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The Gospel of Matthew

Lawful to Do Good

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September 7, 2025
Matthew 12:9-14
Steven Lee
Pastor for Preaching & Vision

Killing Sin & Holiness

The Person of Christ

Pride & Humility

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0:17Well welcome and good morning. It's good to be together. It's good to hear you sing and to worship our worthy Lord. And it's feels significant. There's a bit of a buzz as we begin this new year. And if you're new among us, we're really glad you are here. And we're in the middle of a series in the gospel of Matthew where we wanna see more and more of Jesus hear from his lips, his teaching, and to behold his glory. So we're looking at verses nine through 14 this morning. Would you join me now as we pray and ask the Lord for help?

0:57Father, would you incline our hearts to your word this morning so that we would see riches in it? Would you open the eyes of our hearts so that we would see what you want us to see? Would you unite our hearts to fear your name and then satisfy us this morning with your steadfast love? And we pray all this in the name of Jesus. Amen. When I was a kid, my parents would take us to church every Sunday and every Sunday they would pass around a little offering plate. Uh, it was more like a velvet basket with kind of wood handles. Some of you know what I'm talking about. And my parents, when I was young, they would give us an allowance of maybe 50 cents a week.

1:46And what we were supposed to do is take 25 cents and put it in the offering basket each week. I think this was to teach us the habit or the discipline of giving or tithing. And so we could save up the other 25 cents and eventually get enough to buy basketball cards. But every week we were supposed to bring one quarter to church and put it in the offering basket. But there were weeks that I really did not want to put my quarter into the offering basket because I knew it would take twice as long to save up for those basketball cards. So I distinctly remember there were weeks where I would go into my brother's piggy bank, I would take a quarter out of his little stash there and I would put that in the offering at church.

2:36I was trying to get him a double blessing. I actually don't think I've ever told him that story. So if you're watching, I'm sorry. I'm quite ashamed to admit it though. It's funny now, but I was stealing in order to give to God. I thought I was doing the right thing, but I was missing the point entirely. And that story of my folly and of my sin is precisely what's going on in this account with the Pharisees this morning. It's on the Sabbath. It's a day of rest. It's a day of worship. And they're in the synagogue, a place of reverence and where we are to meet with God. And what are the Pharisees doing?

3:27They're laying a trap for Jesus. And this continues the controversy that we saw last week in chapter 12, verses one to eight, the Pharisees doubled down in their concern about the religious rules and regulations. And the previous account they accused Jesus or his disciples of breaking the Old Testament law, though I don't think it was true, but they were sort of transgressing the tradition, the rabbinic tradition of the time. And so the Pharisee see themselves as the self-proclaimed arbiters of who's breaking the law and who isn't. That's what they're concerned about. And here in our passage, the Pharisee see this man with a withered hand.

4:15Sometimes you, you see someone who has a stroke and they can't use one side of their body and maybe a hand's just clenched and they have no more use of it. And they use this man in order to try to catch Jesus red-handed, breaking another one of the traditions of the Pharisees and of the time. And what our passage reveals to us this morning is that Jesus and his commands are for our good. Our passage reveals the goodness of Jesus and his commands. Jesus says in verse 12, there it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. So what Jesus does in this passage is he reveals the true purpose and intention of the law, namely love and mercy.

5:06Yet the Pharisees are wielding the law like a bludgeon, like a hammer to hit people over the head. It's an instrument to keep people down and get 'em to conform. And Jesus, on the other hand, teaches that God's commands produce mercy and display love and accomplish good in the lives of his people. And so my aim for us this morning is that we would see the heart of Jesus and that we would share the heart of Jesus, that we would see the heart of Jesus here in this text and that we would share the heart of Jesus. So the question for us this morning is are we like Jesus or are we like these Pharisees?

5:53And the plan is to just walk through this passage. We'll see the Pharisees question verses nine and 10. We'll see Jesus answer in 11 to 13, and then the Pharisees response in 14. So here we come now to the question. Look with me in your Bibles, we, we love for you to have your Bible there, open a open it up and follow along so that we can look at it together. Matthew sets the stage here in verse nine. He went on from there and entered their synagogue. It seems like it's taking place this same day from the passage right before. But Luke's gospel actually tells us on another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching.

6:33So these stories are not linked necessarily by time or chronologically, but thematically. And the Sabbath, as we saw last week, if you were here with us, is a really big deal for devout Jews. It becomes, it becomes an occasion for another debate or confrontation. But notice what Matthew does. He calls it their synagogue, which I think stresses the conflict between the Jewish leaders and Jesus. Now verse 10, here comes the test. And a man was there with a withered hand and they asked him, Jesus, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him? They don't care about the answer, they just want to catch Jesus.

7:19Now, the Pharisees want to expose Jesus as a false prophet, as a false teacher. And they, they realized up to this point, we can't refute his miracles. So why don't we use his miracles against him? Now, we don't know much about this nameless man with the withered hand. Luke tells us in Luke's gospel that his right hand was withered, which conveys the severity of the deformity in a culture where everyone worked with their hands and everyone might have reached out with their right hand to give a greeting or an embrace. This is devastating, it's significant. And at the heart of the Pharisees trap is whether it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath.

8:06And if you weren't with us last week, we looked at what the Old Testament commands about the Sabbath. It was a day where God had commanded his people to rest and to remember and to worship. This was a day set aside, and you get to rest from ordinary work. And yet we, what we discovered is that the Bible doesn't go into kind of long extended stories of what constitutes work. So this tradition from the rabbis had developed this elaborate list of rules and regulations of what could and couldn't be done on the Sabbath. And last week I mentioned the oral tradition called the Mishna, which was this compilation of 39 types of work that couldn't be done.

8:50Now, specifically related to healing. This is what it would teach. Jewish teachings forbid, healing on the Sabbath unless it's life threatening. So you couldn't heal unless someone's life was in danger. So you can't reset a dislocated joint on the Sabbath because it wasn't life threatening. So you dislocated your shoulder, well wait till the next day. There was no specific Old Testament teaching that forbade healing. But the oral tradition was well developed by this time. And so for example, some writings prohibited making medicines on the Sabbath because you would have to take herbs, put 'em in and grind them.

9:30And that grinding would've been work or other writings allowed for life-saving measures like helping a woman in childbirth or preventing death. But other things you couldn't do. And so in Jesus day, all these additional rules were developed so that you wouldn't even get close to breaking the law. And that's what the Pharisees were really worried about. They, they were really excited about all these extra rules. And we can see this because in John's gospel, John chapter five, Jesus heals a man who's paralyzed. And what does he say to him? Take up your bed and walk. And what do the Pharisees get all bent outta shape about?

10:12You're carrying your bed that's doing work. You can't do that. Can't pick up your bed. Now, the Pharisees knew, well, Jesus knew Jesus well enough by now that they knew they were not gonna catch him in being a hypocrite or being inconsistent. The only way to trap him is to get him to heal on the Sabbath. Then we'll have the evidence of Jesus breaking the law and and just reflect a moment with me. How remarkable is this? Jesus had healed so many people. We saw this kind of all the way through Matthew already in chapter four, verse 24 and chapter 9 35, where it talks about Jesus healed everyone that was brought to him, the blind, the demon possessed, the paralyzed and the crippled.

11:00And he even raised people from the dead and his enemies. These pharisees fully expected that Jesus was not only willing, but he's able to heal. So they're so hardhearted. You would think if you fully expect this man who has all of this power and authority to heal, that you would pause for a moment and think, Hmm, this guy sure can heal a lot of people. A lot of people are sure flocking to him. You think he really could be sent by God. Instead they conclude, nah, it's probably a demon. Let's try to kill him. So in the minds of the Pharisees, this man's hand is not a life-threatening situation. And so if Jesus heals, he's breaking their tradition and he will be breaking the law.

11:53It's gonna be an illegal act by breaking the tradition. So the question which is really a veil trap has been laid by the Pharisees. So how does Jesus answer? Look the me of verse 11 and 12, Jesus said to them, who, which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out of how much more value is a man than a sheep? So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. So Jesus replies with a question of his own. And he appeals, I think to common sense and to common practice. It's also a bit of a veiled insult. Like what kind of people are you? If you had your only sheep fall into a pit that you wouldn't pull it out?

