Best and Worst Moments

I like sometimes when I’m around a table maybe Debbie and I or when we have our three kids around the table oftentimes we would lead with a question. So what’s your best part and worst part of today or our camping trip or something that we did and it’s fun to kind of draw people out and might be an interesting idea for you to try in your home or around your table or start somehow with people but it’s best part and worst part it’s actually my title

today best and worst moments and it’s really kind of a cool technique that can help you summarize anything. Teachers do it a lot in the fall when they come back from summer break or sometimes at Christmas or other times during the year spring break they would ask their kids hey what’s best part and worst part or highlights or low points in your whatever vacation or time away. So I gave I’ve thought some examples take a camping trip my favorite part best part making a fire I’m

out there chopping wood and you know and my goal is one match one match and I’m good but Debbie brings a gallon of gasoline to help out. No she doesn’t she has these fire starters which guarantee that I’m good but so that’s my best part that’s my best part worst part rain especially really worst part that puts out the fire that’s not good okay marriage our wedding best part she said I do.

Worst part not Kenya the cameraman’s camera broke and he didn’t know it so we continue in a litigated lawsuit about no that was the worst part but we have so much in our hearts for each other that we’ve gotten over it family family best part for sure having three kids that joined and widened the circle the Mac 5 the worst part they grew up too soon they did and I was warned about that I was warned don’t ever miss a day because they’ll be gone and

so I guilt trip them all the time get home you know but anyway you kind of use this little tool by the way on just about anything including pets all right so for you dog lovers how many dog lovers here best part best part it’s actually a tie for me unconditional love we’d all agree right or help me to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am right unconditional love worst part right or no another best part I really don’t have a worst part

the other best part they keep cats out of my yard it’s true it’s true so how many of you are cat fans we got to be fair here okay fair and balances what we’re about so cats best part you’re reading into my paws aren’t you you are that’s not what I meant best part they eat mice right worst part they get full no he’s had a barn cat you come around you like there’s a home there’s mice everywhere and the cats over there going you know

they’re full so so okay enough fun but we we come nearing the finish of a 52 week study in the Bible book known as acts act the apostles we’ve called it acts of the Holy Spirit for good and reverent reasons the Holy Spirit’s on every page of acts and we’ve called this series in step with the spirit and it’s not only looking back over 2,000 years to the narrative that these words point to but there’s all sorts of takeaways and applications or transfers to how can

we live according to that today so here’s what I did this week and I want you to those of you that have been around can trust me when I say this I had an imaginary conversation with a main character that we’ve spent time sort of traveling around with in these 20 now 28 chapters he’s there’s there’s many to choose from but I picked the one that is present from the end of chapter chapter 7 all the way through to chapter 28 and I’m referring to the

Apostle Paul and I decided I was going to have an imaginary conversation with him and I did and I took this idea best part worst part because I thought maybe that’ll help me get into his skin a little more I and and it was a fascinating experience for me and I I when I when I said ok Paul you got a few minutes I’ll I’ll give you a coffee or tea let’s just talk and in the conversation I think at the very least I enjoyed the

experience of imagining having coffee with him and having him highlight the thing that he just was I often say it pinch me I can’t believe I’m living this dream that would be high point best part and then I thought you know we’ve read too much where we went you’re kidding me would I how would I survive that and so I wanted him to maybe hint at a worse part from his perspective so he said this is he said it softly please don’t I’m not channeling I

don’t do weird things okay all right just so you’re clear best part acts chapter twenty six turn there would you just turn there right now we’re not going to read the whole thing we’ve gone deeply in that already but acts twenty six is two chapters from the end twenty seven and twenty eight acts twenty six and this twenty six comes you can’t get the fact I went twenty six what’s up with that well look at the last verse of twenty five and rather twenty four and

you’ll read these words when two years had passed Felix who was the governor was succeeded by Festus the the successor governor but because Felix wanted to grant a favor to the Jews he left Paul in prison so Paul here is after a two year delay I did the math earlier and it’s still true seven hundred and thirty stinking days days behind bars for something he didn’t do you start to see wow that is a long time and and so I at this time King of Gripa

had come to the town it’s a it’s a town on the the western shore of Israel modern day Israel today Cesaria it there’s no more land there it’s the Mediterranean it goes all the way to Rome I mean it’s a long ways off and so this this King comes to Cesaria to celebrate the new governor this governor Festus and while there he was told about this prisoner that’s been rotting in jail and he says you know Felix the previous governor didn’t do anything Festus reports and

