Christ, the King of all the Earth.

Opening:

Good-morning Connection Church. I am so glad that you are here this morning. It is so good to be able to come together to worship Christ, our King. One thing that is obvious if you have ever spent any time in more than one church is that there are differences. Sometimes these differences are really big ones. Other times there are stylistic differences. Any difference is worth noting and examining. We must always be willing to ask the question of “why?” Why do we do this or that? Why don’t we do this or that? One really good thing to ask when examining a difference is a question about emphasis. What is being emphasized?

Clearly I am a rather different pastor. I am not your average pastor. And by now, you will have likely noticed that one difference is that I speak of the Kingship and Lordship of Christ quite often. Part of this is my theological understanding of Eschatology. Part of this is my obsession with applying the truth of Jesus’ identity in every aspect of reality. However, a large part of this is that we are going through the gospel of Matthew. Matthew’s gospel is different than Luke’s, Mark’s, or John’s. When we examine the difference in style, phrasing, tone, we begin to see that Matthew is clearly emphasizing the Kingship of Christ. Matthew talks a lot about how Jesus is the Son of David. Matthew is clearly making a point. What is this point? It is a point that most first century Jews would have understood. The Messiah is the Son of David. But it more than this. There is more depth to it than just this.

Introduction of the Text:

This morning, we are back in Matthew 22:34-46. Last week we covered the question that the Pharisees asked of Christ. Now we will cover the question Jesus asks of them. Jesus has answered three entrapping questions, and now He is asking the question. I think we would do well to pay heed to the question Christ asks these wicked men. With this in mind, I would ask the congregation to stand with me for the reading of God’s Word.

Reading of the Text:

THE FOREMOST COMMANDMENT

34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.35 And one of them, a scholar of the Law, asked Him a question, testing Him,36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’38 This is the great and foremost commandment.39 And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’40 On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He?” They said to Him, “The son of David.”43 He said to them, “Then how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet”’?

45 Therefore, if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question.

Behold, the Word of God. Let’s Pray.

Prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and for who you are. We thank you especially for the gospel. We thank you for the grace you have given us. May we be humble, and not prideful. May we be gracious to one another and not arrogant. May we love one another as you have commanded. But more than anything, Lord, may we submit to you as Lord. You are King over the Earth. You are God, we are not. May we subject ourselves to you. We know that things will only be rightly ordered when you are given the honor and glory you deserve. So we bow our knee to you, oh Great King. And it is in the name of the King, Jesus, we pray. Amen.

Transition:

Jesus has been asked three questions. The Pharisees and Herodians asked Jesus if it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar. This was meant to be an entrapping question aimed to embroil Jesus in a raging political controversy. Jesus answered it skillfully by showing that Caesar has real authority, but limited authority.

The Sadducees asked Jesus a riddle regarding marriage practices and the resurrection. The Sadducees were aiming to disprove the resurrection of the dead with a riddle they thought could not be solved. Jesus answered this in a way that proved the Biblical doctrine of the resurrection and sent the Sadducees away.

Last week, in our same passage, we saw the Pharisees send a legal expert to question Christ in regards to the greatest command. This man wanted to know what the greatest command in the Law of God was. Jesus answered that the greatest command was that we are to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Jesus also gave the second greatest command. This is to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Now we see Jesus asks the Pharisees a Question.

Jesus Asks The Pharisees a Question. V.41

Explanation:

This is significant because of what has happened leading up to this. These three groups of people had come to try to entrap Jesus with challenging questions. Their aim was to discredit Jesus. They wanted Him to destroy His reputation or even get Him in legal trouble. These were malicious questions. We saw how Jesus responded in great wisdom. This is not surprising. It is not shocking for the God of the universe to respond with wisdom.

