WEBVTT 00:00:01.649 --> 00:00:04.929 Favorites? You think Jesus was picking favorites? 00:00:05.769 --> 00:00:10.289 No, he was obeying the law. Two or three witnesses. 00:00:16.929 --> 00:00:19.469 You're standing at the gate of an ancient city. 00:00:19.829 --> 00:00:23.050 The sun is high, dust hangs in the air, and elders 00:00:23.050 --> 00:00:26.870 sit in a semicircle of worn stone. There are 00:00:26.870 --> 00:00:29.989 no gavels, no courtrooms. No polished benches, 00:00:30.030 --> 00:00:33.649 just witnesses and a man whose future hangs on 00:00:33.649 --> 00:00:36.549 what people are willing to stay out loud. In 00:00:36.549 --> 00:00:39.549 Israel, truth wasn't established by the loudest 00:00:39.549 --> 00:00:42.670 voice or the most powerful man. It was established 00:00:42.670 --> 00:00:46.369 by agreement. Two or three witnesses confirming 00:00:46.369 --> 00:00:49.770 that something had really happened. Justice depended 00:00:49.770 --> 00:00:54.009 on testimony. Now, shift scenes for a moment. 00:00:54.070 --> 00:00:57.109 The smell of coffee is in the air. Folding chairs 00:00:57.109 --> 00:00:59.689 scrape against the fellowship hall floor. The 00:00:59.689 --> 00:01:02.170 last casserole dishes from our midweek meal are 00:01:02.170 --> 00:01:04.069 being stacked in the kitchen. It's Wednesday 00:01:04.069 --> 00:01:07.170 night in a small town church, and our Bibles 00:01:07.170 --> 00:01:09.569 are open. Wherever you're listening from, you're 00:01:09.569 --> 00:01:11.790 welcome to pull up a chair with us, grab a cup 00:01:11.790 --> 00:01:14.510 of coffee, and I'll see you on the other side. 00:01:19.930 --> 00:01:25.329 Simple and elegant. God could, but God doesn't. 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.780 Right? He could hold those things against us. 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:34.200 He has the ability to suspend his foreknowledge. 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:39.640 Has he forgotten those things? No. He's chosen 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:43.739 not to process them so that our choice can be 00:01:43.739 --> 00:01:47.920 free. Now, that's a simplification, but it's 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.560 the one I've been kind of working on this project. 00:01:50.140 --> 00:01:55.390 Hey, I was going to start. I was going to talk 00:01:55.390 --> 00:01:57.489 this week, rather, about a different subject. 00:01:57.569 --> 00:02:00.010 But while I was preparing Transfiguration Sunday, 00:02:00.170 --> 00:02:03.829 that sermon, Carrie asked me a really interesting 00:02:03.829 --> 00:02:06.230 question I thought was great. She said, hey, 00:02:06.329 --> 00:02:10.530 I noticed it's not just this time when Jesus 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:14.449 separated Peter, James, and John from the disciples. 00:02:17.530 --> 00:02:20.870 There are other times, too. Do they have a meaning, 00:02:20.930 --> 00:02:23.300 or was it just that he was? playing favorites 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:27.460 a little, right? There's actually a meaning behind 00:02:27.460 --> 00:02:30.819 why. Now, you might say, oh, there's a meaning 00:02:30.819 --> 00:02:32.900 behind it because that feels right, but what 00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:34.500 is the meaning? Well, you know what? I'm not 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:35.840 going to put you on the spot. I'm going to go 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.719 ahead and give you the answer, okay? But there 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.879 is a specific reason why Jesus is doing what 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.099 he's doing. And when you actually see what he's 00:02:46.099 --> 00:02:49.840 doing, you think, huh, really interesting stuff. 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.240 So I'm going to talk about that tonight. But 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.719 before we begin, we got to start with the law 00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:00.379 part of it, capital L law part of it, right? 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:05.259 And Moses and Deuteronomy and the law of the 00:03:05.259 --> 00:03:08.000 people that would become the people of Israel. 00:03:08.620 --> 00:03:12.419 So we're going to, as we always do, put the imagination 00:03:12.419 --> 00:03:16.560 caps on, and we're going to try to see the image. 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.219 So I'd like to start tonight in a courtroom. 