we were praying before the session and one of the text that was prayed over was this one all authority in heaven and on earth it belongs to me jesus said all authority is mine go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them and then name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you and look hold I'll be with you I am with you to the end of the age now that phrase teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you is part of
the commission that we receive from the Lord and it is valid as long as this age lasts and this age is still lasting and therefore the command to the church still exists to teach them everything that I have commanded you that has been heavy on my heart for about two years it is what drove me when I was unsub at achill to prepare the book what Jesus demands from the world that book is my effort to obey Jesus in that command if he if he stands me in front of him at the last day and
quotes me his command teach them everything I commanded I'm just gonna say I tried in what Jesus demands from the world I tried to give a summary of what you commanded to the whole world in that book that's my best shot if I blew it spank me but I tried now here's the implication for this issue there is no access to what Jesus commanded except through the Bible none therefore if that commandment is to be obeyed then we have to have a large measure of confidence in this book and I do want to obey that
all Authority has been given to me go them to observe everything that I commanded and I'll be with you so even though we are talking about foundations in this seminar the goal is obedience to everything that he commanded because if you don't have confidence that what he what is written here is what he committed then you won't obey that command there'll be no way for you to do it let's pray father I ask for your help now in this session that you would grant me to not go down any trails that would be unhelpful there's
so many ways to waste time in the seminar that is so short grant me to hit upon those things that would be most fruitful and helpful to talk about so draw near guard us from the evil one guard us from distraction guard us from any kind of breakdown in our thought processes or the mechanics of this seminar grant attentiveness for those who are here I pray and may we engage by the spirit in the truth for the glory of your son in his name we pray amen so you see step 1 we did why are
we concerned about the Bible step 2 which books make up the Bible and why step 3 do we have the very words written by the biblical authors all of that in previous sessions and now we move to step 4 what does the Bible claim for itself and I wrote in the margin here Jesus view because I have stacks of overheads like this that I'm not going to use that would be the Apostles claims and the prophets claims and the laws claims there are so many hundreds of texts on the self claim so I'm just gonna
take Jesus because I think he is in this regard the most significant testifier to the authority and truth of the Bible so let's let's listen to what Jesus says about the Old Testament and I know a rigorous thinker at this point would say this is kind of circular here you're using Jesus and you don't have improved yet that we that what he said is true and I know that that's what I'm doing and I'm doing it partly because of time and partly because the most liberal scholars that I dealt with like Bultmann say in my
early years of study all agree that what I'm about to tell you about Jesus attitude towards the Old Testament is in fact what his attitude was this what I'm about to show you right now is is not generally up for grabs what the historical Jesus thought about the Bible is not generally controverted whether Jesus is God and whether Jesus is a true spokesman that there's all kinds of disagreement about but as far as what he thought about the Old Testament is not so that's why I'm jumping right in here with these comments so I've got
a whole bunch of comments about what Jesus thought and we'll try to move through them relatively quickly because in the end the main substance of this seminar is why do we believe it not did Jesus say it and so we'll get there Lord willing Jesus believed the psalmist spoke by the Holy Spirit we're just gonna pick sample statements that Jesus had about his view of the Old Testament Jesus answering began to say this is Mark 12:35 as he taught in the temple how is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of
David David himself said in the whole spirit or by the Holy Spirit the Lord said to my lord sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies beneath thy feet quoting Psalm 110 so there's that little phrase that Jesus says this is the way David spoke these words and he's commenting on the authority that David had when he spoke so he believed that David was speaking in the in the power in the truth in the guidance of the Holy Spirit Jesus believed that what Moses wrote in the law of God the law God himself
said this one is very interesting matthew 19:3 through 6 some Pharisees came to him testing him and saying is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause at all and he answered and said have you not read that he created them from the beginning now that's God right he who created them from the beginning made them male and female quoting Genesis 1:27 and said there's the key he said you don't know that the one who created them said and then he quotes Genesis 2:24 but this cause the man shall leave his
