The Love that will not let you go

Today, on the first day of summer, in the middle of spring, I have the privilege to speak and preach on the most cherished and loved passages. One of the passages about the assurance of salvation we will go to this text From Romans chapter 8 and with the help of the Holy Spirit, look at the context and explain it verse by verse. Back when we were planning the preaching schedule, I was not aware that on this exact Sunday our founding pastor, Pastor Steve and his wife Becky will be here. So I guess they're still a bit jet lagged and they will overlook any mistakes I'm going to make.

But seriously, all listeners, including myself when I'm listening to others preach, must be diligent. I hope that our church family crossways like the Bereans in the New Testament. You know there were this group of people mentioned in Acts 17. They were known for their noble character because they eagerly received Paul's and Silas message. But then they examined the Scriptures daily to verify if the new teachings were true.

In this way they set a standard for all of us for diligent scripture based faith and discernment. They are a model for us. I talked sometimes and I'm sure some of you did too. To dear brothers and sisters in Christ who live in fear and doubt. Maybe they are going through a difficult time, a difficult time in life and maybe lack assurance of faith.

Notice I talk about believers in Christ because unbelievers have every reason to live in fear and doubt and to be afraid of judgment and the wrath of God. But I'm talking about believers who have doubts and live in fear because they say they could maybe do something and sin in such a way that they would lose their salvation and God would turn away from them and abandon them forever. Just two weeks ago we were reminded in Pastor Chad's message where Paul says at the beginning of the chapter you talking to followers of Christ. In chapter 15 you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba. Father, we are God's children and in intimate connection with God.

That's why we can call him Abba. That means Daddy, right?

It happens that sometimes Christians misunderstand and confuse losing salvation with losing rewards in heaven. According to the Bible, these are not the same. Scripture consistently distinguishes between the security of salvation rooted in Christ's final work, finished work, and the variability of rewards based on the believers on our faithfulness. Salvation on the one hand is described in Bible as something God gives, secures and keeps, right? A gift not earned by grace you have been saved, not by works.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Right? We are kept by God's power. He is able to save completely or to the uttermost, those who come to God. Salvation is not something a believer can lose by insufficient performance.

It rests on Jesus obedience, not ours. He became obedient to death, even death on a cross.

The rewards, on the other hand, are described in Scripture as an evaluation of faithfulness. It's not entrance in heaven. Rewards are based on what believers do after they are saved. The clearest passage about this is in First Corinthians 5, where Paul describes Christ as the foundation, and then the believers building on that foundation with materials of varying quality, then a future judgment that tests the quality of each person's work. So Paul says, some works will survive, there will be rewards, but some works will burn up.

There will be a loss of rewards, but the believer himself will be saved. Yet as to fire, in the last weeks and months we talked already about some subjects that are tough and difficult to understand. Remember how Peter was saying about Paul that he's a beloved brother, but sometimes he writes things that are difficult to understand and often twisted by ignorant people. Now some who disagree or interpret differently the passages about God's part or our part in the salvation, or about God's sovereignty and human responsibility, argue many times from it cannot be so. The text can't mean that.

Instead of saying the text looks like to mean that, so it must be, and maybe there is something wrong in my head I see what the text says and I say, maybe my thinking or my understanding is a problem. My head is too small, it's too limited. But I'm the problem, not the Bible. Others come and they have such strong convictions, like if that were true, there would be no free will. So it can't mean that we should not squeeze the Almighty, eternal, all knowing God in a box, right?

We cannot explain everything by logic, by our logic. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts, says the Lord. We should be people who see the text and say, okay, I don't get it, but there it is, it's just there. And I've got to give it to the Lord and say, lord, I don't understand it, but I trust you.

Today we reach the peak of one of the greatest chapters in all of scriptures. This is really one of those golden chapters worth learning by heart. Romans 8 begins with no condemnation for those who are in Christ. Jesus and ends with no separation. It starts with the Holy Spirit setting us free and ends with the love of God holding us fast.

