Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Our dear heavenly father, In your sacred record, you told us the story of Isaiah seeing the Lord high and lifted up.
[00:00:18] When Isaiah saw you in your majesty and in your glory, he was stunned and he fell before you, said, woe is me, for I'm an unclean man and I live among unclean people.
[00:00:36] But out of the riches of your grace and mercy, you took a coal from the altar and you touched him and you said, this has purified you, Father, I pray that we can see Jesus Christ high and lifted up.
[00:00:57] And I pray that we would have the same response that Isaiah had.
[00:01:01] We would feel the inclination to bow before you and acknowledge our deficits and look to you for everything that is good, beautiful, divine and inspirational.
[00:01:22] I pray that your spirit would be pleased to meet with us this morning and we could leave, saying it was good to be in the house of the Lord.
[00:01:31] In Christ's name, Amen.
[00:01:35] We're studying Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost.
[00:01:41] Ah.
[00:01:43] And we have learned that on the day of Pentecost, the Old Testament church came to its completion.
[00:01:54] And God sent the Holy Spirit to empower the New Testament Church to do the work that he wants done in the world.
[00:02:05] And Peter was explaining that to a great crowd of people who had gathered from all over the Roman Empire.
[00:02:14] And we get to verse 32 this week, Acts 2,32.
[00:02:26] This Jesus God raised up.
[00:02:31] And of that we are all witnesses.
[00:02:34] There are things in the Bible that are real easy to read over, but if you do, you miss the message, and this is one of the verses that is when you're doing your daily Bible reading, it's real easy to just read over this and miss the moment. But we're not going to do that today.
[00:02:56] What Peter is saying is the church gives generational witness to Jesus Christ.
[00:03:04] We give witness to his incredible life, his substitutionary death and his resurrection.
[00:03:13] The reason we exist as a church is to give witness to Jesus Christ.
[00:03:20] We are the institution that God placed in the world so that generation after generation can hear the life stories of Jesus Christ.
[00:03:32] They can understand the meaning of his death and they can connect with the power of his resurrection. There's no other institution in the world that has that commission.
[00:03:46] The government's job is not to teach us about Jesus.
[00:03:52] Walmart's job is not to teach you about Jesus.
[00:03:56] Wall Street's job is not to teach you about Jesus. It's the church's job.
[00:04:04] God created the church so that we would gather week after week.
[00:04:10] We would start with our children at the very youngest age. And we'd start trying to explain to them the wonder of Jesus Christ.
[00:04:19] And as they developed and developed different skills of understanding, we would progressively teach them the way of the Lord.
[00:04:31] And we would gather together Sunday after Sunday as adults to remind ourselves of the majesty and the wonder of the life that Christ did, of the absolutely gracious death that he died, and of the wonder and the promise of his resurrection.
[00:04:52] When the church stops giving witness to Jesus Christ, we stop being a church and we become a social service organization.
[00:05:02] You can go to churches all over Cleveland today and not hear of the majesty of Jesus Christ.
[00:05:12] They have subjugated Christ to a secondary position and they see themselves as social workers and not the people of God.
[00:05:25] All right, I believe the church ought to help in every way we can. But nothing can bump out our core mission, which is to give witness to Jesus Christ.
[00:05:38] It doesn't matter what we do or how well we do it. If we are not giving generational witness to Jesus Christ, we are not being the church.
[00:05:50] Ah.
[00:05:51] Without the resurrection of Christ, the church does not exist.
[00:05:56] There's no reason for the church if Christ did not rise from the dead.
[00:06:06] In the late 1800s, a German rationalism swept all over Europe.
[00:06:12] And German rationalism basically said to the church, ah, there is nothing divine about Jesus Christ.
[00:06:23] He just was an incredibly good man. He was an influential teacher like all other influential teachers who ever lived. All right, that came to America.
[00:06:37] Ah.
[00:06:39] And if you look across America today, you will see hollow shells of what was once a thriving church.
[00:06:49] And the reason it is a shell today is the deity.
