WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.225 --> 00:00:06.925 Grace and peace to you from God, our Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ 2 00:00:07.325 --> 00:00:11.225 in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost one 3 00:00:11.225 --> 00:00:11.525 true 4 00:00:11.525 --> 00:00:12.025 God. 5 00:00:12.025 --> 00:00:12.625 Amen. 6 00:00:14.525 --> 00:00:21.025 The sermon of today is based on the 13, Sunday of the Pentecost. There was 7 00:00:21.025 --> 00:00:25.825 confusion, you know, about I thought we are going to read the gospel 8 00:00:25.825 --> 00:00:26.825 of the 13. 9 00:00:26.825 --> 00:00:28.825 So I prepared the sermon based on that. 10 00:00:28.825 --> 00:00:32.025 I cannot, you know, prepare a sermon in five minutes. 11 00:00:32.625 --> 00:00:40.125 So allow me to read then from the gospel of Mark. 12 00:00:41.325 --> 00:00:44.925 Chapter 7 verses 24. The well-known 13 00:00:44.925 --> 00:00:51.025 Jesus is healing The Syrophoenician women. And from there he rose 14 00:00:51.025 --> 00:00:56.025 and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon and he entered the house 15 00:00:56.025 --> 00:00:58.925 and did not want anyone to know. Yet 16 00:00:58.925 --> 00:01:03.025 he could not be hidden, but immediately a woman whose little daughter 17 00:01:03.025 --> 00:01:09.925 was possessed by an unclean Spirit heard of him and came and fall down 18 00:01:09.925 --> 00:01:10.925 at his feet. 19 00:01:11.725 --> 00:01:17.525 Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. 20 00:01:18.225 --> 00:01:21.725 And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 21 00:01:22.325 --> 00:01:25.825 And he said to her, let the children be feed 22 00:01:25.825 --> 00:01:30.525 first for it, is not right to take the children's bread and throw it 23 00:01:30.525 --> 00:01:33.425 to the dogs. But she answered him, 24 00:01:34.125 --> 00:01:34.525 Yes 25 00:01:34.525 --> 00:01:37.725 Lord yet even the dog dogs 26 00:01:37.725 --> 00:01:38.625 under the table 27 00:01:38.625 --> 00:01:40.025 eat the children 28 00:01:40.025 --> 00:01:40.725 crumbs. 29 00:01:41.625 --> 00:01:46.625 And he said to her, for this statement, you may go away. 30 00:01:47.325 --> 00:01:52.725 The demon has left your daughter, and she went home and found the 31 00:01:52.725 --> 00:01:54.925 child laying in bed 32 00:01:55.325 --> 00:01:57.625 and the demon gone. 33 00:01:58.325 --> 00:02:01.525 This is the gospel of our Lord. 34 00:02:06.825 --> 00:02:09.925 Does anybody in this church 35 00:02:09.925 --> 00:02:10.925 have a need? 36 00:02:12.225 --> 00:02:20.125 Everyone here has several important needs. I would go a step further 37 00:02:20.125 --> 00:02:27.425 and say that most people in this church today have one or more major 38 00:02:27.425 --> 00:02:33.225 needs in their life and some may not see how their needs can be met. 39 00:02:34.525 --> 00:02:39.825 In the midst of your problems, you need someone to help you need to 40 00:02:39.825 --> 00:02:45.625 turn someone or to turn to someone for solution. 41 00:02:46.825 --> 00:02:51.125 You need God to work in your life. 42 00:02:51.725 --> 00:02:58.425 Sometimes you do not need to be given a whole meal. 43 00:02:59.125 --> 00:03:00.325 Maybe just a crumb. 44 00:03:01.825 --> 00:03:03.525 And that is the situation 45 00:03:03.525 --> 00:03:06.825 we are looking at In this passage today. 46 00:03:07.825 --> 00:03:14.125 Jesus is approached by a mother who he is in a desperate situation. 47 00:03:14.925 --> 00:03:17.425 She needs something in her life. 48 00:03:18.025 --> 00:03:19.425 She comes to the Lord 49 00:03:20.125 --> 00:03:24.125 and as she does, she is not asking for a whole meal. 50 00:03:24.925 --> 00:03:28.625 She is just asking for the crumbs. 