00:00:00	That was awesome that was so good I think you were probably clapping because you know this is the last week in Leviticus and you're just like all right we're done true story last night uh someone asked me he's like what are you preaching on tonight what are we doing and I was like oh we're we're wrapping

00:00:47	up Leviticus and he literally goes again and I was like yeah again he's like I thought we already did that I was like no no somewhere we missed that so uh but this is the last week I promise you um and uh it been a good series yeah okay all right like half-hearted like yeah any anyone like I hope I never have to read Leviticus again anyone there no okay that's beautiful that's our hope um but before we dive in today uh I need to cover two things one is Larry is officially on sabatical um he left earlier this week

00:01:21	we're so excited that he's going to get some time away for rest and renewal uh I was out sick last weekend but I did hear that my name came up a few times in his message uh um something about like if you have problems just email me and I think he said that like five times um so I thought that now that he's gone and I can do whatever I want uh it would be awesome if while he's away you could just fill his inbox um and uh not with complaints or things you're frustrated with but but just immense gratitude for

00:01:51	who he is and and his like leading and shepherding of our church and encouragement um because I I read somewhere in the Bible about like kindness heaping coals on the head of enemy or something like that and so uh if you would join me in that and all serious this I I actually think it could be such a gift and a blessing to Larry if we could just uh fill his inbook blow his inbox up uh with just stories of gratitude things that sentiments you want to send him about uh what we're grateful and then when he comes back uh

00:02:18	he has to read through all of those and we'll just have a full inbox of gratitude um and then uh before we jump in I also wanted to just uh Ash thank you so much uh for your prayer and that sentiment um from While She Wrote wrot that uh just so beautiful um and we have a gift for for moms today we want to celebrate them and honor them uh for all the things you hold we have a uh a Waterstone tote bag um that we will give away so you can get that as you leave today and I'll just uh give this one to

00:02:46	you oh good connection nice catch that was awesome um and I want to give a special shout out to my wife Stephy uh who's actually home today um holding our kids who are sick with a fever um and so she wasn't even able to make it today but um that's what mothers do they show up love their kids and um yeah so we just want to honor the women of Waterstone uh could I pray for us and then we're going to dive into Leviticus Heavenly Father um God as we come to a close on uh this book in scripture um God Leviticus is is such a

00:03:23	challenging uh study and I just pray um that through this uh study over the last few weeks through sermons and small group discussions um God I just pray that your character um in this ancient book has come more alive to us that that we've seen your heart um in a place that sometimes it's a little harder to understand and see God I pray that you would just be with us today as we uh open your word um God I pray that your spirit uh would just rest heavily on this place that you would speak uh to each of our hearts hearts that God the

00:04:01	the places where we need encouragement um you would have an encouraging word for us today the the places where we need conviction uh God I pray that your spirit would speak to those places as well that we would turn our hearts towards you and give ourselves more fully to you as a result of gathering together today it's in Christ's name that we pray amen all right so as I I mentioned we are closing Leviticus today um and as we've been going through Leviticus My Hope and prayer has been uh that that next year when you get to

00:04:33	your Bible reading plan and you get to Leviticus uh you don't just skip ahead or your Bible reading plan doesn't just die out because you've been in Leviticus but you actually can give it another uh try because hopefully as we have been going through this book you have seen God's heart revealed I was talking with Celeste this morning she said you know I I didn't realize that Leviticus is so much about God's love and it it doesn't come through that way but what we've said uh throughout this series is this

00:04:59	is the big idea aide of Leviticus that God is graciously providing a way for sinful people to live in his holy presence that's been the big idea that we set out with um several weeks ago and that's the heart of the book but I will be honest with you if you get to Leviticus next year and let's say you're reading through it in your quiet time and you have your cup of coffee and it's early in the morning and you open up the book this big idea there will be moments where it is really hard to to believe or

00:05:30	to see this doesn't always feel like the big idea of Leviticus in fact I I think it there are places in Leviticus where this feels like I'm Paul I'm not even sure that that that's right in fact in Leviticus 26 the the chapter that we're going to be looking at today it's it's essentially the last chapter in Leviticus it's the closing of the book there's another chapter after but it's a little bit more of an appendix or an epilogue 26 is really where the book comes to a close and this is what it says says in verse 20 or in chap 26:

