Facing the Darkness Within: How the Failures in Christ’s Family Tree Give Us Hope

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_09]:
But move me, further from you I think you could not be enough It's not lost on me what you saved me from I'm running, stumbling I know But I'm coming, to give you this offering My worship I'll never withhold Broken but you call it beautiful
[00:00:31] Where the tears of the desperate reach the feet of the Savior Nothing I wouldn't offer, there's no waste at the altar Where the heart of surrender meets the hands of the Maker
[00:00:56] Nothing I wouldn't offer There's no waste at the altar You can bring everything, everything Things I've treasured Oh, couldn't come close to Your presence Grace upon grace You could measure No, nothing could measure
[00:01:28] and I'm returning oh back to the one I am running to give him my love cause he took a sinner like me
[00:01:41] Let's pray.
[00:02:04] Where the heart of surrender Meets the hands of the Maker Nothing I wouldn't offer There's no waste at the altar There's no waste at the altar Your arms are open wide Oh, just bring it all to the Father

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]:
You can use it all Open invitation Come lay your broken dreams at the altar And every victory at the altar Fear and anxiety cannot live here
[00:03:07] There's no waste at the altar Let your heart sing out and tell Him you love Don't make it perfect, just let it be honest He can use anything, sit back and watch it There's no waste at the altar Come lay your broken dreams at the altar And every victory at the altar
[00:03:37] Anxiety cannot live here There's no waste at the altar Let your heart sing out and tell Him you love Him Don't make it perfect just let it be honest He can use anything sit back and watch Him There's no waste at the altar There's no waste at the altar

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
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[00:05:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]:
There's no waste at the altar Lay it all down, lay it all down There's no waste at the altar Lay it all down, lay it all down

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
He can use anything!
[00:06:07] He can use anything!
[00:06:07] Yes, He can use anything!
[00:06:08] He can use anything!

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
He can use anything!
[00:06:09] Just sit back and watch Him!

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
There's no way He's not the author!
[00:06:10] He can use anything!
[00:06:10] He can use anything!
[00:06:11] He can use anything!
[00:06:11] He can use anything!

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_09]:
There's no waste at the altar There's no waste at the altar He can use anything, sit back and watch Him There's no waste at the altar
[00:06:44] Let's pray.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]:
My heart's desire Oh how I need you more A fresh outpour With no resistance I give permission
[00:07:45] So come now invade my heart This life is yours Come fill me up Holy Ghost Shine bright into the whole world Mind your love Your love Come set me on a holy fire Burn bright into the whole world Mind your love
[00:08:13] Your love consuming fire My heart's desire Oh how I need you more A fresh outpour With no recessed eye
[00:08:41] I give permission Come now invade my heart This life's with yours Come fill me of holy gold

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
Okay, good morning everybody.
[00:11:04] As people are coming in, we want to get
[00:11:07] started by just sharing a few of the announcements things that are happening in the life of our church this week and the coming weeks um in your bulletins as you came in you should have a little card that looks like this this is a prayer card and i would love it if you would take a chance uh pull this out and begin to fill it out even if you just put your first name only on there we will pray for you on tuesday every week we get together and we pray
[00:11:34] For each and every person here in this room and we'd love to know how we can pray for you and you can throw that into the offering as it comes around a little bit later.
[00:11:42] Also, we finished up our collection for Operation Christmas Child last week and if you remember we had set the goal of 600 boxes and we got 621!
[00:11:55] So, yeah!
[00:11:59] Pretty cool.
[00:12:00] I'm excited about that.
[00:12:01] And thank you all for everything that you did to both fill those boxes and collect those boxes.
[00:12:08] As we are beginning Advent this week and looking towards Christmas, we also have some special things planned for the season.
[00:12:18] One of the first ones I want to mention to you, you have a card also in your bulletin.
[00:12:23] On the 21st Sunday evening, we're going to do a lessons and carols service.
[00:12:30] And if you've never been to one of these before, it's a simple service where we sing through nine well-known Christmas carols and read scripture that tells the story of the first, the reason why we need Jesus and the birth of Christ.
[00:12:46] And we're going to do that in the fellowship hall.
[00:12:48] We're going to do it with cookies and snacks.
[00:12:50] It'll be kid-friendly and family-friendly.
[00:12:53] We hope you'll mark it on your calendars and join us for that on Sunday the 21st at 5 p.m. And then we'll have our normal Christmas Eve service.
[00:13:03] And since Christmas Eve falls on a Wednesday, we're also going to have midday communion that afternoon.
[00:13:08] And so I hope you might join us for that weekly event.
[00:13:12] You can join us this week and you can join us that week as well.
[00:13:15] Well, that is it for our announcements.
[00:13:17] And so since we are beginning Advent, I want to invite Tom and Mariah
[00:13:21] To come down here and light the first candle on our Advent wreath.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]:
Morning guys.
[00:13:34] Advent comes from the Latin word that means coming.
[00:13:38] It is a season to reflect on the first coming of Christ and to prepare our hearts for His return.
[00:13:44] It is a season of hope and a season of longing.

