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00:00:23Let us pray
00:00:26Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who from the cross looked in upon your mother, overwhelmed with
00:00:34grief and tears, and so truly took compassion on her sorrow, commending her to the care of your disciple John,
00:00:42as also you commended John, and in him, all of us, to her maternal care.
00:00:50Grant me to love and honour your mother with the purest and most ardent love, that I may have her
00:00:57for my mother and be worthily acknowledged by her as her son. Grant that in every necessity, and especially at
00:01:05the hour of my death, I may find her ever present and at hand to help me.
00:01:13Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who with your wounds gaping and your head crowned with thorns,
00:01:21while hanging in misery upon the cross, declared that you were without any consolation.
00:01:29Grant that in all adversity and times of temptation and desolation, I may fly with faith to you, my most
00:01:37holy Father, and putting no confidence in myself, grant that I may place all my hopes in you alone, and
00:01:44entirely resign myself and trust in you.
00:01:48Wound my innermost soul with the remembrance of your wounds, write and imprint them upon my heart, satiate me wholly
00:01:57with your blood, that all my intentions may be fixed in you alone, and that I may seek and find
00:02:03and hold you fast, possessing you for ever and ever.
00:02:09Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when your body was exhausted from the loss of blood,
00:02:16gasped for breath, and cried out on the cross that you were tormented with thirst, while you burnt with unspeakable
00:02:23desire for our salvation.
00:02:27Give me grace to thirst most ardently after your honour, and the salvation of souls, and be ready cheerfully to
00:02:35spend myself for them, according to your will.
00:02:40Grant that no love of any transitory object may possess my soul, that I may never attach myself to any
00:02:47creature, and that even when I am bound to love, I may love only in you.
00:02:53But give me grace to love you above all, and with my whole soul, and quietly to rest in you.
00:03:02Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when you were thirsty, even at the point of death,
00:03:09permitted a sponge filled with vinegar to be offered to you, and that by tasting of this, you might make
00:03:16satisfaction for our gluttony, giving us an example of poverty.
00:03:22Grant me the grace to despise any unlawful pleasure and delight, and to avoid any excess in eating and drinking,
00:03:29and may I use with moderation and thanksgiving whatever you do give me for the support of my poor body.
00:03:38So cleanse, I beg you, that it may relish nothing except that which is pleasing to you, and may find
00:03:46nothing but bitterness in whatever displeases you.
00:03:51Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, you, the greatest lover of the human race, who, when you
00:03:58were bringing out the work of our redemption to a close, wrought yourself as a holy victim upon the altar
00:04:05of the cross for the sin of all mankind.
00:04:09May this be the only end, I beg you, of all my thoughts, words and works, namely, to seek your
00:04:17honour with an upright and sincere heart, and to desire nothing save you alone.
00:04:24Grant that I may never grow weary or lukewarm in your service, but a fervent spirit, always be ever renewed
00:04:31within me, that I may daily be more and more inflamed to love and praise you.
00:04:38Praise and honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who willingly underwent death, when commending yourself to your Father,
00:04:46and bending your adorable head, you gave up the ghost, and thus, by laying down your life for your sheep,
00:04:54showed yourself to be the Good Shepherd.
00:05:00You are dead, only begotten Son of God, you are dead, my beloved one, that I may live for ever.
00:05:06What hope, what confidence is laid up for me in your death and in your blood.
00:05:11I glorify you, I give you thanks as far as in me lies.
00:05:15Give me grace to die entirely, to sin, and all evil desires, and to live to you alone.
00:05:23May I think of you alone, may my understanding exercise itself in nothing except you,
00:05:30that, clad in your grace and with holy charity, I may soon after the close of this life come to
00:05:37you, the true paradise.
00:05:39O good Jesus, by your bitter passion and death, grant to me the living pardon and grace,
00:05:46and to the faithful departed rest and everlasting light.
00:05:50Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, at whose death the sun withdrew its light,
00:05:57and the veil of the temple was divided in two.
00:06:01The earth quaked, and the rocks were cut, and the graves opened.
00:06:07May the rays of your grace never leave me, I beg you, you son of righteousness.
00:06:14You that are my God, may they always lighten even the very inmost recesses of my heart,
00:06:21that I may joyfully serve you for ever.
00:06:25Tear away from me the veil of hypocrisy.
00:06:27Make the ground of my soul quake with saving penitence.
00:06:32Rend in tomb this heart of stone of mine,
00:06:36that, being wholly renewed within, I may despise anything perishable,
00:06:41and love only the things that are of heaven.
00:06:45Amen.
00:06:49O Lord, open our lips,
00:06:52and our mouths shall sing your praise.
00:07:01O be joyful in the Lord,
00:07:06holy land,
00:07:08serve the Lord with gladness,
00:07:12and come in all his presence with your song.
00:07:18He is born as the Lord,
00:07:22he is God,
00:07:24he is he that have made us and lost by ourselves.
00:07:30We are his people,
00:07:33and the sheep of his pasture.
00:07:37O be joyful,
00:07:39O be joyful,
00:07:40to his case with my strength,
00:07:43and in to his cross with grace.
00:07:48Be thankful unto him and speak to the Lord of his name.
00:07:57O the Lord is gracious,
00:08:01his mercy is everlasting,
00:08:05and his mercy is everlasting.
00:08:10from generation to generation.
00:08:20Glory be to the Father,
00:08:24and to the Son,
00:08:27and to the Holy Ghost,
00:08:31as it was in the beginning,
00:08:35is now and ever shall be,
00:08:41world without end.
00:08:47Amen.
00:09:00O praise the Lord,
00:09:04for it is a good need to sing praise the Lord of God,
00:09:10where joyful and presently,
00:09:14he is here to be thankful,
00:09:18the Lord of the kingdom shall prosper,
00:09:23and gather together in our hearts of his name.
00:09:29He giveeth those that are broken in heart,
00:09:35and healeth the Lord of the kingdom of God,
00:09:40and healeth the Lord of the kingdom of God,
00:09:42and healeth the Lord of the kingdom of God,
00:09:46and calleth them all by their names.