If you go to the beginning of the chapter, it says in verse one, there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

In other words, if you are in Christ, you have put your faith in him, you belong to him, Your life is his life, his life is your life. He is your Lord and Savior, and there will never be any condemnation. But the apostle Paul anticipates all kinds of questions. And so he launches off verse one really into a whole chapter to strengthen our confidence in the security of our salvation, right? And in today's passage, Paul reaches the climax.

He erupts into a series of rhetorical questions, questions that are not meant to make us unstable, to create in us doubt, but to create confidence. Questions that shouldn't unsettle us, but anchor us.

Let's bow our heads and pray before we dive into the text.

Lord God, your Word is living and active, Father, and we depend on you. Grant me the ability to speak clearly and boldly and faithfully. I stand here in need of your grace.

And Father, as your word is proclaimed, let it do what it only can do. Comfort the weary, strengthen the faithful and convict, and draw every heart closer to Christ. As your Word is opened, let it accomplish your purpose. May your Spirit work deeply in every mind and heart today in Jesus name. Amen.

So let's read the beginning of our passage, verse 31, where it says, what then shall we say in response to these things?

Maybe you missed last week's sermon. Let's do a very short recap of the last verses we read last Sunday, verses 28 to 30. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined he also called.

And those he called, he also justified. Those he justified, he also glorified. 3 thoughts from each one of these verses. God works all things for the good of those who love Him. God shapes his people into Christ's likeness.

And God finishes what he starts. So the first verse 28. And we know that in all things he works for the good of those who love Him. Maybe you've heard or seen that popular proverb or saying, everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

This makes absolutely no sense in a secular context where people have no hope at all. Everything is going downhill, life is short, our bodies decay, and we are left on our own to die in our sins. This actually makes sense only if you believe in God, who is present in difficult times and is holding us in his hands. This verse starts with a certainty. We know, not guess not, hope vaguely.

It's not we think, so we know. But a statement is also specific. It is not that all things are good or feel good. This doesn't mean that if you're faithful enough, everything will be good and perfect on this earth and God will grant you every wish. It is not this distorted idea that you will prosper and have success in everything you do right, provided you have enough faith, or that God will heal you from every sickness if you pray enough.

Of course God can heal and he will heal. But sometimes he says no or wait, My grace is sufficient for you. It is not that all things are good, but that God bends every circumstance, even losses and delays and tragedies toward a good outcome. He defines this could refers not only to our temporal but also our eternal benefits. It's the good of being drawn deeper into his purpose and reshaped into Christ as you read and held securely in his love.

Your present suffering or confusion is not the end of the story. God works in places you cannot see yet, right. Many scholars suggest that a translation should be God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him. In verse 29, those he foreknew, he also predestined the good of the verse before that is defined here. God's goal is to confirm you to the image of Christ.

Every hardship and every test, but also every blessing becomes a tool in the hands of a Father who is shaping us, who is shaping you into someone who looks like His Son, like Jesus. This is not God merely reacting to your life as it unfolds. It's God carrying out a purpose. He said before your story began, we are not drifting without a direction. You are not drifting, you are being formed.

And at the end of that formation is final glory in heaven. That what we call glorification, sharing in the life, joy and beauty of Christ forever and ever.

In verse 30 we read those whom he predestined. He also called.

Paul describes here salvation as a chain of unbreakable links, a chain that comes in a specific order. God's order is really very important. When we get out of order, we get a disorder. Here's the order of salvation. And it starts in eternity past and it goes into eternity future.

He says that God foreknew us. What he means here is not a concept that God, before the foundation of the world, looked into the future down the corridors of time, and he saw that you were going to choose him. So he chose you because you were going to choose Him. This word for new isn't used in this way. Jesus told the disciples in John 15, you did not choose me, but I chose you.

The text doesn't say God foreknew something about people like their future faith. It says he foreknew the people themselves. There's a clear distinction between foreseeing actions and knowing facts, or foreknowing people and choosing in love. This is a verb to foreknow. I will not pronounce it in Greek.

In a way that aligns with the Hebrew concept of relational, intimate, loving. Paul uses the word to communicate God's prior electing love. Because God is eternal. He's out of time. He's not stuck in time.