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]:
During Advent, we admit that in this world there are many troubles, but we know that God has been acting in history to redeem the brokenness, to put all things right, and that He will one day complete His redemptive work.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]:
The writings of the prophets, the teachings of Jesus, and the letters of the apostles give us a picture of our ultimate home, a glimpse into our final destiny.
[00:14:15] A world the way it was meant to be, with our God dwelling amongst his people.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]:
So in this season of hope, we look to God's word, remember what is promised, and as we look towards his return, we cry, come Lord Jesus.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
As they are lighting this candle, I want us to begin our service by taking a moment just to take a deep breath
[00:14:45] and become aware of ourselves before the Lord.
[00:15:02] Whatever it is that might be reminding you of the broken things in the world, whatever your longings may be,
[00:15:12] We have an opportunity today to lay them at His feet.
[00:15:16] If you come here rejoicing, if you come here with hearts full, we have a chance to rejoice.
[00:15:23] And if you come here grieving, if you come here mourning, we have a chance to be comforted in His presence.
[00:15:31] Our Lord invites us today to come and worship Him, and so I want to invite you to stand with me as we say this call to worship from Isaiah 40.
[00:15:45] The prophet Isaiah says, in the wilderness, prepare the way of our Lord.
[00:15:51] Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
[00:15:57] Lord, we come to worship you with repentant hearts and joyful anticipation.
[00:16:04] Let's sing to the Lord.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
There was a moment when the lights went out When death had claimed its victory The king of love had given up his life The dark stayed in his tree There on the cross
[00:17:10] For every curse is locked on One final breath and it was finished But not the end we could expect
[00:18:00] All hail the Lord of heaven and earth All hail the Jesus All hail the Savior of the world
[00:18:32] The moment when the sky lit up The flash of light breaking through When all was lost, He crossed eternity The King of life was on the move
[00:19:07] God bless you.
[00:19:34] All hail thee, Jesus All hail thee, Savior of the world All hail thee, Jesus All hail thee, Lord of hell and anger
[00:20:02] Jesus, all hail the Savior of the world.
[00:20:28] Lord of all, sing and call.
[00:20:31] So let every knee come bow before the King of Kings.
[00:20:57] Let every tongue confess that He is Lord.
[00:20:58] Lift up your shout.
[00:20:58] Let us join with all of them and sing it.
[00:21:02] Let us join with all of heaven singing oh oh oh oh
[00:21:50] All hail King Jesus All hail the Lord of heaven and earth All hail King Jesus All hail the Savior of the world All hail King Jesus
[00:22:18] Jesus, of heaven, Lord of heaven and earth, of heaven, Jesus, of heaven, Savior of all.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Let's pray.

