Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Awesome.
[00:00:01] Speaker B: I love you guys. I cannot preach and just do this all day. Amen.
That is a sermon in and of itself. So beautiful.
Well, for those of you who don't know me, I am Sarah Berger.
[00:00:12] Speaker A: I partner with my dad here as the campus director, and him and my.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: Gorgeous mama are in there at the.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: Finger Lakes to celebrate my mom's 25th birthday. Can you believe it?
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Can you believe it?
[00:00:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: So I am up today, and I.
I love being with you guys.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: It is such a privilege and an honor. And I was thinking on this passage that we're going to be doing today, it is like there are no words to truly make this come alive in the right way.
This is something more beautiful and more majestic and holy than I know how to give it credit.
And so I just want to pray and invite God because, man, it is him and him alone.
Dear heavenly Father, you are holy, holy, holy.
Sometimes you give us a glimpse at just how big, majestic, and powerful you truly are.
Today, I pray that we can see a revelation, and we can see you.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: In the kind of way where we.
[00:01:24] Speaker A: Put you in the proper place in our life, where we can see that you have a plan and a purpose for us, and that it's not just.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Something we hear about, Father, but it's.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Something we see for ourselves.
In your mighty son's name, we pray. Amen.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: Fun note. Browns are up. 10, 7. Okay, let's go. Browns. I found this from my dad. This is a vintage from the seventies from my dad. Isn't this cool?
I was like, we're going to preach in that today.
Okay. Years ago, my hubby, my gorgeous husband, he and I, we went to Colorado.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: And we had kind of heard all about Colorado.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: We heard that it was beautiful, and.
[00:02:08] Speaker A: It was, like, hard to put into.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: Words how gorgeous it was. And we heard that the sun was out more days of the week than any other state.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: So. So people were just happier.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: And I was like, ohio's giving it a run for its money. You know what I'm saying?
And we heard that the air was cleaner.
[00:02:27] Speaker A: Like, there was something about the air in Colorado.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: And so we were super pumped to go, and we decided to take one of the days to go hiking.
[00:02:34] Speaker A: And we went to the Rocky Mountain State park, and we just explored and hiked, and it was cold and snowy in Colorado. And I took this picture of Jacob.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: And it just doesn't even begin. Have you ever tried to take a.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: Picture of, like, the moon when it's gorgeous and you look and you're like, what is this?
[00:02:52] Speaker B: That's like this. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, it does not even begin.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: To show the beauty.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: We walked around the park and we hiked in the snow and we climbed the rocks and took the pictures.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: And all I could think to myself.
[00:03:08] Speaker B: Was, if Earth is this beautiful, I.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: Literally cannot imagine what heaven must be like.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: And we learned on this trip that there's one thing when you hear about.
[00:03:24] Speaker A: Something, but there's a whole other reality when you see it for yourself.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: There's. There's one way when you. When you hear about that fresh air, but there's another when you can breathe.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: It in for yourself.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: We've heard about space and the immense.
I mean, it's like you can't even fathom space. I had a girl in the office. She asked me not to tell you who it was, but, Rachel, we have, like, very little tech skills here. So if you are graphic arts, if you can help us make videos or.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Edit and want to volunteer with us.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: You come talk to me after church. But I wanted to show you. Have you ever seen those videos on YouTube where it. Like, it starts from a certain place and then it zooms out to show you the expanse nature of space? So I was like, can you do it from our church? And so she went on Google Earth. And this is about. This is about as much as my.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Brain can fathom right here.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Okay, I can fathom Earth, but then that's about it. And if I'm totally honest, I'm not.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: Even sure that I could totally fathom Earth. But we can touch it, we can see it.
[00:04:42] Speaker B: And then we have our solar system. And so we have planets and the sun and the moon, and we have our solar system. But then when you zoom out, then we have our galaxy with lots of solar systems.
And then when you zoom out of the Milky Way, you see that we are now one of thousands. I don't know the number. Billions. Trillions. Millions. I don't know the number. It's too much to think about.
It is so huge. And I remember the first time I saw those videos that zoomed out. I was like, man, it's one way.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: To think about it, but it's a whole other when you get to see it with your eyes. Can you fathom this picture?
[00:05:23] Speaker B: I mean, it's so beautiful, but my. It's like.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: It's hard to fathom.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: And in. In the genius of who God is, he has gifted us with.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: There'S like a veil between heaven and Earth where we really can't see, and there in.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: The Bible, he's gifted us a couple.
