Radio Broadcast Monday 02/10/2025

Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P49 (02-10-25)

Who Has Consulted With God on Anything? No One.

~ “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Who will instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16

Many are trying to fashion God into their image they have created in their minds, instead of diving into the word of God to understand the TRUTH of who God is. God didn’t consult anyone for forgiveness of sins. Nor did God consult with anyone about salvation. God didn’t wait for people to ask him to forgive them. God took all the sins of the whole world on the cross so that He could give eternal life through the Holy Spirit of God when a person places Faith in Him, and in Him alone for their everything. God said this is salvation. He is the one that gives salvation (His Life Living in them) to those that would come to Him by Faith. The only thing that pleases God is Faith expressing itself through Love (Galatians 5:6). And God is Love (1 John 4:8). So a person cannot Love apart from God either. And therein is the Truth of the word of God.

Don’t try and bring down God to our level. Instead elevate our thoughts up to His level, where we are told to those who are in Christ Jesus, that we have the mind of Christ Jesus living in us (1 Corinthians 2:16). Most give lip service to all these verses, because quite frankly most people are NOT saved, though they claim to be. Yet to those who are in Christ Jesus, He wants to make known the riches of His glory with everyone that places Faith in Him.

“Comfort, comfort My people,”

says your God.

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

and proclaim to her

that her forced labor has been completed;

her iniquity has been pardoned.

For she has received from the hand of the LORD

double for all her sins.”

A voice of one calling:

“Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness;

make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

Every valley shall be lifted up,

and every mountain and hill made low;

the uneven ground will become smooth,

and the rugged land a plain.

And the glory of the LORD will be revealed,

and all humanity together will see it.”

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.


A voice says, “Cry out!”

And I asked, “What should I cry out?”

“All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

The grass withers and the flowers fall

when the breath of the LORD blows on them;

indeed, the people are grass.

The grass withers and the flowers fall,

but the word of our God stands forever.”


Go up on a high mountain,

O Zion, herald of good news.

Raise your voice loudly,

O Jerusalem, herald of good news.

Lift it up,

do not be afraid!

Say to the cities of Judah,

“Here is your God!”

Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might,

and His arm establishes His rule.

His reward is with Him,

and His recompense accompanies Him.

He tends His flock like a shepherd;

He gathers the lambs in His arms

and carries them close to His heart.

He gently leads the nursing ewes.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,

or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?

Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,

or weighed the mountains on a scale

and the hills with a balance?

Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD,

or informed Him as His counselor?

Whom did He consult to enlighten Him,

and who taught Him the paths of justice?

Who imparted knowledge to Him

and showed Him the way of understanding?

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;

they are considered a speck of dust on the scales;

He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel,

nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

All the nations are as nothing before Him;

He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

To whom will you liken God?

To what image will you compare Him?

To an idol that a craftsman casts

and a metalworker overlays with gold

and fits with silver chains?

One lacking such an offering

chooses wood that will not rot.

He seeks a skilled craftsman

to set up an idol that will not topple.

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?

Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth;

its dwellers are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

He brings the princes to nothing

and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown,

no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground,

than He blows on them and they wither,

and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

25“To whom will you liken Me,

or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

Lift up your eyes on high:

Who created all these?

He leads forth the starry host by number;

He calls each one by name.

Because of His great power and mighty strength,

not one of them is missing.

Why do you say, O Jacob,

and why do you assert, O Israel,

“My way is hidden from the LORD,

and my claim is ignored by my God”?

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The LORD is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary;

His understanding is beyond searching out.

He gives power to the faint

and increases the strength of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall.

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength;

they will mount up with wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not faint.

And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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~ Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members have the same function, so in Christ we who are many are one body, and each member belongs to one another.

We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith; if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.

Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.

Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

On the contrary,

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;

if he is thirsty, give him a drink.