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
I see your goodness on my table I've found your love within a valley And your grace just surrounds me God, you've been good to me God, you've been good to me Sing that again, sing it guys.
[00:23:51] I've seen your goodness on mountains I've felt your love within my bones And your grace still surrounds me Lord you've been good to me Lord you've been
[00:24:18] My soul sings, my soul sings with all my heart
[00:25:01] You've been good to me So good to me So good to me
[00:25:32] I've had the life inside my bones And I cannot help but praise you God you've been good to me Oh you've been good to me
[00:26:09] My soul sings My soul sings with all my heart
[00:27:02] Oh, you've never failed me.
[00:27:19] Oh, you've never failed me, Lord.
[00:27:25] Oh, you've never failed me, Lord.
[00:27:36] And dance in earth Christ and Son To the hopeful future And the dreams to come And when seasons change No I won't give up Cause you've never failed me
[00:28:00] No not once, and I'm dancing on the rising sun To the hopeful future and the dreams to come And when seasons change, no I won't give up Cause you'll never fail me No not once
[00:28:30] and Mass.
[00:28:58] I love you Lord You're my first love You're my reward And through the years
[00:29:28] You've been good to me.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
So good to me.
[00:29:55] So good to me.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
You may be seated.
[00:30:03] Father, we come before you and we believe these words.
[00:30:15] You have been so good to us.
[00:30:19] You have been completely faithful.
[00:30:26] But Lord, as we enter into the Advent season
[00:30:30] We consider our own hearts.
[00:30:31] We admit, God, that we have not been completely faithful to you.
[00:30:39] We look with longing on your return, the day when you would conquer our hearts completely, when we would no longer be fooled.
[00:30:51] But until then, Lord, we come to you and we plead your grace and mercy.
[00:30:56] We ask God right now that you would give us a clear picture of who you are, that you would fill this space with your presence, that you would show us your glory and your beauty and your majesty.
[00:31:10] Lord, that your light would shine and that it would drive away all darkness.
[00:31:18] And together, we pray this prayer to you.
[00:31:24] Almighty God,
[00:31:26] Give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light even now that in the last day when Jesus comes again in the glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead we may rise to life immortal through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit
[00:31:54] One God, now and forever.
[00:31:58] Amen.
[00:31:59] Well, we have a great blessing today to be able to witness a baptism.
[00:32:03] And so as we do, I want to invite you to profess your faith.
[00:32:08] And so together, let us say the Nicene Creed.
[00:32:11] Christian, what do you believe?
[00:32:14] We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.
[00:32:21] and of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the only Son of God begotten from the Father before all ages God of God light and light true God from true God begotten not made of the same essence as the Father through Him all things were made
[00:32:49] For us and for our salvation He came down from heaven He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and was made human He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried The third day He rose again according to the Scriptures He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father
[00:33:20] He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead.
[00:33:24] His kingdom will never end.
[00:33:28] And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life.
[00:33:34] He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.
[00:33:42] He spoke through the prophets.
[00:33:45] We believe in one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
[00:33:50] We affirm one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
[00:33:55] We look forward to the resurrection of the dead and to the life and world to come.
[00:34:01] Amen.
[00:34:02] Amen.
[00:34:03] Well, that is the faith that we believe.
[00:34:05] That is the God who we serve.
[00:34:07] And so we have a chance in our service now to respond to Him through giving.
[00:34:13] And so we are going to invite our ushers to come and collect our offering at this time.
[00:34:18] I encourage you if you're a visitor please don't feel like you have to give we're so blessed that you're here with us but this is also a time when you can throw in your connection card as it comes around and and as they're collecting that I want to talk a little bit about what we are going to do here I want to talk a little bit about baptism I know that
[00:34:36] In this region we have people coming from all different sorts of traditions and it may very well be your first time witnessing an infant being baptized.
[00:34:45] And so let me just tell you first of all about what it means to be a part of God's covenant people.
[00:34:52] So if you recall in the Old Testament with Abraham, God gave him a promise and he said, I will be your God and you will be my people.
[00:35:02] and when he did that he told him that he would give them a sign that they were a member of God's covenant community and that sign was circumcision and from that moment on anyone who was born into that covenant community was circumcised when they were born or if they converted into the faith of Judaism along the way they would be circumcised later in life but all along the way there was this pattern of
[00:35:30] The covenant community receiving a covenant sign.
[00:35:34] Well, now under the new covenant, we have a new sign, and that sign is
[00:35:39] Baptism and we see that in the book of Acts in chapter 2 when Peter is first preaching the gospel to the crowds and he says he tells them that that Jesus this man that they had crucified less than two months before he says this Jesus that you crucified God has made him both Lord and Christ and the people cry out they say what are we gonna do
[00:36:04] And he responds by saying, repent and be baptized, every one of you.
[00:36:09] This is a promise for you and for your children, for those who are far off and for those who are near.
[00:36:17] And so this covenant people who were gathered that day for a worship service came forward to receive this covenant sign, a sign for them and for their children.
[00:36:27] And so this sign that we're about to impart to Wells is a recognition that he is a privileged covenant child.
[00:36:37] That being a part of this covenant community, that having parents who love Jesus and will raise him in the church hearing the gospel, that he is especially privileged in this world.
[00:36:50] But it's not just symbolic, right?
[00:36:53] This is not simply dedicating the baby.
[00:36:55] This is a sign and a seal.
[00:36:57] It's a mystery.
[00:36:59] This is a moment where we say that Wells really does, in a real way, belong to the Lord.
[00:37:05] And so as we teach him in children's church, we aren't going to say, Jesus might love you, but we're going to say Jesus does love you.
[00:37:12] We're going to say you belong to him because he does.
[00:37:16] On the other hand, I want to say we aren't saying that this is a moment we'll magically teach Wells the depths of all Christian theology, right?
[00:37:25] He isn't going to understand what's happening here today.
[00:37:28] And so we are trusting that the Lord who is working in Wells' life today is going to continue to bring that work to fruition.
[00:37:35] And one day,
[00:37:36] He will stand here before the church and profess a faith for his own.
[00:37:40] And at that moment, we're going to welcome him to the communion table.
[00:37:43] And actually, I'm hopeful that we're going to get to witness that next Sunday with Glory coming forward to receive communion for the first time.
[00:37:52] And you'll get to see how all of this works.
[00:37:55] But this is a real blessing and it's a joy.
[00:37:57] It's a holy and sacred mystery that we get to be a part of.
[00:38:01] And so I want to invite Grace and Chad to come up.
[00:38:09] and respond to these vows.
[00:38:14] Sure.
[00:38:15] Maybe stand in front of Pablo.
[00:38:19] All right.
[00:38:21] So there are five vows for you and then two vows for all of you.
[00:38:28] Do you acknowledge your child's need of the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ and the renewing grace of the Holy Spirit?
[00:38:36] Do you?
[00:38:38] Do you claim God's covenant promises and benefits for Him and by faith?
[00:38:45] Do you look to the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of your child as you do for your own?
[00:38:51] Do you now unreservedly dedicate your child to God?
[00:38:55] And do you promise by relying on God's power and grace through the Holy Spirit to live an exemplary life before your child?
[00:39:05] Do you commit yourself to pray
[00:39:07] With and for your child, and to teach your child the scriptures and the great articles of our faith in Jesus Christ.
[00:39:17] Do you promise to use every means provided by God, including faithful participation in the life of the church, to bring up your child in the loving discipline of the Lord?
[00:39:30] All right.
[00:39:32] And now, you, the congregation.
[00:39:37] This sacrament, it also lays obligations on us.
[00:39:43] We're going to hopefully say yes to these vows.
[00:39:46] And I want you to know that the commitment we're making is a real one.
[00:39:50] It's a commitment to walk alongside of these parents as they raise wells.
[00:39:55] It's a commitment to maybe offer to babysit sometime.
[00:39:58] It's a commitment to help out in children's church.
[00:40:01] It's a commitment beyond just saying yes in this moment.
[00:40:06] And so I want to ask you,
[00:40:07] Do you, the members of this congregation, acting for yourselves and on behalf of the whole body of Christ, assume responsibility with these parents for the spiritual nurture of this child?
[00:40:22] Do you?
[00:40:25] And do you commit yourselves to set a godly example before this child and to provide as far as you are able all that is necessary that this child may one day confess Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord?
[00:40:40] Do you?
[00:40:42] All right.
[00:40:43] Well, this is a sign and a seal.
[00:40:46] As a sign, it proclaims God's forgiveness and our redemption in Jesus Christ.
[00:40:53] As a seal, God marks us as his adopted children and indicates our engrafting into Christ, our rebirth, the remission of our sins, and our ability by the power of the Spirit to walk in newness of life.
[00:41:10] And so as we witness this baptism today, we're also encouraged to remember our own.
[00:41:16] and to remember God's faithfulness to his promises, like we just sang, that he has been so good to us.
[00:41:22] And so now, here we go.
[00:41:25] Wells, what's up, buddy?

[00:41:27] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
Hi.

[00:41:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
Yeah, you're doing great.
[00:41:32] All right.
[00:41:33] Look at you.
[00:41:34] All right.
[00:41:43] Wells, Michael,
[00:41:46] Thomas Wiatrowski.
[00:41:50] I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
[00:42:01] Amen.
[00:42:09] And now comes the moment for the deepest theology you're going to hear from me.
[00:42:14] We are going to sing to Wells, Jesus Loves You, This We Know.
[00:42:20] Let's sing to him.

[00:42:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Jesus loves you, this we know.
[00:42:33] For the Bible tells me so.
[00:42:37] Little ones to him belong.
[00:42:38] They are weak, but he is strong.
[00:42:44] Yes, Jesus loves you.

[00:43:07] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
Just say a prayer of blessing for Wells and for Chad and Grace.