I’m gonna do something here here and so without censorship Paul was permitted in this finally to arrive event chapter 26 he was permitted to share the gospel what is the story why if I can say are you in jail for so long if I asked anybody any you that have been in prison or in jail well you had a five-year sentence a two-year sentence whatever I I’ve learned not to ask that that’s uncomfortable for people but very often people will volunteer it Paul would have said

well it’s because I saw Jesus and couldn’t stop talking about him I don’t care who you are that’s got to be weird that’s got a sound strange you wait you saw Jesus and you can’t stop yeah I can’t stop talking about it and I’m not gonna rescind it I’m not gonna say no okay I was just kidding I’ve never seen Jesus so some people might say well you’re certifiable that’s for sure if you keep talking about this imaginary person but most people are gonna go what’s

the harm in that kids say they see the Easter Bunny okay you don’t go to jail for that. Get my point? So Paul says without censorship, I met Jesus. And I want to read just a couple of verses that are read with, they’re spoken with such animation, they’re worth reading again. So he’s in the middle of answering the question, what are you doing here for two years in prison?

On one of these journeys, Paul, verse 12, I’m just breaking into his explanation. I was going to Damascus, which is north and east of Jerusalem, with authority and commission of the chief priests. So headquarters said, go there and track down these Christians. About name King Agrippa, as I was on that road, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun blazing around me in my companions. We all fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, “Saul!

Saul! Why do you persecute me? It’s a voice.” He’s not seeing anybody. It’s hard.

It is hard for you to kick against the goes. You’re beating your head against the wall. Then I asked, who are you, Lord? I am Jesus came the answer. I’m reading now at the end of verse 15.

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them. Verse 18, to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light. From the power of Satan to God so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place of who are sanctified by faith in me. Paul then grabs the mic back and says, “So I tell you, King Agrippa, I was not obedient to that vision from heaven.”

First to those in Damascus, because that’s where he was going, he was almost there. Then to those in Jerusalem, I went back and then into all of Judea and then to not just Jews, but to the Gentiles. I preached, look how verse 12, verse 20 ends. I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. Don’t miss the heart of the gospel.

It was the core of his message, Paul’s message, not only here, but everywhere he went. And here’s the deal. It was the message not just for Jews because Paul is a Jew through and through, but unthinkably it was the message for those Jews and Gentiles, all the others. And I’m not going to guess at your heritage or lineage or pedigree, but I am a Gentile and I’m really glad God sent somebody like Paul. You may be a Jew and you should be glad to, but you get the idea.

Isn’t that true? Don’t miss the heart of the gospel. Verse 20 is worth looking at just how it ends, how it ends. I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. It’s the same message in 2021, regardless of who you are.

Check this out. Repent of your sins is a statement that’s made in lots of places. Okay, first John chapter one is coming up on the screen just so you have it and you can see it in the first verse in your minds. Or second Peter three, right? Yeah, the Lord is not slow.

This is really cool. Peter was another one early in Acts. First nine chapters, he’s a dominant figure. Peter was the one that went on to be quite a pastor, actually. Quite an apostle.

And he wrote two letters, the second of those two letters in the third chapter. You Christians keep getting riled up about Jesus coming back again. I mean, that’s like a big deal to you, isn’t it? And they mock us for that. Peter says this, God is not slow as some count slowness or understand slowness, but he’s patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish, but for everyone to come to repentance.

That’s where Paul started his explanation. I preach that they should repent. Secondly, that they should turn to God. Why turn to God? Because he’s the only forgiver of sin.

Matthew chapter three says that. Mark chapter two says who can forgive sins, but God alone. It’s a good question. Some of you know the name King David. Of us do, I suppose.

And we know that he messed up big. And in one of his confessional passages in the Bible, it’s a Psalm, Psalm 51. He says it’s against you and you alone have I sinned. Oh God. It’s true.