00:03:19.819 --> 00:03:22.500 But not a normal courtroom with the marble walls 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:25.159 and the leather seats. It's a courtroom without 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:30.080 drywall. No polished bench, no fluorescent light 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.099 hum. Just elders at the gate of the city, dust 00:03:35.099 --> 00:03:38.460 under sandals, sunlight cutting across the face 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:43.580 of a man whose life is on the line. This is Israel's 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:46.599 legal system. And before you picture something 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:52.319 primitive, Understand what Moses is doing here 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.780 in the Old Testament because the ancient Near 00:03:55.780 --> 00:04:01.719 East ran on the testimony of the powerful. In 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:05.900 other words, whoever had the gold had the last 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:10.300 word. But God, with the people of Israel, he's 00:04:10.300 --> 00:04:13.819 building something different. Twelve tribes, 00:04:14.219 --> 00:04:18.639 former slaves. with no legal tradition except 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:25.279 do whatever Pharaoh says. And into that vacuum, 00:04:25.420 --> 00:04:30.199 God hands them a system designed to protect against 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:35.959 false accusation, to slow down mob violence, 00:04:36.259 --> 00:04:42.769 to demand confirmation for condemnation. Before 00:04:42.769 --> 00:04:45.370 there is a king, before there is a temple, before 00:04:45.370 --> 00:04:48.449 there is a prophet with fire in his bones, before 00:04:48.449 --> 00:04:53.069 all of that, there are witnesses. And if God 00:04:53.069 --> 00:04:59.430 structures Israel that way, if God builds justice 00:04:59.430 --> 00:05:03.149 on two or three voices agreeing on something, 00:05:03.370 --> 00:05:09.209 then when God steps into history in the flesh, 00:05:09.529 --> 00:05:14.089 you better believe. He will honor his own architecture. 00:05:14.930 --> 00:05:22.709 The lawgiver does not bypass his own law. So 00:05:22.709 --> 00:05:26.550 imagine now Moses standing at the Jordan River, 00:05:26.670 --> 00:05:32.149 east side. And he can see it, the promised land 00:05:32.149 --> 00:05:37.850 from here. The land he had spent 45 years walking 00:05:37.850 --> 00:05:42.300 towards. The promise that kept a million people 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:46.740 moving through sand and failure and manna that 00:05:46.740 --> 00:05:50.639 they had become sick and tired of eating. He 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:55.160 could see it. And he's not going to cross it. 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:01.920 And he knows it. So you're the leader. You're 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:04.980 Moses. What do you do when you won't be there 00:06:04.980 --> 00:06:09.540 to adjudicate problems? When the people you love 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:13.439 are about to walk into a world full of power 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:18.620 that doesn't answer to anybody, you build justice 00:06:18.620 --> 00:06:23.160 into the bones of the covenant that are so deep 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:27.579 that even a king can't dig them out. You make 00:06:27.579 --> 00:06:32.399 the rules so plain that a shepherd can recite 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:36.079 them by heart and a widow could invoke them. 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:40.540 And you trust that the God who gave you these 00:06:40.540 --> 00:06:45.420 words will hold them to it after you've been 00:06:45.420 --> 00:06:50.279 buried in a grave that no one can find. That's 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:53.420 what you are about to hear, friends. The dying 00:06:53.420 --> 00:06:56.980 leader's last gift to a people who don't know 00:06:56.980 --> 00:07:02.459 how much they're going to need it. Friends, these 00:07:02.459 --> 00:07:06.920 aren't Moses' words. They come to us from Deuteronomy 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:12.100 chapter 19. I'll begin with verse 15. One witness 00:07:12.100 --> 00:07:15.180 shall not rise against a man for any iniquity 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:20.759 or sin in any sin that he sins. At the mouth 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:25.759 of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:32.680 shall a matter be established. an unrighteous 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:36.620 witness rises up against any man to testify against 00:07:36.620 --> 00:07:41.300 him of wrongdoing, then both the men between 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:45.560 whom the controversy is shall stand before Yahweh, 00:07:45.699 --> 00:07:49.600 before the priests and the judges who shall be 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:53.939 in those days. The judges shall make diligent 00:07:53.939 --> 00:07:59.680 inquisition. Behold, if the witness is a false 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:03.399 witness, and has testified falsely against his 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.540 brother, then you shall do to him as he had thought 00:08:07.540 --> 00:08:11.339 to do to his brother. So you shall remove the 00:08:11.339 --> 00:08:17.120 evil among you. Those who remain shall hear and 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:21.180 fear and will never again commit any such evil 00:08:21.180 --> 00:08:26.240 among you. Your eye shall not pity. Life for 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.149 life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Hand for 00:08:30.149 --> 00:08:35.169 hand and foot for foot. Thus ends the reading 00:08:35.169 --> 00:08:40.570 of the law tonight. And this isn't casual language. 