51 00:03:29.625 --> 00:03:34.125 She is just asking Jesus to move in her situation. 52 00:03:35.425 --> 00:03:39.725 In this text, a burdened mother locates 53 00:03:39.725 --> 00:03:40.325 Jesus. 54 00:03:41.025 --> 00:03:43.025 She began to petition for him 55 00:03:43.525 --> 00:03:44.725 the help she needs. 56 00:03:45.225 --> 00:03:52.725 She faces several challenges, but she persisted and she gets what she 57 00:03:52.725 --> 00:03:54.025 come for. 58 00:03:55.825 --> 00:03:58.325 In my message this morning 59 00:03:58.325 --> 00:04:04.125 I want to share a few thoughts from this passage that may help us find 60 00:04:04.125 --> 00:04:08.025 what we need for our own life today. 61 00:04:09.125 --> 00:04:10.925 I entitled this message. 62 00:04:11.525 --> 00:04:15.425 I am just asking for the crumbs. 63 00:04:16.025 --> 00:04:18.125 I am just asking for the crumbs. 64 00:04:19.825 --> 00:04:24.425 First, let's look at the mother and her request. 65 00:04:25.625 --> 00:04:27.325 This woman came to Jesus 66 00:04:27.625 --> 00:04:30.525 she was concerned about her daughter. 67 00:04:31.125 --> 00:04:38.525 The child was demon possessed and was probably acting in violence and 68 00:04:38.525 --> 00:04:39.125 anger. 69 00:04:40.425 --> 00:04:43.925 She needed help in a desperate situation. 70 00:04:44.625 --> 00:04:49.425 It may be the demon is causing bodily harm to the child. 71 00:04:49.625 --> 00:04:55.025 And this is what we see when we read about other people who were 72 00:04:55.025 --> 00:04:59.625 possessed by a demon that they were hurting themselves and just like 73 00:04:59.625 --> 00:05:02.525 we read, also, he almost died. 74 00:05:05.425 --> 00:05:06.725 Matthew 15, 75 00:05:07.525 --> 00:05:12.025 where Matthew tell us also about this healing. 76 00:05:12.625 --> 00:05:15.025 He tell us that she cried 77 00:05:16.125 --> 00:05:23.925 after Jesus, the word here means to shout after another. It is the idea 78 00:05:23.925 --> 00:05:31.125 of a loud persistent screaming loud, persistent screaming. 79 00:05:32.025 --> 00:05:35.525 This woman was shouting to Jesus for the help 80 00:05:35.525 --> 00:05:36.325 she needed. 81 00:05:37.025 --> 00:05:40.125 Why was she saw frantic? 82 00:05:41.225 --> 00:05:46.725 Because she was broken heartbroken over the condition of her child, 83 00:05:47.425 --> 00:05:52.225 and she was determined to get her child the help she needed. 84 00:05:53.625 --> 00:06:00.125 This woman came to Jesus because Faith and Hope had been awakened in 85 00:06:00.125 --> 00:06:01.025 her heart. 86 00:06:01.525 --> 00:06:07.625 She needed something that society had not been able to provide. 87 00:06:08.225 --> 00:06:13.025 She was looking for something that her dead religion had been 88 00:06:13.125 --> 00:06:14.925 powerless to give her. 89 00:06:15.725 --> 00:06:22.525 She needed a solution that she had not been able to provide by her 90 00:06:22.525 --> 00:06:22.725 own 91 00:06:23.425 --> 00:06:33.425 self efforts. She was desperate and she saw Jesus as her only hope. 92 00:06:34.925 --> 00:06:41.025 Second, this text give us also an idea about the mother and her 93 00:06:41.025 --> 00:06:41.925 resolve. 94 00:06:43.125 --> 00:06:47.325 This woman comes to Jesus for help and when she doesn't get the 95 00:06:47.325 --> 00:06:48.225 response 96 00:06:48.325 --> 00:06:51.525 she imagined she stays after Jesus 97 00:06:51.525 --> 00:06:53.825 until she gets what she wants. 98 00:06:54.625 --> 00:07:00.125 She had to overcome many obstacles in order to secure her daughter's 99 00:07:00.125 --> 00:07:00.725 healing. 