[00:06:58] The majesty, the wonder and the resurrection of Christ was put on the shelf as an ancient myth.
[00:07:06] And it was replaced by with some kind of rationalistic argument that never nurtures the human soul and never changes a human life.
[00:07:15] You see, there can't ever be a day when our church says the life and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is secondary to us. There can't ever be a day because that is the day when we offend the Holy Spirit. And he says, I choose not to work in such a faithless environment.
[00:07:42] Can you hear me, church?
[00:07:45] If anyone denies the resurrection of Jesus Christ, they are not a Christian.
[00:07:52] I don't care what church they go to. I don't care what university they teach at. I don't care what seminary they degree they have. If you deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ, you are not a Christian.
[00:08:06] Let me tell you what Paul wrote. First Corinthians 15.
[00:08:10] There were people in Paul's world who were denying that Jesus rose from the dead, in fact, as they denied there was any resurrection at all. Listen to what Paul said to them.
[00:08:22] If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
[00:08:32] We are even found to be misrepresenting God because we testified about God, that he raised Christ and if he did not raise him, if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, even Christ is has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you're still in your sins.
[00:09:01] That's pretty plain, isn't it?
[00:09:04] Paul doesn't give any room for compromise. He says, if we deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our preaching is empty.
[00:09:14] You might as well be sleeping in this morning.
[00:09:18] If we deny the resurrection, our faith is empty. There's nothing to believe in.
[00:09:25] We misrepresent God. And worst of all, we are still lost in our sins.
[00:09:31] Church.
[00:09:33] Ah.
[00:09:35] Christ rose from the dead and the church is proof of that.
[00:09:41] The life of Christ is the life of the church.
[00:09:46] And then Peter went on with his sermon.
[00:09:50] Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
[00:10:08] Ah. Remember, Pentecost means 50.
[00:10:11] It is a celebration that happened 50 days after the Passover.
[00:10:17] You'll be interested to know that 10 days before Peter preached this sermon, Jesus Christ ascended to heaven from the Mount of Olives. And the last, it was the last time he was seen.
[00:10:32] That was just ten days before Pentecost.
[00:10:36] Ten days before Peter preached this sermon, Jesus took his eleven. They went out to the Mount of Olives and he said, all power is given to me in heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples.
[00:10:56] Ah.
[00:10:57] And here we are ten days after that and Peter is standing up explaining the the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
[00:11:07] You'll find this very interesting, or I did anyway.
[00:11:12] Ah, the very first disciple that Jesus picked was John, John the Apostle. You can read about it in John's Gospel, Chapter one.
[00:11:27] John and Andrew, Peter's brother, were listening to John the Baptist preach.
[00:11:34] And John the Baptist saw Jesus and he pointed at him and said, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
[00:11:44] And when that happened, John and Andrew left John the Baptist and followed Jesus Christ.
[00:11:55] And Jesus noticed that somebody was following him and, and he turned around and said, can I help you?
[00:12:04] And John and Andrew said, rabbi, where do you stay?
[00:12:10] That was a way of saying, ah, we are interested in following in your life. And we need to know where we can find you.
[00:12:21] And Jesus said to John and Andrew, come and see.
[00:12:24] And they spent the evening with him.
[00:12:27] The next day, John went and talked to his brother James, and Andrew went and talked to his brother Peter. And he had the first four of Christ's 12 apostles.
[00:12:41] John.
[00:12:45] Was at the last breakfast.
[00:12:48] We talk about the Last Supper, but we often forget the last breakfast.
[00:12:53] Jesus met some of the apostles at the Sea of Galilee.
[00:12:59] And Peter fished all night.
[00:13:01] And classic Peter didn't catch a thing.
[00:13:05] And he brought the boat up to the shore. And Jesus said, last thing a fisherman wants to hear if he didn't catch anything. Hey, did you catch anything?
[00:13:16] And Peter said, no.
[00:13:18] And Jesus said, throw your net on the other side of the boat. And he threw the net on the other side of boat, and they caught so many fish, they could hardly drag it to the shore.
[00:13:27] And Jesus ate breakfast with them that morning.