12:40What kind of heartless people are you? The pictures of a poor man with only one beloved sheep. And Jesus is saying it's, it's just common sense to lift it out. Now, Jewish tradition would've differed on this of what was allowed or what wasn't allowed. And we don't know exactly what was allowed in Jesus' day, but some traditions allowed throwing food down to the animal so that the animal would stay alive and so that you could rescue it the next day. Or that you could let down maybe a board or something, and then the animal could crawl out by itself. And yet, I think Jesus is well familiar with the practices of his day.

13:16And he is like, everyone knows we let the animal out, we pick it up and we carry it out. And the reason I think we know this is because on two separate occasions in Luke's gospel, Jesus assumes that people would make sure to care for their animals. So Luke chapter 13, verses 15 and 16, I'm gonna read it for us and just listen, as Jesus describes sort of our natural instinct to care for animals, then the Lord answered him, you hypocrites does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound for 18 years be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day.

14:00What's going on there? We read last week that the rabbinic tradition did not allow untying or tying knots. And yet what Jesus says is, if your animal is at risk of dying because of dehydration, we all know we would just untie the knot and let the animal go get a drink of water. Why? 'cause it's just basic compassion. It's common sense. You don't let your animal die. Luke 14, five and six. Same thing Jesus said to them, which one of you having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out and they could not reply to these things? Again, Jesus assumes everyone knows if your ox or if your son falls into the well, you pull 'em out.

14:49It's just common sense. It's instinctively what we do. We understand this in our culture, don't we? Kindness to pets? How many of you have a pet? You would probably care for that animal if it was in a life threatened situation. When we bought our dog, I was less than thrilled to own a dog. I will admit I'm probably still less than thrilled to own a dog. And my big concern is that when we got this puppy, it was gonna eat a sock and then I was gonna have to pay a lot of money to fix it. So I Googled it, right? It's an x-ray or an ultrasound is like a couple hundred dollars, $500, maybe an endoscopy is like a thousand plus.

15:35And then in an abdominal surgery on this dog would be like two to $5,000. And I told my wife, when we bought this dog, I will not pay more money and it's medical bills then we paid to actually buy the dog itself. We're not a farm family, but let's bring them out back and, you know, do what we need to do. Now we've had this dog for like four years, and in reality, if this dog eats a sock, I'm gonna pay the money. Why? Because I don't wanna win the award for the worst dad ever. And I don't wanna look at my sobbing children and say, your dad's too cheap to pay for this dog. And, and that, that's just the reality.

16:17We know basic compassion for animals. It's good. We show kindness to our animals. It's better to show kindness to people who are made in God's image. And that's what Jesus is calling out. You guys know how to show kindness to animals, Pharisees, 'cause it's worth a lot of money. Why wouldn't you do it for this man with a withered hand? As an aside, this is not what the passage is about. But uh, I think this reveals the inconsistency and the hardheartedness of our culture today. We live in a culture that calls darkness light and light darkness. And so there are people who protest against puppy mills.

17:03You know, up on Northtown, on Highway 10 or County Road 10 people protest puppy mills. You know, they think those animals aren't being treated well. And yet I think the same people who protest puppy mills would have no problem with abortion. Those who protest for the protection of animals such as PETA people for the ethical treatment of animals have little concern for the ethical treatment of unwanted embryos from IVF or surrogacy. And in the same way that Christians stand against animal cruelty, we should advocate against the killing of children within the womb. And we see that at work in our culture, people will care for animals more than they will care for children either born or unborn.

17:49Back to our passage, verse 12. Jesus says, how much more value is a man than a sheep? If rescuing a sheep is important enough to break tradition of how much more important it is, is it to heal this deformed man, um, the Sabbath? Come on, Pharisees. This is just common sense. And Jesus says it's lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Jesus is speaking there as one who has just said in the previous passage, 12 verse eight, I am the Lord of the Sabbath. I am the Lord. I'm God almighty. I know the Sabbath, I created it. And this is how you are to observe it. It's lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Here's the essence and the purpose of the Sabbath.

