The Gospel for Everyone

Morning.

Welcome to week two in this journey through Galatians. Many of us are reading through the Book of Galatians this summer in tandem with this series. And it's not too late for you to jump into a Discovery Bible Study reading plan that we've created for that purpose. If you want to, if you're a print type person, you can pick up a copy of this reading plan at the Connection center right out here in the comments. You can also download it through our mobile app or at our website or.

But it'll guide us on a daily basis through the eight weeks of this series in reading through the Book of Galatians together, which is a great way to pack our toolbox, so to speak, and invite the Holy Spirit to lead us as we travel through this series together. Now, what we're going to see in Galatians Chapter two today is that some things just aren't for everybody. For example, not everyone is a fan of roller coasters. I love roller coasters, but I realize that's not true of everybody. If you are into roller coasters like I am, I want you to raise both hands.

And if you're not into roller coasters, just say, nope. Okay? Some of us like to snorkel. If you're like me and you enjoy swimming with tropical fish, just do a front swim stroke with me, okay? And if you're not the snorkeling type, I just want you to say shark.

Okay, we're not all on the same page about that either. If you like seafood, I want you in your best bubba voice to say shrimp.

But if you don't like seafood, I just want you to say, some of us are into Star Trek. Some of us are not. If you're a Star Trek fan, let me see your best Vulcan salute. And if you're not into that, just say nerds. Okay?

Country music is another one of those things. If you're a country music fan, say, I sure do miss my old truck.

And if you're not a country music fan, just say, no way. See, clearly we are not all into the same things. We don't all have the same gifts or skills. We don't all have the same interests. And we don't all need to be or look exactly the same.

In fact, the apostle Paul wrote the book of Galatians because there were people in the first century church who, who are trying to force everybody else to be just like them. Today we're going to dive into Galatians Chapter two, which is really a good place to go since we spent last week in Galatians Chapter one. But in Galatians two, we're going to see today that the Apostle Paul conveys a couple of really key ideas. The first of those is this idea that there are different ministries. And this is going to sprawl into a lot of historical background.

So if you'll fasten your seat belt with me, let me try to get us up to speed on what Paul is talking about here in Galatians chapter two. Now, last week in Galatians one, we saw Paul describe how he had once lived his life determined to arrest and kill Christians. But Jesus had dramatically called him to leave that way of life, to follow him, to build his church and carry his message to the Gentile world. And Paul continued the story about his life that he began in Galatians 1. And here in chapter 2, verse 1 of Galatians 2, Paul says, Then after 14 years, I went up again to Jerusalem, this time with Barnabas, his friend, whose name means son of Encouragement.

And he says, I took Titus along also. So this is 14 years after Paul initially met Jesus. He goes back to Jerusalem, not the first time he's gone back to Jerusalem in those 14 years, but he went back to Jerusalem with two of his ministry companions and friends. And this time he went because God specifically prompted him to go. Paul went on in verse two to say this.

I went in response to a revelation and meeting privately with those esteemed as leaders, I presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. I wanted to be sure I was not running and had not been running my race in vain. Now, this obviously wasn't the first time that Paul had had a supernatural encounter or that God had spoken to him in a miraculous way. But this time God sent Paul to Jerusalem to speak privately with church leaders who were gathering to discuss what the Gospel of Jesus meant for non Jewish people. See, the first people who became followers of Jesus were Jews.

But as the church spread, as the disciples of Jesus began to follow his great commission to take his message to all people, there was a huge influx of Gentile or non Jewish people into the church. And their presence there began to raise questions about whether these new believers needed to also adopt Jewish customs and follow all of the Old Testament law. So Paul shared with these Jewish church leaders how he had been presenting the Gospel of Jesus specifically to Gentile audiences. They now of particular concern at this point in the church's life was the issue of circumcision, which is something that many Jews considered non negotiable. Now The Jews traced their heritage to a man named Abram.