For in so doing,

you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:1-21

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ and His love for us. I pray that we’ll leave this room with different attitudes toward one another, toward you, to realize it’s all you and none of us, to realize that we’re here for a while and we grow and we die. We’re not acknowledged anymore. We’re not here. We’re here for just a short period of time, and only one life will soon be passed. But it’s only what’s done for Christ that will last. Let us remember that. Remember what you’ve taught us to love one another, to be patient with each other, to care for each other in a brotherly love. We’re all a part of the same family. Let’s quit criticizing one another and learn to love one another with Christ’s love. I pray these things in Jesus name and for his sake, the one who loved us and gave himself for us, who demonstrated our attitude of servitude by washing the feet of His own disciples, the lowest of all servants jobs. And yet he said, no one is greater than his master. So Father teach us to serve one another and to love one another and to help one another, and to not hoard our resources, but to be willing to share and to give with an open heart, with a loving heart, and to be overwhelmed in the grace of God that’s allowed us to do these things. We thank you for all these things in Jesus name and for his sake. Amen.” ~ Bob George

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And so we shouldn’t be thinking of ourselves more highly than they are. We have people, and you can have that in families, even where people are arguing with each other and bickering with each other. Why? They think they’re better than somebody else. And folks, God’s saying, quit thinking that way. You’re not any better than anybody else. How many of you remember when you were a teenager, how smart you thought you were? I mean, was there anyone smarter than you as a teenager? And then you get to be older, and you look back and said, I was a blithering idiot. But while you’re going through it, you think you’re the smartest thing going. I was only in the Lord a year, studying the Bible like crazy. I thought there wasn’t anything the Bible. I don’t know. I don’t know why these people think the Bible’s hard to understand. I understand all of it. I’ve been the Lord now for a lot of years, and I wonder if I know anything, because it seems like the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. So there’s no reason for us to be thinking more highly than ourselves than we ought to.

You know, you got people that say, Well, you got a poor self image. You hate yourself, and you know person come up and say, Oh, I hate myself. Why? Well, because I’m ugly. Well, no, if you hated yourself, you’d be glad you’re ugly. If you had the neighbor across the street you couldn’t stand was ugly, you wouldn’t you know, you’d be glad. So the issue is we love ourselves. The Bible didn’t say that we hate ourselves. Say we love ourselves too much, doesn’t it? Any of you get the the little deal that we put out with all your pictures in it? What was the first picture you look for? You.

So you see, you see guys when he’s saying, Don’t think more highly of ourselves than we ought. We’re just people who have been saved by the grace of God. We’re people who, if it wasn’t for Jesus, we’d be goners if it wasn’t for His mercy and His kindness and forgiveness, we would be goners. Is that right or wrong guys? Then what do we have to be criticizing each other all the time for and nit picking each other? And I’ll tell you the reason. We think we’re better than people, and we think we know more than anyone else. And there are people who live thinking, I am a somebody, somebody, I don’t know where they ever got that, but I’m smarter than anybody.

I remember in grade school. I was in grade school one time, and I asked him. Question of the teacher, and everybody in the class thought they knew the answer, except me, and so they were all snickering and laughing because I asked his question, and then a teacher told me my answer, and I looked at the rest of the class and said, Isn’t that funny? In just a split second, and the answer of one question, I’m now just as smart as all you are. That’s all it took just one answer, and then you’re as smart as everybody. But everybody thought, oh, how dumb, because a question was asked, and I didn’t know, but they did. Don’t think more highly of yourself than you should. Just as each as one body with many members, this is the one body of Christ, and these members do not all have the same function. So in Christ, we, who are many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Folks. Do you know we belong to each other? From God’s vantage point, he is the head. We are the body. And my body has many parts to it, and although the parts are many, it forms what? One body. So those of us in here who are born again, we belong to Christ and we belong to one another. We’re part of the same body. Now, if you’ve got a splinter, if I get a tiny splinter in this big old body of mine, where is your preoccupation? Where do you think? Where does your thinking process go? To the splinter, just a tiny little thing in here. That’s why the Bible says if part of the body is hurting, hurt with them. If they’re rejoicing, rejoice with them. Be sensitive to each other. Realize it’s not just me. I’m not the only important thing in this room. We belong to each other, and that’s the attitude that he wants us to have. We have different gifts according to the grace God has given us. If a man’s gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If it’s serving, let him serve. There are many people with a marvelous gift of serving, and it’s a phenomenal gift. Doesn’t get a lot of attention sometimes, but a phenomenal gift somebody that just likes to serve, they like to do things for you. If it’s teaching, let him teach. If you got a gift of teaching, teach. That’s what we’re trying to do with these deals. Identify people with the gift of teaching and let them get going. Let them start teaching. Quit being the Dead Sea just sitting there, soak it, go out and start passing it on. Now we’ve built a terrific, terrific bottom line of leadership potential in this body that can reach out to 1000s of people in this city, if we’ll just do it. If it’s serving, let him serve. If it’s teaching, let him teach. If it’s encouraging, let him encourage. There’s the gift of encouragement. Have you ever met somebody that just lifts you up all the time? Isn’t that wonderful? It’s sure a lot better. And someone’s tearing you down all the time. You know some people, it doesn’t make a difference what you do. They’ll find something wrong with it. It really does. It makes no difference. You could have a perfect white table cloth on the table. It’s got a speck on it. They’re never going to see the white table. They’re going to see that speck, and it’s going to become as big as the Empire State Building. Encouragement. Do we need encouragement? Guys. I mean, do we seriously? How many of you like to get encouraged? How many of you like to get discouraged? We need encouragement. We have times when we’re down. We need encouragement. He says, encourage one another. If it’s a spiritual gift, do it. If it’s contributing to other’s needs, there’s a gift of giving ,contribute.

