0:00 Praise the Lord for what we've already heard. I think we can probably go home and have much to meditate on if we just left right now. So praise the Lord. I had a burden to share something that touched my heart from the Colorado Conference. But I want to start just by saying I was so 0:18 blessed. I had the chance to do a little camping trip with some of the young men and some of the brothers over the past weekend. And we were praying today, this morning, and one of the young brothers, I think maybe 15 or 16, he was praying. And he just said, he prayed for the 0:34 meeting. We're at a campsite. We're about to go eat breakfast. And he was praying for the meeting. One thing he said is, Lord, let us take something to heart today in the church meeting. I love that prayer. That touched my heart. Lord, let us take something to heart. Hopefully we're all here with 0:52 that desire. I want to take something to heart, to my heart, to my life. Let me take something to heart. And I heard that and I said, amen. That's what I want today, too. I hope that we take something to heart, every single one of us. And maybe you've already gotten a word. Praise the Lord, if so. 1:09 Whatever it is, whatever the Lord wants to speak, I pray that we would take it to heart. I wanted to start from Matthew 5, verse 6. We've been reading. This was the last of the passages we read this week. There's a wonderful verse here. And it reminded me of one of the most special moments 1:27 from the Colorado conference this past weekend. As many families went to Colorado, one of my habits, and I would encourage everyone to do this if you can, anytime, whether it's after a Sunday meeting or after a weekend conference, but look through your notes and ask the Lord. Maybe you take one page of 1:44 notes. I have 10 pages of notes here today, which I write big. Don't worry. But I have 10 pages of notes. Maybe you take one page of notes. It's a good habit. I want to encourage everybody. Go back to your notes and look for what's the one thing. What's the one thing that I want to take to heart? 2:02 And I wanted to share today about the one thing. If I looked over my notes, there were what, 10-ish messages in the family conference? And I looked over all my notes and I found the one thing. And I want to share the one thing. Because we can't remember 10 pages of notes. We can't do it. I like to call 2:20 our brain the small language model. We can't do it. But is there one thing you can remember? And I want to share the one thing that I remember. And I was reminded of it, actually, from our reading this week. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 6. It says, and hopefully all of us read this, 2:39 blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. And the thing that this spoke to me is, it should be a normal part of my life to be hungering and 2:57 thirsting for righteousness. And it is, you can say, it's a part of the normal Christian life to hunger and thirst for righteousness. Just like a baby that's born, hungers and thirst for what? Milk, right? And it's normal, right? It's good for a baby to hunger and thirst. And if you heard some 3:14 baby crying and you say, hey, what's milk all the time? That wouldn't be a bad thing. You would say, that's a healthy baby, right? Just like a baby is healthy if it hungers for milk, a Christian is healthy if we hunger for righteousness. And by the same token, if a baby isn't thirsty for milk, 3:33 you'd say this baby is physically sick, right? And for me, what's clear is, spiritually speaking, if I'm not hungering and thirsting for righteousness, I'm spiritually sick. Dear family, if we are not hungering and thirsting for righteousness, we are spiritually sick. 3:53 So that I think is a pretty simple statement that we can all agree with. But here's the question I want to ask. How do you know if you're hungry and thirsting? I bet any one of us, we say, oh, that's the right answer. Yes, I hunger and thirst for righteousness. 4:10 But how can you know? What does it look like to hunger and thirst for righteousness? If you were watching someone else, what would you be looking for to know? Whether they hunger and thirst, not that we're supposed to judge or anything, I just mean, practically speaking, 4:24 what does it mean to hunger and thirst for righteousness? Jesus said, we're blessed because we'll be satisfied. So what does it mean? We have learned in our church that Jesus Christ is our dictionary. And so we have to look at his life to see what does it look like when Jesus, in the life 4:45 of Jesus, what does it look like to hunger and thirst for righteousness? Can you think if you had to point to a verse in the Bible, how do you know when was Jesus hungry and thirsting for righteousness? It's a good question. I mean, certainly for us adults, I think that might be a stumper. You go, oh, what 5:03 verse told me that exactly? But for kids, I want you to think about this. I want to give you one verse today. I mean, I'm going to share lots of verses, but I want everybody at least to take down one verse because I think this is a very simple verse that shows us, that defines, if Jesus is our dictionary, 5:19 the definition of hungering and thirsting for righteousness found in the life of Jesus. I believe it's, it comes from Hebrews chapter five. You go, hang on, I thought you were going to point to one of the gospels. No, Hebrews chapter five, Jesus Christ hungering and thirsting for righteousness. 