And in the Old Testament, Book of Genesis, chapter 17, when Abram was 99 years old and had no children, God promised to make him an ancestor to many nations. I mean, which sounded crazy, impossible. And as a sign of that covenant, God commanded that from then on, Abram and all of his male descendants were to be circumcised to permanently mark their bodies as a symbol of their faith in God. To keep his promise to multiply their descendants, God then changed Abram's name to Abraham, which means father of many nations. And so to Jews, circumcision was a really big deal.

Now, if you have questions about circumcision, you would not be alone in that. Craig Howie is actually our resident expert on circumcision, and he would love to answer your questions. In fact, if you could bring a volunteer, he'll give you a demonstration. Okay, so find him in the comments afterwards. Now, in this question about whether or not Gentiles had to follow the law of Moses, there were two schools of thought in the first century church.

And we see that played out first of all in. In the story of Peter and Cornelius. We have to jump over to the Book of Acts for a minute. Fifth book in the New Testament, in Acts, chapter 10, God spoke to the apostle Peter, who was a Jew. At a time when Peter was really hungry, God showed him a vision of a whole bunch of different animals, many of them forbidden as food by the Jewish law.

And he told Peter to eat. And Peter refused because he said, I have never eaten anything unclean. But God said, peter, do not call anything impure that God has made clean. Now, Peter had this exact same vision three times. And then some messengers arrived.

They'd been sent there by a Roman military officer named Cornelius. Cornelius was a Gentile, but also a believer in God. And he had had a vision of his own. He had been told by an angel to send for Peter. And this vision that Peter had just experienced made it clear that God was up to something.

So Peter went with Cornelius messengers to Caesarea, where he shared the message of Jesus with Cornelius and his entire household. And Scripture tells us that everyone who heard that message believed and was baptized. Now, when word of these events reached the Jewish believers in Judea, Peter immediately came under fire because he had actually entered the home of an unclean Gentile. But after Peter explained how the Holy Spirit had worked to orchestrate this whole experience, his critics backed down and they actually praised God that he had extended the message of salvation to Gentiles too. But not everybody got on board because there was also the second school of thought and that was peer pressure from the Judaizers.

Now the Judaizers were Jews who insisted that in order to become a Christian, a Gentile believer had to also follow the entire Old Testament law. These were self appointed watchdogs and they made it their job to monitor the church and to call out anybody they thought was slacking off in their obedience to the Jewish law. So during Paul's Galatians chapter two, visit to Jerusalem we're looking at today, he felt the Judaizers influence very strongly. That's why Paul wrote in verse three. Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

This matter arose because some false believers, the Judaizers, had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves. We did not give in to them. Paul said for a moment so that the truth of the Gospel might be preserved. For you see, when Paul arrived in Jerusalem with his Gentile friend Titus, the church there actually resisted the pressure from the Judaizers. They welcomed Titus as one of their own and they did not demand that he jumped through the Jewish hoop of circumcision.

And that was huge. See last week in Galatians chapter one, we talked about the Gospel of grace, the good news, that through faith in Jesus alone, God saves us and he forgives our sins and he declares us righteous. Jesus gave his life for the sins of all people, and salvation and forgiveness of sin come only through Him. So we said last week that the Gospel of grace equals Jesus plus what? Nothing.

The Gospel of grace equals Jesus plus nothing. But the Judaizers disagreed and Paul called them out. Paul said that if you add anything to the Gospel like Jesus plus circumcision, you're actually implying that Jesus is not enough. And if you believe that Jesus is not enough, then you've really abandoned the truth of the Gospel. That's why Paul called the Judaizers false believers.

They weren't trusting fully in Jesus because they were still striving for a man made do it yourself version of salvation. Standing for the truth doesn't just mean opposing wrong behavior. It also means speaking out when others try to add unnecessary, misunderstood man made requirements to the gospel. Now this whole gospel controversy was big enough that church leaders gathered in Jerusalem. They met there to address the question of what, if any, obligation Gentile believers had to the Old Testament law.

And we read about that gathering in the Book of Acts chapter 15. At that council, Paul and Barnabas both shared about all that God was doing through them among the Gentiles. And. And then James, the brother of Jesus, spoke up and he reminded this gathering that 750 years prior, the Old Testament prophet Amos had predicted that salvation would come to the Gentiles. Now the group listened attentively.