00:06:04	27-3 in spite of this if you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me then in my anger I will be hostile toward you and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over you will eat the Flesh of your sons and the Flesh of your daughters Happy Mother's Day we're so glad you're here this morning I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols and I will abhor you can you feel the love like what in the

00:06:52	world you see there there are places in Leviticus and places in the Old Testament and I've said this before for where it can feel a little bit like God is Jesus before he saw a really good therapist right like it it can feel like when you read a section like this about heaping dead bodies and and people being forced to eat the Flesh of their children like God just sounds so angry and and violent and vengeful God does not sound like the the loving father that Jesus gives us a picture of in the New Testament he he

00:07:30	sounds much more like a a petulant child that that's just hellbent on punishing people who don't do exactly what he wants and that can sometimes be the The View that we have of God I mean it feels a little bit like you know God is going to therapy and then in the course of therapy that the therapist is like hey you know what before you pile up all the dead bodies could you try counting to 10 next time and then somehow through that we like get to Jesus and everything is better and okay and it's like this love

00:08:00	God and the tension is how do we reconcile God's character with what we read in the Old Testament with passages like that and passages in the New Testament where Jesus gives us this picture of God who who is a loving father who always welcomes rebellious children back to himself that sure doesn't sound like a loving father welcoming rebellious children back to himself so what do we do with passages like this in Leviticus and the image that Jesus gives us of who God is and how we reconcile the character that

00:08:32	seemingly contradicts itself well I think when we actually dive into the close of Leviticus and and we sit with Leviticus 26 what we see is is the Same Heart revealed it's just a little bit harder to get there and so actually in in Leviticus 26 it's broken into three sections and we're going to walk through those sections today the first section uh God outlines blessings for obedience for the people if they remain faithful to the Covenant and then in the the second section of Leviticus 26 God tells

00:09:03	the Israelites what will happen to them if they're disobedient to the Covenant and he said there there will be curses for Disobedience and then the book closes with a promise of a way back even if they step into Rebellion so today I want to walk through each of those sections and see if we can still reconcile the heart of God in Leviticus with what we see Jesus tell us who God is in the New Testament so to begin we're going to look at bless blessings for obedience the first section of Leviticus 26 now when we hear this

00:09:34	phrase blessings for obedience I I tend to and and I don't know if this is true for you but I kind of hear it as a as a relationship if I am obedient then God will give me blessings and I sometimes have this relationship with God where I I kind of assume that that's how God works with me that if I am good then God will be good to me and if I am bad inversely then God will will punish me and I can go through life thinking that okay there's something I want maybe some job or or back before i' married sephie

00:10:07	someone I want to marry some Vision I have for my life some good thing I desire and I think in my relationship with God the only way I could actually get that is if I am good enough the only way God will bless me and give me the things I'm longing for is if I can earn it from him God doesn't just give me his love freely I have to make sure I'm good enough and so I walk into this agreement with God where I say things like okay God I'll make sure not to miss church as much as I did last year and I'll pray

00:10:40	much more to you every day than I did the year before and I'll make sure to read my Bible and I'll make sure to give to the poor and I'll make sure to and I can create this list of things I think I have to do in order to earn God's favor that that it is my obedience that determines God's blessing on my life anybody read resonate with that at all and you don't have to raise your hands okay got some hands that's great I and here's the here's the thing I know that that's not true but it does not stop me from living

00:11:14	out that functional view of God in my life and and so many times I come to God and I think okay if I am just good enough then maybe you will delight and smile on me if I am just faith enough then maybe you will bless me with the things my heart longs for and it's this transactional relationship where I believe that if I am good enough then God will be good to me and what I think happens is sometimes we come to passages like Leviticus in verse three it says this if you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my

00:11:53	commands you you can hear the relationship of the words there if you do this then something will follow' and what God goes on to say we don't have time to actually read through all of the first section of ver of 26 but it says this if you will obey and follow my decrees and obey my commands then blessings will flow out of that you will have blessings in in really two ways is what Leviticus 26 says the first is a blessing of abundance God says if you follow my decrees and obey my commands then you will have abundance in the land