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]:
Let's pray.
[00:43:14] Father God, we thank you, Lord, for this day that you have ordained from all eternity.
[00:43:18] We thank you for Wells and for Chad and Grace, the sweet family and the sweet little boy.
[00:43:24] God, we rejoice that their family is here with them this day to celebrate.
[00:43:28] Lord, we pray that Wells would know you all the days of his life.
[00:43:31] Lord, have grace and mercy upon Chad and Grace and their family and us.
[00:43:35] As he is raised, Lord, as your word is spoken over him, Lord, may all his days we just speak over that he is a child of God, that he knows you, that he is forgiven in Christ.
[00:43:48] Lord, we just proclaim this over him.
[00:43:50] Lord, watch over and protect this family.
[00:43:51] In Jesus' name we pray.
[00:43:53] Amen.
[00:43:53] Amen.
[00:43:54] Amen.

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
Congratulations.
[00:43:58] He did wonderful.
[00:44:00] Well now I want to invite you all to stand with us as we sing to the Lord that we can rejoice in His promises both for our lives and for the lives of our community.

[00:44:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
O come, O come, Emmanuel, a ransomed captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here, until the sun
[00:44:56] Rejoice!
[00:45:01] Rejoice!
[00:45:06] Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer our spirits by
[00:45:24] Rejoice!
[00:45:40] Rejoice!
[00:45:47] Emmanuel shall come to thee!
[00:45:57] O come, Thou Wisdom, come on high And order all things far and nigh To us, the paths of life
[00:46:27] Rejoice!
[00:46:29] Rejoice!
[00:46:36] Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel O come, desire of nations
[00:46:52] All peoples in one heart and mind Ridden peace strikes and quarrels cease Infill the whole world with heaven's peace Rejoice!
[00:47:19] Rejoice!
[00:47:19] Emmanuel
[00:47:21] Rejoice!
[00:47:31] Rejoice!
[00:47:35] Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
Now we are invited to pass the peace of Christ to one another.
[00:47:54] Children, you are dismissed from Children's Church.
[00:47:57] You can follow your leader out on the floor.
[00:48:18] Alright, if you would make your way back to your seats and please join with me
[00:48:49] as we sing the doxology.
[00:48:54] Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

[00:49:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Praise Him all creatures here below.
[00:49:08] Praise Him all the people we know.
[00:49:14] Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
[00:49:25] Amen.

