November 2024

Let's get started. Tommy says,

This is really kind of that age old question that we get pretty often, which is how can I tell God's voice from my own? And it comes in quite frequently, and it's a big thing right along there with, how can I know the will of God? But one of the reasons, I think that this question is so widespread among believers, is that we are so unaccustomed to listening spiritually. God wants to speak to his children spiritually, and it's just we're not practiced. You come to the Lord and you enter into a really new dynamic of a relationship with the Lord, because you now have received the Spirit of God and through the Spirit of God, we are able to discern things from the spirit. The Word of God begins to come alive, but not only that, but God desires to communicate with us through His Holy Spirit as well. And for a lot of people, it's not just this automatic thing that turns on in our lives, whereby I'm suddenly tuned in perfectly to the Holy Spirit. It's kind of like an unused limb in people's lives. So it's one of the things that we have to really nurture and it's very difficult to even talk about. But one of the things I think that is critical when it comes to knowing whether you're hearing from God or whether you're hearing your own voice, which is very common, is learning to quiet your soul. David writes about this in one of the Psalms, and he talks about quieting his soul before the Lord. And that's, frankly, something that we don't do very well in our culture. And I think we're so busy and there's so much noise just in our world that quieting our soul before the Lord is just very, very difficult. But I think that Christians should make it an ongoing prayer request.

Sure.

I really do. Lord, show me, teach me how to quiet my soul so that I can hear your voice, because the still small voice of the Lord can easily get drowned out by the din of life. It really can. And so you got a bunch of Christians going, I don't know if this is me or if this is God. Well, you're not going to know until you start to dial down the rest of the world. And that might even mean fasting from your phone or the internet or just getting quiet, it just really necessary.

Good encouragement. Amara says,

There was a comedian years ago that you had this comedy line, the devil made me do it. And it was kind of interesting, because it's a little bit of what is going on here. First of all, demonic spirits are real. Demonic spirits can affect us in many ways. But I think personally, that Christians go way too far blaming demonic spirits for their own issues as calling it a spirit of something. There's a spirit of worry or a spirit of anxiety, like the question of the person was saying, spirit of intimidation, and spirit of the world. I believe there are spirits. I believe that they can harass us. But the thing that we have to remember is that there has to be something there for a spirit to kind of grab a hold of. Paul calls it not giving the devil a foothold. Actually, that's an NIV reference. In the ESV, it says, give no opportunity to the devil. And so the devil needs an opportunity to deal with things. So if somebody has the propensity for worry, for example, the enemy can do that or can exacerbate that sort of a situation. But our sinful nature is we have to remember, provide the enemy with a great target, a huge target, and our own personal weaknesses can give the enemy an opportunity to harass us. And so we need to learn what our weaknesses are, and how to pray about those that God would bring strength to them. And then we need to learn how to resist the devil so that he might flee from us, so there's some prayer that needs to go on, and there's some spiritual warfare needs to go on. Some of what people say is true, but as with many things, it goes way beyond what is legitimate.

All right. Cameron says,

This is another really common question, because people know that in 1 Timothy, the Apostle Paul said, I do not allow a woman to teach her have authority over a man. And then they read it in the book of Acts, how Apollo's came along and Priscilla and Aquila heard him speak and realized he had some real gaps in his understanding. And the Bible tells us that they took him aside and they explained the way of God to him more fully. It doesn't say that Priscilla taught Apollos and that's the assumption by everybody. Well, Priscilla taught Apollos. No, she didn't. She and Aquila sat down with him and explained what he didn't understand, filled in the gaps and sent him on his way. And that was not Priscilla sitting down and saying, all right, Apollos, now pay attention. I'm going to teach you.

They were partners in ministry.

They did it first of all together as a couple. And so it's just simply not. This person is asking the question because it seems to them like a contradiction, and it's not a contradiction, Sue: All right. Jeannie says,

The pride that Jeannie is feeling here is not the kind of pride that the Bible condemns to feel pride in your nation, because we have a godly heritage, which is what you see when you go to Washington D.C. God is plastered all over the place. And I don't think that's a bad thing at all to feel pride for your child when they've done something that is virtuous or honorable. There's nothing wrong with that at all. The pride that the Bible condemns is the kind of pride that sets itself up against the authority of God. It sets itself up against the authority even of man. It's a pride of self that says, it kind of refuses to be taught. It's an unteachable attitude. And spiritual pride is one of the worst kinds of pride. And she mentioned spiritual pride, and that is evil, because spiritual pride looks down on people and says, you're lesser than I am. But that's not what you get when you go to Washington D.C., and look at all of the God references. You can come away from that really, and feel like, wow, this country that I live in has a very godly heritage. We've gotten away from it, but we have a godly heritage. And there's no problem feeling proud about that at all.