[00:05:43] Speaker A: Of times where that veil is kind of pulled aside and you get to see something special.
You get to see heaven, you get to see this throne room of God.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: And in Isaiah 6, we have a man who loved God, who was for him, who was a prophet. And a prophet was someone who heard.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: From God and went to the nation and spoke it.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: And so he had heard of God and he was speaking of God.
But this day he got to see God in the kind of way.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Where the curtain was peeled back.
He got to see something other.
And he tries to describe it. And I want to sit in this.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Today because I think there is a.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Difference between us hearing about it and God revealing himself to us.
And my hope is today that we don't.
I think we can create a very small God that fits nicely in our pocket.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: I think we can fit a God that fits our values and what we.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Wanna believe and what we don't wanna believe.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: And we make God our political party and we make God. And I just don't think God is meant to fit into a box.
He is so much bigger. He is so much more holy, so much more majestic, so much more, more.
And today I want us to try.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: To just see a glimpse of it.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: In Isaiah 6:1:8, this is what it says.
In the year that King Uzziah died.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: I saw the Lord sitting upon the throne.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: He was high and lifted up, and.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: The train of his robe filled the temple.
Above him stood the seraphim.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: Each had six wings. With two he covered his face. With two he covered his feet.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: And with two he flew.
[00:07:46] Speaker B: And one called to another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.
And the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of him who called.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: And the house was filled with smoke.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: And I said, woe is me, for I am lost.
For I am a man of unclean lips. And I dwell in the midst of.
[00:08:11] Speaker A: Of people of unclean lips.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: For my eyes have seen the King.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: The Lord of hosts.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: Then one of the seraphim flew to.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: Me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with the tongs from the altar.
And he touched my mouth and said.
[00:08:27] Speaker B: Behold, this has touched your lips.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: Your guilt is taken away and your sin is atoned for.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send?
[00:08:38] Speaker A: And.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: And who will go for us?
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Then I said, here I am.
Send me.
You see what I mean?
Like I'm trying to do something that is just Bigger than I know how.
And Isaiah starts this passage in a very particular way because it was the year that King Uzziah died.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Now, King Uzziah, he started reigning when he was 16.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: 16 years old.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: How would you like that?
16 years old.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: And he reigned for 52 years.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: And he loved God, and he was like us. He messed up, but he loved God.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: And.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: And so his. His reign was.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Awesome.
They had strength, they had military strength.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: They had wealth, they had success.
And so for 52 years, the nation.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: Had something strong, stable, something successful, something awesome.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: And then all of the sudden, Uzziah's name even means.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: It's like with God, there is strength. So it's like this idea of strength.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: So it's like in the year that.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Strength died, I saw also the Lord.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: And it's funny to me, because when we think about this, there is this real moment in history for the Israelites, there's this real moment of like, okay, strength is dead.
And now it feels unsettled.
Now it feels unsure.
Now I don't really know what's going to happen next. The king is dead. And in fact, this really started the end for Israel.
And so there's this overwhelming feeling in the nation of uncomfort, of instability, of hard.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: And this is when God chooses to reveal himself to Isaiah.
And I think to myself, there are.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Times in my life where I can.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: Let fear be my focus, where sometimes.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: I look around the world and I can feel unsettled. Can I get an amen?
I can look at my life and things aren't going the way that I planned them. And so I just. I feel unsure. And what's our natural response is to focus in on it, to hone in on it. And then we stress about it, and then we worry, and then we sit in fear.
But in this passage, there's something better happening.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: I saw also the Lord.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: This king might have been here and gone, but now I want to zoom out.
I want to show you that there is another king who sits on the throne, who is above it all.
I want to show you that there is a king. And Isaiah is a poet, so he's using poetry to help us see and understand what he saw. And he said, this king is so majestic, so powerful, so full of victory, that his train is so long, it fills the entire temple.
And it's this sign of how high and lifted up God is.
And I think in our life, we have a choice. I was listening to one of my favorite preachers, and they had a school.
[00:12:05] Speaker A: Shooting in their high school in Colorado.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: And all the pastors of the town.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Kind of met together.
And one of the pastors said, you.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Know, I look at social media and.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: I watch the news, and it just feels like the devil is winning.
