We have sung to him, now let's bow our heads and heart and talk to him. Our Father, it is such a privilege to be able to come into your presence this morning and to bow before the God who was and who is to come. Well, bow before you this morning, Lord, and we're not used to bowing because we usually don't give way to anyone, yet it is much easier to do for you, to you, before you. As we remember that you are the one who spoke and the earth and the universe came into existence. We bow before you because you are the one who, with the least exertion of your power, cause the beauty and the order. God we honor you. And we praise you this morning as the Father who is Almighty, all knowing, all loving. The one who is the Almighty God who cares for his people, who praise you today, Father, for your grace. We thank you that you never changed. You never changed in relationship to us, yet Father, we never fully understand all that you are doing. Your ways are not our ways, our ways are not yours, and so Lord, you keep us in suspense from time to time, and that reminds us that you are suffering. So we come before you today, not wishing to tell you what to do, but to be influenced by who you are, to be changed. Father, we don't want to come here today and just play church. We have come to worship and we have come to be instructed and we have come to have all of our lives reordered and reprioritized in front of you. We live our lives before you. And Lord, we pray that you would teach us, that you would mold us, that you would do whatever it is, that you want to do to conform us with the image of Christ. Because we are yours. Father, make us open and teach us. We confess our sins, and Lord, we know that this week, sometimes we haven't listened carefully. Sometimes, we didn't even go to you to ask your opinion, or to look into your word. And so, Father, we confess, and yet today, we lean on the grace of Christ. We look back at the cross and know that all judgment for sin was taken there on the shoulders of the Son of God. So as your people, we confess, and we ask that you would continue to work now in our lives. Father, we have many requests. You know each one of us, you know those in this room who are aesthetically excited because of the things that are going on in their lives, new jobs, new opportunities, and Father, great blessings, and others who wonder why the roof seems to be caving in on their lives. You know each one of us. Our lives are all different, and yet you, you manage them all, and we pray that Lord, you would cross our paths where we need you, open our hearts to you, and teach us, and show us that you care, and help us to listen to your voice. Father, this morning, as we sit before your word, we pray for the one who stands in front of your people, forgive him his sins, and use one who is finite to communicate your infinite truth. And as we give of our offerings now, Lord, we are so thankful for all that we have and know that Lord, you've given us more than we could ever repay, and that's the point. We give not to repay, but we give because we love, and we pray that you would use these things to bring honor and praise and glory to your name as we pray in Jesus name. Thank you very much, orchestra and choir. We are ready together to look into God's word. So if you have your Bibles, will you take them and turn to Galatians chapter 2 verses 11 through 21, Galatians 2 verses 11 through 21 is our text for this morning. We've been studying through the letter of Paul to the Galatian Christians, and we're picking it up right here, moving into the last part of the first section of this letter. Galatians 2 verses 11 through 21. The apostle Paul says under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he was clearly in the wrong. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy, even Barnabas was led astray. When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter and in front of them all, you are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it then that you forced Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners know that a man is not justified by observing the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law because by observing the law no one will be justified. If while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not. If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker. For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live by faith and the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing. What do you do when you see a hypocrite at work and we have all seen hypocrites? Don't point to them now if they are here. But what do you do when you see a hypocrite? Do you have the tendency to just look the other way and say, well, it doesn't matter. Or are you the kind of person that will point the finger and say something? I know some of you guys are like that and you are not going to let it go. Maybe you are the kind of person when you see a hypocrite at work, you simply try not to see it. So try to go on as if that hypocrite does not exist and try to keep from becoming a cynical person. People was not the kind of person that could ever let hypocrisy go. He simply, when he saw it, had to deal with it. He was the kind of person that would confront it and that is what we find going on here in this text. As we continue our study in Paul's letter to the Galatians, we remember that this letter is the letter that saves grace. This letter is the letter that kept the early church from