[00:13:31] That was after the resurrection.
[00:13:34] John stood at the cross and saw Jesus die. And then he ate breakfast with the resurrected Lord by the Sea of Galilee.
[00:13:45] Ah.
[00:13:46] And it was John who said to the other people in the boat, it's Jesus.
[00:13:51] John recognized Jesus before anybody else did.
[00:13:58] John is standing next to Peter when he preaches this sermon, talking about the resurrected Lord.
[00:14:08] 35 years later, John, the very first apostle, was arrested by the Roman government.
[00:14:20] And he was put on a prison colony on a little island in the Aegean Sea called Patmos.
[00:14:29] And John tells us about it in his Revelation.
[00:14:33] I've been on the island of Patmos. It's a very tiny island, and it rises up from the ocean, from the Aegean Sea. And at the top, they of course, built a church.
[00:14:49] And the church is over what they call Revelation Cave.
[00:14:53] Before they built this church, there was a cave up there that looked out on the Aegean Ocean.
[00:15:02] And church history says it was in that cave that John saw and heard what he recorded in the book of Revelation.
[00:15:17] The John who met Jesus Christ at the baptism of John the Baptist, the John who was one of Jesus first followers, the John who was the apostle that Jesus loved, the John who ate the last breakfast with Jesus Christ.
[00:15:35] He had another encounter with the resurrected Christ.
[00:15:40] And he tells us in John chapter four that it was Sunday morning, and he was in this little cave looking out over the ocean, and he was leading himself in a Sunday morning worship service because he was on this prison colony and he had a sense of the divine around him.
[00:16:07] And he heard a voice that said, come up here, I want to show you some things.
[00:16:17] And John said, after this, I looked and behold, a door was standing open in heaven.
[00:16:25] And the first voice which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.
[00:16:37] At once I was in the spirit.
[00:16:40] And behold, a throne stood in heaven, and one seated on the throne.
[00:16:47] And he who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and carnelian.
[00:16:52] I looked this up. It's a glowing. It's a glowing red.
[00:16:56] They're both red stones. So the idea is the one that John saw had a glowing red about him.
[00:17:08] Ah.
[00:17:09] And around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.
[00:17:16] The rainbow didn't have the appearance of emerald. The throat.
[00:17:20] That kind of reads confusing there. All right, all right. Now I'm going to talk you through this so you can imagine it.
[00:17:30] John is caught up to heaven.
[00:17:33] A door, a great cathedral door swings open.
[00:17:41] And John walks through that door into the throne room of Jesus Christ.
[00:17:49] And the first thing he sees is not the resurrected Lord that he ate breakfast with on the Sea of Galilee. Now he sees the glorified Christ, and he is radiant with light.
[00:18:06] And he's seated on a giant emerald throne. And over him there is a rainbow.
[00:18:12] And behind his throne, there is. There's a semicircle of thrones.
[00:18:18] There are 24 of them, and on each one of them, an elder is seated.
[00:18:25] There are four living beings hovering over the glorified Christ.
[00:18:30] And these four living beings, they don't stop night and day. They continuously say, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.
[00:18:46] And when the. When the four living beings say that, the 24 elders, they crawl off their thrones and they kneel and worship the glorified Christ.
[00:19:00] And they cast their crowns before the throne, and the elders begin to worship. And they say, worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.
[00:19:21] Listen, what's. Listen what's happening?
[00:19:24] Peter is reminding us that the Christ who walked humbly and put up with the abuse that mankind abused him with, he is the resurrected Lord, but he no longer. He no longer lives in the state of humility.
[00:19:50] God highly exalted him and gave him a name that is above every name. So that at the name of Jesus, not just the four living beings, not just the 24 elders, but my rads and my rads of saints and angels worship before the glorified Lord that is the Lord of the church.
[00:20:14] Our Christ is no longer walking in Galilee. Putting up with abuse and ugliness. Our Christ is no longer subject to evil rulers who marched him through their kangaroo court.
[00:20:30] Our Christ will never again be spit on and whipped in public.
