Hudson Taylor Joy in Contentment

Series: HEROES OF THE FAITH

Speaker: James Barnett

Date: 18th January 2020

00:00:00 --> 00:00:04 Good morning, everyone. My name is James. It's good to see you all this morning.
00:00:05 --> 00:00:13 Life can feel like a treadmill, seeking contentment and happiness. Maybe when I've earned
00:00:13 --> 00:00:21 this amount of money, then I'll be content. Maybe when I make it to the weekend, then I'll be
00:00:21 --> 00:00:29 content. Or maybe when I make it to the holiday, I've got bad news for you. It's Sunday, and that
00:00:29 --> 00:00:35 means that tomorrow we have to go back to work. Maybe you're on school or uni holidays,
00:00:35 --> 00:00:44 and as the holiday gets closer to ending, all your happiness and contentment erodes. Is anybody
00:00:44 --> 00:00:49 feeling like that at the moment? Any school students, uni students, worried about what's
00:00:49 --> 00:00:55 coming up in the next couple of weeks? You're anxious as the end of holidays come because
00:00:55 --> 00:01:01 you can see it disappearing like a fog. I was talking to someone the other day who was
00:01:01 --> 00:01:07 sharing that they have an issue buying things online because there is no contentment when
00:01:07 --> 00:01:14 you buy things online because there are always more things to buy online. But what do we do
00:01:14 --> 00:01:21 in this situation? Do we just try and find happiness where we can find it? Do we just guilt each
00:01:21 --> 00:01:27 other into feeling worse that we're not happy with what we have? What do we do when we are on a
00:01:27 --> 00:01:35 treadmill of seeking a contentment that will last? Is there anything that can be done? Are we content
00:01:35 --> 00:01:44 with what God has given us? The Bible promises that Jesus is enough. It promises that Jesus is the yes
00:01:44 --> 00:01:51 to every one of God's promises. But what does it look like to be content in Jesus when we have so
00:01:51 --> 00:01:59 many desires and so many needs? Today, as we continue in our series looking at the heroes of the faith,
00:01:59 --> 00:02:05 as we see Christians from history who have not been perfect but have been people who have been
00:02:05 --> 00:02:12 challenged by God's Word, we're going to look at a man named Hudson Taylor. He's the man standing with
00:02:12 --> 00:02:19 his wife on the far right in this picture. He was an English missionary to China and we will see
00:02:19 --> 00:02:26 what his contentment looked like and he will show us what it looks like to have contentment in God.
00:02:27 --> 00:02:32 So please let me pray for us as we look at this today. Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, we thank you
00:02:32 --> 00:02:38 for your Word to us and we thank you for other Christian brothers and sisters throughout history
00:02:38 --> 00:02:44 who model to us what following you looks like. Father, we ask that this morning we would be
00:02:44 --> 00:02:48 encouraged and challenged to find our contentment in you. Amen.
00:02:54 --> 00:03:03 Hudson Taylor was born in England in 1832. He grew up in a Christian family and not long after
00:03:03 --> 00:03:11 he took hold of Jesus himself as a teenager, he struggled with defeat, with discouragement
00:03:11 --> 00:03:20 and after one particular defeat, he called out to God for help. He wanted to live a life pleasing to
00:03:20 --> 00:03:31 God in everything and he felt that he would go anywhere, he would do anything for God if God would give
00:03:31 --> 00:03:38 him clear assurance of direction. He would do anything for God if he had clarity. And so he wrote this
00:03:38 --> 00:03:45 after calling out to God on this particular day and he felt as if he was in the presence of God and
00:03:45 --> 00:03:55 felt something say to him, your prayer is answered, your conditions are accepted. And from that time forward,
00:03:55 --> 00:04:04 he felt a conviction to go to China. From that call on, his response was extremely practical.
00:04:04 --> 00:04:12 He began devoting more time to prayer and Bible study and of course, he had to learn Chinese.
00:04:13 --> 00:04:20 At that time, a rare book of Chinese grammar would cost $25, which was a lot of money at the time.
00:04:20 --> 00:04:29 And an English to Chinese dictionary was even more expensive, $75. And he didn't have that kind of
00:04:29 --> 00:04:38 money. So what Hudson did was he bought a Gospel of Luke in Chinese. And he spent time comparing the
00:04:38 --> 00:04:45 Chinese Gospel of Luke to the English and made his own dictionary of about 600 characters.
