the level of the presbytery. He must demonstrate competency
and write theological papers. I'm going somewhere with this,
so just listen. He must demonstrate theological competency. He must
write papers, theological papers. He must do exegetical papers.
He must demonstrate ability in Hebrew and Greek. Here it is. At times, this man who is desiring
to be a minister will be corrected concerning his views. At times,
he is told to rewrite papers. At times, he is told he must
retake tests. Oh, here's the crushing one.
At times, he may even be confronted about how he's doing family life,
his finances. You think that's easy? Here's
a man who wants to preach, and these men are getting in his
business. But they do it in love. It's humbling. And this is where
this man's learning to put off sin and put off wrong thinking
patterns. And he's learning how to put on the confession of faith.
He's learning how to put the scriptures in his brain. He's
learning how to speak clearly and articulately about the faith
that he's supposed to preach to the people. He's under a discipline.
It's taking place. And before he can be ordained
and installed and take the solemn vows, this is what he has to
do. Before a man can stand in a pulpit and preach, he must
pass through the church's courts. He must be under this discipline
of putting off the old man and putting on the new. You know, sometimes people have
come to me and said, you know, that guy, he can't preach worth
a lick. And I've said to them, well, okay, if you don't think
he can preach worth a lick, let me tell you what, he didn't get
that pulpit because it wasn't just given to him. He had passed
through a lot of work, and he probably has something to say
if you'll learn to listen. You can't just go into the pulpit
and preach apart from the discipline and putting off and putting on.
The preaching of the Word, moving now into the preaching of the
Word, what we're doing right now. Not so obvious, but that's
what's taking place right now. when you gather in God's presence,
when you gather before God and Jesus Christ who are here with
us. And the minister, he has been given through the preaching
of the gospel the power to open up the kingdom of God to you.
He's been given the keys to the kingdom to open the kingdom of
God up to you, to those who repent and those who believe. But he
also has the power to shut you off from the kingdom if you will
not repent and you will not believe. The Heidelberg Catechism states
in answer to question 84, the kingdom of heaven is opened by
proclaiming and publicly declaring to each and every member that
as often as he accepts the gospel promise in true faith, God, because
of what Christ has done, truly forgives his sin. As the minister declares the
word of God, real discipline is taking place even right now
in this place. This Word, which is proclaimed
in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, is able
to make you wise unto salvation. This Word that is proclaimed,
listen to these words from 2 Timothy, is able to teach us, correct
us, and rebuke us, and train us in righteousness. The ministry
of the Word is a ministry of constant putting off of sin,
putting off the old man, and putting on the new man. It's
a constant discipline of submission to God's Word together as a people.
You and I are to be trained here, week by week, Sunday by Sunday,
such that our lives more and more reflect the Lord Jesus Christ. One more thing before we move
to the next point. When we take the Lord's Supper, we don't talk
about it all the time, it's being done. When the minister moves
into the point where he serves the Lord's Supper, there's also
this putting off of the old man and putting on of the new man
going on. The minister explains the nature of the Lord's Supper
and then he is charged to fence the table. He puts a fence in
front of the table. What does that mean? Well, it
means that he declares who may partake of the supper and who
may not partake of the supper. You should not partake of the
Lord's Supper if you're not instructed and you don't know what we're
doing. Observe, learn, ask questions later. You should not partake
of the Lord's Supper if you're a sinner and you've never turned
from your sin. But you also may not partake of the Lord's Supper
if you've made a profession of faith and you're simply unwilling,
secretly unwilling to confess your sin that day and put off
the old man and put on the new man. You should not partake of
the Lord's Supper if you're unwilling to confess your sin. You may
partake of the Lord's Supper if you have received the gospel
by faith and you are turning away from your sin and seeking
to put to death that old man and put on the new man. If it's
your desire to be like Christ and you humble yourself and you
desire to take this table as a person who needs forgiveness,
than fresh grace is provided in this supper. In the very worship
of God, the grave clothes of the old man are being taken off.
and the clothes of the new man are being put on. So we see by
the power of God's word, we're raised from death to life. We
see that we are placed into the family of God. We see that we
are to put off the old man and put on the new man. And finally,
we see that just as Jesus commanded Jairus and his wife to feed their
little girl after her resurrection, Jesus commands his other shepherds
to feed the family of God. Now in John 21, Jesus appeared
to the disciples for the third time by the sea. The guys were
out there in the boat fishing. And in this appearance, Jesus
said to Peter, feed my lambs, take care of my sheep, feed my
sheep. What is it that Peter's supposed
to feed the sheep? How is it that Peter's supposed to take
care of the sheep? I'll tell you, I've got to think about
seven commentaries just to see if they said anything. They all
say spiritual nourishment, and they give a whole bunch of verses
about eating the Word, and chewing the Word, and meditating on the
Word. But none of them said what's on the face of the text there
in John 21, what Jesus is doing in that very passage for Peter. So what is it that Jesus is doing
for Peter? And if we can figure out what
is it that Jesus is doing for Peter, we will know what Peter
is supposed to preach and teach the sheep and how he is to tend
the sheep. Well, Jesus is feeding Peter,
surprise, in this passage in John 21, the Gospel. The Gospel. Now in the Gospel,
Jesus keeps coming to Peter. The gospel that created faith
in Peter is the very gospel that it took him from death to life,
is the very gospel that Peter needs to sustain his faith and
keep him spiritually alive. Now, Peter was a believer. Jesus
said he had faith. I prayed for you that your faith
may not fail, he said. Peter was a man of faith. He
was a man of glorious confessions of Jesus Christ. Jesus told him
that Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat. And you
are going to deny three times that you know me before a cock
crows. Peter, hearing that, says, you don't know me. I will never
disown you, even if I have to die with you. And he said it
over and over and over. He said it. But just as Jesus prophesied,
Peter denied him three times. Peter went out and he wept bitterly.