00:09:52Great is our Lord,
00:09:54and great is his power,
00:09:57yea,
00:09:58and his wisdom is in peace,
00:10:02the Lord of the kingdom of God,
00:10:07and bringeth the ungodly love to the Lord.
00:10:14O sing unto the Lord,
00:10:17we thank thee,
00:10:19sing praises upon the Lord,
00:10:24and to our Lord.
00:10:26O come and the heavenly cross,
00:10:30and prepareeth them for the Lord,
00:10:35and makeeth the cross to the Lord of the mountains,
00:10:40and come for the use of men.
00:10:45He hath all the arms of the cattle,
00:10:50and he hath lay our graves that fall upon him.
00:10:56He hath the pleasure,
00:10:59and the strength of the cross,
00:11:03and the delight of me in any man's place.
00:11:09But the Lord's delight is in them at me,
00:11:14and holds the trust to his mercy.
00:11:18Praise the Lord,
00:11:22Praise the Lord,
00:11:22O Jerusalem,
00:11:25Praise the Lord,
00:11:27and the Lord who's my home.
00:11:30For he hath made fast to bow for my kings,
00:11:36and hath blessed my children within me.
00:11:41He hath done and laid the bread of my servants,
00:11:47and filled and filled me with the power of me.
00:11:54He sent and brought his commandments upon earth,
00:12:01that his word run and then he sent it.
00:12:06He is on my own, and scattereth the whole of God's life ashes.
00:12:20He trusteth all his rights like Moses, who is able to abide to us.
00:12:32He sent the house, his blood, and bells, and bells.
00:12:38He floweth with his wings, and the waters flow.
00:12:44He showeth his word unto Jacob.
00:12:50He stabs the cross, and all the verses unto his head.
00:12:55He hath not held strong in every race.
00:13:02Neither have a leader on his own.
00:13:13Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
00:13:23As it was from the beginning,
00:13:27He shall and ever shall be,
00:13:32But with God's help,
00:13:40Amen.
00:13:50The Acts of the Apostles Chapter 20
00:13:55After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go
00:14:04to Macedonia.
00:14:07After he had gone through these regions, and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to
00:14:13Greece, where he stayed for three months.
00:14:18Because the Jews had made a plot against him, as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided instead
00:14:25to return through Macedonia.
00:14:28Paul was accompanied by Sopater, son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe and Timothy,
00:14:39as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
00:14:45They had gone on ahead, and were waiting for us in Troas.
00:14:53We sailed away from Philippi after the days of the unleavened bread, and within five days we have reached the
00:14:59others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.
00:15:04On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people,
00:15:10and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.
00:15:17There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.
00:15:22A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting by the window, was sinking into a deep sleep, while Paul continued
00:15:30to speak for a long time.
00:15:33Falling fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up, dead.
00:15:40But Paul went down and threw himself on the young man, put his arms around him and said, Do not
00:15:46be distressed, for he is still alive.
00:15:50Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time
00:15:58until dawn, and then he left.
00:16:01They took the boy home alive and were greatly comforted.
00:16:06We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there,
00:16:14for he had arranged it this way.
00:16:16He himself intended to go there by land.
00:16:21When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mytilene.
00:16:26We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived at Chios.
00:16:31The next day we approached Samos, and after that we arrived at Miletus.
00:16:38For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for
00:16:45he was in a hurry to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, before Pentecost.
00:16:51From Miletus, he sent a message to Ephesus telling the elders of the church to come to him.
00:16:59When they arrived, he said to them, You yourselves know how I lived the time I was with you.
00:17:06From the first day I set foot in the province of Asia, serving the Lord with all humility and with
00:17:12tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.
00:17:18You know that I did not hold back anything from you, by proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful,
00:17:25and from teaching you publicly from house to house, testifying to both Jew and Greek about repentance toward God and
00:17:33our faith in the Lord Jesus.
00:17:36Now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, without knowing what will happen to me there, except that
00:17:44the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecution await for me.
00:17:53But I did not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I might finish my task and the
00:18:00ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God's grace.
00:18:06And now I know that none of you among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.
00:18:14And so I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all, for I did
00:18:20not hold back from announcing to you the purpose of God.
00:18:24Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers,
00:18:30to shepherd the church of God, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained through the blood of his
00:18:35own Son.
00:18:37I know that after I am gone, fierce wolves will come in among you and not spare the flock.
00:18:45Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after
00:18:54them.
00:18:55Therefore be alert, remembering night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with
00:19:02tears.
00:19:04So now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace.
00:19:10This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
00:19:17I have desired no one's silver or gold or clothing.
00:19:21You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with
00:19:28me.
00:19:29By all these things I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak,
00:19:34and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said,
00:19:38It is more blessed to give than to receive.
00:19:43When he had said these things he knelt down with them all and prayed.
00:19:49They all began to weep loudly and hugged Paul and kissed him,
00:19:54especially saddened by what he had said, that they would not see him again.
00:20:01Then they accompanied him to the ship.
00:20:05This is the word of the Lord.
00:20:09Thanks be to God.
00:20:16At the end of chapter 19 we left Paul in Ephesus in the midst of a riot,
00:20:24as Demetrius the silversmith had assembled his companions in trade and pointed out
00:20:30how the preaching of Paul was about to put them out of business.
00:20:36Because these men made little likenesses of their goddess Diana,
00:20:40and Paul was going around telling everyone that they weren't true gods.
00:20:45So these silversmiths stirred up the city and gathered together in the arena crying,
00:20:51Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
00:20:53Half the people didn't know what was going on, but there was quite an uproar until finally
00:20:58the town clerk stood up and appeased the cloud, telling Demetrius that there were courts of law,
00:21:06if he had a real case against Paul, and to bring it before the courts and let it be settled
00:21:11properly.
00:21:14The Roman government was in danger.
00:21:17They were in danger of being called by the Roman government to answer for the riot,
00:21:22of which they really had no good answer.
00:21:26And so he then dismissed the crowd of people that had gathered in the town square.
00:21:32And with this, we dive straight into chapter 20.
00:21:37As verse 1 tells us,
00:21:39After the uproar had ceased, Paul called to him the disciples,
00:21:44embraced them and departed for Macedonia.