Right? God is not waiting for you to make a decision because he doesn't know what a decision will be. He's all knowing he knew you before you knew Him. He knew that he was going to send His Son Jesus to die for you. And he knew that he was going to save you.

He knew you.

Notice the last verb? It says he also glorified. It's written in the past tense. Even though our glorification is actually still in the future. Right.

Paul speaks of it as already accomplished because in God's plan and in God's time, it is as certain as it had already happened. Your future with God is not fragile. It is secured by his initiative, his power and his promise.

Now, don't get me wrong. The Bible clearly teaches, and we teach, both God's sovereignty and human responsibility. God is 100% sovereign and in control, setting the stage and parameters in saving humanity. But human beings are morally accountable and will suffer eternal consequences for rejecting Christ. This is the paradox, not the contradiction, that rounds throughout the entire Bible.

Scripture never presents God's foreknowledge and election as negating human accountability. Let me say that again. God is 100% sovereign and in control, setting the stage and the parameters in saving humanity. But human beings are morally accountable and will suffer eternal consequences for rejecting Christ. Back to our starting what then shall we say to these things?

In other words, what do we say to a God who loved you before time began? What do you say to a God who called you out of death? What do you say to a God who justified you freely? What do you say to a God who has already spoken your future in the past tense?

What do you say to the fact that we have a hope that is secure and is eternal and we eagerly wait for it? What do we say to the fact that there is. Yeah, we are secure because of the Holy Spirit who is making intercession in unutterable language before God on our behalf? This is the Apostle Paul's way of saying, beloved, we just take a moment and let this sink in.

If God is for us, who can be against us? This is not a hypothetical if. It means, since God is for us, God is for me and for you. Just let it sit and think about it. He's not neutral toward you.

He's not waiting for you to perform. He's not watching from a distance. He is for you. Since God is for us, who can be against us? In other words, who can withstand us successfully?

His point is, what are we going to say after we know this much? Well, Paul wants to follow his argument up a little further and he push it a little bit. He pushes it and let's just say, let's imagine there may be some ways in which we can lose our salvation. Maybe someone could take it away, maybe some human being. Can someone take over salvation?

Look at verse 31 again.

If God is for us, who is against us? If God is on our side, what person can succeed in being against us? If God says we're not condemned, who can say otherwise? The opposite. Is there anybody in the world that can take away our salvation?

How about people around us? You know, there are people actually who would like to take us out of the salvation, take us away from the way, the way capitalized way. They would like to remove us from following Christ. There are probably some of you who have people in your family, friends who would like to do that. You're maybe the only Christian in your family.

If they headed their way, they would get you out of this brainwashing. They say that goes out on church every Sunday and they get you to reject Jesus and recant your faith and get away from this kind of stuff because it's turning you into a fanatic, right? And you're very difficult to live with because you don't enjoy the things they enjoy. They would like to get you after this, but can they? What about people in a secular education system who would love to do that?

They would love to convince you that there is no God. And if there is, he doesn't care the world was not created. It just came out of nothing. It evolved out of a primordial soup. They would love to say that.

That there is no God. They would love for your young people to send them to schools and universities, and they would love to attack their Christian faith and their convictions and fill their minds with all kinds of impossible things and destroy their faith. And then there are those who promote filth and immorality and pornography and trash online and in the media today. And those people would love to get you out of Christianity so that you could become a consumer of their products. They would love to hook you on their stuff.

They would love for you to abandon the way and your integrity and fall into immortality. I'm sorry, immorality.

Then there are the legalists.

There are those people who would love for you to abandon salvation by grace, throw away the truth that you're saved by faith alone, in Christ alone, and buy into the idea that you're saved by faith plus works or plus something else. Faith and revelation. Maybe rituals or ceremonies or speaking in tongues.

Then there are those people who come and knock at your door sometimes, or you can see them in front of Espan or U Bahn here in Berlin. They want to do a Bible study with you and they would like to lead you to their writings. What whatsoever society they will love you would love you if you would recant your Christian faith. You know, salvation by grace, belief in the deity of Christ. These are all false teachers and false religions who want to take you away from the truth and confuse you with with their lies.