In that climate of open and prayerful dialogue, the Holy Spirit led the church's leaders to agree that the only parts of the Old Testament law that Gentile Christians needed to really focus on were, number one, to avoid sexual sin by honoring God's husband and wife, designed for marriage and sexuality. And everything else they highlighted had to do with some of the Old Testament dietary regulations. They were to avoid eating animals that had been sacrificed to pagan idols or had been killed by strangling, because either one of those things would have been needlessly offensive to their Jewish brothers and sisters with whom they were seeking unity. And they were told not to consume the blood of animals. And so the council agreed together prayerfully with the Holy Spirit that that was what they should communicate.

They wrote a letter and they sent it out. And that letter was a huge relief. It greatly encouraged the Gentile churches as far away as Syria and Cilicia. This was not a decree by a single leader. This was not a papal edict.

This was a shared decision by the whole council that that Paul and his team should keep on preaching exactly as they had been. So Paul went on to write in Galatians chapter two, as for those who were held in high esteem, whatever they were, makes no difference to me. God does not show favoritism. They added nothing to my message. On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the Gospel to the uncircumcised, to Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.

For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. James, Cephas, which is Peter's name in Aramaic, and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand to fellowship. When they recognized the grace given to me, they agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. So all of that. To say this, the council in Jerusalem not only clarified expectations of Gentile Christians, it also emphasized that taking the Gospel of Jesus to the world is going to require lots of different ministries.

Peter would continue preaching mostly to Jews And Paul and Barnabas would focus their preaching and teaching efforts mostly on Gentiles, but they would all remain united and aligned as partners in ministry. See, sometimes we make the mistake of assuming that everybody else ought to be passionate about whatever we are personally passionate about, or that everybody else's ministry ought to focus on exactly the things that we feel that our ministry has been called to focus on. But if that were the case, there would be a ton of ministry that would never happen. Jesus, Great Commission to go and make disciples of all nations requires that some of us minister to kids and some of us minister to students, and some of us minister to young adults, and some of us minister to older adults. It requires that we minister to single people and to married people, that we minister to those who are in prison and to those who work in law enforcement, that some of us minister here in the US and that others serve in other parts of the world.

God distributes a variety of spiritual gifts among his people. So we should expect a diversity of ministry focus. If we all have the same passions and the same focus and the same ministries, we're doing something wrong and a lot of people are being left out of the Gospel. But even as Paul and others pursued different ministries, there was one focus in particular that the Jerusalem Council asked that they all keep in focus and prioritize. And here it is.

All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor. The very thing I had been eager to do all along in the mid first century. And we see this played out in multiple spots in the New Testament. A really severe famine impoverished many people in Judea. And the Apostle Paul, during the course of his missionary travels, made a regular habit of asking believers in other places like Macedonia and Achaia, what we now call Greece and Corinth, to give generously and sacrificially to help their brothers and sisters in Judea.

Which means that whoever else we're ministering to and our. Our ministries are going to vary widely. Sharing with those in need is a core component of following Jesus. That's something that the Jerusalem Council would indicate. None of us really get a pass on here at Greenwood Christian.

I mean, there are lots of ways to do this, but one way in particular that that we have found at Greenwood Christian Church to try to help those in need in our community is a ministry called Operation care. Above and beyond our regular gifts to our church's general fund that support and fuel all of our ministries. Allison and I, and I know many of you give to Operation care so that our church has funds to assist local families with needs like rent and utility, just very basic staples of living. Just a few days ago I had the opportunity to meet a father of three who several months ago was left homeless by his years of addiction. But he is now in the process of making his way back.

He was. When I talked to him earlier this week, he was four months clean and sober. He's working full time. He's now living in a local motel, which is an upgrade from living in his truck where he had been prior to that. Now he isn't yet where he wants to be, but he is making tangible progress and, and Operation CARE enabled us to help him with some gas to get to and from work so that he can continue this journey that he's on.