100 00:07:01.425 --> 00:07:06.325 It seemed that she met resistance to her request at every turn. 101 00:07:07.425 --> 00:07:11.925 Yet she persisted until she achieved her goal. 102 00:07:13.025 --> 00:07:19.625 When I looked at this text, I was able to number five, major obstacles 103 00:07:20.425 --> 00:07:25.225 that resisted against her Faith and Hope. 104 00:07:25.625 --> 00:07:27.025 Let me just briefly 105 00:07:28.525 --> 00:07:30.325 explain these five obstacles. 106 00:07:30.325 --> 00:07:33.525 Number one, the obstacle of race. 107 00:07:34.925 --> 00:07:35.325 Verses 108 00:07:35.325 --> 00:07:36.025 26 109 00:07:36.025 --> 00:07:40.025 tell us that this woman was from Tyre of Sidon. 110 00:07:40.225 --> 00:07:40.825 Matthew 111 00:07:40.825 --> 00:07:44.025 tell us she was a Canaanite. 112 00:07:45.325 --> 00:07:50.525 This reveals two important thing about the race of this mother. 113 00:07:50.725 --> 00:07:51.225 Number one 114 00:07:51.225 --> 00:07:55.725 she was descended from according to the Jewish a cursed people. 115 00:07:56.425 --> 00:08:03.225 Okay, because the people of Israel looked at this Gentile as a, as a 116 00:08:03.225 --> 00:08:09.625 cursed and we remember in the autonomy when the Lord told Joshua to 117 00:08:09.625 --> 00:08:12.925 destroy this race, he said, destroy totally, 118 00:08:13.325 --> 00:08:14.725 the Canaanite people. 119 00:08:15.825 --> 00:08:20.725 So, she was basically a member always a doomed race. 120 00:08:21.725 --> 00:08:22.525 Second, 121 00:08:22.825 --> 00:08:27.425 she was from a region known for a vile, religious practices. 122 00:08:27.925 --> 00:08:32.625 So basically, this woman had two strikes against her from the very 123 00:08:32.625 --> 00:08:33.225 start. 124 00:08:34.025 --> 00:08:37.225 Number two, the obstacle of religion. 125 00:08:38.125 --> 00:08:42.625 She came to Jesus and called out to him said, have mercy on me. 126 00:08:42.625 --> 00:08:43.225 Lord 127 00:08:44.025 --> 00:08:46.525 the son of David. Here 128 00:08:46.525 --> 00:08:53.025 also, we see I Gentile mother crying out to a Jewish Messiah. 129 00:08:54.025 --> 00:08:59.125 She had no right to come to Jesus through the door of Judaism. 130 00:08:59.825 --> 00:09:03.525 Okay, she was a gentile according to Matthew. 131 00:09:04.225 --> 00:09:06.225 And so Jesus gave her the response 132 00:09:06.225 --> 00:09:07.125 she deserved. 133 00:09:07.825 --> 00:09:12.725 Matthew tell us he answered her not a word. 134 00:09:12.925 --> 00:09:14.925 He just totally ignored her. 135 00:09:16.125 --> 00:09:19.625 And then we have also the obstacle of racism. 136 00:09:20.725 --> 00:09:23.025 Those words are very familiar 137 00:09:23.025 --> 00:09:27.525 now in our culture, racism religion and races. 138 00:09:28.625 --> 00:09:34.425 When the disciples see, and heard this Gentile, calling out their 139 00:09:34.425 --> 00:09:35.325 Messiah. 140 00:09:36.025 --> 00:09:39.925 They reacted by telling Jesus, to send her away. 141 00:09:40.725 --> 00:09:43.425 They told him, you know, get her out of here. 142 00:09:43.425 --> 00:09:45.025 She is a gentile, unclean. 143 00:09:45.425 --> 00:09:47.125 We are not allow even to touch her. 144 00:09:48.025 --> 00:09:48.525 Okay. 145 00:09:48.925 --> 00:09:54.525 She was not not one of their people in their eyes. 146 00:09:54.525 --> 00:09:58.225 She was different and she was enough and that was enough 147 00:09:58.425 --> 00:10:02.525 to justify them, not caring about her at all. 148 00:10:03.425 --> 00:10:08.825 Okay, and then you have number for the obstacle of rejection as Jesus 149 00:10:08.825 --> 00:10:13.125 speaks to this woman, his word appear harsh in our ear. 150 00:10:13.725 --> 00:10:17.325 His word must have shaken her to the very core of her being. 