00:08:41.029 --> 00:08:45.669 This also isn't bureaucracy formally buried into 00:08:45.669 --> 00:08:50.110 some kind of law code that nobody notices. This 00:08:50.110 --> 00:08:54.350 is covenant steel. Hammered into the foundation 00:08:54.350 --> 00:08:57.830 of a people God was trying to make different 00:08:57.830 --> 00:09:03.549 than people around them. God cares so much about 00:09:03.549 --> 00:09:09.070 justice, he requires confirmation. Enough about 00:09:09.070 --> 00:09:14.250 truth to demand plurality. Enough about the accused 00:09:14.250 --> 00:09:19.750 to restrain the crowd. And the eye for an eye 00:09:19.750 --> 00:09:24.440 bit. It's not a license for revenge. It's actually 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:29.299 a ceiling, an upper limit to the penalty, if 00:09:29.299 --> 00:09:32.600 you will. It's God's restraining escalation before 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:37.139 escalation gets a name. Now hold this, because 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:42.080 when Jesus starts pulling Peter, James, and John 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:46.279 aside, taking them through other doors, through 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:49.000 doors that the other nine will not go through, 00:09:49.419 --> 00:09:55.360 It's not favoritism. It's fulfillment. It's God 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.820 following his own rules. He assembled witnesses 00:09:59.820 --> 00:10:06.820 because the covenant law required it. Walk with 00:10:06.820 --> 00:10:10.779 Jesus into the house of Jairus, his dying daughter. 00:10:11.580 --> 00:10:14.539 And you can smell it before you hit the threshold 00:10:14.539 --> 00:10:18.740 of the house. Oil lamps burning too many at once. 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:23.159 The sharp sweetness of the burial spices already 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:26.779 prepared. Someone's already been to the market. 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:29.899 Someone's already decided how this is going to 00:10:29.899 --> 00:10:34.539 end. The mortars are already loud. Flute players 00:10:34.539 --> 00:10:39.419 warming up outside Jarius's door. The word has 00:10:39.419 --> 00:10:44.279 gone out. The girl is dead. Don't even bother 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:49.019 sending for the teacher anymore. Even Jairus' 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:54.159 hopes had grown thin. You could see it in the 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:58.059 way that his shoulders sagged. And Jesus puts 00:10:58.059 --> 00:11:01.659 all of them out, every one of them. And then 00:11:01.659 --> 00:11:06.059 he takes five people through that door. Two parents 00:11:06.059 --> 00:11:09.659 who know their daughter's face, three disciples 00:11:09.659 --> 00:11:12.850 who could testify. And he takes her hand. And 00:11:12.850 --> 00:11:19.070 he speaks, and she breathes. And now, resurrection 00:11:19.070 --> 00:11:25.509 is not a rumor. It's been established. Now, let's 00:11:25.509 --> 00:11:28.370 climb the mountain with him like we did on Sunday 00:11:28.370 --> 00:11:31.230 morning. He took with him Peter, John, and James, 00:11:31.470 --> 00:11:34.909 and went up onto a mountain to pray, that from 00:11:34.909 --> 00:11:41.070 Luke 9 and 28. And his face changes. Moses and 00:11:41.070 --> 00:11:44.250 Elijah appears, and a voice from the cloud, verse 00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:49.289 35, says, This is my son, my chosen one. Listen 00:11:49.289 --> 00:11:54.850 to him. Glory must be established. Three witnesses. 00:11:56.009 --> 00:12:00.350 Now, we jump forward to Gethsemane in the dark. 00:12:01.210 --> 00:12:06.230 No radiance here. The Kidron Valley is below 00:12:06.230 --> 00:12:11.000 us. Jerusalem's torchlight. Liquor's on the ridge 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.059 like a city that's already made up its mind. 