Illustration:

But one thing that is intriguing in conversation is the response. This is especially true in confrontation. Now, I hate confrontation. I am not good at it. In confrontation, I tend to get really quiet and introspective. But I do love debate. I know that seems like an oxymoron, but it’s not. I love honest and real debate. Real question and answer with response and rebuttal is so fascinating to me. I enjoy watching it. Two parties debating about things in order to express reality is amazing. You may think I am crazy, but you already knew I was not exactly normal.

So one of the fascinating things about debate is the response. And there is more than one way to respond. You can answer the question outright. We saw Jesus do this, but it is not the only way to respond. When an opponent poses you a question, you can pose a question back to them. Sometimes this is the answer, sometimes it is meant to make a point about the opponent or conversation. This can be done well, or very poorly.

Argumentation:

Jesus has given outright answers to His opponents. Now He is asking them a responding question. They have questioned Him, now He is questioning them. And Jesus’ question is a masterful response.

Transition:

What is this masterful question? Jesus asks these men, “Who’s Son is the Christ?”

Who’s Son is The Christ? V. 42

Explanation: History

What is it about this question that is so masterful? Part of it is the simplicity. Often times, the mark of a great defense is not the complexity of it, but the simplicity of it. The simplicity of an answer can speak to the obvious nature of that answer. But there is more to it than that. A masterful question is not one that has just a simple answer. The masterful question is one whose answer is simple and yet layered. “What is two plus two?” is not a masterful question. But the question Jesus asked is a masterful question.

The answer to Jesus’ question is one simply answered, but with many layers. Jesus asked the question “Who’s Son is the Christ.” Just like the Shema from last week, every child would know the automatic answer to this question. The answer is that the Messiah is the Son of David. This was clearly taught in the Jewish World. They all understood the teaching of Scripture. The Messiah would come from the line of David. This was true. The promised savior of mankind would come from the house of David. The true King of kings would be David’s descendant. But there was a problem. As is the case with simple but layers answers, we must not miss the layered nature. Our tendency is to miss the layers and over simplify.

Illustration:

If I were to ask, “What is the chief end of man?” Some of you would likely respond out of nature “The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” That is the way the Westminster Shorter Catechism says it. It is a good answer. It is also a fairly simple answer. “What is the purpose of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” That is correct. That answer is also Biblically true. That is the Bible’s teaching. The Bible teaches that the ultimate purpose of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. But this is not just a simple answer. It is layered. And if we were to ignore the layers, we would stray into error.

What does it mean to glorify God and enjoy Him forever? If we over simplify this and turn it into saying that anything we enjoy is automatically glorifying to God, we are wrong. What do I mean? If we say, “I can enjoy a peanut butter blizzard to the glory of God,” that is true. God has given us taste buds and has given mankind the ability to make delicious ice cream. We can give God glory by enjoying those things. But it is totally different to say, “I can enjoy fifty peanut butter blizzards a week to the glory of God.” That would be wrong. That would be the sin of gluttony. That is no longer glorifying to God. So you see, we must not over simplify and twist things.

Argumentation: Expectations of Christ vs. Reality of Christ.

This is what many in ancient Israel were guilty of. The Pharisees were especially guilty of this, but it was not just them. The answer to “Who’s son is the Christ” was a simple one. But it had been over simplified. Scripture says many things about the Christ. But in that time, the truth that The Messiah would be from the house of David had been twisted. They ignored other prophesies about the Messiah in order to say that the Messiah would be only a man. They wanted the Messiah to be a political ruler who would physically overthrow the Roman government. They wanted a mere human King. They took a simple answer and oversimplified it to the point of error. They wanted fifty blizzards a week.

And this is one of the chief errors of that day. There was an expectation of Christ that was different than the reality of Christ. We have talked many times about how we cannot cherry pick the Scriptures. We must study and understand the whole of Scripture. They had cherry picked a true idea from Scripture and overplayed it. They ignored other things in favor of one idea they liked. This is a great sin. This is taking the Word of God and conforming it to our own desires. We are not allowed to do this. We either take all of Scripture, or none of it. It is either fully true, or fully false.