00:21:53Macedonia, of course, was the northern district of Greece.
00:21:58After the death of Alexander, the great Greece had been divided into four divisions.
00:22:04Greece, Macedonia, Syria and Egypt.
00:22:12So then, Paul, rather than causing any further difficulties,
00:22:17he'd been in Ephesus for three years,
00:22:20and now his heart is stirring to go back to Jerusalem.
00:22:25But when he goes back to Jerusalem, he desired to take to the church in Jerusalem,
00:22:30an offering from the Gentile churches.
00:22:33For the church in Jerusalem had become very poor.
00:22:38And so Paul was seeking to show the brotherhood of Christianity,
00:22:42and really the support of,
00:22:44well, really he was trying to show the oneness of the body of Christ,
00:22:49where there is neither Jew nor Greek.
00:22:52If one member suffers, they all suffer together.
00:22:56And so in Paul's epistle to the Corinthians,
00:22:59he told them that when they gathered together on the first day of the week,
00:23:02each man was to bring an offering as he proposed in his own heart.
00:23:09They should give willingly and not by pressure,
00:23:12for God loves a cheerful giver.
00:23:15Paul wanted now to go through Macedonia and Greece
00:23:18and collect these offerings that he had asked them to take up for the poor saints of Jerusalem.
00:23:25In order, as Paul returned to Jerusalem, he could take the offerings from the Gentiles.
00:23:33Thus saying, he embraced those from Ephesus and sailed across to Macedonia,
00:23:38where, of course, would be found the churches of Philippi, Thessalonica and Berea.
00:23:47And when he had gone over these parts and given them much encouragement,
00:23:51he came to Greece.
00:23:54And he stayed there for about three months.
00:23:58Then, when he found out the Jews were lying in wait for him,
00:24:02as he was about to sail into Syria,
00:24:05he proposed to return through Macedonia.
00:24:10Now, by that time, it was the feast of the Passover,
00:24:13and Paul was undoubtedly wanting to be back in Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover.
00:24:22Thousands of Jews would come for the feast from all over.
00:24:26And there would be many ships being chartered coming from Greece
00:24:29and from Athens to go to Jerusalem.
00:24:33And they would be filled with Jews going for the feast.
00:24:38And Paul, no judge, got wind of a plot to throw him overboard from one of their ships,
00:24:43filled with the Jewish pilgrims that were coming back for their holy days.
00:24:49And so, rather than getting on a ship and being thrown overboard in the middle of the night,
00:24:55Paul took the wise course.
00:24:57And rather than going by ship back to Syria, to Jerusalem,
00:25:01he went through Macedonia and went by land.
00:25:05And evidently, the churches there realised that there were real threats being made upon Paul's life.
00:25:12And so there were several brethren from different churches that accompanied Paul,
00:25:17in order, no doubt, to give him some measure of protection.
00:25:23And so there accompanied him, Sopoiter of Berea, and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe.
00:25:34There would have been a different Gaius to the one we read of in Corinth.
00:25:39Together with Timothy.
00:25:41And that is the Timothy that we know so well.
00:25:45And of Asia, we had Tychicus and Trophimus.
00:25:52And so these fellows went ahead across to Asia and waited there in Troas for Paul.
00:26:01The plural personal pronoun we find in verse 6 shows again that Luke is a companion of Paul.
00:26:11We sailed away from Philippi after the days of the unleavened bread.
00:26:19And now so that the feast of the Passover was over, because that was the feast of the unleavened bread.
00:26:27And we came to them in Troas after five days, and we stayed there for seven.
00:26:33Now the trip from Troas to Macedonia, when Paul received his vision, saw the men of Macedonia saying, come over
00:26:41and help us.
00:26:42And immediately they took ship and went from Troas to Macedonia.
00:26:46That took them only two days.
00:26:49And so here a trip that had taken Paul two days in the past took them five this time.
00:26:55Evidently sailing against the wind and probably in adverse seas.
00:27:01And it could become very rough seas after all.
00:27:05And so they came to Troas, where they stayed for seven days.
00:27:10Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached to them,
00:27:17ready to depart on the next day and continued his speech until midnight.
00:27:24Now, I know I've been accused of being long winded, but you haven't had to put up with anything quite
00:27:32on that scale.
00:27:35It's interesting to note the records they had gathered together on the first day of the week to break bread.
00:27:43So often you will hear seventh day Adventists or others declaring that Sabbath is the day for worship.
00:27:52You will hear them declare that worshiping on a Sunday did not begin until Constantine and he was the one
00:27:59who introduced Sunday worship in the church.
00:28:02But this is clearly not so.
00:28:06It is quite clear from today's reading that the Gentile church already worshiped on a Sunday, almost from the very
00:28:14beginning.
00:28:15We find the Gentile church gathering together on a Sunday, the first day of the week to break bread.
00:28:22One of the early church fathers, Tertullian, said as much as Jesus rose on the first day of the week.
00:28:31They felt that it was the only day really in which the church should break bread.
00:28:38I don't quite agree with Tertullian, but it seems as early as the time of Tertullian, which was long before
00:28:44Constantine, that the first day of the week was already the gathering of the church.
00:28:54Now, it could be there was a dispute over which day of the week you should worship the Lord in
00:28:59the early church, because in two of Paul's epistles, he makes mentions of the fact.
00:29:05So it doesn't really matter which day you worship the Lord.
00:29:09As he was writing to the Romans, he said, one man esteems one day, another man esteems another.
00:29:15Let every man be persuaded in his own mind.
00:29:19In other words, it doesn't matter.
00:29:20Some people prefer one day above another.
00:29:24Some are different.
00:29:26Do whatever pleases you.
00:29:30When the church in Jerusalem sent to the Gentile believers concerning their relationship to the law, they mentioned nothing about
00:29:38observing the Sabbath day.
00:29:42In Exodus, when God gave the Sabbath day law, God said it was a special covenant between him and Israel.
00:29:50Even as was the right of circumcision, a special covenant between God and Israel, but not something that was required
00:29:59of a Gentile.
