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- Sunday Morning Service
- Jeremy Richards
- Copalis Community Church
- 03 August 2025
- Philippians 3:13-16
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Chapter three of Philippians, he says in chapter 13, Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing I do, and this is what I believe is the mode of the Christian life. Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to the things that are ahead. We've been talking about this in the Christian life. We have the ability to. Because we have a lawyer, an advocate who handles our past.
We have the ability to forget those things that we are guilty of that have stained us, that have injured us. We have the ability to forget those things because they have been legally atoned for by our advocate. He is the surety. He is the down payment, guaranteeing that God the Father, that just judge, is satisfied because of Christ's sacrifice. So we can forget.
And then because we're not dwelling on the past, we can reach forward for that which Christ has for us. Okay, and in verse 14, I'm just going to move through these verses reaching towards verse 16 that we're going to be sharing on. So as a result of being able to leave the past behind, all the baggage, all. All the burden, all the sin and shame and sickness that affects our souls because we can put off of that weight. Verse 14 it says, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call in Jesus Christ.
Like a hiker putting off that heavy backpack, enlightening that load. Now we can move forward towards the goal. It's described in 2 Timothy. Paul describes an athlete, right? If an athlete wants to win the prize, he must compete according to the rules that you and I as individuals, we press towards a goal.
Now that we've been enlightened from that load, we have a goal in mind. For the Christian, that goal is walking with God.
Abraham is our supreme example in the faith of someone in the Old Testament, showing what the Christian life is like. The goal for the Christian is to walk before God. But you and I know that, that God is a just God. He is a consuming fire. He is an individual who burns up every everything all around Him.
Even those angels withstand in his presence must have protective covering to exist there. They have the wings which cover their eyes and their feet because they need that protective covering to stand in the presence of holy God. Our goal is to win the prize. The prize is to. To have this relationship with God.
For the Christian, the goal is to walk with God. That is the goal. To have a relationship with God Almighty is the goal for the Christian. I'm not saying that other people don't have other goals, but what I am saying is for the Christian, the goal is to know him. Some people have goals.
They want to have this or that. They want to have a certain amount of security or emotional support. They want to have relationship. And setting those goals up for them, they push for them. Right?
I'm not saying those things are necessarily bad, but for the Christian, that individual who Christ calls, the goal is to know God, but as a consuming fire that is not possible except for the work of Jesus Christ. It says, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. This call that God calls us on is only possible through that work of Jesus Christ, enabling us to come before God who holy and righteous in his sight because of Jesus sacrifice. Okay, still working towards verse 16. It says, Therefore, let us, as many as are mature, have this mind.
Have this mind. The truth is, you and I probably, if we're absolutely honest, could probably describe ourselves as being old, right? But being old is not necessarily the same as being mature.
It does say in Proverbs that the glory of young men is their strength, but the glory of old men is their gray head. Right, but just because you have a gray head, everyone hears what I'm saying, right? Just because. Well, just because your hair is a gray does not necessarily mean you're wise. Yes, that's true.
It hopefully means that we've learned something in this long life that we've had here on this earth. Hopefully so, but not necessarily so. The truth is, by this time many of us ought to be teachers, right? According to Hebrews. But we have come to need milk and not solid food.
The honest truth is the number of lessons that God has brought us through. We should be fairly wise by now. But some of us are like the Israelites in the wilderness, that the lesson was supposed to happen around the mountain one time, but instead they were there more than one time, traveling around the mountain, learning the same lesson or hoping to learn the same lesson over and over again. But even though you and I, I believe, ought to be more mature than we currently are, we are still to push forward where we are. The goal is not to dwell on whether or not we learn the lessons well the first time, but to continue to learn the lessons that are in front of us.
In verse 15, it says, Therefore, as many of us are mature, have this mind, and if anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. That God is so gracious to find us where we are and to continue to teach us and train us, no matter what position we find ourselves in. He is a gracious and Kind God, no matter how many times we've fallen back, that he is still revealing his heart to to ours in a graceful and a kind way, speaking to us. Okay, so let's read verse 16. Verse 16.