00:04:45 --> 00:04:50 And that's how he started learning Chinese. So, you know, I'm trying to learn Chinese, so I really
00:04:50 --> 00:05:00 have no excuse, do I? At this point, he also began training in contentment. To go overseas as an
00:05:00 --> 00:05:09 isolated missionary, it would be a challenge. And so Hudson wrote, to me, it was a very grave matter
00:05:09 --> 00:05:17 to contemplate going to China. Far from all human aid, there to depend on the living God alone for
00:05:17 --> 00:05:26 protection, supplies and help. I felt that one's spiritual muscles required strengthening. And so he
00:05:26 --> 00:05:32 stripped back his food to only the basic things he needed to survive. So he could save for the voyage,
00:05:32 --> 00:05:41 the several-month-long boat voyage to China, and to depend upon God. He ate plain, insubstantial food,
00:05:41 --> 00:05:49 and he wasted nothing on luxuries. Before he left, it seemed that there was one other trial for
00:05:49 --> 00:05:58 contentment. Hudson had fallen in love. That's an appropriate response. That's good. He had known a
00:05:58 --> 00:06:03 young music teacher. These music teachers, they're deadly people. He'd known a young music teacher
00:06:03 --> 00:06:11 for two years. And though she was a Christian, she did not feel called to mission. She asked Hudson
00:06:11 --> 00:06:20 if he just couldn't serve God at home instead of going to China. But Hudson was convicted of his call
00:06:20 --> 00:06:29 by God. And he wrote of his wrestle with desire. Why should you go to China after all? Why toil and
00:06:29 --> 00:06:37 suffer all of your life for an ideal of duty? Give it up now while you can yet win her. Earn a proper
00:06:37 --> 00:06:47 living like everybody else and serve the Lord at home for you can win her yet. This struggle, a desire
00:06:47 --> 00:06:54 and a conviction from the Lord to go overseas and do missionary work where there was a very small
00:06:54 --> 00:06:59 amount of the gospel, very few missionaries at that time. A desire to do that, a conviction from God to
00:06:59 --> 00:07:11 do that, and a desire for this person. And yet the Lord revealed his love to him, made him happy in his
00:07:11 --> 00:07:17 Savior's love to continue without fear of what was to come. He was content in God's love.
00:07:19 --> 00:07:30 And so he sailed to Shanghai, a fairly eventful boat trip. And even when he finally came ashore in Shanghai,
00:07:30 --> 00:07:37 he had to find his contentment in God alone. Whilst he was joyful to have finally arrived,
00:07:37 --> 00:07:45 the loneliness and reality of his situation sank in. He did not know a single person in the country.
00:07:46 --> 00:07:54 No one on the entire continent knew his name. He eventually got settled in Shanghai. He learnt four
00:07:54 --> 00:08:01 Chinese dialects. I assume Mandarin and Shanghainese were one of those. And even at this point, he could
00:08:01 --> 00:08:07 have been content to stay in Shanghai or in one of the other port cities where the rest of the
00:08:07 --> 00:08:14 foreigners were, where there was other missionaries. But it was not enough to preach the gospel in
00:08:14 --> 00:08:22 Shanghai. There were others doing that. He wanted to get to the interior, to the heart of China, where
00:08:22 --> 00:08:29 the gospel had not yet penetrated. His heart was burdened with a sense of responsibility for those who
00:08:29 --> 00:08:37 would never hear the gospel unless someone took it to them. And so despite the comforts of being in
00:08:37 --> 00:08:45 Shanghai, he went alone into the areas of China unreached by the gospel. Many of these parts of China
00:08:45 --> 00:08:53 had never seen a white person, a yang guizzi or white devil. And so Hudson Taylor did something else
00:08:53 --> 00:09:02 radical. He took to Chinese dress. He shaved the front of his head. He grew his hair long. He put
00:09:02 --> 00:09:07 black tar in his hair to make it black. You know, we could just buy dye these days, but he had to put
00:09:07 --> 00:09:13 tar in his hair. And he dressed like the people of the time. Here's a photo of Hudson from later in life.
00:09:14 --> 00:09:19 I think that beard is something to long for. So we'll see how we go with that.
