My lecture.
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Good morning. I'm here a I a have you ever had one of those days?
You know it. It starts kind of bad, and then it gets worse.
I wrote down the wrong time for the start. Time number one.
I wrote 9, 30, and then I realized that I didn't have the box that I thought I had of stuff from work.
And so I went to my mom's place because I have borrowed her car a couple times, and I still didn't have the box that I thought I had.
But we made it, and I'm thankful for GPS, although I'm a little bit a slave to it.
And I think I'm spoilt, because I depend on that too much, and I don't really get to understand and know where I need to be.
My wife and my mother are natural born navigators, and they love to have a map in their hand, and they want to, and they want to read it, and they want to make sure they know everything, and my wife still does it the map even though we have the GPS, and she'll let me know Ok.
it's right we can. We can follow what they're saying.
So well, I might have to apologize to you because it looks like Ray asked me to come, and then he took off.
So I hope you are not disappointed with his choice.
Hope you don't have a word that you have to share with him.
Ask me to come and share a little bit about the work of a mass worldwide, which I am excited to do.
I am the new kid on the block. There I've been with with the Ministry for 8 months now 8 and a half months, and really excited about what the Lord has for us, and what I want to share with you is something of a burden for me and I trust that it becomes a burden for the Church
of our Savior, the Lord Jesus. He gave us a charge in Matthew 28, he said, go and make disciples.
He didn't say, make converts. You notice that I think that's kind of interesting, because sometimes, and maybe too many times, some ministries like to do the idea of making converts, and then they go off and the difficulty with that is it's like having a baby that never grows up.
I remember my sister during her High school days. She was working at a youth hospital near our home.
That was called Markland, and she was a nurse's aide.
So she was working with the nurses and helping them do whatever they needed to do.
And and they she was helping and trailing one nurse as they went around on their rounds and they went into a room, and the nurse went into the cur and into the crib, picked up the child and put her in her arms.
My sister's arms, and said, Just hold her for me, and I'm going to change her bed.
And she just made the comment of what a cute little baby she was, and as the nurse is putting the sheets on the bed, my sister made that comment about what a cute little baby she is!
And the nurse looked at her and said, She is probably older than you are, and my sister said, Well, I doubt that I happen to be 16 years old, and the nurse responded, well, she happens to be 23.
That's almost what it's like. When we don't see people enter into and go into discipleship and understand the Word of God and their relationship with the Lord Jesus, and grow in Him.
So that's the challenge that we, as the body of Christ, have to make disciples.
And what amaze Worldwide wants to do is to work with local assemblies, and wants to work with believers so that we can be involved in the business of making disciples to follow the Lord Jesus.
We focus on prison ministry, we have homeschool, which is a new thing that we're starting.
We are in our third year of it we have what we call a Connector Ministry, which is really based on the individual believer in the local fellowship, and then we have into our international ministry and what we want to be is we want to be a partner with the local fellowships so that they can be
involved in the ministry, or the charge that the Lord has called us to to make disciples.
We have some interesting things with the prison work, and it's interesting if you look at it.
Actually, one of 32 adults in the United States are in prison or on parole.
That's an interesting number one out of 32 are either in prison or on parole, what we want to do is assist those men and women to be able to develop skills of independent Bible study, so that after they come to know the Lord Jesus Christ they can be built up in him and they can they can learn to
serve him, be an example for him. We have some interesting stories and testimonies that are really something to see, though what the work of God does to work in the hearts and the minds of those people that are incarcerated.
Another interesting challenge is the idea that 2 out of 3 young people will struggle with their face when they go into college.
2 out of 3, and as I look at that, I look at the ministries that we have in homeschool and in our Connector Ministry, that is to help the local church build up those that are in their service, our homeschool ministry, is something that is building we are going to
conferences, each weekend in the spring through June, and we get to share the courses that amaze worldwide has and encourage parents to use them as a part of their curriculum.
And that's something that we want to to make available for for local fellowships.
And I brought a little bit of a sampling for something for you to consider, either as a church body or as an individual.
Things like the believers, battle with temptation. I'm sure nobody in this fellowship battles with temptation or managing anger.