father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh in the Old Testament quoted right there Genesis 2:23 it isn't God who's talking it's Moses the writer who says the man said this is now bone of my bones this is the narration by the writer Moses this is how that this now bone of my bones flesh of my flesh she should be called woman because she was taken out of man for this cause a man shall leave his father his mother that's what Jesus is quoting and shall cleave
to his wife and the two shall become one flesh and Jesus says God said it that's amazing okay so this is this is these are little subtle ways that are just opening us to the mind of Christ as to how he viewed the Old Testament you get a sentence like that written by Moses not quoting God and Jesus says God said it very very significant in Jesus view of the authority and inspiration of the Old Testament Jesus put the authority of Scripture above Satan and above his own human preferences I'll pass over this one quickly
this Matthew 4:3 7 and 10 about how he quotes the scripture every time the devil tempts him is it not written is it not written is it not written showing that he's going to live his whole life and fight the devil by the scriptures which are authoritative over the devil Jesus believed that all scripture would be fulfilled Matthew 5:17 do not think that I came to abolish the law and the prophets I did not come to abolish but to fulfill today I say to you till heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or
stroke shall pass away from the law until all is accomplished that's how confident he was of everything that was prophesied in the law and the prophets Jesus saw Moses and the prophets as speaking compelling truth on how to avoid hell Luke 1628 I have five brothers that he may warn them lest they also come to this place this is the the rich man in Luke 16 who was cast into hell while the poor man was taken into the bosom of Abraham and now the rich man is talking to Abraham Christ in heaven but Abraham said
so speaking from heaven they have Moses and the prophets let them hear them but he said no father Abraham but if someone goes to them from the dead they'll repent and he said to them if they don't listen to Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead so this is Jesus saying what Abraham in heaven would say to abandon hell who's saying give him some beside the Word of God give him a son and a wonderer give him a resurrection and Abram says this word is such that if
you reject it nothing will work that's remarkable view of the Old Testament Jesus believed that the small affirmations of scripture cannot be broken so John 1033 referring to 82 psalm 82:6 the Jews answered him for a good work we do not stone you but for blasphemy because you being a man make yourself out to be God jesus answered them has it not been written in your law I said your gods if he called them gods to whom the Word of God came princess and the scripture cannot be broken do you say of him whom the
father sanctified and sent into the world you are blaspheming because I said I am the son of God now that little insertion and it's hard to know whether Jesus spoke that or whether John spoke that but in either case the testimony here from Jesus or John is it can be broken little phrases little side comments can't be broken Jesus put the authority of Moses above the distortions of the scribes Matthew 23 then Jesus spoke to the multitudes two disciples saying the scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses therefore all that
they tell you all that they tell you do and observe but do not do according to their deeds which is an amazing thing to say about Pharisees he didn't like the Pharisees they were hypocrites but he said when they sit in the chair of Moses and they speak the words of the Old Testament do what they say but when they get out and behave don't don't make him an authority that's an amazing distinction that Jesus is making because of his high esteem of the word they were supposed to handle faithfully Jesus taught that Moses writings
are to be believed john 5:39 you searched the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life and it is these that bear witness of me so that's the view that he has of their function they are a faithful testimony to him Jesus contrasted the traditions of men with the Word of God in the Old Testament mark 7 9 to 13 he was saying to them you nicely set aside the command of God in order to keep your tradition for Moses said honor your father and mother he who speaks evil a father a
mother let him be put to death but you say if a man says to his father and his mother anything of mine you might have been helped by his korban that is to say given to God you no longer permit him to do anything for his father his mother thus invalidating the Word of God by your tradition which you have handed down and you do many such things as that see what he's doing he's saying ok I see all of this this fair sake tradition that's grown up one of them being a tradition called Corbin
which means if you say to something it belongs to God you don't have to support your poor parents with it because you've now made it religious then Jesus got really bent on shape about that and he said the Bible says honor your father and mother to hell with your traditions now we therefore should I think be like Jesus and say let's be very careful that all of our ecclesiastical traditions and all of our family traditions and all of our I mean for you young people you should just you said I don't have any traditions yet
baloney you don't you go to movies every weekend and what are you watching habits our traditions we should measure everything we do by this book just like Jesus did these are strong words from the Lord concerning this Old Testament that we have here that he so prized and so believed in Jesus believed that knowing the Scriptures would keep you from doctrinal error mark 12 19 to 24 teacher Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies leaves behind a wife leaves no child his brother should take the wife and raise up offspring to his
