Grace Agenda 2019 | Women's Seminar | Nancy Wilson: Grand View Mothering

thank you thank you thank you for coming lady this is a treat for us there we go to be to have you all here that is true I'm behind on Dex blog all the time and that I try I try and and then the kids have to start writing books and doing podcast and I try to listen to those when I'm ironing it's very productive when Becca and Rachel first started doing what have you I would be ironing and thinking wait a minute I want to say a word that is not a Spurgeon quote ladies that was a you know or just wanting to chime in but anyway it's been good for me I've had to restrain myself and I love it I get so cracked up sometimes I'm crying listening to them because I think you're crying to your alright so um on the way here this morning I picked up my oldest granddaughter Jemima who's running the camera the video somewhere and we were chatting on the way here about my talk Becca's talk we were talking about having our talks ready and I said well Jemima at least I'm not getting graded like you are when you're writing a talk her school and she said no you're not getting graded you're just getting judged so ladies don't judge me all right my topic is Grand View mothering and I'm not sure what that is either but I think it's a good title and I know part of it is because I'm a grandma it's Grandview so that's why that title works the grand view but this isn't just about grandmas so if you're not a grandmother please don't get up and leave but I want to talk about its grand view its grand view mothering and what our view is and what it's supposed to be and how we can have a beautiful view of what God is doing in our lives and around us getting ice to really see and I grant you the older we get the bigger the view is it just comes with the territory so we want to nurture that and not get in the way of it we want to appreciate it well then I want you to know this talk isn't just for grandmothers it's for our women future mothers current mothers past mothers women who are not mothers our past the age of becoming mothers so I want you to think of yourselves as mothers in Israel women are women just women are naturally good at mothering even your little bitty daughters right they have mothering skills doesn't it come out at an early age it's something God put in there and so women are just naturally good at mothering and if you've read that hideous strength by CS Lewis that can reminded me of this there's mother dimbo it's one of the wonderful characters and she is she's barren she's married she has no children but she's mother demo and I think Lewis was saying something there and she's mothering everybody at the st. Anne's really and not mollycoddling or patting him on the head that she's mothering and so we can think of ourselves as mothers whether we are technically mothers are not ok so I think that's everybody here even you young women who are not even thinking about marriage yet like this row of granddaughters right there that I have there's a lot of mothering that goes on in our church and I bet it goes on in yours as well and and again it's not just biological mothers they're helping they are doing all kinds of good works showing hospitality clothing and feeding people showing generosity teaching babysitting comforting praying there's so much support work encouraging these are all feminine trait these or motherly traits and their spiritual traits that's basically walking in the good works God is prepared in advance for us to walk in so I think we're mothering we can think of ourselves as mothers whether we definitely are or not in that other sense and so as we take off from here and talk about the grand view of it I want you to understand that all of us are leaving a legacy we're all leaving a legacy of some kind behind us maybe it is in your church maybe you got something a program started that's gonna go on for generations ladies when you're long gone maybe it is helping again as school started or it's just starting some kind of ministry of some kind that you're involved in but at some point you let go and it keeps going it just keeps on going as well as leaving a legacy in your own families but that what we're doing we have to think this is this is not limited to just right now this is this is much bigger than we understand or that we can see with our eyes we have to see it my fate and the more we see it that's what I mean by view the bigger the view is you know when you're climbing the higher you get the better the view right and it's not always easy to climb I mean it's it's hard work but we're pressing on to higher ground you know that old hymn about higher ground we used to sing that all the time back in the body Sean in the early dates when we met in a body shop I'm gonna read a couple of scriptures to you then I just want you to know no matter how humble your circumstances you can have a million-dollar view and it's just our perspective as we press on and lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus laid hold of us a couple of scriptures one Philippians three Paul I tell you the man left a legacy do you think he says brother and I do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus and we probably are familiar with this verse about reaching forward pressing on the prize the upward call upward and onward but then he says in verse 15 therefore let us as many as are mature have this mind and if anything you think otherwise God will reveal even this to you let us as many as our mature have this mind so we we should all be mature enough in Christ to get this we are forgetting what happened before because not because it was necessarily a bad thing we're forgetting it because there's so much on our plate right now we can't just sit and be nostalgic about last year there's so much to do so much ground to cover it's a pretty steep hill ahead of us so we got to forget what's behind and Ehsan and remember it's an upward call like heads up and if we're mature we're gonna be thinking that