Natalie says,

I think everybody probably knows what preppers are. People who prepare, and they're basically preparing for a global disaster, and so they stockpile food and ammunition and some of them even go so far as to build a bomb shelter in their property and whatever. And so it sounds like Natalie is wanting to know if that's something that the Lord would have us to do. I personally think the best preparation for any difficulty of life is a strong faith in God. Because the Bible says, trust in the Lord with all of your heart, lean not on your own understanding, acknowledge God in all your ways, and He will direct your paths. And what that means to me, and the way I apply that to the things like preparing is that God's going to lead me. If I'm trusting the Lord like I'm supposed to be, then if something is coming up, that's going to be some kind of. God's going to lead me, and I don't have to worry about that. So I think a lot of what preppers do is done apart from God and trusting God honestly.

She's asking, “Is it wrong to prepare?”

So, is it wrong to prepare? Well, that's what I'm trying not to answer.

Does that show a lack of faith?

And I'll tell you why. It's not because I'm waffling. It's because people want all the time. They want to ask me if things are wrong, and if it's not written specifically, I'm just going to tell you what the Word says. You decide whether it's right or wrong. You know what I'm saying. You pray about it. You ask the Holy Spirit, the God's Word says, trust me with all of your heart, and I'll lead you. So what do you think? It's like, I don't want to say it's wrong. I want to say, here's what the Bible says. Now work it out.

Anonymous person said,

Can you guess this?

I don't know if I want to say it out loud. I mean, I'd say Romans.

It's Colossians.

Well, that was my next.

If I gave one book of the Bible to somebody just too really nail down basic Christian doctrine, it would be Colossians.

Who is Jesus.

Yes, who is Jesus and what does he do? Sue is telling you about my latest book, which really just published, and it's in the bookstore. After I finished writing that book, my daughter helped me write it and edit it, and it had nothing to do with her. But after we got done with the writing that I said, that is it. That is the last book that I am ever going to write.

And we all know what those words mean.

We do?

Yes.

I started just this week writing a book based on Colossians. So there you go. Colossians is fantastic.

Sophia says,

No, Jesus remains the Son of God for eternity. He remains a man for eternity, the God man on the throne. When Jesus willingly chose to be born as a human being, he chose that for eternity. That's pretty amazing.

I don't think I understood that until I was well into my adult life.

Really?

Yeah. Ken says,

We just didn't want to.

Ran out of room.

Ran out of room. This is like this Bible is getting really long you guys. No, Paul's letter to the Laodiceans got lost. We believe that Paul actually wrote four letters to the Corinthians, and we believe that we have two and four based on other things that he wrote, because he mentions things about what I wrote to you, and we don't have those comments and so we believe that. So there's two other letters that Paul wrote to the Corinthians we think. We know that he wrote a letter to the Laodiceans. Those are gone. They're lost. Somebody just took them out with the trash or something, I don't know. I'm sure they answer all the questions that we debate today.

I'm sure. Angela says,

Well, you gotta remember what happens at the end of the Great Tribulation, Jesus returns, and he fights for Israel. He puts down the enemies that come against Israel. There's this massive victory, and then Jesus takes the throne and begins to rule for a 1000 year period. Pretty tough to be an unbeliever at that point.

It’s kind of like whoever is not against us is for us. Like there's going to be a dividing line.

Yeah. And that's probably going to be largely Armageddon. But the point is, we do know that during that 1000 year period of time, as there will be mortals on the earth, and they will procreate, they're going to live longer than they do now. We think if somebody reaches 90, it's like, whoa. 90, 95, or so.

You're talking about the millennium.

