Amen. Amen. The powerful testimony we just heard of Jeff and Joy brings to mind a few things.

One, Jeff was my friend, and I miss him. And we miss him as a church. But we know in the family of God that goodbyes are not forever, they're only for now,

because of the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. And if you're here and you ever wondered what a

godly man looked like, Jeff McCrae is what a godly man looked like. He was a good man and he was

faithful to his family. He was faithful to God and the call in his life. He was faithful in the church. Jeff served in our kids

ministry at our Bay Meadows campus for years. Pastor Jobi years ago heard the voice of the Lord and he

challenged men specifically in our church to step up and to step in and to be the primary disciple makers

of raising one more generation in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And Jeff heard that call and he

responded. And because he did, a great number of children came to know the Lord through the ministry

of Jeff McCray. And praise God for that. Amen. Amen. One of the things that Joy said in that

testimony is that it's often in the hardest times of life. It's

often in the most brutal moments where we see the most beautiful evidences of God's grace.

And even though that's counterintuitive, it's absolutely true. And that's where we've been

over the last few weeks as a church is that we've been studying the cross of Jesus Christ,

which is one of the most

brutal and one of the most beautiful encounters that we can have in Scripture. And we have

been specifically studying Jesus' seven statements from the cross. And we were in the fourth

week of this study. And so we're going to pick up in John chapter 19, starting in verse 23. And it says

this. It says, when the soldiers had crucified Jesus,

they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier, also his tunic.

But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. And so they said to one another,

let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be

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