Youth & Outreach Director, Hunter Newton, preached this message on June 9, 2024.
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The old story goes that on the first days of when Toyota was made. I can’t find the exact article, exact quote, but trust me, it’s there. I believe it. The founder said, we need to make cars that are indestructible. Like, we can’t mess them up because especially if we want to target an American audience, they don’t always do what they’re supposed to do, and so they don’t take care of maintenance, that kind of stuff.
And this is true if you’ve, I think if you’ve owned a Toyota, you’ve maybe had this experience, if you’ve interacted with them or regardless, like the good quality craftsmanship. And I, and I was talking to my friend the other day. He owns a Lexus, which is Toyota’s luxury line. And before you think, wow, Hunter knows some rich people. It’s a 2009.
But he said it was making a sound. He’s like, yeah, I was driving the other day and it made a sound and then it stopped. He’s like, the end. He’s like, that’s just how it goes. And he knows cars, he’s a gearhead, he knows all that kind of stuff.
But ultimately he didn’t make it and he doesn’t know all the ins and outs like the maker of the vehicle would or does. And so he knows a lot. He knows, he’s read the manual, he knows how to interact with it. But if the head of the factory where that car was made, where the man or woman who’s in charge there says that you can actually use corn syrup instead of gasoline to fill up the car, or you can use canola oil, you can use, actually, you know that hazelnut spread, Nutella. Go ahead and throw that in there as well.
That’s going to sound ridiculous, doesn’t it? Like it sounds utterly foolish. But if the factory head, if the man or woman in charge of making those things told you you could do it, they might have a little bit more insight than we do. They might be able to give us an option. Like if we, If I could just take something, the tap water and throw it in the car, I would be losing out if I didn’t do that.
And it sounds kind of ridiculous. And I keep using Toyota as a great analogy for longevity, yet I don’t own one. Don’t ask me why, I guess, but you get where I’m going with this. If you make something, if you create something, you naturally have dominion over it. But also, you know how it’s supposed to.
Supposed to work. You know how it’s supposed to function. You see where I’m going here? We’re looking at today in the text that Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. He made it, he knows that, he rules over it.
He understands it, he declares what’s right of it. I, I think I’ve shared with you before. I have a love hate relationship with making titles for messages. The main point is that Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. I guess looking back, I would add a colon now and say lord of the Sabbath, his word is final.
Because today is ultimately an authority issue. Today is ultimately who rules and reigns, who’s in charge? Who are we gonna follow? Who are we gonna listen to? Who is running the ship?
Because when Jesus shows up on the scene, he’s declaring that he’s over the Sabbath too. He’s saying so much greater. He’s saying that his word on anything, anything that he speaks to, anything that he talks about, he’s saying, my word on this is final. The buck stops here. And I think we’re gonna.
It’d be helpful to look at three aspects of the text that don’t necessarily chop up nicely in that it doesn’t go verses one through three, then four through six. It just three different L’s. We’re looking at the law. What is the law? What would they have known about it?
What is. We’re gonna use this word legalism. That doesn’t show up in the text, but the concept is most definitely there. And then we’ll look at how does our Lord. How does the Lord of the Sabbath interact with us?
So let’s go ahead and make our way to our text now as we’re going to be in Luke, chapter 6, verses 1 through 11. This morning, God’s Word says, on a Sabbath, he passed through the grain fields. His disciples were picking heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands and eating them. But some of the Pharisees said, why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath? Jesus answered them, haven’t you read what David and those who were with him did when he was hungry?
How he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat. He even gave some to those who were with him. Then he told them, the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching. A man was there whose right hand was shriveled.
The scribes and Pharisees were watching him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. So they could find a charge against him. But he knew their thoughts and told the man with the shriveled hand, get up and stand here. So he got up and stood there. That’s just a side comment.
That’s a really good obedience. Jesus tell you to do something, do it. But he got up and he stood there. Then Jesus said to them, I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil to save life or to destroy it? After looking around at them all, he told him, stretch out your hand.
