I invite you once again to turn with me to Philippians chapter four. I'll read verses one through nine again and we'll finish out this amazing passage of scripture that we've been studying for the last three weeks now. Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat you, Odia, and I entreat Suntouhe, to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Let's pray. Father, in this moment, just like every moment when we go to Your Word, we ask for Your help now. We ask for the power of Your Spirit to help us to see what You have written in Your Word, to understand what You have given to us in Your Word, and to imprint what You have given in Your Word into our hearts. We ask that You would sanctify us in the truth of Your Word as Jesus prayed. We ask that You would conform us more and more into His image, as always, that we would be faithful witnesses to Christ in our homes, in our lives, in our communities, that we would be faithful witnesses to what it is that He has done for us through the cross. In all this we ask, in His precious and holy name, Amen. So, for the last many weeks or so, we've been considering, as you know, the theme of pressing on in Christ, striving in the Christian life, striving toward the final goal, pushing forward toward the final goal, like athletes, right, who push themselves to the limit. to finally attain the gold medal. They're not pushing so that they can maybe win the bronze or maybe win the silver. Athletes push themselves and train and fight and toil and struggle to win the gold, to win the crown, to win the first place. Endurance is what it takes. And that's what we're talking about in the Christian life, endurance, constant striving, constant struggling, constant moving forward toward eternity. Paul used that analogy of athletes in 1 Corinthians 9.24, Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize, so run that you may obtain it. Run, race, fight. Jesus had told His disciples in Luke chapter 21 verse 16, "...you will be delivered up, even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. You will be hated by all for My name's sake, but not a hair of your head will perish." Then He says, "...by your endurance you will gain your lives." In Hebrews, Chapter 10, verse 36, we read, you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what is promised. You have need of endurance. And then in chapter 12, verse 1 of Hebrews, he says, since we're surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and sin which entangles or clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Endurance. War, battle, struggle. That's what the Christian life ultimately is about. This is not an easy life. It's not a life of ease. It's not a life of leisure. It's a life of struggle. Heartache, of pain. Ultimately, our struggle, of course, against sin. Popular teaching that has arisen through the years that started decades ago and still has some degree of popularity is the concept of no lordship salvation. Some of you may have heard of this concept, the concept of no lordship salvation. It is the teaching that a person is saved simply by professing faith in Christ, accepting Jesus as Savior. But that does not necessarily mean that they have accepted Him as Lord. You can accept Jesus as Savior and be redeemed and be saved and be a Christian without actually accepting Him as Lord. Perhaps that acceptance of Christ as Lord comes at a later date, at a later time. It's part of discipleship. It's part of your growth as a Christian. But it doesn't mean that you accept Him as Lord right at the beginning of conversion. The emphasis is put on decisional Christianity rather than total Christianity. It's all about making a choice for Christ as Savior now. and worrying about the Lordship of Christ later. In this scheme, it's possible for a person to come to faith in Christ and truly be saved, and yet, because they have perhaps not accepted Him as Lord, live however they want, do whatever they want, live in a worldly fashion, live in a carnal way, because at the end of the day, they haven't fully accepted Christ as Lord, although they have accepted Him as Savior. This concept, Teaching is foreign to the way that Scripture describes the Christian life. Christian life is a battle. and regeneration means new hearts, new minds, new desires, new longings. It means that now the Christian life is a life of war, a life of mortification of our own fleshly desires, a life of repentance, a life of faith, a life of seeking after righteousness, and a life of seeking after holiness. or in the language of Philippians that we've been looking at, pressing on into Christ. Paul has already said in Philippians 1.6, I'm sure of this, He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion. He began it, He will continue it, and He will bring it all the way to completion. Or in Philippians 2.12, Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now not only is in my presence, but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. This concept of accepting a part of the work of Christ, a part of who Christ is, Savior, but not as Lord. It's foreign to Scripture. When we talk of receiving Jesus, when we talk of believing in Jesus, when