Sometimes our sins affect other people and we really do sin against others, but they have a core element, a consistency that says, I really sinned against God. Because I would have never hurt you and sinned against you had I not also sinned against God. Who is the one that can forgive sin? Mark tells us is your words from John the Baptist, who can forgive sin, but God alone. And then thirdly, Paul says here in Acts 26, verse 20, prove that you have changed by the good deeds you do.

That’s a key thing. Produce fruit. Fruit. Consistent with or in keeping with your repentance. Fruit of repentance is not optional.

Will you hear me now? Some people have a story, a fresh story like Jeff told today when he was being baptized. Some of you that’s a very new story. And you met Jesus. You actually repented of your sin.

And you actually turned to God. And now the Bible saying to you, you need to prove that a change has really happened inside you. We say today, talk is cheap, right? So what better way to convince to persuade people that you’re legit than to say, you know, I’m a different man today. And the reason for that is simple.

I met Jesus. What I said, okay, you don’t have to go there. Just watch my life. Paul would say to the Philippian Christians, Philippians two, verse 15, prove yourself to be blameless and innocent children of God above reproach. That means as people look at you from every angle, there’s not a there’s not a flaw.

There’s not perfect. Just means you’re a authentic follower of Jesus without reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Listen to this among whom you appear as lights in the world. Prove yourself. Good fruit.

I said this in baptism a minute ago. It’s bears repeating. Good fruit does not save you. It shows that you are saved. See the difference?

Please understand this. If you ask me, Steve, what’s the biggest sort of hurdle? People have when it comes to the gospel that you’ve heard from? I hear this all the time. Well, I’m not perfect.

That’s all I would always start. I’m not perfect. Not looking at perfect. But they start out with, I’m not as bad as that guy. And then, and then they add, but I’m not perfect, but I’m good enough.

And the truth is, not good enough. You need help. Otherwise, how do you explain the cross? Was that for people that just, what, were really bad and couldn’t muster up enough? Good?

No. It’s for everyone. So, listen to this. Telling our story of salvation is really important. This formed life provides proof.

Wow. Let’s try something on. If I tell you right now that I am saved, that Jesus saved me and I go into detail. But you know me. You’re my neighbor.

Or you’re that person I drive by. You just, you didn’t know my life, you watched my life. So I say, Jesus saved me. And yet you noticed something to me that’s not really changed at all. How impactful is my story?

You’re not expecting what I’m gonna say. Ready for a surprise? My story is hugely impactful. And for all the wrong reasons. That’s a big deal.

Brennan Manning is a writer that gets my attention a lot. He wrote a book called the Ragamuffin Gospel. Really good. Good read. Radical grace.

How God takes imperfect people. He’s never had an option. They’re all imperfect, right? So he takes us and he transforms us. But he was struggling.

Brennan Manning struggled with this very thing. You say you met Jesus and really? How’s it showing? Where’s prove it? Prove it by your good Jesus?

Missing. And he made this, I think it’s blunt, I’ll warn you. But this is part of the conflict. The greatest single cause he says of atheism in the world today is Christians. Who are, who acknowledge Jesus?

Jesus with their lips? Which we do every Sunday. And then they walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. This is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. For good reason.

When I say Jesus, I met Jesus and it didn’t make a difference. I don’t have any interest in that Jesus. The world could justifiably say. I don’t say that as a rebuke of good and godly people. I say that as a plea to keep on following Jesus with your full focus.

To keep on reading the Sermon on the Mount and realizing it’s ridiculously extreme. I can’t do that. I need help. You’re really getting close. God help me become live in sight.

Bullseye ding, ding, ding. And the Holy Spirit says I’ll do it from here. All right. See why I labeled chapter 26 the best part. I just, I just, Paul got to tell a packed house.

This is a giant gathering here in 26. He listened while he talked. I want to, I want to read to you just a quick clip of Paul knew he was going to heaven soon. So he, he picked a couple of guys that he knew he could trust with the gospel and he, they were calm pastors in training. He was about to wrap up his work as an apostle and in his case go home to be with Jesus.