brother now there were seven brothers there trying to trick Jesus there trapping him there were seven brothers first took a wife died leaving no offspring the second took her died leaving no offspring behind third likewise and so on all seven left no offspring last of all the woman died and then with a smirk on their face they don't believe in the resurrection they're trying to make the resurrection look ludicrous in the resurrection when they rise again which one's wife will she be for all seven had her as a wife polygamy in heaven that's the idea
there's a really relevant text cuz my dad had two wives my mother for 36 years she died and then Levon for 25 years then she died and then last March my dad died now in heaven is it Ruth or Levon this is not old-fashioned stuff this makes a difference and now you think about things today and his answer is this Jesus says verse 24 is this not the reason you are mistaken or you are you don't know your Bibles who's he talking to scribes Pharisees and say up there people who specialize in the Bible you
don't know your scriptures implying if you knew your scriptures you wouldn't be making this mistake you see the way it's functioning or the power of God you don't know the scriptures you don't know the power of God and then he goes on to answer when they rise from the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven but regarding the fact that the dead rise again have you never read and so on the only point I'm making there is that when he criticizes their snide use of this Old Testament
principle of the marriage of a brother to a widow he says you wouldn't make the mistake about the resurrection if you understood the Scriptures better he does that in other places as well he says things like I desire mercy and not sacrifice that little phrase he says you you wouldn't be accusing my disciples of Sabbath breaking as they eat the grain walking from one place to the other if you knew the meaning of the sentence I desire mercy and not sacrifice so Jesus believed that the whole Old Testament understood in its redemptive historical context would
keep us from doctrinal error Jesus devoted his life to fulfilling the scriptures about the Messiah he set his face towards Jerusalem Luke 18:31 and he took the twelve aside said to them behold we're going up to Jerusalem and all things written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished I was just talking to one of you about the role of fulfilled prophecy in coming to faith in Christ and in coming to confidence now I have a whole packet of overheads on fulfilled prophecy that I'm not even going to show you because there's
not time but we will see it here Jesus believed that everything that he did and that John the Baptist did his whole life was laid out for him in the Old Testament which is how he tried to bring his life into conformity with it so everything written about me and the prophets is going to be accomplished why because God wrote it God said it it's gonna happen I'm gonna pass over a bunch of these same time for other things look at this one the Ministry of John the Baptist of Jesus and John the Baptist are
being played out according to Scripture mark 911 and they asked him saying why is it that the scribes say Elijah must come first and he said to them Elijah does come first does come and restore all things and yet how was it written how was it written of the Son of man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt but I say to you Elijah has indeed come and they did to him whatever they wished just as it is written of him so here you have the it is written of him concerning
John the Baptist and you have yet how is it written of the son of man that he should suffer so both the Son of Man and this elijah figure who is John the Baptist have their script written out for them in the Bible Jesus is saying that's what's happening what's happening before your eyes is what God said would happen Jesus saw his betrayal as the fulfillment of Scripture the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of him but woe to the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed it would
have been good for that man if he had not been born so even the betrayal is written so you get the impression as you go along here Wow right down to the details of his betrayal the script is written hundreds of years earlier that's not a human possibility that's only possible if God is doing it Jesus saw the disciples abandonment as fulfillment of Scripture jesus said to them you will all fall away because it is written I will strike the Shepherd and the Sheep shall be scattered this creates very significant theological challenges right this is
sin right to fall away from Jesus to abandon Jesus in his hour of trial is sinful and the reason it's happening is because it's written that it would happen okay Jesus saw his arrest as criminal as a fulfillment of Scripture Luke 22 37 I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in me and he was numbered with the transgressors for that which refers to me has its fulfillment so his arrest like a criminal had to happen because it was written or do you think that I cannot appeal to my father and he
will at once put at my disposal more than 12,000 legions of angels how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled in other words if I escape from this moment by appealing for divine help and don't walk into the jaws of this lion the scriptures wouldn't be fulfilled I am calculating my entire life to nail down the absolute authority of the Bible that's what he's saying I'm not going to do anything that would undo what is written of me as I go toward the cross Jesus taught that we should not be slow to believe all that the