During the Millennial Kingdom. But it says in the Bible that if someone dies at 100 they're going to be considered young. So people are going to have longer lives, and they're going to procreate, and over a period of time, people are going to lose faith, because Satan is going to be released at the end of the millennial kingdom, and he's going to be able to gather one last army against the Lord and we say there's going to be a final battle, but it's hardly a battle. They're put down very quickly, very easily by the Lord, but we know that he's going to gather people against the Lord. So during the Millennial Kingdom, people will gradually lose faith. But I think at the end of the Great Tribulation, the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom, you're not going to be able to find an unbeliever, because of what they just witnessed.

That makes sense. Lorraine says,

I would say, Lorraine, you need to get a different Bible. I shouldn't probably say that, but that's an old King Jamesism, bless the Lord. And people who know, and most of the people who probably read the King James know that to bless the Lord means to praise the Lord, and yet it's used in such a way that people misinterpret it, and they think that we're supposed to be a blessing to the Lord somehow. And if you look at a more modern translation, instead of Bless the Lord, it says, Praise the Lord, that's all.

Ann says,

A pagan is a believer in many Gods. Short version definition of a pagan. Paganism is the practice of belief in many Gods.

False Gods.

False Gods. Deity is a word we use to define the qualities and attributes of God. So if we were to say we believe in the deity of Jesus, we're saying we believe He is God or He possesses the attributes of God.

Do we ever use the word deity to mean False Gods, like we use the word God to mean the one God.

Sometimes people will say he believes in a lot of deities, but it's really wrongly used in that context.

But people wrongly use things all the time.

Yes, they do.

All right. Ashley says

No, the priests of Israel were from the tribe of Levi, and the branch of the tribe of Levi that came from Aaron. So Aaron was from the tribe of Levi, then Aaron and his descendants became the priests, and the Levites were the helpers for the priests, but the Pharisees could come from any tribe and the Rabbis could come from any tribe.

Gotcha. All right. @Fit_Kitty says,

What this gal is asking is, why do some people say there are 12 judges of Israel and why do some people say there are 15? Here's the deal. When you read the book of Judges, it tells the story of 12 judges. When you get to First Samuel, you read about Eli, who was also a judge, and you read about Samuel, who was also a judge. Actually, in the book of Judges, there's also a reference to and she tells about Abimelech. And Abimelech was the son of Gideon, who really was never a judge. He was really just a dork who kind of made a violent power grab after Gideon passed from the scene, and he wanted to become king. I mean, that was his aspiration, not to be judge king, but he really didn't have any real impact. And so most people don't count him as a judge, they count the legitimate 12 judges that the book of Judges talks about. So I think there are 14, not 12, and not 15. I think there are 14. You got 12 in the book of Judges. Then you got Eli and Samuel. And you know Eli was a judge for sure, because it says he judged Israel for 40 years after he died. And then we know that Samuel was the final judge before the Kings. So the numbers there make it really confusing. There were 14.

All right. David says,

The Bible talks about confessing to one another, but that's really not repenting.

And he's not talking about asking forgiveness. Here, he's talking about repenting, which, in our vocabulary, means to turn away from.

You don't have to speak a word to repent. You don't have to utter a sound to either God or man, because it really means a change of mind. So it can be done publicly and it can be done privately. There's not a specific you got to do it this way, sort of a thing.

So pray about it. Angela says,

Well, some suffered because there was a community of people that went wrong and sometimes when you're part of a community, and even though you may be faithful to the Lord, you may suffer because your community has. Here in the United States, we feel like our hearts are open to the Lord, and we want to see the Lord doing what he wants to do. But we suffer because of the godlessness, frankly, of our nation and then some people were also spared. You read the book of Jeremiah. Now, Jeremiah suffered because he was a prophet, but he was faithful to God, and God spared him, largely from the Babylonian invasion. In fact, God gave Jeremiah favor with the Babylonians. They basically came to Jeremiah and said, you can go wherever you can go wherever you want to go. You want to come to Babylon, you can. You want to stay here, you can. You want to go somewhere else, you can. And so there were people who were faithful to God, who were given special favor, blessing, and some were made to suffer. Daniel and his friends were hauled off to Babylon.

And we're both, at different times, protected.

Exactly. There was suffering in their lives, and there was blessing and favor.

I think sometimes too about all it says all the poor people were left behind to kind of work the land, so it didn't fall into. And I've often wondered, how many of those who are really devout God fearing people that the Lord did spare?

It's very possible.

Jodie says,

So how do you respond to someone who says you're worshiping three gods? The short answer is, I would say Jodie, just say to them, I worship God as He has revealed himself in the Bible.