And then this pastor that I love, I wish I could just go hug him and high five him.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: He said, then get off social media.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: And stop watching the news and turn your eyes to the church.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Turn your eyes to what God is doing in this world.
God is on the move, and the problem is we get sucked into, like, a vortex of. Of social media.
There's something wild. My sister was just telling me. I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but there's this podcast out that about 80% of what we hear on social media is really only done or believed.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: By 10% of people.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: And so we watch it and this becomes our whole view of what's going on. And now we are more un. United, more unloving, more un Against.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: I'm speaking terribly today, Jesus.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Give me your strength in your words.
[00:13:10] Speaker A: Amen.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: We are against each other. You know what I'm saying? Like, we are in this season of such hate and such ugly. And it's so easy to say, oh.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: In the year of 2025.
But I want to focus.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: I want to see who is high and lifted up.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: I want to see our awesome and.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Powerful God who sits on the throne, who is in charge, who has a plan and a purpose.
I just read in a poll by Barna that the younger generations now come.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: To church more often than the older generations.
[00:13:49] Speaker B: I thought it was cool, but I was like, no, older generations. We are a multi generational church. We need each other. We need mentors. We. We need. We need this. I don't want the fire to go out.
As we get older, as we are young and find God, I want us to have each other. Someone who has your back.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: Can I get an amen?
Your girl is sweating up here.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: I need some help.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: I want us to turn our focus off of the ugly and onto the beauty.
I want us to turn our focus off of what is wrong and onto how can God use me in this world?
In Isaiah, he. He sees this. This vision, and. And now there are these creatures.
Sometimes the Bible is so cool and sometimes it's so odd.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: And like, I've.
[00:14:48] Speaker A: This has always been odd to me because. Because we've never seen. So we don't know. We don't understand. Is it poetry? Is he trying to express something?
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Is there something real?
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Because you can kind of see it throughout scripture when you get to peek into heaven.
There's these creatures, and they're called seraphim.
And the literal definition means fiery ones.
So it's not like beautiful, flowy angels. It is like these beings that are set on fire.
[00:15:19] Speaker B: I tried to find an image. This is a poor image, but I just wanted to get our head kind of seeing something visual.
Are we able to pull that image up?
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Okay, so it's not the greatest image, but it's the best I could find. They are fiery beings in heaven.
They have six wings.
Two of them cover their face, two.
[00:15:45] Speaker B: Of them cover their feet.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: It doesn't even cover their feet in the photo, but you get the idea. And then two of them, they fly.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: And there's these beings that I think, okay, God is the creator of all.
He has made us to live in our habitat. So, humans, we have lungs and we can breathe air.
Our skin helps us cool down, and we can sweat when we're preaching.
When you are a fish, you have gills that can help you breathe in the water. He's a genius. He's made you for your habitat. He's made you for where you are.
There's animals that fly and crawl and climb, and now here in heaven, he has made them for their habitat.
There is this idea in scripture that you cannot look upon the face of God. He is so holy, so magnificent, so beautiful in all his ways. To even look upon him would cause you to die.
And now these creatures, they're made to cover their eyes in humility.
There's this passage in the Old Testament where God is calling Moses a man to go do incredibly hard things.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: And.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: And he meets him in this burning bush, and God says, I want you.
[00:17:06] Speaker A: To take off your shoes, for you are on holy ground.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: And now this seraphim, they're covering their feet. There's such an air of holiness in this room, in this throne room of God. And Isaiah is a man, and he's witnessing it and just being there, just seeing this.
This creature, he hears it call out and it says, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
[00:17:39] Speaker A: The whole earth is full of his glory.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: We have these fiery creatures that if any of us saw them, we would just not even be. We would, like, I want to say, poop our pants. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, we would literally lose it. But my dad will be back next week preaching in a very holy way, so.
So you're stuck with me this week, but we couldn't contain it.
[00:18:10] Speaker A: And now Isaiah's there, and what's his response?
His response is not worship in some form. It might be, but his response is confession.
His response is, woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips.
His response to this consuming, all encompassing, omniscient God is confession.
And it happens over and over in the Bible. You see, when these men encounter God, what happens? And Job, his hell was like.
He went to hell and back.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: And at the end of the book.
[00:19:02] Speaker A: He gets to see God for himself. And he says, I heard of you by hearing, but now I see you.
Therefore I dispel, despise myself, and I repent.