[00:49:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
Please remain standing for the reading of God's word.
[00:49:32] Our scripture comes from Matthew chapter 1 and Genesis chapter 38.
[00:49:36] This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David,
[00:49:43] The son of Abraham Abraham was the father of Isaac Isaac the father of Jacob Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah whose mother was Tamar And then in Genesis 38
[00:50:06] Starting in verse 13, it says, When Tamar was told, Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep, she took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance of Anahim, which is on the road to Timnah.
[00:50:23] For she saw that though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.
[00:50:30] When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face,
[00:50:35] Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, Come now, let me sleep with you.
[00:50:43] And what will you give me to sleep with you?
[00:50:44] she asked.
[00:50:45] I'll give you a young goat from my flock, he said.
[00:50:48] Will you give me something as a pledge until you return it?
[00:50:51] she asked.
[00:50:52] He said, What pledge should I give you?
[00:50:55] Your seal and its cord and the staff in your hand, she answered.
[00:50:59] So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by it.
[00:51:05] About three months later, Judah was told, your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution and as a result is now pregnant.
[00:51:14] And Judah said, bring her out and have her burned to death.
[00:51:19] As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law.
[00:51:24] I am pregnant by the man who owns these, she said.
[00:51:27] And she added, see if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.
[00:51:33] Judah recognized them and said, She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn't give her my son Shelah.
[00:51:41] And he did not sleep with her again.
[00:51:43] This is the word of the Lord.
[00:51:49] You can be seated.
[00:51:52] Pray with me.
[00:51:52] Father, as we open up your word today, we pray that you would open our eyes.
[00:52:03] that you would give us eyes to see things that we are blind to, ears to hear your truth in a fresh way.
[00:52:12] We pray Father that this would be a moment where we experience your power
[00:52:19] We pray as we come into this place, you might also free us to lay down our burdens, to trust you with the things that are going on around the world, to turn off our phones for a moment, to focus solely on you.
[00:52:35] Hear what you might have to speak.
[00:52:36] We pray, God, that you also would provide for those here in great need, that you would heal the sick, that you would restore broken relationships,
[00:52:46] And Lord, most of all, we pray for anyone here who may not know you today, God, that you would reveal yourself and that you would draw them.
[00:52:55] We pray this in Christ's name.
[00:52:57] Amen.
[00:53:00] Well, I am excited to be starting Advent.
[00:53:03] I love Advent because it is
[00:53:07] the balance that we need during this holiday season that has just started gearing up all around us right this is the time of year where we busy ourselves with shopping and and endless renditions of santa baby start playing on the radio right it's it's the time when we fill up our calendar with with parties and and we try our best to be holly and jolly whatever that means right
[00:53:37] But inside the church, we actually have a chance to pause.
[00:53:42] Inside the church, we get to reflect on why we really need Jesus to come.
[00:53:50] Instead of distracting ourselves in here, we get to set our eyes on reality.
[00:53:59] In Advent, we take time both to acknowledge the darkness that is
[00:54:04] All these things are happening in the world all around us, but also to look in hope towards the dawning of Christ's light, towards his return to set everything the way it's supposed to be.
[00:54:18] And so for the next few weeks, we're going to do a short series, and we're going to look at the women who appear in the genealogy that begins the Gospel of Matthew, the women who are in Jesus's family tree.
[00:54:30] And as we study each of them, what I hope we're going to see is a different way that Jesus brings light into the darkness of our world.
[00:54:41] And today we're looking at this story of Judah and Tamar.
[00:54:46] What I want us to see is the way Jesus can bring the light of renewal into our lives.
[00:54:54] The way Jesus can bring true and lasting change into each of our hearts.
[00:55:01] Now there's a lot in this passage and there's a lot to cover and so I want to jump into it under three headings.
[00:55:07] I want to look at the work that God can do
[00:55:12] I want to look at the call to face our shadow and then I want us to look finally at the redemption to come.
[00:55:20] So let's first start talking about this amazing work that God can do in each of our lives.
[00:55:28] and we probably need to recap because we didn't read the whole chapter and there's a bunch in it but in Genesis chapter 38 first of all we start with Judah and Judah is one of the 12 sons of Israel who is also called Jacob that means that he was the head of what would become the tribe of Judah that is the tribe that King David came from and all of the kings of David would come out of
[00:55:56] But here we find that Judah, the namesake of this very important tribe, is pretty much a terrible person.
[00:56:05] We see that here and not just here.
[00:56:07] In the chapter before this, we also see that Judah is a bad guy.
[00:56:13] Just a few verses before this chapter started, we saw Judah suggest that he and his brothers sell their youngest brother Joseph into slavery so they could profit off of it.
[00:56:27] And then they covered Joseph's robe with the blood of a goat and showed it to their father to convince him that Joseph was actually dead.
[00:56:37] And then here, as we start off this chapter, we learn more about him.
[00:56:40] We find out that Judah married his firstborn son off to a woman named Tamar, who was a Canaanite.
[00:56:51] But his firstborn son, this guy named Ur, he was evil and he died.
[00:56:56] And so, as was the law at the time, Judah then married his second son to Tamar in order to give her children.
[00:57:05] Her second son, Onan, though, was also evil, and he died.
[00:57:10] And at that moment, Judah's third son was still too young to marry, and so he told Tamar, well, just go back and live in your father's house for a while, and then I'll marry you off to my third son when you become of age.
[00:57:26] But he was lying.
[00:57:28] In verse 11, it tells us that he actually had no intention of ever doing that because he thought, if I fulfill this duty to her, well, my third son might die too, just like his brothers.
[00:57:44] And so as the years pass by, Tamar starts to realize that she has actually been trapped into the life of a young widow.
[00:57:55] And so when Judah's wife dies, she does this thing that we just read.
[00:57:59] She disguises herself as a prostitute, and Judah comes up to her, propositions her, and when he doesn't have money to pay, she takes his staff and his seal and his cord as basically an IOU.
[00:58:14] And you should know, in the ancient world, that's basically like giving somebody your wallet, all your credit cards, all your ID.
[00:58:21] It was a pretty drastic thing to leave behind.
[00:58:24] And so he sleeps with her, and she becomes pregnant.
[00:58:28] And not very long later, Judah finds out, your daughter-in-law Tamar, she's pregnant because of prostitution, and he immediately demands she be killed.
[00:58:39] Burned to death, it says.
[00:58:41] Okay, so let's pause right there in the story.
[00:58:45] Now, in the greater picture of the book of Genesis, chapters 37 all the way through the end of the book tell the story of Joseph, this younger brother who was sold into slavery, who eventually rises up to power in Egypt and then saves the entire covenant community from famine through his position.
[00:59:08] and if you're reading through that account and you're learning about all these things that that happened with Joseph when you get here to chapter 38 it kind of feels like an interruption it is the only chapter in that whole section that that doesn't talk about Joseph but it's actually here for a very specific reason see this chapter is here to show us how God can
[00:59:36] miraculously change a person's life in chapter 37 judah is there leading the charge to to sell his brother in to slavery but by chapter 44 a few years later when we encounter him again we see this guy judah and he is a completely changed man there's a moment when his younger brother benjamin's life is endangered and judah
[01:00:06] Begs to give his own life in exchange for his brothers.
[01:00:13] So what happened?
[01:00:16] What produced this massive change in this pretty rough guy?
[01:00:23] Well this is the explanation.
[01:00:25] Chapter 38 is the explanation behind the transformation that took place in his life.
[01:00:32] This is the moment that changed Judah's life forever.
[01:00:35] This catastrophic event is when God let his light shine into the darkness of Judah's life so he could finally begin to see it.
[01:00:48] Now, Judah's situation is a unique one, I hope, right?
[01:00:52] I hope we're not having the same kind of experience, but his story is not unique.
[01:00:59] Like him, we are often blind to some of the worst parts of ourself.
[01:01:06] Like him, we are often blind to some of our greatest struggles.
[01:01:11] I was listening to an interview with Christoph Waltz, you know, the actor, and
[01:01:18] Someone was asking him about how he managed to be so menacing and to seem so evil when he was playing a Nazi in this movie.
[01:01:29] And he said, well, actually, the secret is I don't ever think of my character as evil.
[01:01:37] He said, when I acted in that movie, I went into every scene assuming that I was the hero