You know, you were just teaching Sunday about throwing pearls before swine, and you were talking about some of the deeper things of the Lord.

And Trinity is one of them.

Yeah. The complexity of that, and that's not an argument to get into with someone who is either an unbeliever or there's other things we could be talking about rather than all the nuances of the Trinity. So a simple answer like you said.

I usually tell people don't try to explain the Trinity, because, first of all, you can't. And second of all, it's not going to make sense to anybody. And all of the little things that people say, well, it's kind of like H2O. You've got water. You got liquid and ice and steam, and they're all water. But that breaks down pretty fast, because you can't compare the creation to the creator who is uncreated and is not like his creation. So is there a good explanation for the Trinity? No, there isn't. So the best thing you can say is, I worship God as He has revealed Himself and that's it. And that puts it in a place where the person now has an issue with the Bible, not with you.

Which is always smart to do.

Well, I try to do as much as possible because I'm not that smart.

Ashley says

Do you know that the Bible doesn't say and it's an assumption to say that John heard that voice. Maybe he did. But what John gave testimony of is that he saw the Spirit descend and stay upon Jesus. He saw that, and he was told to pay attention for that. But it doesn't say that John specifically heard the voice from heaven. It could be that everybody that was there heard the voice from heaven. It's not specific.

All right. Melissa says,

Well, I probably wouldn't say to him prove it. I mean, just saying, I mean, I probably wouldn't hear from God and they go prove it, because that sounds a little challenging. But here is the deal that there's nothing wrong with asking God to confirm. Asking for a confirmation, because he knows that you want to be sure. And if you're not completely certain about something, you feel like the Lord's giving you direction, but you're not positive, I don't think there's anything wrong with confirming it. We've had situations in our life where the Lord has graciously confirmed his will in ways that sometimes we didn't even ask for. But we're done in such a way that there was just absolutely no argument.

You know, I've often prayed when I had a decision to make or something like this situation, and I feel like the Lord is kind of giving me a direction. And when I pray, I'll just say, Lord, you know how weak I am, you know how insecure I am about making decisions, and I'll just kind of spill it out and say, would you help me with this. And he knows, he sees that's the thing. That's the point of just like he knows me, he might as well just be real.

Exactly. It's like, Lord, I'm not sure I'm hearing you. Would you please turn up the volume?

If our kids said that to us, we'd say, yeah, absolutely. I will.

I would talk louder.

Rebekah says,

Sue, how should a wife deal with it if she realizes her husband is not firing on all cylinders as it relates to his calling or leaders role?

I guess that's kind of a woman mentoring question.

It is.

Well, the first thing is, you often say, don't expect unbelievers to act like believers. So that's the first thing is to decide, so is this husband saved?

Well, we would assume so she said they went through the marriage series.

But I'm not necessarily saying this is her situation. It might be someone else. And look, this is super common. I mean, this is a very, very common situation even in Christian marriages. When you and I got married or got came to the Lord, we were both kind of learning at the same pace. You were learning how to lead. I was learning how to submit, and we both had issues. We stumbled along the way and now we're perfect and so good. What would, let's say, you're counseling a wife?

Because here's the deal, if a husband is not fulfilling his role, she's going to notice. The wife is always going to notice.

So if I was sitting down with a woman that was in this situation and she just didn't feel like her husband was taking either, she might have too high of standards, and might need to just be a little bit more patient.

You need to find out what's going on. You'd have to ask some questions.

The other thing is, some of the things I'd encourage her not to do is lead him in leading and not instruct him in all the good ways to lead. So don't do that. Don't instruct. I would also say, don't expect him to lead like a woman would lead. And what I mean by that is often women have a certain way of our spiritual lives, take devotions. For example, men don't do their devotional time like women do their devotional time. So I always say… Pastor Paul: I don't have a pink notebook.

No. I mean, we're just different. God made us different. So don't expect men to lead a devotional life in the Word like a women. It's going to look differently. So what I'm working up to is there's a lot of things just don't expect this. I would say, look, focus on your own part. Focus on your part and really pray. And if you have a mature woman in your life that you can kind of pray through this, and that's good. I think that kind of mentoring is really good. But it's just this would be the same answer as if you have a child that's estranged from you. There's not a lot you can do. You can't say anything about it. You just need to pray and intercede and wait for the Lord to do that work. So a couple of don't do's, but the biggest do is just really make it a matter of prayer. So the two things to do are make sure you're doing your part to be respectful to him, to be submissive to him in the home, and then really make it a concentrated matter of prayer and get a mentor with you.

