All right, please pray with me now.

Abba, Father,

you've laid some things on my heart

that I touch only with fear and trembling.

They're very sacred.

And I pray, Lord, the words that I speak will honor you.

And I pray, Lord, that they will be clothed with the power and life of your spirit

and that transformation would come in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. And for all those

watching, this is for you as well. I preached an entirely different message in the first

service about God taking us through the wilderness to strip us, to refine us, to produce a hunger

and thirst only for him. And I said that the message is for now, but it's also to prepare

the way for tonight. As we have the last meeting together

and be here to receive from the Lord and minister to you.

There's an entirely different message

that I touch on, as I prayed, with fear and trembling.

It's something very sacred,

and it's something I've never preached about in a public setting like this before,

but it's been laid on my heart in recent months, and it's something else that stands in the way of us encountering everything God has for us.

And I'm talking about shame.

You can pull those slides out that we sent earlier.

Didn't use them in the first service, but I want to do this now. And I want to open up from the scriptures for you and give you spiritual understanding of how Jesus took away our shame.

When he died on the cross,

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