WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:04.800 Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and from our Lord and 2 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:06.600 Savior Jesus Christ. 3 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:07.300 Amen. 4 00:00:09.100 --> 00:00:14.200 It's a accident that we have this reading from Jeremiah 5 00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:15.700 in Chapel this morning. 6 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.700 I was assigned to preach on this text from Jeremiah earlier in the 7 00:00:20.700 --> 00:00:21.400 semester. 8 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:23.500 I think it was February 3rd. 9 00:00:23.900 --> 00:00:27.500 We had a snowstorm in an ice storm and they canceled chapel 10 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:30.100 and, and I said to the dean of Chapel I said, is it 11 00:00:30.100 --> 00:00:30.600 okay 12 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.700 that the next time I come up, is it okay if I preached on the same 13 00:00:33.700 --> 00:00:34.400 text? 14 00:00:34.700 --> 00:00:35.800 And he said sure. 15 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:40.200 So, it's an accident that we have this reading. 16 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.500 But it's a beautiful accident in the kingdom of God. 17 00:00:46.300 --> 00:00:51.900 Because Jeremiah is talking about his Call. 18 00:00:53.200 --> 00:01:00.800 And if there is anything that I can tell you, for sure today is that 19 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:04.599 people are talking about their Calls. 20 00:01:06.100 --> 00:01:10.200 And so what I would like to do, what I would invite you to do is to 21 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:17.400 listen to Jeremiah, because I believe he offers us a guide to our 22 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:22.900 conversations, and he gives us an experience of Grace. 23 00:01:25.100 --> 00:01:29.000 Jeremiah offers us a guide to our conversations. 24 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:29.300 Now 25 00:01:29.300 --> 00:01:32.800 I know, I know you really don't need guides. 26 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:38.700 You have had more than enough meetings and convocations and workshops 27 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:40.700 on pre vicarage and pre-call and 28 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:43.700 you've had all of the Pastoral Counsalt 29 00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:45.000 you can remember. 30 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.900 So it would be very easy not to listen to Jeremiah, as a guide, but I 31 00:01:49.900 --> 00:01:53.100 would, I would invite you to because Jeremiah knows 32 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:54.700 one thing. 33 00:01:56.300 --> 00:01:57.800 Jeremiah knows 34 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:00.300 how quickly 35 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:06.000 that external Call of your dreams 36 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:12.800 can become an internal spiritual nightmare. 37 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:19.000 It happens so quickly. 38 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.100 Look at the text. 39 00:02:23.100 --> 00:02:24.600 How does it start out? 40 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:30.500 It starts out with the physical landscape of the Call. 41 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:39.400 People places the words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of those 42 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:43.700 priests living and Anathoth the land of Benjamin. 43 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:53.300 Before he went to the reign of King Josiah people places. 44 00:02:54.200 --> 00:02:59.800 Very simple, very clear the days and the times and the Calls 45 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:00.700 of Jeremiah. 46 00:03:00.700 --> 00:03:06.800 This is the physical landscape, but suddenly suddenly it turns from a 47 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:13.700 physical landscape of a Call to a spiritual Wilderness for Jeremiah. 48 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:21.600 Jeremiah is caught in this tension. This tension between the the sky 49 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:23.600 of God's promises 50 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:29.800 and the Earth of his inabilities. 51 00:03:32.300 --> 00:03:34.800 The sky of God's promises. 52 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:36.200 Do you hear it? 53 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:43.600 The Lord God said to me, before I formed you in the womb 54 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:44.800 I knew you. 55 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:50.300 Before you were born, I consecrated you. 56 00:03:50.300 --> 00:03:54.500 I called you to be a prophet to the nation's. 57 00:03:54.900 --> 00:03:55.800 Jeremiah 58 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.900 hears the sky of God's promises. 59 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:03.400 This is the Lord the God of all creation. 60 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:09.900 He doesn't wait to see what leaders might arise among his people. 61 00:04:10.700 --> 00:04:14.600 He doesn't take whatever the world offers him and try to make them 62 00:04:14.700 --> 00:04:18.300 into pastors and prophets no. This God, 63 00:04:18.300 --> 00:04:25.500 this God forms his own. He forms them in the womb. 64 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:30.200 This is the God of all creation, who is speaking, and not only is he 65 00:04:30.200 --> 00:04:31.800 the God of all creation. 66 00:04:32.700 --> 00:04:35.200 He dwells in eternity. 67 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:42.600 Before you were born, he says, I knew you. Before the world was made 68 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.600 God knew Jeremiah. This 69 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:51.500 God of all creation, who dwells in eternity is the Lord of All 70 00:04:51.500 --> 00:04:52.300 Nations. 71 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:56.400 And he sends Jeremiah not to Jerusalem, not to Judah. 72 00:04:56.400 --> 00:05:02.300 He sends Jeremiah to all of the Nations to Ashkelon and Ashdod to 73 00:05:02.300 --> 00:05:06.100 Egypt and Edom to Tyre and Sidon. The God 74 00:05:06.200 --> 00:05:12.300 of all creation who dwells in eternity and is the ruler of all nations 75 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:15.400 takes Jeremiah from Anathoth 76 00:05:16.500 --> 00:05:19.400 and sends him to the kingdoms of the world. 77 00:05:20.200 --> 00:05:21.300 Jeremiah 78 00:05:21.900 --> 00:05:26.500 hears the sky of God's promises. 79 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:29.900 But what does he feel? 80 00:05:31.400 --> 00:05:34.500 He feels like dirt. 81 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:41.900 Because he is struggling between the sky of God's promises and the 82 00:05:41.900 --> 00:05:44.700 earth of his inability. 83 00:05:46.900 --> 00:05:47.700 Listen to what 84 00:05:47.700 --> 00:05:48.500 he says. 85 00:05:49.200 --> 00:05:51.600 Ah, Lord God. 86 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:57.200 Behold, I I do not know how to speak. 87 00:05:57.200 --> 00:05:59.700 I am only a youth. 88 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.500 Seeing the power of God 89 00:06:01.500 --> 00:06:05.100 he recognizes his weakness. Seeing the fullness of God 90 00:06:05.100 --> 00:06:11.000 he sees his emptiness and he's lost in that spiritual wilderness. 91 00:06:12.200 --> 00:06:15.200 Now, we'll get back to the text, but I just want to take a moment to 92 00:06:15.200 --> 00:06:18.800 meditate on that place of wandering. 93 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.500 In case you should ever be there. 94 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:25.100 It's a terrifying place. 95 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.800 I remember a sermon I once preached. 96 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:36.900 Where the only thing I wanted to do when I finished that sermon was 97 00:06:36.900 --> 00:06:39.000 run and hide. 98 00:06:40.700 --> 00:06:46.300 It was my first sermon, not the one I did in Hom class not the one I 99 00:06:46.300 --> 00:06:48.200 rehearsed again and again and again. 100 00:06:48.200 --> 00:06:51.800 And then I did in a congregation that what I had done and it was 101 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:52.400 wonderful. 102 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:57.200 I tasted the sky of God's promises, but then then my field education 103 00:06:57.200 --> 00:06:59.900 supervisor called me up in the middle of the week. 104 00:06:59.900 --> 00:07:01.700 He said I've got this funeral 105 00:07:01.900 --> 00:07:06.600 I need to attend its extended family and I'm going to be gone. 106 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.100 I was wondering if you could take the service. 107 00:07:10.100 --> 00:07:11.300 It's a summer service. 108 00:07:11.300 --> 00:07:14.900 There's no Sacrament and it's just one service. 109 00:07:14.900 --> 00:07:16.100 Could you take it for me? 110 00:07:16.100 --> 00:07:18.800 And I said, sure, here 111 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:19.800 am I send me. 112 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:20.200 Send me. 113 00:07:20.200 --> 00:07:22.900 I've seen the sky of God's promises. 114 00:07:22.900 --> 00:07:27.300 And so this is the first sermon I ever wrote by myself. 115 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:28.700 I asked my field 116 00:07:28.700 --> 00:07:29.300 Supervisor 117 00:07:29.300 --> 00:07:29.900 do you want to see it? 118 00:07:29.900 --> 00:07:31.000 He said, no, I'm going to be gone. 119 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:32.300 I'm sure it'll be okay. 120 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:34.300 It was not okay. 121 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:39.300 What's it was bad. 122 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.800 And you know, there's nothing worse than preaching 123 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:45.300 a sermon that you know, is bad. 124 00:07:46.200 --> 00:07:48.700 Well, actually there is something worse. 125 00:07:49.900 --> 00:07:53.500 What's worse is preaching a sermon that you know, is bad 126 00:07:54.200 --> 00:07:58.000 And while you're preaching it, you realize you had no clue how bad it 127 00:07:58.000 --> 00:07:58.800 could be. 128 00:08:00.300 --> 00:08:05.600 That's the sermon I preached and when I finished, all I wanted to do 129 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.200 was run and hide. 130 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.600 My parents had come with me to the service and they were my excuse. 131 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:12.900 I told everybody I got to go 132 00:08:12.900 --> 00:08:14.600 my parents are out in the car. 133 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:15.600 I grab my robe. 134 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:15.900 I grabbed my 135 00:08:16.100 --> 00:08:17.400 things. I went to the car 136 00:08:17.400 --> 00:08:19.200 I opened the back door through the stuff in. 137 00:08:19.200 --> 00:08:20.000 I sat in the car. 138 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.800 I shut the door and I said, well, glad that's done. 139 00:08:25.300 --> 00:08:26.800 It wasn't a comment. 140 00:08:27.700 --> 00:08:28.600 It was a question. 141 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:31.600 It was a cry for help. 142 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:38.900 Because the sky of God's promises had met the Earth of my 143 00:08:38.900 --> 00:08:39.900 inabilities. 144 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:47.500 And the question just hung there, and then my mom sighed. 145 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:50.500 Not a good thing. 146 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.200 My own mother and my own mother. 147 00:08:54.300 --> 00:08:55.100 She didn't look at me. 148 00:08:55.100 --> 00:08:56.700 She just stared atraight ahead. 149 00:08:56.900 --> 00:08:59.300 She said, well 150 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.000 let's hope they're not all like that. 151 00:09:07.500 --> 00:09:13.300 The first sermon I preached, I was lost in the wilderness and I wanted 152 00:09:13.300 --> 00:09:13.900 to hide. 153 00:09:13.900 --> 00:09:19.900 Have you ever experienced anything like that sitting in a class on 154 00:09:19.900 --> 00:09:21.300 pastoral care and the Word 155 00:09:21.300 --> 00:09:24.300 you hear the, professor talked about a pastor, who's consoling, a 156 00:09:24.300 --> 00:09:29.900 family who has a child, who has gender dysphoria and you listen to 157 00:09:29.900 --> 00:09:31.500 what that Pastor said. 158 00:09:32.900 --> 00:09:38.300 And it's so true and yet, so loving 159 00:09:38.300 --> 00:09:39.300 it's beautiful. 160 00:09:39.300 --> 00:09:44.900 And it inspires you to want to be like that. 161 00:09:46.400 --> 00:09:50.600 And then you go to lunch, you're sitting there talking and topic of 162 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:51.500 sports comes up. 163 00:09:51.500 --> 00:09:52.600 People are talking about sports. 164 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.900 Somebody mentions transgender athletes. 165 00:09:54.900 --> 00:10:00.500 You tell a joke and everybody laughs, but when you walk home, 166 00:10:01.700 --> 00:10:06.500 you cry because the sky of God's promises 167 00:10:06.500 --> 00:10:13.400 have just met the dirt of your inability. Your dirt 168 00:10:15.900 --> 00:10:17.200 and you want to run and hide. 169 00:10:18.400 --> 00:10:19.800 If that happens. 170 00:10:21.100 --> 00:10:25.800 Turn to Jeremiah because Jeremiah is a guide. 171 00:10:26.300 --> 00:10:28.100 He's a guide to a conversation. 172 00:10:28.100 --> 00:10:29.800 Not a conversation with others. 173 00:10:30.400 --> 00:10:33.700 He's a guide to a conversation with God. 174 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:38.300 Notice what Jeremiah does, he doesn't run and hide. 175 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:43.400 He doesn't stand there, stoically, and endure this emotion until it 176 00:10:43.400 --> 00:10:44.100 passes by. 177 00:10:44.100 --> 00:10:46.800 He's got more emotional intelligence than that. 178 00:10:47.800 --> 00:10:51.900 He doesn't complain to others. What Jeremiah does, is he takes 179 00:10:51.900 --> 00:10:53.600 everything that he is and 180 00:10:54.800 --> 00:10:57.300 he brings it before God. 181 00:10:58.500 --> 00:11:03.100 He says Ah Lord God behold. 182 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.500 I do not know how to speak. 183 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:10.500 I am only a youth did you hear that? Behold 184 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.100 seek, do you see the irony here? 185 00:11:14.500 --> 00:11:15.500 Prophets, right? 186 00:11:15.500 --> 00:11:21.300 Prophets are seers, they see and they say God gives them visions 187 00:11:21.300 --> 00:11:23.500 they see they say them. Jeremiah right 188 00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:26.200 after this going to have a vision of an almond branch, and he's going 189 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:29.700 to have a vision of a boiling pot pointed away from the north. 190 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:33.600 Prophets see and they say. And yet the first word 191 00:11:33.800 --> 00:11:38.400 out of the mouth of this prophet that God has made calls on God to 192 00:11:38.400 --> 00:11:39.000 see. 193 00:11:40.100 --> 00:11:43.700 Oh my God, see what you've got here. 194 00:11:44.500 --> 00:11:48.700 Look at my mess, see me. 195 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:51.800 And that's 196 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:56.700 when you have an experience of Grace. 197 00:11:58.900 --> 00:11:59.800 Because God 198 00:12:00.400 --> 00:12:01.200 sees. 199 00:12:02.900 --> 00:12:08.900 And God not only sees, but he touches and God not only sees and 200 00:12:08.900 --> 00:12:14.000 touches, but he touches the very thing that Jeremiah is afraid of. 201 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:15.900 He touches his mouth. 202 00:12:15.900 --> 00:12:19.400 And he not only sees he not only touches, he not only touches his 203 00:12:19.400 --> 00:12:19.800 mouth. 204 00:12:19.800 --> 00:12:26.900 But then he says that Word of Promise I am with you. 205 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:30.600 Do not be afraid. 206 00:12:32.800 --> 00:12:37.700 The God who comes to Jeremiah is the God, who can take that, which is 207 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:39.900 foolish and use it to shame 208 00:12:39.900 --> 00:12:43.600 the wise, take that which is weak and use it to shame the strong. 209 00:12:43.700 --> 00:12:48.300 He takes that, which is broken, and discarded and trampled on by 210 00:12:48.300 --> 00:12:53.800 people, and he uses it to bring life into his kingdom. 211 00:12:53.800 --> 00:12:59.600 Because the ministry, the ministry does not begin in your abilities. 212 00:12:59.800 --> 00:13:02.500 It doesn't begin in your age or your wisdom, your 213 00:13:02.700 --> 00:13:03.400 ability to speak. 214 00:13:03.400 --> 00:13:08.300 It begins in an experience of Grace. 215 00:13:09.900 --> 00:13:16.300 And there is no one who will ever be lost in the spiritual Wilderness 216 00:13:16.300 --> 00:13:23.500 because this God of creation who dwells in eternity and is a ruler of 217 00:13:23.500 --> 00:13:31.700 all Nations, has sent his son into that Wilderness to find you. When 218 00:13:31.700 --> 00:13:33.300 Jesus hung on that cross. 219 00:13:33.300 --> 00:13:37.800 He was suspended between the sky of God's promises and the Earth of 220 00:13:37.800 --> 00:13:39.600 our inabilities. 221 00:13:39.700 --> 00:13:44.500 He died with the dirt of our inabilities on his feet and under his 222 00:13:44.500 --> 00:13:45.400 fingernails. 223 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:48.100 And God raised him up. 224 00:13:48.100 --> 00:13:53.100 This one who created the world, God raised him up so he could begin a 225 00:13:53.100 --> 00:13:59.400 new creation and take your dirt and transform it into the fertile soil 226 00:13:59.800 --> 00:14:02.000 of God's Kingdom. 227 00:14:02.900 --> 00:14:07.200 And Jesus has seen me. 228 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:13.600 I am with you do not be afraid. 229 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:19.700 When I first started teaching, here, about 27 years ago. 230 00:14:19.700 --> 00:14:21.600 I taught a course called evangelism. 231 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.400 And in the course, we had this immersion experience. 232 00:14:27.800 --> 00:14:30.400 I would, it was a whole weekend Friday, Saturday Sunday. 233 00:14:30.400 --> 00:14:33.000 We take students to usually Christ Memorial 234 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.100 in Affton. We take students there, and they would knock on doors. 