Old Testament prophets have spoken Luke 24 25 and he said to them o foolish men and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken I I was praying this morning from my own heart and I read Psalm 38 this morning it's a wonderful Psalm if you've ever done horrible sins and been broken and wonder if you could ever be restored to God so I'm 38 and I know a man who needs that right now I need it from time to time and I was just enjoying it this morning and just walking through
it and confessing my own insecurities my own sins my own doubts my own to use the words here slowness of heart isn't that an interesting phrase slowness of heart to believe what's wrong with our hearts we're all plagued with this sometimes our heart feel just immediately ready show me anything tell me anything I'm all there for you and other times which is so disengaged and so slow and dragging our feet and our emotions are pulling us another way and and there's the reason why the Bible feels so distant from us and why it's so easy
for us to fall for arguments against it when it's really a heart issue and he was just so perplexed as to Oh foolish men and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken so I just ask you to join me in those early morning prayers ask the Lord father I don't want to be slow to believe what I see in the Bible I want to be quick to believe I want to be so inclined to believe that everywhere I have light and understanding of embracing because you know the readiness will make more
light one of the reasons more light doesn't shine on the Bible for us is because there's a slowness and a resistance I'm not saying everything becomes perfectly clear when your heart is perfectly right there are hard things Peter thought so Peter thought there were hard things in the Bible that we got to have help with it got to read those books on Bible difficulties and go to seminars and get books and commentaries and read and study but the big issue the biggest issue is am i slow of heart to believe everything that's there and Jesus
thought all that the prophets have spoken should be believed because they wrote truth they wrote from God so that's the end of section what for does the Bible what does the Bible claim for itself I'm going to move to step 5 because it's the biggest one and the most important one how can we justify the claim that the Bible makes for itself and credit the inspiration in an Aaron C authority of all the books of the Bible that's where we're going next oh it may be that I just used paper instead of transparency but last
night that wasn't a problem but did I do we're in between sections so that's okay all right but they were clear last night I thought we'd make it brighter hey EULA that's good still working thank you Thanks good to do that right here well we're between between topics so we're going now to step five which is my biggest one here and the one that takes the greatest amount of reflection I think on how can we justify the claim that the Bible is God's Word now there's so many different approaches you could take at this point
different philosophies of apologetics go in different directions and I'm just going to take one and don't assume it's the only one if you are led by the Lord to give extended mental effort to study apologetics and to provide more foundation get good solid books I have a list of some somewhere that I can show you later on apologetics or defensive of the Bible and and go after it because mine is isn't is not the sum total of how the Bible can be argued for it's just a way that is very influenced by what I said
in one of the previous sessions namely they're very few lifelong scholars in this room who are going to devote their entire professional life to studying the historical reasons for the Bible's truthfulness most of you have jobs and families and you cannot and are not expected by God to live your life that way and yet you are expected by God to believe the Bible to the degree that you will lay your life down for what it says which means that there must be I'm hugely influenced by this there must be a way to confidence that is
rationally legitimate not stupid and leap into the void with no warrant there must be a way that a layman can follow who doesn't have time or proclivity to be a scholar and that's what's influencing what I choose here you know I just said something that perhaps I should argue for namely that you shouldn't leap into the dark in other words say here's the Quran here's the Bible I don't know let's just leap for the Bible just flip a coin Bible the reason that's not a good idea even if you choose rightly is because the Bible
isn't honored when you do that if a man comes up to you on the street with $10,000 in a bag and it's cash and he says to you hi would you please go deposit this for me in Northwest account my name is so-and-so and my account number so and so please go deposit it and you say to him you get $10,000 in cash I don't know you from Adam I know why are you trusting me I don't have any reason at all just please go do it now do you feel honored at that moment well
if you do you're stupid I mean that why would you feel honored there's absolutely zero reason for why he's trusting you this guy's crazy that's all that you can conclude he comes up to a total stranger gives him bag $10,000 tells him his name his account and tells him to go deposit the money there's no there's that trust is stupid and therefore the person trusted isn't honored however if he comes up to you or somebody else comes up to you bag of $10,000 gives it to you 10 G's name gives you this account number please