way as we walk daily the other one Hebrews 12 and maybe you'll see some similarities therefore we also since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight cake when you are trying to climb upward right the last thing you need are some weights on your ankles I know maybe some of you do that on purpose you're getting fit but Paul says or whoever wrote Hebrews says lay it aside lay aside the weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us all right oh there's a race you're all in a race and I remember when referring back to the intro when I read Nate's book death by living he said wouldn't it just be of course he said it far more eloquently than I'm going to but wouldn't it be dreadful if there was no finish line we're just running aimlessly around and around and around think of that and so our lives are our race but it has a finish line and that's where we're going and we're trying to actually get there when you ran a race you're not thinking oh I hope I don't hit the finish line anytime soon especially track right track is that what you're thinking when you're running track oh no throw an extra four hundred obvious no all right so back to the verse lay aside every weight and the sin that is so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame I think you quoted this Lizzy and has sat down with the the throne of God so as we're running we keep our eyes fixed on Christ who has run ahead of us and this is how we are enabled to run with endurance keeping our eyes on him he's the author and the finisher of our faith hallelujah we didn't come up with our faith that's a good idea self-help plan he's the author of our faith and he is going to finish it our duty is to keep our eye on him to run with endurance to be looking to him keeping our eye on the goal in the prize and the finish line so how do we do this well this is about simple duties I'm not talking about anything really complicated or you know that you all have to pray about for a week like what is the special thing God wants me to do it's like no you're to do the duties that are right in front of you right now whatever that next thing is that's that's what you're called to do that's part of your race all the simple duties God has laid out for us you don't hear that word Duty very much anymore do you as far as women doing their duties and I've used this illustration before but my mom was a war bride my dad was wounded in World War two came back and met my mom swept her off her feet and he was kind of a hero you know cuz he was back from the war wounded and so they got married and had a couple kids and then he had to go off to the Korean War and he he was gone 18 months and she had my older brother and sister and who were just little kids and she taught herself to sew and knit and just was productive I think there was a lot of bridge plane back in those days too at any rate one time I asked her probably in her 80s I don't remember but it was later I mom how did you just keep on going I mean 18 months and dad is gone and he's not just gone he's in a war and he's a pilot dropping bombs and you know he's in the action she said Nancy I was just doing my duties isn't that the best answer um not she wasn't writing poor pitiful me Facebook posts and instagrams you know but she was living in a community of other women whose husbands who are off at war also which must have been a great encouragement and maybe they were you know planes and bridge but also teaching each other how to knit and sew and and do these things and just to do their duties cheerfully unto the Lord all right I get off and then it's like where was I that wasn't in my notes to tell that story all right so it's a simple daily thing that's what it was though simple daily things that were called to do and sometimes you will be surprised when you are just doing your day-to-day things nothing spectacular but of the surprising fruit that it bears sorry it's so cold in here isn't it that's why my nose is ready all right um snip snip sometimes it seems like the most insignificant things so I'm going to tell you another little story I keep my finger here where I am so when my kids were in vogue at school and we had helped to plant that school for our kids and you know dad was doing things like hanging sheetrock and getting home really late at night and you know it's just doing pounding nails it wasn't a super spiritual activity and it turned into a school it was wonderful and then our kids got to go there and so is their getting older and I'm starting to teach there and there were some people's as it started to hit we're getting tonight school-age kids there were some people that start talking about well let's have a prom or something I remember thinking duck and I talkin we don't want a prom we gotta figure out something else quick you know and steer this thing before it gets out in front whatever that might be so in god's providence i picked up a newspaper that had a story about its cooldown and lewiston that had a little social event called protocol where they taught the kids manners and then they went on an event this is amazing and so we got started on protocol and I asked this little lady in our community if she would teach the manners part and she was so good and the kids loved her and she was a kick and this so this little program launched and many of you have been involved in it who are here for Lucas you know over the years and helped in different ways or have attended or whatever so it was fun and I was I remember them one of the first ones Jan I don't know if chancel you're still here but she and I ended up so we had this protocol at a bed-and-breakfast in Pullman one of the very first ones and we ended up after all the kids leave doing the dishes in the Ben breakfast you know in the kitchen and we look at each other like what are we doing why didn't we hire somebody for this job it's 11 o'clock anyway it's very nuts-and-bolts so fast-forward and the program's taken off and other schools have picked it up and it just was a