00:09:19 --> 00:09:27 His contentment in Christ was so great that he was willing to dress like the people he ministered to,
00:09:28 --> 00:09:32 even if that meant being rejected by the other Europeans.
00:09:33 --> 00:09:40 He travelled into the heart of China, into the interior, and he had great success as a travelling
00:09:40 --> 00:09:46 missionary. But he couldn't do it alone. So he founded the mission organisation called the China
00:09:46 --> 00:09:54 Inland Mission, which later became OMF. But supporting other missionaries was always hard,
00:09:55 --> 00:10:02 as they lacked finances. In one of these times, years later, after he'd been there for a while,
00:10:02 --> 00:10:08 he'd gotten married, and he retreated to his office and was reading the Bible. And then he would pray a
00:10:08 --> 00:10:14 while, and then he would look at the finances, the very dire finances. And then he would pray a while,
00:10:14 --> 00:10:19 read the Bible, and then look at the finances again. And then he'd pray a while, and read the Bible.
00:10:20 --> 00:10:28 And after a while, he left his office. His wife, Maria, who he'd married in China after some time,
00:10:28 --> 00:10:36 asked, what are we going to do? And Hudson said, we have 27 cents, and all the promises of God.
00:10:36 --> 00:10:45 What more do we need? Now, I could talk at great length about Hudson Taylor, his life and ministry,
00:10:45 --> 00:10:53 his joy depending on God in the face of adversity. I could talk of him being chased out of towns,
00:10:53 --> 00:11:02 being sick and in ill health, being forced to head home from illness to England before returning to China.
00:11:02 --> 00:11:11 I could talk of losing his wife, Maria, to cholera at the age of 33 after she'd just given birth and that
00:11:11 --> 00:11:19 child had died. By the end of his life, it is reported that he and the ministry, the mission
00:11:19 --> 00:11:27 agency he'd started, the China Inland Mission, had brought around 849 missionaries to the field.
00:11:27 --> 00:11:36 He'd trained some 700 Chinese workers. He'd raised $4 million. He'd developed a witnessing church,
00:11:37 --> 00:11:44 a Chinese church of around 125. It has been said that at least 35 of these were his converts,
00:11:45 --> 00:11:53 and that he baptised some 50. But how could Hudson Taylor live this kind of life? How could he
00:11:53 --> 00:12:01 move to another country, learn the language in multiple dialects, see people all throughout China
00:12:01 --> 00:12:12 saved, lose a wife and children, be set by sickness, but be content that he had everything in Jesus?
00:12:15 --> 00:12:20 How could he do that? How could he live to see many, many people come to know Jesus? What was
00:12:20 --> 00:12:28 his secret? In his biography, it says that he was able to do this because of the simple,
00:12:28 --> 00:12:37 profound secret of drawing for every need, temporal or spiritual, upon the fathomless wealth of Christ.
00:12:38 --> 00:12:46 He was content in Jesus, and he was able to be satisfied by what he was given, whether he was rich
00:12:46 --> 00:12:52 or poor, when he was in good health or poor health, with his wife by his side or when she was with the
00:12:52 --> 00:13:02 Lord. He managed, because of his secret, contentment in Christ at all times. Yes, he struggled, yes, he
00:13:02 --> 00:13:12 sinned, but he learned how to be content in Christ. He is a wonderful model to us of what Paul preached
00:13:12 --> 00:13:21 in Philippians 4, which Sue Wing read for us. Paul learned how to be content in Christ. His letter,
00:13:22 --> 00:13:28 which was part of it, was read for us, that was written while he was in prison. That is usually a
00:13:28 --> 00:13:37 strange place to write a letter saying how content you are. But in chapter 4, Paul says that he has
00:13:37 --> 00:13:43 learned to be content whatever his circumstance. From verse 12, I know what it is to be in need,
00:13:43 --> 00:13:50 and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every
00:13:50 --> 00:13:57 situation, whether well-fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. Paul has been in both
00:13:57 --> 00:14:04 situations. He has been high and he has been low. He has been well-fed and he's been living with plenty,
00:14:04 --> 00:14:12 but he's also been hungry and brought low. He has been brought low in prison. He's been able to be
00:14:12 --> 00:14:18 content when everything was stacked against him, when he is shipwrecked and flogged and attacked,
00:14:19 --> 00:14:26 when he is stoned and persecuted. And yet he can say here in prison that he is content,
00:14:27 --> 00:14:33 all because he's learned the secret to being content. The link between his situation
00:14:33 --> 00:14:43 and his contentment is he knows that God is in control. Back in Philippians 1, while he's in
00:14:43 --> 00:14:48 prison, it says, now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has
00:14:48 --> 00:14:58 actually served to advance the gospel. He is in chains so that people hear the gospel. It's almost
00:14:58 --> 00:15:07 that Paul can see that being in prison is a good thing. People are hearing about Jesus and his fellow
00:15:07 --> 00:15:13 disciples are trusting God more because he's in chains and they're becoming more confident and
00:15:13 --> 00:15:22 courageous. But Paul also knows what it is to have plenty. Chapter 4 verse 18, there we go.