go deposit it Wells Fargo and you said wait a minute I don't know you why are you trusting me and he looks at you with great seriousness and says well you haven't seen me but we work in the same place we have for about a year I've been watching you every day you're an honest man I can tell by the way you talk to people by the way you keep your time clock by the way you felt reports by the way you did I've got five good reasons for why you're an honest man you'll do
it now how do you feel you feel that the trust that he has in you is honoring to you well that's the way God is if you say I'm trusting you God he says why you see no reason I'm just leaping in the dark because I'm afraid of Hell and it's hotter in Christianity than any religion I can find and so I'm just going for it he's just not honored by that but if he says why do you trust me and you give him several reasons for why you trust him then he's glorified and he's
honored so when I say not a good idea to just leap into the dark when it comes to Christianity that's the basic reason why I just don't think the Bible points us there because the Bible is very much concerned with the glory of God he wants to be honored he means to be glorified so how can we justify the claim that the Bible is the Word of God and do it in a way that all of you with the help of the Holy Spirit could have profound confidence in the Scriptures even if you're not a
professional historian or a biblical scholar that's where we're going and why we're just going to choose the Westminster Confession of faith as an example of how in one tradition of the church this question has been answered I'm gonna read the paragraph 1.5 from the Westminster Confession so that you can see and then I'm going to take the Westminster catechism where this is turned into a question and break it down into pieces and build basically this whole unit around those pieces we may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church to a high and
reverent esteem of the holy scripture and the heaven leanness of the matter the efficacy of the doctrine the majesty of the style the consent think that means agreement of all the parts the scope of the whole which is to give glory to God the full discovery it makes full exposure that it makes of the only way of man's salvation the many other incomparable excellencies and the entire perfection there of our arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God yet up till now he's just they're just listing all the ways that
you can be brought to have confidence in the Bible including the testimony of the church and all these pieces here but he says yet notwithstanding all that our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority thereof is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the word in our hearts so this is an effort to give credit to these indications of the Bible's truthfulness and yet to admit that in and of and by themselves the full persuasion and assurance of infallible truth won't come without something else happening
so most of our time today is going to be spent unpacking that the Catechism same thing just put in question answer form how does it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God so this is a catechism that was taught to those who grew up under the Westminster Confession and catechism and the answer to that question is answer the Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God we're going to make much of that manifest themselves in other words out of the Bible itself are coming evidences and indications and manifestations that it is the
Word of God and our job is to spot those and see those and be persuaded by them to be the Word of God by their majesty purity I put these numbers in here because we're gonna take them one at a time by the consent of all of its parts number three by the scope of the whole which is to give glory to God the four by their light and power to convince and convert sinners and comfort and build up the believers unto salvation so their power to convince or convict and convert sinners that's number five
but that's the yet from the previous confession but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in all the heart of in the heart of man is alone able fully to persuade it that they are the very word of God number six so we're gonna walk through those six steps of how this confession believes and I'm agreeing with it we can be brought to be confident in the Word of God the Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God it says by their majesty now how does that work how does their
majesty lead us to a confidence in them and these texts are ones that they give I have written to him the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing the implication being here that the greatness of the things that were written should dis incline one to consider them strange and reject them first Corinthians - 6 - 9 howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world this is Paul giving a testimony to his own authority nor of the princes of this world that come
to naught but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery if that's true that the wisdom of God the wisdom of an infinite creator is being expressed in Paul's language you would think there would be majestic marks about it that would testify to our conscience this is not of man this is of God even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world for our glory unto our glory which none of the princes of this world knew or if they had known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory but as it