little something we planned for our kids all right Dec and I were traveling visiting a school somewhere at classical Christian school I don't remember where it was now he's trying to remember but we're in someone's home and I was visiting with the high school daughter and she said well we have protocol at our school she said have you ever heard of that and I said I have I have you know tell me what you're doing and I just thought see isn't that it's a legacy and as we were just figuring out like why are we washing the dishes at 11:00 at night or you know it has turned into something not only my kids enjoy now my grandchildren are enjoying its saw a bunch of other kids so this is a really mundane funny example but that happens all the time where women are just helping and doing and it turns into a legacy and think of that when you're doing the dishes this is a legacy Idol even we really are building something and we don't see it at the time it takes years right we may not ever see it but we're also the are receiving all the time the benefits of other people's hard work and the legacy they have left to us and we need to ponder that I think sometimes like what did your parents leave for you and your grandparents and your great-grandparents and we don't even know we may have some stories that give hints but just to understand that we are receiving so much from the hard work of many who come before us and so we're taking our place in this story and doing what God's calling us to do nothing special it's just what it's on our plate today and that he somehow turns us into a blessing that grows all right sometimes as we're gaining ground okay and part of our goal and gaining ground is to be a blessing to our kids so they have a boost up and our grandchildren you know we wanted to provide an education to our own children that would be far better than one we received I remember telling the kids when they were little someday you're gonna be teaching me and so guess what guess where I was sitting in the first two hours being taught and I've been being taught by my own kids for years sometimes in sometimes formally but I'm a recipient of this blessing it's it's a mutual benefit um but sometimes as we're pressing on we actually think we're losing ground rather than gaining it and I think that's an illusion unless you're really throwing in the towel and giving up you're not losing ground it's just a steep hill and you thought you already climbed one and that you should be better at it now and you should be able to sprint up this one but I think no it's still hard work and you gotta keep those mountain climbing boots on and roll up your sleeves and keep working and keep going you're not losing ground God is testing you maybe showing you your faith muscle got a little flabby and you needed a little workout right but you want to interpret his ways always in that positive light he is strengthening me he knows I was getting a little flabby he wants to keep me in shape he wants me to grow faith is a muscle and then we don't use it it gets weak and flabby as we just press on day to day our view is going to get better it's gonna get better and better as we see behind us even though we're not focused on that let me see God's been so faithful all these times he's gonna meet me again here we see what he's doing in other people's lives it really expands our view so what gets in the way of our view sin does sin gets in the way of our view it always obscures it our blurs it or impedes it or blocks it or muddy zip always forgiveness washes it away it like clears the windshield of all the mud and debris and I believe contentment confession and forgiveness and choosing to be content and hard thing that's what clears the view so you can really see I want to plug this little book the loveliness of Christ it's a old book it's just a few selections from letters Samuel Rutherford wrote to his pressures in the 1600s when he was under house arrest and it was barred from his own church couldn't preach anymore CCM recently reprinted this and tonight 5:30 CCM table will be up out in the hall and they will have copies of this but I've had I've had many copies over the years that I end up giving away and I have a couple of sweet old copies I do not give away it's probably probably little idolatry there but anyway this is a I'm gonna quote him and so I just wanted to plug the book and I hope there's enough for all of you to get a copy because this isn't treasure it's just a treasure alright here's the quote this is kind of I hope to be kind of what you go away with today it were wisdom for us to be free plain honest and sharp with our own Souls and to charge them to brew better or I'm gonna say that one more time it were wisdom for us to be free playing honest and sharp with our own Souls and to charge them to brew better I think we could say to one another what you got brewing there huh how's how's your soul brewing so I am going to hit some practical applications and you can charge your own Souls to brew better I'm just gonna bring up some topics metal just a little and hopefully this will encourage you to be sharp with your own soul and brew better first and so I'm gonna talk about your view again your view points what is your view point on a few different things first is the word what's your view of the Bible how many of you are doing the Bible reading challenge with us do you mind reading [Music] fantastic okay how many do we have reading together seventeen eight thousand eight million no eight thousand in my Facebook group anyway um alright so what's your view of the word just we want to keep that view in mind it's milk and honey for our souls its milk and honey it's not a box to take off it's a meal it's a delight its wisdom its comfort its joy its meeting with Christ we want to ask God to enlarge our hearts as we read his word and love it more and more we want it to grow we want it we want to treasure it up in our hearts sometimes I think of people we've read about or people who are in prison right now