00:12:25	you will experience things like food security I will cause rain to fall on the land you will have more food than you know what to do with I will give you physical safety in fact your enemies will flee from you and there won't even be any wild beasts in the land because I will drive them out before you will be safe and secure if you follow my commands and beyond that I will cause you to be fruitful and multiply just this this language of abundance if you follow my commands then you will experience this Abundant Life The Second

00:12:56	Blessing God promises is that if we obey his commands or if the people of Israel obey the commands then not only will they experience abundance in the land but they will experience God's presence itself in verse 9-13 it says this I will look on you with favor and I will make you fruitful and increase your numbers and I will keep my Covenant with you you will still be eating last year's Harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new it it's just this abundance of food but look at what he

00:13:28	says next I will put my Dwelling Place among you and I will not uphor you I will not reject you I will walk among you and be your God and you will be my people I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians and I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with your head held high it's a beautiful beautiful picture isn't it in fact so much of this passage and the promise God offers it's This identic Promise it's this going back to the Garden because if

00:14:04	you remember at the Garden God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden and they were so intimately connected with one another as as if they were going on walks through the garden together God says that if you follow my commands and obey my decrees that then we will essentially return back to this state of intimacy that we had together but it actually goes even deeper than that because when God say says that I will be your God and you will be my people that language is rich in meaning it's actually the type of language they would

00:14:38	use at marriage ceremonies and adoption ceremonies it's as if God is saying you will be my Covenant wife you will be the person that I had pledged myself to you will be my sons and daughters who I have adopted we will it's deeply deeply relational language God is saying that if you follow the commands if you follow my decrees and obey everything I have given you this law in Leviticus then you will experience relationship with me so intimately connected it will be as if we are Father and Son father and daughter or husband

00:15:15	and wife but here's the thing you you can hear all the if then language right if you do this then this will happen but when we read that what we read into it is that presupposition we have of our relation ship with God if I am good enough then God will do good things but that is not how Israel understood the Covenant what they understood that God was saying in this moment as he comes to them to the close of Leviticus he's given them the law he's essentially saying this as we come to a close on the

00:15:47	law there are two paths that you can choose one path obedience and faithfulness to the Covenant it will lead you to life it will lead you to blessing it will lead you to the place of flourishing where a natur natural result of your obedience a natural result of your obedience will lead you to this place of abundance in my presence but it is not a merit-based system God is not saying that if you do these good things then I will be good to you he is not saying that you can earn my favor see God has already given

00:16:23	Israel his favor in the law he is saying You Are My People this is how we exist in relationship with one another it's actually not a merit-based system the the law was given to show us the boundaries of God's kingdom and the people who live within those boundaries naturally will experience the blessing of a of a of of full life that results from that obedience see Leviticus actually has an opposite message of what we assume it's not that we can earn God's favor God is simply showing us the power path that

00:16:59	leads to blessing and life and fruitfulness God essentially comes to the people and he says as as we are about to to go into the promised land as we close this chapter of this Covenant I have made with you at the foot of Mount siani you are going to have two choices before you one choice will lead you to blessing and life and flourishing and abundance and my very presence will be with you but there's a second path you can take as we leave this place and this is where it gets into the second section

00:17:32	and the the second path is essentially curses for Disobedience the the consequences of Disobedience and again I think it is so easy for me to fall into a habit and a relationship with God where I assume that if I am disobedient then God will punish me and and inflict harm on my life that that if I step into relationship with God that that the whole purpose of my relationship with God is Perfection and if I don't perfectly follow God's Will and God's decrees if I don't perfectly follow all of the rules that God has has made clear

00:18:08	to me in Scripture that then if I am imperfect in any way if I misstep in any single way then God is just like so ready he cannot wait to just like afflict my life with consequences and Punishment and make sure I know that I stepped out of line and I have this view of God where I'm fearful of making any sudden misstep any mistake and I think man the moment I just get out of line a little bit like I'll be struck with cancer or or maybe someone in my family will will lose their life or or maybe I'll lose

00:18:44	like I can come up with all of these scenarios and all of the and then sometimes I read back into scenarios right I I think man this bad thing happened what happened in my life what did I do to cause this bad thing to take place in my life curses for disobedience is that God's heart for his people is it is it all about perfectly following all of the rules or you will be punished in verse uh chapter 26:14 it says this this is the beginning of the section on curses but if you will not listen to me and carry out all of these

