A Treasure for all people
Series: For all People
Speaker: Steve Jeffrey
Date: 30th September 2021
Passage: Acts 26:1-32
00:00:00 --> 00:00:11 Back in 1984, a Christian pastor in Iran was imprisoned on charges of apostasy in that country.
00:00:12 --> 00:00:19 Such charges, if found guilty, would mean that he would be executed. And he spent nine years
00:00:19 --> 00:00:27 in prison before he finally got a chance to answer these charges in court. And so on the 3rd of
00:00:27 --> 00:00:36 December 1993, he wrote his defense to the court of justice. And as part of that defense,
00:00:36 --> 00:00:45 he summarized his life in these words. He says, I am a Christian. As a sinner, I believe Jesus has
00:00:45 --> 00:00:53 died for my sins on the cross and by his resurrection and victory over death, he has made me righteous in
00:00:53 --> 00:01:00 the presence of the Holy God. In response to his kindness, he has asked me to deny myself and to be
00:01:00 --> 00:01:07 his fully surrendered follower and not to fear people, even if they would kill my body.
00:01:08 --> 00:01:17 Life for me is an opportunity to serve him and death is a better opportunity to be with Christ.
00:01:17 --> 00:01:26 Therefore, I am not only satisfied to be in prison for the honor of his holy name, but am ready to give
00:01:26 --> 00:01:34 my life for the sake of Jesus, my Lord, and enter his kingdom sooner, the place where the elect of God
00:01:34 --> 00:01:44 enters everlasting life. Now, whatever your perspective on life of religion, philosophy of life is, I got to
00:01:44 --> 00:01:51 say this, hardly a person in the world that does not want to be able to face trials, hardship, difficulty,
00:01:51 --> 00:02:01 in fact, even daily life itself, like that man in that moment. To face life with boldness and contentment
00:02:01 --> 00:02:14 and poise with satisfaction, settledness, security. In fact, to even face death with so much life.
00:02:14 --> 00:02:24 In Acts 26, Paul is giving an account of his life in Jesus Christ before King Agrippa II.
00:02:26 --> 00:02:32 His life, like that Iranian pastor, has been turned inside out and upside down by Jesus Christ.
00:02:34 --> 00:02:41 That is, like the Iranian pastor who followed him centuries later, he has discovered a treasure
00:02:41 --> 00:02:51 that truly satisfied, a treasure in life that truly satisfies. It is the gospel treasure
00:02:51 --> 00:03:03 that is to be known and experienced by all people that, in fact, has driven the entire agenda of the
00:03:03 --> 00:03:11 book of Acts as we've been discovering it again and again. It is this gospel treasure that is the
00:03:11 --> 00:03:20 heartbeat of this church at St. Paul's and it's my goal for us today that we grasp a little bit more of it.
00:03:21 --> 00:03:26 So I've got really three points and if you got the St. Paul's app, it'd be great if you could open it up
00:03:26 --> 00:03:31 and there's three things. A treasure for all people, a treasure that makes sense and a treasure that truly
00:03:31 --> 00:03:40 satisfies. So the first point, a treasure for all people. King Agrippa II, his great-grandfather,
00:03:41 --> 00:03:48 was King Herod who ordered the murder of all the male infants in the vicinity of Bethlehem because he
00:03:48 --> 00:03:56 feared that Jesus was the challenger to his throne. That was how insecure Herod was on the inside.
00:03:57 --> 00:04:06 His great-uncle had John the Baptist executed and his father, Agrippa I, had executed James,
00:04:06 --> 00:04:15 the brother of Jesus and imprisoned the apostle Peter. And so now we have Agrippa II, the latest in
00:04:15 --> 00:04:23 the line of a morally bankrupt and insecure family. Acts 25 verse 23, we are told that Agrippa and
00:04:23 --> 00:04:31 Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience room with high-ranking military officers
00:04:31 --> 00:04:41 and the prominent men of the city. Now the phrase there, great pomp, comes from a word that means
00:04:41 --> 00:04:52 fantasy. That is, if you saw the picture of Agrippa entering this audience room, it looks like a scene
00:04:52 --> 00:05:00 from a fantasy movie. This is a big show of importance, of self-importance. It is designed to show power,
00:05:00 --> 00:05:11 significance. It is designed to intimidate Paul. But despite the outward appearances of wealth and
00:05:11 --> 00:05:24 power and prestige, what we have here with Agrippa is an inner bankruptcy, an inner insecurity.
00:05:24 --> 00:05:34 Bernice, who is accompanying Agrippa in this moment, is Agrippa's younger sister. She was once engaged
00:05:34 --> 00:05:43 to the nephew of the philosopher Philo, but instead she married her uncle. But now, having moved away
00:05:43 --> 00:05:54 from that, she is living incestuously with her brother Agrippa. This woman had a notorious
00:05:54 --> 00:06:02 reputation, even in the days of the Roman Empire. And so here we have Agrippa and Bernice.
00:06:04 --> 00:06:16 They're a sick, sin-infested couple, and yet on the outside, it's fantasy. It's pomp. They dressed up nicely.
00:06:16 --> 00:06:25 Rome considered Agrippa as an authority on the Jewish religion because his family had lived in Judea and
00:06:25 --> 00:06:34 oversaw the Jewish religion in the area for several generations. And so he's brought in to bring some
00:06:34 --> 00:06:41 expert advice for Festus because he didn't know what to do with his prisoner of Paul and the dispute that he
00:06:41 --> 00:06:47 was happening with the Jewish leadership. And so Festus is hoping Agrippa is going to write him a report
00:06:47 --> 00:06:55 that he can hand on to Caesar. And so Agrippa calls Paul to speak. And Paul shares his testimony
00:06:55 --> 00:07:05 of Jesus' work in his life. And then eventually Agrippa catches on to what's actually happening in this
00:07:05 --> 00:07:14 moment. Do you think, this is Agrippa, do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to become
00:07:14 --> 00:07:26 a Christian? By a short time along, I pray to God that not only you, but all who are listening to me today
00:07:26 --> 00:07:37 may become what I am, except for these chains. So Agrippa hearing Paul's testimony, hang on a minute.
00:07:39 --> 00:07:48 Paul, are you trying to convert me? And Paul, without mincing his words in any way, oh, absolutely, Agrippa.