Can those who are against you succeed? Well, look back at verse 31. If God is for us, who can be against us? If God, the Almighty God is for us, is there someone more powerful than he? Obviously the answer is no, of course not.

And since God is for us, who can successfully be against us? That is why in First John, chapter four, we read, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. There is nothing in this created universe that can stand up against the living God, the Holy Spirit, who dwells in you. Now imagine a little boy who was being bullied. This actually happened to me when I was in elementary school.

A little boy on his way to school, right? Every day he walks past the same neighborhood and the same neighbor kids who are there are bullying him on the way. And he walks with his head down and tries to get away as fast as possible, right? One day, imagine his father, who is like a pretty big and strong guy, says, okay, son, I'll walk you to School Today I will be with you all the time. Now imagine this boy.

How will the boy walk this time? He wakes. The same path past the same bullies, right? But this time his father is towering behind him. And suddenly the boy walks differently with his head up.

Not because the bull has disappeared, but because his father is with him.

Church the enemies of your soul may still shout, but our Father stands behind us. Verse 32. He who didn't spare his son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Paul now gives us the greatest proof of God's favor. What did God do? He did not spare his own son Jesus, but gave him up for us all. The cross where Jesus died is God's final argument. When you doubt his goodness, look at the cross.

When you feel unworthy, look at the cross of Christ. The cross of God is shouting, I am for you. If you remember back in Genesis 22, Abraham raised his knife over his son Isaac. But God stopped him. It was only a test.

On the hill of Golgotha, when Jesus was hanging on the cross, no one stopped God the Father. It was his will. He did not spare his son, his son Jesus, so he could spare you.

Now, if God took his own beloved son, the one who belonged intimately to him, and it pleased the lord, as Isaiah 53 says, it has pleased the Lord to crush him. And if God chose to put Jesus to death, if God gave him up to all of that for us, will he not also with him freely give us all things? If he gave us the best already, will he hold back something good? That's Paul's point. Infinite love is not going to change.

That's why we are secure. The same God who loved us when we hated him and were unworthy, gave us his son, is the same God who loves us now, when we are his children and will give us the blessings he promised.

Verse 33. Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

We can imagine now a scene of a courtroom. Actually, Paul is bringing this scene, speaking about in these terms. Satan is accusing you, people are accusing you. But accuser has no case. None of them can overturn God's verdict because it is God who justifies.

The highest court has already ruled. The judge has declared you righteous. The case is closed. Imagine again this courtroom where the judge slams the gavel and says, not guilty. Case closed, case dismissed.

Then someone stands up and says, shouting, but wait. I want to bring more evidence, more witnesses. The judge Replies, the court is adjourned. The verdict is final. Dear, once God has slammed the gavel over your life, when or who then is the one who condemns?

Next verse no 1. Christ. Jesus, who died more than that, was raised to life, is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. The Apostle Paul gives here reasons why condemnation is impossible. He brings Christ into picture and he says, jesus Christ died for you.

He died. Your penalty is paid. He was raised. He's at the right hand of God, and Christ intercedes for you. Your advocate never rests.

Shall Christ who died for you turn his back on the very act as to its purpose? When he died, he received the condemnation that was due to you and me, right? He received the condemnation for sin that we should have received. He never would have died otherwise. He had no sin.

He never would have died if he hadn't borne our sin. Now listen. He can't condemn us again because his death proves that he already took our condemnation. He would literally undo the very death he died. You see, the whole thing is misrepresented if we deny the security of a believer.

Because now you've got Christ bearing a condemnation, the condemnation for all your sins and then turning around and because of some sin you commit, condemning you again when he himself has already paid for that sin and borne the condemnation. Is he going to condemn you when he already died as your condemnation?

Imagine that scene of the courtroom again. This time you're standing in court and guilty as charged. But your defense attorney, as we said, is Jesus Christ himself. And every time an accusation rises, he points to his wounds and marks from the cross and says, paid in full.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword. Now, some people say, that's correct. Nobody can take away your salvation. God will not forsake you.

Satan cannot do it. But you can do it yourself. There are people you know who Preach on John 10 where it says, no one is able to take you out of my Father's hand. But then they say, but you can take yourself out of your Father's hand, out of God's hand. Somebody says, life can get so tough, so hard, so difficult that you just bail out.