5:39 How did Jesus hunger and thirst for righteousness? Look with me at Hebrews chapter five and in verse seven, I believe this gives us the answer. Hebrews 5, seven. Kids, how did Jesus hunger and thirst for righteousness? You should say Hebrews 5, seven. Say it with me. Hebrews 5, seven. What does Hebrews 5, 6:01 seven say? In the days of his earthly life, Jesus offered up both specific petitions and urgent supplications with fervent crying and tears to the one who was able to save him from death. I want all of us to take 6:22 that in. How do we know that Jesus hungered and thirst for righteousness in the days of his flesh? He offered up specific petitions and urgent supplications with fervent crying and tears to the one who was able to save him from death. So what is hungry and thirsting for righteousness look like? Crying fervently with tears. 6:51 You can write that down as a simple definition from the life of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 5, seven. What does hungering and thirsting for righteousness look like? How should I define it? Crying out with tears. Dear brother, dear sister, 7:10 do you hunger and thirst for righteousness for that definition? This is the Lord is what the Lord has been asking me. If I told you the definition of hungering and thirsting for righteousness is regularly crying out with tears, with fervency. You said that's the definition and then you compare it to 7:32 your life. Do you hunger and thirst for righteousness? It's a very challenging question for me. It's very easy to acquit ourselves, isn't it, right? We read in Matthew 5, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for and we all go, oh, like me, like me. I'm one who's blessed because generally speaking, I want to be 7:52 righteous. But when we look at the life of Jesus and we see the definition of hungry and thirsting for righteousness is crying out with fervency, crying in tears. Oh, when's the last time I cried? Dear family, we should not find it difficult to remember the last time we cried. I believe it 8:17 should not be difficult to remember the last time we cried. If we find it's difficult to remember the last time we had to cry out fervently, we must confess we are not hungry for righteousness. This was the favorite thing I heard from the conference. I'm just repeating what Brother 8:39 Zach said. He said this, what about you? Are you crying with loud crying and tears? And then he said this, are you better than your Lord Jesus? He came from heaven. He was God and yet he cried out to be saved. Do you think you can follow your Lord without crying in tears? That's what I wrote down. I think 9:03 it's close to verbatim quote. I didn't check. Do you think you can follow the Lord without loud crying in tears? And then he said this, and this is a great promise that I took to my heart. I wrote this down. Take sin like this and I can guarantee you'll be a different person next to you. Wow. Praise 9:20 God. Take sin like this and I can guarantee you'll be a different person. I took that promise to my heart. I said, I want that. But what does that involve? I need to be crying with loud crying and tears, not crying as a rule, but crying as a reality, as a longing of my heart. I hate sin. I hate 9:41 temptation. I love righteousness. I'm so hungry. I find myself, it's, I'm crying. I fear as, as I listened to Brother Zach at the conference, I felt this, I fear I personally have not placed sufficient emphasis on crying out. I haven't given it sufficient attention. Not that again, not that I have to have a rule to 10:04 cry. That's not the point, but it's not something I value highly enough. And I wonder again for myself is the reason I have not valued highly enough is the reason that I haven't seen how highly the Lord values it. The Lord values crying. Did you know that? And hopefully everybody says, do you have a verse 10:25 for that? Anytime you hear someone say something to you, is that true? You should ask, do you have a verse for that? Please turn with me to Luke chapter 18. Jesus, I'm saying what? Jesus values crying. And if I knew that, I think I would value it too. And the reason I don't value it sufficiently is I, I've, I've lost 10:48 track of this, but look with me at Luke 18. This is a parable when he's, he's teaching about prayer. And he's speaking here about the desperate widow who's seeking justice against an oppressor. We don't have to read this whole thing, but it says in verse five, this widow, because this widow, 11:13 this is the unrighteous judge, because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice. Otherwise by continually coming, she's going to wear me out. The Lord said, listen to what the unjust judge said. Won't your father defend and avenge his elect who cry out to him day and night? Will he 11:32 delay long over them? I tell you, he will defend and avenge them quickly. Then look at verse eight, Luke 18, verse eight. However, when the son of man comes, will he find this kind of faith on earth? So what's the Lord looking for when he returns? Luke chapter 18, verse eight tells us he's looking 11:55 for those who, as it says in verse seven, cry out day and night. And the picture he gives us is this widow who's crying out for justice. And Jesus tells us here in Luke 18 that when I return, I'm going to be, how I define faith is this person is crying out day and night. 