God's way.
Anger can be an interesting challenge. Sense in nonsense about prayer.
A Guide to Christian growth. We want to grow and understand our walk with the Lord, and dying to self.
Just a few samples of what we have to offer and encourage individuals and local fellowships to be able to take those on and study through them, to increase their their walk in their relationship with the Lord Jesus, our international minister I have to get I have the numbers written down I'm kind.
Of impressed in odd as I look at it, we average 1.4 million courses per year globally that works out to just over 47 million.
Since I inception 81 years ago, 80% of our courses that are sent out are completed and return, and those individuals enter into a mentorship with those persons that are going to be grading their books and communicating with them.
We are in 90 languages, and we have 105 paper schools where there's a brick and mortar office in the books are distributed, we have 195 digital schools excuse me, where the app is used and internationally, and globally, individuals and believers have access to
the courses. Electronically, that's something we're considering about in the Us.
But not just yet. We're not really ready for it.
But 195, digital? Okay? So if I look at this, I think I'm done with that.
You guys are my guinea pig. I'm sorry.
This is the first time I'm doing this. I've seen Jim Fleming do it, and he sends his greetings.
By the way, but and I look at that and say, boy, you know I'm kind of like the kid watching their favourite baseball player something and saying, Boy, I wish I could do it that way.
I wish I listened to his, smooth delivery and all this, and I'm so.
But Lord, will he give me the grace and help me to go on? Another thing?
I wanted you to see, too, is along with our international a book that has been printed in Poland it's in Ukraine, Ukrainian, and we have teams in Poland that are going into Ukraine.
Delivering books to encourage the Christianians. There's you know, it's been a year since the invasion in the Ukraine, and in the first half people were exiting.
I used to work with Aana club's Internet.
I was with them for 23 years, and one of my close contacts in Ukraine had a flea, and he ended up in Latvia with his family, while his sons-in-law, Ind.
Daughters stayed in Ukraine, others left and went into Poland, as we probably all know.
And now they are going back. The people that had fled in the beginning of the conflict are going back to be a part of the rebuilding and in the defense, and our team in Poland is printing up resources to take in and encourage and build them up in their faith and to be
there as a support for them, so I would ask you to please pray for a.
Amass courses in Maya's coursework worldwide, because it's it's something that is very vital and very important.
Thank you for letting me share that now, Ray said I could bring.
Bring some thoughts from the word and I'd like to ask you if you have your Bibles to turn to second Corinthians.
Chapter 4.
And if you don't have your Bible, me God have mercy on your!
You are in second soul.
All right. So I think I understand. This meeting goes till 1030.
I think, speaking kind of fast, so I might let you out early.
1130, 1130. Thank you. Yes, all right. I'm looking at that wrong and wouldn't have to go too long, because where I parked this as a two-hour limit.
So I want to. I wanna get out. So I don't.
You know, it's very easy in the Chicago area.
You go out, and your car is not there, so I am just going to.
I'm sorry. Okay, cool, alright. Second Corinthians. Chapter 4.
Let's read verses one to 7, that says, therefore, since we have this ministry as we receive mercy, we do not lose heart, but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking and craftiness or adulterating the word, of God, but by the manifestation, of
truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God, and even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the God of this world has blinded the minds of the young believing that they might not see the light of
the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus is Lord, and ourselves as bond servants, for Jesus is sake for God, who said, light shall shine out of darkness.
Is the one who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in earth and vessels, vessels that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
God will add the blessing to a blessing to the reading of His Word.
Let's just bow our heads in our hearts and commit our time into his hands.
Father. We come before you, and we thank you for this opportunity that we have to be together.
We thank you, father, for the fellowship that we have because of our relationship with the Lord Jesus and His death, burial and resurrection on our behalf, and Father.
We just commit ourselves now into your hands. We pray, father, that you would quiet our hearts, and that you would open our eyes to the things that you want us to see.
Maybe something new, maybe something that we have already considered, but need to be reminded of.
So we do pray that you would quiet our hearts, and that you would direct us and show us something we might take from this, and go and be a light and an example for you and for your glory, and we just ask it in Christ's name Amen.