00:19:22	commands if you reject my decrees and uphor my laws and fail to carry out all of my commands and so violate my Covenant now you can see in these verses God is Not merely talking about some sort of of mstep or accidental slip up in fact there are six verses or six verbs in these two verses that all detail not just some sort of like oh yeah we kind of messed up here yeah we kind of made a mistake here it is a fullscale rejection of who God is that they are aboring the commands they are violating the Covenant it is essentially

00:19:57	they are saying God we do not not want you we do not want to be in relationship with you we do not want to follow your laws we do not want you to be king over us we want to go our own way it's not talking about some like little mishap or misstep or or like a slight imperfection it is a fullscale rejection of the relationship with God and it's essentially abandoning a spouse at the altar God is saying there's a a choice that you can make where you have completely rejected relationship I have given you you have completely rejected

00:20:31	the Covenant that I have given you where where you walk in hostility towards me rather than fellowship with me but here's the important thing for us to understand about this section that that these curses that are about to happen in this section they are not a result of imperfection they are a result of rejection it's not simply about imperfection or not being perfect enough in fact inherent in the law is God understanding that the people of Israel would never be perfect that's why he gave the sacrificial system in the first

00:21:08	place he gave all of the law all of the commands and said this is what it looks like for you to be in relationship with me and I know you will fail I know you will fail again and again and again I know you will make mistakes I know you will fail and so I am giving you the sacrificial system as a way for you to come back in those missteps in those mistakes in those failures no matter how many times you break the Covenant I will not reject you that's the whole point of the sacrificial system is understanding

00:21:46	inherently that God is entering into a relationship with people who are imperfect and will not follow the letter of the law see God's heart has never been about legalism and Perfection it's been about relationship but God is also saying that there is something that can happen there's a a choice the people can make in their free will to to completely reject and they choose to abandon the Covenant and he says if you do that if you abandon me if you reject this Covenant if you reject our relationship then then there will be a

00:22:24	series of curses that that escalate in severity and intensity City and and it says this in verse 31-35 I I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste to your sanctuaries I will take no Delight in the pleasing Aroma of your offerings I myself will lay waste to the land so that your enemies who live there will be appalled I will scatter you among the Nations and I will draw out my sword and pursue you your land will be laid waste and your cities will lie in Ruins then the land will enjoy its Sabbath years all the

00:23:00	time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies and then the land will rest in its Joy at Sabbath all the time that it lies desolate the land will have the rest it did not have during the Sabbath you lived in it see what essentially happens is a reversal of the blessings for the section on obedience and instead of of God sending rain there's drought instead of the enemies fleeing before them the enemies defeat them instead of no wild beasts the the wild beasts run rampant in the

00:23:30	land and it eventually leads to a place of Exile where the people are driven from the land because of their sin and the rejection of who God is and this escalation in the consequences is not simply meant for punishment in fact I think that's a mistranslation it's not punishment as it says in the NIV it's actually discipline it's God trying to wake the people up to their choices and so some of the consequences they start pretty small he's like hey you may not have as much food as you did before that should be a wakeup moment for you

00:24:09	and then he says if you don't listen to me after that then your enemies are going to come and attack you and then you're you're going to lose the physical and eventually it will get to the point where you will lose my presence in the land with you it's this escalating scale of intensity and severity but it's not simply that God is just trying to punish them and to Smite them for their unfaithfulness it's God trying to wake them up to their Disobedience it's God trying to say you are choosing to go down this path that

00:24:43	leads to destruction and desolation and disease and you can turn around and what essentially God says is that it will get so bad that this is what it it means when it says that that they're eating the flesh of their sons and daughters he he is saying that that this will get so bad for you if you choose to go down this path this is what it will look like you have the choice of life and flourishing and wholeness a and being in my presence and you also have the choice that leads to death and destruction which will you

00:25:22	choose which will you choose see the the curses are not simply to just kind of lay down the law that they're intended to to be warnings to try to bring the people back to him when I was in high school uh there was an associate pastor at our church and this was just a small Bible Church and and he was an amazing man of God um he was the associate pastor and he would small church so he had a lot of different hats that he would wore he worked in our youth Department he would take us to camps he was in seminary he