00:07:48 --> 00:08:01 You and everyone here, in fact. That is Paul's goal of this whole chapter, this whole speech. That is his
00:08:01 --> 00:08:09 aim, that everyone would become followers of Jesus Christ and discover the hope and the treasure that
00:08:09 --> 00:08:15 he has. From the religious to the secular, from the upright to the immoral, from the Jew to the Gentile,
00:08:15 --> 00:08:22 from the pompous to the pompous to the pompous, all would come and be followers of Jesus Christ.
00:08:24 --> 00:08:26 And that's, in fact, what we've seen right through the book of Acts.
00:08:28 --> 00:08:33 That's exactly what has happened right through the book of Acts. This gospel, this treasure has
00:08:33 --> 00:08:38 penetrated all kinds of cultures and people groups and classes of people and cities,
00:08:38 --> 00:08:47 for the major cities, for the little villages, for the Jew to the Gentile, and it still does across the
00:08:47 --> 00:08:54 globe 2 years later. And so the question for you, the question for Agrippa in this moment,
00:08:55 --> 00:09:00 having been confronted with the fact that Paul wants him to become a Christian, why would Agrippa want to
00:09:00 --> 00:09:08 do that? Why would anyone want to do that? Well, that brings us to the thrust of Paul's message.
00:09:08 --> 00:09:18 It's because the core message of the Christian faith, the gospel, this treasure, makes sense.
00:09:20 --> 00:09:26 Agrippa says to Paul, do you think you can persuade me to become a Christian? And Paul is trying here,
00:09:26 --> 00:09:31 obviously, to persuade Agrippa that the Christian faith makes sense. Firstly,
00:09:31 --> 00:09:44 that the Christian faith makes rational sense. Paul says he met the resurrected Jesus Christ
00:09:44 --> 00:09:56 on the Damascus road. In verse 22, he says the Messiah would suffer and as the first to rise from the dead
00:09:56 --> 00:10:05 would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles. This is when Festus
00:10:05 --> 00:10:13 interrupts Paul in verse 24. When he hears Paul talking about the resurrection, he just can't hold it.
00:10:13 --> 00:10:21 He just jumps in and says, you are out of your mind, Paul. Your great learning is driving you insane.
00:10:21 --> 00:10:31 It sort of sounds like he's being partly polite, but it's actually pretty derogatory. It's like,
00:10:31 --> 00:10:40 Paul, you've got all these PhDs, but you're mad. You're crazy. That's the sense of it.
00:10:40 --> 00:10:49 But Paul comes back respectfully in verse 25. I am not insane, most excellent Festus.
00:10:51 --> 00:11:01 Paul replied, what I am saying is true and reasonable. True and reasonable.
00:11:01 --> 00:11:09 And verse 26 is Paul's appeal to the true and reasonable. He at this moment turns to Agrippa
00:11:09 --> 00:11:15 and says that this king, Agrippa, is familiar with these things and I can speak freely to him.
00:11:16 --> 00:11:25 I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice because, and this is a pregnant statement,
00:11:25 --> 00:11:37 it was not done in a corner. Not done in a corner. In other words, Festus, I understand you may not be
00:11:37 --> 00:11:43 familiar with the story of Jesus Christ or the resurrection. You know, you're not an expert in
00:11:43 --> 00:11:47 Judea. You haven't lived there. I understand that. But Agrippa's different.
00:11:47 --> 00:11:59 Family dynasty have lived in Judea for generations and the events surrounding Jesus Christ was so
00:11:59 --> 00:12:07 significant that anyone living in the area around Judea in the past 20 years could not laugh off as
00:12:07 --> 00:12:14 insane the events of the resurrection of Jesus Christ as you yourself, Festus, have just done.
00:12:14 --> 00:12:26 There is way too much evidence. Agrippa couldn't escape it. The events were all public.
00:12:28 --> 00:12:35 You see, in the New Testament accounts, there were dozens of miracles performed by Jesus, let alone the
00:12:35 --> 00:12:43 ones that are not recorded. And those miracles were witnessed by thousands of people.
00:12:44 --> 00:12:52 Public, obvious, brilliant, spectacular miracles over three years. You can't just laugh it off.
00:12:54 --> 00:13:06 You can't just laugh it off. You can imagine workers building roads or something, sitting down at
00:13:06 --> 00:13:10 smoke-o time, drinking their coffee.
00:13:13 --> 00:13:17 And someone says, these Christians. I mean, what a joke. I mean, come on.
00:13:17 --> 00:13:20 The other bloke goes, yeah, I don't agree with it. I as well.
00:13:21 --> 00:13:24 But then again, we did go to Lazarus's funeral, didn't we?
00:13:25 --> 00:13:28 And there's no denying he did stink.
00:13:28 --> 00:13:34 Like, he really stank. He was dead for four days.
00:13:36 --> 00:13:43 His body was decomposing. We all went to his funeral. Now he's back at work.
00:13:44 --> 00:13:48 I mean, I don't know how that happened, but there he is.
00:13:48 --> 00:13:52 How do you explain it?
00:13:54 --> 00:13:55 Thousands of people saw it.
00:13:56 --> 00:14:02 They may not believe it or be able to explain it, but it wasn't done in a corner.
00:14:04 --> 00:14:05 And then there's the empty tomb.
00:14:07 --> 00:14:10 Hundreds and hundreds of people said that they saw Jesus alive.
00:14:10 --> 00:14:14 Not a fuzzy, out-of-focus photo of Jesus.
00:14:15 --> 00:14:18 Not a piece of toast with a burnt bit that sort of looks like Jesus.
00:14:20 --> 00:14:21 Actually alive.
00:14:22 --> 00:14:25 Talking, eating, walking, fishing, touching.
00:14:25 --> 00:14:26 Alive.
00:14:28 --> 00:14:33 And so many of these people had lived transformed lives because of seeing Jesus alive.
00:14:33 --> 00:14:38 And many of those people died because of their trust in the resurrected Jesus.
00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 I mean, who dies for a hoax?
00:14:42 --> 00:14:43 Who does that?
00:14:47 --> 00:14:52 Paul says to Agrippa, you know all about this, don't you?
00:14:52 --> 00:14:54 It wasn't done in a corner.
00:14:54 --> 00:14:55 You know this stuff.
00:14:55 --> 00:14:59 In fact, these conversations would have been conversations you had in the palace.
00:14:59 --> 00:15:02 Of course, there's the public thing that you set out to everyone,
00:15:02 --> 00:15:04 the written scripts, the speeches you gave.