18:41In other words, the the rules and regulations are to serve God's people. God's law ought to produce mercy in his people. The Sabbath is a gift of rest rather than an oppressive obligation. The Sabbath is a day to practice mercy and to do good to others rather than a day to entrap and to condemn. In Mark's gospel, chapter two, verse 27, it says, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. In other words, the Sabbath is to be this blessing for mankind rather than rules that undermine our life. It's to actually cause us to flourish. And so Jesus doesn't break the law, but he actually fulfills the law and shows us the true intention of the law, which is love, kindness, and goodness.

19:35So you see the stark contrast of what's going on in our text, the Pharisees, uh, on the Sabbath, a day of worship and of rest. What are they doing? Laying traps, accusing Jesus, trying to trap him. And then even when we get to verse 14, they're plotting evil against him, conspiring that they might destroy him. That's the complete opposite of how you're supposed to use the Sabbath. And in contrast, Jesus sees a man with a withered hand in his heart of compassion and love and mercy, he heals him. Now look with me at verse 13, then he said to the man, stretch out your hand. And the man stretched it out and it was restored healthy like the other.

20:24So Matthew emphasizes the completeness of this healing look, three different phrases to get at that it was restored, it was healthy, it was like the other hand. And again, what we see is that Jesus is the one who possesses all authority and power. He reveals that he is indeed the Lord of the Sabbath. The healing of the the actual miracle itself is almost like an afterthought. It's kind of secondary to this. And yet Jesus does it in order to show that he's not bound by tradition, he's not bound by the rules, but he's actually guided by the law of love. Notice also, Jesus doesn't reach out and touch the man.

21:07And Jesus could have did that, could have reached out in other cases, he's, you know, spitting the dirt and made mud and put it on the man's eyes. And they were waiting for Jesus to do work with his hands. And Jesus speaks the word instead. I think it's almost in a sense of mocking the Pharisees, you wanna see me do work? Not going to give you that pleasure, but I'm gonna heal the man. Nonetheless, we get the conclusion or the response in verse 14, but the Pharisees went out and conspired against him how to destroy him. This is the shocking conclusion. After the miracle, the theme of rejection has been kind of simmering below the surface.

21:47And now it bubbles to the top. This hostility and hatred is going to grow and it's ultimately going to lead to the cross and to Jesus crucifixion. And maybe one of the questions for us is, well, why, why do the Pharisees hate Jesus so much here? He was healing everyone he's teaching. He's contrary to their expectations. I think one of those reasons is Jesus popularity. He's attracting all the tension. The people are listening to Jesus and not to us. And we need to guard our little kingdom where we get to make the rules. We get tell people, obey their love of their own power, blinds them to the authority of Jesus.

22:30And there's pride and arrogance at work here. This man surely couldn't be from God. And so what we're supposed to see in this is there's a irrational hostility towards Jesus that is going to continue to grow. Matthew is preparing us over the next several chapters. Eventually for the cross, Jesus has gone from a curiosity to become a nuisance and now an enemy that they seek to destroy. And yet this is building towards the cross. And the cross is the greatest event in human history where God's great love for sinners is displayed. And the amazing thing is that the very sins that the Pharisees, uh, are full of pride and arrogance and hardheartedness and blindness and hatred are exactly the sins that Jesus dies for.

23:27Romans five eight tells us, but God shows his love for us, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. And so even as the Pharisee sought to kill Jesus, Jesus is seeking their ultimate eternal good. Even in this confrontation story, he's trying to kind of take them by the lapels and shake them a little bit and say, wake up, stop being blind. I am the Lord of heaven and earth. And this is the way you actually please God, not the way that you've thought. And in the cross we see the perfect upholding of God's holiness and of his justice, of all the rules and regulations. Because sinners must die for their sin.

24:17There must be a payment. And we know without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. And we also know that the blood of bulls and goats does not take away sin. And so what was needed was a better sacrifice. And Jesus provided that sacrifice so that Jesus could also show the true law of love and he could display mercy and kindness and goodness to sinners. The point of this passage is the Pharisees are like, let's just follow the rules. That's enough. And Jesus is trying to show them, you can't follow the rules enough because your heart is deficient. This man's hand is withered. Your heart is withered.