00:30:02So when Paul was writing to Colossae, he said, do not let any man judge you in respect of the
00:30:07eating of meat or the Sabbath days or new moons or holy days, which are all just a shadow of
00:30:14the things to come.
00:30:16The real substance is Jesus.
00:30:19And therefore, Paul says that the Sabbath day is just a shadow.
00:30:23The Sabbath day was what?
00:30:26It was a day of rest where the people were to take rest from their work.
00:30:31As a shadow of the things to come, the substance being Christ.
00:30:36What is this?
00:30:37He says.
00:30:38He is saying what Paul or what the author of the Hebrews said in chapter four, that Jesus is our
00:30:44rest.
00:30:45And so the Sabbath day was only a shadow of Jesus who was to come, who has become the rest
00:30:51for his people.
00:30:53Our rest is in Christ Jesus and in his finished work.
00:30:58And so Paul said, one man esteems one day above another.
00:31:03Another man esteems every day alike.
00:31:07Well, that's where I come from.
00:31:09I esteem every day the Lord's day.
00:31:13Every day to me is.
00:31:15I live for the Lord no matter if it is a Saturday, a Sunday, a Friday or whatever.
00:31:22I live every day to the Lord.
00:31:24And so I esteem every day alike.
00:31:29Now, my wife doesn't appreciate that because it goes for birthdays and anniversaries too.
00:31:36She says that I do that on hers, but I really want special perks on mine.
00:31:41But that's not really so.
00:31:43We went to her favorite place to eat on my birthday.
00:31:49And so they gathered on the first day of the week to break bread.
00:31:54That is to have communion.
00:31:55And communion, it seemed, was a most common practice in the early church.
00:32:01That reminder of the broken body of Jesus Christ and of his blood, which was shed for us and for
00:32:07our sins.
00:32:09It was a very common practice in the early church.
00:32:13They did it.
00:32:14It would seem at least once a week.
00:32:18They did not only though in church, but from house to house.
00:32:22It was a beautiful thing.
00:32:25It was a beautiful thing.
00:32:26Christians gathered together.
00:32:28Let us break bread together.
00:32:30You know.
00:32:32It was just a beautiful thing.
00:32:34It was just a beautiful thing.
00:32:34And that they also had on a weekly basis, what they called the love feasts, in which they took communion
00:32:41at the end.
00:32:43The love feast is what we would call today a shared meal, where the church would gather together one day
00:32:51a week and everybody would bring something to add to the common table.
00:32:56And they would all sit together and they would conclude it with the communion.
00:33:02This was especially significant for the slaves, because it was probably the only good meal they would get all week
00:33:10long.
00:33:12But in the church, there was neither bond nor free, you know.
00:33:16They were all one together in Christ.
00:33:19And so they had these weekly fellowship meals and that beautiful fellowship together.
00:33:28Now, there is, I believe, true value in eating together.
00:33:32There's just a closeness of communion.
00:33:35You notice how, when we go on tour, how much closer we seem to get to one another.
00:33:41And I think it is because we eat together.
00:33:45There is something that just creates a closeness, a bond, quite unlike anything else.
00:33:52And so the church here gathered in Troas on the first day of the week, and Paul preached until midnight.
00:34:03And there were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered together.
00:34:07And they sat in the window, a certain young man named Eutychus, having fallen into a deep sleep.
00:34:18Now, it could be, of course, that he'd been suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning.
00:34:25If he was sitting there in the window, and there were all these lights, which, of course, were candles burning.
00:34:31And you know the carbon monoxide going from the burnt candles and probably floating out through the window, sitting there
00:34:39in the window with all that smoke.
00:34:41It could be he just fell into a deep sleep, being deprived of sufficient oxygen.
00:34:51Probably now the windows, of course, were not made of glass.
00:34:55They were just holes in the wall.
00:34:56And sitting there in the window, he fell out of the window onto the street below and was picked up
00:35:03for dead.
00:35:05And so Paul went down and fell on him, embracing him, saying, do not worry, for his life is still
00:35:12in him.
00:35:14And so again, a real miracle as God restored life to Eutychus.
00:35:22We have an interesting similarity as Paul fell upon him, embracing him.
00:35:30This is comparable with the Old Testament account of the prophet Elisha and the Shunammite woman whose son died.
00:35:40Elisha probably did some form of pulmonary resuscitation, breathing on him and all and doing it three times, the boy
00:35:48revived.
00:35:50But this does not take away from the fact that this was a clear miracle of God.
00:35:57God brought life.
00:36:01And if you take someone who's been dead as long as that kid had been dead, there is no way
00:36:05any normal resuscitation is going to bring him back to life.
00:36:10However, the fact that he did it is interesting.
00:36:14Inasmuch as we have discovered today, you know, this resuscitation and cardiac arrest and stuff like that.
00:36:23I'm not suggesting that that is what Elisha did to the young man because he had been dead for a
00:36:29long time.
00:36:30And God had brought him back to life.
00:36:33And here was Paul falling upon him, embracing him much as Elisha had done to the Shunammite boy.
00:36:42And so he was therefore come up again and broke bread and eaten.
00:36:47He continued to talk until the break of day.
00:36:51And so after a slight distraction, Paul continued talking right through the nights until it became daylight once more.
00:37:02Now, I am certain that the Lord allowed at times the miracles of bringing back a person to life.
00:37:09We know that this happened in the ministry of Jesus.
00:37:11We know that it happened within the ministry of Peter when he went and brought back to life through prayer,
00:37:19Dorcas.
00:37:20But I am also certain that the miracle of restoring life was never for the person, but for the people
00:37:27around who grieved because they were gone.
00:37:30Here it says they were much comforted.
00:37:33He didn't say that Eutychus was, but the people that were there were comforted by the fact that he was
00:37:40brought back to life.
00:37:42And that miracle that God works in bringing a person back to life is never really for that person's benefit,
00:37:48but for the benefit of those who were grieving.
00:37:53I say that because if ever the Lord should see fit to take me and I am there reveling in
00:37:59his presence, and suddenly I feel my spirit returning to my body.
00:38:03And when my eyes flicker and I open them and I see you with hands laid upon me praying, O
00:38:10God, restore life to him.