[00:20:35] Our Christ was resurrected. And when he was resurrected, God glorified him with the glory that he had from all eternity.
[00:20:51] This is the Lord of the Church.
[00:20:54] This is our Christ.
[00:20:57] This is the One that the church lives to give witness to. And he is altogether worthy. He's worthy of glory. He's worthy of honor and power. He created all things and for him all things exist.
[00:21:14] This Christ sitting on the emerald throne said, I'm not going to leave you orphans going to rule in heaven.
[00:21:25] I'm going to be worshiped.
[00:21:28] By the way. Church there is a multitude that no one can number who passes through that throne room all the time.
[00:21:39] I find it interesting that people will stand in line hour after hour for a three minute ride at Cedar Point.
[00:21:51] Never had the patience for it, not even when I was a boy.
[00:21:54] I find it interesting that people will stand in line, they'll sit at night on a lawn chair in a sidewalk waiting to buy a ticket for some ridiculous thing.
[00:22:08] Church humanity has an incredible propensity to be patient for stupid stuff.
[00:22:18] But I tell you, there is one line that I want to get in and I can't wait to take my place in that line.
[00:22:25] There is a line that's waiting to pass through the throne room of Jesus Christ.
[00:22:30] And if you look carefully, some of your loved ones are probably in that line today waiting to pass through the throne room of Christ and worship and praise the and revel in the wonder and the majesty of the Christ who loved us and gave Himself for us.
[00:22:51] God did not leave us.
[00:22:53] Christ didn't say, I'm going to heaven and I'm going to have it good. And you're kind of on your own.
[00:23:00] What he said was, I'm not going to leave you orphans.
[00:23:04] The very same John who described the glorified Christ John wrote in his gospel, Jesus said, I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you yet a little while and the world will see me no more.
[00:23:24] But you will see me because I live, you also will live.
[00:23:31] Verse 25 these things have I spoken to you while I am still with you.
[00:23:38] But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
[00:23:51] When Jesus ascended back to heaven, when he sat down on his great throne, when he entered into his glory, he didn't abandon us on the day of Pentecost, he sent the promise of the Father, the Holy Spirit.
[00:24:08] He sent us another advocate. The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity who advocates for God in our inner self, in our thoughts, our emotions and our choices.
[00:24:23] Ah, Isaiah in chapter 11 speaks about the Spirit of the Lord.
[00:24:32] Listen what Isaiah says, and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Christ.
[00:24:42] The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
[00:24:52] If you count these, there are seven statements about the Spirit, the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of wisdom, the Spirit of understanding, the Spirit of counsel, the Spirit of might, the Spirit of knowledge and the Spirit of the fear of the Lord.
[00:25:07] Now I want you to remember that when John saw the glorified Christ in heaven, he mentions the seven spirits.
[00:25:21] Ah, let me read it to you.
[00:25:32] Should have underlined it, shouldn't I?
[00:25:41] There it is.
[00:25:43] Four, verse five.
[00:25:45] And from the throne came flashes of lightning and rumblings and peels of thunder. And before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God.
[00:26:00] Ah. I believe in Revelation that that is apocalyptic imagery.
[00:26:06] When it talks about the seven spirits of God, it's talking about these seven qualities of the Holy Spirit.
[00:26:14] Ah, there are seven qualities of the Holy Spirit that profoundly influence Christ. And you know what Jesus said? I'm sharing my very same spirit with you.
[00:26:25] The seven qualities of the Holy Spirit that were at work in me, they will be at work in you.
[00:26:33] When Christ ascended to heaven and was glorified, the Holy Spirit descended to us.
[00:26:39] And he expresses the reality of God in these seven expressions.
[00:26:47] First of all, he is the Spirit of the Lord. The Holy Spirit is the one who teaches us and helps us to experience the reality of God.
[00:26:58] Second of all, he is a spirit of wisdom.
[00:27:02] The way of Christ is the wisest way way. And it is the Holy Spirit who is at work in us, prompting in us the way of Christ.