151 00:10:17.825 --> 00:10:23.425 His word, probably broke, her heart. Matthew, in the gospel of Matthew 152 00:10:23.825 --> 00:10:27.825 chapter 15 verses 23 to 26 have much detail 153 00:10:28.425 --> 00:10:33.225 concerning this conversation. Jesus, simply ignored her. 154 00:10:33.925 --> 00:10:41.925 It is, as if he turn an indifferent ear to her cry for help. Then he 155 00:10:41.925 --> 00:10:46.025 tells her, that his whole purpose in coming to this world was to 156 00:10:46.025 --> 00:10:48.325 reach, the lost sheep of Israel. 157 00:10:49.325 --> 00:10:50.625 When she persisted. 158 00:10:51.025 --> 00:10:52.225 What did Jesus tell her? 159 00:10:53.125 --> 00:10:53.925 You are a dog. 160 00:10:54.725 --> 00:10:57.525 Can you imagine how harsh is this situation? 161 00:10:58.725 --> 00:11:04.825 And you are not allowed to eat before the children eat. The disciple 162 00:11:04.825 --> 00:11:10.825 basically rejected her and now it appears that Jesus also is rejecting 163 00:11:10.825 --> 00:11:16.225 her too. And number five, the obstacle of reality, that whole reality was 164 00:11:16.225 --> 00:11:17.225 against her faith. 165 00:11:17.925 --> 00:11:21.825 The reality of this with situation is harsh. 166 00:11:22.225 --> 00:11:24.525 Her daughter was possessed by a devil. 167 00:11:24.625 --> 00:11:26.725 She was a member of a doomed race. 168 00:11:27.425 --> 00:11:27.925 These 169 00:11:28.425 --> 00:11:35.025 religious man did not seem to care about her or her situation at all. And 170 00:11:35.025 --> 00:11:36.725 it must have appeared to her 171 00:11:36.725 --> 00:11:39.325 that her situation was hopeless. 172 00:11:40.925 --> 00:11:45.825 But against these obstacle, we see that 173 00:11:47.725 --> 00:11:52.025 she is given an opportunity for faith and that's what happened to us 174 00:11:52.725 --> 00:11:55.325 when challenges comes against our faith. 175 00:11:57.225 --> 00:11:59.625 We need to turn them to an opportunity 176 00:12:00.525 --> 00:12:03.425 Okay, not to give up. These obstacle 177 00:12:04.725 --> 00:12:05.925 where thrown up by 178 00:12:05.925 --> 00:12:10.025 the Lord were not placed there to discourage and defeat 179 00:12:10.025 --> 00:12:10.725 this lady. 180 00:12:11.125 --> 00:12:14.325 The obstacle were placed there to mature her faith. 181 00:12:14.925 --> 00:12:19.425 And and I just brought few idea about how her faith is progressed. 182 00:12:19.725 --> 00:12:20.425 Number one. 183 00:12:20.825 --> 00:12:24.925 She calls on Jesus based on his role as the Jewish Messiah. 184 00:12:25.225 --> 00:12:26.025 She receives 185 00:12:26.025 --> 00:12:26.825 no help there. 186 00:12:27.125 --> 00:12:30.325 She has no right to approach him on that ground. 187 00:12:30.525 --> 00:12:31.925 Then we move to the second. 188 00:12:32.125 --> 00:12:34.425 She he is Jesus tell her that his mission 189 00:12:35.125 --> 00:12:41.425 here is on this Earth to the nation of Israel when she hears this, she 190 00:12:41.425 --> 00:12:45.425 moves beyond seeing him as a Jewish messiah messiah. 191 00:12:45.925 --> 00:12:48.425 She now sees him as her only hope. 192 00:12:49.125 --> 00:12:51.825 So as we read in the gospel. 193 00:12:52.225 --> 00:12:55.925 She sees him as being worthy of worship. 194 00:12:56.325 --> 00:12:57.925 She bows down to him. 195 00:12:58.525 --> 00:13:03.725 She humbles herself at his feet, giving him the worship 196 00:13:03.725 --> 00:13:04.525 he deserved. 197 00:13:05.825 --> 00:13:08.525 And appeals to him for the help 198 00:13:08.525 --> 00:13:09.325 she needs. 