Well as we go into this chapter, we see that Paul is going and starting a discussion, and really what he's looking at is it's talking about the ministry in verse one, it says, therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received some translation, say, we have received this ministry, as
we look at it, we see that Paul is really going toward to discuss the nature of the ministry, and he's talking about the responsibility of the ministry are in the ministry.
The nature of the ministry, says that it's a glorious ministry.
It's glorious in terms of what we had to offer.
We look at chapter 2, verse 14. No, that's not where I want to go.
Yeah, I do want to go that way. We go to verse chapter 2, verse 14.
He says, but thanks be to God, who always leads us in His triumph in Christ and manifest through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him.
The Lord Jesus. In every place we go, and in chapter 3, verse 18, he says, but we all with unveiled face, beholding, as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit, he's reminding us of the
importance and the power that the ministry have, because it's a ministry that will work in people's lives and change people's lives.
He will transform us, and He will make us into His image.
So that we can be more like the Lord Jesus says that it's a ministry that we have received.
We have received this ministry, and I think that is so important to understand, because it really reminds us of where the strengths and the power comes from if we are trying to do a ministry, although it might be a good thing and it might be a good idea and it might be a good perception to
be putting out and trying to accomplish if we are doing it in our own strength.
If it's our own idea, then it's something that will not very likely succeed.
But when it comes from heaven, when it comes from above, when the Lord gives us the ministry, he gives us the idea, he gives us the direction to go.
He will give us the equipping. He will give us the strength to do what He wants us to do.
So it's a glorious mystery because of that.
And it's important for us to understand that it comes from God.
God has entrusted His work to us, he will not let it fail.
I consider the ministry of amaze worldwide.
While we started with the college 80 years ago. It goes on and on because it's strong, and it's in a relational into the heart of God to see His Word go out to see His word implanted in the hearts and lives of those that are out there that need to hear it and I am
humbled to be a part of it. I remember when I got the phone call that said we would like to talk to you.
And really the response was kind of like.
Because there are so many great men, godly men, and when I say great, not in the all kind of sense of like a baseball player, but men that have committed their lives.
40% of our library in the Emeas Worldwide Library are books by William Mcdonald, and I had the privilege of being in the Discipleship Intern Training program.
Luna years ago, and sat under Mr. Mcdonald's in Gene Gibson.
Both men were amazing. I tell you one story. I can remember this really will date me because it was back the Ptl.
Ministry failed, and there was 11 of us in that.
In that year, and we were sitting around the tables with our coffee and the newspapers, kind of just looking at all the headlines and reading through Mr.
Mcdonald came into the room, and he had, you know, he would, had a chair and put the chair and put it kind of sideways, and then he sat down, and he leaned against the wall, and he had this just had his hand up and his head resting and we're all sitting there
embarrassingly, to say almost gleeful, and we're flipping through the paper, and one of the guys said, so, Bill, what do you think about the headlines?
And he paused.
Close his eyes kind of looked up to the ceiling, and he said, Well, gentlemen!
But for the grace of God. There go I.
And you could hear 11 egos just going.
A godly man, a man that read his Bible, a man that live, this Bible, a man that served his Savior.
That's what we want to be. That's what we should want to be.
Not just in the active activity of like doing church, but in terms of taking his word, soaking it in and letting it live through us and ooze through us, and it should just kind of I don't want to say, dictate, but it should just be there in controlling what we do.
Because this ministry comes from God. One of the things we learned is that we we don't quit this is in verse one.
Therefore, since we have this ministry, we have received mercy, we do not lose heart, because one thing we have to understand that even if the ministry is comes to us through God, he gives it to us.
It does not mean that we will not face obstacles.
It doesn't mean we will not face difficulties. It does not mean that we will not face trials.
We know from the Book of James what is the writer say?
He says, count it all joy when you face trials. I don't know about you, but the first time I read that I was like, yeah, what count it all joy.
But in the trials God works in our lives and in the trials God shapes us and needs us like a baker working on the dough, pushes Janus, my wife makes great pizza crust, but boy, does she like to beat up on it when she's making
it, you know, and especially maybe if something hasn't gone right, she really boom!