And this is applicable to our understanding of God as well. The first century Jews were set on a mere political ruler. Now Jesus is a ruler, and by that standard He is inherently political. But Jesus is so much more. And we do not get to cherry pick what we like about God. We don’t get to look at the attributes or realities about God and pick. He is who He is. We accept Him to our great reward, or reject Him to our damnation. God is not build a bear. He is not a buffet. We don’t get to look as Christ as the savior and reject Him as judge. We don’t get to look at His love and mercy and take that but reject His anger and wrath. And we don’t get to say Jesus is King over Israel and that is all. That was their failure. They wanted a King to rule them and overthrow the empire by their means. Jesus is King over Israel, but He is so much more as we will see.

Transition:

So we cannot cherry pick things we like and dislike about God. And Jesus illustrates this. They believed that the Messiah was a mere human ruler who would sit on the throne in Israel and take David’s place. How does Jesus respond? He asks a clarifying question. He asks “If the Christ is David’s Son, How is He David’s Lord?”

If The Christ is David’s Son, How is He David’s Lord?

Explanation: Reality of who Christ is.

Jesus is directly quoting the Psalm we have been singing in preparation for this passage. Jesus quotes Psalm 110:1. Jesus quotes it saying, 43 He *said to them, “Then how does David ain the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

44 ‘THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD,

“SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND,

UNTIL I PUT YOUR ENEMIES BENEATH YOUR FEET” ’?

45 “If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

This is an excellent follow up question. It immediately calls out their misunderstanding of the nature of the Messiah. This is a messianic Psalm. That means that it is specifically speaking about the promised Messiah. This is obvious from the Psalm. And Jesus’ point is clearly made in the first verse.

The LORD said to my Lord… This is the central point of Jesus’ question. There are two uses of the English word “lord.” However, these two uses are very different. The first usage is the divine name of God, Yahweh. The second is the term “Adoni.” This a term literally meaning “the Sovereign one.” This term is most often used in relation to God. A popular example of this is in Psalm 8. Psalm begins and ends like this;

“O Yahweh, our Lord,

How majestic is Your name in all the earth”

There in most English translations it reads “Oh LORD our lord.” Literally, Oh Yahweh our Adoni. Oh Yahweh our sovereign one. So what does it mean in Psalm 110? This is pertaining to the Messiah, the promised King from David’s line. And Jesus’ point is that David, the King who wrote this, refers to the Messiah as his Adoni. David, the highest human authority of the day refers to the Messiah as an even higher authority. This passage clearly points to the divinity of the Messiah. The only one higher than the king was God. So if the Messiah was higher than the king, the implication being made is that the Messiah is divine.

Argumentation: Reality of who Christ still is.

And this blew away the argument of the Pharisees during those days. They expected that the Messiah would be a mere man who would rule a mere earthly Kingdom. But this was inconsistent with the testimony of Scripture. And if this one verse does not convince you, let’s actually look at the full Psalm. We’ve been singing it for three weeks now.

Psalm 110.

Yahweh says to my Lord:

“Sit at My right hand

Until I put Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”

2 Yahweh will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,

“Have dominion in the midst of Your enemies.”

3 Your people will offer themselves freely in the day of Your power;

In the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn,

The dew of Your youthfulness will be Yours.

4 Yahweh has sworn and will not change His mind,

“You are a priest forever

According to the order of Melchizedek.”

5 The Lord is at Your right hand;

He will crush kings in the day of His anger.

6 He will render justice among the nations,

He will fill them with corpses,

He will crush the head that is over the wide earth.

7 He will drink from the brook by the wayside;

Therefore He will lift up His head.

We have looked at what verse one says about the Messiah. What else is said? Yahweh says to the Messiah in verse 2 that He is giving Him dominion in the midst of His enemies. So not just of an earthly Israel. Verse three says that the Messiah’s people offer themselves to Him daily. This also speaks to the divine nature of the Messiah. God does not say they are His people. No, God attributes His own people to the Messiah.