sweeping grace under the Jewish rug of rules and regulations of trying to impose the law back on the church. It is really a profound letter, an important letter. But in these first two chapters that we have been looking at over the last four weeks, Paul has been trying to defend his apostleship. He has been trying to defend the reality that he is an apostle on the same level of Peter and James and John in the original 12. And the reason why he has been defending his own apostleship so much is because a bunch of people followed Paul in his teaching in Galatian churches and came behind him and said, listen, let me tell you the truth, Paul can't be trusted. He taught grace, but he has missed part of Christianity. You need the law too, and so Paul has been trying to defend himself to these Galatian Christians and say, wait a minute, I am on the same level of all the eminent apostles and what I say is from Jesus and you need to listen to me, and don't listen to those other guys. He has been defending himself. And here in this last part of chapter 2, he really shows the showdown that he had with the apostle Peter. Can you imagine taking Peter on? There is somebody not to take on, it would be that Winsome Disciple, the apostle Peter, who was really close to Jesus, one of the inner three, but Paul takes him on, and I love it. It is so important. He shows here, Paul teaches here that the gospel, the good news is salvation by grace through faith alone, is the good news. And did if you go back and you add grace sometimes and not at other times, you live great sometimes but not consistently your hypocrite. That is exactly what he was calling Peter. I like the story of the older couple who had stopped by the roadside restaurant on a long trip and as they were traveling, they stopped for lunch, and then after lunch they continued on, and after several miles the lady, the wife, realized that she left her glasses back at the restaurant, and so she badgered her husband to go back, and he grumbled as men are want to do. He grumbled and he turned around and he went back, and he complained and grumbled all the way until he just about got to the restaurant when he suddenly became quiet. And as he got out of the car and started walking into the restaurant, he said, well, as long as I'm here, I might as well get my hat too. Humble pie tastes awful, and dishing it out doesn't feel very good, but that's what Paul is doing here to Peter. He's dishing out the humble pie and he's making Peter shovel it down, has to. How much is it stake here? Grace could be lost. And Paul takes on the big gun of the early church, the apostle Peter, to make sure that Grace isn't lost. We're going to take a look at two major points today, exposing ungrace and then dismantling legalism, and we're going to wrap it all up by taking a look at how, when Grace is on track in our lives, when Grace is operative, you can live the Christian life, but when Grace is not operative, when it's off track, you can't live the Christian life. It's absolutely impossible. So let's take a look, first of all, at exposing ungrace in Galatians 2, verses 11 through 14. I've got to say that some of these verses are kind of torturous verses, all right? I struggled with it. Did you, when I read this, did you kind of go, what? When you followed along when I read, I did. I said that all week. I said, what? And, but I think I know where we're going with this. So hang with me closely and we'll take a look. First of all, Paul exposes ungrace in verses 11 through 14. When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he was clearly in the wrong. But look at the situation. The four certain men came from James and used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he Peter began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision groups. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy so that by their hypocrisy, even Barnabas was led astray. And then in verse 14, we see how he came front of him. Peter had been caught red-handed with hypocrisy and the bottom line was that Peter had learned grace. He knew grace. He understood that you didn't have to keep the law and have faith in Jesus Christ. The salvation was not by law keeping him by grace. Peter knew that and go back to Acts 10. God had spoke to him and told him that what was unclean is now clean. Peter knew that. And then at the Jerusalem Council on Acts 15, where grace was supposedly settled once and for all, Peter was there. He was a witness for Paul. He knew that grace was the way we're saved, not through works, not from keeping the law. But here he has, he slips back into the hypocrisy. Now, we're not sure. It's always hard to sure if this happened before the Jerusalem Council or after. I kind of have the sneaking suspicion that happened after the Jerusalem Council. I don't know. But Peter was clearly enjoying grace. How do I know? Because he'd gone back up to Asia Minor and he was hobnobbing with Paul and all these other Gentiles. Peter, the one who couldn't even eat with a Gentile, was now having fellowship with these guys. Listen, he was eating food he'd never been able to eat before. I know he was having a great time. He's having all this Gentile food dishes that had tastes that he'd never had before and he was clearly enjoying it until some guys came from James. Who were they? That's sure. But James was pretty clearly the head of the church in Jerusalem and there was a right wing. He was always a right wing. We have a