[01:01:43] and everybody else was the villain and the reason he said that was because he said no one thinks they are evil no one looks at themselves and sees themselves as the villain in the story we are all the heroes in our own story and i think that's actually pretty insightful right it helps us understand how someone like judah could become this way in the first place
[01:02:11] And that is confusing, right?
[01:02:12] Because think about who Judah was.
[01:02:14] Think about who Judah should have been.
[01:02:16] Judah was a part of God's covenant family.
[01:02:22] And at this point in history, his family knew more about God than any other people on the face of the earth.
[01:02:34] In Exodus, a book after this, God literally identifies himself by naming his family tree.
[01:02:42] He says, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
[01:02:47] That's Judah's great-grandfather, his grandfather, and his dad.
[01:02:54] Judah should have walked closely with the Lord.
[01:02:58] Judah should have known the Lord better than anyone, but instead,
[01:03:03] We see this guy who just excused and ignored the evil in his life.
[01:03:10] He was blind to what was really going on in his heart.
[01:03:16] He walked around thinking he was righteous.
[01:03:20] He walked around believing that all of his behavior was justified.
[01:03:26] He lived for himself, first and foremost, before he thought about anyone else.
[01:03:33] And of course, you know, it is very easy for us to live like that too.
[01:03:38] It's really common for us to become blind to the darkness that lurks in our own lives.
[01:03:46] It's easy for us to live in denial of the deeper sin that is beneath the surface and even to have a kind of false sense of our own relative goodness, right?
[01:03:59] I'm a pretty good person when I think about it.
[01:04:02] You know, I might do a couple of bad things, but ultimately, like, I'm doing alright.
[01:04:07] In fact, I think it's really common in the church to encounter people who have a basic faith in Christ, but whose lives don't show much fruit at all.
[01:04:21] People who would tell you that Christ forgives sins, but who are also unwilling to do the hard work of naming what that sin is.
[01:04:32] of seeking it out and rooting it out and allowing God to deeply transform them from the inside.
[01:04:43] Peter Scazzaro, the pastor, he calls this kind of deep work that I'm talking about, he calls it facing your shadow.
[01:04:52] And I like the idea.
[01:04:53] I think it's a really helpful way for us to think about it.
[01:04:56] But here's what he says.
[01:04:56] He says, your shadow is the accumulation
[01:05:02] of untamed emotions of less than pure motives and thoughts that, while largely unconscious, can strongly influence and shape your behavior.
[01:05:14] Your shadow is the damaged but mostly hidden version of who you are.
[01:05:21] And the shadow might erupt in various forms.
[01:05:24] Sometimes it reveals itself in sinful behaviors such as judgmental perfectionism,
[01:05:31] or outbursts of anger, jealousy, resentment, lust, greed, or bitterness.
[01:05:38] Or it might reveal itself more subtly through a need to rescue others and be liked by people, a need to be noticed, an inability to stop working, a tendency towards isolation or rigidity.
[01:05:53] He says these are the deeper things that are happening in our lives.
[01:05:57] And when we ignore them,
[01:06:00] When we ignore our shadow, when we fail to see these deeper issues, then it actually prevents us from growing.
[01:06:09] It keeps us from becoming more like Christ.
[01:06:12] Failing to look honestly at ourselves, it actually makes it impossible to then go out and look at others with that heart of love and service that Christ calls us all to.
[01:06:26] and so we see Judah here and really the difference between the Judah of Genesis 38 and the Judah of Genesis 44 is this in this moment the Lord allowed him to face his shadow and so I want to talk about what it means for us to do that the call for us to face our own shadows okay again to to fully grasp
[01:06:51] What's happening in this story because it is so wild you need to know some things about the ancient world especially you need to know that in this time period having a child was an essential part of life for a woman this was a world where there was no social security or medicare right there wasn't this great social structure to support the elderly and
[01:07:18] and women typically outlasted, outlived their husbands and that meant children were really your only assurance for a healthy future.
[01:07:29] And so in this story, when Judah tells this young woman Tamar to go back to her father's household and he intends for her to go there forever, he was basically using his power as the patriarch of that community
[01:07:48] To condemn her for life.
[01:07:52] To a life that would be characterized by public shame, by dangerous vulnerability, and even potentially a premature death.
[01:08:04] And why did he do it?
[01:08:04] Well, because Judah was afraid of losing his son.
[01:08:08] Of losing his own remaining son.
[01:08:10] So he chose to ignore Tamar's legal rights and
[01:08:17] To steal her future in order to protect his own.
[01:08:22] So that means what Judah did here was not just cruel, but it was unjust.
[01:08:28] It was abhorrent to the community, and yet Judah didn't see anything wrong with it.
[01:08:36] And when it comes to this concept that I'm talking about, facing your shadow, I think there's a good truth here.
[01:08:42] And that is you cannot change something you do not see.
[01:08:47] You cannot change something that you do not see.
[01:08:51] One way or another these things must be revealed to us.
[01:09:00] One way or another, we have to reach that point where we see them.
[01:09:04] And when Judah found out about Tamar's prostitution, we see this extreme, violent reaction.
[01:09:12] It's this unusually harsh penalty, not just kill her, not just the dead, but burn her to death.
[01:09:20] Bring her out here to be burned.
[01:09:22] There's no questioning.
[01:09:23] There's no due process.
[01:09:25] It's almost like, finally, I can get rid of this person.
[01:09:29] But then comes that big moment, right?
[01:09:31] She pulls out the seal and the cord and the staff, and all of a sudden, it all changes.
[01:09:37] Suddenly, Judah acknowledges his guilt.
[01:09:43] And on the surface, if you're just reading through this chapter, this kind of reads to us, I think, like a story of comeuppance, right?
[01:09:50] A story of somebody's hypocrisy being exposed, of a bad guy who finally gets what he deserves, but something that
[01:09:59] These ancient Hebrew commentaries pick up on actually is really helpful to us.
[01:10:06] The ancient Hebrew commentators identified something in these verses that you can't really see as well when we're reading an English translation, but it shows us the real impact of what happened in this moment.
[01:10:20] See, when Tamar comes out with that seal and with that cord and with that staff,
[01:10:26] In the Hebrew, she actually uses the identical term that Judah and his brothers used when they brought the coat to their father to show them that their son Joseph had died.
[01:10:42] You can kind of see it in the ESV.
[01:10:44] It says in the previous chapter, they sent the robe of many colors and they brought it to their father and they said, this we have found, please identify whether it is your son's robe or not.
[01:10:56] And then here in this chapter, it says that Tamar said, Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff.
[01:11:06] It's this Hebrew word, haqqrna.
[01:11:11] And in that moment, something changes.
[01:11:14] It's only after hearing that phrase, that last line that Tamar speaks to him, that he finally sees the truth.
[01:11:24] And he says it.
[01:11:25] He says,
[01:11:26] She is more righteous than I. Judah lived his whole life as if he were righteous, blind to the evil in his heart.
[01:11:39] But God, in His mercy, used the pain of that moment, as Judah had lost two sons himself since that moment with his father and his wife.
[01:11:55] As he had started to grapple with the realities and the pains of this world, all of a sudden he saw the guilt within him.
[01:12:06] And when it comes to our own lives, when it comes to seeing our own shadows, when it comes to finally being able to name and recognize the deeper mess that's happening in our own hearts,
[01:12:24] Sometimes it can be like this.
[01:12:27] Sometimes God takes extreme measures to painfully show us what's going on.
[01:12:36] Another quote from Scazzaro, he says, there really are only two options when it comes to facing our shadows.
[01:12:41] We can ignore it until we hit a wall with a pain so great that we have no choice but to face up to it, or we can be proactive
[01:12:54] Courageously looking at the factors that contributed to its formation.
[01:13:03] Either way though, eventually you'll see it.
[01:13:07] Let me tell you what that looked like a little bit in my own life.
[01:13:12] a lot of times these blind spots that we're talking about they they can correspond to strengths that you have in your life and so for instance you know as as a pastor it's a part of my calling it's a part of my gifting right to to care for people to be mindful of you all to to try and anticipate what's going on in your lives and and to care for you and to try to
[01:13:39] Understand what your emotions are and what's going on in your heart.
[01:13:42] And so oftentimes I'm thinking about you all and what you think and what you feel.
[01:13:48] But the shadow side of that for me is it can also be a tendency to just be overly concerned about making people happy.
[01:14:00] To be overly concerned with what everybody around me thinks.
[01:14:04] To live my life trying to keep you happy
[01:14:10] And for years in my life, that shadow side of me, it really controlled me.
[01:14:18] It expressed itself in all parts of my life.
[01:14:23] It would be in things like overworking to keep the church happy while neglecting my own family.
[01:14:33] I would let one person being upset