She really kind of gets that. So if she's had a bad day, we're going to have some great pizza, you know.
That's it's gonna be good because he works it.
That's what the Lord does with us when it comes to trials.
It's not something that he's allowing to beat us down.
It's something that he's allowing to build us up.
It's something that he's allowing, so that we can be more like him.
We will be perfected, not in the sense of we are perfect, but we're mature and were able to handle the difficulties as they come, and we can handle the difficulties, not because we know we are strong, but we know that we have a savour.
That we can lean on.
And find strength in Him.
So when we understand that the ministry is from him.
This is where the responsibilities come in. We don't quit.
We don't not done well, we might get knocked down, but we get back up, and the question isn't, I heard one person say, and I can't remember who it was.
Question is not, how many times we get knocked down?
But it's how many times do we get up, and do we follow him and obey him?
The next thing that we see is that we don't deceive another.
The responsibility is that we don't deceive versus 2 to 4 read, but we have, but we have renounced the hidden things, the things hidden because of shame, not walking, and craftiness, or adulterating the Word of God, but by manifestation of truth, commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not see the light of the god of the glory of Christ who is the image of God
and here, you know I tried. I looked out several commentaries, and I couldn't really find a definition or a defining of the hidden things because of shame.
The idea that God, as I read through, was the fact that it was probably a a reflection on the work of the Judaizers, because they were coming in behind Paul, and and they would they would steal from his converts.
They would twist his words, and they would just make all of his work that he had invested all the time.
Yet he had invested seemed like it wasn't worth it.
It seemed like it wasn't worth it. It seemed like it didn't count.
But Paul presses on. This is a difficulty he was experiencing, and he says so that we've renounced the hidden things he wasn't going to do anything that was going to be of a selfish nature.
He wasn't doing things so that he would get the benefit he wasn't doing things so that he would be recognized.
I can't remember where I thought of it as I was driving in, but remember when, when Paul, I think it was maybe in the beginning of First Corinthians, they were.
They were claiming, saying, Well, I'm of this guy, and I'm of this guy, and I'm of this guy.
And Paul says, What's the deal with that? This guy might start the work, and this guy might do more.
This guy plants the seed, and this guy works it, and he waters it and develops it, and then this guy reaps.
But in it all it's the hand of God. It is God who is doing the work.
God is working through this one. God is working through this one.
God is working through this one. It's not a popularity contest.
You're not trying to have I read one book that said he wasn't trying to have a what do they call those things a fan club?
He wasn't looking for a fan club. He wants to see the Word of God succeed.
He wants to see the Word of God planted and developing a person's life, and grow.
So they become mature.
He renounced the hidden things he needs to. He says we're not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word.
We're not trying to twist things so that we can get something better out of you.
We are doing what we are doing because we want the truth of God invested in implanted in your life.
Not the crafty things false teachers would claim that the Word of God says this.
But they would claim the Word of God, and they would twist the Word of God so that it would accomplish their goals.
And what they wanted to do.
The past says, we treat, we are speaking the truth, but by the manifestation of truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of the Word of the Site of God.
Today. My truth is popular.
But in the Word of God the truth is popular.
Lord Jesus Christ said, I am the way I am. The truth.
I am the life. Notice the definite article, Z. I am. It.
That's what we need to be about whenever we are addressing things.
Whenever we are talking about things, it is what the Bible says.
I remember. I like. I like flipping channels late night, and there's a guy you might have heard him.
He's been kind of in the news. He's a Liberal commentator, his name is Bill Marr, and he had a show.
I can't remember the name of it, but he was the moderator, and he had 4 guests, and they would just debate topics, and as I was flipping, there was a guy on his panel, big Guy he had a t shirt and all tattooed and his t shirt
said, body piercing, saved my life!
And they'll say, that's curious.
What's he talking about? So I went back, and I was listening, and I thought he was going to come up with some kind of weird idea.
You know. But guess what body piercing he was talking about.
He was talking about the nails in the hands the nails in the feet, the sword through the side.