What our guys was telling me the other day about meeting one of these young men, and it’s kind of a scam that goes on. They come around selling magazines and that type of thing. You don’t realize that they’ve been recruited by people who bring them into a city with a one way ticket. There’s no way of getting them home, young boys, and they’re just like slaves. And they go out and sell these magazines. They don’t make any money out of it. They’re kept like slaves. And he’s identifying that and going to the news media with it, but one of these boys he met and said, you know, what do you want more than anything in the world? Said, I want to go home. Want to go back to St Louis. So he takes him down to the bus station, buys him a ticket back to St Louis. While he was there, meets another guy that’s a homeless guy that wants to get some food. Went out and fed him, went over to the place paid $40 for him to stay in a shelter for a week. Said I never felt so good in his life. Why? You’re serving people. That’s what God said, if you see somebody in need serve them, and that’s what you’re talking about here. These are gifts that God has given to us, contributing to the needs of others. Let him give generously. We should be generous givers. If it’s leadership, why does God give the gift of leadership? Because we need leaders, and some people have the gift and some don’t have the gift. But if you don’t have the gift, you can learn from those who do have the gift and be equally as effective. That’s what the gifts of the Spirit are is to teach everyone I don’t have the gift of giving. I really don’t, but I have observed people, friends of ours, with the gift of giving, and have observed the way they function so much that I became a giver. It’s not my gift, but it was their gift, but I learned from them. Some people never give a dime. Some people never give a dime to the work of the ministry in here. That’s a tragedy, folks. If you’re not giving to where you’re getting blessed, where are you going to give? And why aren’t you giving? You’re afraid you’re not going to live off of not going to have enough money to live on. God will provide, believe me, he will provide.

When I went into full time work, I owned my own business and had a branch, and we made a lot of money. And when I left that business, I went with Campus Crusade, making $500 a month, and I had two kids, ultimately, to put through college. I didn’t have a clue how that was going to happen, but God, put them both through college, and we were never hungry, and God has blessed us, and people think, Oh, if I give I’m not going to have enough money. That’s nonsense. You Watch God work. He’s wonderful in the way he does in our lives to provide ways that we don’t spend money where we would be spending it otherwise, if you’re not giving, there’s something wrong. They say that a man’s where he does with his money is in direct relationship to what he understands about the Lord. And I believe that to be true. I’m not talking about huge amounts. If you know to give $5 a month, why wouldn’t you give it? Afraid you’re going to miss it? That’s not even a McDonald’s hamburger.