00:15:04 --> 00:15:07 But behind, you and your dad must have been talking.
00:15:07 --> 00:15:09 I don't know what happened.
00:15:10 --> 00:15:11 I'm not sure how to explain it.
00:15:13 --> 00:15:16 You know, Agrippa, that I'm not crazy.
00:15:17 --> 00:15:19 You know that there's lots of evidence for what I'm talking about.
00:15:20 --> 00:15:22 You may not believe it, understand that,
00:15:22 --> 00:15:26 but you cannot ignore the fact that this is public evidence.
00:15:26 --> 00:15:33 Agrippa here does not say,
00:15:34 --> 00:15:36 with Festus, you're mad, Paul.
00:15:36 --> 00:15:38 You're a lunatic, Paul.
00:15:42 --> 00:15:44 Notice that he doesn't argue with Paul.
00:15:46 --> 00:15:51 He jumps straight to a diversion, a concession.
00:15:51 --> 00:15:56 Are you trying to persuade me to become a Christian too?
00:16:00 --> 00:16:03 And what's more, in the last two verses of this chapter,
00:16:03 --> 00:16:06 Agrippa and others declare Paul,
00:16:06 --> 00:16:10 as he has been declared three times previously in the book of Acts,
00:16:11 --> 00:16:12 innocent of all charges.
00:16:12 --> 00:16:19 Agrippa is dodging the real issue
00:16:19 --> 00:16:21 because he doesn't want to submit to the evidence.
00:16:22 --> 00:16:25 He certainly isn't saying that Paul has got the facts wrong.
00:16:31 --> 00:16:32 It makes rational sense.
00:16:33 --> 00:16:35 There's way more evidence, obviously,
00:16:35 --> 00:16:38 but Christianity claims to be fact.
00:16:38 --> 00:16:43 It claims historical evidence that can be tested.
00:16:44 --> 00:16:47 Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
00:16:47 --> 00:16:48 That's the heart of it.
00:16:50 --> 00:16:53 Christianity makes a whole lot of rational sense.
00:16:55 --> 00:16:57 But, like Agrippa,
00:16:58 --> 00:17:03 no one comes to or rejects the Christian faith
00:17:03 --> 00:17:07 purely on the grounds of rational evidence.
00:17:08 --> 00:17:11 We're more complex than that as people.
00:17:12 --> 00:17:13 And so, secondly,
00:17:14 --> 00:17:16 Christianity makes personal sense.
00:17:17 --> 00:17:20 Now, in verses 4 to 12,
00:17:20 --> 00:17:23 Paul is really kind of making one basic point.
00:17:24 --> 00:17:24 He says,
00:17:25 --> 00:17:26 I was a committed Pharisee,
00:17:26 --> 00:17:27 a strict Jew,
00:17:27 --> 00:17:30 who lived to honour the law of God.
00:17:30 --> 00:17:31 In other words,
00:17:31 --> 00:17:36 my whole life was to honour God with the law code.
00:17:36 --> 00:17:38 My whole goal in life,
00:17:38 --> 00:17:39 my whole vision in life,
00:17:39 --> 00:17:40 was to obey the law.
00:17:40 --> 00:17:41 That's my passion,
00:17:42 --> 00:17:45 was to please God by being obedient to the law.
00:17:45 --> 00:17:49 All of my zeal in persecuting the Christians
00:17:49 --> 00:17:51 was because, as far as I was concerned,
00:17:51 --> 00:17:52 they were lawbreakers,
00:17:52 --> 00:17:55 and they had to be persecuted for breaking the law.
00:17:55 --> 00:17:59 But at some point,
00:18:00 --> 00:18:01 before he became a Christian,
00:18:03 --> 00:18:06 Paul realised he couldn't obey the law.
00:18:09 --> 00:18:12 He couldn't achieve the very thing
00:18:12 --> 00:18:15 that his heart was driving him to do,
00:18:16 --> 00:18:19 desperately trying to achieve.
00:18:19 --> 00:18:23 And he writes about this in Romans chapter 7.
00:18:24 --> 00:18:29 The commandment not to covet came home to him,
00:18:30 --> 00:18:31 and he writes there that,
00:18:32 --> 00:18:35 I read the commandment and it killed me.
00:18:36 --> 00:18:37 It slew me.
00:18:37 --> 00:18:38 It put me to death.
00:18:39 --> 00:18:39 I died.
00:18:39 --> 00:18:44 It's like he's sitting in bed at the end of the day
00:18:44 --> 00:18:46 with his 10 commandment checklist,
00:18:47 --> 00:18:48 patting himself on the back
00:18:48 --> 00:18:49 as he ticks off each one.
00:18:50 --> 00:18:52 Obeyed, obeyed, obeyed, obeyed.
00:18:52 --> 00:18:53 Does it every day.
00:18:53 --> 00:18:54 Goes through his diary,
00:18:54 --> 00:18:55 obeyed all the 10 commandments.
00:18:56 --> 00:18:58 God must be so pleased with me.
00:18:58 --> 00:18:59 Haven't committed adultery,
00:18:59 --> 00:19:00 haven't murdered anyone today.
00:19:00 --> 00:19:01 Fantastic.
00:19:01 --> 00:19:02 Then he gets to number 10,
00:19:03 --> 00:19:03 do not covet.
00:19:03 --> 00:19:05 And he goes,
00:19:07 --> 00:19:11 coveting cannot be understood behaviorally.
00:19:13 --> 00:19:15 Coveting has to do with the motivation of the heart.
00:19:16 --> 00:19:19 And the law that he was driven to obey
00:19:19 --> 00:19:24 helped him to see that he in fact couldn't obey it.
00:19:26 --> 00:19:29 He was never, ever got to the point
00:19:29 --> 00:19:33 where he was content with what he had achieved.
00:19:34 --> 00:19:36 Ever content with his zeal for God.
00:19:37 --> 00:19:38 He needed more.
00:19:38 --> 00:19:41 He was never sure that his law obedience was enough.
00:19:41 --> 00:19:42 And in the inside,
00:19:42 --> 00:19:45 he coveted more and more and more and more and more.
00:19:46 --> 00:19:51 The law helped him to see that he had a heart problem.
00:19:52 --> 00:19:55 No matter how much law obedience,
00:19:55 --> 00:19:57 it was never enough.
00:19:58 --> 00:19:59 He was never content.