And I was like, Wow, this guy has guts. He is strong, and Bill Marr would say, but he, he said, do you mean to tell me that?
Not. Everybody is going to get into heaven. And he went to his side, and he pulled out his bail, and he said, No, I'm not telling you that the Bible's telling you that the Bible says, believe in Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
If you believe in your heart, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the day you will be saved.
We don't deceive. We come with the truth, but he readily admits that he won't always be successful.
Check it, he says, even if our gospel has veiled, even if we share the word with people, and it doesn't come, it doesn't.
There's no transaction. There's no somebody jumping up and saying, Oh, wow!
I need this. He says. I'm not going to worry about it because their eyes had been blinded by the way, has it put it?
The God of this world has blinded their mind.
And that's one thing that I think can be so difficult, especially when it comes to the encouragement for people to evangelize.
It's good to be an evangelist. It's good to share.
Evangelizing is not the easiest thing. There are some people that are cut out for it.
I remember working with a guy who he would, you know he would witness to a stone, and and just, you know, he just had that heart.
He had that passion. But it's interesting when Paul is talking to.
I think it's Timothy, he says. Do the work of an evangelist.
So it can be a labour it's not necessarily easy, but we are still supposed to do it were supposed to be ready in season and out of season with a word that would bring some encouragement to people, but let them know where we stand, and what we believe and why and but understand it's not always going to work.
it's not always going to come through and bring fruit.
He says it won't. It might not, he says, even if it is veiled, those that the God of this world has blinded the mind, and then it says that we might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God, some may not see.
But that's at that time. I believe that it could happen a little bit, you know, down the road.
That doesn't mean you. Stop. It doesn't mean you say, well, Ok.
I tried. It means you keep plugging. That means you keep being faithful with the message in the testimony.
Just so. People know and understand who you are serving and who you are living for.
So we we don't quit when it comes to the responsibility of ministry.
We don't deceive. We don't twist things around, and we don't promote ourselves.
Look at verses 5 and 6. It says, we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus is Lord, and ourselves as your band, servants for Jesus sake, for God, who said, Let light shut the light shall shine out of darkness is the one who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the
glory of God in the face of Christ. We do not preach ourselves, we don't do it to make a name for ourselves.
I get a little frustrated when you look on TV and see, and when they give you there the email address to to contact them through.
It's their name. It just bothers me. I'm kind of like.
Why? Are you doing this? Are you doing this for name? Recognition?
Maybe it's easy. I don't know, because you hear their name and that, but to me no, you are's. You're not doing it to promote yourself.
We are doing it because we love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us.
He loved us, and he died for us. And the Father accepted the price that was paid.
I love that verse in Romans, chapter 4, 25, I think it is when it says that he was delivered up for our transgressions, for yours, for mine.
He was delivered up.
Nailed to the cross, but he was raised for our justification.
The father said, Accepted, said, I accept the payment that was made.
That verse is so exciting, especially as we come into this Easter season, as we go and look forward next week to celebrate to death and the burial and the resurrection of our Saviour, that He was raised because the Father accepted the pain and gave us life through faith in Him.
Not only do we not only do we preach Christ as Lord, but we recognise the position of a certain.
If we want to be something in his kingdom, we will be the least.
We will not look for greatness. Think of the disciples they wanted to know who is going to sit on the right hand, who's going to sit on the left hand, but what we're supposed to be looking for, and being is just to being a servant the bond servant has the the reputation of
being so in love with the Master, and wanting to serve the Master, that when they have the ability to be released or given their free, they come and say, No, I want to stay with you.
I want to serve you, and according to the record, and all is taken, and they take the ear, and they pierce the ear, not condoning having pure steers.
But the principle is the same. Their marked.
They are identified with their master. And that's what I want to be.
I want to be identified with my Savior, the Lord Jesus, and I want to serve Him with all that I have.
We don't quit. We don't deceive, and we don't promote.
I want you to look at verse 7, verse 7, I think, is kind of extra interesting and special.
It says, but we have this treasure and earth and vessels, and the surpassing greatness that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
We have this treasure, and I thought it was interesting, as I was driving in, it kind of popped into my mind in verse one.