So I read that note on Sunday from a gal that said that as she got into the Word, her husband took note of how she was digging into the scriptures, and he was encouraged by that. I was going to say that. Peter talks about that. He says, wives, if any of you has a husband that that doesn't believe the Word, and that doesn't necessarily mean he's an unbeliever, because there are areas of the Word that a believing man can stumble over. And so the word to wives there in Peter was, let him be won over without words when he sees your life, the godliness and the desire of your life. And I think a lot of ladies forget that their example… Sue: Sometimes it boils down to just little baby steps and sometimes even comic principles. I remember reading years ago in the 90s, a book by Elizabeth George when she was learning how to let her husband lead and he wanted the family to get donuts on the way to church on Sunday mornings. That was kind of one of his little nuances of leading.

Like, every Sunday.

Yeah. She's like, No, they have white dresses. It's chocolate. No, we can't do this.

I like that.

We can do it if you want, but she had to come. The Lord had to show her that he was leading, and she was chopping it down with an axe. And so in her book, she wrote about how she learned to say,

When I'm doing marriage counseling or pre marriage counseling, one of the things I share with couples is that most couples get married and spend the majority of their lives together trying to get the other person to think and act like them, and that's just a reality, because we relate to life on the level in which we do, and we kind of want the other person to relate on that same level, and they don't, and so we want them to react the way we do, and on and on and on. And it can really come into play when it comes to this whole issue of marriage from a biblical perspective. So anyway, good answer.

Well, thank you. I always say that to you. That's very nice. Dawn says,

Paul was writing to the church when he said, I do not allow a woman to teach her to have authority over a man, and that is his intention was in the church.

And she had a second question. “In your study of Matthew you mentioned that God does not recognize divorce, so if you have remarried before knowing this, should you divorce? Thank you so much for all you do.”

Well, it is incorrect to say that God does not recognize divorce. He does recognize divorce. The Bible tells us, in fact, Jesus is very clear on that when there has been sexual immorality and unfaithfulness within a marriage, that there is a freedom, not a command, but a freedom to divorce, and that God would recognize that divorce, because then, if they remarry, that person is free to do so. So that's the first thing. So what she's asking here, bless her heart, is if you now realize that you divorce in the past and now you're remarried, and you realize that you didn't divorce for biblical reasons, should you now divorce from the person to whom you're married to correct that? And that's the old thinking that two right or two wrongs add up to a right. God hates divorce. You got divorced for unbiblical reasons. You remarried. Now you come to learn that that divorce was wrong, you confess it, you get forgiveness, and you move on in the marriage in which you are now connected.

Good.

Be faithful.

Sister says,

When you look into the Word of God, you first of all find out that the very first reference of polygamy takes place from one of the descendants of Cain, the ungodly line of Cain. That's a very important place to start understanding the context of polygamy. Because this man named Lamech descended from Cain and took two wives and bragged about it and stuff like that. So when Jesus came along and spoke on marriage, he made it clear that God's original intent from the beginning, he said it was God intended for a man to be joined to his wife, not wives, but to his wife, and the two should become one flesh. He makes that very clear. It's not 3, 5, 10, or 15. So we know that God originally did not intend polygamy to take place. Why he chose to bear with polygamy in the Old Testament, God doesn't explain. And where God doesn't give an explanation, I'm not about to venture one, because that's going beyond what is written. All I know is that he bore with it for a period of time. I certainly wouldn't take his silence, however, on a subject as approval. That would be very foolish indeed. So there you go.