00:38:12The first thing I am likely to do is throw a punch.
00:38:16We may pray that the Lord restore a person's life for our benefit, but it surely does not benefit them.
00:38:24For to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
00:38:29And so for the sake of the people, God performed this miracle on Eutychus.
00:38:37And I mean, they were truly comforted.
00:38:40Actually, in the Orient at death, they start shrieking.
00:38:43And the women have a particularly shrill shriek at the time of death.
00:38:47And so when Eutychus fell out of the window and they rushed down there and saw that he was dead.
00:38:52No joke, there was pandemonium.
00:38:56And that's why Paul went down and said,
00:38:58shh, be quiet, he's all right, he's still alive, as God restored life to Eutychus.
00:39:10And so we went before by ship.
00:39:13We read in verse 13, and we sailed to Assos.
00:39:16And from there we intended to take Paul because he had decided to go by foot.
00:39:22Now from Troas to Assos is some 20 miles by land and 30 by sea.
00:39:28You have to go around the Cape.
00:39:30And so Paul wanted to walk.
00:39:34You know, I think walking is one of the greatest ways of meditating.
00:39:38It is a tremendous way to sort of collect your thoughts.
00:39:44When you have a big and important decision to make, it's amazing how in walking you can sort of sift
00:39:51things out.
00:39:52And I think Paul just had a great number of things to work out in his mind.
00:39:57And so he said, you guys go on ahead, take the boat and I'll meet you over at Assos.
00:40:04And so he walked about 20 miles or so as they went around by ship.
00:40:11Luke evidently went by ship.
00:40:14For he writes in verse 14, he met us at Assos.
00:40:19And we took him in.
00:40:22And we came to Mytilene.
00:40:24And we sailed from there and came the next day to Chios.
00:40:28And on the following day we arrived at Samos.
00:40:31And we tarried at Trogilium.
00:40:34And the next day we came to Miletus.
00:40:40Miletus is some 30 miles from Ephesus.
00:40:43And from there they sent messengers to Ephesus to tell the church elders at Ephesus to come and meet Paul
00:40:51in Miletus.
00:40:52Because he was in a hurry and he didn't want to go all the way up to Ephesus and back.
00:40:58Because he now wanted to be in Jerusalem in time to participate for the feast of Pentecost.
00:41:06And so from Miletus they went to Ephesus and collected the elders of the church.
00:41:11And when they arrived he said to them.
00:41:15You know from the first day that I came to Asia what manner of my life I have lived amongst
00:41:20you.
00:41:21Serving the Lord with all humility of mind with tears and trials which befell me by the lying in wait
00:41:28of the Jews.
00:41:35So Paul said you know that how from the very first day when I came to Asia.
00:41:40By the way I lived among you.
00:41:42How I have served the Lord with humility of mind.
00:41:46Paul always saw himself as the servant of the Lord.
00:41:50And I think that is an important mental attitude for everyone who is in the ministry to maintain.
00:41:57I am a servant of Christ.
00:41:59Therefore everything I do I must do to the glory of God.
00:42:04I should not do anything for the glory of man.
00:42:07For whatever I do word or deed do for the glory of God.
00:42:12Do not seek to please men but please the Lord.
00:42:16Knowing of the Lord I am going to receive my rewards.
00:42:21And so Paul said you know that my attitude the whole while I have been with you is one of
00:42:28the servants of the Lord.
00:42:31Serving in all humility of mind.
00:42:35The man who has received a true vision of the Lord is a man who has humility of mind.
00:42:42The man who is proud has not had a true encounter with God.
00:42:48No man can have a true encounter with God and maintain a position of pride.
00:42:53In seeing God in really seeing God I see myself.
00:42:58And I realize how I am nothing.
00:43:03Isaiah said in the year that King Isaiah died I saw the Lord high and lifted up.
00:43:09Sitting on his throne.
00:43:11At his glory filled the temple.
00:43:14And I said woe is me.
00:43:17Isaiah chapter 6.
00:43:20Shouldn't that always be what a man says when he sees the Lord.
00:43:24Woe is me.
00:43:27Peter when he saw the Lord said depart from me Lord.
00:43:31For I am an unclean man.
00:43:34Luke 5 8.
00:43:37Daniel as he talked about his vision and all said.
00:43:41My beauty was turned to corruption.
00:43:44Chapter 10 verse 8.
00:43:47Seeing God is an important thing.
00:43:50Jesus said blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
00:43:55Matthew 5 3.
00:43:57But that poverty of spirit always comes to the man who has had a true encounter with a living and
00:44:04eternal God.
00:44:05You cannot stand in the consciousness of the true and living God and still maintain that prideful state.
00:44:13And so I've been serving you Paul said with humility of mind.
00:44:21With many tears and in real trials trip and tribulations.
00:44:25Because the Jews always lay in wait to ambush me.
00:44:31And how I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you.
00:44:38Paul gave himself for the people because he was serving the Lord.
00:44:43You see as a minister of Christ.
00:44:45He requires that I be the servant of the body.
00:44:50Jesus said that if any of you would become chief.
00:44:53Then let him become servant of all.
00:44:55He's talking about the ministry.
00:44:57Talking to his disciples.
00:45:00So my serving the Lord involves my serving you.
00:45:04And Paul talks about his service to the men and the people there in Ephesus.
00:45:12I held back nothing that could benefit you.
00:45:15But I have showed you and taught you publicly.
00:45:18And from house to house.
00:45:21Verse 20.
00:45:23So both in public.
00:45:25There.
00:45:26Where was it?
00:45:27We studied at that place in Ephesus where Paul was teaching.
00:45:31Tyrannus is school.
00:45:32The school you get.
00:45:34The school of Tyrannus in public.
00:45:37And then also from house to house.
00:45:41Now notice Paul said.
00:45:43I was showing you and teaching you.
00:45:46Sometimes the best lessons are object lessons.
00:45:50If our lives don't show it.
00:45:52The teaching becomes meaningless.
00:45:55As a minister I have not just to proclaim.
00:45:58I must live by it.
00:46:01Showing you.