Peter, he was.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: He was fishing all night, and they caught nothing. And then.
[00:19:19] Speaker A: And then Jesus arrives on the scene.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: And Jesus shows up and he gets into their boats and asks them to paddle out so he can preach a little bit. And he preaches. And then he says, guys, let's go out farther. And he says, I want you to throw your nets in.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: And Peter's like, we did it all at night. The fish aren't biting. You know, they're not catching. And Jesus is like, why don't you just throw out your nets? And Peter said, because you say, so, I'll do it. And there was such a miracle and there was such a hall of fish that the boats were, like, collapsing in on themselves. And Peter takes one look at this Jesus, and he says, depart from me. I am a sinful man.
Why is. Is it when they encounter the beauty of God, they want to confess?
Aren't we so different?
I was talking to my kids last night, and I was never like, hey.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: Guys, you want to guess what I did this week?
[00:20:20] Speaker A: And just confess in front of all you, you know, like, hey, you'll never.
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Believe what your preacher did.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: Never happened.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: My kids, when they were little, they would never run up to mom and be like, you'll never believe how bad we were.
Like, there is a reality that when we sin, our inclination is to hide.
Our inclination is to be full of shame and to protect it and to conceal. But in the presence of a God who is holy, holy, holy, why is it that these people wanted to confess?
[00:21:00] Speaker A: Because there's so much beauty in his nature.
There's so much love in his nature, there's so much compassion in his nature that just being in his presence, you.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Don'T want to hide. You don't want to conceal.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: You want to reveal.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: You want to be known.
In his presence, there is a. There is a wrapping of his goodness.
You see, it's wild that we want to hide from God. It was his whole Purpose. He sent Jesus because we were messed up sinners. Can I get an amen?
He sent him for us. And when we hide and conceal, it's like saying, I don't need that.
[00:21:44] Speaker A: My son ran a marathon yesterday, and when I was at the finish line, I wanted to scream to the world.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: My baby ran a marathon.
And I was just thinking like, jesus died for us.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Isn't it to glorify him when we go to confess?
[00:22:01] Speaker B: Isn't it to say, I believe and I trust that you gave your life for me and you are holy and you are so beautiful and so above.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Yet you humbled yourself for a girl like me.
Church there's something about the name holy. Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts.
Nowhere else in all of scripture does it say three times an attribute of who God is.
It doesn't say he is love, love, love. It doesn't say he is mercy, mercy, mercy.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: It doesn't say he is justice, justice, justice. It doesn't say those things. Only here does it say, he is holy, holy, holy.
And I do not want our lives to make him small. I want to think about him as big as he is.
I don't want to make it easy for me to follow him. I want it to be sometimes uncomfortable because there's characteristics in me that are not of him.
There is a nature inside of me where I just want to confess and just be like, whoa, who is me?
I am a woman of unclean lips and Church. This idea of lips, it's not just lips. Now, he is a prophet and he.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: Did speak for Jesus.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: But it says in Matthew, it says.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
This is a nature of something bigger going on inside of us.
It's a reality that we are broken people, that I am a broken girl, that as much as I want to get it right for my husband, I fail.
As much as I want to be all thing for my kids, I fail.
I lose my temper. I think I'm better than I should.
There's so much but in the presence of a holy, big, immense, immeasurable, omniscient.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: God who does not change.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Something inside of us cries, holy, holy, holy.
The seraphim take a burning coal and they use tongs and they go to the altar and they touch Isaiah's lips.
And this is an imagery, this is poetry, and it's pointing us to something.
And this poetry is pointing us to there is only one who can atone our sins.
Church it is not human effort.
It is not. I am going to Try to behave myself in. Into heaven.
[00:24:59] Speaker B: I am. It is not I am. I am going to just be a good girl because I could never be good enough.
I will fall short every single time of the holiness of God.
But it is a God who atones for us.
A God who looks at us and says, I made you. I know you. You have a purpose and a plan.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: And I love you.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: A God who says, I am for you.
So help me. Let me help you work. Let me help your heart and your mind and your thinking.
Let me help repair relationships. Let me help you understand me better.
And this idea of going to the altar and his lips be touched by the coal.
[00:25:47] Speaker A: If you want to be effective in this life, you yourself first have to be touched by the altar.