12:19 Give me justice against my oppressor. I want righteousness. What is my oppressor here? My flesh, my flesh, which Romans eight tells us is hostile towards God, which does not subject itself to the law of God. And it's not even able to do so. I hate this oppressor. I long with all creation to be 12:37 set free from corruption, to slavery, to corruption. And Jesus says, when I return, will I find that kind of faith on earth? Why do I mention that? Jesus not only embodied crying out in his life on earth, he tells us plainly here, he's going to be looking for it. Is that sufficient reason for me to cry? 13:01 Did you know that crying out is also a command? Not only is it the example of Jesus, and not only does he tell us he's looking for it when he returns, but we're commanded to cry out. Do you know that? We're commanded to cry out. Look with me at Luke chapter 11. 13:20 I'm just trying to put sufficient emphasis on this because I feel I have neglected it. And I do not want to be the same in a year. Family, that's the point. Look at me for a moment, please. Do you want to be the same next year? I can tell you before God, very reverently, I do not want to be the same next 13:40 year. That's why I'm saying this. I want to be changed. I want to be more like Jesus. And if you agree with me, if you want to be more like Jesus too, take this seriously. In the days of his flesh, he offered up loud crying with supplications and fervent crying with tears. And he was heard 14:02 because of his piety. That is the way we have to go. So I'm trying to show you like the Lord is showing me. So Luke chapter 11, verse 9. I say to you, ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you. 14:24 Seek and keep on seeking and you will find. Knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened. Because everyone who keeps on asking persistently receives. And everyone who keeps on seeking persistently finds. And everyone who keeps on knocking persistently, the door will be opened. 14:45 So it's a command. Keep seeking persistently. Maybe when we came to the cross originally, we felt a burden of sin and we found ourselves crying. We said, if anybody asks, it will be given. We say, Lord, I want my sins forgiven. But that's asked in the past. That's a past tense. We can say that we 15:07 asked there. But what is Jesus commanding us to do here? I, verse 9, I say to you, ask and keep on asking. Have you neglected the keep on asking family like I have? That's why I'm not being changed. Keep on asking. Keep on seeking. Knock and keep on knocking. Maybe, I was wondering, why is it possible 15:30 that I've grown tired of crying out? I feel the Lord asked me that very lovingly. Have you gotten tired of this being the answer? Because the Lord says, keep on seeking. Keep on knocking. Keep on asking. Keep on asking. Have you grown weary? Have you grown weary of asking? Is that why you've stopped crying 15:49 out? Maybe like you did in the beginning. And I wanted to mention a couple of reasons that I found that I have found as I sought the Lord, a couple of reasons that it's possible. I think maybe I've gotten tired of seeking because I'm not finding. And that's a very dangerous place 16:08 to be. If I am seeking and not finding, it's possible that I grow weary of seeking. And that's not how it should be. All of our seeking should result in finding. I want you to look with me at Jeremiah 29. Bro Sunil mentioned this verse a couple of weeks back as well. It's a great promise. 16:31 Jeremiah 29. Just after the beloved passage that many of us have committed to... have memorized whether we intend for it to be committed to memory or not. But Jeremiah 29 in verse 13. 16:51 It says, Jeremiah 29:13, "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." So what do we see here? Why might I be seeking and not finding if I'm not searching with all my heart? And I want to take that seriously. And I want to encourage you as my family to take it seriously. 