And you can help us remember those in need by giving above and beyond to Operation care. I mean, we depend as a church on our general fund giving. Please don't slack off on that. But we would ask above and beyond that, that we give generously and sacrificially to help those who are less fortunate than we are. And it's a great way for us to demonstrate the love and compassion of Jesus.

Now, I said earlier, there are two major themes in Galatians Chapter 2. There are many ministries. The second key theme is there is only one gospel, Many ministries. There's only one Gospel. The Holy Spirit equips us and he calls us to different ministries, but there is only one gospel of Jesus.

The Apostle Peter preached in Acts chapter four. We looked at this just last week. Peter said, salvation is. Is found in. Read this with me, no one else.

For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Now, we just talked about this paradigm shifting, mind blowing encounter with Cornelius that Peter had in Acts chapter 10. But many of us know from very personal experience that old habits die hard. So Paul went on in Galatians to write this. He says, when Cephas, meaning Peter, came to Antioch, Paul says, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.

For before certain men came from James, who was the brother of Jesus and a key leader in the Jerusalem church. Peter used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, when these people from Jerusalem arrived, Peter began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group, the Judaizers. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy, even Barnabas, who's referred to as the Son of Encouragement was led astray. So after leading Cornelius and his family to Jesus, Peter began to hang out on a regular basis with Gentiles.

But then in the midst of that, some pushy ultra conservative Judaizer types came from Jerusalem. And Peter was afraid of their criticism. He was afraid of their condescension. So he began to distance himself from his Gentile brothers and sisters. Can you imagine that?

Like, can you imagine having friends of other ethnicities but then backing away and ignoring them whenever your racist uncle comes to visit? Or can you imagine having good friends who make substantially less money than you do, and then ghosting them whenever your wealthy friends want to get together? Now imagine that not only that begins to happen in our lives, but that others take their cues from us and they begin to do the same thing. What would you call that? Did you see what Paul called it?

He called it hypocrisy. It is a failure to live out the good news of the Gospel. And Paul said that Peter, this is strong language. Peter stood condemned because he had reverted to valuing people's perceptions over God's declarations. And Paul publicly confronted Peter about it.

Verse 14 says, When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the Gospel of, I said to Cephas in front of them all, you are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it then that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? See, knowing that salvation comes from Jesus and not from keeping rules, Peter had reached a place in his life where he had moved beyond legalistic checklists. But then he began to feel heat from Jewish traditionalists. And so he backpedaled.

And that put an unnecessary burden on his Gentile brothers and sisters. It left these friends of his spiritually isolated. And it implicitly sent the false message that our relationship with God is based on outward things and what we do. So Paul called Peter out, and he reminded him, we who are Jews by birth, not sinful Gentiles, know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

That word, justified that Paul uses repeatedly in this text is is a word that means declared righteous. What makes us right with God is not the rules we follow, it is the Jesus we trust. But that truth often gets distorted. It often gets misconstrued. To mean that our moral behavior really doesn't matter at all.

And Paul wanted to caution people against that as well. So he went on to clarify, but if in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn't that mean that Christ promotes sin? And Paul said, absolutely not. If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker. Paul's saying, in other words, if I use the grace of God as an excuse to keep on sinning, I'm actually undermining the work that God wants to do in my life through the gospel.

Paul then said, for through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. And then he said this. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live. But Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing. What we see in the New Testament, particularly in the book of Hebrews, is that the Old Testament law was given to help us see how holy God is and how sinful we are. We cannot earn a relationship with God through our good behavior. And yet God loves us and he desires a relationship with us.

So he put on flesh in the person of Jesus, and he lived the life of perfect obedience that no one else ever has. And then by his grace, meaning we don't deserve it and we cannot earn it, he offered that perfect life at the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. And he rose from the dead to prove that our debt had been paid. And when we trust Jesus death to cover our sins, we are restored to God. If it were possible for us to get right with God by following rules, Jesus death was unnecessary.

If you and I think that we can just put our lives together in such a way that God will have to accept us because we're just that morally impressive. We miss the whole point of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus. Faith in Jesus. Sacrifice isn't a way to God. It is our only way to God.