we talk of having faith in Jesus, we mean to believe Him and receive Him and have faith in Him for all that He is. Or it is nothing. It is a false faith. Even you will remember in John, The crowds believed in His name in John chapter 2, but Jesus didn't entrust Himself to them, for He knew what was in their hearts. He knew what was in their hearts. And so we're talking about pressing on, we're talking about endurance, we're talking about that life of struggle, that life of strife, that life of striving as we move forward ahead toward the goal, as Paul said back in chapter 3, of the upward call of God in Christ. Pressing on to make it our own, because Christ has made us His own. And so we're talking about the practical fruit of what that pressing on looks like. What does it truly look like to press on? Is it just this command that he throws out there and says, do this? And he doesn't. He helps them out a little bit. I'm going to run back through what we've looked at so far, so if you'll humor me just for a moment. These are important, so I want you to get them. The first thing we see in verses 1-3 is brotherly love. The first fruit of pressing on is brotherly love. We see first Paul's love for the church in verse 1. We see in verse 2 his call for the church to love one another. In verse number 2 is he entreats these two to agree in the Lord. He even calls, so deep is this division and so deep is this strife in this little church in Philippi, that he even calls the elders of the church, the leaders of the church, to get involved if necessary, in verse 3, to see that these two agree in the Lord. Disunity in the church of Christ is spiritual disaster for the church. Paul understands that, and he wants this church to be unified, to be one, to love one another, to have brotherly love. Secondly, He calls them to heavenly joy. Verse 4, "...rejoice in the Lord always." Again, I will say, rejoice! Rejoice! What does it mean to have joy in the Lord? What does it mean to rejoice in the Lord? Joy in the Lord. is a resolution for a deep confidence that God is the One who is in control of all things, and that ultimately God is the One who can satisfy our soul's desires. And so He calls them to have that type of joy and rejoice in the Lord. Thirdly, He calls them to worldly contentment. Worldly contentment. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. Contentment is what He's calling them to here. You remember that word that's translated as reasonableness? It's translated a myriad of different ways. But ultimately, it's contentment. Contentment is what feeds a heart of reasonableness, a heart of graciousness, a heart of forbearance with others. It is contentment that feeds selflessness and graciousness. Contentment is the key to gracious humility and gracious self-sacrifice for the sake of others. When we're content with what we have, it is much easier to sacrifice what we don't need for others. Then he calls them to fervent prayer. Don't be anxious about anything because the Lord is near, but in everything by prayer and supplication. Worshipful prayer and petitioning prayer. Prayer and supplication. Prayer of worship and prayer of petition. Pray for what you need. Ask God. That's what He's telling them. He's saying that when circumstances and situations come up that could cause anxiety, when situations arise that could cause you to blame others for your misfortunes, when situations come up that could cause you to blame bad luck for your misfortunes, when situations come up, and let's be honest, that could cause you to blame God for your misfortunes. Don't fall into that trap. But in everything, through worshipful and petitioning prayer, make your requests known to God. Lift it up in prayer. Thankfully, by the way, we're to be thankful in our prayers. Not sluggish, not ungrateful, but thankful for what happens in our lives. We offer them up to God from the heart of thanksgiving. Many calls them to godly peace, in verse 7. The peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. He's going to loop back around to this, you know, in verse 9, at the end of verse 9. The peace of God, the peace with God that we are offered because of Christ. We are enemies of God and because of Christ we become friends and children of God. That same peace that we have with God now becomes our peace, the peace of God. Tranquility of soul. soundness of mind, peacefulness over our lives. We're told it's a peace that surpasses all understanding. It's beyond human comprehension. It's beyond rational thought. It's beyond intellectual capacities to understand. The world certainly doesn't understand it. In fact, Jesus said that, right? Not like the world gives do I give, but my peace I give to you. If it's the peace of Christ who is the same yesterday and forever, the immutable Christ, the unchanging Christ, it is a peace that won't waver and won't wane. The peace of the world does these things. And the world offers comfort, certainly. The world offers security. The world offers peace. But it is a fluid thing. It can rise and fall depending on the stock market. It can rise and fall depending on the gas prices. It can rise and fall depending on whether your power