right wing in the PCA. We got a left wing, too. And we are the spiritual ones. We're right where we ought to be. We're biblical Christians here. But we've got a right wing and James had a right wing. He had a group of people that he couldn't control and these guys went up to follow Paul and they started saying, Peter, excuse me, to follow Peter as a Peter, you're eating with those guys. You're eating Gentile food. How can you do that? And Peter, Peter felt guilty and so he stopped meeting and eating with the Gentile Christians and started only eating dinner and having fellowship with the Jewish Christians, the guys who'd come to Christ from Judaism and Paul saw that and he saw that hypocrisy and said, Peter, sometimes you act like a Gentile and now you're acting like a Jewish believer. What is it with you? You're a hypocrite. You can't do that. That's the love of Paul, by the way. You don't want anybody like this? I've got some friends like this, man. You just got to be careful when you're around them because they'll nail you and that's exactly what Paul did. The Peter was sending the message, truly spiritual Christians keep this set of laws. If you don't keep these laws, you're not saved and you're not spiritual. And I don't know how he could do that. How could he send this message to the Gentile believers that they were second class, that they really, really weren't loved by God and you tell them they had done these things? But he did it. This is free, but I want to tell you why I think Peter did it, why I think he went into hypocrisy. I think he slipped back, first of all, because of his temperament. Peter read books on temperament. There's two on the table, left, out, back, Tim Lahey's book, Spirit-controlled temperament. I think Peter was clearly a sanguine and a sanguine in temperament is weak willed, great starter, lousy finisher. They want to please. They want everybody to like him and when these guys came in, Peter kind of slipped back into that temperament. When he felt their disapproval, he slipped back into the sanguine thing and started doing what they all wanted. But I think there was another reason why he did it. Why he fell into the hypocrisy and it's this, legalists, listen to me now, legalists are hard people. Legalists are hard, hard people and they're very, very difficult to resist. They're controlling, they think they know what is true and they love to find the people with the weak consciences that they can control and they will assert their power and authority over them and they found a weak one in Peter and Peter came in. Mark my words, guys, have you met a true legalist, Christian? They love you in Jesus' name if you do all the things that they think spiritual Christians ought to do. If you haven't met one yet, you'll meet them and they're hard and they're hard people to resist even with grace. The church I served in New England had a lot of ex-caplets in it and almost everybody who grew up Catholic went to the prokial school, the Catholic schools. And every one of them in our church had a story about the tough nun that wrapped their knuckles. You just asked, you find people who've gone to Catholic church, they have a tough nun story and they're great to listen to. I'm sure that things are different today. But legalists are very hard people and they're difficult to resist or controlling. They think that God is hard on them, therefore they are hard on themselves and because of that, they're going to be hard on you and it doesn't bother them to be tough because God's tough. I've heard God describe as a cop by legalists, he's a heavenly father, but a legalist looks at God as a cop. I like the story of the old Persian ruler who wanted to impress a visiting dignitary and so he showed the official at glass cage and in that cage was a lion and right next to it was a little lamb and the guests couldn't believe his eyes, he said, how in the world could a lion a lamb be in the same cage and the ruler said, well, I believe that people of opposing opinions can coexist and get along, he said, yeah, but in the same cage, how in the world does it work? He says, it's simple. Every morning I simply put in a new lamb, guys legalists are lions. And when they find a lamb, they go to work. Make no mistake about it, they will devour until there isn't anything left and that's why Peter gave in. Now, let me give you a couple of quick necessities for maintaining grace when you come across a legalist, when you really come across that type of a person, there's something you can do. Number one, an educated congregation is a necessity in the face of maintaining grace. In other words, we have to know grace, we have to study this, we have to understand grace so that we can pass it on and when we see a legalist, we'll know what to do. You all need to know this, not just me, I need not only to be the one talking about grace, we all need to know it, an educated congregation can confront, ungrace when it sees it. Secondly, a bold leader, Paul was a bold leader, so when he saw legalism and ungrace, he confronted it. I mean, there are times when you and I simply need to be a leader when we see legalism and you say, well, I'm not a leader, but you can be, when somebody's being legalistic, you can say, that sounds very legalistic to me and the eyebrows of the legalists will go up. And the rest of the people who've been educated will say, ah, yeah, you're right. And you'll be like Paul, not giving into it for a moment. The third necessity