[01:14:37] I would dictate the decisions that I was making for the entire church.
[01:14:40] I would care more about their feelings than what I knew God had called us to do.
[01:14:47] Or when there was a moment that needed confrontation, when there was bad behavior taking place, rather than being courageous and speaking to that person honestly, I would do whatever I could to keep the peace.
[01:15:00] And I wish I could say that I did the hard work.
[01:15:06] And I took the time to examine my own heart and let the Lord show me the way out of these things, but no, I took the hard way.
[01:15:19] And I lived that way until it really blew up in my face, until it caused a disaster in the church where I was serving, and it nearly cost me my marriage.
[01:15:32] Like Judah in this story, the Lord brought me to a moment of crisis that showed me the consequences of how I was living.
[01:15:43] He forced me to see what I refused to look at.
[01:15:48] But there is a better way, and that's why we're studying this passage.
[01:15:51] There actually is a less painful option that we can take.
[01:15:57] And as we're kicking off the Advent season, I think the famous words that we read as our call to worship, those words from the prophet Isaiah, can be really helpful to us here.
[01:16:08] The voice of the one calling in the wilderness, prepare the way for the Lord.
[01:16:15] Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
[01:16:21] See, rather than waiting for the chickens to come to roost,
[01:16:25] Rather than waiting for everything to blow up in our faces, you and I are invited in this season to do the hard work of preparing our hearts for Him.
[01:16:37] And maybe you're still wondering, well, how do I do that?
[01:16:41] I mean, how do you see a blind spot?
[01:16:44] Isn't that exactly why it's called a blind spot?
[01:16:46] What can I do?
[01:16:49] Well, I said there is a less painful option here than disaster
[01:16:54] But I didn't say there's a painless path.
[01:16:58] In fact, every time the Lord forces us to see the mess of our hearts, it's always going to hurt.
[01:17:06] But the other choice is simply to come before Him and let Him search our hearts.
[01:17:13] And it begins, I mean, I think really
[01:17:17] Concretely, with little things like making a commitment to pay attention to your own emotional life.
[01:17:25] I mean, for instance, do you have a habit of exploding in anger and then just moving on and trying to ignore it and never talk about it?
[01:17:35] Well, maybe the first step would be to take that moment before you go to bed that day and bring it before the Lord and say, Lord, would you shine some light here?
[01:17:47] Would you show me what was that all about?
[01:17:50] What did I really think was so important to me in that moment that I responded that way?
[01:17:59] What was it that I felt was being threatened?
[01:18:03] What was it in that moment that I was valuing more than loving you and loving the people that you've put in my life?
[01:18:12] See, we need to look at those things.
[01:18:17] We need to take time to examine our lives and see where it is exactly that Christ's transforming light is not shining.
[01:18:27] We have to do that work and not just with anger, right?
[01:18:30] We need to do it with our sorrow, with our anxiety, with our irritability, with our stress.
[01:18:36] We need to allow God, like David prayed, to search us and know our hearts.
[01:18:43] But secondly, this kind of work,
[01:18:47] It can't just be inside.
[01:18:50] It can't just be internal.
[01:18:52] You also need others that you trust to be involved in the process.
[01:19:00] And that's tough.
[01:19:02] But you need to be willing to ask people who see you, hey, what is it in my life that's inconsistent with the faith I profess?
[01:19:16] What have you noticed?
[01:19:19] and okay I just listen because I know we're all sinners I imagine that there are some of you thinking like gosh I just really wish so-and-so was here right now that they could hear this right you know I bet you're saying gosh I hope I hope my spouse is listening right now you know but I want to encourage you this is not something that you can weaponize this work we're talking about this is holy ground
[01:19:50] It's hard.
[01:19:50] It's heart-wrenching work, and you can't force it on somebody.
[01:19:56] This has to be led by the Spirit.
[01:20:00] And perhaps, who knows, maybe the Spirit is speaking to you right now, leading you in just this way.
[01:20:06] But if we want to grow into the people that God intends us to be, we have to face this shadow in our lives.
[01:20:15] And we can do that because of the redemption that follows.
[01:20:20] Okay, so I shared a little bit about one of those areas in my life where the Lord has helped to shine some light.
[01:20:29] But I want you to know he's far from finished.
[01:20:35] There are places in my heart where I know he's still got a lot of work to do.
[01:20:43] And honestly, studying this passage, thinking about all this, it kind of scares me.
[01:20:49] It scares me to think about surrendering to Him again in that kind of way.
[01:20:55] About opening up and letting Him show me the things I don't want to see.
[01:21:04] It scares me to think about letting God shine the light in there so that I can see actually how ugly things really are.
[01:21:15] And so if you're like me, if you feel that way too, well, there's one last thing we need to understand.
[01:21:21] And that's this simple truth that facing weakness like this, facing your sin like this, facing your broken places like this, well, it only can transform you if you let it point you back to the strength of Christ.
[01:21:40] And see, the gospel, it actually tells us that.
[01:21:43] It tells us that like Judah, all of us have to come to this point where we see that we are not as righteous as we once thought.
[01:21:53] Not just once, but many times we come to that realization.
[01:21:57] But it also declares to us that through Christ, if you have repented and turned to Him for your salvation, then you are declared holy in the presence of God.
[01:22:13] And as we learn to live in that reality, to believe that there's maybe not much that's great inside of me but I live in the righteousness of Christ that is given to me by grace and there's nothing that can take that away from me, well then we can live instead of doing this bad imitation of a righteous person, we can actually start to become righteous.
[01:22:41] We can start to become like Him.
[01:22:46] We can learn to live in the freedom of Christ's record instead of trying to build up our own.
[01:22:55] And not only that, the amazing thing about this, what we see in our passages, when we start to live in this freedom, it actually begins to spread around us.
[01:23:06] It begins to spread out into the people around us and out into the world.
[01:23:09] And you see that in Genesis 45, when Judah finally makes this plea, when he says, let me stand in the place of Benjamin.
[01:23:18] I want to give my life for his.
[01:23:21] Well, that is the moment where Joseph begins to weep.
[01:23:27] It's the moment where this healing begins to flow into this family that Judah
[01:23:35] had helped to destroy.
[01:23:36] It's pretty remarkable actually when you compare the before and the after, right?
[01:23:43] Judah, he went from this self-righteous man who sold his brother for his own gain, who was willing to steal a widow's future to insure his own, who happily would destroy another person to protect himself, to a man that would willingly sacrifice his life to save another.
[01:24:07] And of course, we started with the genealogy because from his line would then come Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the truly righteous one who sacrificed himself to save the whole world, whose perfect heart of love for his people even right now is bringing that wave of healing into the world.
[01:24:36] You know, it's wild.
[01:24:37] This is a weird passage, it seems, to read on the first Sunday of Advent.
[01:24:41] But in some ways, there is no more Advent-appropriate passage because you read this and you can't help but say, Oh, come Lord Jesus.
[01:24:50] It's a passage all about everything that's wrong with this world.
[01:24:54] Oppression and injustice and immorality and deceit.
[01:24:58] But through it all, God has managed to bring the light of the world.
[01:25:06] And so I hope each of us today can see that, that if that's true about this story, then it means there is no other mess that is too big for Him.
[01:25:17] It means none of us here are too far off.
[01:25:22] There is no circumstance that is irredeemable.
[01:25:26] There is no darkness that His light won't overcome.
[01:25:34] Your Savior is coming.
[01:25:37] He wants to set you free.
[01:25:40] And so I want to invite us all now to just take a moment and come to Him in prayer.
[01:25:52] Let's just take some time right now before we move on to listen to what the Lord might have to say to us.
[01:26:05] Perhaps there's something
[01:26:09] that he's shedding light on right now.
[01:26:15] Would you offer that to him?
[01:26:16] Would you talk to him about it?
[01:27:08] It might be that some of us here identify more with Tamar today, that we feel the weight of the pain in this world, the injustice of it all.
[01:27:27] As you come before your Lord, know that He sees your pain.
[01:27:38] that he's promised he will come again and he will bring justice.
[01:27:58] Father, as we look forward to these next few weeks and we look forward to eternity,
[01:28:09] When you come again, when you finally shine your perfect light into this world, when you finally melt away our sin, when you free us from temptation, when you end the wars and the death and the tears, God, I pray that you would prepare our hearts.
[01:28:37] That by the power of your Spirit, Lord, you would not allow us to leave here unchanged.
[01:28:48] Would you make straight in the desert of our hearts a highway for you?
[01:28:55] We pray this in Christ's name.
[01:28:57] Amen.
[01:28:58] Would you stand and sing with us?