17:13 We have to abandon all what I call half-hearted seeking. Abandon all half-hearted seeking. It's possible that we ask the Lord for help. But we don't really mean it or even believe that he will give it. And James warns us about this. If you look at James chapter one, he warns us about asking like that. 17:42 Any of the children know who James was? Anybody know who James was? You can yell it out if you know it. Jesus is brother. That's right. And look at what James says to us. It says in verse six. 18:02 When you ask, you must ask in faith without doubting. Because the one who doubts is like a billowing surge of the sea that's blown about. Verse seven. Such a person, the person who asks while doubting, ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything at all from the Lord. 18:24 So we see in Jeremiah 29 says, "You'll seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart." And we see James say, you got to be careful when you ask. If you doubt, you shouldn't expect to receive anything. Do you? So the question that's brought to my mind is, 18:40 do I expect to find the Lord when I'm seeking him? Do I expect to be given righteousness when I'm hungering for it? And I have to admit, many times I actually don't expect it. And that's my problem. James tells me clearly, 18:57 such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive anything at all. We shouldn't doubt though. Jesus gives us a great promise in Luke chapter 12. He says, you don't have to turn there. I realize I'm giving a lot of verses here. He says, 19:11 "Do not be afraid, little flock." Verse 32, "It's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Don't be afraid. That's a great promise for us all to hold on to. Luke 12:32, "Don't be afraid, little flock. It's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." So we should come to the 19:28 Lord full of faith, full of confidence. I feel the Lord has been challenging me. Don't be satisfied with not finding. All of my sinking must result in finding. All of my hunger and thirst for righteousness must result in righteousness being given. There's a verse that has blessed many of us 19:53 recently. I want to mention it. Rosanneal mentioned it a couple weeks ago. Bobby mentioned it in a blog, but it's Acts chapter 17. Because I find this is such a good clarifying verse. It's one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible. Acts 17. And why is this verse one of my favorite verses? Because it explains 20:16 everything in my life. It's a verse that can explain every circumstance of my life. Every, as we heard from Rosanneal, every boundary in my life. Every part of my life can be explained by this verse. Why? And you can ask yourself why in regards to, could be a difficult work situation, could be a family situation. Why is 20:35 this? Why has the Lord allowed this? Could be a health situation. Why has the Lord allowed this? Do you know why the answer to whatever why question? I would encourage you to actually think about, what's a quite, what is something about your life that you've been asking why about? Why is this so hard? Why hasn't 20:54 this been made available to me? Why do I keep struggling with this? Whatever it may be. I don't know. I'm just using my imagination. What's the answer to all of these whys? It says in Acts 17 in verse 26. Acts 17 26. In the middle of the passage it says, or that verse it says, that God determined 21:23 the appointed times and boundaries of our lives. Why? So that we would, you could say, cry out so that they would seek God. So why has this circumstance, whatever it may be, been appointed in your life? So that you would cry out. So we see Jesus as our forerunner. He cried out with loud crying and tears. 21:48 We see that he values it so much he's what he's looking for when he returns. We see that it's a command. Keep on seeking, keep on asking. And what do we see here? It's the reason that God has appointed the various parts of our lives the way he has, because he wants to create 22:02 a cry in us. That's what I mean when I said earlier, it's the normal Christian life. I said that, that to be hungering and thirsting should be a normal part of our Christian life. And the Lord has arranged a sovereignly, divinely with full of wisdom and love and 22:21 power. He's divinely appointed the boundaries of our habitation so that we would seek God. Verse 27. If we might grasp for him and find him though, he's not far from each one of us. So any situation, what's the why of it? It's so that we would seek God. 22:41 Why is this work thing the way it is? So that I would seek God. Why do I keep struggling with this? It's so that I would seek God. Why is this health situation the way it is? So that I would seek God. Everything of my life. You could say the Lord has divinely appointed every aspect of my life 22:59 to get me to seek him. And Jesus is our example of yielding to the boundaries of his life and seeking God in everything. I think when Hebrews 5:7 says in the days of his flesh, that means it was so regular. In his life on earth. What if somebody's describing your life on earth, if they were to say to you, 23:23 in his life on earth, you think that happens once or twice? No, it's a regular feature of life. What would your biographer say is a regular feature of your life? What the Holy Spirit tells us in Acts 17 is that a regular feature of my life and why the Lord has 23:42 appointed the boundaries he has is so that I would cry out like my Lord Jesus did. So that I would seek for God. If perhaps I might find him. It's so exciting to see because then I go, I understand the purpose of every part of my life. 23:57 I get it. I understand God's purpose. And I want to be finding in each of these moments. I had an experience. I mentioned this privately to some of you, or maybe I even texted the WhatsApp group, but I I'll just share this as a simple example. I was on the East coast traveling for work recently. 