He did, and his hand was restored. They, however, were filled with rage and started discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus. This is the word of God we’re camping out in this morning. Like I said, our big idea is Lord of the Sabbath, looking at his authority, how his word is final. Let’s look first at what is the law.
We’re gonna look at the law in general, but then also specific. We’ll look at what is the law and then also how does it specifically speak to the Sabbath? And right away, as we open the text here, our Western eyes and ears are maybe a little bit confused. Like, what are they doing? They’re walking around, they’re picking grain, and they’re just taking crops off the field.
That seems strange. I’d venture to guess if you went to the Jesse family farm and you started taking ears of corn off, they’d at least have some questions for you. And so that seems odd to us, but it wasn’t to them. In the ancient near east, they actually was. There was sufficient provision for this.
Deuteronomy 23, 24, 25 says, when you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but do not put any in your container. When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand. Do not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain. And so that’s established. That’s good.
It’s a common practice, a normal practice. That’s not what they’re questioning here. Everybody who is there would have understood. Yeah, this is not. This is not the problem.
This is not a big deal. In fact, they should do that because Jesus and his disciples were a traveling band. They didn’t have extra money for a lot of stuff. So that was a provision for people who needed food, people who were hungry. And it’s a good and right thing.
And we’ll get to the Pharisees in a bit. But. But right now I want to focus on establishing Just this idea of what is a law in general, what is it commanding. Another instance where we see, where we look at the law in this passage is. Is verse nine, where it says, I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil to save life or to destroy it?
And the obvious answer is, it’s to good. If someone’s dying on the Sabbath, you shouldn’t walk past and say, bad day to have a heart attack. We clearly should help. We clearly should be there. We clearly should at least call somebody.
And so it’s obvious we should do good on the Sabbath. James 4:17 says, so it is sin to know the good and yet not do it. In Luke 10:25, 28, we get all of the law summarized. Jesus was talking to an expert in the law. And the passage goes, then an expert in the law stood up to test him, saying, teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
What is written in the law? He asked him, how do you read it? He answered, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. You’ve answered correctly. He told him, do this and you will live.
And the whole of the law can be summarized as loving God and loving people, having a vertical right relationship. Loving God and then loving people as if we loved God, as if we were loving, as if we were loved by God. And that’s the gist of it. There’s, of course, more to it, but that’s the basic idea. Loving God and loving people is how we’d summarize the law.
Summarize commands.
And so that’s the general scene. That’s the background. That’s what, when we say the phrase law, that’s what we’re talking about. And so the specific regard to the Sabbath we can look to Exodus 31, 12, 17 says, the Lord said to Moses, tell the Israelites, you must observe my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generation, so that you will know that I am the Lord who consecrates you. Observe the Sabbath, for it is holy to you.
Whoever profanes it must be put to death. If anyone does work on it, that person must be cut off from his people. Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord. But on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord. Anyone who does work, I think I just read that twice.
Anyone who does Work on the Sabbath must be put to death. The Israelites must observe the Sabbath. Celebrating it through their generation is a permanent covenant. It is a sign forever between me and the Israelites. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth.
On the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. And I think in Specifically, we notice three things about the specific commands, specific illustration rationale for why we have a Sabbath. First, maybe some of us are going to be startled. Like if I don’t keep a Sabbath, am I going to die? I don’t think so.
We don’t see that anywhere specific, that aspect of the Sabbath specifically affirmed in the New Testament. It’s seems to be that that was the case for Israel. But also I think this should be a sign like this. God takes it really, really seriously. And maybe you’re wondering, okay, but what about the other laws, other commands?
A general rule for knowing whether an Old Testament law still applies is if it’s a moral law, so the ten Commandments, or if something’s connected to God and then some other things are custom. And if you really, I would love to get into the weeds on this with you. If you have questions about that, you can come find me. That’s just a general rule though. But it’s clear here that this is very, very serious.
Like God says it’s holy, it’s my Sabbath and we should take it seriously. Two, I think we also notice that rest is a good thing. God cares about it. God says it’s a big deal. We are meant to function on a seven day week with one of those days being reserved for rest to abide in him.