It says, nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind. Let's pray.
O Father Lord, we do come to you, Father Lord, recognizing, Lord, that we should probably be in a different spot than we currently are. That sometimes we've been sluggish or hard to learn or distracted, we've been deceived at times and went astray, O Lord, even so, Lord, I pray youy would teach us your ways today, Lord, in Jesus name. Amen. So it says, nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained. The truth is, if you have come into and have had an interaction with Jesus Christ, that you have been changed, right?
Individuals have at times come into a relationship with a certain kind of individual. It just seems like no matter how long you may have spent with that person, they leave some sort of an impact on you. They rub off on you. You remember them. They either teach you, hopefully in a good way, but they move you forward because of their integrity, because of their wisdom.
In some way, they influence you in some way. And the truth is, no one can come into a relationship with Jesus Christ and not be changed in some way. That if we look and read Scripture, that in his ministry on earth, he impacted every individual in every circumstance that he came into. It might have just seemed to be a random encounter. It might have been a person in need that called out to Him.
It may have been him just passing by at that strange moment in time. But every individual that he comes in contact with, he impacts. You can't come in contact with Jesus and be the same person. He changes everybody from the quality of his own person. He leaves everyone changed.
And it has to be that way because you and I, before we came contact with Jesus, had our own way of doing things. Jesus is described as being the stone which the builders rejected. We at one point in our life were going our own way. We had our own viewpoint of what is right and wrong. We were doing things according to the course of life that we thought best.
And then there came Jesus Christ. He was to us at some point in our life, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. We had to deal with this person who claimed to be the way the truth and the life in that he is not claiming to be a way, a truth or a life. He is absolutely making the cognizant decision to say, I am the only way, I am the only life, I am the only way to the Father. No one can come to the Father except through me, to you and I who have been bred or maybe live in a culture of multiculturalism where every road seems to them lead to Rome, where one way is just as good as another, that as long as you put your heart into whichever path you're on, eventually you're going to lead to a place of happiness.
Jesus speech. His words are confrontational and we stumble on them. We're having to grapple with this truth that this individual 2000 years ago is claiming to be the only, only way to God. He says that the thief came to steal, kill and destroy. But Jesus said, I have come that you might have life in abundance.
And you and I at some point have had to grapple with that stone. We stumbled over it. We're going through our life minding our own business, happy as far as we could be. And then we hit this stone in our path. And if you are like me, you have had to grapple with the effects of hitting that stone.
Some have chosen to reject Jesus altogether. Jesus says that if you stumble on that stone, you will fall. But upon whom that stone falls, it will grind him to powder. It is a life changing stumbling. But the result of that stumbling has eternal implications.
Every one of us at some point stumbles upon Jesus Christ. But what you do after you stumble has lifelong implications here, but also eternal ones there. Some of us have believed that Jesus is the individual that he says he is and have chosen to make Him a foundation. He is that firm foundation. The apostles being the foundation and Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone upon whom the whole church is fitted and built upon it.
Says you and I, if we have come to follow Christ, we have chosen to to build our life on Jesus commandments because we believe that he is a stone unmovable. And Jesus says that those who build their life on him, who obey his commandments are like those individuals when the floods and storms of life come upon us, that that stone remains firm. It does not move. And so those of us who have chosen to build our life on the rock recognize that when all the stuff that normally affects people in our world, that we have a foundation that's firm, that's lasting. When wars and rumors of wars tend to terrify other people, we have stone.
We have a foundation that's firm when sickness and death seem to be knocking at our door, we have a stone. We have a rock that lasts even through death. When relationships, issues and emotional stress come upon us, that stone to us is a friendship that is more important than the closest ones we may build in this lifetime. Jesus, if you have come to him, if you have embraced him as your rock, he has left you in a certain place, it says in verse 16. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, you and I, if we have come into a relationship with Jesus Christ and have built our life upon that foundation, he has placed us somewhere.