24:15 And I, the, there was like a thunderstorm. There was like tornadoes on the East coast, which is very weird. So all the flights shut down. I had a very, very important meeting that I had to be in Washington, DC. I was in Boston. All the flights were canceled. All the hotels. It was a disaster. 24:30 So I ended up, I slept on somebody's couch because all the hotels were booked. And then I booked an eight hours, like an hour long flight. I booked an eight hour train at 4:00 AM to get to a meeting in DC. And I was beat. I was afraid I wouldn't even be able to do a good job. I'm in an eight hour 24:45 train ride, which is like not my ideal, you know, all these things. And I was at a very low point. It's a, it's a temporal low, but it was a low for me and family. My honest testimony is best day of the last year of my life. Honestly, you know why? Because when I was low, I turned to the Lord, praise God. 25:11 And when I turned to the Lord, he met me there and he filled my heart with peace. I can't take zero credit for this. I would not want to repeat the day in a million, it was a terrible day, but it was the best day. And I'd be happy to repeat it. Why? Because the Lord appoints the 25:29 boundaries of my habitation that perhaps I might grope for him. And it's, and when I grope for him, there's no day I regret. Isn't that your testimony too? I know it is. If you have walked with Jesus Christ, when you grope for him, you no longer regret the thing. The way it came to me in that moment was 25:45 Lord, the valley's gone. I sought you in the valley. And when the Lord Jesus shows up, there's no valley. It's all meadow. It's all flowers. I'm still on the train. I still have no sleep. I still have no idea about how my big important thing's going to go. And you know what? Honestly, it doesn't 26:04 matter because the Lord appointed the boundaries of that habitation divinely, lovingly, sovereignly, because he said, you know what? Jeremy's in danger of not groping for me. If he gets a full night's rest, he gets a short first class flight. He gets picked up by a black car. You know what? Maybe all 26:22 that'll go well, but he's not going to grope for me. So I'm going to divinely appoint tornadoes on the eastern seaboard because I love him enough to remind him to grope for me. And family, I could have missed it. Honestly, I could have, but I didn't. Praise the Lord. I thank the Lord 26:39 that he reminded me in that moment because I was feeling so down. And it was too early. I couldn't text any of you way too early. I get no help from any brother. Michelle's asleep, right? But what do I do? I just said, Lord, and literally almost it was that fast. I said, Lord, it's like being Peter 26:56 on the sea. Lord, save me immediately. I just use that as a simple picture. When we find him, we don't mind groping. And I wonder, and I'm concerned for myself and for every one of us, if there are things in your life you go, I'm just tired of groping. For sure what I know. And I say 27:16 this lovingly, you are not finding Jesus Christ. If you were finding Jesus Christ, you would not be tired of groping. I say that lovingly. If you were finding Jesus Christ, you wouldn't be tired of groping. The problem is you're groping and not finding. And that's where we have to get. 27:40 We have to find him. He's appointed the boundary that we might find him. And we're not tired of anything where we find him. That's my experience. So I've hopefully made it clear that we should be crying out. And that when we're seeking him, we should be finding him. But I want to conclude by being very 28:04 clear about what are we crying out for? I've emphasized hunger and thirst for righteousness. Cry out. But what are we crying out for? Hopefully it's obvious, but I want to be very clear. What is the secret of the Christian life? No, and sorry, humility, humility, humility. 28:17 That's not the answer here. Sorry. I realized I was setting everybody up for failure there. Because that's, we all know the answer to that. What is, if, what is the secret to bearing fruit? What is the secret to overcoming sin? What's the secret to knowing God? What's the secret? Family, 28:33 you must be filled with the Holy Spirit. You can't be filled without being humble. So they're basically the same answer. But I want to be very clear. When I'm emphasizing crying out for righteousness, hungering and thirsting that I might be satisfied, what we are crying for is Lord Jesus, fill me with the 28:49 Holy Spirit. Fill me again today. You said it was better for me that you went away. That's what he told his disciples. If I don't go away, I won't send the Spirit. But if I go away, I go to the Father and I will send a helper, another helper like me, except better than me because he can 29:05 be in you. And even when I was walking among the disciples, they're still yapping about who's the greatest. We never see any more yapping about who's the greatest after Pentecost. You know why? Because