And this idea cuts the throat of the American ambition to constantly be hustling or grinding or going and doing the next thing. And the hustle economy never being like we, it’s meant we need to rest, to pause, to stop and be still and enjoy God. And three, I think this is more of a side mention. But it’s so important because I think God’s word is interpreting God’s word here. I think this is points to a literal six day creation because God gives us this good model, this good understanding.
Anything that happens before the fall is part of God’s good clear right design. And it says that he made the heavens and the earth in six days. On the seventh day he rested. So I think this points to a literal six days. And so that’s the law.
So we’ve looked at the big law, the general law, what is it in general, but then also specific in regards to The Sabbath. And so this is all what they would have known. They wouldn’t have even had to have this conversation, like, when this is going on. They would not. They would have just known this stuff.
Good Hebrew boys and girls would have been taught this as they grew up. But we don’t necessarily walk around knowing this stuff. And so that’s the background to the setting. That’s what’s going on here. And as they look at specific instructions and unfortunately, as we look at the law, unfortunately, the Pharisees then, and still plenty of Christians today, have twisted what God meant for good and they’ve perverted it and they’ve turned it into legalism.
So we see some evidence of legalism in verses 6 through 7 and also verse 11. And there’s several different ways. It’s a very churchy word. It’s okay if you came in here, don’t know what that word means. I think the most helpful way to define what legalism is, if I was just going to offer a succinct definition, would just be adding anything to God’s word or commands in an attempt to earn favor or grace.
Legalism is adding anything to God’s word or commands to earn favor or grace. The most prominent example of this is we see. We see Jesus kind of downcasting and correcting the Pharisees all throughout when they’re engaging in legalism. But also we see the book of Galatians, maybe you’re familiar with, especially Galatians, chapter two, where they are adding so much like Peter is dining with the Jew with the Gentiles. And.
And you have to imagine like one of the things he was doing was probably eating pork. And that was. Would have been ceremonially so unclean to Jews. But in Christ, we see in. In the Book of Acts, that’s deemed clean.
That’s deemed right. And Paul withstands him to his face. Could you imagine that? Like Paul withstands the guy who walked on water. He says, hey, you’ve got the gospel wrong.
Wow. Because he’s adding. He’s adding something to grace. He’s adding to. We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone and Christ alone.
That’s what’s at stake. That’s why it’s so important. And that’s a. That’s a wonderful example. I’m sorry, Peter, that he got called out yet again in Scripture.
But, but he’s. We’re seeing this example, and it’s exactly what the Pharisees are doing here because they’re adding to the command to God’s Word to keep it holy. Even by conservative estimates, the Pharisees added about at least 39 layers, 39 laws, 39 rules on top of this command to keep the Sabbath and keep it holy. From what we see in Exodus 31, we see this starting and in becoming really distinctions that aren’t from the text, that are really man made that God didn’t institute himself. And that’s the thing about legalism.
It doesn’t always start out from a terrible place. Sometimes it does. Sometimes people will do it to try to control people. But a lot of times it starts out from a good place. Because if we think of going down the road, is walking the straight and narrow as walking in what God has commanded for us.
If we think of that as walking in holiness, walking in God’s design. And if we think of sin as going into the ditch, it makes sense to put guardrails along the side of the road, like right up tight to the the road. And Proverbs 4, 23 says that we should. That we should guard your heart above all else, for it is a source of life. And so there’s clearly good to adding protection.
We should have safe bounds within our Christian life to protect us, to keep us from going to sin. But where the problem is, what the Pharisees do here is they’ve gone past that. They’ve treated these layers that they’ve added and they made them equivalent to God’s will word. They’ve taken the guardrails and said, actually that’s the line of sin. And that’s the problem.
God didn’t command that. God didn’t say that. Because left to our own devices, this is our default setting. This is how humans naturally are bent. Because I think something within us wants to earn grace, wants us something special to be about us saying, God, I’m surely better than the rest.
But that isn’t true. Ephesians 2 says, we are saved by grace, not by works. Grace through faith, so not by works that nobody can boast.