[00:27:14] It's a way of understanding.
[00:27:17] You can. You can be very wise and still not understand the moment. The Holy Spirit is the presence of God in my daily life, helping me to understand in the moment how I live this Christian life.
[00:27:30] It is a spirit of counsel. The Holy Spirit guides us. It's a spirit of might, it's a spirit of knowledge, and it's a sphere of ultimate respect for God.
[00:27:40] When Christ sat down on that great emerald throne, His Spirit and these seven qualities descended upon us. And they are Christ's way of being at work in our lives day after day. After day, these seven qualities descended on the Church. And it empowers the Church to. To do what Christ is asking us to do.
[00:28:03] Pentecost was Christ fulfilling his promise to send the Holy Spirit upon the Church.
[00:28:10] The same Holy Spirit who worked in the life of Christ, the same Holy Spirit who fell at the day at Pentecost is the same Holy Spirit who abides in you and I and is at work in us for God's greater good.
[00:28:26] And then Peter said, for David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself said, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.
[00:28:41] We talked about this a little bit last week.
[00:28:45] In the Psalms, David often speaks about Christ by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Remember, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of understanding. The Holy Spirit gave David the ability to understand things about the nature of Christ. And so when David spoke in the Psalms, he's explaining things about Christ to us.
[00:29:16] The Lord God Almighty said to my Lord Jesus Christ, sit at my right until I make your enemies your footstool.
[00:29:27] If you'd like to read the whole thing, this is Psalm 110, and the quote is just from verse one.
[00:29:44] Christ ascended into heaven. He was glorified, he sits on a throne. And now God is working out an eternal plan to put all things under the feet of Jesus Christ.
[00:29:57] That is a figurative way of saying there's coming a day when Jesus Christ will reign and rule over everything.
[00:30:06] There's coming a day when there'll be no rebellion.
[00:30:10] There's coming a day when there'll be no spirit of Antichrist. There's coming a day when no one will deny the deed of Christ. No one will deny the resurrection. Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. And God is at work doing that right now.
[00:30:29] And we as the Church are God's partners in bringing souls to into submission to Jesus Christ.
[00:30:39] When we ask people to receive the excellence of Jesus Christ, what we're saying is there is someone who is altogether worthy of your complete trust and faith.
[00:30:55] Why not put your hope in Jesus Christ?
[00:30:59] We are God's partners. And in bringing souls into submission to Jesus Christ, I want to ask you this morning, as a partner of God, are you living in submission to Jesus Christ or have you tucked him away in a little category in your life?
[00:31:23] And basically you kind of do what you want, but you keep glancing over at Jesus Christ and just.
[00:31:35] In case you see what I'm saying, I'm afraid that many people who are Christians are Not living in submission to Jesus Christ.
[00:31:48] We're not getting up in the morning and saying, I'm on your team, Lord.
[00:31:56] Ah, whatever you want me to do today, I want to be there with you.
[00:32:01] If there's somebody you want me to help today, help me to recognize them, I want to help them.
[00:32:07] If there's something you want to work in my life, I want to submit to you and I don't want to argue with you about it. I want my life to be a rush behind the majesty of Jesus Christ and I want to be his partner in getting done in my lifetime. What Christ has established to complete in this world church, I want to live in.
[00:32:35] I want to live in a healthy submission to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
[00:32:44] I want to remind myself that he is worthy of anything he asks in my life. He is more than worthy of anything he asks in my life.
[00:32:54] I'm honored that he would bother to ask for anything out of my life. Like anything I have, he needs.
[00:33:03] I generally mess up. His good work is that's how we kind of cooperate together. He does good stuff and I mess it up.
[00:33:14] Verse 36.
[00:33:18] Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ. This Jesus whom you crucified.
[00:33:31] Peter didn't hesitate to point out that the people he was speaking to in that crowd participated in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
[00:33:41] Would you hear this?
[00:33:45] The people that he was speaking to, many of them were the very same people that 50 days earlier were in the crowd incited by the religious leaders shouting crucify.