And so the issue is that he says that we should all be joining in in this gift of giving. We should all be joining in in this gift of encouraging others. We should all be joining in with teaching one another. And all of these things should be taking place in the body of Christ. If it’s governed, do it diligently. If it’s showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully. Don’t extend mercy to somebody with an attitude that I got to do it. Oh yeah, I’m merciful when I want to. If you don’t want to, don’t do it. There’s nothing more than a phony mercy. If you’re going to be merciful, do so joyfully. And that’s the attitude he’s talking about. Love must be sincere. He says, not phony. Hate what is evil and cling to what is good. We may not always be able to do good, but I don’t ever want to call good bad and bad good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. You know what brotherly love is? It means when it says closer than a brother, that your brothers and your sisters should be the closest friends that you have to be devoted to one another in brotherly love. They’re a part of the same family. You came out of the same mother and father, and your mother and father came out of their mother and father. That’s why grandparents are important. Parents are important. We all came out of the same people. And there’s nothing that causes grief any more than watching two children fighting and feuding with each other when they belong to one another in brotherly love. So he said, What do you do with that? Start working on it. Now, my brother was five years older than me, and my sister was 10 years older than me, and I was a pain in the neck, and that’s to use the word loosely, and for other other parts as well. I was a pain to them, I know, as a little brother, but they recognized me as a little brother, and they were a pain to me as a big brother, but we still loved each other. And folks, if you’re in that situation, you got kids in that situation, we need to talk to them to get that stuff stopped, because you belong to each other and you’re a part of the same family, and you should learn to love one another as Christ Jesus loved you. Christ Jesus doesn’t call you nitwit. Why are we calling ourselves that?

And so we need to see that love is sincere, hate what is evil, cling to what is good, devoted to one another in brotherly love, honor one another above yourselves. That’s, what do you mean? Looking out for others, interests over and above your own. I see that in some people, where their own interests are secondary to helping people. I love watching that in people, never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer. Share with God’s people who are in need and practice hospitality. If you see someone in need, help them. That’s what we’re here for. You don’t need to take a collection for the church. You help them. You know, that’s what this attitude did, let the government do it. What about you? And what gets me, are there people sitting up here are multi billionaires talking about the government helping people? Why don’t you help them? You he isn’t talking about letting the government help. Said, you help them if you got something, help them with it. And you know what? If everyone did that, you wouldn’t need all these government programs that are out there, if we would just learn to follow what Jesus said and to help one another. You uh, sometimes there’s a risk to that, but it’s worth it.

Bless those who persecute you. Boy, try that one on. Bless and do not curse. You know what Jesus did to those persecuting him, Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing. Rejoice with those who rejoice, mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. In other words, make an attempt to live in harmony with each other. Don’t, don’t make an attempt for dissension. But how can I live in harmony with people and folks. It first of all says, Don’t curse. Then it says, Don’t be proud. Now, do you know what the problem with all this is pride, the pride of man that says I’m better than somebody else, or I’m smarter than somebody else, or I can do this better than somebody else, do you can you find that in ministry? Absolutely. I had it rampant at one time, the proud the proud heart that thought they knew how to do things better than anybody else almost destroyed the ministry.

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Willing to associate with people of low position. You know, one of the things that I love about this body, it’s made up of people from all color, creed, backgrounds, some people with money, some people with no money. It’s not it’s just people. I just love you. I love this group of people. There isn’t anybody in here playing big time itis trying to outdo each other. Just people. Isn’t that great? Just people, know the Lord, people who are like minded. Isn’t it great to be around people like that? And you know, I’ve been around the other. I probably participated with the other. Boy is it shallow, trying to impress each other with how important you are. If you’re worried about what people are thinking about, you forget it. They’re not.

Don’t repay anyone evil for evil. That’s a hard one to do. You have a tendency, if someone hurt me, I’m going to hurt him back. He says, No, listen to what it says. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you. Live at peace with everyone. Now, here’s a key. Don’t take revenge, my friends. Leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written, it is mine to avenge. I will repay, says the Lord. On the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he’s thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you’ll be heaping burning coals on his head. And don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. So in other words, he said, Don’t get even. Don’t try to pay back, because guys, you can get a lot of trouble with that. But he says, leave it to the Lord. The Lord will take care of it. How many of you have been ripped off by somebody pretty good in your life? Probably most of us. To the ones who didn’t hold up your hand. Just give it time and don’t, don’t be impatient. It’ll happen sooner or later, but it happened. We have a tendency, don’t, don’t we to want to get back and to try to do something to get back. He says, Don’t let the Lord take care of it. If you’ll let the Lord take care of it, he’ll do a lot better job than what you will. And so don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Now folks, these are all attitudes of the heart. These are all attitudes that God has given to us as a result of our relationship, our marvelous relationship, with Christ.