Left to our own devices, we want to earn grace. We want to give God a reason to love us more. We want to say, I’m better than the next person, I surely am deserving. But the Gospel comes along and blows that out of water. It completely shatters it.
Galatians 2, 1721. Paul writes, but if we ourselves are also found to be sinners while seeking to be justified by Christ, is Christ then a promoter of sin? Absolutely not. If I rebuild those things that I tore down, I show myself to be a law breaker for through the law. I died to the law so that I might live for God.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live. But Christ lives in me. The life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
Let’s just read that real slowly again. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing. That’s the issue with legalism. We’ve established, we’ve seen the law is good. Jesus didn’t say that he came to abolish law.
He says, I came to fulfill the law. But we can’t be righteous through the law. We can’t do it. Nobody’s good enough. That’s what he’s trying to help them see seed, trying to help them understand we might be thinking, okay, well, that’s good news.
I’ve never formally sold a whole nation that they need to add 39 things to God’s command or God’s law. I’m doing pretty good so far. And yeah, I’m guessing nobody in this room has done specifically that.
And I won’t venture to guess areas of your life where you’ve engaged in legalism. So I, I’ll just share one from me, from my life. When I first got saved. It was a radical experience as it is for everybody. The Holy Spirit totally changed course in my life.
Went from worshiping self worshiping approval to worshiping the good creator God, the good resurrected King of the universe. And I was growing. I would say I’ve always used the phrase years within months. Like I just could not get enough Jesus. Like some people talk about being a gym rat.
No, never been a problem for me. But I was just obsessed with getting more of who God is, more doctrine, more of grace, more of understanding. And I just was going a million miles an hour. And I think I was growing hopefully in maturity in that process too. And I want to say I do believe my heart started in the right place.
I wanted to help people walk in maturity, walk in holiness, walk as God has called us to. But where I really engaged in legalism was especially like in the area of what people consumed, like media. And for me that was like, I drew the line at pg. PG is the definition of holiness. Like, if you watch anything higher rated than that, you certainly don’t stand a chance.
And so I would just chastise friends for like, oh, I heard you watched PG13. I better not hear your watch rated R. And like, that’s, that’s not fair. That’s not right. Because not everything that’s rated above PG is the same. The Godfather is not the same as Spider Man.
Like, they’re not the same level. They’re not. They’re at the same marker. And what my good intentions started with wanting to see people walk in holiness, walk in purity. I was treating my word as if it was God’s word, adding layers to it, adding things to it, to God’s commands.
That just is not fair, just is not true. And this is not going to turn into me telling you what kind of movies to watch. Don’t watch the ones that glorify sin. There I just did what I said I wasn’t going to do. But this is me trying to show you that I was adding to, adding to God’s word.
Because what applied to me, what applied to my own very heart, did not apply necessarily to every believer in every single circumstance stance. And we also learn a few things from the Pharisees in the scenario about what not to do. Things we shouldn’t engage in, we shouldn’t try to take God’s place, we shouldn’t add to it. But also we should ask ourselves, where, where am I getting it wrong? Where am I adding to the gospel?
Where am I adding to God’s commands? Holy Spirit, would you reveal those areas to me? And we should also, we should be doing that relationship with God and asking him to work in us. But also he gave us the gift of community. That’s why we need brothers and sisters, because we should be inviting in trusted Christian friends to say, hey, do you see blind spots in my life that I’m not noticing?
Do you notice areas where I’ve engaged in legalism, areas where I’ve sinned, where areas that I’ve gotten it wrong? And they’ll loving, if they love you, they will do that for you.
And you should get the chance then to do that for them. That’s why we need one another. That’s why the New Testament talks about it so much. And so we’ve looked at how this legalism interacts or butts up against God’s authority. And we’ve looked at the law in specific and in general.
But then let’s look next at how does this Jesus being Lord of the Sabbath, how does that interact with his authority? We’re looking at verses 3 through 5, 8 and 10. And thinking back to the goofy illustration about the Toyota running on Nutella, we remember that if you’re the maker of something, you own it, you know how it runs, you know how it functions. And because Jesus is God, he instituted the Sabbath. Because Jesus is God, he knows how it’s supposed to work.