Verse 4 is obvious however. The Messiah is not just a King but a priest. The Messiah is a priest forever. Verses 5 and 6 reiterate that the nations will be placed under the authority of the Messiah. The Messiah is the King over all the Earth. Verse 7 speaks of the peace of the Messiah.

This Psalm is clear, the Messiah is no mere man who would overthrow a human order. It is much beyond this. The promised Savior is truly God, truly man. He is Christ our Lord.

Transition:

Before we move on, we must see there is more in this passage than we have covered. In fact, there is more in the past several passages than we have covered. We have touched on this, but now that we are in this section, we can see it fully. What is this? We can see Christ’s view of Scripture.

Christ’s View of Scripture.

There is rising movement withing Christianity to move away from the Old Testament. Famous pastors saying we must “unhitch” from the Old Testament. They see there are difficult passages and things we must wrestle with out of many passages in the whole of the Bible. But these people tend to view the New Testament as authoritative and anything before Matthew as optional. This mentality is see perfectly in the multitudes of people who only want to look at what Jesus said. These people will only want to look at the “Red Letters.” (Jesus’ words are written in red in some editions of the Bible.) I’m sure you’ve heard people make claims like that. Someone will speak of a clear teaching of the Scriptures and they will fire back that Jesus never said anything about that. What is comical is that these people never really seem to examine what those red letters say or mean. Jesus spoke often about how He viewed Scripture.

In the past several verses we have seen Christ speak openly about His view of Scripture. It would be foolish to pass this up. If we examine our past few texts, we can get a wonderful overview of how our Lord viewed Scripture.

First, Scripture is Authoritative.

Scripture is Authoritative.

Explanation: It is the same as if God spoke verbally.

In our last passage we saw Jesus addressing the Sadducees. He said to them in verse 31, “Have you not read what was spoken to you by God.” I covered the meaning of this in depth in that sermon, but I will touch on it again. Jesus is saying that the written Word of God has the exact same authority as if God were speaking verbally. This means that Jesus viewed Scripture as caring the same authority as if God broke open the heavens and spoke directly. That was Jesus’ view.

Jesus also views Scripture as trustworthy and reliable.

Scripture is Trustworthy and Reliable.

Explanation: Jesus builds an argument based on the grammar of a passage.

Not only did Jesus see Scripture as totally authoritative, but as completely trustworthy and reliable. In Jesus’ interaction with the Sadducees, He built His argument around the grammatical use of one word. Jesus built His case about the resurrection around the fact that God IS the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. IS, not WAS. Jesus viewed Scripture as completely trustworthy and reliable. This also speaks to the reliable nature of the preservation of Scripture. Jesus quoted this passage well over a thousand years after it was written. The originals were long gone. But they had been preserved in manuscript form. Jesus obviously trusted God to preserve His word so accurately that an argument can be made based off the grammatical use of one word. Clearly Jesus viewed Scripture as trustworthy and reliable.

Jesus also viewed Scripture as Sufficient.

Scripture is Sufficient.

Explanation: The Son of God does not need to say anything new, but quotes Scripture.

We can see Jesus’ views that Scripture is authoritative and reliable through what He said and did. But we can also learn from what He did not do. Notice what Jesus did not do when confronted. He did not rely on His own authority. Now this is shocking. Jesus is God the Son, second member of the Holy Trinity. Jesus could have said, “As God, the Creator and Lord of all, here is the answer.” Instead, Jesus quotes Scripture. When approached with difficult questions, Jesus patterns for us what we ought to do. He goes ad fonte, back to the source. Jesus goes to Scripture for His answer. What does this mean? It means that Scripture is sufficient. It is enough. Within God’s Word are the explicit or implicit answers to all we must know.

What does that mean? Scripture either directly says what we must know, or it teaches us how to come to what we must know. This is what the old catechism answer means when it says Scripture is our sure rule for all of faith and life. We can go to the Word of God with any question and read what God has spoken in regard to it.