It's just not worth it.

What does this verse say? Paul, you know, asks this central question, can anything separate us from the love of Christ? He lists several. List of threats, like trouble, hardship and so on, persecution. And these are really not theoretical because Paul lived them in his body.

And many, many Christians along the last hundreds and thousands of years lived all these threats and troubles. He's listed really some heavy stuff here, right? If you think about it, there are some people who make a commitment to Christ very superficially. And as soon as trouble comes, they're gone. Right?

Matthew 13, the parable of the sower. The sower, sorry, the rocky soil, or because they don't want to let go of the world and suffer the loss of things. As a Christian, they're like that weedy soil. They have a short little emotional reaction, but no commitment to Christ, no real salvation. But here we are talking about a true Christian, and into his life comes this list.

Tribulation, distress, all these bad things. Is that going to make him abandon his faith, Abandon God? Is that going to separate? It will make him separate from the love of Christ. What if we fail?

What if we cannot do it anymore? What if life gets too tough? Tribulation? It could be pressure, it could be rejection from people turning against you. All of a sudden, life becomes difficult.

Living your Christian testimony before unbelievers is really tough. Maybe you don't get a promotion you want, maybe you lose your job, you feel pressure from friends. You're just being rejected. It's not easy to lead a Christian life in your environment. Will that cause you to abandon Christ?

So the question is, does this kind of stuff in a Christian's life make them abandon their faith? No, it doesn't produce abandonment of faith. It produces spiritual strength. Right? That's the kind of stuff that doesn't make you weak.

It makes you stronger. Because God says, my grace is sufficient for you. My strength says, God is made perfect in your weakness. That's the kind that brings out the reality of salvation and shows the truth about who you belong to.

Now, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Paul doesn't say we avoid suffering. He says we conquer in suffering more than conquerors. What does this mean? This means really overwhelming victory, not barely surviving and limping across the finish line.

There are many moments of doubt and moments of fear. But the fate endures. And we are.

The Greek word says something like huper, Nikomen, Hipper. From there we have the word hyper super conquerors. I just read that the word nike comes from that verb root. We use that for shoes, right? And those are supposed to help us go light and be fast.

Supposed to conquer, supposed to win victories. He says we are like hyper Nikes. You know, I'm sorry, I'm not debating what to wear. No, you can wear Adidas if you want to, but it says we are super conquerors through all of this. The trials work for our good and drive us to a deeper relationship to God.

The trials produce eternal glory.

Now to our last verses. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of Christ, of the love of God that is, in Christ Jesus.

Paul ends with a list of 10 things that cannot separate us from God's love. He sweeps the universe and declares, nothing can separate you from God's love. He says, for I am convinced. Are you convinced of this truth?

Death cannot separate you. It brings you only closer to God. Right? Life cannot separate you, not your failures and your fears or weaknesses. Spiritual forces and demons cannot separate you.

No one can snatch you from Christ. Time cannot separate you. Nothing in your past, present or future Space cannot separate you. No height nor depth. Creation cannot separate you, because the Creator holds you.

In Jeremiah 31, God says, I have loved you with an everlasting love. This love is inseparable, unbreakable.

Okay, but that. Does that mean that, well, if I am saved, I can just lay down comfortably and do nothing? The Holy Spirit does everything anyway, so why should I bother? Of course not. I follow Christ.

I deny myself and take up my cross and follow Jesus, being aware at the same time that I can do nothing without Christian. I love the Lord with all my heart, with all my soul, all my mind, with all my strength, every day and every hour and every second. But do I do this alone? No. We continue to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.

This is the healthy fear of God. The reverence of God. Remember, we talked at the beginning of fear of judgment. But this is the healthy fear of God. So we continue to work our salvation and we just do it on our own.

Full stop. No. What does it say in the next sentence? For it is God who works in us to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. And he's the author, the sustainer, and the finisher of our faith.

Amen. So to wrap this up, we asked ourselves this question.

If I'm a genuine believer and I love Christ and sin again, can I take away my salvation through sinning according to Romans 8? No. Nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God. You're a created thing, aren't you? Again, what role did you play in your salvation?