the Holy Spirit, the fullness of the Holy Spirit, better than even being with Jesus 29:22 physically. And when I am crying out for righteousness, when I'm hungering and thirsting, what I must know is I need to be hungry and thirsting. Lord, fill me with the Holy Spirit. That should be a continuous, a constant cry in each one of our hearts. Fill me with the Holy Spirit, 29:40 Lord. Fill me afresh. Yesterday's filling wasn't enough. My filling at my baptism wasn't enough. My filling when I was converted and born again wasn't enough. Lord, I want more of you. That's the hunger and thirst for the Holy Spirit. That's what we need. Jesus, it's amazing if you 29:59 look at Luke. We don't have time to turn there. I'm out of time. But very briefly, I'll say at the end of Luke and at the beginning of Acts, the same command comes. Jesus tells the disciples they've known him. They've walked with him. They've heard every sermon. They saw him crucified and they saw 30:16 him risen. They have a command to go and tell others. And then you know how Jesus ends? He says, "Before you do anything, wait until you are clothed with power." And at the beginning of Acts, the same command is repeated. These disciples are waiting in the upper room. They see the Lord ascending. 30:36 You think there's any better preparation for going into all the world than to say, "I saw him ascend into heaven with my own eyes." That feels like a very great credible witness, right? But what do the angels say in Acts 1? "Wait for the promise of the Father. Wait." And I feel 30:58 I need to hear that every single day. That's how I felt really and truly. As I go into my little Jerusalem of my life, so to speak, I need to hear the command of the Lord. Do not go anywhere until you have been clothed with power. Don't go to breakfast with my own family. Forget leaving the house. I can't 31:19 show up to my family breakfast without being filled with the Holy Spirit. Can't do it. Or I can, but I will be ineffective. I will be a witness that does not produce fruit. But if I will wait until I am clothed with power from on high, I can bear fruit. I can be a blessing to my family, to the church, etc., etc., etc. 31:42 "I tell you the truth," Jesus said. "It is better for you if I go away." That's John 16:7. I'll close by going back to the verse that we opened with. Going back to Hebrews 5. I want to point back to Jesus. It says here, Hebrews 5:7, "In the days of his earthly life, Jesus offered up both specific 32:05 petitions and urgent supplications with fervent crying and tears to the one who is always able to save him from death." And I didn't read this part earlier, but I want to read it again. I want to read it now as I close. "And he was heard because of his reverent fear of God." And I want to 32:25 say, family, there is a deep connection between crying out and fear of God. Crying out was one of the ways that Jesus' fear of God was manifested. Ultimately, I believe this is a fear of God issue. Ultimately, that's what I wanted to end with. I think if we find we aren't crying, we have to confess, "Lord, 32:50 I don't have a fear of God. And I want to repent of any lack of reverence for God." The reason Jesus cried out with loud crying and tears is because he had reverence for God. And if I'm not crying out often regularly with loud crying tears, it's because I don't have reverence like Jesus did. I want to 33:10 repent. If I've stopped crying, I want to repent. If I've grown tired of crying, I want to repent. If I've forgotten that it's a command, I want to repent. If I've forgotten that Jesus values it, I want to repent. If I've forgotten that it's the point of every boundary in my life, I want to repent. If I've 33:25 lost sight of how precious it is that the Lord Jesus Christ himself is my forerunner in crying out in the days of his flesh, I want to repent. I want to repent. I want to be different next year. Lord willing, I go back to RLCF. I hope I'm a different person if the Lord tarries and if we're 33:45 allowed to go back. And I hope that the Lord will spark that fire in your heart too. Why would we keep meeting as the same people? What's the point? The Lord wants to transform us into the likeness of Jesus Christ, but he will only transform those who hunger and thirst. Not just generally kind of a vague, 34:10 a vibe, it's a vibes hunger. A vibes hunger won't suffice. Cry out with loud crying and tears to the one who's able to save us from death. This is the example that the Lord, this is the living way that the Lord inaugurated for us through the veil. This is the way we have to go too. 34:31 Everything I've spoken today is something that the Lord has spoken to me. The reason I've shared this today is because I need it. I have not attained, but one thing I do, I forget everything that lies behind. I've been a member of NCCF since the day it was founded, 34:49 May 2011. That's zero, means nothing. I'm forgetting everything that lies behind. I'm pressing on to what lies ahead. The Lord has a great and glorious prize for us, every single brother and sister in this church, if we will hunger and thirst for righteousness. 35:10 Amen.