He made it. He knows what it’s about, he knows why it was designed. Jesus will later say that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Going back again to that silly illustration, if we would be losing up big time if we thought that a car only could run on gas, which they still do. So electric people, I guess you can win that argument.
But we could be using all sorts of fuel sources. It’d be foolish of us to doubt the the maker of the vehicle. How much more foolish then are we to doubt our maker? How much more foolish? Unwise.
And it’s not that God makes laws because he’s the captain of the no fun club. God makes laws because he knows what’s right for us. And walking in right relationship with him is what’s best for us.
What the Pharisees have done here is they’ve gone against that. They’ve essentially said that, ah, you know Jesus, we know better. They’ve made themselves lowercase L Lords. That’s not their role. Jesus is so fired up here.
Yes, he cares about the Sabbath. The Sabbath is totally and very, very important. And we should care about him. But what’s going on here is he’s pushing back against their attempt to usurp his authority. That’s the struggle here in the text.
That’s what they’ve gotten from most wrong, is they’ve thought that they’re in charge, that they’re the chief dog here. They wanted to tell Jesus how the thing that he made works. And that sounds silly when we say it out loud, but that’s exactly what’s going on.
He does this and he cares and he pushes back because he wants them then and us now to see that when God speaks about something, it’s a settled matter. We’re evangelicals here, so we believe and hold to the doctrine of sola scriptura. And that just is a fancy way of saying we believe that God’s word so scripture alone, so we believe that God’s word when speaks on something, that’s the final authority, that’s the final matter. Because God is the final authority. And anything that he speaks to, and we would say that’s his written word.
Anything that contradicts his written word has to be measured against it. And so that’s why we have that doctrine that not because we can come up with Sort of man made traditions. If I would say that something contradicts God, if I contradict God’s Word, well then I’m not right. The God of the universe is always right. That’s why we hold to that.
And that’s not to say that we don’t have helpful guides. We’ve had church history, we’ve had creeds, we’ve had confessions, and we have even here a statement of faith. Well, we think God’s word is clearly saying, we put into plain language. And we also recognize here that God’s word is inerrant and it has no errors in the original writing because God can’t, God can’t be wrong. If God were to err, he would cease to be God.
And no human tradition is even remotely close to the same level as God’s word. And we take this so seriously because we take God seriously. Because when Jesus calls himself Lord of the Sabbath, he is saying that he made the Sabbath, he’s over it. It’s his to decide what goes and what doesn’t. What he says about this day of the week along with anything else, he gets to call the shots.
Not because he’s arrogant, but because he’s God. Acts 10:36 calls Jesus Lord of all. John 8:58 said Jesus says or said that Jesus said to them, truly I tell you, before Abraham was I am.
To us that that’s a big deal. But to the, to the original hears that would have jaws would have been on the floor and people would have maybe fainted because he’s establishing that he’s God. Before Abraham was I am, he’s always been God. And so how do you respond to statements like this? What do you do with the lordship?
This seems like a doctrine heavy thing. Yeah, we got it. That’s good. What’s the application? I think it’s just as simple as submit and repentance.
All of us that applies to everybody in the room, submit and repent. Because if we come across a God who’s over everything, who’s authoritative over everything, we can’t change his mind. And nor should we, because we don’t debate him. Because the God who’s made everything, put the stars in the sky, might know a thing or two more than us. Thankfully though, he’s not arrogant.
He’s not, he’s not boastful, he’s not harsh in how he deals with us. He deals with us exactly how he needs to every single time. And thankfully, he’s made a way for us to be made right with him. And that’s through, of course, Jesus. We can be made right with this God who’s over everything, who has authority, because Jesus lived a sinless life, died the innocent death, and rose again for you And I. Luke 19:10 says that Jesus came on a search and rescue mission for you and me because of his victorious resurrection.
If we put our trust in him, this God who’s over everything gets to call the shots in our life and we get to be a part of what he’s doing. Because, friends, that’s what the text is getting at. Of course there’s a matter of Jesus. Yes, he cares about the Sabbath, he’s talking about it here, but there’s also him correcting the Pharisees on the matter of authority. And that’s where all of our issues with sin come from.