Pearl says,

I remember a number of years ago we were going to a church, or I've mentioned this, that when Sue and I started walking with the Lord. The church we went to was a charismatic church, and it had some strong Pentecostal roots and there was a lady that came up to the pastor one time just covered with a rash. I mean, it was like a little alarming. And she came and walked up to him start talking, and he said, my dear, how long have you had this rash? And she said, I don't have a rash. And of course, she was under the mistaken idea that if you confess it, then you're going to continue to deal with it, and it's kind of that whole word faith, confession thing, you speak it, and it becomes a reality. So what she was saying is, I'm going to speak my healing, and that's a little bit of what Pearl is getting at here. As I'm praying for a job, should I just say to people, I've got a job even before I've been hired, because she's been learning, like you said, that is an expression of faith to say I have a job. It hasn't manifested yet, but I have a job because I prayed about it, and I believe that God has given me that job. I don't know where I'm going to work. I don't know anything about it, but I have a job. I believe that we're supposed to pray, believing that God is faithful and that he promises to lead those who trust in Him with all of their hearts, as we've already mentioned. But the fact of the matter is, we often don't know exactly how God's going to answer our prayers. We just don't know. And because of that, we come off sounding really dumb if we start speaking with presumption, where God hasn't responded yet. So I believe we're to pray with faith, but we're to believe that God loves us. We're to believe that God is going to provide however he chooses to provide, but not get presumptive about it, you know what I'm saying, and presumptuous about this specific way that God is going to do it. When Jesus taught about provision, he just said, Trust the Lord. And he said look at the birds. Look at the flowers. They're not getting an ulcer, and yet, God provides for them. So just don't worry, and that was where Jesus kind of left it. So I think that's what we should do, is just say, I've prayed about it. I'm trusting the Lord. I'm not sure how he's going to provide but I'm trusting.

Good. Adriano says

I think that's maybe the title of the video could be, you say how the people before Jesus were still saved through faith from God's judgment. My question is what was their faith in if they did not know who Jesus was yet?” Good question.

It is a good question. But they were trusting that God was going to forgive them. Their faith was in God's love and forgiveness, and the focus of how that was all paid for, eventually was manifested when Jesus came, died on the cross and rose again. But they were just trusting that the Lord would forgive.

And here's our last question. Interesting one. Robert says,

Well, the first thing that I want to address is they say, we've talked about this in the past. They are often wrong, whoever they are. And they say that 666, came from man's translation. My question is, what isn't man's translation? I mean, the New Testament was written in Greek, so you got to translate it. And the fact of the matter is, 666 is a really good translation of what is written in the Greek, because what is written there is actually the numerical value of 666. So you just add them up. And honestly, from what I understand, there's only one reference of 616, and all the rest are 666. So the manuscript evidence in favor of 666 is overwhelming. That's the first thing that I want to say. So what do I think about 616? I think it's 666, and the reason I believe that is because we forget sometimes that that's man's number. That's what the Bible actually says there in Revelation. This is man's number. And the reason that I believe 666 is used is because it's one short of God. God's number seven, seven is the number of completion in the Bible. Well, God does things in sevens, and there you see that repeated over and over again. So along comes the beast, the False Prophet and the Antichrist, which is the unholy trinity that is going to dominate during the Great Tribulation. And he's going to desire to be worshiped, but he's never going to achieve seven. It's only ever going to be 666 and it's basically a way of just saying he falls short. He's going to claim to be God, but he's not. He falls short. And, by the way, this is kind of an aside, but I think a lot of people wrongly conclude that 666 is going to be the mark of the beast. The Bible doesn't say that. It doesn't say that's the mark of the beast. It says that's the number of the beast. So his number is 666, the mark of the beast is something that's going to be forced on people to buy and sell. But that doesn't mean that it's 666. You see these pictures of 666 on their forehead or on their hand. And it's like, where'd you get that? Because it's not what it says. So anyway, six means close, but no cigar, is the bottom line.

Good. That's a wrap.

It is.

That's it.

Wow. 25 questions. That's what came in in November. So there you go. So let's close in prayer. Shall we? Father, we thank you so much for the opportunity to gather tonight and just ponder the Word of God. Lord, I'm thankful that people ask questions because they're good questions, and that means that they want to know and they're longing for answers. And Lord, I'm also thankful that you've given us your word that gives us answers to questions. I'm just really thankful, Father, that we can look into the Word and we can see what it says, and we can have our questions answered, many of them anyway, and be able to be better for it. And so, Lord, help us to keep digging in, to keep desiring, to know, to yearn and to grow and to hunger and to thirst for understanding. Because, Lord, I believe that pleases you very much, and that you long to pour out wisdom and understanding. And thank you, Lord for Jesus, who is the source of all wisdom and knowledge. And so I just pray, Lord, that You would continue to fill us up with grace and understanding, and we look to you to do that, Father, in the name of Jesus, Christ, our Savior and King. Amen!

Amen!