And so he wanted to transfer that to his successor or successors and the two that stand out the most are Timothy and he wrote him two letters and Titus. He wrote him one letter. There’s some similarities you’ll see. They’re very cool to read. They’re actually often called the pastoral epistles because Paul, this guy were so amazed by what God did in his life.

Paul trained them. Knowing that he would be leaving exit right. And so he says to Titus this in chapter two, the grace of God has appeared, Titus, that offer salvation. I love this. I have to read it slow to all people.

Hopefully right now you include yourself in that statement. Grace of God has appeared that offer salvation to all people. It teaches us to say no. To some things on godliness and worldly passions. The Steve before he met Jesus and to live self-controlled upright godly lives in this present age while we wait for the blessed hope and what is that?

He goes on. The appearing of, of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all wickedness. That means he does a cleanup job from stem to stern inside and out. All wickedness and he’s not done. His purpose is to purify for himself a people that are his very own.

Look how it finishes. Eager to provide proof. To do what says I’ve been changed to do good. That’s why I think this is a great chapter, but we’re not done. Next comes his low point.

I said, wow, that’s a lot. I thought we covered it all, but I felt like I was reading 26 all over again. Not because there’s so much complicated information because it’s basic. I need to repent. I need to turn to God.

Repent means I suck. I did bad. I feel terrible. What I’ve done is not good. We, we, me, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, all agree.

It wasn’t good. So I’m repenting and I turn to the only one that can help me. The one that can forgive me. And he does. And when he does, I’m like burden lifted.

Dirt scrub clean. I live that way. Live it. I’m almost not ready to go on, but we need to. Next is Paul’s low point.

You don’t have to turn very far, just the page to chapter 27, because I think he would say my worst part was 27, chapter 27. After all this weight, and this glorious, I can’t even go to sleep at night. I’m so pumped that I get to tell everybody about Jesus. And then chapter 27. Probably my imagination says he was thinking that that’s the biggest hurdle.

Finally, two and a half years of waiting, it’s removed. And they’re smooth sailing from their member and their in Caesarea, all the way west to Rome. Wow. That time has come. And I’m quite certain Paul could not have imagined the two week trial that lay before him and those he was traveling with.

They sailed head long into a hurricane of massive proportion, a literal hurricane. It was one that had all the harrowing stuff that people stuck at sea experience. Words like dire. Words like desperate. Those come up in the reading of chapter 27.

It’s truly like pick the biggest hurricane. I think of hurricane Mitch that went, I think the only one in history that went from the west coast of Honduras clear through and kept going into the Gulf of Mexico on the east coast of Honduras. And if you’re, if you were humbled enough to it would be there in the aftermath and I was about with a team from our church missions team. It was beyond horrific. The damage and destruction done.

All of that was here. And in addition, two verses kind of summarize it. Verse 10 is Paul’s words while they’re holding on to the rails of this ship. Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo and in fact our own lives. He’s not done one more verse down at verse 28.

It gets darker. Neither the sun or the stars appeared for many days. Luke tells us and the storm continued keyword der raging. It’s not an easy word like raging angry. We finally said, oh, we’ll get through this.

Where’s your faith? How does verse, how does verse 20 end? Well, gave up hope of being saved. That’s what I mean by dire. I probably didn’t go deep enough into this, but let me just quickly make the point.

Chapter 27 ends, ends of course in verse 44 in a shipwreck. The part I didn’t emphasize last week when we got to this point, 600 miles from their destination. You know that Proverbs 13, 12, says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” This is a sick moment, not just seasick. This is another kind of sick.

We had our sights set. We endured two years plus in prison. And now we’re going home. We get to go to Rome, the dream dove, the promised place to share the gospel. And we crash.

And sink. And we’re not in Rome. I want you to just step back from this for a moment, and you will quickly relate to why I think chapter 27 was one of the lowest points, if not the lowest, for him. A head scratcher. I was thinking about how you and I can count.

Two comes after one and so on. Well, 27 comes after 26. And if 26 was the high point, you have this hope that’s going to turn out well now. And you’re getting your preach on if you’re Paul. And you’re thinking, I’m going to go to Rome.

I have a bigger audience with the emperor, not a governor, the emperor. And I get to tell all this gospel stuff to him. And we are people like that. We want chapter 26 is what I’m calling today the best parts. We want those, but we sometimes wonder why their head scratchers, we have chapter 27’s happen to us.