00:46:02Showing you.
00:46:02Demonstrating by my life.
00:46:03The lifestyle that I lived among you.
00:46:05As well as teaching you.
00:46:09And so that faithful minister.
00:46:12Testifying both to the Jew and Greek.
00:46:15Repentance towards God.
00:46:16Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:46:19Verse 21.
00:46:21Paul was teaching repentance.
00:46:23The necessity of repentance toward God.
00:46:26And faith to Jesus.
00:46:30And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem.
00:46:33Not knowing the things that are going to befall me there.
00:46:37Except.
00:46:37The spirit is witnessing in every city.
00:46:41Saying that bondage and affliction lie in wait for me.
00:46:46But none of these things disturb me.
00:46:49Neither can't I my life dear to myself.
00:46:51That I might finish my course with joy.
00:46:56Verses 22 to 24.
00:47:01This parallels the second epistle to Timothy chapter 4.
00:47:07My chief desire is to finish my course with joy.
00:47:11It doesn't bother me that I have to be imprisoned.
00:47:14It doesn't bother me that I'm going to be bound.
00:47:16My desire is to finish the course.
00:47:20And so Paul's great drive to finish the course that God had set before him.
00:47:26He wrote to Timothy and said.
00:47:28I have fought a good fight.
00:47:30I have finished the course.
00:47:32That was his last epistle.
00:47:34Before being beheaded by Nero.
00:47:37I fought a good fight.
00:47:39I finished the course.
00:47:41Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.
00:47:46Which the Lord our righteousness judge shall give.
00:47:51Not only to me but to all those who love his appearing.
00:48:01It's just a shame that Paul didn't know the power of positive thinking.
00:48:06And positive confession.
00:48:09He could have escaped an awful lot of things.
00:48:14Poor fellow.
00:48:16He was beheaded suffering for the sake of Jesus.
00:48:20Because he didn't know that it was God's will that no one should suffer.
00:48:26It's a lack of faith or commitment that anyone should suffer.
00:48:32Poor Paul.
00:48:34I trust you know that my tongue is in my cheek.
00:48:38And that I look to some of the false teaching that we see around us today.
00:48:44But I love this.
00:48:46I love commitment.
00:48:47Give me some men who are stout-hearted and will fight for the right they adore.
00:48:53Let us start with ten stout-hearted men.
00:48:55And we'll find ten thousand more.
00:48:57I love Paul.
00:48:59I love Paul.
00:49:00He was a stout-hearted man.
00:49:01I mean he was committed to a cause.
00:49:03The cause of Jesus.
00:49:06Nothing was going to cause him to detour or deter him from finishing that course with joy.
00:49:16And so he continues.
00:49:19It's probably the last time I'll see you but it does not bother me.
00:49:23I know I'm going to be thrown into jail.
00:49:26Beyond that I do not know.
00:49:28But this does not worry me.
00:49:30For I do not count my life dear to myself.
00:49:34What I really wish is to finish my course with joy.
00:49:39And the ministry which I have received from the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:49:43To testify the gospel of the grace of God.
00:49:48Verse 24.
00:49:52Testimony of the gospel of the grace of God.
00:49:57What is the gospel of the grace of God?
00:50:01God loves you.
00:50:02No matter how badly you failed.
00:50:05No matter how deeply you have sunk into sin.
00:50:08God loves you.
00:50:10But God hates sin because he loves you.
00:50:14And God knows what a destructive force sin is.
00:50:18And because God loves you so much.
00:50:20He doesn't want to see you being destroyed.
00:50:23And so he hates that which destroys you.
00:50:27God loves the sinner but hates the sin.
00:50:30Because he loves the sinner.
00:50:33He sees what sin does to him.
00:50:36The blighting damning influences of sin on a person's life.
00:50:41And so God hates the sin because he loves the sinner.
00:50:46And so God has made provision to free a person from the power of sin.
00:50:50By sending Jesus Christ his son.
00:50:53Who took our sins and died in our place.
00:50:57That believing in him we may be forgiven from whatever sins we have ever committed.
00:51:02Through faith in him we can receive power over that bondage to corruption.
00:51:08And one day when we are translated by the spirit into his presence.
00:51:12We will be freed from even the presence of sin.
00:51:16That is the gospel of the grace of God.
00:51:20Not because I deserve it.
00:51:22But not because I merit it.
00:51:24But simply because God loves me.
00:51:30It was necessary that Paul testify of the gospel of the grace of God.
00:51:35Because nature though it reveals God to man.
00:51:38Does not reveal the grace of God to man.
00:51:41There is no gospel of grace to be seen in nature.
00:51:46Nature testifies to the God of law.
00:51:48To the God of power.
00:51:49To the God of wisdom.
00:51:50To the God who loves beauty.
00:51:52To the God of order.
00:51:55But there is no testimony in nature to the gospel of grace.
00:51:59And that is why God has called men.
00:52:02To give witness of the gospel of the grace of God.
00:52:06And this testimony began with Jesus Christ.
00:52:10For the law came by Moses.
00:52:12But grace by Jesus.
00:52:14And so Paul testifying the gospel of grace.
00:52:19And now in verse 25.
00:52:21Behold I know that you all.
00:52:23Among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God.
00:52:26Shall see my face no more.
00:52:32This is what Paul felt.
00:52:34He was talking out of his heart.
00:52:39There are indications from some in the secular histories.
00:52:43Or some of the early church histories.
00:52:45That Paul did get to see those in Ephesus once more.
00:52:50The book of Acts.
00:52:52Leaves Paul sort of imprisoned in Rome.
00:52:54Awaiting his trial before Nero.
00:52:57But according to church history.
00:52:59The early church historians.
00:53:02Paul's first appearance before Nero ended in an acquittal.
00:53:06That Paul was released for a time.
00:53:08And just what happened during that period.
00:53:10We do not know for certain.
00:53:13There are stories that he went back to Ephesus for a time.
00:53:16And there are also stories that he went to Spain with the gospel.
00:53:24Secular history gives us something quite interesting.
00:53:30You remember Jesus told his disciples that.
00:53:33They are going to bring you before the judges.
00:53:35And before the magistrates.
