Extending God's Kingdom

SERMON: 2010-03-14--ac1045--extending-god-s-kingdom SOURCE DURATION: 00:46:27.000 PROPOSED CUTS: 1 CONFIDENCE: 0.90 APPROVED: false REASON: The recording begins with theological exposition (sermon) and continues through various sections including pastoral application, a prayer/liturgical response, and sustained acoustic music intervals. The entire provided window represents the main recorded message. Acoustic segmentation found sustained music at the end edge and moved the boundary to the adjacent transcript segment. ACOUSTIC EVIDENCE: available ACOUSTIC MUSIC INTERVALS: 00:42:06.260-00:46:26.600 ACOUSTIC SPEECH OVERLAP: yes ACOUSTIC BOUNDARIES APPLIED: end Inline CUT markers identify each proposed audio boundary after the relevant word. --- ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT WITH PROPOSED CUTS MARKED --- Well, I learned a long time ago that whenever you teach God's people biblical truth, you always have to think worst-case scenario. And by worst-case scenario, what I mean is this. Whenever you teach people biblical truth, you always have to ask yourself the question, what is the worst distortion, misinterpretation, or twist that somebody can give to what you've just been saying or teaching? And I learned that interestingly enough many years ago from something the Apostle Peter says in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 16 concerning the Apostle Paul. He says, "His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort as they do the other scriptures to their own destruction." There are two things in that verse that are really intriguing to me. The first is the fact that Peter uses the comparison of Paul's letters to other scriptures. And what that means is that already in Peter's day, Paul's writing to the churches were recognized as having canonical status, as it's called. That is to say, they are recognized on par with other scriptures. But for our purposes this morning, even more intriguing is what he says that people do to the things in Paul's writing that are hard to understand. He says ignorant and unstable people distort those things that Paul writes and that are hard to understand. I think we would all agree when you read the Apostle Paul's letters, there are things you run across that are hard to understand. And he says there is a temptation on the part of some people, he calls them ignorant, that is not enlightened or unstable, and he says they distort it to their own destruction. See every time we read scripture, every time you listen to somebody speak about the Bible, every time you receive a Bible teaching, every one of us we bring our own selves to the table. We bring our hang-ups, we bring our distorted perceptions, we bring our own agendas. And those agendas will often color what we do with scripture. And we can distort scripture then for our own purposes, but ultimately always to our own destruction. Let me give you two quick examples this morning before we tie back into what Peter is talking about here in Acts chapter 3. Take for example the sovereignty of God. There is no doubt that scripture teaches that God is sovereign, that is to say he is the ultimate power, the ultimate authority in all of the universe, and there is nothing that happens by chance or that happens without his knowledge, permission, sometimes even his will. Because the alternative would be that there is a power outside of God that is greater than he, and that is not the case. Let's suppose you have a person who doesn't like to take responsibility for his actions, he hears the teaching about the sovereignty of God, and can you see how that person could run away with this and use it as an excuse for his lack of responsibility or his involvement, caserosera, whatever will be, will be. You now have a distortion of a Biblical truth formed by a distorted heart with its own agenda. Or do you still another example? Let's take a look at the subject of authority in scripture. The Bible clearly teaches that God not only exercises direct authority over all the universe, he also uses delegated authority. And so the Bible talks about honoring your father and your mother. The Bible talks about honoring those who are in leadership over you, both in civil government and in a spiritual environment. Now let's suppose you are the kind of person who is insecure, a control freak, one who wants to exercise and feel his own power. To come to scripture, you read these commandments about learning to submit to authority, and you now begin to abuse your authority under the guise of God gave me permission. You see this all the time in movies and in other popular media presentations of Christians. Maybe if they're preachers or people in leadership position, they're always, or very often I should say, caricatured as power-hungry people who are taking advantage of their flock. And I've often said to people in leadership positions, if you have to pull rank, if you have to tell people that they need to mind you because you have authority, you've already lost the battle. You see ignorant and unstable people distort the scriptures to their own destruction. Now if you're tracking with me this morning, then you will appreciate the fact that the teaching that we have been looking at for the last couple of weeks, which is the believer's authority is particularly susceptible to this kind of distortion and this kind of