235 00:14:37.500 --> 00:14:39.600 Knock on doors of people 236 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:45.500 they did not know and tell them about Jesus. Professors kind of joked 237 00:14:45.500 --> 00:14:45.900 about this. 238 00:14:45.900 --> 00:14:48.000 They called it dingdong for Jesus. 239 00:14:49.800 --> 00:14:53.900 I mean, you know, it probably wasn't the best idea but I figured at 240 00:14:53.900 --> 00:14:56.400 least it developed their prayer life. 241 00:14:56.400 --> 00:14:58.200 Right 242 00:14:58.200 --> 00:14:59.800 you're going to door or someone you don't know 243 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:00.900 your going to be praying. 244 00:15:02.700 --> 00:15:04.100 So it was the first day of class. 245 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:05.100 I handed out the syllabus. 246 00:15:05.100 --> 00:15:07.000 I told him about the immersion experience. 247 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:08.500 And after the class was over 248 00:15:08.500 --> 00:15:10.900 I'm walking down the hall and there's a student standing outside and 249 00:15:10.900 --> 00:15:12.100 he said Professor Schmidt. 250 00:15:12.100 --> 00:15:12.900 Could I talk to you? 251 00:15:12.900 --> 00:15:16.600 And I said, sure he said it's about the evangelism weekend. 252 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.100 Now, I thought he was going to say he couldn't make it and I was going 253 00:15:19.100 --> 00:15:20.900 to say no you are going to make it, you're not going to pass the 254 00:15:20.900 --> 00:15:21.300 class. 255 00:15:21.300 --> 00:15:22.000 So that's what I thought 256 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:23.400 the conversation was going to be. 257 00:15:24.500 --> 00:15:27.500 He looked at me and he said, he said, I think there's something you 258 00:15:27.500 --> 00:15:28.200 should know. 259 00:15:29.400 --> 00:15:30.300 And I said, what? 260 00:15:31.500 --> 00:15:34.200 And he said, well, I uh, I 261 00:15:36.100 --> 00:15:39.600 I never have shared my faith with anyone before. 262 00:15:41.800 --> 00:15:46.900 Now my head, my head was against him. 263 00:15:47.900 --> 00:15:48.800 It really was. 264 00:15:49.300 --> 00:15:55.200 I'm like, didn't you read the job description of a pastor, right? 265 00:15:56.100 --> 00:15:59.800 I head was against him, but when I looked in his eyes, 266 00:16:01.300 --> 00:16:02.700 my heart was for him. 267 00:16:03.900 --> 00:16:09.700 He was lost in that spiritual wilderness and he was doing what 268 00:16:09.700 --> 00:16:11.900 Jeremiah has called us to do. 269 00:16:12.100 --> 00:16:21.800 He was saying Professor, see me and God gave me the beautiful 270 00:16:21.800 --> 00:16:27.700 opportunity to point him to Jesus who is with him. 271 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.200 So he didn't need to be afraid. 272 00:16:31.400 --> 00:16:33.900 I said to him, I said, you know, I said, I really don't know you where 273 00:16:33.900 --> 00:16:36.600 you from he was from Chicago, I had on my Ministry there. 274 00:16:36.600 --> 00:16:39.300 We had some conversation about Chicago, we talked about his high, 275 00:16:39.300 --> 00:16:44.200 school is college talked about church, and where he went and how that 276 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:44.500 went. 277 00:16:44.500 --> 00:16:47.700 And what it was like to be a Christian in college and all that kind of 278 00:16:47.700 --> 00:16:47.900 stuff. 279 00:16:47.900 --> 00:16:48.300 And as 280 00:16:48.300 --> 00:16:49.700 we're talking all of the sudden. 281 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:52.900 He looks at me and he smiles and he says 282 00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:55.300 I see what you're doing. 283 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:56.800 I pretended, I was stupid. 284 00:16:56.800 --> 00:16:58.400 I should, what do you mean? 285 00:16:58.700 --> 00:17:03.800 And he said, well, you're getting me to share my faith and I said, 286 00:17:03.800 --> 00:17:04.300 right. 287 00:17:05.300 --> 00:17:09.500 He's said, gosh, God's been with me a long time. 288 00:17:11.700 --> 00:17:16.000 I wish I wish I had thought of this passage because I would have said 289 00:17:16.300 --> 00:17:18.700 yeah from eternity. 290 00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:25.500 This God, who is the God of all creation. 291 00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:32.000 Who dwells in eternity and the ruler of all nations has called you. 292 00:17:34.800 --> 00:17:42.900 He has sent his Son to die and rise to work with you and through you. 293 00:17:42.900 --> 00:17:48.300 So this morning, come see Jesus. 294 00:17:49.500 --> 00:17:51.900 He is here with you. 295 00:17:52.800 --> 00:17:54.300 Do not be afraid. 296 00:17:55.700 --> 00:17:56.200 Amen.