00:53:36And before kings.
00:53:38Don't have any thoughts as to what you will say in that hour.
00:53:42The spirit will give you the words to say.
00:53:44And will give you an opportunity to witness.
00:53:49Paul took this quite literally.
00:53:52For every time he was brought before a judge.
00:53:54A magistrate or king.
00:53:56Paul took the opportunity to give witness.
00:54:00And the higher stature the guy was.
00:54:03The heavier Paul laid on the witness.
00:54:07Because Paul I think always felt.
00:54:10Man if I can convert this guy.
00:54:12Wow.
00:54:13And so when he was finally placed in front of King Agrippa.
00:54:17I mean he was really pushing.
00:54:18Pushing hard.
00:54:20Agrippa do you believe the scriptures?
00:54:22I know you believe the scriptures.
00:54:24You know and.
00:54:25Wait a minute.
00:54:26Wait a minute.
00:54:26Back off Paul.
00:54:27Wait a minute.
00:54:28You know.
00:54:28Are you trying to convert me?
00:54:30Paul said oh.
00:54:31How I wish I could.
00:54:34Because I'm sure that Paul.
00:54:36And we'll get to that in a few weeks.
00:54:38Paul's defences were fabulous.
00:54:40I mean.
00:54:41Paul really was pressing.
00:54:44Because no doubt he thought.
00:54:46If only Agrippa would just accept Jesus Christ.
00:54:50What an influence this could have.
00:54:53But just imagine when he got to Nero.
00:54:55I imagine that Paul really impressed the claims of Christ on Nero.
00:54:59Like nothing we have ever heard.
00:55:02I'm quite certain that Paul thought.
00:55:04Oh.
00:55:05If I could just win Nero to Jesus Christ.
00:55:11Now as you follow secular history.
00:55:14You'll find that Nero wasn't quite such a bad guy in the early reign of the Roman Empire.
00:55:21He did do some good things.
00:55:24But there came a point in his life.
00:55:26When he seems to have had a personality change.
00:55:30When he became a beast.
00:55:33In fact that's what they called him in those days.
00:55:35The beast.
00:55:37It was as though he'd had a total change of personality.
00:55:41Like a man who was almost demon possessed.
00:55:44And if you study the secular history.
00:55:46You'll find that this dramatic change in Nero.
00:55:49Came at just about the time that Paul witnessed to him.
00:55:54I believe what happened.
00:55:56Is that Paul did lay such a heavy witness on Nero.
00:56:00That it was a now or never situation for Nero's salvation.
00:56:05And in turning his back upon the gospel.
00:56:08I believe he became possessed by an evil spirit.
00:56:12And that is why he became such a beast.
00:56:18He released Paul after the first trial.
00:56:22But soon called Paul back from Ephesus.
00:56:24And beheaded him.
00:56:26As he turned into that beast.
00:56:28And so Paul is saying.
00:56:30I don't think I'm going to see you again.
00:56:34It seems that maybe.
00:56:36He did get to see them again.
00:56:38Just for a short while.
00:56:42And so I remember you.
00:56:45To record this day.
00:56:47That I am pure of the blood of all men.
00:56:50For I have not shunned to declare to you.
00:56:52The counsel of God.
00:56:55Verses 26 and 27.
00:56:59Paul felt it important.
00:57:01Vital indeed.
00:57:03That he be upfront with people.
00:57:05As far as the gospel were concerned.
00:57:08To declare the truth.
00:57:09The whole truth.
00:57:10The whole counsel of God to man.
00:57:12So that he would not be accountable for them.
00:57:16I am free from the blood of all men.
00:57:18Because I haven't shunned anything.
00:57:20The whole counsel of God.
00:57:24And so he goes on in verse 28.
00:57:27Take heed therefore to yourselves.
00:57:29And to the flock.
00:57:30Over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.
00:57:33That you feed the church of God.
00:57:35Which he has purchased with his own blood.
00:57:40This is the charge and the responsibility.
00:57:43That God places upon ministers.
00:57:45To feed the flock of God.
00:57:48But it is difficult to find ministers today.
00:57:52Who will truly feed the flock of God.
00:57:55We get letters by the hundreds.
00:57:57The other night.
00:57:58I was receiving scores of people.
00:58:03Would you please start a work here.
00:58:05We have been praying for years.
00:58:06That you would establish a church there.
00:58:08We want somewhere where we can be fed.
00:58:10The word of God.
00:58:12People are hungry.
00:58:13For the word of God.
00:58:15And so Paul said to the overseers.
00:58:16Of the church in Ephesus.
00:58:19Feed the flock.
00:58:21Peter in his epistle said.
00:58:23Feed the flock.
00:58:24Which is among you.
00:58:25Jesus said to Peter.
00:58:27Feed my sheep.
00:58:30I don't know why ministers do not realize.
00:58:32That this is the most important function.
00:58:35We have those who seek to entertain the flock.
00:58:39God helps us unfortunately.
00:58:42We have those who seek to fleece the flock of God.
00:58:47But how few feed the flock of God.
00:58:54And then we come to verse 29.
00:58:57For this I know that after I depart.
00:59:00Grievous wolves are going to enter in among you.
00:59:03And not spare the flock.
00:59:07Paul stalked those that would come in.
00:59:11Weird concept and ideas.
00:59:13Men who would try to draw groups after themselves.
00:59:17There's always that.
00:59:18God establishes a work.
00:59:20And then there are those who will come and try and get in.
00:59:24Even out of our own midst.
00:59:26There will come those who will try to break off a group.
00:59:29To bring them as after themselves.
00:59:33This is sad and tragic.
00:59:35Paul when he wrote to the Ephesians.
00:59:37Said that God had placed in the church.
00:59:40Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers.
00:59:44For the perfection of the saints.
00:59:46For the work of the ministry.
00:59:48That is what we are here for.
00:59:51That you might be fed the word of God.
00:59:54That you might be perfected for the work of the ministry.
00:59:58The building up of the body of Christ.
01:00:01Until we all come into the unity of the faith of the knowledge of the Son of God.
01:00:06Into that complete person.
01:00:09And to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the image of Christ.