for maintaining grace is an awareness of the consequences of ungrace. If we're aware of the consequences of ungrace or legalism, guys, we're more likely to do something about it when we see it, I want you to know that legalism stinks, it smells. People who are legalists bring a stench with them into the church. Instead of the sweet smelling aroma of God's grace and forgiveness and love, the legalist brings a controlling attitude into the church where people are destroyed and treated like objects that if you will live up to my standard, then maybe you're okay, legalism smells. Guys, when a church becomes legalistic, the Holy Spirit goes and he finds a group of people who will let grace reign. That's what we have to be aware of, the consequences of ungrace so that we don't tolerate it nor allow legalism to rule in the church. It's important to watch yourself on this, even a spiritual person like Peter could become a legalist and we've got to watch our leaders. I like the story of the business executive who went skiing and fell and hurt his leg. I don't think it was a treat that jumped out to get him, but he hurt his leg and he came back and called his doctor because the swelling wasn't going away and the doctor told him to soak it in hot water. He tried soaking it not water, but it got worse and worse and worse. The business executive's maid saw him limping and she said, well, I don't soak it in hot water. I've always put ice on him, soaked it in cold water, so he started doing it and everything got better. That's the day he called his doctor and he said, Dr. Smith, you told me to soak in hot water and it got worse. The maid told me to soak it in cold water and it got better. The doctor said, it's amazing. My maid told me to soak it in hot water. It's important that we understand who our leaders are and our life and who influences us. It's really important because even spiritual people can lead us astray and can become legalists. Well, that's how Paul exposes ungrace. Now what he does is he gets more argumentative and he dismantles legalism. He goes at it more argumentatively here in verses 15 through 21 and I just love this. Let's take a look closely at how he pulls it apart and then we'll see how it applies to our life. Galatians 2, 15, we who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, know that a man or woman is not justified by observing the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law because by observing the law, no one will be justified. Some of you who have tender consciences might be saying, was it really right for Paul to attack Peter in public? You know, it might have been at an after church dinner, it might be a potluck supper or a present turn. Don't call it that. We call him cover dish suffers. We don't believe in luck. And so it probably was at a cover dish supper after church on Sunday but what happened was that Peter really was ripped off in front of the whole congregation and some of you are saying, that's not right and I want to tell you it was right. See, private sins are dealt with in private but public sins are dealt with in public. Paul did the right thing. How does he tackle Peter? He tackles him by first of all defending Christ as the only answer in verses 15 through 16. He defends Christ as the only answer. And the argument is this because it sounds kind of super spiritual when Paul says, we Jews are not like the Gentile sinners but here's the argument he's trying to make in those verses 15 to 16. He's trying to say this. We Jews who came to Christ and became believers in Jesus Christ used to follow the law and when we follow the Old Testament law, in a sense, we were, you have to hear this now, we were less sinful than those other Gentile sinners out there. I mean, we kept the Sabbath day, we kept all the feast days, we kept all of the dietary regulations. I mean, we didn't go to the temple cult prostitutes and have sex with them as proof that we wanted to connect with God. We didn't do any of that stuff. We weren't like those Gentile sinners but even we who came to Christ from Judaism realized that we could probably be good and we could never satisfy the demands of the law. So even we had to come to the point where we recognized that someone was justified declared not guilty of their sins by faith in Christ alone. And so what Paul says when he first tackles Peter, he says, listen, even we Jews had to come to justification by faith alone. And Peter, you've been teaching the wrong thing. Romans 5, 1 and 2 says, therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Christians are people who have come to the end of themselves, guys, a Christian is not somebody who just has an intellectual knowledge of God. I believe God exists, pagans can believe that. Christians are people who believe that the God who exists is holy. And because he's holy, he's just. And he judges sinners and we can't get justified by being good. And that's how Paul dismantles legalism by showing that even crusty, hard-nulled Jews have come to faith in Christ. Craig Nancaro, the tourism director for East London, South Africa, had an idea to entice more visitors to his city's aquarium. What he decided he would do is he would get one of the workers in the aquarium to dress up like a mermaid and then publicize that there was a real-like mermaid at this aquarium. And they marketed it that way and I want you to know it worked on one day 350 visitors came. The first day, they were there. And so they were asking the