abuse. We've been looking together at how when we're in Christ, Christ shares with us his authority. And the purpose of that authority is not to advance our own cause to make somebody big out of ourselves or to somehow or another puff us up, no. The purpose of that authority is to extend God's kingdom. And the ability to do miracles or the ability to have God back us up in prayer or in spoken word is for the purpose of advancing his kingdom. But you can appreciate that there will be a certain kind of person who hears this kind of thing and who will distort it in his own thinking and who will try to use that power for his or her own sake. And one example of that I think in sort of the modern theological movements is a movement that's generally known as "name it and claim it" or as some other people have expressed it, blab it and grab it. And the name it or claim it is really a distortion of the word of faith movement. I don't know how much you know about the word of faith movement. It was popularized a good many years ago by people like Kenneth Hagen, still very much popularized by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. And in and of itself is actually a pretty good biblical emphasis. They're trying to recapture this authority of the believers that we have been talking about. And they've been trying to bring home to the church the importance of recognizing who we are in Christ and what by faith we can claim for ourselves for God's purposes. And the relatively little exposure that I've had to their teaching, I would say generally with rare exception is really pretty good. But remember, worst case scenario. And worst case scenario means that somebody will come along, they will take your teaching, they will distort it by their own uncrucified flesh, perhaps even their own demonic invasion, if you will. They will abuse it for their own purposes and extreme examples of "name it and claim it" have done precisely that. God name it and claim it will tell you in its extreme manifestations, you know, I'm God's child, God wants me to be rich. There's this pink Cadillac over there, I really crave a pink Cadillac. And God, I'm your child, so I claim in faith that you're going to give me that pink Cadillac. Now there may be nothing wrong with owning a pink Cadillac. And if a pink Cadillac will help you do better the work of the kingdom, there may be a place where you can name it and claim it. But where it comes out of your own brokenness because you want to drive around in a pink Cadillac, it's a distortion of biblical truth. Or let's suppose that I'm a single guy and I see a pretty girl walking down the road and name it and claim it says, Lord, you know, that's the one that I want and I claim her for me and God, you better talk to her and make her understand that I've got this claim on her. Well, I don't need to elaborate unduly other than to point out that the believer's authority in Scripture, the authority to speak in the name of Jesus, the authority to speak to mountains and move them is never just so that we can feel good, so that we can get out of the miserableness of our situations or circumstances apart from God's purposes for us or just to satisfy our own fleshly desires. The authority of Jesus is given to us to share in the place of our calling, in the place where God gives us faith for the purposes of advancing his kingdom. And as I said, if you need a pink Cadillac to advance the kingdom of God, if you need a marriage partner to advance the purposes of God in your life, if you need whatever daily bread you need to advance the kingdom purposes of God, those are legitimate things that we can lay hold of before God in faith, but beware of the subtlety of the human heart and the desire to use God as a magician to give us what we think we want. And please don't ever fail to understand that when the answer comes to those kinds of false claims, that is no proof that you're on the right track because the devil can give you the whole world and he'll do that if he can snare you. It's only valid if it focuses on the centrality of Jesus Christ and establishes his kingdom so that he gets the glory. Alright, with that in mind then, let's look a little bit more closely at how Peter develops this whole theme as he speaks to the crowd. And as an aside, let me say that I love reading apostolic sermons in Scripture. I love reading apostolic prayers. Because in both of those you get such a flavor of God's passion and God's heart for His people. And the best way to avoid error, the best way to avoid being deceived by the uncrucified places in our own hearts is to yield to God's authority and to learn from those that have gone on before us. So first thing I want us to note, and I mentioned this in passing last week but allow me to come back to it one more time. Peter in his sermon begins by pointing away from himself and pointing to Jesus. Listen again to these verses. Verse 12, when Peter saw this, he said to them, that is to the crowd who had gathered around the man's healing, "Men of Israel, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?" And then verse 13, "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go." He says the God of our fathers has glorified His servant Jesus. Remember the healing of the cripple wasn't just about restoring health to this man. That is certainly one of the components. But remember the whole purpose was for