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0:18Well it's been a good morning already and let me invite you to turn in your Bibles if you have a Bible to Genesis chapter 42. If you're using one of the blue pew Bibles in the seat in front of you, you can find that on page 35 if you're new. And just joining us, we're near, we're approaching the end of the book of Genesis in our series. And last week in Genesis 41, we saw the exaltation of Joseph. He goes from the pit of prison to become the second most powerful man in Egypt. And Pharaoh's dream of seven years of plenty and of seven years of famine is now coming to pass. God is fulfilling his word.

1:14And so now this morning we begin to transition to Joseph's reunion with his brothers. Now before we open God's word, would you join me as we pray? Father in heaven, you are worthy of it all. You're worthy of our affections, you're worthy of our attention. Now, you're worthy in these next 35 to 40 minutes as we look at your word and we just wanna say, we need your help. We want you to give us eyes to see what you want us to see in your words so that we would be changed. If you don't show up, we perish. And so come now in the power of your spirit so that we would be changed so that we would walk out of here as different people because of who you are, all that you've done.

2:13And because of your powerful word. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Have you ever had an awkward family reunion? Think about that for a moment. Someone said Yes. Uh, I remember traveling with my family to a distant cousin's wedding in Vancouver, Canada. And these were distant cousins. So we had actually never met them before. They were quite a bit older than us. We were we young, maybe middle school. And even up to the wedding day, we had still not met the bride who was my cousin. And so after this ceremony back in those days, the bride and groom would stand right in the middle and they would bring in different groups of family to take pictures with them in the front of the church.

3:02And so they call up, you know, the groom's family and then the extended family and then they finally call up the bride's relatives and, and so my parents get up and they say, you know, you two get up here. And so me and my brother dutifully walk up there and she looks over at us and she's like, who are you guys? Hi, we're your cousins awkward moment. Maybe you've had similar awkward family interactions. Estranged Uncle Bob shows up drunk at the lake house or Aunt Edna brings her new boyfriend after the divorce, the siblings are fighting over who gets the lake house while mom and dad are sitting there at the dinner table.

3:46You get the idea. And Genesis 42 is our awkward family reunion. Joseph recognizes his brothers but his brothers don't recognize him. And instead of this happy reunion, he treats them harshly, throws them in jail and holds one of them as a hostage until they return with his youngest brother. And and what this story begins here in Genesis 42 doesn't get resolved until chapter 45. But this begins the drama when Joseph will finally reunite with his brothers. And the question for us this morning, does this awkward family reunion teach us anything? Is there anything to see or is this just a stop over until we get the happy ending in Genesis 45 when they're finally reunited and everyone knows that Joseph is alive?

4:44Is this story about Joseph getting a little bit of revenge or is God doing a deeper work through this chapter? Uh, I would argue that in this chapter what we're to see is that God awakens guilty consciences in order to turn them to him. God awakens guilty consciences to turn to him. So our plan this morning is to walk through this passage and I'm gonna read the whole chapter providing some commentary along the way. And then at the end I wanna draw out the main point and then give us three lessons for us, three applications for us at the end. So let me encourage you grab your Bible and I'm gonna read verses one through five.

5:28And this is Genesis chapter 42. Beginning in verse one, when Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, why do you look at one another? And he said, behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die. So 10 of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt, but Jacob did not send Benjamin Joseph's brother with his brothers for he feared that harm might happen to him. Thus the sons of Israel came to buy Among the others who came for the famine was in the land of Canaan. Why don't we just pause there.

6:11So we come to the beginning of Genesis 42 and we know at the end of Genesis 41 verse 56, that famine had spread over all the land and and it's everywhere, not just in Egypt. And Jacob scold his sons like, why do you guys sit there twiddling your thumbs, go and buy some food. There's food in Egypt and this is a serious disaster, right? We're we're sitting here with our stomachs grumbling, go buy food that we may live and not die. And when I think what the author is doing here is he's intentionally contrasting all the wisdom and insight that Joseph had in Egypt as he rules with the dullness of these brothers.