is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him this is the wisdom of God in a mystery that's being revealed to us no human I seen such things no ear has heard such things and they have never entered into the heart of man that means there is something unique that is being revealed in the Bible in the opposite all ik teaching that hasn't come up into the heart of man it is so outside our experience that
it comes and brings a message to bear that is not explainable by human imagination many people have been converted this way and I'm arguing it's a valid conversion that as they read the Gospels and then they read the epistles they may not even be able to put it into exact words that they are seeing a a message and a wisdom and a way of God in the world that authenticates itself by saying no man ever came up with this this isn't what human beings come up with as a way of teaching about their own sinfulness
and the glory of God's grace and the death of the Messiah this whole thing clicks with me and you know this is why this is one of the reasons why our faith can sometimes be so assaulted because we were brought to faith in a kind of macro vision of the ways of God and the carer for God in the ways of Christ and the character of Christ such that we couldn't put it into a nice little list for somebody tell me five reasons why you submitted to the Bible because it all came to bear on
us with such a force of its own authenticity its own unique divinity that we could not resist it and yet when somebody pins you to say tell me kind of grope around and you just want to say let's read it to look and if you had time if you've sat down with a piece of paper and you started going through the bibles these are making the comments about the kinds of things it was that gripped you you'd come up with a pretty impressive list but what I'm pointing out here is that the the majesty that's
the word we're working on here the majesty of the Bible means there are there is wisdom here there are inscrutable ways here that are higher than our ways and if God is removing the slowness of our heart we see this is not what men come up with so that's number number one there are others other texts that I just point you to open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law the reason we don't what I just described to you might land on some of you in saying I don't have any
clue what you're talking about that's never happened to me at all and if that's the case you need to pray this prayer I pray it all the time because our sight is not once it happens is not always as clear as it was I mean the night when when you were brought to faith and you repented and renounce your sins and you saw him as true and beautiful and inescapable the next night Satan may be hammering you so hard and bringing so many blinding things across your eyes you start to fear did I see anything
which is why Bible authors pray like this why else would you pray like this if you didn't have those kinds of battles right open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things you've been in seasons of your life where you open this book morning after morning and nothing looks wonderful you've been in season those are scary seasons don't be content with those seasons fight in those seasons with prayers like this till you get to the point where you can say by testimonies are wonderful there's a majesty about them a wonder about them that just can't
be explained by the sin that I see in the world and the kind of human beings that are all around me so that's number number one then it says in the Westminster catechism answer that we are brought to faith in the word by its purity the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of the Earth purified seven times so there's the statement of it the words of the Lord are like words that have been put through a furnace seven times to burn away all the dross there is a purity
to the words then here's a group of statements I quoted it last night I think everybody should memorize it the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul we'll come back to that one converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the tests the statutes of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure they're picking up on that one enlightening the eyes it's just interesting to look at these correspondences perfect goes to converting sure goes to wisdom right goes to joy and pure
goes to illumination and light clean is almost the same as pure fear the Lord is clean enduring for ever so there is a purity to the Word of God and another thing to say about this answer of the Westminster catechism is that it's the coming together of all of these that give them their cumulative if and in any given time one might be rising to the surface that another might be rising to the service but it's the cumulative effect which you can hardly quantify when you're giving yourself to read the Bible it happens like this
I was in Germany I remember and on one Easter Sunday a testimony time was opened before the baptism they had a never baptism every Easter Sunday morning at this Baptist Church we were attending in Munich and a woman gave this testimony she said I have been in the Jehovah's Witnesses most of my life and was so despairing last year at this time I think was last year I remember time exactly right that I was going to commit suicide because there was no way I could know whether I had stood on a corner and held up
the watchtower long enough or knocked on enough doors to get into 144,000 I just I just couldn't tell and she said I gave myself to reading Luke one more time and God met me on Good Friday and vindicated himself with the purity of his life in Christ and further know why not all that time before there it was you