is out later this afternoon. The peace of the world is a fluid thing, but not the peace of Christ, the steadfast peace of Christ, the peace of God that we're promised, that will guard our hearts and our minds in the midst of these trials. So, brotherly love, heavenly joy, worldly contentment, fervent prayer, godly peace. What's next in verse 8? A Word-Centered Mindset. A Word-Centered Mindset. We're going to take this verse one phrase at a time here in a moment. But the verse starts with, finally, finally brothers, this is the big crescendo. This is the big finale. This is the big conclusion. Finally, Paul is going to hit his concluding thoughts on what he wants them to be like, and what he wants them to live like, and what God ultimately wants them to live like, for it is the Holy Spirit inspiring Paul to write these things. Finally, Paul says. And I know what you've been thinking perhaps throughout this little series on the fruit of pressing on. This has been such a rich passage, and it's been such a wonderful passage to walk through. It's taken us three weeks to get through it, for Pete's sake. And it's been so wonderfully practical. But, I still have some questions. I still have some struggles. I still have some situations maybe that this passage doesn't speak directly to. I still have problems in my life. I still have circumstances that I'm going through. I still have times when things seem like they're spiraling out of control, and I don't know what to do in those situations. I have decisions to make, and I have decision A, and I have decision B, and I don't know where to turn, and I don't know where to go, and I don't know... what to do, this passage from verse 1 to verse 9 is wonderful, but it still seems so limited in scope in talking about love and joy and peace and so forth. It seems so focused on what's going on in this church. What about me? What about my life? Well, that's what verse 8 is for. Literally, it's translated as finely in the ESV, literally it's more, as to the rest. As to the rest, brothers, it's as if He's saying, as for anything else that you might be wondering about, once I've called you to be united and have brotherly love, and once I've called you to rejoice in the Lord, and once I've called you to be content in this world, and once I've called you to prayer, and once I've called you to peace and promised you this peace, once I've done all these things, as to the rest, As to any other situation that you could have that these headings don't cover, I've got eight characteristics for you to ponder, for you to think about, for you to consider. As to the rest of everything else that you might have a question about, here's eight things. And they build on each other, and we'll see that as we go. Thing number one, whatever is true. Characteristic number one, whatever is true. Whatever is of the truth. Whatever uncovers reality. Whatever does not conceal the truth. Whatever unveils the truth. Whatever shows you the truth. Whatever does not deceive. Whatever does not lie, whatever does not twist reality, whatever does not distort reality, whatever is true. Now, how do we know what is true? How do we know what is true? Romans 3, 4, By no means let God be true, though everyone were a liar as it is written. You may be justified and your words prevail when you are judged. Let God be true. John 17, 17, Jesus said, Sanctify them in the truth. And then what? The word is truth. Psalm 19, 9, The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The rules of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Psalm 119, 151, "...You are near, O Lord, and Your commandments are true." See what Paul's calling them to? Whatever is of the truth. Whatever is true. It's objective truth. It's not subjective truth. It's not truth as you would have it defined. What he's calling them to is to the truth of the Word of God. For it is that that the Christian understands as true. The first characteristic is the objective truth of the Word of God. Whatever is true. And then building upon that, whatever is what? Honorable. Literally grave. Serious. Dignified. In fact, it's rendered as dignified in the ESV and 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 2 and talking about leaders in the church. They must be dignified, they must be honorable, they must be true. Whatever has dignity, what does it mean for something to have dignity? It means it is worthy of respect. When it's honorable, it's worthy of respect. Whatever is worthy of praise is the phrase he'll use again later. Whatever is worthy of reverence, whatever is worthy of us looking upon it and saying, yes, that is valuable, that is worthy, that is honorable, that is dignified, that is right, that is true. and it's directly connected to the honorableness and the dignity and the gravity of the truth of what? God's Word, as He has given it to us. Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is, number three, just. Whatever is just, whatever is righteous, whatever is right, Whatever is holy, whatever is innocent, whatever is perfect, the honorable truth of the Word of God, the righteous truth of the Word of God, that is what He is calling out here and reminding us of. The Word of God is holy. The Word of God is righteous. The Word of God is perfect. There is no error in the Word of God. There is no spot. There is no blemish. There is no shortcoming. It is perfection. It is not 99.9% of the way. It is all the way, or it is nothing. Whatever is in accord with the righteous standards set forth in God's Word. pure, whatever is pure, still building on the Word of God. Pure is an extension, right, of the justness or the righteousness of the Word of God. It's not only righteous in a legal sense, as we think of righteousness and justification and legally being declared as righteous by faith. The Word of God is not only righteous in a legal sense, It is pure in a moral sense. There is no immorality with the Word of God. There is no impurity with the Word of God. There is no defilement with the Word of God. There is no uncleanliness in the Word of God. And therefore, it can be trusted. We need not wonder when we read God's Word if it can be trusted or not, for it is just and it is pure. Whatever we find there is right. And if we disagree with it, we are wrong. That's the way it works when the Creator God speaks. We submit ourselves to its authority. Whatever is pure, and therefore whatever is pure according to the pure Word of God. Whatever is lovely, This word in the Greek is only used here in the New Testament. It's amiable, right? Whatever is amiable, whatever is pleasing, whatever is lovely. When we find something that is lovely to us, what do we do? We desire it, right? Whatever God's Word considers to be desirable is what this phrase is driving at. Because whatever is desirable in His Word means that it's desirable to God Himself, for He is the One who wrote the Word. And therefore, we strive for those things which the Word would describe as lovely and desirable for us. Next, whatever is commendable, commendable, whatever is well spoken of, whatever is reputable, whatever is of good reputation. This isn't, remember, telling us to determine what is reputable. We don't determine what is commendable. Our friends don't determine what is commendable. And our family doesn't determine what is commendable. And the world certainly doesn't determine what is commendable. Where do we turn to find what is commendable? We turn to the Word of God. Whatever God finds commendable according to His Word is what we should find commendable according to our own walk. We look here and we find what God thinks is reputable. We look here and we find what God thinks is proper. We look into His Word and we ask the question, what does God speak of well? What does God speak of as proper? What does God speak of as commendable? That's the question that we ask ourselves when we come to His Word. We all know the world commends a lot of things. Many times in our own sinfulness, we commend a lot of things. And our family and our friends can commend a lot of things that are ultimately not commendable. If there is any excellence, excellence or virtue, once again according to God's Word, if there is anything worthy of praise, praise by who? praised by God. You know, God praises things in the Word. He sings over the redemption of His people. He praises His Son, this is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. God praises over things in His Word. He praises over righteousness. And He praises over the saints of old who walked in the paths of righteousness, even as He would condemn them for doing what was unrighteous. So going back into the beginning of verse 8, "...as to the rest, finally, brothers, consider these attributes, true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, worthy of praise." Whatever has any of these attributes, or any combination of these attributes, according to God's Word, what do we do? Think on these things. Think. Use your minds. Use your rational, intellectual capacities. Think on these things. Our mindset affects our Christian walk. It is so clear from Scripture. Paul says in Romans 12 that we are to be transformed by what? The renewing of our minds. The renewing of our minds. In Colossians 1.9 he says that he asks that they would be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. We are to be filled. Our minds are to be full of something, because they are going to be full of something whether you want them to be or not. And what God desires is that our mind will be filled with His will, and His knowledge, and His righteousness, and His Word. Blessed is he who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor sits in the seats of scoffers, but on His law he meditates day and night. Psalm 1. Our minds are to be filled with the knowledge of God's Word and with the truth of what His will is for us. That we might be wise and we might be understanding. That we might, as we saw back in chapter 2, hold fast to the Word of Life. Jesus even said this too, our mind affects our actions, our thoughts affects our actions. Mark 7 verse 20, what comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of a man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and they defile a person. And the first thing he lists is what? Evil thoughts. And that is what gives birth to everything else. Temptation