You like that? It’s a metaphor. Stay with me, okay? I like chapter 26. I don’t like chapter 27.

I don’t like hearing about it. Yesterday the ducks won big. But a week before, there was a much greater contest, and we invited the Mac 5 over. We’re going to have a party at the mom and dad’s house. Come on over.

And of course, we knew they’d be dressed in gear and all this stuff. And they did. They showed up. And they said, “By the way, we have three kids. Girl, boy, girl, duck, beaver, duck.”

With me? So she comes in, you know how she’s dressed, and yellow, and she announces her great hope for the game. It was against USC, which is a formidable foe. She announces, I want this to be the biggest blowout in history. I want SC devastated and dismantled.

Goes on into, you know, I want it to be clear, the first snap in that game, the first quarter, that it’s going to be total domination ducks, right? Trevor comes in a few minutes later, and he says, “Trevor, what kind of game you open for today?” He goes, “She’s wanting it to be a complete blowout.” Trevor follows with, “I want it to be a complete shootout.” “I want the ducks to score, then the Trojans, then the ducks, then the Trojans.”

He goes, “He’s like this.” And he goes, “I wanted to go all that way until the last minute of the game.” And then the beavers went. No, he didn’t say that. He didn’t say, “No.”

Then he says, “Okay, I’ll give you the ducks.” And Carrie Ann was just protesting wildly. “No, that’s not the game we want to watch here today.” Turns out it was more of a, of a shootout, not a blowout. Got a little too tight.

That’s how I read the book of Acts. Just when I find myself wanting to curse and condemn chapter 27, and I really do, I just, it’s just like, “Ugh, hate shipwrecks.” Or anything approaching that. That’s four words at the end of 27. The Holy Spirit said, “What are they, Steve?”

Somebody want to read them out loud? Yep, everyone reached land safely. Which draws my attention to what land? Give me five more minutes and you’ll appreciate, I think, the connection here. Who are the people of this land that they swam to shore on?

What we read in these 10 verses cast a whole new light on Paul’s worst part, chapter 27. So watch as we quickly read. Once safely on shore, he picks up where chapter 27 ends. Once safely on shore, we found ourselves on an island called Malta. The islanders showed us unusual kindness and they built a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining cats and dogs.

Paul gathered a pile of brush wood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat of the fire, fastened itself to his hand. I’ve always pictured him going, “Ha, not good.” When the islanders saw the snake, they recoiled, of course, hanging from his hand. They said to each other, “This man must be a murderer, for though he just escaped from the sea, the goddess justice has not allowed him to live.” But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.

The people expecting him to swell up suddenly and fall dead, but after waiting a long time, seeing nothing unusual happened to him, they changed their minds and said, “Look, he must be a god.” There was an estate nearby that belonged to Publius, the chief official of the island. Think of him as the island chief. He welcomed us to his home and showed us generous hospitality for three days. His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery, and Paul went in to see him, and after praying, placed his hands on him and looked how verse in eight ends, he healed him.

God healed him through Paul. When this had happened, the rest of the island, of course, got word of it, and the rest of those sick on the island came quickly and were cured. They honored us in many ways, and when we were ready to sail, which, by the way, was three months later, they furnished us with the supplies that we needed. What a very kind, what a starting point. Unusual kindness was shown.

What could be more necessary if you were one of the 276 freezing cold traumatized passengers, but a warm fire and hospitality? Look at these words in Hebrews 13, because you probably remember them just like I do. We’re told, “Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers.” 13 says, “For by doing so, some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” I got the chills when I read that and thought of these island people.

But interesting, not lost at all, is Paul had stoked his fire, of course, and the Viper comes out and bites his hand, and they fought twice. He must be trying to escape. They didn’t do justice. They knew they saw the shipwreck, they saw this debris, and not a single life lost, but they didn’t do the count. They didn’t know how many were there.

They just simply knew these people survived as they swam for the shore. They’re thinking, “That Viper, that’s happening because you might have escaped justice once, but not twice.” And then they swing to the opposite extreme, of course, and it seems to me the Malt-Maltons or Moltonians, I’m not sure what we’re going to call these folks, they missed the point twice. Paul was not getting his deserved judgment for something he did wrong and was fleeing justice, nor was Paul a God. He’s a real guy.