God to demonstrate to the people that this Jesus whom they had crucified now has been exalted as Lord over all. You're seeing His power, and so you better come to grips with who Jesus is lest you end up in huge trouble because all authority has been given to Him in heaven and on earth. And that's again then why he goes on in verse 16 to tell us this, "By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong, it is Jesus' name. And the faith that comes through Him that has given this complete healing to Him, as you all can see." And so here's the first thing I want us to understand when it comes to discerning falsehood from error when it comes to trying to extend God's kingdom. And I've often said this, but I hope to never tire of repeating this. Always ask yourself the question, whatever the teaching is, whatever you're exposed to, always ask the question, where is the centrality of Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture? Does this honor Jesus? Is this intended to bring glory to Jesus? Is this intended to bring things into subjection to Jesus? And the Jesus that is being presented, is it the biblical Jesus? Because the Bible is very clear that not all Jesuses that are presented are the biblical Jesus. He is not some wishy-washy, all-inclusive, I-accept-everybody Jesus. He is not the Jesus of popular culture. People say, "We don't like the church, but we love Jesus," I say, "It's nonsense." Because the kind of Jesus that people want in today's culture is not the Jesus who one day is going to ride on His white horse, and He is going to judge all nations by the standard and the righteousness of God Himself. So always ask the question, what Jesus do I serve? How are my likes and dislikes distorting my image of Jesus? Ever notice when you read the Bible, there are certain passages you like, certain passages you don't like, watch out, because it's the passages you don't like you probably most need to look at, because they uncover those places in our lives where we rebel so easily against the authority of Jesus. So is Jesus at the center? Peter points away from himself, he focuses the attention on Jesus, and then interestingly enough, he deals uncompromisingly, ruthlessly with sin. For notice again how the passage goes on, "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified His servant Jesus." Notice the contrast, "You," we could say, "but you, handed Him over to be killed, you disowned Him before Pilate, though He had decided to let Him go. You disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked that a murderer be released to you. You killed the author of life, but God raised them from the dead, and we are witnesses of this." At the end of the day, sin is not just the things we do wrong, it's not just loving the wrong thing or the wrong person, it's not just lusting or lying or stealing and all of the things that sometimes make us feel guilty because we know that we have broken a biblical value or a biblical code. Sin at the end of the day is a rejection of Jesus and what Jesus stands for. In this particular passage, Peter just really nails it whole. He spells it out in such detail that nobody in that crowd that is listening to him could say, "Well, this wasn't about me, it's about somebody else." Let me take a moment and just walk you through it and show you how specifically Peter nails them with the reality of their sin. He begins by saying, "You have betrayed Jesus." He says, "You handed Him over to be killed," and that of course refers to the fact that the Jewish people were not allowed to execute anybody, and so you have the whole story in the gospel of how Judas betrays Jesus to the religious leaders, and then the religious leaders hand Him over to Pontius Pilate. That is betrayal of the highest order. And then he goes on to say, "You disowned Him before Pilate, though He had decided to let Him go." You know the story. Pontius Pilate was the reigning governor. He represented civil authority. They dragged Jesus into His court, and they come along with all these trumped-up charges, and Pontius Pilate knows they are false, and he says, "I want to let this man go." But they said, "No, we want you to crucify Him even though we can't find any guilt in His life." Then, to make it even worse, he says to them, "Listen, you killed the author of life and asked that a murderer be released to you." And you remember the story of Barabbas. Pontius Pilate, in his political savvy, was doing his level best to let Jesus go. Sometimes Barabbas, who was an insurrectionist, a rebel, had been sentenced to death, and he puts Barabbas over here and Jesus over here, and he says, "Now pick one that I will release on the feast day." And of course, he was so naïve as to assume they would automatically pick Jesus, who was the innocent one. But you see, when the devil is at work and when you've been stirred up by the wrong spirit, it's Jesus who's got to die. And so they said, "Grant us Barabbas and crucify the Son of God." Every time I read that story, I think of the hymn, "Our dearest Jesus, how hast Thou offended that man to judge Thee hath in hate pretended, by foes derided, by Thine own rejected, O most afflicted," because you see, at the end of the day, what happens is you killed the author of life. Understand the gravity of this. It's like the greatest benefactor in your life, who has loved you to the point of laying down