If you think about it. You did a sinning. He did a saving. It's not your and my salvation. It's his right.

Your salvation is God's gift. Did you save yourself? Of course not. He did. No one can come to Jesus unless God the Father draws them.

But you may say I turn my back on God.

It's good he didn't turn his back on you. Well, you can say, I ran away. God is faster. If you're truly in Christ, you can never be out. He justified you once and for all.

He will not justify you today and unjustify you tomorrow or the next day.

If you go back to our verse 30, those whom he predestined, he also called. Those who he called, he justified. And those he justified, he glorified. This means that my election has an effect in my life. I'm not going to fall away forever.

He's going to take care of me. If you ask yourself this question, what makes you think you'll wake up a believer tomorrow morning? How would you answer that question? If you answer and say, well, because I have a will and I will and I choose to believe every morning, I would say that's a very feeble answer. You don't know that.

You have no idea whether your will will incline that way tomorrow morning unless you believe. God keeps you. And God wakes you up a believer tomorrow morning because His Kim committed himself to do that. Because he chose you. He chose you before the foundation of the world.

If God left you to yourself, you wouldn't wake up a believer tomorrow morning. You'd wake up a skeptic or a doubter or an unbeliever.

Let me speak to those of you who are Christians. If you are a follower of Christ, God foreknew you. He predestined you. He chose you from eternity past before you did anything. He chose you before you loved Him.

He loved you before you knew Him. He knew you before you pursued Him. He pursued you. He was for you even when you were his enemy. Right?

His love and commitment to you stretches from eternity past into eternity future. Which means that you should sleep well tonight and that you should wake up with hope for tomorrow. That he who has set his heart for you, it's forever. And he will never turn his heart from you. It's a miracle that God has done in your life.

If you are a Christian, you're a miracle. We sometimes call the birth of a child, of a baby a miracle, right? That's amazing. Those of you who had the privilege to have kids, the blessing to have kids it's incredible. But the spiritual birth, that's what we call to be born again, is even greater.

You were dead in your sins and now you're alive. Christ gave you life. That's a miracle.

And secondly, for those of you who are not yet believers in Christ, why do you think you're in church today, this afternoon? Maybe God is pursuing you. Why does this even sound interesting to you? Maybe God is awakening you. Maybe it sounds like hope to you.

God is saving you. We want to encourage you to consider this relationship with Christ, with Jesus. He came once to die for the sins of the world. For your sins and my sins. He will come a second time to judge the world.

Your eternity can be secure. It's not about being religious. It is about your eternal destiny. God can change you from the inside and it causes you to want a relationship with Jesus. And so if you're here, this is where we encourage you to begin having a relation, a personal relationship with him.

He died the death. You are supposed to die. His gift of salvation is the most precious gift that you can possibly have. It is the most secure love you will ever experience. And it's the promised destiny that no one can change.

Amen.

Let's pray at the end and the worship team can come to the front.

Father, what a great joy is brought to our hearts as we recognize the fact that the love which you have granted us is forever. Oh God. We have no words to express our gratitude. We want to be. To be grateful from the bottom of our hearts for your amazing work of salvation that began in eternity past with election and went through the cross out of the open tomb and is produced and in us by the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit.

We thank you, Father. Help us rest in your purpose today. Teach us to trust in you that you are working in every detail, Lord, shaping us into the image of Christ. Help us to remember that even when we stumble, even when we fall, still your love is sure and we can sing with joy. God is for us.

Let his truth steady our heart and anchor our hope. Amen.

Great, great job, worship team. Thanks so much to Sarah and Natalia for helping the teens to practice and practice with them for your time. We encourage you to stay after the service for some coffee uncakes if you would like to fellowship together. And remember, there is the discovery class at 5pm if you want to stay afterwards. And I will dismiss you with this benediction.

Esmar of Deutsch. God, align. Karn oikh da vorbevaren von Rectum. Wake up to Ian Zokernti von Shulbe fried unfola freude for imt.

Amen. Now, to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory, with exceeding joy. To God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. And all God's people say Amen. You're dismissed.