01:00:14That you be no more as babes who are tossed to and throw with every wind of doctrine.
01:00:19And cunning of men who lie in wait to deceive.
01:00:24The greatest burden on the heart of Paul.
01:00:26The greatest grief and sorrow.
01:00:28Were those men who would come and pray upon the flock of God.
01:00:32To draw men after themselves.
01:00:35And so Paul said to the Ephesians.
01:00:38I know that after I depart.
01:00:41There are going to be grievous wolves who will enter and not spare the flock.
01:00:47And he continues in verses 30 and 31.
01:00:52Also out of your own midst men shall arise.
01:00:55Who will speak perverse things.
01:00:58Who try to draw disciples after them.
01:01:01So watch and remember.
01:01:03That by the space of three years I ceased not.
01:01:06To warn every one of you day and night with my tears.
01:01:13It doesn't make any difference.
01:01:16There are always those foolish little sheep that will go traipsing after any bell.
01:01:22Even though Paul warned them for three years day and night with tears.
01:01:26Get sound in the word.
01:01:29Get founded in the word.
01:01:32Yet I know.
01:01:33You know.
01:01:34They're going.
01:01:36You know.
01:01:37They're going to rip some of you off.
01:01:42And so in verse 32 he continues.
01:01:45And now brethren I commend you to God.
01:01:48And to the word of his grace.
01:01:50Which is able to build you up.
01:01:52And give you an inheritance amongst those that are set apart by God.
01:01:57I commend you to God and the word of his grace.
01:02:01That which is able to build you up.
01:02:03And bring us into the glorious inheritance.
01:02:08I have coveted no man's silver, gold or apparel.
01:02:12And yet yourselves you know.
01:02:15That these hands have ministered to my necessities.
01:02:18And to them that were there with me.
01:02:21O Lord, O God, give us more Pauls in the world.
01:02:27You've seen the calluses.
01:02:29I've worked with my own hands.
01:02:30I took care of myself and those who were with me.
01:02:34I earned my living.
01:02:35I didn't want your silver or gold.
01:02:38I wasn't here to rip you off or fleece you.
01:02:41I was here to minister to you.
01:02:43I was here to feed you.
01:02:46He told them that because those false prophets always seek to fleece the sheep.
01:02:53Always a new gimmick to take a second or third offering.
01:02:57Always the emphasis on your giving to God rather than what God has given to you.
01:03:05Watch that one who is constantly emphasizing what you ought to give to God.
01:03:12Remember the New Testament emphasizes what God has given to you.
01:03:21We have just completed a conference with the worldwide distributors of Maranatha Music.
01:03:27They have come from all over the world.
01:03:29Africa, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Europe.
01:03:33Distributors.
01:03:34We had a farewell lunch and the distributors got up and sort of expressed themselves concerning the conference.
01:03:41And they said, you know, we've been to a lot of conferences, but never like this.
01:03:46It seems all the conferences we go to always try to get something from us.
01:03:52But when we came here, you've been ministering to us.
01:03:56It's like you're giving and trying to give us rather than take from us.
01:04:05We as a church exist to give ministry, not to be ministered to.
01:04:14That is our philosophy.
01:04:16We are here to give, not to receive.
01:04:18And that is why there is never an emphasis on giving.
01:04:22The emphasis is always on what God has given to us.
01:04:28And so it is blessed not to be ministered to.
01:04:35Now, friends, listen carefully.
01:04:41If we take this philosophy, God will take care of us.
01:04:46God takes care of the church.
01:04:49He supplies for all our needs, but we never have to emphasize that side.
01:04:54God takes care of that.
01:04:57Jesus said, if you seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these things will be given.
01:05:03But the poor unfortunate pastors, who are striving to attain, find themselves trapped.
01:05:10Because if you strive to attain, then you strive to maintain what you have attained.
01:05:16And if you are in that position of constant pressure, constant striving, what new gimmick can we include in our
01:05:24letter this week, you know, to get the people to send more money, you know?
01:05:29You get into the trap.
01:05:31And there is no way out.
01:05:34If only we would learn.
01:05:36Jesus has established the principle that is more blessed to give than to receive.
01:05:42And if we give freely, even as we have received freely, God will take care of our needs.
01:05:49As he has proved, I believe he has chosen us more or less as an example of what God can
01:05:55and will do if we follow his principles.
01:06:01Surely, this is a different philosophy.
01:06:04We are to minister to rather than be ministered to.
01:06:09We are here to give rather than to receive.
01:06:13And so God takes care of the needs, more than takes care of the needs.
01:06:17He so blesses that we are able to sponsor throughout the world.
01:06:24And having spoken, Paul knelt and prayed with them.
01:06:31And I can picture the beach with Paul, the apostle.
01:06:36The ship is waiting.
01:06:38And there is a little boat waiting to take him off to the boat.
01:06:43And there are the elders of the church of Ephesus.
01:06:46And Paul is sitting on the beach there with them.
01:06:49And he's talking and saying, feed the flock.
01:06:53Just take care of them.
01:06:55Because the wolves are going to come.
01:06:57And I have warned you with my tears.
01:07:01And I'm sure Paul also was crying.
01:07:05As he said, watch over them for it is more blessed to give than to receive.
01:07:12And then I can see the little circle of men kneeling as they join hands in prayer.
01:07:19Not knowing what the future holds.
01:07:23Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
01:07:27As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.
01:07:31World without end.
01:07:33Amen.
01:07:39Let us pray.
01:07:41O God, who has at this time taught the hearts of your faithful people.
01:07:47By sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit.
01:07:51Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things.
01:07:57And evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort.
01:08:01Through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour.
01:08:05Who lives and reigns with you.
01:08:08In the unity of the same Spirit.
01:08:11One God.
01:08:12World without end.
01:08:14Amen.
01:08:20May the Lord bless us and keep us from all evil.
01:08:24Bringing us to everlasting life.
01:08:28Amen.
01:08:53Amen.
01:08:57Amen.
01:09:23Amen.
01:09:27Amen.
01:09:45Amen.
01:09:46Amen.
01:09:48Amen.
01:09:53Amen.