Now I want to also go back to this part of worshiping in spirit and in truth. John says that you must worship God in spirit and in truth. I want us to understand that God is Spirit, one of the reasons that people have difficulty in understanding the Trinity is because they try to put flesh and blood on the Trinity, and we try to bring God down to our level and in our perspective, and you can’t do that. God is spirit. Any of you ever seen a spirit? So we do not know how spirits exist, or in what form they exist. We don’t even know what they look like, because we don’t know whether we could see if we did. But we put flesh and blood. And therefore, when you talk about God being God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, the three in one, we try to put three bodies on them. And to say that doesn’t make sense, or to say, I don’t understand that. But you see, our problem is you’re trying to put humanity onto God. God is Spirit, and you must worship Him in what? Spirit and in truth. And the truth of the matter is that God spiritually exists in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. And so you say, I don’t understand that. You don’t understand spirit. We can’t understand spirit, so quit trying, like a seminary professor said one time, and anyone who denies a Trinity will lose his soul, and anyone who tries to understand it will lose his mind. And that’s true because you’re trying to figure out spirit, and you have no point of reference in spirit. It’s like onmi presence, I’m sorry. Leave that to God. Get out of that realm, because you have no point of reference in even talking about it. You can put words to it, but that’s as far as it goes, folks, you cannot enter into that. You have no point of reference in that, do you? And so the best you can do is just say, Yeah, that’s true, and then forget about it, because we live in time and space down here, don’t we? And so he says that God is Spirit, and worship Him in spirit and in truth.

In closing, I want you, if you will, to turn back to the 40th chapter of Isaiah. This ties into the passage that we were studying of who understands it. We’ll get to that in a moment. Understands the Lord, comfort my people says, Your God, Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed and that her sin has been paid for, and she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins, a voice of one calling in the desert, example of John the Baptist in the Baptist, in the desert, prepare the way of the Lord. Make straight in the wilderness a highway for our Lord. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low, the rough ground shall become leveled. The rugged place is a plane. And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. A voice says, cry out, and I say, What shall I cry? All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers, the flowers fall because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of our Lord stands forever. You who bring tidings to Zion go up on a high mountain, and you who bring tidings to Jerusalem, Lift up your voice with a shout. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid, say to the towns of Judah, here is your God. See The Sovereign LORD comes with power and his arms rules for him, see his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him. Accompanies him. He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those who have the young. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breath of His hand marked off the heavens, and who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance, who has understood the mind of the Lord or instructed him as his counselor, whom Did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding? Surely, the nations are like a drop in a bucket. They’re regarded as dust on the scales. He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings before him. All the nations are as nothing. They are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing. To whom then will you compare God? What image will you compare him to? As for an idol, a craftsman cast it and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashion silver chains for it a man too poor to present such an offering. Selects wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that would not topple. Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded? He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy and spreads them out like a tent to live in. He brings princes to nought and reduces the rulers of the world to nothing. No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner did it take wrote and the root in the ground than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like a chaff. To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal? Says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes and look to the Heavens. Who created all these he who brings out the starry host one by one and calls them each by name because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Why do you say, oh Jacob and complain, O Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord. My cause is disregarded by my God. Do you not know? Have you not heard the Lord is everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth, He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall. But those who hope in the Lord will renew strength. They will soar on wings like an eagle. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint. That’s the Lord. That’s the Lord we worship. That’s the Lord who loved us so much that He sent His Son to this world so that we might live.

Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ and His love for us. I pray that we’ll leave this room with different attitudes toward one another, toward you, to realize it’s all you and none of us, to realize that we’re here for a while and we grow and we die. We’re not acknowledged anymore. We’re not here. We’re here for just a short period of time, and only one life will soon be passed. But it’s only what’s done for Christ that will last. Let us remember that. Remember what you’ve taught us to love one another, to be patient with each other, to care for each other in a brotherly love. We’re all a part of the same family. Let’s quit criticizing one another and learn to love one another with Christ’s love. I pray these things in Jesus name and for his sake, the one who loved us and gave himself for us, who demonstrated our attitude of servitude by washing the feet of His own disciples, the lowest of all servants jobs. And yet he said, no one is greater than his master. So Father teach us to serve one another and to love one another and to help one another, and to not hoard our resources, but to be willing to share and to give with an open heart, with a loving heart, and to be overwhelmed in the grace of God that’s allowed us to do these things. We thank you for all these things in Jesus name and for his sake. Amen.

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