He has built us somewhere. And here Paul is saying, to that degree that you have attained to that level, that you have been able to plant yourself in the firmness of that foundation, we need to hold onto it. We need not to be encouraged like Jesus. Encouragement to in Revelation to that church, it says in chapter three and to the church of Sardis, be watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die. For I have not found your works perfect before God.
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Hold fast and repent. Therefore, if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. And so my encouragement, my hope in this scripture today is to the degree that you have attained to that level, that Christ has been a foundation to you. That even though these waves seem to be rushing over you, though it seems that the floodwaters come up quickly in your circumstances, though it feels like the storm is threatening to shake even the foundations of the world, my encouragement to you and I in the midst of the difficulties that feel extraordinarily real, is to hold on to the stone.
Because it is a rock that eventually, according to, if you remember that vision of Daniel, even the governments of the earth, right? The head of gold, the torso of silver, the legs of bronze, right. The feet of bronze mixed with clay, all those kingdoms will be shaken. Cracks will begin to fall to form, things will begin to break apart and fall. But there is a rock made without hands, and it comes forth and is growing up as a mountain, and it fills the whole earth.
That stone and that foundation is Jesus Christ, and it will last forever. In the midst and in spite of the difficulties you are in, if you can hold fast to the stone, you will still be there when the kingdoms have left. Daniel was a picture of that stone. Here he was just a young man described, I mean, taken from Jerusalem, right? But he held fast to that stone.
He is a picture of holding fast to that stone. And he as a young man gained prominence in the kingdom, in the administration of the most powerful kingdom on earth. That king passed, but Daniel was still holding to the stone. He became prominent in the next kingdom of the Medes and Persians. That kingdom passed, but Daniel held fast to the stone.
And then in another kingdom, he also gained prominence. He is going through difficulties, thrown to the lions, persecuted, treated terribly, confronting death and destruction at every turn. But he held, held fast to the stone. The stone held fast and could not be shaken. And so you and I, to the degree that you have learned to hold and walk with Christ.
Christ, don't let go. It may be that it seems that your faith is small. Don't worry about that. Small faith can hold on to something strong. Don't let go.
The only thing that really has lasting value in the life that I personally believe will endure till the end is that work of Jesus Christ. Don't let go. To the degree that you have already attained, don't let go. The only thing that has real value. Don't let go.
I believe that in the end, if we hold fast, the storm will eventually blow itself out. It may feel like it's going to last forever, but it passes. But the foundation is still there when the storm is gone. Here at the church we have one of the benefits. Now, I'm not absolutely sure it's entirely true, but I like to think that we live at and have the house that is at the lowest elevation on the west coast.
I'm not positive, but I think so. That we have the unique privilege of being under high water, Mark, at high tides. Right now we have a blessing that there is a road built here, right? And the road keeps the high tide out of our cars, Jason, most of the time out of our house, right? But we have the courage, we have the thankfulness that if we can just hold on three more hours, the tide's going to go down.
Everywhere else in the Midwest, they get a flood. It may be there for weeks, but not us. When the tide goes down, it's going to be passed. If you can just hold on, Jesus will still be there and the storm would have blown itself out eventually. Okay, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule.
There is a rule in the Christian faith. There is an absolute rule. It is not like those religions that are man made which have many rules. The Christian life has one rule. But for you and I to walk in the Christian life, you have to walk according to the rules or there is no crown.
If you break the rules, there is no reward in the Christian life.
Let's see, in John 14, Jesus clarifying that with just a small statement. He's definitely talked about it before in chapter 13, verse 31. So when he had gone out, Jesus said, now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and glorify him immediately. Little children, I shall be with you only a little while longer.
You will seek me. And as I said to the Jews, where I am going, you cannot come. So now I say to you a new commandment I give you that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
By this all will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another. The rule in the Christian life is that everything done has to be done in love. We see in the in 1 Corinthians 13, in that love chapter. Love is patient, love is kind, love is forgiving, and it goes on. Maybe as good a translation or something that should be added is love is always patient.