6:59Now if you'll remember, if you've been with us through this series, this is the third famine recorded in Genesis. The first one came in Genesis chapter 12 that forced Abraham to flee to Egypt. The second famine sent Isaac to guar in Genesis chapter 26. And as many of us know, this famine will ultimately cause Jacob's entire family to immigrate into Egypt, which will set the stage for God's great deliverance in the Book of Exodus. And what we see already in every world event, the disaster of seven years of famine is that God is still in control. Now notice the description of the brothers, the description of the brothers in verse three the're called Joseph's brothers rather than Jacob's sons.

7:50I think this is foreshadowing the drama that is to come. And we also notice that Jacob doesn't send Benjamin his youngest who like Joseph was born of Rachel, his favorite wife. And so Jacob still is playing favorites all the way to the end, which has been sort of the source or the cause of all of this kind of family strife and drama. Now look with me at verse six and I'm gonna read verse six all the way to 25, Genesis 42, verse six. Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was one, he was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

8:36Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. Where do you come from? He said, they said from the land of Canaan to buy food. And Joseph recognized his brothers but they did not recognize him. And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, you are spies. You have come to see the nakedness of the land. And they said to him, no, no, my Lord, your your servants have come to buy food. We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies. Verse 12. And he said to them, no, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see.

9:20And they said, we, your servants are 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. And behold the youngest is this day with our father and one is no more. But Joseph said to them, it is, as I said to you, you are spies by this. You shall be tested by the life of Pharaoh. You shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here, send one of you and let him bring your brother while you remain confined that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you or else by the life of Pharaoh. Surely you are spies. And he put them all together in custody for three days. On the third day, Joseph said to them, do this and you will live.

10:07For I fear God, if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody and let the rest of you go and carry grain for the famine of your households and bring your youngest brother to me so your words will be verified and you shall not die. And they did. So then they said to one another, in truth we are guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the distress of his soul when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us. Verse 22. And Reuben answered them, did I not tell you not to sin against the boy but you did not listen. Now there comes a reckoning for his blood.

10:53They did not know that Joseph understood them for there was an interpreter between them and he turned away from them and wept and he returned to them and spoke to them and he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. And Joseph gave orders to fill the bags with grain and to replace every man's money in his sack and to give them provisions for the journey this was done for them. So the brothers don't recognize Joseph and it's been 20 years. If you remember back in chapter 37, Joseph was 17 years old when they sold him into slavery. And last week he, we saw in Genesis 41 46 it, Joseph was 30 years old when he entered Pharaoh's court.

11:41So 13 years have transpired and then we've had seven years of plenty and then we've just begun the years of famine. So 13 plus seven equals 20. Joseph is a full grown man, he's almost into his forties. He has an Egyptian wife, an Egyptian name speaks the Egyptian language, communicates through an interpreter, wears Egyptian clothes. And if you've seen either the the movie 10 Commandments or maybe seen some of the artifacts from that time, he probably is fully shaved like the Egyptians of that time. Whereas the Canaanites or whereas the Israelites would've been very hairy with their beards. Now Joseph personally oversees the distribution of the food.

12:25He's the governor over the land, meaning he has power over all of Egypt. In verse six, Joseph brothers came, they bowed themselves before him. And then look at verse nine, Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. This is very significant. The dreams that he had back in Genesis 37 finally come true. You can imagine Joseph feeling the goosebumps come up on his arms as he sees this moment and he's like, God's been with me. God's cause this to come to pass. It is as God said, God has been with me in the ups and downs of this rollercoaster. And just as an aside, the same is true for us as well this morning.

13:19Is it not? God is with us in the ups and downs of every aspect of our lives. Now Joseph accuses his brothers of being spies. That wouldn't have been uncommon for four nations to scope out Egypt especially as it prospers. It's odd probably for 10 grown men to show up to buy food. Where's your wives or children? Are they some sort of militia or gang? The text doesn't say why Joseph accuses them and tests them. But I think it becomes increasingly clear that Joseph is trying to discern the character of his brothers. What type of men have they become over these last 20 years? Have they changed? Now notice the irony in verse 11.