00:25:55	he was an incredible person who Who Loved God phenomenal preacher um and at some point in his time on staff there he began to have an affair with our children's director and it absolutely like blew the church up it it tore apart his relationship with the congregation obviously his family was destroyed and and and just decimated led to divorce and and here's the thing all along the way there were so many opportunities where people confront him and said hey it it seems like that relationship's a little inappropriate you should maybe

00:26:32	like back up and not spend so much time with that person and he didn't listen and then it came out that they were spending weekends away together and people said hey like that's completely inappropriate like we have to to put a stop to that you're coming to the Elder board we're going to to to have some sort of conversation where where we put an end to this and then look at what reconciliation could look like and he refused to engage in the process and he continually at time and time again refused to listen to the

00:27:01	warnings and to the consequences and it just blew his whole life up it blew the church up and I remember watching that play out as a high schooler someone who had had been to camp with this person who had sat under his preaching and I remember sitting with my dad who was who was a part of some of those conversations and I I just thought like how does it get here like how do you just refuse again and again and again and choose to go down this path and I will never forget what my dad said in that

00:27:31	conversation and to be honest with you I I don't even know fully the theological implications of it but what he said to me in a conversation with him is is Paul you actually it's not the consequences you have to worry about I mean there were there will be consequences and and those are the things you need to listen to the the issue is when you stop seeing the consequences when God stops sending the warning signs to bring you back because essentially what what that could mean is not necessarily that God has

00:28:03	given up on you but that that God has just given you over to your desires and you are choosing the path that leads to destruction and God will honor your choice see I I think that's in some way the picture of what's going on in Leviticus God says you have these two choices you have these two ways you can go one will lead you to the path of flourishing and life and abundance in my presence but you can reject all of that and not just simply make a few mistakes I I I've built in something for you to bring you

00:28:36	back when you make the mistakes but you can choose a path that will lead you to destruction where you can be so rebellious in your spirit where where you have completely neglected my commands and and you have rejected me and that will lead you to this place of Destruction and the reason that that destruction is taking place is not because I am vengeful but because I am disciplining you trying to bring you back to myself trying to bring you home now here's where this passage I think can if that is not enough of a

00:29:15	like oh man like maybe there's some things I need to to work through in my life and figure out the the truth is this in that passage God says that I will take no Delight in the pleasing Aroma of your offerings I feel like that Thunder felt kind of ominous right like it's like oh man what do I need to work on right now she got to bring some levity you know what what God says is that he will take no Delight in the pleasing Aroma of the offerings you see earlier when God gives the sacrificial system what he

00:29:55	says is that when you make a mistake when you mess up when you fail these these offerings will be a pleasing Aroma to me that will show you your heart and that it will be a way to make atonement and cleansing for what has happened a way to make restitution for what has gone wrong in our relationship here God is saying they are still practicing all of the rituals they are still offering the sacrifices but God is not taking Delight in them it's as if the implication is you can go through all of the Motions of the

00:30:32	things you think you are supposed to do but if your heart is still far from God if you are still not in relationship with him you can do all of the right things and still reject God man if that doesn't feel true for my life that I can go through the motions of the things I know God want wants me to do but if God see it's not about legalism it's not about perfection it's not about earning favor it is about God's desire to be in relationship with us he wants you not all of the stuff you can do for

00:31:19	him he wants your heart that is the heart of God see In this passage it closes and it says this in verse 40-42 and this is this is the hope this is the beauty this is where the plane lands God says but after all of these consequences after all of these curses after everything that has taken place but if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors if they confess their un faithfulness and their hostility towards me which made me hostile towards them so that I sent them into the land of their

00:32:05	enemies then when their uncircumcised Hearts when their prideful hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin I will remember my Covenant with Jacob and my Covenant with Isaac and my Covenant with Abraham and I will remember the land you see the book ends with God's promise to receive receive back to him anyone who turns back to him and confesses their sins it's like a father welcoming home a rebellious child see God's promise is that even when you are Unfaithful I will always remain faithful see Jesus is not God after

00:32:54	therapy Jesus is the fullest revelation of God's heart that has always been there Jesus reveals the character of God that has always been this desire to be in relationship and intimacy with you and with me always and it's even more beautiful than that because In this passage God says that if you will pay for their sin but when we look forward to Jesus what we see is that God himself took the payment for sin that's how faithful he is that even in our rebellious State even when we choose to reject him God