happens in the thought. We just talked about the very first temptation this morning at Sunday school, didn't we? The fall of Adam and Eve. and the thought that they could not trust the Word of God. That there was impurity and unrighteousness in the Word of God. That there was a withholding in the Word of God. So Paul tells us, here's eight characteristics, and you think on these things. And anything else that I may not have covered that can come up in your life, think on these things. To think here means to dwell on. In fact, some translations translate it that way. Dwell on these things. Meditate on these things. Ponder these things. Evaluate these things. Reason upon these things. Reckon these things. It's more than just a superficial, surface level of thinking every once in a while. It means to seriously ponder and to seriously recollect the things that are in accord with the characteristics as defined in God's Word. The Christian life engages the mind. And it engages the mind far more than it engages the emotions. The way that our emotions spring up in worship is through the truth that we know. Christianity doesn't come to us, and the Gospel doesn't come to us through emotionalism, through feeling, through experience. It comes to us through knowledge. We can't trust what we feel. How often have you done that? And how often did it work out? Trusting what you feel. If I went by what I feel most every day, then I would wind up in the gutter most days of the week. Because most days I feel wretched. It is what we know. about God and what we know about Christ that grounds us. Remember what we said about rejoicing in the Lord? It's a resolute confidence that God is in control. We know that. And in the midst of trials and circumstances and situations, the way that we feel ebbs and flows in the midst of those things. But undergirding the pain and undergirding the sadness and undergirding, the anger perhaps, is always a resolute confidence in who God is. Listen to John Stott. Indeed, sin has more dangerous effects on our faculty of feeling than on our faculty of thinking, because our opinions are more easily checked and regulated by revealed truth than our experiences. See what he's saying? What we know as concrete and objective can be evaluated, and can be checked, but our feelings so ebb and flow, and are so ebbing and flowing constantly because of the effects of the fall, we can never trust the way that we feel. In fact, most of the time when we're doing righteousness, we feel terrible for some reason, and when we're doing unrighteousness, we feel great. So messed up. It's our experiential faculties, our emotional faculties due to the fall. Christianity not only engages the heart and the soul, it does engage those things, but it also engages the mind. And so think, Paul says, about these things. You know, we have this notion in our day that the Bible is not sufficient. We have this notion in our day that we may not say it with words per se. We may not say, I don't think the Bible is enough. But we live like we think it's not. The Bible can answer this question, certainly. The Bible can answer that question, certainly. I can go to this passage or that passage and know what to do and know how to be. so forth and so on, but here I am, I'm 22 years old, say, and I've got this girl and I think I want to marry her, but I don't know what I should do, and that's just not in God's Word. I don't know which way to go. I don't know how to answer that question. Or how do I know if I should take this job? Or how do I know if I should take that job? How do I know if I should move across the state and plant a church? How do I know if I should move across the world and plant a church? The Bible doesn't answer those questions for me. We live as if the Bible is not sufficient so many times in our lives, even though we wouldn't explicitly say it that way. But the Bible does, in fact, inform us on all aspects of life on this side of eternity. 2 Timothy chapter 3, Paul told Timothy, all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. That is a statement of the authority of Scripture and its usefulness and profitableness which leads him to tell Timothy, therefore preach the Word. But he doesn't stop there at the statement of the authority of Scripture. He goes on in verse 17, It's all of those things that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. That is an explicit statement on the absolute sufficiency of Scripture for your life and for mine. There is not a single good work that you need to do that the Scripture cannot inform you of. that the Scripture does not inform us of. And He says the same here in Philippians. For whatever else, as to other things, in all other matters, in any other situation that you find yourself in, when you have a choice to make, and you don't know which way to go, and you don't know which way to turn, and you don't know whether to go through door number one or door number two, whatever is true and honorable and just and pure and lovely and commendable and excellent and worthy of praise, Think on these things, and you will make the right choice. I had someone at work ask me about that earlier. He was asked to, earlier