199 00:13:10.625 --> 00:13:15.825 And then now we hear Jesus compared her to a dog. Jew looked at the 200 00:13:15.825 --> 00:13:17.825 non-jewish people as dogs. 201 00:13:18.725 --> 00:13:19.925 The word, they used to 202 00:13:20.225 --> 00:13:25.925 refer to the dog is amang, amang. 203 00:13:26.225 --> 00:13:31.925 It is used as a metaphor of people who are unclean, filthy and dirty. 204 00:13:32.025 --> 00:13:36.725 In fact, the Jewish use this word to refer to sodomites and 205 00:13:36.725 --> 00:13:37.825 homosexuals. 206 00:13:38.525 --> 00:13:41.125 Now Matthew is using this word 207 00:13:41.125 --> 00:13:45.325 but when we look at Mark is using different word for dogs. 208 00:13:45.325 --> 00:13:52.725 The word Mark is is using means little puppy, little puppy. 209 00:13:52.725 --> 00:13:56.225 That little puppy that you have at your house. 210 00:13:56.425 --> 00:13:57.425 I have a little dachshund. 211 00:13:57.825 --> 00:14:02.825 So when you sit at the table, they come and they want food like in my 212 00:14:02.825 --> 00:14:03.025 family. 213 00:14:03.025 --> 00:14:04.525 And she knows that I am 214 00:14:04.525 --> 00:14:05.625 the only one who feeds her. 215 00:14:05.825 --> 00:14:08.525 So, immediately she comes and she wants to 216 00:14:08.525 --> 00:14:10.625 climb, so I tell you 217 00:14:10.625 --> 00:14:11.925 do you need a chair to sit with me? 218 00:14:11.925 --> 00:14:13.325 No, she just come. 219 00:14:13.325 --> 00:14:18.125 And so this is the image that Mark is using. 220 00:14:18.125 --> 00:14:20.525 So he is giving her a hope. 221 00:14:20.925 --> 00:14:27.225 So, the image here is of a beloved puppy, sitting under the table 222 00:14:27.525 --> 00:14:29.125 while the family eats a meal. 223 00:14:29.525 --> 00:14:34.625 It's, sits they're hoping for and expecting that someone will slip her 224 00:14:34.725 --> 00:14:36.925 or him, a morsel of bread. 225 00:14:37.225 --> 00:14:38.325 The puppy can see the 226 00:14:38.525 --> 00:14:38.925 food. 227 00:14:39.125 --> 00:14:40.525 He can smell the food. 228 00:14:40.625 --> 00:14:45.625 He knows what he wants is within easy reach. 229 00:14:46.225 --> 00:14:51.525 He just needs someone to acknowledge him and her and give him a crumb 230 00:14:51.525 --> 00:14:52.325 a bite. 231 00:14:53.525 --> 00:14:57.125 When we look at this situation, we see a lot of people would have 232 00:14:57.225 --> 00:14:59.625 given up. Jesus ignored 233 00:14:59.625 --> 00:15:02.425 her, the disciple played the race card. 234 00:15:02.925 --> 00:15:06.425 Jesus, even compared her to a dog yet 235 00:15:06.925 --> 00:15:09.525 she persisted. Most folks 236 00:15:10.625 --> 00:15:15.525 would have thrown up their hand in frustration and stormed off in 237 00:15:15.525 --> 00:15:18.325 anger, saying I do not need this. 238 00:15:18.925 --> 00:15:23.625 So much for your god of love for your message of compassion 239 00:15:23.925 --> 00:15:27.825 and your noro narrow, bigoted religion. 240 00:15:28.525 --> 00:15:31.225 I don't want this anymore. 241 00:15:31.225 --> 00:15:36.125 I don't want to do, I don't want to have to do anything with a God or 242 00:15:36.125 --> 00:15:37.725 religion like this. 243 00:15:38.525 --> 00:15:41.525 And this is what happened with many 244 00:15:43.125 --> 00:15:46.325 who react when they don't get what they want. 245 00:15:46.625 --> 00:15:50.125 This is what we see in our society, especially and consumeristic 246 00:15:50.125 --> 00:15:50.925 society. 247 00:15:51.525 --> 00:15:55.225 Okay, when you push the bottom, if you don't have your coffee and in 248 00:15:55.225 --> 00:15:57.025 two minutes, then you get frustrated. 249 00:15:57.425 --> 00:16:02.325 So we use God as a machine or a fast food, so we get frustrated 250 00:16:02.325 --> 00:16:03.525 because we don't get it. 251 00:16:05.125 --> 00:16:10.925 But not this woman, she persisted in spite of everything that was 252 00:16:10.925 --> 00:16:12.625 thrown into her pathway. 253 00:16:12.825 --> 00:16:14.825 Why? She persisted 254 00:16:14.925 --> 00:16:17.125 because too much was at stake. 255 00:16:17.525 --> 00:16:20.925 Her little daughter needed to be delivered from her bondage. 256 00:16:21.225 --> 00:16:23.325 Her family needed to be saved. 257 00:16:23.525 --> 00:16:28.425 She needed help, and she was determined to get it. A crumb 258 00:16:29.425 --> 00:16:36.025 might have been all she could get but she knew that a crumb from his 259 00:16:36.025 --> 00:16:38.925 hand was more than enough. 260 00:16:39.925 --> 00:16:44.325 She wouldn't give up until she gets what she needed. 261 00:16:44.925 --> 00:16:48.525 And lastly we see the mother and her reward. 262 00:16:49.525 --> 00:16:53.725 Jesus was amazed by the depth of her faith. 263 00:16:54.025 --> 00:16:59.025 In fact, this woman is only one of two people 264 00:16:59.625 --> 00:17:03.825 Jesus referred to as having great faith. 265 00:17:04.525 --> 00:17:09.225 The other person was a Roman Centurion who came to Jesus, to have 266 00:17:09.225 --> 00:17:10.325 Jesus heal 267 00:17:10.525 --> 00:17:11.225 his servant 268 00:17:11.225 --> 00:17:15.525 sick. Amazingly both of these people were Gentiles. 269 00:17:16.825 --> 00:17:21.725 Jesus has tested her faith with hard words, and her faith had 270 00:17:21.725 --> 00:17:28.025 risen to the challenge her faith exceeded that of the people who Jesus 271 00:17:28.025 --> 00:17:29.025 came to save. 272 00:17:30.125 --> 00:17:36.225 Here, we have a Gentile dog that had more faith than the Jewish 273 00:17:36.225 --> 00:17:40.625 Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees and Priests. 274 00:17:41.825 --> 00:17:47.525 And this kinds of faith that excites the Lord. 275 00:17:48.625 --> 00:17:50.725 Jesus rewarded, her 276 00:17:50.725 --> 00:17:54.025 faith by giving her exactly what she asked for. 277 00:17:55.325 --> 00:17:56.825 He healed her daughter. 278 00:17:57.525 --> 00:18:02.825 Her faith was so strong that she didn't ask for a proof. 279 00:18:03.225 --> 00:18:07.025 We see she immediately left went home. 280 00:18:08.325 --> 00:18:15.325 And when she was home, she realized that her daughter was healed. 281 00:18:16.725 --> 00:18:19.925 What a blessing yet 282 00:18:20.325 --> 00:18:21.425 at the same time 283 00:18:21.825 --> 00:18:23.825 what a challenge. 284 00:18:24.825 --> 00:18:29.825 Challenge and blessing at the same time. So dear friends, 285 00:18:31.225 --> 00:18:36.925 a little crumb from the Lord's table might be all what you need today. 286 00:18:37.925 --> 00:18:41.025 And that's what we're going to come and take communion. 287 00:18:41.225 --> 00:18:46.125 This is a little crumb from Jesus table, but it's a full meal, a full 288 00:18:46.125 --> 00:18:47.425 package of Salvation. 289 00:18:47.925 --> 00:18:48.825 This is my body. 290 00:18:48.825 --> 00:18:51.925 This is my blood given totally for you. 291 00:18:53.825 --> 00:18:57.625 Other my need my need him to drop the whole platter down for them. 292 00:18:58.625 --> 00:19:04.525 I do not know what you need or where are you today? 293 00:19:05.525 --> 00:19:13.225 But I know a God, who can meet you, where you are, and help you get 294 00:19:14.025 --> 00:19:16.025 what you need today. 295 00:19:16.625 --> 00:19:21.325 And now May the grace of God who surpasses all understanding keeps 296 00:19:21.325 --> 00:19:24.225 your heart and mind into everlasting life. 297 00:19:24.525 --> 00:19:25.025 Amen.