You yourself first have to know something of God to be touched by who he is and his sacrifice and what he's done for you to start to comprehend how big and glorious and beautiful.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: And majestic he really is.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: And what happens is, once you start.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: To digest this, you will never learn.
[00:26:24] Speaker A: Everything you can about God.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Like, you'll never be like, learned everything about God.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Let's move on.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: As long as you live, as long as you're learning, there will be more to learn about God because He is eternal.
He is infinite.
And so I don't want you to ever get to the point where, like.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: I know, I know, we don't.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: We're like scratching the surface of who our God is.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: The whole room shakes, the threshold shakes at the voice of God.
Even inanimate objects have sense to move when God speaks.
And it says, Isaiah heard a voice, and it was the voice of the Lord. And he was saying, whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?
Can I tell you, that's what's wrecked me most about this passage, that there.
[00:27:26] Speaker B: Is a God of such beauty that fiery creatures that we can't even comprehend are singing, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. That there is a God who created everything, this space. And you zoom out and you're just like, it's so amazing, I can't imagine it. And that is our Creator. He is so big, so magnificent. Yet.
[00:27:52] Speaker A: Whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?
We are his plan.
We have a God who is all powerful, capable of everything. Yet we are his plan.
It's so humbling.
It's so.
I would never do it.
I'd fire us all.
I'd send you somewhere far away.
But time and time again, he looks at you and he says, there's more in you.
You are loved.
There Is more in you. And you are the plan.
When we look at this broken girl world girl too.
When we look at this broken world, stop complaining. You are the plan.
When you see this broken world, I want you to say, I hear the voice of God saying, whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?
And then I want you to look in your home and say, what can I do in my home? Because here am I. Send me.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: If my husband and I are in a bad way, I sometimes pout.
[00:29:16] Speaker A: But I want to have the courage and the strength to hear the voice of God say, who shall I send?
[00:29:23] Speaker B: And I want to be the kind of girl that he looks at and he says, I know that things get.
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Better when Sarah shows up.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: When my kids are struggling. I want God to know that he has put me in the right family because I am his girl.
If things are hurting or broken, I will make it right. I will fix it. I will do everything in my power to make it better.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: Because we are the plan.
[00:29:52] Speaker B: When I look at the workplace and I'm annoyed with people or annoyed with the boss or whatever it might be, I want to have the voice and.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: The knowledge to hear, whom shall I send?
Who will go for me?
And I want to be the kind.
[00:30:11] Speaker B: Of woman that walks into a room and it gets better. Can I get an amen? Church?
We are men and women called by a mighty God.
He looks out into the world and he's saying, whom shall I send?
And I want us to have the response of Isaiah that says, here am I.
Send me.
I might not always get it right. I am broken. I am a woman of unclean lips. But Father, I love you.
I trust in you.
I want to forget what lies behind and I want to strive for what lies ahead. And I want to race to the the goal that is in Jesus Christ.
I want to be a woman that trusts in him and walks in him. And I want us to be a church that looks around and says, this is what God's doing in the world right now. How can I be a part?
If God's doing something powerful and he is alive and younger generations are trusting him in numbers they never have before.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: What can we do?
[00:31:10] Speaker B: How do we make this place more alive? How do we make it more accessible? How do we all get involved?
[00:31:16] Speaker A: We are the plan.
We have a God who is holy, holy, holy.
He is set apart.
[00:31:27] Speaker B: He is morally perfect.
[00:31:29] Speaker A: In him there is no flaw, no sin.
Yet he chooses us.
So church this week our prayer is here. I am sending me. Amen.
Dear Heavenly Father, you are everything.
And where my words fail and lack and jumble and are so human. Father, I pray that your truth connects to our innermost being.
I pray that as we worship in this next song that your spirit connects with our spirit and something inside of us just knows. It's true that you are.
You are everything.
And in your goodness we get to be partners with you. I pray we never take it for granted. We never minimalize it, we never want out.
But I pray we are like fiery ones that that burn to praise your name and give you glory and help more people know who you are.
I pray that we will bring your love into this world in the kind of way they've never felt it or known it.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: I pray when you are going to and fro and you are searching, Father, you hear this church and you hear us collectively say, here I am. Send me.
[00:32:50] Speaker A: And we will be a church that.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: Honors you, that glorifies you and lets your name be known in all the world.
[00:32:57] Speaker A: In your son's powerful and awesome name, we pray. Amen.