Love is always kind. Meaning there never is an excuse for the Christian to act out of character. There never is an excuse to not be patient. No situations that confront us should ever stress us to the position that you are not kind. I'm just going to go ahead and read it.
In 1 Corinthians 13. Because you and I at times justify unloving behavior. Yes. Yes.
In verse 4 of chapter 13, love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself. It is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
You and I are called, if we're called, to walk and run a race with Jesus Christ. If you have been called to place his yoke upon you to follow him. You have to recognize that the rules of walking with Jesus is always to love. In every circumstance, in every situation. You cannot be plussed or frustrated to a place.
He cannot be frustrated to a position of not loving. He always loves. If you and I want to walk with Jesus, the only way to gain the advantage of that relationship is by walking with him. And the only rule that he has with walking him is to love. That means a couple things.
Number one, that John says that you. You cannot Say you love God and hate people. Everyone tracking with that. There is no justification. There is no amount of prior prejudices or hurt.
There is no example of enough pain or enough reasoning to give yourself the right in the Christian life to hate another person. Jesus says in Matthew, chapter five, do not judge, for with the judgment you used, you will be judged. It says, do not say to someone araka, meaning you fool, for you will fall into judgment and do not say you fool. That these attitudes of hatred that you and I are sometimes forced to deal with in certain situations that we encounter, right? We're brought into a situation where our attitudes, our prejudices are brought to bear upon our life, right?
We have a huge amount of persuasion to try to deal with racial prejudices that you and I may have gained growing up or because of our culture. I think that's somewhat of value. There are also socially acceptable forms of prejudice that you and I tend to fall into just as much as the non socially acceptable prejudices that our society is warring against. Both of them alike are not acceptable. They are breaking the rules in the Christian life, in the Christian walk.
But we also have to remember this. Walking according to the rules have different expressions, right? In our culture. They have a twisted view of love that is not a biblical one. Jesus is asking us to walk in a biblical form of love.
That biblical form of love expresses itself in different relationships, different ways. We're not necessarily fawn over people or treat them as a mushy thing or say, everything's right. Love is love. No, there is a biblical form of love. In that biblical form of love, you and I are asked to respond to people around us in biblical ways, which is love.
Husbands are told to love their wives, always love them, whatever circumstance it says. Don't be exasperated, don't be frustrated. Don't let those things deprive you of the walk of Christ in loving your wife. Wives are told to love their husbands by respecting them. To put that into practice.
Parents are told to love their children by training them, by disciplining them in a biblical way. Children are told to love their parents by respecting and honoring them, which brings about a promise and a blessing in their life. Employers are told to love their employees, and employees are told to love their employers in a way that honors God. Love is the rule in every aspect of the Christian life. You must love.
And when you find yourself hating through disobedience, you have left that benefit you would have received by walking with Christ. I'm a selfish person. I want to be with Stacy all the time, right? I love being with her. And that benefit that I get from.
From being with her, I lose when I'm walking in a different path than she is. And so that benefit from a relationship that is so much better than a husband and wife relationship, we leave the benefit of that walk when we spend it in time hating other people. Okay, the law. Back to Philippians. One more thing we're going to talk about as we go through this verse here.
Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind. Let us be of the same mind. We remember that saying, Rodney King, I believe. Why can't we all just get along?
Why can't everyone receive signs like, if everyone would just do what's right, if everyone would just put their socks in the laundry basket, turn them right side out, two socks right side out in the laundry basket, there would be no mess, right? Everyone just do what's right. Pick up your own trash. But that's not how it works. In order to be of the same mind, we have to have the same authority.
The same authority. I'm going to go to 1 Corinthians, chapter 2 in 2 Corinthians 2:12.
These things we also speak not in word which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches. Comparing spiritual things with spiritual but the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. Those are the benefits of being a Christian. For having a spiritual mind, it says in verse 16.