this week, he was asked to give his testimony at this thing. It's a series of meetings that they do every week and they kind of build up to it. And he said, you know, it takes a lot of work to actually pull it together the way they asked you to do it. And he just wasn't sure if he he wanted to do it, but he didn't want to do it. He spent a lot of time away from his family and blah, blah, blah. And he didn't know what to do. And he was praying about it and he wasn't really getting clear. direction, and I said, well, do you want to do it or do you don't want to do it? And he said, well, I want to do it. And I said, well, okay, then do it. And he said, well, how do you know? I said, because you want to. You're seeking the will of God, you're praying for the will of God, you want to do it, so do it. What are you waiting for? Lightning bolts? A sign from heaven? Thunder and lightning and fire from the sky? Word-centered mindset. That is the next fruit of the Christian life. And finally, verse 9, and we'll go through this quick. Practical obedience. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things. This is just a restatement of what he's already said in chapter 3, verse 17, right? Join in imitating me. and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. What you've learned, what you've understood, what you've been taught and come to understand, what you've received is a technical word for the receiving of divine revelation. It's the same thing He told the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians 2.13, when you received the Word of God which you heard from us, you've received it. You've heard and you've seen. So the first one is what you have learned and received, what I personally taught from you, what you were taught and therefore understood and therefore came to receive. And then secondly, he said, what you have heard and seen. Both what you learned from me and what you saw from me in my example. Not only what you saw in me, but what you have continued to hear about me, what you've heard and seen. Practice these things. Practice means to make it a habit. When we practice something, think sports, right? When you practice something, it's to make it a habit. It's to make it a goal. You know, we used to go through the same drills over and over and over again when I played football. But the point wasn't just to make us do these things. The point was that when you're in the trenches, right? When you're in the middle of the battle, when you're in the middle of the grind, when you're in the middle of the field, and you're tired, and you're sweating, and you're dehydrated, and you can't really think straight, you've gone through the drills so that all the little things come as second nature. That's why you practice. That's why kids, whenever they're being taught to write, they struggle, and then they practice, and they practice, and before you know it, they're scribbling out stuff. You practice these things. Make it a habit, a part of your everyday life by default. One commentary I read noted, what do we call it when a lawyer or a doctor does what they do? We call it practice, right? They do it every day. They do it all the time. It's a committed mindset to those things that are pleasing in God's sight. Practical obedience. Jesus said, if you love Me, you will keep My commandments. And then the promise, once again, of the peace of God. The God of peace will be with you. When you're walking in the path of righteousness that is illuminated by God's Word, is it peaceful or is it stressful? Not is it easy or painful, but is it peaceful or stressful? That's the promise here. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, I'll close with this. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, I defy you to read the life of any saint that has ever adorned the life of the church without seeing at once that the greatest characteristic in the life of that saint was discipline and order. Invariably, it is the universal characteristic of all the outstanding men and women of God. Read about Henry Martin, David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, the brothers Wesley and Whitfield. Read their journals. It does not matter what branch of the church they belong to. They have all disciplined their lives and have insisted upon the need for this. And obviously, it is something that is thoroughly scriptural and absolutely essential. Practical. obedience. Why are these so important? Why are these characteristics and fruits of pressing on so important? They provide spiritual maturity and spiritual stability in the midst of the storms of life. Brotherly love, heavenly joy, worldly contentment, fervent prayer, godly peace, word-centered mindset, and finally practical. Obedience. Let's pray. Father, we do thank You once again for Your Word. It's so clear. It's so right. We pray that Your Word would make its way into our hearts and into our minds. We pray that You would make us to look more like Christ, that they may see our good deeds and give glory to You. We pray that You would make us bold and courageous Witnesses to Christ, as we leave this place this morning. In all this we ask in His precious name, Amen.