00:19:59 --> 00:20:00 He was never satisfied.
00:20:00 --> 00:20:03 On the outside,
00:20:04 --> 00:20:05 he was confident,
00:20:06 --> 00:20:07 law abiding,
00:20:08 --> 00:20:09 fiercely religious,
00:20:09 --> 00:20:12 persecuted the Christians.
00:20:13 --> 00:20:14 But on the inside,
00:20:14 --> 00:20:15 he was unsettled.
00:20:16 --> 00:20:17 On the outside,
00:20:17 --> 00:20:18 he was superior,
00:20:19 --> 00:20:19 condescending,
00:20:20 --> 00:20:21 self-righteous.
00:20:21 --> 00:20:24 And on the inside,
00:20:24 --> 00:20:25 he was inferior.
00:20:27 --> 00:20:27 Fear,
00:20:27 --> 00:20:28 guilt,
00:20:28 --> 00:20:29 shame.
00:20:31 --> 00:20:33 Which normally happens in life,
00:20:33 --> 00:20:34 day by day.
00:20:35 --> 00:20:37 The people who are the more verbose,
00:20:37 --> 00:20:39 self-confident,
00:20:40 --> 00:20:41 a brash kind of person,
00:20:42 --> 00:20:43 tends to be really,
00:20:43 --> 00:20:46 really insecure on the inside.
00:20:47 --> 00:20:47 And that's Paul.
00:20:49 --> 00:20:56 So you can see here how Paul is trying to sort of get under a grip of skin and into his heart.
00:20:56 --> 00:20:59 All the pomp and the fantasy and the power and confidence.
00:21:00 --> 00:21:03 And yet what is obvious to all is the sin,
00:21:04 --> 00:21:04 the shame,
00:21:04 --> 00:21:05 the guilt,
00:21:05 --> 00:21:06 the brokenness on the inside,
00:21:06 --> 00:21:07 the insecurity.
00:21:07 --> 00:21:16 Most scholars agree that God started to get in to Paul's heart,
00:21:16 --> 00:21:18 started to target Paul's heart,
00:21:19 --> 00:21:23 when Paul stood there in all of his religious seal,
00:21:24 --> 00:21:26 giving his assent to the execution of Stephen.
00:21:28 --> 00:21:35 Paul had never seen anyone in his life so content as Stephen.
00:21:35 --> 00:21:40 So not needing more.
00:21:41 --> 00:21:43 So content in God,
00:21:43 --> 00:21:43 in fact.
00:21:44 --> 00:21:48 Someone with poise and respect and boldness,
00:21:48 --> 00:21:49 even in the face of death.
00:21:50 --> 00:21:53 Someone who loved and prayed for his enemies.
00:21:56 --> 00:21:59 And while Paul went on to persecute the Christians,
00:21:59 --> 00:22:03 God was working on the inside,
00:22:03 --> 00:22:03 in his heart.
00:22:03 --> 00:22:06 And then finally on the Damascus road,
00:22:06 --> 00:22:07 Paul met Jesus.
00:22:08 --> 00:22:10 Now this is the third time in Acts,
00:22:10 --> 00:22:14 that Paul recounts his testimony of meeting Jesus.
00:22:15 --> 00:22:17 But this is the only time,
00:22:18 --> 00:22:19 that he tells his testimony,
00:22:20 --> 00:22:23 and he includes these words in verse 14.
00:22:23 --> 00:22:29 It is hard for you to kick against the goads.
00:22:29 --> 00:22:33 Now a goad was a sharp stick,
00:22:33 --> 00:22:37 that shepherds used to get sheep to go on the right direction.
00:22:37 --> 00:22:38 We always have these views,
00:22:38 --> 00:22:39 and the shepherds are,
00:22:39 --> 00:22:41 they just spend their time cuddling their sheep.
00:22:41 --> 00:22:41 But in actual fact,
00:22:41 --> 00:22:42 they had sticks,
00:22:42 --> 00:22:44 and they whacked their sheep as well.
00:22:46 --> 00:22:50 And God had been poking and prodding Paul on the inside,
00:22:50 --> 00:22:52 unsettling him on the inside.
00:22:52 --> 00:22:56 And kicking against the goads was an expression in Paul's time,
00:22:56 --> 00:22:59 that means you cannot keep resisting the deity.
00:23:01 --> 00:23:05 There is a God who is poking in your heart,
00:23:05 --> 00:23:05 Paul.
00:23:08 --> 00:23:12 Paul had been driven to please God,
00:23:12 --> 00:23:14 as his passion in life,
00:23:14 --> 00:23:19 and that drivenness caused him to persecute Jesus.
00:23:20 --> 00:23:21 And then this Jesus,
00:23:22 --> 00:23:24 who Paul immediately calls my Lord,
00:23:24 --> 00:23:25 before he knows it is,
00:23:25 --> 00:23:26 my Lord,
00:23:26 --> 00:23:27 my Lord,
00:23:28 --> 00:23:31 and then discovers that in actual fact,
00:23:31 --> 00:23:31 it's Jesus.
00:23:34 --> 00:23:36 The one he'd been persecuting,
00:23:36 --> 00:23:38 in his zeal for God,
00:23:38 --> 00:23:39 he discovers was in fact,
00:23:40 --> 00:23:41 God himself.
00:23:44 --> 00:23:46 And then Jesus makes all the difference to Paul.
00:23:47 --> 00:23:48 In particular,
00:23:48 --> 00:23:49 the gospel message.
00:23:50 --> 00:23:52 We get a glimpse of the gospel in verse 23,
00:23:53 --> 00:23:54 that the Messiah would suffer,
00:23:55 --> 00:23:57 and as the first to rise from the dead,
00:23:57 --> 00:23:59 would bring the message of light to his own people,
00:24:00 --> 00:24:00 and to the Gentiles.
00:24:02 --> 00:24:04 Paul needed the gospel light,
00:24:05 --> 00:24:07 in his dark heart.
00:24:08 --> 00:24:10 Now the gospel is the good news of the Messiah,
00:24:10 --> 00:24:11 the Christ,
00:24:11 --> 00:24:12 the King of Kings.
00:24:12 --> 00:24:15 Jesus of Nazareth,
00:24:16 --> 00:24:17 though innocent,
00:24:17 --> 00:24:19 would suffer and rise again,
00:24:19 --> 00:24:21 for the salvation of humanity.