24:59You have no compassion at all. You cannot please God. And he's trying to show them you have to come to Jesus. Let that withered heart be taken out, a heart of flesh that's been renewed and stretched out, placed in. You need a full heart transplant before you can obey God. What you need is to come to the Lord and to the savior. The Pharisees had neutered the Sabbath of its joy and rest. They had become oppressive. It was all duty and no delight. They took a day of freedom and made it a day of bondage. They took a day of rest and made it a day of anxiety. They took a day that is God-centered to being man-centered a day that's life-giving to make it life draining.

25:52But the vision that Jesus sets forth for us is not rules for rules sake. See, our, our world has several ways that they deal with this. The Pharisees are sort of the religious right, if you will. And they would say, just follow the rules. That is the way, that is the way to please God. Just follow the rules. Cross your spiritual t's, dot your, i's just, just follow the rules. That's all that matters. Doesn't matter what's going on in your heart. And Jesus is showing how deeply deficient that is. And yet the world would say, we don't need rules at all. We don't need any regulations. We don't need law.

26:30There is no need for any of that. Just be about mercy. Just be about goodness. Just, just be good people, you know, however you wanna define that, whatever's good for you. And, and both of those miss the point. And Jesus upholds goodness and justice, mercy and payment of sin in the one work of the cross. So I have two applications for us this morning.

27:02The first is that we would believe and receive Jesus as the Lord, that we would believe and receive Jesus as the Lord. The the, the amazing thing about this passage, I think is what we talked about earlier, that the Pharisees fully expected Jesus to heal this man. They knew he would, they knew he would have the compassion. He, they knew he would have the ability. They knew that he was willing. So Jesus was both willing and able. That's the only way we're gonna trap Jesus, getting him to heal this man on the Sabbath. Jesus had made healing so common. And the problem is that the Pharisees are spiritually blind.

27:49They don't see, they don't pause for a moment to say maybe, maybe just maybe if Jesus is willing and he's able and he's healed everybody else, that maybe he's actually sent from God, maybe he's actually who he says he is, their disposition is, I don't care what you say, I don't care what you do. I'm fundamentally against you. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what proof you bring. I'm fundamentally against you, Jesus. And and that's the irrationality of so many in our culture today. Whatever Jesus stands for, I'm against whatever Christians are for, I'm against. It doesn't matter what it is, I'm against it.

28:36And this morning, may we not be willfully blind like the Pharisees. Don't reject Jesus, don't miss Jesus in this story. This story is not mainly about the Sabbath, it's not mainly about the man with the withered hand. It's what's Jesus is trying to reveal for us. He is the one who perfectly fulfills the law, upholds all of the Old Testament, yet fulfills it in such a way that he can now say, I am Lord of the Sabbath. This is what the Sabbath is for, and it's for doing good.

29:13So come to Jesus with your withered hearts and withered hands and know that he loves to show mercy to sinners. A second thing, seek to do good on the Sabbath or seek to do good. And even in saying this, I, I I hesitate just a little bit because I know we can make it a matter of duty. If someone tells you, go and do good, then you're like, well, how much good? How often do I have to do this? Good. How much is enough? And again, that's missing the point, isn't it? There are several ways to distort this teaching. We can be hardhearted like the Pharisees. We want to guard our comfortable little kingdoms with no interest in helping others, or we can be on the other end of the spectrum.

30:01We can be so empathetic that we lack wisdom and discernment or truth. And and this is often weaponized in our culture against Christians today. We talked about it just a little bit earlier, but the culture is gonna say, Christians just, just show more mercy and kindness and gentleness like Jesus. Well, why can't you Christians just be nicer people? You're always so judgmental. And what they mean by that is we want you to put aside truth, get, get rid of all the hard passages in the Bible. I want you to celebrate my sin. I want you to abandon your values and your biblical worldview. I want you to stay silent about what you believe and don't rock the boat.