And I say that not because I have strong feelings on the matter. I say that because that's what Jesus himself said. And I'm always going to listen to the guy that comes back from the dead. That lends some extra credibility to anything he has to say. Now, Paul addressed this very same letter in his letter to the Ephesian Church where he wrote, it is by grace, meaning God's undeserved kindness.

You have been saved through faith, through complete trust in the work of Jesus. And this is not from yourselves. It is the gift of God, not by works. So that no one can boast, so that no one can say, look at what I achieved. For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.

God doesn't love us because of our good deeds, but when we trust and follow Jesus, we invite him to do good things through us. And that means our job is not to be self appointed morality police. You know, as Christians we are sometimes tempted to hold others accountable to biblical standards they never agreed to. Now to be sure, sin is a big deal to God. God has very clear expectations for how he wants us to live.

But what God desires for all of us is inside out transformation, changed lives that flow from changed hearts rather than just behavioral conformity that's outward only. God gives us instructions for our good and for his glory. And our obedience to him protects us from harm. And it positions us in many ways to experience his blessings. But that only works if our hearts are in it.

We're gathered here this morning. We gather as a church on Sunday mornings not to punch a clock but, but because God is worthy of our worship. Amen. We gather because God deserves it and because his one another instructions of which there are many, can only be accomplished in community. You and I cannot practice the love one another and the encourage one another and the pray for one another of scripture in a vacuum all by ourselves.

I'm incredibly grateful for the technology we have available that allows us to stream this service. We, we usually have several hundred people joining us each Sunday. We're really grateful for that. We're glad you're here. Friends, I just want to say if you're watching online because your physical health compels you to do that, we're so grateful to be able to connect with you in that way.

But if you are watching me online right now and you are physically capable of being here, I want to lovingly challenge you to rethink the way you spend your Sunday mornings. We need you and you need us. We, we are a spiritual community, not just a content delivery system. We really need you to be here. We want to invite you to come and gather with us as the body of Christ.

You know, we serve in ministry not to earn God's favor, but because he wired each of us to make a unique contribution to his church. And our best life is found in that sweet spot where our giftedness intersects with the world's needs. So let me just ask all of us, where are you serving? How are your life and your gifts advancing ministry? It's great that we're gathered here, but the follower of Jesus is not just a consumer of spiritual goods and services.

We are called to be contributors. And if you're not contributing in a significant and regular way, I want to challenge you to find a place to plug in. And we'd love to help you do that. We strive to be generous not because our giving buys God's love, but because we are better able to trust God with when we're not excessively focused on wealth. So let me ask all of us, is giving to ministry and sharing sacrificially with others in need a priority in your budget?

Because as a follower of Jesus who said it is better to give than to receive, that's a really big deal. We strive for sexual purity not to check a box, but to honor God with our bodies to Jesus is not truly Lord of our lives if we don't submit our thoughts and our bodies and our relationships to Him. The gospel message is not about rules. It is about living in relationship with Jesus. And when we live in relationship with Jesus, he changes us.

He changes our hearts and our lives follow. All of which is to say this, that we find real life when we allow Jesus to live in us.

Following rules for the sake of appearances is called legalism. Scripture has a lot to say about that. It looks noble and spiritual on the surface, but it does not change our hearts. Jesus died not to give us a chore chart, but to invite us into a life transforming relationship with Him. When we surrender to Jesus and we invite His Holy Spirit into our lives, he changes our hearts and our behavior will follow.

But if we focus only on the outside, if we focus only on changing how we act in certain settings, we will train ourselves to live a double life which trains us to not really give God control.

So friends, we have to remember and we have to build our lives around what Paul wrote in verse 20 of this second chapter of Galatians. He said, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live. But Christ lives in me. The life I now live in this body. I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.

We find real life when we allow Jesus to live in us. The gospel is for everyone. We become righteous before God. We get right with God only through faith in Jesus. We cannot save ourselves through any amount of legalistic rule keeping.