00:24:22 --> 00:24:24 Jesus Christ,
00:24:24 --> 00:24:26 is the only one,
00:24:26 --> 00:24:28 who totally lived,
00:24:28 --> 00:24:30 a perfect life.
00:24:31 --> 00:24:32 Paul had strived,
00:24:32 --> 00:24:33 all of his life,
00:24:33 --> 00:24:34 to do that,
00:24:35 --> 00:24:36 in order to please God,
00:24:36 --> 00:24:38 and yet he couldn't.
00:24:38 --> 00:24:40 And Jesus lived,
00:24:40 --> 00:24:41 the life that Paul,
00:24:41 --> 00:24:43 should have lived,
00:24:43 --> 00:24:44 and that we,
00:24:45 --> 00:24:46 should live.
00:24:46 --> 00:24:48 And he died the death of Paul,
00:24:48 --> 00:24:49 and we should die,
00:24:49 --> 00:24:50 because we failed to live,
00:24:50 --> 00:24:51 the life that we should live.
00:24:53 --> 00:24:54 And so,
00:24:54 --> 00:24:55 the gospel,
00:24:55 --> 00:24:57 helped Paul,
00:24:57 --> 00:24:58 understand,
00:24:58 --> 00:25:00 why he was so,
00:25:00 --> 00:25:01 eaten up inside,
00:25:01 --> 00:25:04 but it also provided,
00:25:04 --> 00:25:05 the solution for him.
00:25:06 --> 00:25:07 The gospel explained,
00:25:08 --> 00:25:09 why he was guilty,
00:25:09 --> 00:25:11 and it resolved his guilt.
00:25:14 --> 00:25:15 Christian faith,
00:25:15 --> 00:25:17 makes rational sense,
00:25:17 --> 00:25:18 but it also makes personal sense.
00:25:20 --> 00:25:22 It is only in Jesus,
00:25:22 --> 00:25:23 any of us,
00:25:24 --> 00:25:25 will ever get the thing,
00:25:26 --> 00:25:27 that we have been striving for,
00:25:27 --> 00:25:28 all of our lives,
00:25:28 --> 00:25:29 whatever it might be.
00:25:30 --> 00:25:31 It might be significance,
00:25:31 --> 00:25:32 it might be love,
00:25:32 --> 00:25:33 it might be acceptance,
00:25:33 --> 00:25:34 it might be justice,
00:25:34 --> 00:25:36 it might be beauty,
00:25:36 --> 00:25:37 it might be eternal life,
00:25:37 --> 00:25:39 it might be a clear conscience.
00:25:39 --> 00:25:40 Only Jesus,
00:25:41 --> 00:25:42 can give us,
00:25:43 --> 00:25:45 the thing that drives our hearts.
00:25:47 --> 00:25:48 The thing that we covet,
00:25:49 --> 00:25:51 but we will never achieve.
00:25:52 --> 00:25:53 It will never be enough.
00:25:54 --> 00:25:55 Only Jesus,
00:25:56 --> 00:25:57 fills our hearts.
00:25:57 --> 00:25:58 You see,
00:25:58 --> 00:25:59 the gospel of Jesus Christ,
00:25:59 --> 00:26:00 doesn't just make rational sense,
00:26:00 --> 00:26:01 it makes personal sense,
00:26:02 --> 00:26:05 it fills up our hearts.
00:26:06 --> 00:26:07 You see,
00:26:07 --> 00:26:08 we are complex beings.
00:26:09 --> 00:26:10 When it comes to persuading,
00:26:10 --> 00:26:11 we're complex.
00:26:11 --> 00:26:13 It's not just rational evidence,
00:26:14 --> 00:26:15 there's a lot more things.
00:26:15 --> 00:26:16 We are persuaded,
00:26:16 --> 00:26:17 something is true and right,
00:26:18 --> 00:26:21 partly because it's facts,
00:26:21 --> 00:26:22 but also relationships,
00:26:22 --> 00:26:23 and emotions,
00:26:23 --> 00:26:24 and all these things,
00:26:24 --> 00:26:25 have got a part to play
00:26:25 --> 00:26:27 in us being convinced.
00:26:29 --> 00:26:30 For instance,
00:26:31 --> 00:26:32 if you're a boss
00:26:32 --> 00:26:33 employing a new staff member,
00:26:34 --> 00:26:37 your goal is to be absolutely,
00:26:37 --> 00:26:39 completely certain
00:26:39 --> 00:26:41 that this is the right person
00:26:41 --> 00:26:42 before you hire them.
00:26:42 --> 00:26:43 You want that.
00:26:43 --> 00:26:44 You want to make sure
00:26:44 --> 00:26:45 this person is absolutely
00:26:45 --> 00:26:46 the right person for the gig.
00:26:46 --> 00:26:50 You want watertight proof
00:26:50 --> 00:26:52 that this person
00:26:52 --> 00:26:53 is the right person
00:26:53 --> 00:26:54 for this role
00:26:54 --> 00:26:55 before I hire them.
00:26:56 --> 00:26:58 If that's the case,
00:26:58 --> 00:26:59 you will never hire
00:26:59 --> 00:27:00 a single person.
00:27:02 --> 00:27:04 You can use reason
00:27:04 --> 00:27:06 to get you
00:27:06 --> 00:27:07 to the place
00:27:07 --> 00:27:08 of probability
00:27:08 --> 00:27:09 that this person
00:27:09 --> 00:27:10 might be the right person.
00:27:10 --> 00:27:14 reason can get you
00:27:14 --> 00:27:15 to the point
00:27:15 --> 00:27:15 of probability,
00:27:16 --> 00:27:17 but it can never
00:27:17 --> 00:27:17 transfer you
00:27:17 --> 00:27:18 to the point
00:27:18 --> 00:27:19 of certainty.
00:27:22 --> 00:27:23 How do you make
00:27:23 --> 00:27:24 that transition
00:27:24 --> 00:27:25 from probability
00:27:25 --> 00:27:25 to certainty?
00:27:27 --> 00:27:28 You have to hire them.
00:27:29 --> 00:27:30 You have to take a risk.
00:27:31 --> 00:27:32 You have to jump in.
00:27:32 --> 00:27:32 You have to make
00:27:32 --> 00:27:33 a commitment.
00:27:35 --> 00:27:36 Time and a commitment
00:27:36 --> 00:27:37 to the person
00:27:37 --> 00:27:38 will either make you
00:27:38 --> 00:27:39 certain
00:27:39 --> 00:27:40 or make you
00:27:40 --> 00:27:41 uncertain.