00:15:22 --> 00:15:30 I have received full payment and have more than enough. I'm amply supplied. And even when in
00:15:30 --> 00:15:37 abundance, he is content, not yearning for more, all because my God will meet all your needs,
00:15:37 --> 00:15:45 according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Paul knows that God has met all his needs
00:15:45 --> 00:15:50 in Jesus and he knows that God will provide the church, the Philippian church, with all that they
00:15:50 --> 00:15:57 need to. Paul's secret to contentment... I feel like I should write a book, The Secret to Contentment.
00:15:57 --> 00:16:02 It seems like it would be a very on-trend book. Everybody loves The Secret. Paul's secret to
00:16:02 --> 00:16:09 contentment is not learned when he's rich. Paul's secret is not learned when he is poor. It's because
00:16:09 --> 00:16:16 he knows what both situations are like. Imagine for me a person who is incredibly wealthy.
00:16:16 --> 00:16:24 They come from a wealthy background and they have never lacked anything in life. And imagine that
00:16:24 --> 00:16:31 suddenly that person had everything taken from them. Do you think that they would be comfortable
00:16:31 --> 00:16:38 and content in poverty? I don't think so. Imagine someone from the opposite situation. Somebody that has
00:16:38 --> 00:16:45 come from a very poor background. They've learned how to be content. They've learned how to survive
00:16:45 --> 00:16:54 uncertainty and to depend and trust on God. But would they continue to trust God if they were suddenly
00:16:54 --> 00:17:01 wealthy? You see those statistics about people who suddenly win the lottery and they go from very poor
00:17:01 --> 00:17:07 to very wealthy. Those stats say that people who go from very poor to very wealthy do not find contentment.
00:17:07 --> 00:17:17 Money does not bring contentment. It just brings more pain. Paul insists that his contentment is found
00:17:17 --> 00:17:24 because he knows what both situations are like. And he's not longing to be wealthy. Imagining that it will
00:17:24 --> 00:17:33 bring him joy and happiness. And he's not longing for a simple life. Paul has learned how to be content
00:17:33 --> 00:17:41 in both situations because his contentment is independent. It is outside himself. His contentment
00:17:41 --> 00:17:50 is not found in his situation. His contentment is found outside. Whether rich or poor, his contentment
00:17:50 --> 00:17:58 is focused on enjoying all he has given in Jesus. Paul talks about the beauty of this contentment in
00:17:58 --> 00:18:07 verse 13. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Now, you may have heard this verse before.
00:18:08 --> 00:18:15 Usually this verse is just plucked straight out of the Bible and used totally out of context. Usually it's
00:18:15 --> 00:18:23 used to describe ourselves. I can do all this. I can walk on water because God gives me strength.
00:18:23 --> 00:18:29 I can be as strong as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Don't you think? No? Oh, thanks, Noeline. Shaking your head
00:18:29 --> 00:18:35 there. I can be as strong as whoever because God is going to give me that strength. I can do whatever
00:18:35 --> 00:18:41 I want because God is going to give me that power. Yeah. And we think it's a really encouraging and
00:18:41 --> 00:18:46 really exciting. Yeah, Adrian, you can do everything because God will help you to do everything.
00:18:46 --> 00:18:50 But that's not what the Bible is saying and that's not what Paul is saying.