his life for you in a fit of confusion, anger, and rebellion. You turn against that person, and having chosen a murderer, you put to death the author of life. Can you imagine how all of heaven groaned at the horror of what was just happening there? When you and I, we read this passage, and we read the stories that it refers to, and we say, "Well, I would never do that." Just like we read the Old Testament stories about Israel, and we say, "I'd never do that." Well, don't be too sure, because every time when we defy Jesus, every time when we choose to follow our own flesh instead of His Spirit, every time we live for our own pleasure instead of the purposes of God, and every time we are ashamed to stand up for Him, we do precisely what the Jewish folks did back then in Peter's day. We crucify the Son of God afresh. And if the kingdom begins with the correct vision of Jesus, the correct vision of Jesus will always lead to a conviction of sin. A light vision of sin will lead to a light view of Jesus, but a correct vision of sin will always lead to true repentance. And that's the third thing then that we need to point out here in this particular passage. Peter not only points away from himself to Jesus, he not only deals unflinchingly, rubs their noses in their sin, but then he demands that they repent. Look at how Scripture puts it, "Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance as did your leaders, but this is how God fulfilled what He had foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer, repent then and turn to God." And repentance, as you know, literally means to change your mind. It means that one day you were going this way, now you have come to see it was wrong, you turn around, and you walk the other way. And in this context this is particularly with reference to the person of Jesus. Remember He was the stone rejected by builders. When they had been caught up in the frenzy of the crowd and when they had been stirred by their spiritual leaders, they thought Jesus was the worst thing that had ever happened to the human race and needed to be put to death, though He clearly was the author of life and now, having seen the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, having seen the power of the resurrected Jesus and the exalted Jesus in the restoration of this crippled man, the truth has begun to dawn. This Jesus whom we crucified, as Peter points out in the earlier Acts chapter 2, God has highly exalted and has called him both Lord and Christ. And you can imagine that people are crying out, "What must we do to be saved?" They knew the writing was on the wall. And if Jesus stands at the center of the coming of the kingdom, and if a true awareness of our sin is a critical component of the coming of the kingdom, then the next reality has to be the reality of repentance. That is to say, owning our sin, owning our rebellion, owning our pride, owning our having gone our own way, we need to bow before God and say, "God, I agree with you. I have been wrong. I deserve your punishment. Please have mercy upon my soul and upon my life." And you know, in the church we often talk about sin and repentance and sort of vague generalities like, "Lord, forgive me all my many sins," and that has its place. But I have to tell you, every time I hear somebody pray that, my temptation is to say, "Let's talk about the specific sins that you're repenting of." Because while we have all kinds of sins of generality, most of us will have discovered that what God is really after is those places in our lives where we have sometimes knowingly and deliberately made choices that have had very bad consequences, places where like the prodigal son, we got off the track, places where we have thrown God's grace back in His face, places that have changed our lives because knowingly and stubbornly in many cases, we have gone the wrong way. And if you've ever been under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, you will know the Holy Spirit comes along and He says, "You know, the way that you spoke to your wife, or the way that you treated your child, or the way that you shirked your responsibility at work, or the attitude that you carried with you into this particular situation, that is an attitude that defies the authority of Jesus. Own it and repent." This is one of the most liberating truths in Scripture, as we'll see in a few moments, because it sets the stage for a whole process of renewal. Notice though, and here's a very interesting thing, that God makes allowance for sins of ignorance. Did you know that? If you go to court and you break the law and you tell them, "I didn't know what the law was," they won't let you off the hook because we often say ignorance of the law is no excuse. But notice what Peter says. He says, "Now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance as did your leaders, but this is how God fulfilled what He had foretold through all the prophets, saying that as Christ would suffer, repent then and turn to God." The Bible makes it very clear that He takes a much more serious view of sins that we do not do out of ignorance than the sins that we do out of ignorance. God knows our frame, and He knows concerning that whole crowd, when they got caught up in wanting to crucify Jesus, that they got caught up in the spirit of the moment and that a lot of them had no clue what they were doing. Peter on Paul