00:27:44 --> 00:27:45 You need to use
00:27:45 --> 00:27:46 reason
00:27:46 --> 00:27:46 to get you
00:27:46 --> 00:27:47 to the point
00:27:47 --> 00:27:47 of probability,
00:27:48 --> 00:27:49 but reason
00:27:49 --> 00:27:50 is not enough
00:27:50 --> 00:27:50 for certainty.
00:27:51 --> 00:27:53 You must commit
00:27:53 --> 00:27:54 your whole self
00:27:54 --> 00:27:55 to get certainty.
00:27:55 --> 00:27:56 You must
00:27:56 --> 00:27:57 jump in
00:27:57 --> 00:28:01 reasonably.
00:28:03 --> 00:28:04 And so to the skeptics
00:28:04 --> 00:28:05 tuning in here now,
00:28:08 --> 00:28:09 what if
00:28:09 --> 00:28:10 God did not
00:28:10 --> 00:28:11 give you
00:28:11 --> 00:28:12 a watertight
00:28:12 --> 00:28:13 argument
00:28:13 --> 00:28:15 about his
00:28:15 --> 00:28:16 existence
00:28:16 --> 00:28:17 and about
00:28:17 --> 00:28:18 the truth
00:28:18 --> 00:28:19 of Christianity?
00:28:19 --> 00:28:20 What if he didn't
00:28:20 --> 00:28:20 do that?
00:28:21 --> 00:28:21 You might be
00:28:21 --> 00:28:22 searching for that
00:28:22 --> 00:28:22 now,
00:28:22 --> 00:28:23 but what if he
00:28:23 --> 00:28:23 didn't do that
00:28:23 --> 00:28:24 for you?
00:28:25 --> 00:28:26 What instead
00:28:26 --> 00:28:27 he gave you
00:28:27 --> 00:28:28 a watertight
00:28:28 --> 00:28:29 person
00:28:29 --> 00:28:31 against whom
00:28:31 --> 00:28:31 there is no
00:28:31 --> 00:28:32 argument?
00:28:32 --> 00:28:33 What if he did
00:28:33 --> 00:28:33 that?
00:28:33 --> 00:28:37 And so I
00:28:37 --> 00:28:38 challenge you
00:28:38 --> 00:28:38 to read
00:28:38 --> 00:28:39 the gospel
00:28:39 --> 00:28:40 of Mark
00:28:40 --> 00:28:41 in the New
00:28:41 --> 00:28:41 Testament
00:28:41 --> 00:28:42 or John
00:28:42 --> 00:28:44 and engage
00:28:44 --> 00:28:45 with the person
00:28:45 --> 00:28:46 of Jesus.
00:28:48 --> 00:28:49 Do it with
00:28:49 --> 00:28:49 someone else.
00:28:49 --> 00:28:49 I mean,
00:28:50 --> 00:28:50 make contact
00:28:50 --> 00:28:51 with us here
00:28:51 --> 00:28:51 at Supports.
00:28:51 --> 00:28:52 We would love
00:28:52 --> 00:28:52 to do that
00:28:52 --> 00:28:52 with you.
00:28:53 --> 00:28:54 You see,
00:28:54 --> 00:28:54 when you look
00:28:54 --> 00:28:55 at the claims
00:28:55 --> 00:28:55 of Jesus
00:28:55 --> 00:28:57 and the character
00:28:57 --> 00:28:58 of Jesus
00:28:58 --> 00:28:59 and the activities
00:28:59 --> 00:29:00 of Jesus,
00:29:00 --> 00:29:02 it is so hard
00:29:02 --> 00:29:03 to dismiss him
00:29:03 --> 00:29:05 as being
00:29:05 --> 00:29:06 anything else
00:29:06 --> 00:29:07 but what he
00:29:07 --> 00:29:08 says and who
00:29:08 --> 00:29:08 he says he is.
00:29:10 --> 00:29:11 You just
00:29:11 --> 00:29:12 can't explain
00:29:12 --> 00:29:13 him away.
00:29:19 --> 00:29:20 So lastly,
00:29:21 --> 00:29:23 when you
00:29:23 --> 00:29:24 finally do
00:29:24 --> 00:29:24 come to Jesus,
00:29:25 --> 00:29:25 you discover
00:29:25 --> 00:29:26 a treasure
00:29:26 --> 00:29:26 that truly
00:29:26 --> 00:29:27 satisfies.
00:29:28 --> 00:29:29 The good
00:29:29 --> 00:29:29 news of
00:29:29 --> 00:29:30 Christianity
00:29:30 --> 00:29:30 is for
00:29:30 --> 00:29:31 everyone.
00:29:31 --> 00:29:31 It makes
00:29:31 --> 00:29:32 sense and
00:29:32 --> 00:29:32 are truly
00:29:32 --> 00:29:33 satisfied.
00:29:33 --> 00:29:34 And Paul,
00:29:34 --> 00:29:34 what we
00:29:34 --> 00:29:35 notice here,
00:29:35 --> 00:29:36 is just so
00:29:36 --> 00:29:37 incredibly bold
00:29:37 --> 00:29:38 with a gripper.
00:29:40 --> 00:29:40 And yet,
00:29:40 --> 00:29:40 at the same
00:29:40 --> 00:29:41 time,
00:29:41 --> 00:29:41 he's not
00:29:41 --> 00:29:41 arrogant.
00:29:42 --> 00:29:43 He's respectful
00:29:43 --> 00:29:43 and he's
00:29:43 --> 00:29:44 poised,
00:29:44 --> 00:29:45 but he's
00:29:45 --> 00:29:45 not afraid.
00:29:47 --> 00:29:48 Verse 18
00:29:48 --> 00:29:49 is the source
00:29:49 --> 00:29:50 of Paul's
00:29:50 --> 00:29:50 contentment
00:29:50 --> 00:29:51 and boldness.
00:29:53 --> 00:29:54 Jesus
00:29:54 --> 00:29:54 mentions the
00:29:54 --> 00:29:55 fruit of the
00:29:55 --> 00:29:56 gospel in our
00:29:56 --> 00:29:56 lives,
00:29:56 --> 00:29:57 the fruit of
00:29:57 --> 00:29:57 this treasure
00:29:57 --> 00:29:58 being worked
00:29:58 --> 00:29:58 out in our
00:29:58 --> 00:29:58 lives.