mermaid all the questions and going back and forth, but when she wouldn't jump into water and swim around to show how it worked, because she was afraid their costume would get ruined, they started throwing things at it. They started throwing and got really unruly and out of hand at the director had to get in there and clear things up. The director said, most people who came knew that there was no such thing as a mermaid, but a few who truly believed in it got a bit out of hand when they discovered the truth. I thought it was a well-known fact said the director that mermaids don't exist. The editor of the newspaper where this article was found added, they don't. I suppose next you'll be telling us humans aren't descended from space aliens either. A lot of people are very, very convinced that they will be saved if they're good. And to convince them otherwise is practically impossible. The Paul dismantles this whole idea by telling them that Jesus really is all that we need for justification. He defends Christ as the only answer and then he denies that Christ is the only problem. In verses 17 through 18. Now if you have any trouble with any of these verses it's probably 17 and 18. Well what Paul does here is he tries to tell the people who have come to him saying that you've got to keep the law. He tells them that Jesus is not the problem and they have said that Jesus is the problem and this is what they've said. They said, Paul, you're telling us that justification is by faith alone in Jesus Christ. So let me get to Stray Paul. If you tell us to abandon the law then you're telling us to stop doing all of those things that got it one time revealed to us to do. And you're not only saying that but Jesus is saying that therefore Paul you're saying this. If Jesus tells us that we are justified by faith alone and not by keeping the law you're telling us that Jesus is in fact causing us or in advocating that we sinned as the way. We're going to sing from a mind. He says, if you go back and build a law structure of how to get saved, the worst righteousness you prove that you are a sinner. You don't want it in Christ, you don't want justification in Christ and you don't want it, you want it by yourself and so you're trying to earn it. You simply can't do it. Someone has said it's never so bad that it can't get worse and that's true when it comes to the law. When you guys start looking at the law of the Old Testament and reading through it, maybe you're reading through the Bible this year, what does the law do for you? How does it make you feel about yourself? When I read the law two things happen. I say to myself, I can't believe God cares about this many issues and that I've got to do this much and then I read the law and I say, yeah, but not only are these specific teachings of concern, but the spirit of the law comes out and I see not only have I broken the law, but I've broken the spirit of the law, not only if I've never killed anybody, but I've wanted to have you. I've never committed adultery, but I've wanted to have broken not only the laws of the Old Testament, but the spirit of the law, guys, has no power to save us and have the only power it has is to condemn us. Christ is the answer that we would get over that sin and be forgiven and justified. I talked to a man a couple of weeks ago when I was up in Atlanta who knows Carl Malone, the Utah Jazz basketball player, knows him personally. The contact is through his wife and one time Carl Malone was talking with him and said, hey listen, once you come over for the Super Bowl party, the guy was in Utah, he just given him some tickets and he said, kill him for the Super Bowl party and he said, now I've got to flight out the day before the game, I've got to go, I can't and he told me every time he thinks about it that he blew off Carl Malone, he just kicked himself, he just didn't take advantage of the opportunity to kill himself. The reality is, is that some people just miss it, the opportunity for forgiveness. We get a heartening of the category sometime so that we think that Christ is either the problem or that we can earn our way and false is no way. The only way that guilt gets removed is through grace. I was talking day to day to a friend who told me that he gets guilty so often when it gets cloudy he thinks he did it, maybe you're like that. The only way to get rid of it is through grace and so finally Paul dismantles legalism not only by defending Christ as the only answer and denying Christ is the only problem by describing the Christian reality. If you memorize, if you memorize scripture, you ought to memorize these three verses, okay and I'm going to read them because this is a new international. I of course have this memorized in the new American standard and I could do it that way. It would prove to you how spiritual I am if I really said it that way. But since we're using the new international, here it is. For through the law, I've died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live by faith and the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God or if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing. These are life-changing verses because they tell us that while the law condemns us when we trust Christ through faith and link up with Him through faith, what happens is that we literally are so united with Jesus Christ. We are so connected with Jesus Christ that we are connected to His death, burial and resurrection. That's why we can say we've