Finally, Jesus also views Scripture as binding.

Scripture is Binding.

Explanation: All our beliefs are required to be conformed to the truth of Scripture.

Jesus holds all people’s beliefs and actions to the standard of the Word of God. All people are bound to the greatest and second greatest commands. They will be judged according to their failure to keep them. However, beyond this, notice the treatment of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Jesus rebukes them harshly for their failure to conform their beliefs to Scripture. This really is the primary rebuke. They are believing and teaching things against the Scriptures. Their beliefs are to be bound to Scripture. And notice again that it is not just some Scripture. Jesus holds them to the whole of Scripture. The Sadducees are not innocent because they openly admit to only believing part of Scripture. They are bound to the whole of God’s Word.

And this brings the question, do you share the same view of Scripture that Jesus did?

Argumentation: Do you share the same view of Scripture that Jesus did?

Clearly those people who only claim to head the New Testament or only the Red Letters do not believe even what they claim. The people who claim to believe the Red Letters obviously do not even believe those. If they did believe those red letters, they would be forced to see that Jesus clearly believed all of Scripture. And those who claim to reject the Old Testament would be forced to see that Jesus clearly viewed the Old Testament as Truly Sacred Scripture.

What we see in these groups is nothing more than heresy and intellectual dishonesty. This is not new either. It is the ancient heresy of antinomianism. Nothing new. It is also intellectually dishonest. You cannot look at the New Testament, or the Words of Christ, and reject the Old Testament. If they were intellectually honest, they would say they pick and choose what Scriptures conform to their own desires. They would be open and honest and say that they only believe the passages that conform to their own desires.

And this is the position that Jesus leaves us in. You either reject Scripture in favor of your own desires or you embrace all of it. You can’t just pick and choose. It is either all true, or all false. You cannot simply be indifferent to it. It is either true or false. One thing we cannot do is say, “I like this part here, but not that part.” That option is not presented to us.

Transition:

And this is similar to how we must see Christ. You can either bow down to Christ or reject Him entirely. What you cannot do is simply be indifferent to Him.

You see, Christ is a King like no other.

A King Like No Other.

Explanation: Jesus rules a real Kingdom.

Jesus condemns the Pharisees for viewing the Messiah as merely a human. But He does not condemn them for saying the Messiah is the son of David. The messiah is the Son of David. However, the Messiah is not just man, but God. And this is Jesus. Jesus has claimed to be the Messiah on multiple occasions. One thing Matthew’s account does is constantly reinforce the identity of Christ as the Messiah. It is clear that Jesus has presented Himself as the promised Messiah. Jesus has claimed divine authority.

And this leaves us in a very sticky place. You see, most people in our society claim to love Jesus. You would be hard pressed to find people who openly admit to hating Jesus, though those groups are growing. But when pressed, most people would claim to love Jesus. But when asked why, it is clear that they do not truly know who Jesus is or what He said. Often the comments are made that they view Jesus as a good teacher. Someone who taught us to love. Jesus was some kind of Eastern mystic who preached love in a hateful world and was killed for it. Oh if only we could embody his teaching, everyone would love one another and probably be high all the time. This is the pop culture view of Jesus.

There is a problem here. You cannot read the teachings of Jesus and get that. Reading the teachings of Jesus will leave you with the clear picture of one who claimed to be God and backed it up with the divine authority of God. So now you are left in the familiar place of acceptance or rejection. Either Jesus is who He clearly claims to be or He is not. There is no place for a pick and choose approach.

C.S. Lewis put it excellently in His work, Mere Christianity. “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse…. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

So which is it? I am here to tell you the good news. Jesus is exactly who He says He is. He is Lord of all. Jesus is the promised King. But He is not what the Pharisees expected. They expected a merely human King who would save them from an oppressive government. What Jesus is however, is merely the King of the whole of creation. Jesus is not a king. That does not do Him justice. No, Jesus is THE King. Jesus is a King like no other. And just like Jesus is a King like no other, He is part of a Kingdom like no other.