14:06The brothers say, we are honest men and and what they mean by that is we're not spies. And yet that statement could not be more untrue. They've maintained the lie to their father that Joseph was killed by wild beast. They're not honest men and they disclose more and more of their family's history. The youngest brother is with our father and one is no more. Uh, they'd leave that pretty general and vague in order to not implicate themselves. Kind of like saying, you know, mistakes were made not sure by who just mistakes were made. Or it's like the kid who says, I didn't eat the chocolate. As their mouth is covered in chocolate fell on the floor by itself.

14:51They don't say they sold them into slavery, we left him for dead. Now this sets up Joseph's elaborate test tells them, bring Benjamin, I'll send one of you. And then he throws them all in jail for three days. We see that in verse 17. On the third day, Joseph changes his mind. He says he fears God and changes the terms. He says, you guys can all go except one, one of you remain. And I think it's striking that Joseph says he fears God. 'cause here is God's people as they come to this foreign pagan ruler and he says, I fear God. And what's implied there is you guys don't fear God. You didn't fear God when you sold Joseph into slavery.

15:37And perhaps that's one of the questions that God is asking of us this morning. Do we have a healthy fear of the Lord? Now the brothers are getting this sense of deja vu one brother languages languishes while the others have money and food and they get to go home to their father and and the questions kind of posed before us. Are they going to leave Simeon behind like they left Joseph for dead? Have they changed? Verse 21, we see this striking admission from the brothers that we've not seen at all from the brothers up to this point. They say, in truth, we are guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the distress of his soul when he begged us and we did not listen.

16:22That is why this distress has come upon us and we learn something from this, don't we? It doesn't go in this much detail. Back in chapter 37, Joseph begged them brothers, don't do this. I'm your own flesh and blood. Don't leave me here, don't sell me into slavery. He begged them and they hardened their heart and they sold them into slavery. At this point, Reuben speaks up, he's the only one who protested back in Genesis 37 and he says in verse 22, so now there comes a reckoning for his blood. Didn't I tell you guys Joseph's dead and now God is punishing us for our sins?

17:11Your sin will find you out. God sees and God will judge Joseph's not able to contain his emotions anymore and he turns away. And then the scene closes with Joseph taking Simeon away. We don't know why Simeon maybe 'cause he's the second oldest and Ruben stood up for him maybe because simeon's a man of violence. But Joseph orders for their bags to be filled with grain, their money placed back and then he sends them on their way. Now look with me at verse 26 to 28, they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed and as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack and he said to his brothers, my money has been put back here it is in the mouth of my sack at this.

17:59Their hearts failed them and they turned to trembling to one another saying, what is this that God has done to us? Their hearts failed them. Why? It seems like a good thing they have their money now. Now they could be credibly accused as being thieves, having stolen grain from Pharaoh, the most powerful man on the face of this earth. At that time, this was probably a hidden kindness from Joseph, but it fills them with fear in trembling. And they say this climactic word, what is this that God has done to us? The brothers recognize their guilt now for the first time, not just their guilt, but they recognize that they've offended not just Joseph, but they've offended a holy God, A God that sees all knows all, sees their very heart of hearts.

19:05God now sees us, we've offended him, we've sinned against him, and they're finally cut to the heart. This question captures sort of the question of our text. What is God doing in and through these events? We know how it ends. Why all this drama that leads up to this? Before we look at that question, before we answer that question, let me read the rest of our chapter verses 29, all the way to 38. When they came to Jacob, their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them saying the man, the Lord of the land spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land. But we said to him, we are honest men.