00:29:58 --> 00:29:58 And he
00:29:58 --> 00:29:59 says,
00:29:59 --> 00:29:59 that they
00:29:59 --> 00:30:00 may receive
00:30:00 --> 00:30:00 the forgiveness
00:30:00 --> 00:30:01 of sins
00:30:01 --> 00:30:03 and a place
00:30:03 --> 00:30:04 among those
00:30:04 --> 00:30:05 who are
00:30:05 --> 00:30:06 sanctified by
00:30:06 --> 00:30:07 faith in
00:30:07 --> 00:30:07 me.
00:30:09 --> 00:30:10 Those who
00:30:10 --> 00:30:10 put their
00:30:10 --> 00:30:11 faith in
00:30:11 --> 00:30:11 Jesus Christ,
00:30:12 --> 00:30:12 it says,
00:30:12 --> 00:30:12 receive.
00:30:13 --> 00:30:14 That means it's a
00:30:14 --> 00:30:14 gift.
00:30:14 --> 00:30:15 You don't work
00:30:15 --> 00:30:15 for it.
00:30:15 --> 00:30:16 Paul has spent
00:30:16 --> 00:30:16 all his life
00:30:16 --> 00:30:17 trying to get
00:30:17 --> 00:30:18 this and he
00:30:18 --> 00:30:19 says,
00:30:19 --> 00:30:20 I receive it.
00:30:21 --> 00:30:22 I don't achieve
00:30:22 --> 00:30:22 it.
00:30:22 --> 00:30:24 we receive
00:30:24 --> 00:30:25 forgiveness of
00:30:25 --> 00:30:27 sins and
00:30:27 --> 00:30:28 a place.
00:30:29 --> 00:30:30 Paul had
00:30:30 --> 00:30:31 been working
00:30:31 --> 00:30:33 for that to
00:30:33 --> 00:30:33 achieve it,
00:30:33 --> 00:30:34 but he
00:30:34 --> 00:30:34 couldn't.
00:30:35 --> 00:30:35 And Jesus
00:30:35 --> 00:30:36 offers it to
00:30:36 --> 00:30:36 him a gift.
00:30:36 --> 00:30:37 The word
00:30:37 --> 00:30:37 place there
00:30:37 --> 00:30:38 means a
00:30:38 --> 00:30:38 home.
00:30:39 --> 00:30:39 It's a place
00:30:39 --> 00:30:40 where you
00:30:40 --> 00:30:40 belong.
00:30:40 --> 00:30:41 It's a place
00:30:41 --> 00:30:41 where you
00:30:41 --> 00:30:41 fit.
00:30:42 --> 00:30:42 It's a place
00:30:42 --> 00:30:43 where you
00:30:43 --> 00:30:45 finally rest,
00:30:46 --> 00:30:47 content,
00:30:48 --> 00:30:48 satisfied.
00:30:48 --> 00:30:50 When you
00:30:50 --> 00:30:51 become a
00:30:51 --> 00:30:51 Christian,
00:30:51 --> 00:30:52 you're not
00:30:52 --> 00:30:52 just forgiven
00:30:52 --> 00:30:53 of sin,
00:30:53 --> 00:30:53 which is a
00:30:53 --> 00:30:54 negative thing,
00:30:55 --> 00:30:55 but you're
00:30:55 --> 00:30:56 also given
00:30:56 --> 00:30:57 a place.
00:30:57 --> 00:30:58 You are
00:30:58 --> 00:30:58 adopted.
00:30:59 --> 00:30:59 You are
00:30:59 --> 00:31:00 brought into
00:31:00 --> 00:31:01 the family
00:31:01 --> 00:31:01 of God.
00:31:01 --> 00:31:01 You are
00:31:01 --> 00:31:02 loved.
00:31:02 --> 00:31:02 You're
00:31:02 --> 00:31:03 accepted.
00:31:03 --> 00:31:03 You've
00:31:03 --> 00:31:03 got a
00:31:03 --> 00:31:04 place.
00:31:04 --> 00:31:04 You've
00:31:04 --> 00:31:05 got a
00:31:05 --> 00:31:05 place where
00:31:05 --> 00:31:05 you go,
00:31:07 --> 00:31:08 where you
00:31:08 --> 00:31:09 rest,
00:31:10 --> 00:31:11 where you're
00:31:11 --> 00:31:11 satisfied,
00:31:12 --> 00:31:13 where you're
00:31:13 --> 00:31:13 content.
00:31:16 --> 00:31:17 That's the
00:31:17 --> 00:31:17 good news of
00:31:17 --> 00:31:18 the Christian
00:31:18 --> 00:31:18 faith.
00:31:18 --> 00:31:19 Jesus Christ
00:31:19 --> 00:31:20 left his
00:31:20 --> 00:31:20 place in
00:31:20 --> 00:31:20 heaven.
00:31:21 --> 00:31:22 He lived
00:31:22 --> 00:31:23 amongst us
00:31:23 --> 00:31:25 and while he
00:31:25 --> 00:31:25 lived amongst
00:31:25 --> 00:31:25 us, he
00:31:25 --> 00:31:26 said, I've
00:31:26 --> 00:31:26 got no place
00:31:26 --> 00:31:27 to lay my
00:31:27 --> 00:31:27 head.
00:31:27 --> 00:31:27 This is
00:31:27 --> 00:31:28 not my
00:31:28 --> 00:31:29 home so
00:31:29 --> 00:31:30 that we
00:31:30 --> 00:31:30 could have
00:31:30 --> 00:31:31 an eternal
00:31:31 --> 00:31:31 place of
00:31:31 --> 00:31:32 rest and
00:31:32 --> 00:31:32 contentment
00:31:32 --> 00:31:33 and satisfaction
00:31:33 --> 00:31:34 in him.
00:31:35 --> 00:31:36 He told his
00:31:36 --> 00:31:37 disciples, I'm
00:31:37 --> 00:31:37 about to
00:31:37 --> 00:31:38 depart to
00:31:38 --> 00:31:39 prepare a
00:31:39 --> 00:31:40 place for
00:31:40 --> 00:31:42 you where
00:31:42 --> 00:31:42 you would
00:31:42 --> 00:31:43 dwell in
00:31:43 --> 00:31:44 his presence
00:31:44 --> 00:31:45 forever,
00:31:46 --> 00:31:46 a place where
00:31:46 --> 00:31:47 you belong,
00:31:47 --> 00:31:48 a place where
00:31:48 --> 00:31:48 you are
00:31:48 --> 00:31:48 loved.