for their faith and thinking I hope they're remembering all the scripture you know because they don't have a copy with them and we should really treasure it because we always have a copy of the word it's so readily available treasure it in your heart next I'm minute scoop quickly on the next one what's your view of weekly worship so do you look forward to it is it the best day of the week do you prepare yourself each week for worship because if you do just like if we love God's Word our eyes are open our view is bigger right we see more what God is doing and how he's feeding us but what about worship how do you do that the more we treasure up the privilege and blessing and worshiping God together as his covenant people every week the more our view is enlarged how do you do that how do you prepare yourself for worship well you could start by praying for your pastor pray for the elders pray for the music and I mean think of all the people involved in every Sunday worship service some of you your husband's are the pastor how many of you have passed your husband you can put them up high yeah see don't you think it'd be great if your whole congregation was praying for that man every week I have a hey man yeah so thank you all who are doing that already thank you or I have here in my notes some funny little random thoughts and I'm sure none of you ever do do you ever bring a critical spirit with you to church you criticize - singing the sermon The ministers tie the seat you're in the way other people dress their children's behavior whoops so why don't we you know just think about your your church congregation and pray in preparation like pray for those people with the kids who are rowdy think what would happen if you start praying for them pray for the music leader who's maybe having this struggle or the piano's attitude or whatever start invest do you see that as you invest in it you come in with a different attitude and you're hungry you've been praying for the food that's gonna be delivered and so you're prepared and you view things differently all right then of course if you get to where that is covered you love the Lord's Day you can start praying about hospitality I know that this can be you can feel over your head when Doug first became a minister something we had not anticipated it just happened to us I felt way in over my head and an old missionary was visiting my in-laws and we talked to him and he said just put it on your hip waders and just go for it I didn't know what he meant exactly but I think I know what he means just like it looks like a slog yep it is so just put on those big boots and get going but over the years with hospitality Oh what I'm say so when I first became a minister's wife I thought I had to have everybody in the church over for dinner and I could not ever do it and Doug would say Nancy don't do that don't think that it's impossible and I remember when Rachel got married and Becca we invited the whole church I thought did it they only got cake but I did I had everyone um anyway but there's a great verse in Psalm 18:30 and I love it and even Sabbath dinner sometimes when we were having a large crew over which was every week I wake up in the morning I think I cannot I can't do it can't do it and here's my verse 4 by you I can run against a troop by my god I can leap over a wall I want you all to picture me running and leaping over a city wall that's what this is talking about and at the end of the day I'd say I made it Lord you did it again I got over I left over that thing so I'm telling you summit sometimes we're called to do things that seem absolutely impossible right not gonna be able to do this there's your purse bye my god I can leap over a wall just watch me alright so those are the first couple things but now let's just talk about your home a little bit um do you have a thankful attitude about it the house the apartment the duplex whatever it is what is your view what do you see when you see your house do you feel like so much work or is it all the things that are falling apart or not as pretty as so-and-so's not right crummy that's a crummy meal in one of our early homes my view my real view out the window was the asphalt cul-de-sac and a telephone pole and God dealt with me about that and now the result was I planted a bunch of tulips in the front yard of that little duplex and they I mean I repented first and then I planted the tulips and they were literally I mean they were so high people would think where'd you get the tunes and I know it was God who said see she was plant the tulips I and in Rachel's book you who she has a chapter about plant a flag okay we're gonna plant a flag will plant a tulip too so you can do both um but those things were enormous and it just brought me joy it's like you know I want to be content with the asphalt and the telephone pole because there was a lot of good good fruit happening there in that little place what's your view of your husband are you critical are you comparing him to other husbands that you think are more spiritual or more athletic or more thoughtful or make more money or have more success or etc it's the same formula for all these things you confessed the critical spirit I know over the years if I saw something and my husband is like I probably should bring this to his attention I'll pray about it for a few days maybe a week and see him I still feel like I should bring this to his attention and by the end of a couple of days I'm realizing I'm the problem here I'm not saying anything about that that here's the problem so that's a good formula it works but you begin confessing the critical spirit and thanking God for your husband that you freely married express gratitude to God for your husband and gratitude to your husband what's the Bible say you should do you should honor him you should respect him you should submit to him in all things as to the Lord if you're not doing those things no wonder you have a crummy view don't let this slip go back to the word go back to the beginning