19:49We have never been spies. Verse 32, we are 12 brothers, sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. Then the man, the Lord of the land said to us, by this, I shall know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your household and go your way. Bring your youngest brother to me then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men and I will deliver your brother to you and you shall trade in the land as they emptied their sacks. Behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

20:32And Jacob, their father, said to them, you have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is no more. Simeon is no more. And now you would take Benjamin, all this has come against me than Reuben said to his father, kill my two sons. If I do not bring him back to you, put him in my hands and I will bring him back to you. But he said, my son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to shield. There's no happy ending here in our chapter, no tidy conclusion.

21:18The story remains unresolved. They go back home, they tell Jacob everything that's happened twice they mention the man, the Lord of the land, meaning we were powerless. He he, he was the, the ruler of Egypt. He had it out for us. We had no choice. We had to tell him our story. And they're trying to convince Jacob to send Benjamin to go so that they could prove their innocence, that they are indeed quote unquote honest men. What they don't realize is that the real test is not whether or not they are spies, but whether they have changed from 20 years prior, what kind of men are they? Are their consciences awakened to their guilt?

22:06Will they wake up to their sins from 20 years ago? And the chapter just ends almost on this note of lament here. Jacob refuses to send Benjamin with them. Reen speaks up and says, well kill my two sons. I I, I'll bring him back. It's this kind of desperate plea, this hail Mary like you can kill my two sons. I don't think he actually means that because what grandparent would kill their own grandchildren in order to bring back a son? It brings no consolation at all whatsoever. And Jacob says in verse 38, it ends on this sad note. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

22:52It's a lose lose situation. Uh, I can either send Benjamin and maybe get Simeon back or I lose them both. Later in chapter 44, Judah will quote these exact words from verse 38 to plead for Benjamin's release. So there's this glimmer of hope as we look ahead and yet here we're left hanging full of sorrow and lament. Next week, pastor Nick gets to guide us into the happy parts, chapters 43 and 44 and 45. So let me encourage you to read ahead. There's gonna be three chapters next week. But as we transition to the second half of this sermon, what are we learn? What are we to learn from this passage?

23:33Is this just a domestic dispute, some sibling rivalry? What's the main point? At one level, this is the ri rising tension where Joseph will finally reunite with his brothers and family. We've seen that at another level. If we step back, we can see God's providence at work. He's unfolding his plan of humanity. This is the way that he's going to get Israel, Jacob and all of his sons and their wives to go into Egypt and they'll be there for the next 400 years. That was foretold by God to Abraham all the way back in Genesis chapter 15, verse 13. He says, you'll be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there and they will be afflicted for 400 years and they're gonna escape famine.

24:26They're gonna be fruitful and multiply and it's gonna lead to God's great and glorious deliverance in the Exodus. But more specifically in our text, the main point is this, that God awakens guilty consciences to turn to him. God awakens these guilty consciences of the brothers in order to turn to him. The brothers desperately wanted to forget what happened. It was so long ago, how many of us remembered a sin that we committed 20 years ago? Some of you aren't even that old yet, but when they least expect it, guilt and shame come rushing back in. They're cut to the heart and they realize every time we say we're honest men, we're full of lies, we're guilty.

25:16We ignored him as he begged us for mercy. And what we are to see here is that this is God's severe mercy. Guilt, guilt over our sin, sorrow over our sin. Fear over God's punishment is his gift of severe mercy. It's a gift from God to awaken us to our sin and our need for forgiveness and reconciliation. And so often, whenever we feel guilty, we just wanna run away as far and fast as possible and and very often in the North American church, we just want people to come in happy and smiley. Let, let's play upbeat songs. Let's not let anyone feel guilty about their sin or their shame. We just wanna tell people God loves you.

26:13And we say it again and again and often. I've said the hardest part of evangelism in America is not convincing people that God loves them. They say, of course he does. I'm so lovable. It's convincing them that they're guilty under God's wrath. They've offended a holy God whose wrath burns hot against them. He cannot have anything to do with sinners. And somehow in his gracious provision, he's made a way so that we could be loved by him.