00:31:50 --> 00:31:51 And as
00:31:51 --> 00:31:51 Paul stands
00:31:51 --> 00:31:52 before Agrippa,
00:31:53 --> 00:31:54 he knows
00:31:54 --> 00:31:55 that he has
00:31:55 --> 00:31:55 in that
00:31:55 --> 00:31:56 moment the
00:31:56 --> 00:31:57 delight, the
00:31:57 --> 00:31:59 regard, the
00:31:59 --> 00:32:01 affirmation of
00:32:01 --> 00:32:02 the king of
00:32:02 --> 00:32:05 kings, the
00:32:05 --> 00:32:05 king of the
00:32:05 --> 00:32:06 universe in
00:32:06 --> 00:32:07 Jesus.
00:32:07 --> 00:32:08 As he stands
00:32:08 --> 00:32:09 before king
00:32:09 --> 00:32:12 Agrippa, he's
00:32:12 --> 00:32:12 got the love and
00:32:12 --> 00:32:14 the affirmation of
00:32:14 --> 00:32:14 the king of
00:32:14 --> 00:32:14 kings.
00:32:14 --> 00:32:17 Paul had
00:32:17 --> 00:32:18 seen this
00:32:18 --> 00:32:18 kind of
00:32:18 --> 00:32:19 boldness in
00:32:19 --> 00:32:20 Stephen before
00:32:20 --> 00:32:21 he himself was
00:32:21 --> 00:32:22 a Christian
00:32:22 --> 00:32:24 and it got
00:32:24 --> 00:32:25 under his
00:32:25 --> 00:32:25 skin.
00:32:27 --> 00:32:28 If you want
00:32:28 --> 00:32:29 to be
00:32:29 --> 00:32:30 persuasive,
00:32:31 --> 00:32:34 then you
00:32:34 --> 00:32:34 need to be
00:32:34 --> 00:32:36 persuaded by
00:32:36 --> 00:32:37 the truth of
00:32:37 --> 00:32:38 the good news
00:32:38 --> 00:32:38 of Jesus
00:32:38 --> 00:32:39 Christ.
00:32:39 --> 00:32:40 That's for you,
00:32:40 --> 00:32:40 Christian.
00:32:40 --> 00:32:41 If you want to be
00:32:41 --> 00:32:42 persuasive, you
00:32:42 --> 00:32:42 need to be
00:32:42 --> 00:32:43 persuaded.
00:32:44 --> 00:32:44 You need to be
00:32:44 --> 00:32:45 contented and
00:32:45 --> 00:32:46 rest in Jesus.
00:32:47 --> 00:32:48 To the degree
00:32:48 --> 00:32:49 that you are
00:32:49 --> 00:32:51 is the degree
00:32:51 --> 00:32:52 to which you'll
00:32:52 --> 00:32:53 have the same
00:32:53 --> 00:32:54 kind of security
00:32:54 --> 00:32:55 and boldness
00:32:55 --> 00:32:57 and poise
00:32:57 --> 00:32:58 and freedom
00:32:58 --> 00:33:00 and contentment
00:33:00 --> 00:33:01 in life,
00:33:01 --> 00:33:01 whatever your
00:33:01 --> 00:33:02 circumstances.
00:33:05 --> 00:33:06 Thirteen weeks
00:33:06 --> 00:33:06 into a lockdown,
00:33:06 --> 00:33:07 do you want that
00:33:07 --> 00:33:08 sort of contentment,
00:33:09 --> 00:33:10 boldness now,
00:33:10 --> 00:33:12 satisfaction in life
00:33:12 --> 00:33:13 now because
00:33:13 --> 00:33:14 with the
00:33:14 --> 00:33:15 treasure of the
00:33:15 --> 00:33:15 gospel, you
00:33:15 --> 00:33:16 have everything.
00:33:16 --> 00:33:17 Do you want
00:33:17 --> 00:33:17 that?
00:33:18 --> 00:33:19 I want that.
00:33:19 --> 00:33:20 Let's pray.
00:33:21 --> 00:33:22 Gracious God,
00:33:22 --> 00:33:23 we are,
00:33:24 --> 00:33:25 with all the
00:33:25 --> 00:33:26 complexity of
00:33:26 --> 00:33:26 this life that
00:33:26 --> 00:33:27 you've made as
00:33:27 --> 00:33:28 complex beings,
00:33:29 --> 00:33:31 we are
00:33:31 --> 00:33:32 so grateful
00:33:32 --> 00:33:33 that in Jesus
00:33:33 --> 00:33:34 you offer us
00:33:34 --> 00:33:35 everything.
00:33:36 --> 00:33:37 I pray that you
00:33:37 --> 00:33:38 would help us,
00:33:39 --> 00:33:39 first of all,
00:33:40 --> 00:33:40 for those who
00:33:40 --> 00:33:41 don't know you,
00:33:41 --> 00:33:41 to come to
00:33:41 --> 00:33:42 grasp this
00:33:42 --> 00:33:43 treasure that
00:33:43 --> 00:33:44 is the gospel.
00:33:45 --> 00:33:46 For those of us
00:33:46 --> 00:33:47 who do know you,
00:33:47 --> 00:33:48 I pray that this
00:33:48 --> 00:33:49 treasure will
00:33:49 --> 00:33:51 grow and increase
00:33:51 --> 00:33:51 in our hearts
00:33:51 --> 00:33:53 more and more
00:33:53 --> 00:33:53 and more
00:33:53 --> 00:33:55 and all other
00:33:55 --> 00:33:56 earthly treasures
00:33:56 --> 00:33:58 will be put in
00:33:58 --> 00:33:59 their proper place.
00:34:00 --> 00:34:01 Give us this
00:34:01 --> 00:34:01 poise,
00:34:01 --> 00:34:02 this contentment,
00:34:02 --> 00:34:03 this satisfaction,
00:34:03 --> 00:34:04 this boldness in
00:34:04 --> 00:34:05 life that only
00:34:05 --> 00:34:06 you can give us
00:34:06 --> 00:34:08 because we have
00:34:08 --> 00:34:09 rest in you,
00:34:10 --> 00:34:11 eternal rest in you.
00:34:12 --> 00:34:12 Amen.