But the story is not over. Because you see, the Jesus who
had come to him early on, and the Jesus who had called him
to be his disciple early on, and the Jesus who had preached
the gospel to him early on, continued to come back to him. That's what
he needed to know. That's what he needs to preach.
That's how he needs to tend the flock. He came to Peter again. This ought to make your heart
jump. He came to Peter when he was
a massive failure. You know what people do when
you fail around in the world, don't you? You know what they
do, don't you? They kick you when you're down.
There's a song, one of those songs. Kick him when he's up,
kick him when he's down. They kick you when you're down.
He came to Peter and he forgave his sins, and that's the gospel.
He came to him to restore him, to challenge him. He says to
him, do you love me more than these? Why did he ask him that? Because he was provoking him
to confess his sins. He was provoking him to confess
his love. He was provoking him to say,
yes, Lord, you know that I love you. This time, when he confesses
his love, he does not compare himself to others. This time,
when he confesses his love to Jesus, he does not say that he
does it more than others. This time, he says that he loves
him, and he relies on Jesus' sovereign omniscience. Yes, Lord,
you know all things. You know that I love you. He
asks him the third time, and the Bible tells us that Peter
literally hurt You know that I love you, but you know I don't
love you the way I should all the time, you know? But there's no doubt that he
loved Jesus. This time Peter humbly declares
his love for Jesus. Jesus commands Peter to what?
Feed my sheep. Tend my sheep. And that is what
Peter is to preach. And that is what you as his sheep
need to hear. You need to be fed what God has
done for you. the cross. You need to be fed
that your sins are forgiven by the work of Christ, that the
work of Christ on the cross has purchased and secured the forgiveness
of all of your sins, and that his judicial wrath can never
fall on you ever. You have eternal life and you're
right with God by faith. You also need to hear that when
you fail as his sheep, you need to hear when you fail as miserably
as his sheep. You need to hear when you deny
Christ in the presence of others. You need to hear when you are
ashamed of yourself privately. You need to hear when you're
ashamed of yourself publicly for how you've acted. You need to hear when you think
false towards other people for mistreating you terribly. and
you're angry with them, you need to hear that Christ keeps coming. And you need to be fed that Christ
keeps coming to forgive you for your sins. He keeps seeking you
out. If you're his, he keeps seeking
you out. He's going to bring you back. He's going to ask you
that question. Do you love me? And why? Because he's provoking you to
confess your sins. And he's going to provoke within
you desire to repent of your sins because forgiveness of your
sin is purchased and secured by his death. He's totally committed
to coming back to you over and over again to restore that union
and that oneness. He's provoking you. And you should
be saying, yes, Lord, I love you. He comes to restore the
pleasure that was removed. You know, your children are always
your children, right? Man, your children are always
your children. But you know, you're sitting here, and your
child goes over, and he does something to his sister, and
you go and correct him, and maybe he blows up. Or maybe sometimes
we correct our children wrong. We don't do it right all the
time. I certainly don't. And so we have to go to our child
and there's no pleasure there anymore. We have to go to our
child and we have to say we're sorry. Or we provoke them to
say they're sorry so that the relationship is restored. John
Popper writes this, God is totally committed to bring us back to
confession and repentance as often as necessary so that we
may receive and enjoy that forgiveness in the removal of his fatherly
displeasure. It is our Father's pleasure to
restore us to his pleasure. Listen to that. It is his fatherly
pleasure to restore us to his pleasure until such restorings
are needed no more. This is the food that you need.
You need to be fed the gospel that the one who came to you
in the beginning continues to come to you today. provoke you
and give you the forgiveness of sins. Let's pray together. Father, we do humble ourselves
in your presence, and we praise you that you, as we bow our heads,
that you have brought us to life by the power of your gospel,
from death to life. We also praise you and thank
you that as you bring us to life, that you do not leave us alone,
but you give us brothers and sisters and mothers in the family
of God with whom we may worship, with whom we may love and have
many things to do, encouraging each other. We praise you for
this family that you've given us here. that even as we go about
this daily schedule of worship that is laid out before us every
Sunday, that we are putting off the old man and putting on the
new man, putting off wrong thinking patterns, putting off wrong actions,
and we are seeking, by your grace, to put on the new things and
put on the Lord Jesus Christ, that we might think His thoughts
after Him. Father, we also thank you, especially
for the fact that because our sins have been purchased and
secured on the cross of Jesus Christ, that our Lord Jesus Christ,
who's seated at your right hand, keeps coming to us by the power
of his spirit, delivering to us that message of forgiveness
and bringing us to repent and confess our sins. and restoring
that pleasure that we know, even as David said in Psalm 51, restore
to me the joy of my salvation. We praise you and thank you for
that. We pray that as we leave this place today, that we might
be satisfied with the blessing of this meal. And we praise you
for your word again in Jesus name.
Young Man I Say To You Get Up
| Sermon ID | 42017030381 |
| Duration | 39:30 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | Luke 7:11-15 |
| Language | English |
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