Every single one. All of our issues with sin come from this matter of fact, not believing that God is who he says he is, that we don’t believe that he is the final authority. And we might be tempted to think, yeah, but no, it’s, it’s. Yeah, but I’m not talking about, Yes, I know we intellectually believe things to be true. Yes, we know that Jesus is Lord.
Yes, we know. He’s Creator of all. Yes, we know. And we have great, wonderful doctrine. We should.
Yes, and amen to that. But I’m talking about is functionally. We functionally are unbelievers all the time. Some of us, if you don’t know Jesus, then you’re always functionally unbelieving. But if some of us, if we do know Jesus, it’s in separate instances, maybe a few we might think.
But yeah, but what if, what if, what if, what if? Okay, maybe I need to cheat just a little on my taxes. I don’t really need to claim that. Who needs to know? Like, they don’t need to know about that.
Okay. Yeah, I’m worried about not making the payment. Well, we can do this. And it’s not super ethical or man, God, if this person gets elected, I’m just going to throw a fit. I’m not going to be able to function.
We’re not going to be okay. Or what if I don’t get an apology, man, I’m going to need to take vengeance on my own hands. Or maybe it’s just sometimes just something like, yeah, God, I would look a little bit better. So I’m just going to slip in this little white line. Or maybe it’s doing something to impress a co worker that goes over that, you know, is over the line.
When you do it, then when we do it, maybe it’s ordering something from Cabela’s or Amazon that goes against something that you’re agreed upon. Dollar level with a spouse or feeling like we can’t take time off to rest. And each and every single one of those instances, we are functioning unbelievers. Because every single sin comes down to us not believing that God is who he says he is. If we believe that He’s Lord, if we believe that he has ultimate authority, we would understand that he’s over our worries.
He’s going to take care of them. We don’t need to cheat taxes. We don’t need to tell the little white lie to seem more impressive. If we believe that his ultimate authority, we’ll know that he can provide and does provide. And amen.
Does he provide. We know that we need Sabbath rest because he’s what we ultimately need. He’s the lover of our souls. He cares for us deeply, and he is who he says he is. His word on this stuff is final.
He is God. Like I almost always do. I’m going to pray for two groups of people in this room because you’re either following Jesus or you’re not. Bible doesn’t make any other distinctions. You’re either following Jesus or you’re not.
And so I’m going to pray for two groups. And let me just say a few things before we go to this Lord of the Sabbath, whichever spot you’re in, we ask that we show up at Lake Wisconsin, that you don’t try to be perfect, that you don’t try to have it all together. But we ask that you’re honest. That you’re honest. And we want to see people flourish and function rightly in walking with Jesus.
And so I’m going to pray for two groups of people. If you know Jesus, you can pray one part of the prayer with me. If you don’t know Jesus, pray for those who don’t. Or if you don’t know Jesus, you can pray that part specifically too. But if you.
If we are engaging God, we pray that you would be honest as the Spirit seeks to guide us. And so whichever spot you’re in, just trust that. And so let’s go ahead and turn to turn to the Lord of the Sabbath right now in prayer.
Heavenly Father, we love you and we praise you and we know that you care. We know that you’re God and we know that you’re good. I think of my believing friends in this room who love you and trust you and know that you are God and that you are so, so good. We pray for confession to you, but also to a Christian friend. If, if and where there’s spots of functioning unbelief, whether it’s finances or work or this or that, you know, Holy Spirit, would you not leave them alone until they get that figured out?
Until they find that and also know they can find somebody here, find somebody they’ve seen on stage this morning to talk about with them. We pray for unbelieverless in this room that they would come to know you, that they trust in your finished work and your victorious resurrection. They’d walk in what you’ve designed because you are the only authority that ultimately matters. No other authority has authority that hasn’t come from you on high. And so we pray for them they would come to know you and enjoy right relationship.
God, would you make your people at Lake Wisconsin? Would you make us holy and would you make us missional? Would you make us ever deeper lovers of you? It’s in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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