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:19.000 The olive trees there, they're old, older than 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:23.200 anyone alive. And the press where they crush 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:27.960 the fruit into oil, it's cold. The air smells 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.860 like damp stone and something broke open. This 00:12:31.860 --> 00:12:36.919 is a place, its press, built for pressure. Mark 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:40.860 14 and 33 says he took with him. Peter, James, 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:44.279 and John, and began to be greatly troubled and 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:50.600 distressed. He took them, his choice to have 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:55.980 his worst moment, witnessed. The one who could 00:12:55.980 --> 00:12:59.460 have suffered in private instead brought these 00:12:59.460 --> 00:13:04.080 three men and said, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:10.110 even unto death. Stay here and watch. and they 00:13:10.110 --> 00:13:15.509 fell asleep. Three times he came back to find 00:13:15.509 --> 00:13:19.590 them with their eyes closed. But he kept returning, 00:13:19.909 --> 00:13:24.210 not because they were inadequate, but because 00:13:24.210 --> 00:13:28.409 the covenant required human witnesses, and he 00:13:28.409 --> 00:13:31.409 was not going to bypass his own architecture. 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:36.019 not even in the olive press at midnight with 00:13:36.019 --> 00:13:38.899 the weight of the world bending him towards the 00:13:38.899 --> 00:13:43.000 ground. Suffering, too, must be established. 00:13:44.019 --> 00:13:49.700 Three doors, the same three men, same covenant 00:13:49.700 --> 00:13:54.879 number, same architecture. And it's not by coincidence. 00:13:56.139 --> 00:14:00.539 And here's the lie most people carry into those 00:14:00.539 --> 00:14:05.559 scenes. We assume, because of the favoritism 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:08.860 thing, we assume that Peter, James, and John 00:14:08.860 --> 00:14:12.460 were chosen because they were the best ones. 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:19.240 They weren't. Peter denies Jesus before the rooster 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:23.879 warms up. James and John ask about calling down 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:29.019 fire upon a rude village. And then... argue about 00:14:29.019 --> 00:14:33.700 eternal seating charts the very same week. They're 00:14:33.700 --> 00:14:37.740 not spiritual all -stars. They are unstable men 00:14:37.740 --> 00:14:42.860 under construction. Deuteronomy 19 does not say 00:14:42.860 --> 00:14:47.600 flawless witnesses. It says find two or three. 00:14:48.259 --> 00:14:51.899 And God establishes his most important matters 00:14:51.899 --> 00:14:57.169 through imperfect people. He doesn't wait for 00:14:57.169 --> 00:15:01.429 someone to become worthy. He works with someone 00:15:01.429 --> 00:15:06.309 present. And some of us believe that our failures 00:15:06.309 --> 00:15:12.470 have disqualified our testimonies. That what 00:15:12.470 --> 00:15:18.409 you did, what was done to you, put you prematurely 00:15:18.409 --> 00:15:23.860 out of the witness stand. And Peter writes, In 00:15:23.860 --> 00:15:26.899 his second letter, first chapter, he writes, 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.899 years later, after the denial bit, still carrying 00:15:31.899 --> 00:15:35.059 the memory of that charcoal fire and feed my 00:15:35.059 --> 00:15:41.100 sheep, he says these words, we were eyewitnesses 00:15:41.100 --> 00:15:47.259 to his majesty. It's legal language, credentialed 00:15:47.259 --> 00:15:52.970 by nothing except I was there. Witnessed it. 00:15:53.129 --> 00:15:58.970 I saw it. Truth stands not because the witness 00:15:58.970 --> 00:16:03.210 was perfect. Stands because the witness was present 00:16:03.210 --> 00:16:10.149 and brave enough to say so. Jesus is not improvising 00:16:10.149 --> 00:16:14.389 leadership strategy. He's honoring covenant structure 00:16:14.389 --> 00:16:18.970 at the exact moments when the highest claims 00:16:18.970 --> 00:16:24.179 about who he is. are demonstrated. The lawgiver 00:16:24.179 --> 00:16:31.320 in flesh embodies his own law. Jesus said himself 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:36.620 in John chapter 5 and 31, if I testify about 00:16:36.620 --> 00:16:44.179 myself, my witness is invalid. Let's sit with 00:16:44.179 --> 00:16:49.039 that for a moment. The Son of God voluntarily 00:16:50.250 --> 00:16:57.149 submits to his own evidentiary standard. The 00:16:57.149 --> 00:17:02.610 judge refuses to stand as his only and sole witness 00:17:02.610 --> 00:17:08.549 because this is the shape of God's sovereign 00:17:08.549 --> 00:17:13.009 love that refuses to overpower its way to victory. 00:17:13.789 --> 00:17:19.759 And at his trial, Jesus's. When false witnesses 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:26.700 rise against him, the very scenario that Deuteronomy 00:17:26.700 --> 00:17:31.980 19 and 16 was built to adjudicate, he doesn't 00:17:31.980 --> 00:17:36.940 invoke the provision. The one who could demand 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:44.319 the false testimony rebound on his accusers absorbs 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:51.599 instead. The lawgiver lets his own law convict 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:56.859 him. Life for life takes on a different weight 00:17:56.859 --> 00:18:02.460 when it's the lawgiver who is the one whose life 00:18:02.460 --> 00:18:08.339 is taken over false testimony. And that, friends, 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:12.839 is what the cross looks like from inside the 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:17.470 courtroom Moses built. The witness principle 00:18:17.470 --> 00:18:22.630 isn't just a rule God imposed on Israel. It is 00:18:22.630 --> 00:18:29.029 a reflection of who God is. Love does not overpower. 