Before chapter 9 when he met Jesus, he was a real bad guy, which leads to a third possible explanation, which explains snake bites and near drownings at sea. And the other calamity that comes into my life in yours, the 27, it’s a chance for the one true God who alone possesses all the power necessary and all the wisdom and all the sovereignty to make sure that this venomous viper and storm at sea doesn’t so much as harm, Paul. I just want to ask you this simple question because you’re as human as I am. It troubles me at my tendency to assess people similarly. When a bad deal happens, when bad things happen, people face this kind of calamity.

I’ve faced it. Made me wonder what people thought. Is there a problem in his faith? Is there some kind of unconfessing? Are you running from something, Steve?

Have you felt that way? Not about me. Maybe you have. Be nice. But about people.

You see them going down. You see them sinking. Hey, you might reach a handout to help them. You might make a fire to warm them. You’re suspicious.

Do you wonder to yourself, you know? What did you really do? I’ve never done this. But this morning, early when I was reflecting on these thoughts and preparing for this morning, I read 2 Corinthians 11 again. And I’ve repeated it.

If you’re trying to decide if you want to follow Jesus and you’re afraid chapter 27 will happen, don’t read 2 Corinthians 11. Don’t. Because if you think this was the only shipwreck, you think this was the only bomber? You think this was the only bad? 2 Corinthians 11, I’ve never done this, but I counted how many bad things happened there.

And it’s impossible to say for sure, because you’ll say I was in constant danger. So does that count as a one? Or what’s constant? How many would say 20 or 50? My point is I got up to 30 in quick counting.

30 stuff that makes up the chapter 27 in our Bible. And as far as I can tell, in chapter 2 Corinthians 11, I know I’m talking about so much. You’re going to read about it later today, right? That’s good. It’s working.

There’s not one thing he did wrong listed there. In other words, Paul doesn’t go, you know, on top of all these things that happened to me, I was kind of a screw up over here too. So I had some of it coming. No. So what I want to leave us with is the fact that God had them shipwreck, had this moment happen where he could have died and everybody should have died and nothing happened.

And it was a game changer. And it led to a whole island wide. What are you going to call it? Revival. God was touching.

He was healing. Everybody that was sick. Even the father-in-law, no surprise that they took care of him for not just those three days, but three months later, we’ll pick up on this next time. They began their journey home and it truly was. The rest of the trip.

I want you to close your Bible right now, if you would, and we’re going to sing, but I want a final thought to be on your mind fresh. When you and I do this best day, worst day, the high point, the low point, maybe it’s a day, maybe you’re talking about a life or you’re just your best and worst. Use that language. Okay, chapter 26, chapter 27, if that helps you, use that language. Remember this, both are remembered.

Both are talked about and both are deeply impactful. Not only to you if you went through them, but to those you’re sharing what you went through with. And most importantly, both should be shared by you for God’s glory. Let’s pray together. God, thank you for this great reminder.

I brought a framework that was just of my own making, but I think your Holy Spirit just kind of said, it’s good, Steve, ’cause it’s my truth, to maintain side by side and to adjacent chapters in my word, just like they happen in real life inside one person. We have the 26 moments, the best that we want to talk about a lot, but you also bring us chapter 27, and they don’t feel so good. But in all of that, Lord, we want to be people that hear your voice that says, if you’re in a 27, listen to me, help us on the way. Help us on the way. I’m there with you right now, you just don’t see it or feel it.

That’s it, but I am working in this. Trouble surround me, chaos abounding. But my soul will rest in you as the song goes. I will not fear the war, I will not fear the storm. My help is on the way.

On the way, oh my God, you will not delay. You’re my refuge and you’re my strength, always. So Lord, change me. I will not fear. Your promise is true.

Because my God will always come through. That’s foreign language to you. Let’s talk. Jesus is very interested in your life. And the answer for why?

‘Cause you’re thinking it, why me? ‘Cause he loves you, he loves you. He really loves you. Let’s stand, let’s sing.

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