been crucified with Him because through faith we are united with His work in the past and His work in the future and that how God works in our life is that He calls us and He changes us and then Jesus comes in and lives through us. Remember I said the Christian life is impossible without grace. If you're trying to be good and get God to be impressed with you, it's impossible to live in a way that pleases God. Let me give you a truth. Legalism never produces spiritual growth but rather retards it. Grace living is Jesus living in you and living godliness out. This was a revelation for me when I first came to understand how God wants us to live our life. That once we've become a Christian it's not by trying to keep the rules but it's recognizing that through faith Jesus was in me, that He forgave me, that my guilt was removed and now what He wanted to do was to live out through me. Guys, the Christian life is not trying to work it up, it's understanding you can't do it and asking Jesus to live out. I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I live in a flesh led by faith in the Son of God who loves me, gave Himself up for me, for you. I have to preach the gospel to myself a thousand times a week. I like the story of the lady who was walking down the street on the way to work. She went by a pet store and in the window in the open window was a parrot on a stand. He saw the lady and he said, hey lady. She turned and she looked and she said why and he said, you're really ugly. She was upset. She walked past it in a half on the way home from work, she passed the pet store again and the parrot started saying, hey lady, she said, what? She stopped on the next day. We should know it on the way to work the same thing, same parrot, lady, you're ugly. She said, that's it. She ran into the pet store. She said, manager, she said, listen, I will see this store and I will throttle that parrot of yours if you don't get them to shut up and he said, that's bad thing, I'll take care of it. On the way home from work at day, she's walking by and there he is on the perch. He says, hey lady. She stops and she glairs at him and she says, what? He says, you know. Let's pray and we'll go home. Guys, there are a number of ways that somebody during the week says to you, you know. You know you're not good. You know you're not good enough. You don't need other people because it comes from within. Your tender conscience often says you're not, you know, and what we have to understand is that the gospel, the good news, is really that you know is true but that Christ has died for us, carried our guilt, forgiven and come in. Now even though we're bad, he is and he wants to live out. Would you live grace when grace is on track in your life? The Christian life is not impossible because Christ is living out through you and when you say, you confess it and you say, Jesus, I did it again, would you live through me, change me, live through me, I'm your son, I'm your daughter. Make this thing work so I can honor you with my life. When grace is on track, we can come to accept the weak and their deformities and even ourselves. And then we can be of use to Christ. Gail Sato told me the story of a little deaf girl and in the days when they tested hearing and hearing loss in the classroom and they would line the kids up in front of the class and the teacher would go person by person and whisper something in their ear. And this little girl was definitely afraid of hearing that because of having someone come whisper to her because she couldn't hear well. She had a little bit of hearing in her right ear and that was the year she was supposed to cover. Her classmates had ridiculed her, be raided her because she failed twice her hearing test. And so when the teacher got closer, she realized that if she would let off on her ear a little bit, she could hear from her right ear just a little, you could manage to hear what the teacher said. The teacher must have understood her heart and the pain that she experienced because when she got to the little girl, she whispered, I wish you were my little girl. If we understand grace, then you will listen to the whisper of the father. And he will say, I'm glad that you're my little child. Just let me live for you. You take it to heart and let's pray. Father, this week we desire that you preach grace to us through your spirit and that we hear it again and again and again. And Lord, when the voice says to us, you know, help us to say, yeah, but Jesus came. And if we are justified any other way than he died needlessly. So father, help us to hear your voice this week. As you speak to us for we are your children, and we will sing and we will laugh as you help us understand the depths of your grace, or we pray in Jesus' name on that. Those Sunday morning is a time to teach the Bible to Christians. It's also a time for those who have heard something that strikes their hearts to deal with that. So my friends, Bob and Lewas are going to come to the front, they're going to be standing right over here. If you would like to pray with somebody about an issue in your life or on your heart, or if you'd like to know the grace of Christ maybe for the first time, they'd love to pray with you and introduce you to the Savior of the world. Now may the amazing grace of the master, Jesus Christ, the outrageous love of God the Father and the intimate friendship of the Holy Spirit go with you this week as you remember his deep love and concern for you.