talks about the same thing you will recall when he says in 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 13, "Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief." Ignorance and unbelief are easily forgiven. The less ignorant we are, the more we know, the more we defy what we know, the more we are held accountable, and the harder it is to receive forgiveness, because the harder it is to repent. And there is a verse in Hebrews chapter 6 that underscores that, that often causes me to quake in my own boots, I will tell you, it goes like this, "It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to public disgrace." And what he's really saying there is this, the more you know, the more you have experienced the reality of the kingdom, and the more deliberately you turn away from that, the harder it is to come back, because you're held to a higher standard because of what you have known. I often say to people, and this is not a good way to get people coming to church, but it's too late for you already because you've been here, going to church can be dangerous to your health, you know that? Because the more you know and the more you understand and fail to practice what you know and understand, the higher will be the standard by which you are measured. So what does Peter do? He points to Jesus, he points brutally to the reality of sin, he demands repentance, but the gospel means good news, and it never stops at rubbing our noses in our sin. He goes on to offer hope, because notice how he puts it, "Repent then and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ who has been appointed to you, even Jesus. He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets." I don't know if you caught it, but there are three promises that Peter makes to this people if they will truly repent from the heart. Here's the first one, he says, "Our sins can be forgiven." I love the way that he words it, "So that your sins may be wiped out." And the picture that comes to my mind is a blackboard. Picture a blackboard that lists every sin you have ever committed. Probably take two or three blackboards. You know the time you stole cookies from your mother, the time you pinched your little sister, the time you cheated on a test, the time you crossed lines sexually, the times you stepped into relationships that were ungodly, the time you cheated at work or in your taxes or, Lord forbid, broke the speed limit, you know, they're all there, right? And there stands the prosecutor accusing you of everything you've ever done wrong. That's why the Day of Judgment, for the record, for people who don't know Jesus, is going to be one terrifying day because everything will be laid bare when the books are opened. But we repent, we own our sin, we come to Jesus, we understand that He died on the cross to pay the penalty for every one of those sins, and along comes God and He wipes clean the blackboard. Can you imagine the relief when you know that all the charges against you have been dropped and have been dismissed? That's why repentance and faith are such critical components. That's why the Gospel is such incredibly good news. No matter how many times we blow it, if we repent and confess, God wipes it away and the charges don't accumulate. Paul says in Romans, "Who can lay any charge against God's elect?" And then he asks, "Is it God?" No, it can't be God because He gave His Son Jesus. Then he asks the question, "Can it be Jesus?" Well, no, it can't be Jesus because Jesus gave His life for this. If God be for us, who can be against us? That's what makes the Gospel good news. But it doesn't stop there. He goes on to say that God will also bring times of refreshing into our lives. Turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. In the picture that comes to my mind, have you ever been in a situation where you are working in a hot, sweaty, and dusty environment, and you come home and you're covered with filth, your clothes are dirty, and sweat is everywhere and it's caked on, and you get into the shower and you wash it all away and you put fresh clothes on and it's like you're a new man or a new woman, isn't that true? That's what Jesus does when we repent of our sins. He wipes them away, and then He comes along with His Holy Spirit, and He refreshes us. You know, the thing about sin is it not only makes you feel guilty, but it makes you feel credit, to know that you just violated your standard, to know that you're caught up in a cycle that you know is bad, your conscience convicts you, but you don't know how to break out of it, it makes you feel like a loser, you don't dare look somebody in the eye for fear that they can see through you and see what lives in your soul. You turn inward, you've got no time, energy, or effort for anybody else outside because you're so busy with your internal world, and then along comes Jesus, and He wipes it all away not only, but He grants you the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit says, "You know it's okay, I love you just the way that you are, and I know there's all this credit in your life that you don't know how to deal with, but you're my workmanship, and the work that I've begun in you I will bring to completion, and you stand taller, and you stand straighter, because you know if God be for you, nobody can be against you." The gospel that I tell you is good news, and it's good news for the worst