26:52The good news of the gospel is only good news if you first recognize and feel deep within your soul that you are a sinner who should tremble in fear before a holy God who cannot have anything impure before his presence. How many of us walk around feeling the weight of God's judgment, of his wrath, of his anger against us? And the reality is when we read passages like this, we always put ourselves in Joseph's shoes rather than in the brothers. Yet in this passage, we're supposed to see ourselves as these brothers hardships and trials like what these brothers are experiencing are to awaken us to our need for God so that we would respond like the psalmist in Psalm 139 where he says, search me oh God, and know my heart.

28:02Try me and know my thoughts and see if there'd be any grievous way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. But notice the last part of that verse. What does it lead us to? Introspection is not just to lead us to punishing ourselves, but it's to lead us to the way everlasting so that we would know God and see God and repent of our sins and trust him. And so that's what we're supposed to see here in this passage. The severe mercy of an awakened conscience is to lead us to repentance. It's a gift from God with a redemptive purpose in our lives. Guilt is to thrust us into the heart of Christ.

28:54I think it's important for me to note, some of us feel guilty about everything all the time. And if you're feeling guilty about things that you've already confessed, you've already repented of, you've already sought forgiveness for. What you need to do is to leave that at the foot of the cross. If you keep holding on to forgiven guilt, forgiven shame, you're trampling on the infinitely precious blood of Christ. His blood is effective in washing us clean. If we confess our sins, he's faithful. And just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us, not just halfway, not just a little bit, but to cleanse us all from unrighteousness.

29:41You don't keep rubbing out a stain when it's already been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. Now let, let me draw out three applications from this and kind of call us to response. The first is this, when guilt is awakened, we are to repent. When guilt is awakened, we are to repent. Notice the progression for these brothers. After three days in jail, they finally acknowledge their guilt. We're guilty concerning our brother. Verse 21, their hearts failed them. They tremble. So they move from guilt to fear, to sorrow over their sin. And I think this is God's gracious gift to them. This is a mercy from God.

30:24They have a godly sorrow over their sins. We've sinned, not just against Joseph, not just against our dad, but God, we've sinned against a holy God. And this is always contrasted in the Bible with worldly sorrow where people say, well, people are just gonna think less of me if they found out what I truly did. Now I'm just embarrassed. Or maybe my family and friends won't respect me. But godly sorrow is recognizing that we've offended a holy God and it's to thrust us. It's to move us so that we would pursue Christ in repentance. And so this morning, how will you respond? Perhaps there's something in your past that you're not proud of.

31:11Maybe you've stuffed it away. Maybe you've put it in your metaphorical attic. You've long forgotten about it, you've rationalized your sin. But perhaps through Genesis 42 this morning, God is poking you and prodding you. And you're recognizing and realizing that there is areas of your life where you have never confessed sin. Is there some injustice that has never been made? Right? Is there some offense that you've never acknowledged? You see the black mold creeping up the basement walls and you're like, let's just throw a coat of paint over it. Is there a sin that needs confessing? Is there forgiveness that needs seeking brothers and sisters?

31:57Don't leave today without getting right with God. Repent and receive his forgiveness and cleansing and run to Christ. Psalm 32 illustrates what happens when we harbor this unconfessed sin for when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long for day and night. Your hand was heavy upon me. My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. But contrast this with when we confess Psalm 32, 5, I acknowledged my sin to you and I did not cover my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. That is the glorious good news of the gospel, that when we repent, he forgives us and we don't have to keep beating ourselves up over our sin.

32:59But if you hide your sin, if you refuse to repent, if you run and and squirrel it away, your sin will find you out. Second application, we are to trust in the goodness of our God where the trust in the goodness of our God. We, we saw last week that God was with Joseph in the rollercoaster of his life. And this week the brothers are on their own little rollercoaster. And yet we can step back and see God's hand of providence. He's working all things together for good, for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. Israel is gonna be fruitful and multiply in Egypt and they're eventually gonna be delivered with God's strong hand.

33:43And so they can trust God because he's good. Israel likely would hear a passage like Genesis 42 and and would take heart knowing that God's at work, even in exile, even in suffering, even in trials, even in hardship, even in famine, in prison and fear and uncertainty. And that is true for us as well. This morning. Many of us are facing uncertainty. The the events of the last 24 hours, the attempted assassination, leave many in fear. I if that would've killed our former president, who knows what would've happened in our country? And it can be easy to think God doesn't have it. He's not in control. And yet more than ever, more than ever, God sits on his throne.

34:41He looks down at the nations who rage against him and he laughs. And he's got the whole world in his hands from inches of bullets to every blade of grass to what you do this afternoon. Every hair on your head, and even for the bald folks among us, God sees it all. Not a single word of the Lord fails. It took 20 years for Joseph's dream to come true. And so some of us have been waiting years and decades for certain prayers to come true, for healing, for reconciliation, for restoration, for the salvation of wayward children. And despite what seems to be this lag time from when we prayed this prayer into when we've gotten an answer, God always follows through.

35:35He is working and he is good prayers outlive the lives of those who pray. That's one of the things we should remember. It took 400 years for God's word to Abraham in Genesis 15 to finally come to pass. We, we launch prayers into heaven thinking that they somehow disappear into the ether. But every single prayer makes it to the ear and to the heart of our heavenly Father. So take heart this morning. We can trust God and we can keep praying because he's good and he's trustworthy and he is in control. Amen. We can hold onto this when we're facing all sorts of calamity or national unrest like we've seen.

36:26He knows every cell in your body, stem cells and bone cells and blood cells and skin cells and nerve cells. And yes, even those dreaded cancer cells, he sees the rulers of the earth and he laughs. One Peter five, seven says, cast all your anxieties on Jesus. Why? Because he cares for you. You can take that to the bank. Jesus cares for his children. And third, and finally, we are to receive the all sufficient merit of Jesus, receive the all sufficient merit of Jesus. Reuben speaks these deeply profound words in verse 22, doesn't he not? He says. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood. Uh, there's an accounting, there's a settling of accounts of everything we've done and, and now we've killed Joseph.

37:23We're being punished for it. And, and kind of the question that's left hanging is what do we do? How do we get forgiveness for what we've done? And herein lies the good news of the gospel. God sent Jesus to save sinners for God. So love the world that he gave his only son, that whoever should believe in him should not perish, but will have eternal life. He didn't send his son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. And the reality is Jacob refuses to send Benjamin to rescue Simeon. You see that at the end there. Jacob knows what it's like to lose a son.

38:14He's not willing to do it. He fears his harm and possible death. Eventually he comes around almost resigned of he, he's pretty much as good as a dead. Jacob refuses to send his son. And this is contrasted with the large heart of our heavenly Father who looked out on a people who offend him, who are sinners, who have done wicked and evil things, who think evil and wicked things who hurt one another, who are violent, who speak words of cursing and condemnation towards one another. And in his kindness, he said, I will send my son. I will send him to die a death so that I might rescue all so that they might have life to take their punishment, to reckon us righteous, and to give us life everlasting.

39:10He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously, gloriously and generously give us all things marvel at the wonder that Jesus, that God sent Jesus into this world so that we could be rescued. Let that truth wash over you this morning so that not only a, as the Lord pierces our heart and we repent of our sin, we again marvel that God sent his son so that we might have life and life everlasting. We gather. Sometimes we come and we worship and we sing songs and we don't see the immense cost that it took so that we could approach a holy God so that we could sing of a salvation so that we could say hallelujah.

40:12But all we have is Christ because of His all sufficient merit. So join me in our last song as we turn to him and reflect praise back to him for who he is and all that he's done. Father, would you convict those who are guilty so that they would find hope and repentance and everlasting life? Would you help us all the trust you in the midst of all the calamity and chaos at work in our world? And now would you shape our hearts to be a people that worships in spirit and in truth because of who you are and all that you've accomplished in Christ Jesus? We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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