And that's why our ultimate goal is not to try to persuade people to act like us or dress like us or talk like us, or even attend church like us. Our goal is to introduce people to Jesus and allow him to to transform their lives from the inside out. Our mission as a church is not to create a religious bubble. It is not to put on a spiritual act and get more and more proficient at keeping up appearances. It is not to point fingers and tell the rest of the world how they ought to live.

Our mission as Greenwood Christian Church is to love God through a life of worship, to surrender everything to Him. We recognizing that today's understanding of everything is going to be smaller than tomorrow's. Every time I strive to surrender everything to Jesus, his spirit is going to show me new pockets and corners of my life that are not yet his. Following Jesus is a lifelong process of increasing surrender. Our mission as a church is to grow together as disciples of Christ, to be a loving, transformative community where we sharpen one another, we connect, we spend time together, we build meaningful relationships that spur us to live in a more fully surrendered way to Jesus.

And we exist as a church to inspire others to follow Jesus, to live our lives in a way that sparks curiosity, that opens doors to conversation, that gives us opportunity to let people know the reason for the hope that we have. To love, to grow, to inspire. That's why our church exists. That's what the gospel is all about. Would you pray with me?

Lord God, we come to you this morning grateful for your invitation through Jesus to be yours. Father, we have no credentials or accomplishments that we can brag about, nothing that would obligate you to welcome us on the basis of anything we've done. We're thankful, Father, for your grace that put on flesh and suffered and died in our place, for our sins. To remove that barrier and to allow us, through faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus to be restored to you. And Father, we're thankful that that message isn't just for us, that you have have not only changed our lives and are not only continuing to transform us, but that you have called us to be your messengers and letting the rest of the world know that.

That that grace and that mercy, that that transformation is possible for them as well. God, we ask you to use us as a church when we're gathered here, but also equally when we're scattered, when we walk out those doors just a few moments from now. Father, we ask that you would use our lives to point people to the truth of the gospel and the power of Jesus. And we pray all these things in his name. Amen.

Friends, we're here to help, you know, and to trust and to follow Jesus. And so whatever your next step is, and I just can't stress enough, there's always a next step. As long as we are still living in these bodies, there is a next step for us to take. And we want to help each other do that. We want to help whether you're ready to give your life to Jesus.

We got to celebrate Nikki's baptism at the first service. Maybe that's the next step you need to take. Maybe you have some things going on you need someone to pray with you about. Maybe you need have some questions about scripture or about Greenwood Christian or you fill in the blank. Maybe you want to get connected in a more meaningful way to spiritual relationships or find a place to serve.

We'd love to help you with any of those things. So let me quickly tell you two ways you can connect with us. For all of our friends who are online or any of you that are just in a hurry right now, just text the word next to 317-707-9997. You can just tell us in a few words what God is stirring in your heart. We'd love to follow up and help you begin exploring those next steps.

And if you have a few minutes and you're here in person today, there are several of us will be down on the floor here right after the service. We'd love to meet you, we'd love to talk with you. We'd love to help you take whatever next step God is leading you to take. One last thing, friends, let me close on this note. When I woke up this morning, my Facebook was blue and yellow.

Go Pacers. Right? Yeah. Is was a fun night last night. First time in 25 years, our teams at the NBA Finals and all.

That's really exciting. But keep in mind, it's been 25 years since the last time that happened. I hope the Pacers go. I hope that they win the title. That would be historic.

That would be great. But NBA titles in light of eternity, pretty inconsequential. So with all the passion, all the enthusiasm, all the go Pacers, all the boom, baby, I'm seeing right now, I want to be a part of that. But the greatest thing that we have to celebrate is not guys throwing a leather hoop through a. I mean, leather ball through a steel hoop.

It's. It's the fact that Jesus Christ gave his life for us. And Jesus never gets dethroned, he never gets defeated. No matter who holds a temporary earthly trophy, he's the one in charge.

All that to say, let's live our lives in a way that celebrates the truth of that victory more than any other. And as we walk out those doors, we have that opportunity. Love you guys.