00:33:42	himself if we confess if we turn to him he is always there ready to welcome and to receive us back to him and he went so far as to pay for us to to come back to him you see when Jesus shows up on the scene it it's so interesting I don't know if you've ever thought about this before but but Jesus is really good at breaking a lot of the commands in Leviticus in fact it's one of the reasons so many of the Pharisees are so upset with him so one of the reasons so many of the religious leaders are like

00:34:15	you're not following the Sabbath the way you're supposed to you're not supposed to pick Grain on the Sabbath you're not supposed to to do stuff like heal people on the Sabbath and Jesus goes around he doing it he's breaking the law of Leviticus as they understood it and he eats with with Sinners and tax collectors which should have made him unclean which you were not supposed to do he even goes so far as to touch people who are unclean and touch people who have died which was for sure something the Leviticus says do not do

00:34:43	this it will make you unclean have you ever wondered why Jesus showed such disregard for the law and yet was the perfect Son of God it's because he was the perfect Son of God the whole point of the law was for sinful people to have a way to be in relationship with God but Jesus was God he needs no way to be in perfect relationship with God because he is in perfect relationship with God because he is God he is the Son of God and so he doesn't need to follow all the rituals and regulations and things

00:35:18	because that's for the sinful people but it goes even deeper because Jesus shows up and and not only overturns those things but he fulfills those things and makes a way for people to encoun it it is God dwelling Among Us John literally says that God dwelled Among Us he tabernacled Among Us it is the the revelation of God's full promise of who he is two sinful people God no longer hidden behind a curtain that that contains his Holiness but God walking amongst Sinners and tax collectors and sex workers and interacting with them

00:36:01	and not becoming unclean because of who they are but making them clean bringing them life and restoration and then that God who walked Among Us experienced ultimate rejection ultimate rejection of the relationship he was fogged and beaten and mocked and nailed to a tree and at the moment you think when when Jesus dies and it would be so within God's right to say that's it I I sent you my son my holy presence amongst you he performed these Miracles he showed you the way to life you rejected him you chose death and destruction

00:36:50	instead it would have been the most natural thing in the world for God to withdraw his presence in that moment but but what happens the exact opposite in Mark 15 it says this with a loud cry Jesus breathed his last and the curtain of the temple the curtain that had held God's presence back that had been the container for God's hot spot of Holiness was torn in two from top to bottom and God's presence was not withdrawn from the people who had rejected him but dispensed on the people who had rejected

00:37:25	him that God's response to our ultimate rejection was Ultimate faithfulness and that in Jesus God's heart has always been to be with his people so far that he was willing to die in order to unleash his presence to us and for us so that we can experience life with him in the New Testament it's so beautiful because it goes on to say that that now we are the temple we are the very place where God's presence dwells within us that we no longer have to to to kill animals or or or perform certain rituals to be able to be in

00:38:12	relationship with God that God has chosen to make his home within your heart and soul that is how deeply God wants to be with you see and we walk around and and rebellion and and choosing to go our own path and and rejecting the very presence of God that is within us you see God's heart has always always been the same God's heart in Leviticus and God's heart in Jesus has been to make a way for you and I to be in relationship with him and what Leviticus tells us and what Jesus shows us is that there is no

00:38:56	length God would not not go to for us to be with him and for him to be with us amen let's pray Heavenly Father God as we come to a close on this book God I do pray that your heart has been made more clear today God for those of us who are maybe stuck in a relationship with you where where we think we somehow could earn your favor where we think the expectation of us is perfection God May the the message of Leviticus just ring so deeply in our hearts may your spirit speak to us God you are not a God who expects us

00:39:41	to be perfect you are a God who is perfect for us the God you made a way for us to be together and God May that not turn our hearts towards some desire to earn your favor but may we live from that place knowing what you did for us God may we choose life may we choose you over the things of this world God for the places within us that that we maybe need to repent for those of us in the room who think we are too far gone there's too much we have done we have run too far away God I pray that your spirit would

00:40:27	would speak so tenderly in this moment that you are always a father who welcomes back a rebellious child no matter what we have done or where we have gone if we simply turn back to you we can have intimacy and fellowship once again and it's in the name of Jesus who makes this all possible amen