30:45And I want you to accept my sin and not just accept it. Celebrate my sin in the so-called name of love. And I think this passage shows us that we need to hold fast to the truth of the scriptures. Yes, we want to engage people in love and truth. Love does not lie. Love does not turn a blind eye to sin or its consequences. Love speaks the truth with gentleness and kindness and clarity. And yet the the thrust of this passage is that we would be those who display love and goodness to a world that is desperately in need. And yet we need to redefine love, not the way the world does it. This shallow politeness is the way they define love.

31:36Rather we need the deeper, harder love that Jesus calls us to is that we, we love you so much that we're not gonna lie to you. We're gonna speak the truth, but we'll walk with you and show you a savior who can handle your sin and my sin and bring you to the cross of Christ. A love that seeks others, not only temporary good, not just to placate their guilty consciences, but seeks their eternal good. So that someday they'll say, oh, that, that you were willing to go to that hard place and share these hard truths so that I would see that what I need truly is Jesus. Paul writes in Ephesians about good works.

32:20He says, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So right now, for all of us, God has ordained certain good works that we would walk in. You can probably think of some where you're like, I should probably say something, I should probably reach out there. I might need to text that person.

32:47God has prepared those good works that we just walk in them just to be faithful. What might this look like as we think about doing good works on the Sabbath or, uh, on a Sunday when we're gathered as the people of God, it, it might mean coming to church and parking in the worst spot so that others can park close, especially our elderly and people with small children. It may mean coming to church ready to greet and welcome others rather than waiting for others to greet and welcome you. It might mean initiating prayer with someone, seeing someone with a downcast face and saying, uh, I think they need someone to minister to them.

33:26Uh, let it be me maybe inviting over for lunch and dinner or offering to give someone a ride or here's a big one. It might mean moving out of your preferred seat. I know you guys have your preferred seats, right? And when a guest comes, maybe, oh, I'll, I'll sit in the middle instead of on the aisle. Like I like. How might we creatively love one another? Or perhaps ask yourself this. How did I show mercy to someone else in this past year? When did I do something good for someone else? How can I do good to a fellow brother or sister in the coming year? Am I on the lookout to show mercy and to do good to others?

34:11Is there a man with a withered hand in my life where I have a chance to go out of my way and to help them, to walk with them, to hold them in the midst of that suffering? Are we on the hunt to find someone to encourage, serve and love, yes, with truth, but are we actually going out there as the light of the world, as the salt of the world to shine forth the goodness of Jesus?

34:46Lastly, our passage not only reveals Jesus' power and his priorities, but really our passage reveals the person of Christ. Isn't it good news that this is our savior? Isn't it so good that Jesus doesn't just say That's right? Follow the rules every single one. You miss one, you're condemned, and isn't it good that Jesus doesn't say, forget the rules. Just do whatever you want, whatever makes you feel good, and, and chaos and disorder breaks out. Instead, he says, yes, the the rules are there for your good and you can't fulfill them in your self. And so come to me. I have perfectly fulfilled God's law.

35:31You can receive forgiveness of sins and I will take out your heart of stone and put in a heart of flesh so that you can now walk in my ways and you can obey, but with the right heart, it's like a child who you say, here's the rules of our house. And they say, I think they're stupid, but I guess I'll obey. That's not what you want. You want your children to see the goodness and the wisdom of those rules, to embrace and to love the standard that you set forth for them, and then to follow them, to say, there's such wisdom, mom and dad in the way that you've given me these things. I know none of you will ever hear that, but maybe when they're 30 and 40, there's such wisdom, mom and dad, and, and that's what it is with Jesus.

36:15Jesus has given us the law to point us for our great and profound need for Jesus. And Jesus reveals that the law itself is for doing good. And so come to Jesus what Jesus did for this crippled man with the withered hand he longs to do for all who will come to him. Bring your withered hands, your withered hearts, your withered minds, your withered bodies, your withered consciences, and find healing wholeness and hope in our glorious savior. Let's pray. Father, oh, that we would not reduce Christianity the Christian life to a list of rules of what we can do or not do, but rather that we would come to Jesus, a gracious and merciful savior who looks at us with compassion longs to display his mercy and forgiveness, and has planned for us much good that we would be a blessing into the lives of others, that we would walk in these good works that have been prepared for us, and that oh, he would show and lavish his goodness upon us for all eternity.

37:36We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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