00:18:52 --> 00:18:57 To take it a step back, to go back to verse 12, from halfway through,
00:18:57 --> 00:19:05 I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well-fed or hungry,
00:19:05 --> 00:19:13 whether living in plenty or want. I can do all this. I can be content in any situation. I can do all
00:19:13 --> 00:19:21 this through him who gives me strength. I can do what God wants me to do. I can preach to people in
00:19:21 --> 00:19:29 prison. I can preach to the wealthy. I can do all that God needs me to do because he is the one who
00:19:29 --> 00:19:35 gives me strength. It is not about me. It is about me serving God in any situation because he is the one
00:19:35 --> 00:19:42 who gives me strength to find contentment in my situation. How do we get there?
00:19:44 --> 00:19:53 How do we become content in Jesus? How can we affirm that Jesus is all I need? Because I have so many
00:19:53 --> 00:20:00 needs. I have so many wants. I have so many desires. And I find it hard to just give up my desires and say,
00:20:00 --> 00:20:09 oh, Jesus is enough. On Tuesday, I was doing the washing up. And I was thinking through this.
00:20:10 --> 00:20:16 And at that moment, I can still picture the moment, standing over the dishes, hot water a little bit
00:20:16 --> 00:20:24 too hot. And God rebuked me in that moment as I was thinking about this topic. I have three young
00:20:24 --> 00:20:30 children. And when I get to seven o'clock at night, I long for my children to be asleep.
00:20:32 --> 00:20:43 I want to have time to sit down and watch TV and relax. I'm longing for the freedom of burden and
00:20:43 --> 00:20:49 responsibility. And I get frustrated when my kids don't go to sleep as quickly as I would like.
00:20:49 --> 00:20:56 I get frustrated when cleaning the house takes longer than I think it should at the end of the day,
00:20:57 --> 00:21:05 because I want me time. And as I've been reading about Hudson Taylor, who he lost two wives,
00:21:05 --> 00:21:13 he lost four children before the age of 10. It made me reflect on what I'm chasing and what the cost is.
00:21:13 --> 00:21:22 I'm chasing freedom from responsibility. I'm chasing freedom from burden. But I have that in Christ.
00:21:23 --> 00:21:29 I'm free to serve and love him because he has the responsibility to save. I'm chasing rest,
00:21:29 --> 00:21:37 but I get my ultimate rest in Jesus. Because even though I long for rest at seven o'clock at night,
00:21:37 --> 00:21:42 and I get that when my kids are asleep, that is gone the next morning. And my kids are awake,
00:21:42 --> 00:21:50 and I'm longing for that night again. Whatever we are pursuing that we think will make us content,
00:21:51 --> 00:21:58 the answer is actually Jesus. The boat or the holiday that we are longing for,
00:21:58 --> 00:22:06 it is a desire for freedom and rest. And that's only found in Jesus. The new job or the promotion
00:22:06 --> 00:22:13 that we long for, it's seeking security and respect. But that's only found in the God
00:22:13 --> 00:22:21 who chose to die for us. A desire for close friends and intimate relationships.
00:22:21 --> 00:22:27 What a friend we have in Jesus who will not betray us, who will not abandon us.
00:22:27 --> 00:22:35 Maybe we're not content until we have a family. Well, we have an older brother in Jesus who brings us
00:22:35 --> 00:22:43 to the best father and into a family, the church. Even with Chinese New Year coming up,
00:22:43 --> 00:22:50 the giving of red envelopes and the giving in return of a blessing, what is that but a desire for money
00:22:50 --> 00:22:59 and riches to have security. Working hard to earn a certain amount of money to buy a house,
00:23:00 --> 00:23:08 to buy another house. A longing and desire to have security. But Jesus is eternal security.
00:23:09 --> 00:23:18 A security that can't be destroyed or burnt down. The longing for security is answered in Jesus.
00:23:18 --> 00:23:27 The desire and longing for love is found in the arms spread on the cross. The hope for tomorrow is
00:23:27 --> 00:23:34 found in the resurrection of the dead. Our peace is found in his blood, buying it from God. Health,
00:23:35 --> 00:23:41 we have a great healer in Jesus. Riches, we are made heirs of the God of the universe.
00:23:41 --> 00:23:51 Rest. Rest. God says, come to me all you who are weary and I will give you rest.
00:23:54 --> 00:23:58 What will make you content? Is it the lollipop my child is asking for?