[01:29:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
When your heart is ready to break You've got empty hands and wonder of faith When it feels like prayers have gone to waste And the promise seems so far away Lift up your eyes
[01:29:51] Hope on the horizon Oh look to Christ His kingdom is arriving Give Him glory in the way of the Lord
[01:30:18] In the space between the now and the yet There's a song to sing you won't forget Cause a broken heart's not made to waste If it's an alabaster
[01:30:59] Look to Christ His kingdom is arriving Giving glory in the waiting
[01:31:37] Let us pray.
[01:31:52] Open your heart, give Him your hallelujah and trust, trust Him again.
[01:32:01] Deep in the night, pour out your hallelujah and know you're not alone.
[01:32:06] We run with the saints And we're singing out Hallelujah to God He's on the throne He is our hope He's worthy of highest praise Come, gather your strength
[01:32:33] Open your heart Give Him your hallelujah And trust Trust Him again Deep in the night Pour out your hallelujah And know You're not alone
[01:33:00] We run with the saints And we're singing out Hallelujah to God God of the throne He is our hope He's worthy of all His praises Hallelujah

[01:33:32] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia

[01:34:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

[01:34:28] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
His hope on the horizon.

[01:34:36] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
Oh, look to Christ.
[01:34:49] His kingdom is rising.
[01:34:50] Give Him glory in the way of Your own arms.

[01:35:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]:
Receive now this benediction from the Lord.
[01:35:13] Again, in Isaiah, it says, The root of Jesse will spring up one who will arise to rule over the nations, and in him the Gentiles will hope.
[01:35:27] May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may abound in hope.
[01:35:36] by the power of the Holy Spirit.
[01:35:38] Amen.
[01:35:38] Go in peace.

[01:35:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
O come, O come, Emmanuel
[01:36:04] Rejoice!