what's it say are we going to obey what says and in this crazy world we live in where it's sort of dangerous to say you're gonna honor you submit to your husband let's do it more boldly let's lean into it ladies pray for your husband he needs your prayers who else will pray for him if you don't maybe his mom you know pray for your husband he needs your prayers he needs your encouragement your respect your love you get it from God first and then share it with your husband there's a verse I love in Song of Songs talking about the beloved the husband says like an apple tree among the trees of the woods so is my beloved among the sons he looked just to have that attitude that you're bringing into your marriage what a great view that is now I know there can be issues of course you know oh wait but start here first I'm just saying start here first pray about it are you supposed to bring this to him how are you gonna do it when are you gonna do it but get this right first the way you view your husband affects how your children are gonna do him and there's nothing children hate so much as seeing their dad disrespected by their mom don't like it the more your dad is lovingly respected and honored the more secure the kids feel they can have their discussions elsewhere you know mom and dad can talk about things but the kids need to see mom respecting dad it's not the only thing they have to see but like just hitting that the Christian home of course he wanted to be Christ centered but I remember with the kids I really wanted to make the home dad centered you know obviously Christ in at first but then after that like dad centered home and Becca was talking about referring questions that was my go-to that's a very good question me when dad gets home we will ask him let's remember that and so dinner time I'd say okay ask your question here he is and it was great now it's not that I never answered any obviously but I deferred and I know that that that helped make this I don't know a husband centered a dad centered home which is the healthy he's the head of his house we defer to dad we love dad and we're proudly dad as a team little resentments over a lot of little things ladies are going to turn into a big logjam of bitterness in your marriage so um be his be your husband's wife yes be his wife be his crowning glory be his crowning glory and don't let a bunch of little silly naggy things turn into a big mess years ago a woman called me like I'm ready to leave my husband I'm leaving right now I said well hang on a minute let's talk so tell me what's going on and so I kept asking question guess what it was he leaves it I'm not making this up he leaves his socks on the floor and every time he does that it's like a big sign that says I hate you it's like listen give me a minute here it's I doubt it really is an act of war you know I let you know and as a result I mean we got we had a good conversation and she did not leave him but it's you know we can let little things become so enormous right we so don't worry that happen would somebody tell me what time that's my talks over 230 oh whatever I have five minutes okay easy peace okay having too much fun up here okay um quickly then same with your kids do you see asphalt in a telephone pole when you look at your kids I hope not you know have a good view of these little people who are gonna be your best friends in the whole world forever right and you know what else there's so much fun I know it's a lot of work and we've been talking about that but they are so much fun aren't they from the moment you bring them into the world it's like what did we do before now some of you don't have children so I'm going to talk about difficulties don't feel left out okay but in in thinking over your children just remember that that they are such a joy delight your good friends your favorite people on the planet okay skipping right along let's talk about our difficulties in how we view them all right and I've learned one thing in one trial while back and that is in the midst of it find the sweet spot and that is just getting under God's wing and it's hard to describe but I just got under his wing in his stance where I was just able to thank him for whatever would happen and it was such a sweet comforting place and you feel so safe there so whatever your difficulty is however hard it is find that sweet spot I promise you you're safe there whatever happens whatever the outcome and then stay there and once you find it you can always get it again you just kind of nestled in and and there you know you're safe and that's the kind of thing we want to practice so we can leave that legacy because what we are choosing to do as Christian women is actually showing our children our grandchildren and the other women in the church if you don't have your own children just this is how we do this this is how we walk through this trial this is how we climb the steep hills just we're showing them how we doing and if you can find the sweet spot and you can point other women to it or your children when they need it if it's that is a legacy and stay there stay there in that sweet spot because while whatever is going on is still going to be going on you feel in the safe place because you are in the same place and you know God is not going to desert you all right skimming right over to the next thing all right a few more wonderful Samuel Rutherford quotations oh and before I give you a couple before you give you on one thing it's far to hit pinyon and legacies the Psalms we've been singing think of a hymn book and what prompted all those things to write those songs sometimes there's a lot of hardship but they left a legacy and we're still singing it and we don't even know what prompted it and yet we're benefiting from what they had learned and how they were trusting God it isn't that wonderful every time you're seeing in a hymn all right Rutherford said I hope to over hope and over believe all my troubles second so you can leap over them you can get in the sweet spot you can over hope them you can over believe them and what that means is I know this is a trouble but I'm just going to maintain hope and God I'm going to over help it I'm gonna over believe here are you tempted to just give up well remember you're gonna keep running that race you're not at the finish line you can't sit down when you're running the race if you are grieving well remember he's a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief you have a savior who knows better than you do what you're feeling he knows about sorrow are you discouraged she will you ask him for courage I heard a woman on a Bible study tape when I was a very new wife she said changed the D to an H instead of discouragement it's our discouraged it's his courage disappoint ment his appointment you know just that is changing your view on things do you see that it's just flipping your view around his appointment his courage discontent his content finally the very last the last hurdle really is death you weren't expecting to hear about that today where are you what's our attitude supposed to be well it should be this if we're practicing these things now we'll be ready we'll be ready to go um we don't have to fear death we have a savior and if we live well meaning we're trusting God walking by faith we'll die well we don't have to worry about he will be there with us we've been practicing we know where the sweet spot is we can leap over a wall you got it you with me and so death is coming the Puritans use this example frequently in their writings about the hourglass you know I thought if I had want to be very graphic here for the sand falling through and Rutherford refers to it a lot it's like sands are going there lower than they were yesterday people you know mean it was keep reminding his people because really in the seventeenth century many people died young and so it was they were a little more familiar with losing their loved ones as a regular thing so we weren't it in somebody here probably knows the verse but teach us to number our days that we might gain a heart of wisdom and learn to number your days it's not in a morbid sense it's like I'm running a race there's the finish line is coming I don't know exactly when but it is to help me to run hard Lord and not be trying to save a little extra somehow but just spending it all running hard doing what I'm called to do for you leaping over the walls but anyway a couple more quotes Paul had this great attitude about dying great attitude about dying he is in a Roman prison when he's writing in second Timothy they think it's his last probably the last thing you wrote and he says at my first defense no one stood with me that all forsook me may it not be charged against them but the Lord stood with me and strengthened me so the message might be preached fully through me and then all the Gentiles might hear then he goes by the way he says also I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion what um when he's singing here he's in Chains he's in prison he's saying I'm his first offense everybody ditched him and but don't charge it against them Lord it's okay and then that little I wonder what was destroy there did he actually get thrown with a lion and like that Lions didn't touch him maybe or was he supposed to be delivered to the Lions and you know there was a flight change at the end it somehow and he didn't happen but he was delivered out of the mouth of a lion and he one sentence doted to that can we turn the page he says I know whom I have believed and am persuaded he's able to keep what I've committed to him till that day till that last day he will keep it he tells Timothy endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ I think Rachel mentioned that as well be a good soldier soldiers Thomas Watson says don't go around like with their finger in their eye weeping because they don't have a nice bed or whatever but they don't whine and complain you're soldiers it's not a cushy life and then Paul says even though he is suffering in Chains he's locked up it physically in Chains he says the Word of God has not changed love that talk about turning a profit on your hardships he has a view he's in this cell whatever it looks like he's chained to the wall or to a guard we don't I don't know but he says the Word of God has not changed it's not chained up at all it is free and loose and so is his Spirit trust in God he says I fought the good fight I finished the race I kept the faith finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge will give me on that day he knows he's at the end and he's cheering he's cheering he's not whining and complaining and then one more verse and then I'm gonna be done when he's going he's saying goodbye to everybody in acts 20 because he knows he's going to Jerusalem the Spirit is spirit is bound he knows chains and tribulations are waiting for him he says but none of these things move me nor do I count okay underlying this nor do I count my life dear to myself so that I may finish my race with joy and the Ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God isn't that remarkable um nor do I count my life dear to myself I just want to finish this race with joy so I mean Paul left us such a legacy ladies happy and so we want to walk in it faithfully okay so we don't feel as courageous as Paul but we are having the face Lyons either probably so it's okay it's all right and God provides when we need it it turns out so Paul had a grand view from a dungeon he had a grand view so surely we can have a grand from where we are right now and let's just charge our souls to brew better all right let's let's close in prayer father thank you so much for your word and for the legacy that you have left us in your word and through your saints I pray you and encourage us that we would open our eyes and see the wonderful view that we have of your work in the world and what you've given us to do and we give you all the things in Jesus name Amen [Applause]

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