00:24:00 --> 00:24:06 What will satisfy? Because that hit of sugar is not going to last for long. The things that we
00:24:06 --> 00:24:13 seek contentment from do not last long. They are temporary things that we chase.
00:24:14 --> 00:24:16 The only thing that will satisfy is Jesus.
00:24:19 --> 00:24:26 We can be content regardless of life's circumstance. Our contentment is not based on what is going on
00:24:26 --> 00:24:32 around us, but what Jesus has done. It is not a philosophy like Buddhism that we seek to have
00:24:32 --> 00:24:41 no desires. We seek to rise above our desires. Rather, in the midst of difficult situations,
00:24:42 --> 00:24:51 people like Paul and Hudson Taylor sought and trusted in God and looked to Jesus.
00:24:51 --> 00:24:56 In him is every longing and desire satisfied.
00:24:56 --> 00:25:09 Being content in Jesus is a very dangerous place to be. Because there's consequences of being content.
00:25:11 --> 00:25:16 Being content doesn't fit with the rest of the world. The world is not content around us.
00:25:17 --> 00:25:23 But the world is chasing personal desire at every turn. I had a strange moment at youth group
00:25:23 --> 00:25:29 last year, towards the end of the term. I was sitting there. I was sitting next to a younger
00:25:29 --> 00:25:32 person. Most people at youth group are younger. Actually, everyone at youth group is younger than me.
00:25:32 --> 00:25:37 I'm the old, odd one out. And I was reading my Bible on my phone, and one of the younger people
00:25:37 --> 00:25:42 was reading a Bible on their phone. That's a fairly normal thing these days. And they said,
00:25:42 --> 00:25:48 oh, how do you cope only having an iPhone 8? You need an iPhone 11.
00:25:48 --> 00:25:56 And I was taken aback. This phone I have, it's enough. I'm more than content in it.
00:25:57 --> 00:26:01 But even that, not having the very latest technology is weird.
00:26:03 --> 00:26:10 When we are content with what God has given us, He will do dangerous things with us.
00:26:12 --> 00:26:17 Hudson Taylor strove to be content in what God had given him.
00:26:17 --> 00:26:24 And God sent him across the world to minister to a people who did not know God.
00:26:25 --> 00:26:32 And God used him to do marvellous things. The same with Paul. He was content to say that
00:26:32 --> 00:26:37 to live is Christ and to die is gain. That is a wonderful contentment.
00:26:39 --> 00:26:43 One that can see him understanding why he was even in prison.
00:26:43 --> 00:26:50 We can be content. Every longing and desire of ours is met in Jesus.
00:26:51 --> 00:26:56 It's not met by earthly things. Jesus is the yes to all of God's promises.
00:26:57 --> 00:27:03 And imagine what God would do with us if we were content with Him.
00:27:03 --> 00:27:22 Let me pray for us.
00:27:22 --> 00:27:30 Father, we thank you for our brothers Hudson and our brother Paul.
00:27:31 --> 00:27:35 Lord, we thank you that they have learned contentment in you.
00:27:36 --> 00:27:39 Father, we ask that as we are encouraged by their model,
00:27:40 --> 00:27:45 that we would see Jesus as the yes to all of our desires.
00:27:45 --> 00:27:53 Father, help us to be aware of the things that we long for.
00:27:54 --> 00:27:56 Help us to see the heart of them.
00:27:57 --> 00:28:01 And to see how you have answered that already in Jesus.
00:28:02 --> 00:28:04 Father, help us not chase things that will not satisfy.
00:28:05 --> 00:28:09 But to be satisfied and content in all that you have given us in your Son.
00:28:09 --> 00:28:15 We pray that we would do this so that you would do dangerous things with us, Lord.
00:28:15 --> 00:28:18 That you would make us fearless proclaimers of the gospel,
00:28:19 --> 00:28:20 not afraid of what other people would think.
00:28:21 --> 00:28:25 That you would send many of us out to preach the gospel,
00:28:25 --> 00:28:29 just like Sue Wing, across the world, across Sydney and our country, Lord.
00:28:30 --> 00:28:33 So that more people would come to know and love you,
00:28:33 --> 00:28:35 so that you would have all the glory, Lord.
00:28:36 --> 00:28:36 Amen.