[00:34:05] I don't want us to look at this crowd. And as somehow or another people who are totally detached from what had happened 50 days earlier, they are culpable. And Peter finds the courage to say to them, ah, ah, this is an abstract. I'm not talking to you about 2000 year old history. I'm talking about something that happened 50 days ago. And you were here and some of you shouted crucified.
[00:34:36] That's pretty bold preaching, huh?
[00:34:41] Ah, but when I read that this week, it dawned on me that I needed to hear Peter's message too.
[00:34:52] You know why Christ wasn't crucified?
[00:34:58] Because a bunch of people shouted in the streets of Jerusalem, crucified.
[00:35:04] That's not why he was crucified.
[00:35:08] I remembered that he was wounded for my transgressions.
[00:35:15] He was crushed for my iniquities.
[00:35:19] The whipping of his, of my peace was upon him. And with his wounds I'm healed.
[00:35:27] Can you hear this church, the Lord of Glory, this majestic one who radiates a glow of holiness and sits on an emerald throne and is surrounded by the majesty of heaven.
[00:35:43] That very same one was wounded because I'm a jerk.
[00:35:49] He was bruised, become selfish.
[00:35:52] The chastisement of my peace was upon him and it took his wounds to heal my ugly soul.
[00:36:02] Church.
[00:36:03] There is no room for arrogance in the church.
[00:36:07] There's no room for self exaltation.
[00:36:11] There's no room for us thinking we are better than other people.
[00:36:17] We are the people for whom this majestic Christian gave his all and all.
[00:36:24] And we always have to remember that. We have to humble ourselves under his mighty hand because God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Church.
[00:36:38] God declared Jesus to be Lord of the Church.
[00:36:43] Listen. When God raised Christ from the dead and seated him on that great emerald throne, he was making a statement. He was saying, this is the one that I acknowledge as the Lord of the Church.
[00:36:57] When God raised Jesus Christ up and glorified him and seated him on the throne, he's saying, this is the one I anointed. This is my Christ. This is my Messiah.
[00:37:12] And Peter says as he ends this sermon, you need to know for certain the divine truth about Jesus Christ.
[00:37:24] Church.
[00:37:26] The church has a mission and the mission is to give people certainty about Jesus Christ being crucified, resurrected and ascended and glorified in heaven.
[00:37:42] That message is not just for people out there. That's messages for every soul that is sitting here and watching online.
[00:37:52] I want you to ask for yourself.
[00:37:55] Peter's question.
[00:37:57] Do you know for certain that the Lord Jesus Christ is God's only way of saving you and cleansing you from all iniquity?
[00:38:11] Do you know for certain that because he rose we also will rise?
[00:38:18] Do you know for certain that the one who seated on that emerald throne, he's the very same one who said, I go to prepare a place for you that where I am, there you may be also.
[00:38:31] Do not wander through this very short life driven by the lash of doubt and fear.
[00:38:41] Hear the sermon of Peter.
[00:38:44] Open your heart, see the glorified Christ and put your whole trust and confidence in him.
[00:38:52] Our dear Heavenly Father, I do call upon your name one more time. I thank you for the majesty of Jesus Christ.
[00:39:05] One more time.
[00:39:06] I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how he could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean.
[00:39:17] Once more I worship you and say, oh, how wonderful, oh how glorious is my Savior's love for me.
[00:39:26] Father, I pray for everyone who's here this morning and everyone who's watching online.
[00:39:31] I pray that the reality of Christ would touch them in a new and fresh way.
[00:39:36] I feel that. I pray that there's something about this glorified Christ that would draw their hearts, that would fascinate their minds, that would reset their values, and we could all begin to be followers of Jesus Christ and acknowledge that you alone are worthy.
[00:39:57] I pray that this church can be a place where Jesus Christ is always glorified, where there is always a witness to the majesty of his resurrection and to the truth of his glory.
[00:40:12] Then I pray, Father, that in your good time, we will pass through that glorious throne room and we'll join the myriads who worship you and say, worthy is the Lamb.
[00:40:29] In Christ's name, amen.