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ, that which is over the body, the church is Jesus Christ. Go to Ephesians just to kind of talk about this a little bit longer. And he is talking about those spiritual gifts that Jesus gave to men as a result of that spiritual work, that victory which he accomplished over the devil in the lower parts of the earth. In chapter four of Ephesians, verse 13, it says, Till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we should no longer be children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men, in cunning craftiness, of deceitful plotting, but speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things into him who is the head.
That we believe as Christians that in order for us to walk in unity we have to come under the same head. It says there are diversity of gifts but there is only one head. There is one head that controls the the entire body of Christ. I'm going to give everyone just a little bit of a spoiler alert. That is not a man that essentially every other religion as far as I know about claims divine abilities for an elected or appointed leader.
In those religions they say that, that that individual or sometimes that group of individuals can never be wrong.
Every religion they have a divine. They say they have the divine ability to govern on behalf of God. Where in Christianity there is no physical.
There are individuals who walk with different gifts within Christchurch. But there is no man made authority in Christchurch that every denomination will perish in the same way that those temples in Israel were destroyed. God does not respect persons. He is the undisputed and only head of his church. And when a group of individuals strays from out underneath that authority of that strain is the same as what happened to all of those temples beforehand.
That you and I have to understand that Jesus Christ singularly is the head of his church. And no group of individuals or individuals can stand in between God's church and Jesus Christ. That Christianity is unique. That no matter what happened to a million rulers or a million pastors, a million churches being destroyed on the same day, Christ's church stands unscathed. He is still the undisputed and all time head that everyone could die.
But Jesus still stands alone as the head of his church, commanding and speaking comfort to his church under him. I hope that makes a little bit of sense. Listen, if your church or denomination boasts an individual who claims to have authority that only belongs to God, that authority is being stolen from Jesus Christ. It is being robbed from him. And you are putting yourself under an individual.
A man with carnal lust and selfish ambition. Individuals who deprive and defraud and steal and rob. But Jesus Christ is the same today and forever and always. His goal has been to give of himself to his flock, leaving the 99 to spend his life on behalf of other people.
That mind of Christ, back to Ephesians, just to close the church of God is under Christ's mind. It says let us be of the same mind. First of all that mind has to be cognizant. It has to be rational. It has to be something that understands its own motive and direction.
It is not something that has no rationalization. Everyone tracking it has a perspective and goals on life. It has ways in which it does things and does not. And Christ's mind is the same way. It is revealed to you and I in his church in different ways, everyone tracking.
But it is revealed cognizant cognitively. It is also something that does not change.
Since the day of Jesus Christ. He has operated with the same mindset and frame. Those civilization have changed. Though science has been twisted and changed and gone here and there. Christ's church and the law in which he governs his church and has stayed absolutely consistent.
It does not change. There is no manifesto that says, whoops, in 1500 we made a mistake. So now these are the new rules for the church. No. That Christ's church is governed in the mind of Christ by the word of God.
That that Bible that we have is a trustworthy source of God's mind for us in his church. We live in a robbing culture, in a culture that is depriving Christians of the ability to discern what is true and false. They are saying that the Bible is not trustworthy even though it has not changed for 2,000 years. They're trying to deprive you and I of the ability to trust Scripture. They are saying no man's reasoning or the coalition of people gathering together.
If we can get enough people to agree, enough denominations, enough people to discern that, hey, we actually have better ways. No, as a church we have to be under the mind of Christ, given to us and explained to us through Scripture. But it is also revealed to us through His Holy Spirit that that he in the lives of every individual, that his mind is brought to our Spirit and it agrees with Scripture that He is bringing us all under that same authority. Where you see Christ, the foundational aspects of Christ's authority attacked, where you see people uprooting and throwing away portions of Scripture, where you see doctrines being discarded at the same time, you have to recognize at the very same moment, in every one of those instances, Christ's authority has also been trampled on. You will see in every one of those circumstances that they begin to lift up someone else or some other way.
They will begin to say, Jesus Christ the one way, but then there is the other ways. We have to hold to the authority of Jesus, the mind of Christ as revealed to us in the Scriptures and through His Spirit in our lives.
We're going to close there. Just want to read this verse one more time. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the Same mind. I personally believe, you know, having experience in this church, that its foundation was a desire to put these things into practice.
That Newt left what he had, his career, his finances, the benefit of just living a young life, and instead he became an itinerant preacher. And he traveled to Kapelis and Wishcah, up past Quinault, Clearwater, and he became a preacher. He invested himself in bringing the gospel to a very out of the way place called Kapelles. And as a result of that made an impact that we are still feeling today because of his sacrifice. And I believe that this has been a desire in him, but also in leadership since then, to bring people to the fullness of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, to teach people to walk into love and try to maintain a church that's founded not on the decision making of individuals somewhere else that are saying that the Christian precepts are no longer applicable, but on the word of God.
And I feel from the elders that I have interaction with here in this church that our goal is to continue that tradition no matter what happens outside of our area. That you and I know that if you've been in a store lately, if you drove anywhere lately, that there's certain things that are changing in our culture. Well, there is change happening if you've been alive more than five years, right? But the church aims to be a place where those solid foundations, that solid foundation that were given to us first through the apostles and then after them, through teachers and people, authority that God has put in our lives, that we desire to maintain that you have to understand that our goal is to continue that biblical tradition as long as we are able and living here. And I'm going to close with that.
One way, I think I will just do communion, but one way, I personally, as an elder, and I hope that I can speak in some way of the similar vein of the rest of the elders, that that is where this church is going, that is going to lead this church in eventually to a collision with culture. Yes, it already has. It's not going to get any better. There may be a Josiah that God brings into the kingdom that maybe reverses things for a season, but unless sin is dealt with, no strongman can reverse the course that this country is going. Unless there is a reformation, unless there is a genuine revival in the hearts of people, no strongman can reverse that course.
If you look at Josiah, what a man. If anyone could have done it, it would have been him. Look at Hezekiah Hoya. That's not who we necessarily have right now. And so as we take communion, I feel that communion is absolutely an identification with the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
That it is a participation, it is a public display of a participation with Christ's death. That as he died on the cross, he called us to participate with him in his death. In our daily walk, he's saying, come, follow me. And when we take communion, it is a declaration that the course of walk that I engage in is one that is dictated or governed by Christ's death. That as he died, we also die and we take a public decoration.
That I choose to die with Christ no matter what. That is a real thing. It is not a snack or an appetizer before lunch. It is a decision. I choose to walk with Christ.
And I think it's important to gauge whether or not with this church, if you're headed in the same direction or not. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm not trying to necessarily ask, but it is important to know that if this is the way the church is going, that if I want to walk with that church, that's a decision that I want to go in. Right, that's important. But also we have the cup, which is a public display of a participation in the blood of Jesus Christ. That you and I, no matter how well we have said we want to walk.
Well, like Peter, I will never deny you. The truth is, no matter how forcefully we made that declaration, it wasn't just a minute later we were denying Christ before a servant girl. Right? That's all of us. And so the blood of Christ cleanses us from that sin.
It washes us from the iniquity we put our trust. It's our declaration that though we walked in a way that was sinful and wrong, that we walk before God as holy, as just, as cleansed, as forgiven, based only on the blood of Jesus Christ. So if that is your declaration, if that's what you want to say, that you follow Christ, that you depend upon his blood, that in your sinful activities where you turn is to the cross, not to self inflict inflicted punishment, then I believe that's something that you and I should publicly present to other people through communion. So we're going to pray and then we're just going to open that up. Oh Father.
Lord, we do just come to you, Lord, in such a, I think, such a simple way, but an important way for us to understand. Lord, help us, Lord, in our frustration and our anger, to know that Jesus Christ only walks one way, in love, Lord, that he is the undisputed and only authority of his church, that no man stays in the way between a servant of God and the Father. Only Jesus Christ, the intermediate, the intercessor. Oh Lord. And we just lift up this time of communion that it would be something that is powerful in our lives.
In Jesus name, amen.