of the worst of the worst, because the only people that it's not good news for are people who think they're too self-righteous, and they don't need the blood of Jesus. But there's still more. Peter says, "Not only will your sins be wiped away, not only will times of refreshing come from the Lord," he moves ahead to point to the ultimate restoration, that he may send the Christ who has been appointed for you, even Jesus. He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything as He promised long ago through His holy prophets. We don't have time to talk about that extensively, but I hope you get the picture. What's God after? God's after the restoration of the whole world. Only in the Old Testament through His holy prophets. He was always speaking into the lives of His people, and we often think when we read the prophets, all they ever do is pronounce doom and gloom because their job was to point out people's sin with a view of bringing them to repentance. But that wasn't all they ever did. They also pointed to the day when God would make all things new. And the way that it works in Scripture is that Jesus is the pioneer and the author of our faith. Jesus is the one who pioneered. He sends out the gospel and He pours out His Holy Spirit, and those of us who come to faith in Jesus now become part of the new harvest. And when that new harvest reaches, and I don't know how this works, but when it reaches a critical component, there comes a time when God says enough is enough, Jesus comes in the clouds of heaven, and every promise that He has ever made for a new heaven and a new earth will take place in that day. And so when we repent, we not only get our sins washed away, we not only get this refreshing through the Holy Spirit, we get this hope that this is a foretaste of what one day is going to happen. And I don't know about you, but I hear a story like we talked about earlier in the service, the shootings in the county, add that to all the other murders that have been taking place in this community where you sort of get the feeling that the abyss has opened up just a little bit, as the book of Revelation talks about, and foul and evil spirits have gone forth in the land, and the Bible says that all of this is but the beginnings of suffering because nation is going to turn against nation, and there isn't the one of us sitting in this place who doesn't occasionally at least experience the awful reality of living in a fallen and a broken world, and it's easy to lose hope, and it's easy to shake your head and to say what is the world coming to, and it's easy to go hide in your own closet hoping the whole world will go away. But what an opportunity. What an opportunity to point to Jesus. What an opportunity to say to the people that we know, "Listen, I've got good news for you. Somebody has won the battle. Somebody has died on the cross so that your sins could be forgiven. Somebody will come into your life. Somebody will come to your home. Somebody will come into your relationships. Somebody will teach you how to do life in a way that breaks that old cycle, and no matter how limited that redemption is that we experience in the here and now, that somebody has committed himself to making a new heaven and the new earth." And so I ask you again, what is your sphere of influence? What is your area of responsibility? Where does the Lord call you and where does he give you faith to exercise his authority? Would you in those places, please, would you please listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit, look for opportunities, speak and act on behalf of Jesus, and invite people to submit to his authority and to his kingdom. And you know, in so doing, in a living a righteous and a holy life, the Bible says, "We hasten the coming of the day of the Lord." Why is Jesus holding off? Because he doesn't wish for any to perish, but for all to reach repentance. And our job and our mandate is to speak for Jesus while we can, while it is still day. Because I'll tell you, the night is coming. And when the night comes, the darkness increases and our liberties will be diminished. [CUT] [PROPOSED CUT 1 START at 00:42:06.260; remove through 00:46:27.000] Father of creation, unfold your sovereign plan, raise up a chosen generation that will march through the land. All of creation is longing for your unveiling of power. Would you release your anointing? Oh God, let this be the hour. Let your glory fall in this room. Let it go forth from here to the nations. Let your fragrance rest in this place, as we gather to seek your face. Ruler of the nation, the world has yet to see. Before the release of your promise, the church in victory. Turn to us Lord and touch us. Make us strong in your might. Overcome our weakness that we could stand up and fight. Let your glory fall in this room. Let it go forth from here to the nations. Let your fragrance rest in this place, as we gather to seek your face. Let your kingdom come, let your will be done, let us see on earth the glory of your Son. Let your kingdom come, let your will be done, let us see on earth the glory of your Son. Let your glory fall in this room. Let it go forth from here to the nations. Let your fragrance rest in this place, as we gather to seek your face. As we gather to seek your face. As we gather to seek your face. [CUT] [PROPOSED CUT 1 END at 00:46:27.000; resume after this marked segment]