The Jews of the day expected the Messiah to be merely a human king who would come and establish merely a human kingdom. This was not the case. Christ came as the God man who established an eternal Kingdom. The Kingdom of Christ is the church. The church is the promised kingdom of God. And we are tasked with discipling the nations. We are not to wield the sword. Remember, God has given that to the civil government.

Application:

And this is the truth. Rejoice! Christ is King!

Rejoice! Christ is King!

This is the reality, Jesus is King. We ought to join in with the ancient church and proclaim “Kristos Curios!” Christ is King. And this is the gospel. Christ is Lord of all. All have sinned against the King. But the King has offered forgiveness. Repent, turn away from your treasonous act of sinning against the Lord of all. Turn and serve the King. When you turn away from sin and turn to Christ, you will be saved. For all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.

And all who are saved have a task. We are to disciple the nations.

Disciple the Nations.

Remember Christ’s dominion mandate before He ascended. 18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,20 teaching them to keep all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Jesus has all authority. What is the application of this? We go and disciple the nations. We go and teach them of the Lordship of Christ. This is the conquering of the World. But our warfare is not like the world’s. We expand the Kingdom not with violence. The Kingdom of God is expanded through worship and the sacraments.

The Kingdom of God is Expanded Through Worship and the Sacraments.

We see the Kingdom grow through worshipping our Lord. This is why through ages past, when persecution would break out in the church, they would sing the Psalms and hymns of praise. Rather than take up the sword, they would begin to praise God. They would gather all the more and hear the Word of God read and preached. And through this, the Kingdom of God would flourish. Why? How can this be? When facing active attempts to destroy the church, how could it grow? When the entire might of the Roman empire would come down on this group of peaceful men and women, how could they endure? How could this Kingdom survive when it fought back with song and Word? Because this Kingdom is different than an Earthly kingdom. And our King is King of all.

But there is one other way we make warfare. We endure through the sacraments. What does that mean? Sacrament comes from two words meaning sacred and mystery. In the original usage, it meant something Sacred handed down from Christ. There are only two acts in the church can rightly be viewed in this sense. Baptism, and the Lord’s Table. We talk often of the Lord’s Table, but let’s talk about Baptism.

Baptism is the entry into the Church. Christ told us to go disciple the nations and baptise them. What is significant about baptism? The Lord’s table is an often observed physical re-enactment of the gospel. It is a physical reminder of the gospel that we observe throughout our Christian life. But baptism is to be observed at the start of our Christian walk. It is a the physical reminder of the gospel that is our first declaration of obedience to Christ. It is us publicly declaring our allegiance to Christ. As we go into the water, we symbolize the death of Christ. As we come out of the water we symbolize the resurrection of Christ and our hope of resurrection on the last day. It also symbolized the cleansing of sin that we have experienced in Christ. As the waters wash our body, so we are washed and now dead to sin and alive in Christ. In this way, baptism is our physical reminder of dying with Christ, and being made alive in Him.

So I invite you. Have you ever been baptised? Have you publically proclaimed faith in Christ? Please talk to me if you have not. We are a mobile church and do not have a permanent baptistry. This means that we have to plan a little bit, but I want to see you baptised. We will make it happen.

And please do not view this as unimportant. We may debate the mode and timing of baptism, but no one ought to deny it’s significance. There is a growing movement among Christians to view Baptism and Communion as un-important. But this is vastly untrue. Baptism is the public declaration of faith in Christ. What does it say of someone who claims to be a Christian but refuses to publically identify with Him? One great Christian teacher said that were He ever forced to label himself, he would say “I am baptized.” I echo this. Who am I? I am baptized. What does this mean? It means I have publically sworn my allegiance to Christ. I am washed of my sins and alive in Christ. Who am I? I am baptised. Who are you?

Let’s Pray.

Closing Prayer:

Closing Doxology:

Closing Benediction: