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Speaker 2: This week, we'll be looking at a song that was
Speaker 2: written by most probably you know this guy, Zechariah. All right, Zechariah,
Speaker 2: as you would remember, this is more of a rica
Speaker 2: for all of us that he is a priest, an
Speaker 2: old priest who have been.
Speaker 1: Faithfully serving God.
Speaker 2: In fact, if you read Zechariah, he's really an ordinary,
Speaker 2: an ordinary guy who have been serving God through the years.
Speaker 2: But what makes him different in a sad way is
Speaker 2: that even if he has been serving God through the years.
Speaker 2: To Mandana Shanghaka Goda, imagine that maybe for some of
Speaker 2: us who were thinking that Lord, I've been faithful through
Speaker 2: the years, but the twenty eighteen, but the blessing that
Speaker 2: I've been crying out for, maybe it's not a child,
Speaker 2: maybe it's something else.
Speaker 1: Lord doesn't the Lord, will you bless me. Will you
Speaker 1: be with me? Lord, I've been faithful.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, as we all know,
Speaker 2: the Angel Gabriel appeared, the same angel that appeared to Mary,
Speaker 2: and told Zachariah and his wife Elizabeth, who as we know,
Speaker 2: is a relative of Mary, said Zachariah, Elizabeth, you will
Speaker 2: have a son. Remember that it's in the Old Testament,
Speaker 2: similar to Abraham and his wife Sarah when he had
Speaker 2: the son, even though in their old age. And that's
Speaker 2: the start of my confidant, guess what I'm about to do,
Speaker 2: something new, and you, Zachariah and Elizabeth will have a son.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be it's going to be John the Baptist,
Speaker 2: the last prophet before the the great Prophet comes Jesus,
Speaker 2: and he's.
Speaker 1: Going to prepare the way of the Lord. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have a son.
Speaker 2: And we all know how Zechariah responded, right he men, Lord, Amen.
Speaker 2: You know that's not how he responded. He responded with doubts.
Speaker 2: He was doubtful. Look and what was the consequence of
Speaker 2: his doubt. He was silenced for probably nine months. Imagine
Speaker 2: my own since Zakariah for nine months.
Speaker 1: Can't help but thinking married Chila n.
Speaker 2: Then after that, when the son was born, John, when
Speaker 2: he held it, held him to his arms. In his arms,
Speaker 2: he was able to speak once again, and he was
Speaker 2: able to write this beautiful song most probably known as
Speaker 2: Benedictus in his original language and its Greek. It's just
Speaker 2: one long Greek song. But now we're going to read it,
Speaker 2: and you're going to see something amazing.
Speaker 1: It's so packed.
Speaker 2: That's read from Luke one, verses sixty seven to sixty eight.
Speaker 2: It says, here and his father Zachariah was filled with
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord
Speaker 2: God of Israel.
Speaker 1: For he has visited and redeemed his people well.
Speaker 2: His verse the very first word blessed in Latin natum Benedictus,
Speaker 2: the very first thing that that Zechariah rather did.
Speaker 1: When he was able to speak, when he was able
Speaker 1: to write.
Speaker 2: After see his son, John was declared that God is blessed,
Speaker 2: Blessed be the Lord God.
Speaker 1: He was worshiping God.
Speaker 2: He was worshiping God with what he has experience in
Speaker 2: his life. You know, what, come to think of it,
Speaker 2: what can we offer God? Can we offer him our riches?
Speaker 2: He's richer than us. He owns everything. Can we offer
Speaker 2: him our achievements? He doesn't need it, He has achieved
Speaker 2: infinitely more than us. Can we offer him our success?
Speaker 2: He's more successful than us. Can we offer him our
Speaker 2: good works? And as we know, our good works are
Speaker 2: like filthy ragsibah? So what can we offer God he
Speaker 2: doesn't already have. But here's something amazing. We can't bless God.
Speaker 2: We can bless him in the sense that Lord, I
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: We can thank God.
Speaker 2: Imagine that we get to give something to God, and
Speaker 2: that's us blessing him, thanking him, acknowledging what he has done.
Speaker 1: And that's what Zechariah did. The very first line is
Speaker 1: saying God, thank you, Blessed be the Lord God.
Speaker 2: And then afterwards it's being followed by two small words
Speaker 2: that most probably did not Inita for he preposition prepositions,
Speaker 2: did not in not appreciate it.
Speaker 1: But when I was studying this, I was amazed.
Speaker 2: These two words can also be translated because blessed be
Speaker 2: the Lord God of Israel, because Lord, I worship you.
Speaker 2: Because you know what the sad part is, especially with worship.
Speaker 2: You know when we come here every Sundays, you get
Speaker 2: the sing songs. That's just one aspect of worship. Everything
Speaker 2: is worship, from giving to serving and aill. But sometimes
Speaker 2: the weakly grind of worship strips us of the essence
Speaker 2: of worship. Isn't it true that we we we can
Speaker 2: experience or we can have a more meaningful worship and
Speaker 2: we not only know the person, but we know what
Speaker 2: he does and what he did to us.
Speaker 1: Mis Gig religion, Alan worship, worship, worship.
Speaker 2: Every Sunday. But for Zaca Riot it's different. Blessed be
Speaker 2: the Lord God, because.
Speaker 1: There's a meaning behind it.
Speaker 2: You know what the sad part in our society right now,
Speaker 2: especially for the younger generation, is that God is separated.
Speaker 2: God is just a concept, a subject, especially ku among
Speaker 2: religious schools Tiba religion, math science, see God, Pank religion,
Speaker 2: James God. Well that's just a math. Well that's just
Speaker 2: a science. God is just in a day Sunday one and.
Speaker 1: A half hour. Well that's just a school. Go well,
Speaker 1: that's just a business. Go well, that's just a family.
Speaker 1: Got family or church.
Speaker 2: And has a sad part. God is not just a concept.
Speaker 2: God is not just isolated in a subject. The same
Speaker 2: God who is here in religion is the same God
Speaker 2: of math and science. The same God who was present.
Speaker 1: To our gent, to our.
Speaker 2: Grandfather's mothers, fathers, is the same God is present today.
Speaker 2: And God is not just an idea or a concept.
Speaker 2: It's different from knowing someone to experiencing someone. And that's
Speaker 2: what Zacharai experienced. Imagine know God for the longest time.
Speaker 1: He's a priest, he's.
Speaker 2: Been serving God to man, but it all changed when
Speaker 2: he experienced God, because it's all knowledge until he experienced God.
Speaker 2: And my prayer is for this generation, for all of
Speaker 2: us here, that we don't just know God here it's important,
Speaker 2: of course, but we experience Him in our lives, that
Speaker 2: he's not just a concept. He's not just an idea.
Speaker 2: He's not just a subject. He's not isolated to one nation,
Speaker 2: he's not isolated to one generation. But God is a
Speaker 2: God who is active. God is a God who acts.
Speaker 1: He's on the move, He's doing something. In the Potamadzi Lord.
Speaker 2: In fact, in the next couple of verses, you would
Speaker 2: see eight verbs action words in almost every verse.
Speaker 1: What does it show? What does it communicate?
Speaker 2: That God is on the move, that God is a
Speaker 2: God who acts, what's the two the first two verses
Speaker 2: of the first two verbs, rather that God used for
Speaker 2: this Oneito blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for
Speaker 2: he has visited.
Speaker 1: And redeem these people.
Speaker 2: The first two verbs or action words that we could
Speaker 2: see are the verbs visited and redeem.
Speaker 1: Now Bacina be going visit or visited? Isn't it true?
Speaker 1: The first thing that comes to our mind our visitors?
Speaker 1: What long you hear? You love having visitors in your house?
Speaker 1: Right and maybe for some.
Speaker 2: Of you you find joy that maybe you know because
Speaker 2: you get to talk to someone. And especially in this Christmas,
Speaker 2: do you have relatives who are staying with you?
Speaker 1: Tva, you host them.
Speaker 2: Christmas and it's a joy for us. They will come,
Speaker 2: they will stay here for a while, and then they
Speaker 2: will eventually leave.
Speaker 1: May besitazabay because we're very hospitable people. Sububan dessert.
Speaker 2: First, you know, one day, one week, month, but imagine
Speaker 2: having a guest for one year. Now he'll pick kind
Speaker 2: and the reaction at what happened to sert we don't
Speaker 2: want that because we know a visitor is someone who comes,
Speaker 2: stays here for a while and then leaves. And the
Speaker 2: problem with that When we read that verse, maybe we're
Speaker 2: thinking God comes here, stays here for a while, and
Speaker 2: he'll leave.
Speaker 1: But that's not what the verse actually really means.
Speaker 2: If you unpack it, the more appropriate meaning is that
Speaker 2: visited means someone who is looking after because he's concerned
Speaker 2: with oneself. Or a more appropriate description is having gathered
Speaker 2: and made ready the things necessary for a journey. See
Speaker 2: the sayyadito, not try your bown family. Not out of
Speaker 2: town or out of the country right, So out of town,
Speaker 2: out of countryhang full production. I mean the GISTI and
Speaker 2: all and with my wife and I when we go
Speaker 2: out from time to time for out of town.
Speaker 1: Or go home to our home in Mariquina and her family.
Speaker 2: I am the one who usually packs first, So same bag,
Speaker 2: So put all my things, I will put my wife's clothes.
Speaker 2: I would put uh the things needed me Jedi. I
Speaker 2: would put Jedda in the bag. And then afterwards, I
Speaker 2: would say, you know what my wife, because she's a
Speaker 2: responsible wife, would do. She would revisit the things I
Speaker 2: would pack. You would visit the things that your husband
Speaker 2: packed and really anti mosquito repellent. And then she would
Speaker 2: see and she would look at the details of the bag,
Speaker 2: and she's concerned about it because it's something personal that
Speaker 2: she would use and we would use in our journey
Speaker 2: as a family.
Speaker 1: You know what's something interesting.
Speaker 2: When God visited look at the details of men, looked
Speaker 2: at the status of mankind.
Speaker 1: You know what he saw. He saw the need for redemption.
Speaker 2: He saw the sins the way that's down, He saw
Speaker 2: the need of a savior.
Speaker 1: You see the big.
Speaker 2: Problems that we have right now in the world, Poverty,
Speaker 2: lack of education, war, disunity, terrorism, climate change, and all
Speaker 2: those things are legitimate problem. But if you look at
Speaker 2: its very core, it's sin. Sin destroys our relationship with God.
Speaker 2: Sin destroys our relationship with people. Sin destroys our relationship
Speaker 2: with God's creation. Sin destroys and separates. And when God
Speaker 2: saw that, he saw the need to pay the penalty
Speaker 2: for our See, since that's why it says they're redeemed.
Speaker 2: The word redemption means God paid the penalty for our
Speaker 2: sins through Jesus Christ, so that we could live a
Speaker 2: free life, no longer under the slavery of sin, but
Speaker 2: under the freedom of the price that Jesus Christ is paid.
Speaker 2: So Lord, when he visited, he saw that the need
Speaker 2: to be redeemed, and then let's continue the verse. Avidito
Speaker 2: Verses sixty eight sixty nine. Less it be the Lord
Speaker 2: God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed the
Speaker 2: people and has raised up a horn of salvation for
Speaker 2: us in the house of his servant.
Speaker 1: David.
Speaker 2: You phrase now horn of salvation is another way of
Speaker 2: saying the Messiah. Now a horn of an ox looks
Speaker 2: something like this. The horn that the ox has it
Speaker 2: he it uses it to defend oneself against any predators,
Speaker 2: and at the same time it uses these horns to attack.
Speaker 2: What is God saying here, sa Verso he has raised
Speaker 2: up a horn of salvation. God has raised up the Messiah.
Speaker 2: We could run to him as our defender. We could
Speaker 2: run to him as our warrior.
Speaker 1: Who would fight for us.
Speaker 2: A new application astin do you need someone to fight
Speaker 2: for you? Do you need defending? Before we even tap
Speaker 2: our connections, let me encourage you.
Speaker 1: God has raised up the Messia. We can run to
Speaker 1: him as our defender. We can run to him as
Speaker 1: our warrior, and he will fight for us.
Speaker 2: And the Bible says, okay, that we are more than
Speaker 2: conquerors through him.
Speaker 1: If God is for us who.
Speaker 2: Could be against us. He has raised up a horn
Speaker 2: of salvation. He could be our defender, he could be
Speaker 2: our warrior, and we are victorious in him. Look at
Speaker 2: the other verses seventeen to seventy two, as he spoke
Speaker 2: by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
Speaker 2: that we should be saved from our enemies and from
Speaker 2: the hand of all who hate us. To show the
Speaker 2: mercy promise to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant.
Speaker 2: At the very heart of God's redemption was his mercy.
Speaker 2: Can you tyrnity diem case?
Speaker 1: That is a mercy.
Speaker 2: Mercy is God's goodness for those people in distress. When
Speaker 2: he looked at the condition of mankind, he saw scram a.
Speaker 1: The sin is going to destroy them.
Speaker 2: Their sin is going to separate them from a relationship
Speaker 2: with Me.
Speaker 1: And because of his mercy.
Speaker 2: He chose to redeem us. And that's what God's mercy is.
Speaker 2: God's mercy is always meant to bring us to repentance.
Speaker 2: And Lord wowin goodness for those who are in distress.
Speaker 2: That's God's mercy in our lives. And then look at
Speaker 2: this action words or verbs almost every.
Speaker 1: Verse Maron.
Speaker 2: As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets
Speaker 2: from of old, that we should be saved from our
Speaker 2: enemies and from the hand of all will hate us.
Speaker 2: To show the mercy promise to our fathers, and to
Speaker 2: remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to
Speaker 2: our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered
Speaker 2: from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear.
Speaker 1: What can we see here? God spoke, God promised, God remembered.
Speaker 2: And then God acted. Question my word bussy guid the
Speaker 2: binni gay seo. Maybe through your quiet time, through your
Speaker 2: victory group prayer and fasting my word dong nigay slor
Speaker 2: my promise, bussy God satin. It's a family, natin's business.
Speaker 1: It's a school. Let me encourage you with this.
Speaker 2: If God said something, if God promised something, he will
Speaker 2: remember it and he will fulfill it at his own time,
Speaker 2: in his own ways, in accordance to his will. That's
Speaker 2: what we can see here. Not only that, what else?
Speaker 2: And we notice most of the verses are in the past, tense, redeemed, visited, delivered, spoke.
Speaker 1: That's hard.
Speaker 2: Zacharai here was saying, Lord, thank you for the redemption
Speaker 2: that we already have.
Speaker 1: Thank you for delivering us. Thank you for raising up
Speaker 1: the horn of salvation. Someone who will fight for us,
Speaker 1: someone who will be our defender, Lord Salamata.
Speaker 2: You know why that is interesting? Remember because when Zachariah
Speaker 2: wrote this down, they were still under the Roman Empire.
Speaker 2: The whole nation is still being abused, the whole nation
Speaker 2: are still being enslaved.
Speaker 1: What does it mean?
Speaker 2: Zechariah was making a declaration in a past tense. It's
Speaker 2: as if already God did it, But in reality it's not. Lord,
Speaker 2: thank you for redeeming us, redeem they're under the Roman Empire.
Speaker 2: In fact, mammatizes Zakara magrestoxy Jesus.
Speaker 1: Lord, thank you for delivering us.
Speaker 2: Deliver in fact, couple of chapters after there's going to
Speaker 2: be a census and babies are gonna get killed.
Speaker 1: What delivered? And you know what for some of us here?
Speaker 1: And let me tell this, even me versus, this is hard.
Speaker 2: When we declare things that are not as if they are,
Speaker 2: when we declare things that are already done, when in
Speaker 2: fact the situation in front of us says otherwise. Lord,
Speaker 2: thank you for providing for us, providing Look at you
Speaker 2: what's in front of you, Uda Bayaren eighteen papers the paylists. Lord,
Speaker 2: thank you for reconciling my family, reconcile you just had
Speaker 2: a fight last time.
Speaker 1: Lord, thank you for healing me healing And that's that's
Speaker 1: why it's hard.
Speaker 2: And I think it's hard also for Zachariah. Remember he
Speaker 2: doubted the first time the angel showed up.
Speaker 1: But what made but what was different?
Speaker 2: What made him not just see what's in front of
Speaker 2: him but focus on God. It's in the first verse
Speaker 2: that we read, and his father Zachariah was filled with
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit and prophesied kuntay Lampo. Would you agree,
Speaker 2: it's so natural and easy for us to look at
Speaker 2: the problems, It's so natural and easy for us to
Speaker 2: look at the reality. But let me tell you this,
Speaker 2: when the Holy Spirit comes and fills us up, he
Speaker 2: changes our perspective. We don't disregard what's in front of us,
Speaker 2: but we take into account what God said He do
Speaker 2: the spotlight and the Holy Spirit shifts from the problems to God.
Speaker 2: And my prayer is for me and my family and
Speaker 2: from all for all of us here this Christmas, Lord,
Speaker 2: I pray that we will be filled with the spirit,
Speaker 2: so that we may have a change in our perspective,
Speaker 2: that we can declare things that are not as if
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 1: That's why we can go to the campus.
Speaker 2: If you're a student, Napaka, when you go there, you
Speaker 2: see immorality, you see the the rise of unbelief. You
Speaker 2: can declare, Lord, thank you, because leaders are coming.
Speaker 1: From this campus.
Speaker 2: That's why when when there's there's there's a problem in
Speaker 2: our family, through the grace of God and by being
Speaker 2: filled by the Spirit, we can declare, Lord, thank you
Speaker 2: for providing for us. Lord, thank you for healing me. Lord,
Speaker 2: thank you for going ahead of me, for fighting for me.
Speaker 1: Again. It's hard. That's why we need to ask God
Speaker 1: fill me with the spirit. Lord. I need it. I
Speaker 1: need that it's going to be a change in my perspective.
Speaker 2: But got the next couple of verses seventy four to
Speaker 2: seventy five. It says here that we, being delivered from
Speaker 2: the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear,
Speaker 2: in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. The
Speaker 2: result of mercy and redemption is not a license for
Speaker 2: us to sin, but rather to serve Him without fear
Speaker 2: and live a holy and righteous life, Na's.
Speaker 1: Tiny God lip a macasala.
Speaker 2: But to use our life for His glory and to
Speaker 2: use our lives in holiness and redemption.
Speaker 1: Let me encourage for some of us here.
Speaker 2: Maybe for some of us here, we're just afraid of
Speaker 2: being a part of what God is doing. A joomunagmaging
Speaker 2: under discipleship, and for whatever reasons, mahmasiras is go besita.
Speaker 2: Let me encourage you in view of His mercy and redemption,
Speaker 2: Serve Him without fear.
Speaker 1: Serve Him without fear. For some of us here, Christmasah,
Speaker 1: there's a sin, there's an issue. Let me encourage you.
Speaker 2: Maybe this season is a time that we align ourselves
Speaker 2: to God and say, Lord, enough of this. I want
Speaker 2: to live a holy and righteous life. Serve Him without fear.
Speaker 1: Let me read the last couple of verses.
Speaker 2: He says in verses seventy six to seventy nine, And
Speaker 2: you child, for the longest time, the majority of the verses,
Speaker 2: we're all focused on God. Now it shifts to his son,
Speaker 2: and even this he needed, it's still about God. It's
Speaker 2: still it's about the next generation and how they can
Speaker 2: be a part of what God is doing. And you
Speaker 2: child will be called the prophet of the Most High.
Speaker 2: You will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
Speaker 2: to give knowledge of salvation to his people and the
Speaker 2: forgiveness of their sins because of the tender mercy of
Speaker 2: our God. Whereby the sunrise shall visit us from one
Speaker 2: high to give light to those who sit in darkness,
Speaker 2: in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into
Speaker 2: the way of peace. That's John the Baptist's rule. He
Speaker 2: is the last prophet. He will prepare the way of
Speaker 2: the Lord. He will preach the message. And that message
Speaker 2: is the same message that you and I are still
Speaker 2: preaching today.
Speaker 1: What's the message about.
Speaker 2: Forgiveness of sins, the tender mercy of God, the light
Speaker 2: coming through, breaking in the breaking through the darkness, the
Speaker 2: light guiding us, the light giving us peace. Same message,
Speaker 2: and that's what we have right now. That's what we
Speaker 2: are being reminded.
Speaker 1: Of every Christmas.
Speaker 2: The message that was declared, forgiveness of sins, the mercies
Speaker 2: of God, the light that guides the peace that we have.
Speaker 1: But while I was studying.
Speaker 2: These verses, I came to see two words that just
Speaker 2: made me sad.
Speaker 1: It's the words sit in. Look at the verse.
Speaker 2: The sunrise by the way, your sunrise is another symbol
Speaker 2: for the coming of the Messiah. The sunrise shall visit
Speaker 2: us from one high to give light to those who
Speaker 2: sit in darkness. The words sit in can still be
Speaker 2: if you study in its original language. Can also be
Speaker 2: translated as Duell's tagalog to mambai, not settel.
Speaker 1: And here's the sad part.
Speaker 2: God came with the forgiveness of our sins in his
Speaker 2: tender mercy, guiding us light breaking through. But there are
Speaker 2: people who chose to sit in darkness, dwell in darkness to.
Speaker 1: Mumbaness the darkness.
Speaker 2: In the Bible, if you study the word light, it
Speaker 2: usually means God's presence, God's goodness, God's holiness, God's truth.
Speaker 2: And of course, oppositely or on the other hand, darkness
Speaker 2: is ungodliness, immorality.
Speaker 1: Falsehood, evil.
Speaker 2: Look at here, the light shines through the darkness. But
Speaker 2: there are people who sit in darkness. Who says, Lord,
Speaker 2: worship along you give up.
Speaker 1: Bagle.
Speaker 2: When God is saying I'm going to break through your life,
Speaker 2: in your family and your company, in your campus, there.
Speaker 1: May be some of us here who choose who chooses
Speaker 1: to sit in renato damanna, that's sad.
Speaker 2: The effect of that, if you choose to stay in darkness,
Speaker 2: will produce death.
Speaker 1: It may not be physical death, but definitely it will
Speaker 1: be spiritual death.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a death of God's destiny for us,
Speaker 2: our purpose, and for some of us here. Maybe you're
Speaker 2: here and there isn't any peace here matula problem. And yes,
Speaker 2: maybe you need the rest, Yes, maybe you need a
Speaker 2: medication or two appropriately, But let me propose to you,
Speaker 2: maybe you also need.
Speaker 1: The light of the Gospel of God to shine in
Speaker 1: our hearts. Look at the verse.
Speaker 2: He gives light to guide our feet in the way
Speaker 2: of peace.
Speaker 1: Light shining through that's God's will. God wants us not
Speaker 1: to settle in darkness. God wants us not to.
Speaker 2: Stay here and will and say, Lord, Tamanato masayana, when
Speaker 2: the light has already shone through our darkness, giving us
Speaker 2: a path to peace, forgiving our sea since through his
Speaker 2: tender mercy, let me end with this declaration. I want
Speaker 2: to say, this redemption is here. God's light has already shown.
Speaker 2: God is breaking through the darkness of our hearts. God's
Speaker 2: extending his hand of tender mercy to us. You see
Speaker 2: the song of Zachariah is about God's tender mercy and
Speaker 2: how it has brought us to redemption, freeing us from
Speaker 2: since giving light.
Speaker 1: To our dark hearts. Redemption is here.
Speaker 2: God broke through, Light has come, Hope has erupted. God's
Speaker 2: calling has come. Step into the light.
Speaker 1: Don't sit in, don't dwell Welcome to Mumbai. Step in.
Speaker 1: As I end, this good news doesn't stop with us.
Speaker 1: Here's a good news this Christmas. You and I can
Speaker 1: become a John to someone else.
Speaker 2: You and I that next reunion, that next Christmas party
Speaker 2: that you would host for your company. You and I
Speaker 2: can become a John and prepare the way of the
Speaker 2: Lord for someone else.
Speaker 1: To guide them to the light that leads to peace.
Speaker 1: My prayer is the hatio detO.
Speaker 2: We will utilize this time to be a John to
Speaker 2: some else as well. The same way that we have
Speaker 2: experienced the light that comes from God is the same
Speaker 2: way that we will declare His light to those people
Speaker 2: still sitting.
Speaker 1: In dwelling in darkness. Spelled our heads and let's spray Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you for today. Lord.
Speaker 2: I pray right now that you would open our hearts.
Speaker 2: There may be for some of us here who lives
Speaker 2: in thick darkness. I just feel like, right now, some
Speaker 2: of us we have you know, we have done something
Speaker 2: a sin.
Speaker 1: And let me propose to you. Wouldn't you want now,
Speaker 1: not in Delia next year? Would you agree?
Speaker 2: Let's settle it now, Let's leave it at twenty seventeen
Speaker 2: so we can enter twenty eighteen with a new light.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to pray for. Let's all about
Speaker 2: our heads and spray. Lord, I pray for that. For
Speaker 2: some of us here, maybe God is convicting you of
Speaker 2: sin you've done against him, primarily but also to someone else.
Speaker 1: Can we deal to Can we deal that sin to God? First?
Speaker 1: Say Lord, I'm sorry for this sin. Lord, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: for name that sin. To God. Lord, I'm sorry for
Speaker 1: this sin. Lord.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry for sitting in darkness, for dwelling in darkness.
Speaker 2: I believe right now, for some of us here, God
Speaker 2: is saying to you, my daughter, my son, you have
Speaker 2: dwelt in darkness for the longest time. I am shining
Speaker 2: my light upon you. Masakret means, and that's big long
Speaker 2: lily blinding us. And maybe because of that you are
Speaker 2: afraid to step forward further. And we've got is saying no, no,
Speaker 2: just stay leaves and you will see that it's much
Speaker 2: better here. Peace is here, forgiveness of sins is here,
Speaker 2: and ending love is available.
Speaker 1: Lord. I pray Door, we give up our sins. Lord.
Speaker 2: I know we're not perfect in our own will never be,
Speaker 2: but you are perfect. God. Help us serve you without fear,
Speaker 2: walk in holiness and righteousness.
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