00:18:29.250 --> 00:18:35.670 Love testifies. Love confirms. Love establishes. 00:18:36.069 --> 00:18:40.049 God did not just give Israel a legal system. 00:18:40.930 --> 00:18:46.869 He gave them a window into his very nature. God 00:18:46.869 --> 00:18:50.769 still establishes truth through witnesses. The 00:18:50.769 --> 00:18:55.990 system did not retire with the apostles. When 00:18:55.990 --> 00:18:58.910 he met you in your own garden season, greatly 00:18:58.910 --> 00:19:02.470 troubled and not sure he'd make it through, that 00:19:02.470 --> 00:19:05.869 wasn't your own personal private therapy. That 00:19:05.869 --> 00:19:10.230 was a covenant story. Covenant stories are meant 00:19:10.230 --> 00:19:16.000 to stand. But testifying, only establishes something 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:20.900 when it's spoken. You've watched him restore 00:19:20.900 --> 00:19:23.619 something that had no business being restored. 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.660 You've watched him hold you through grief that 00:19:27.660 --> 00:19:31.160 should have broken you. And you've kept quiet 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:37.799 because your story has jagged edges. Because 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.220 you're not sure if your testimony counts. Listen, 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:47.779 when you say, He was faithful. And someone across 00:19:47.779 --> 00:19:54.000 the room nods, matter established. When you admit, 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:59.140 I almost fell apart and he held me. And someone 00:19:59.140 --> 00:20:06.579 else exhales and says, me too. Matter established. 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:12.779 You are not random attendees filling seats in 00:20:12.779 --> 00:20:16.609 a pew on Sunday morning. Your covenant witnesses. 00:20:17.829 --> 00:20:21.509 And the world does not need louder Christians. 00:20:22.109 --> 00:20:27.589 It needs confirmed ones. So, may the God who 00:20:27.589 --> 00:20:30.150 acquires two or three witnesses make you brave 00:20:30.150 --> 00:20:34.029 enough to be one. May the Christ who honored 00:20:34.029 --> 00:20:37.670 the law honor your trembling testimony. The Spirit 00:20:37.670 --> 00:20:41.150 confirms truth, give you voice, when silence 00:20:41.150 --> 00:20:46.269 would be much easier. And when heaven moves in 00:20:46.269 --> 00:20:49.829 your life, don't treat it like a private matter. 00:20:50.630 --> 00:20:54.529 May you stand and may you speak, because heaven 00:20:54.529 --> 00:20:58.930 already has its witnesses. The only question 00:20:58.930 --> 00:21:04.009 is whether you will stand with them. Amen? Amen. 00:21:10.250 --> 00:21:12.829 Tonight, we stood for a moment in an ancient 00:21:12.829 --> 00:21:15.869 courtroom, dust under our feet, elders at the 00:21:15.869 --> 00:21:19.450 gate, and a man's future resting on the voices 00:21:19.450 --> 00:21:24.329 of witnesses. Deuteronomy reminds us that truth 00:21:24.329 --> 00:21:27.130 in God's covenant community is not built on the 00:21:27.130 --> 00:21:31.490 loudest voice, but on confirmed testimony. When 00:21:31.490 --> 00:21:34.029 we walked through the Gospels, we saw that same 00:21:34.029 --> 00:21:37.930 architecture again. Peter, James, and John standing 00:21:37.930 --> 00:21:40.410 in the room when a little girl breathed again. 00:21:40.730 --> 00:21:43.849 On a mountain, when Jesus' glory broke through 00:21:43.849 --> 00:21:47.509 the veil. In the garden, when sorrow pressed 00:21:47.509 --> 00:21:51.890 him to the ground. Imperfect men, but present. 00:21:53.190 --> 00:21:56.410 Witnesses. And maybe that's the quiet invitation 00:21:56.410 --> 00:22:00.759 for us tonight. that God still establishes matters 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:03.559 through ordinary people willing to say, I was 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:08.400 there and I saw what he did. And if something 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.380 from tonight made you pause, if you heard something 00:22:11.380 --> 00:22:14.119 you hadn't considered before, or if the story 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.000 of scripture opened up in a new way, would you 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:19.259 consider throwing that like in the offering plate 00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:22.440 just like we used to do in church? And if you'd 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:24.640 like to keep walking with us all the way to Easter 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:27.660 Sunday, make sure you tithe your subscribe. That 00:22:27.660 --> 00:22:30.240 way you'll know when we begin our journey through 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.880 Lent together again. And until then, be blessed.