It says, we have this ministry, and in verse 7, it says, we have this treasure, we have this treasure, the treasure, I think that it's speaking of. There is the salvation that we enjoy through the death burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus it's the gifts that he gives us
to serve him. It's the gifts that He gives us so that we can honor him with our lives Ephesians 2, 8, and 9, are very popular verses for grace.
Have you been saved through faith? Sometimes we stop short, and we forget verse 10, verse 10 reminds us that we are his workmanship.
We are. His poem is how it's translated that we might do works that he's ordained for us to do.
We have this treasure in an earthen vessel, and why do we have it in earth and vessel?
Look at it. It says so that we, so that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not of ourselves, so that when people look at us they would understand that we're doing something that we can't do in our own power, and they can only be accomplished through supernatural
means and that's the power of God thing that I like to look at in that example is Samson.
You know, I really think when you read through it, and you get the picture in your head.
I don't know about you, but I would come up with somebody that was probably like the rock.
Okay, big bulky, you know, and his his biceps are like my sigh, you know, and he's just huge.
That's what I picture. But read through it, if that's what he looked like.
Then everybody would know where he got his strength from. Actually, Samson probably looked like me.
He's probably you know, average height, scrawny wishes that he had some muscles, but doesn't really have it, and you walk around a little bit tough that's when you kind of pushed your chest out and you kind of make people think but they'd look at him and
say, how can he do that? He's just an average wimpy guy.
It was because God wanted people to know that He was the one working through them.
And that's what it is with us. We have the treasure we have the gospel, we have salvation, we had the gifting of the Holy Spirit, and we have the message to share.
But God wants people to know that He is the one speaking.
He is the one that is moving. He is the one that's acting through us because we are just a vessel of clay.
The last 2 weeks or so has been hectic for my family, because we have had 3 funerals, one wedding, and 2 college visits, and those funerals were impactful, especially because you look.
And you're literally, when you look at the body that's in the casket, you can see what the word means when we have these.
This vessel, when we have have the clay, the earthen vessel.
The idea of clay. You can see it. You can see how the body is going to start tearing down.
I mean I see it when I look in the mirror every morning, you know.
I remember we do a lot of stuff on zoom at the office, and when I get on zoom, I'm like, Oh!
I'm like, who is that? That is not the person that I have in my mind that I have the image of.
I you know. I'm thinking of myself like 30 years ago, I guess, because it's like, Oh, boy, do I have to do some work, you know, and and so but then I have to lay down before the feeling goes away, because when it comes to the exercise, and all that you know and it takes me 15 min sometimes when I'm
sitting there. And I'm like, Ok. Stairs, her elevator stairs, her elevator.
And I've been good. I've been doing the elevator, I mean.
Sorry I've been doing the stairs I've been doing this there, so I'm I'm feeling good about that, but it's a reminder to us of the fact that it's not our strengths.
It's not our idea, it's not our power.
But it's the father.
And so I don't know how long I've taken you here.
I like to stop with a dew.
I think the dude that I'd like to leave you with is a combination of verse one in verse 7.
The do is, remember, let us take the ministry that the Lord has given us.
Remember that it's his ministry, and remember that he wants to be the one working through us, so that he receives the honor and the glory.
Because he's do it, after all. Let's pray, father, we come before you, and we thank you for today.
We thank you for another day that you have given us. We thank you, father, for the opportunity we had this morning to remember our Saviour and His death.
We thank you, father, especially as we look. We have the joy of doing that on a weekly basis.
This week the world walks into what they call Holy Week, and then Easter Sunday.
We pray, father, that this week we would be an example to those around us of the power of the resurrection in our lives.
They can experience in their lives as well. Father, we pray that you would give us opportunity to to speak the truth of the cross, to speak the truth of our Saviour in His life, and His love for us, Father.
We pray that we would take the ministry that you give us, and, father, we do pray that we would handle it with care.
We pray, father, that we would remember that we have the treasure, but in earth and vessels, so that you would receive the honor and the glory, and people might see your power.
We do this and offer it in Christ's name. Amen.