So we ask for the miracle Lord of hearing, the miracle of faithfulness to your

Word, the miracle of the Holy Spirit's coming, the North Campus and the South

Campus and here downtown, that years would be given, the eyes of the heart would

be opened and that you would set in motion movements and missions at this

church which would exceed anything that has happened in the last 150 years. So

that I'll hold shift in focus after this year of celebration would be on the

glories of the future and your faithfulness in it. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

When you read the letters of the Apostle Paul, you discover that there's a

trademark and the trademark is he builds modest houses and then digs mild

deep foundations under them. For example, marriages of modest house, how you

treat each other, modest house. Paul builds that house in Ephesians 5 and then

he puts the drill bit in place and he drills a mild down to put a foundation

under it that goes more or less like this. The Son of God, the second person of

the Trinity, infinite eternal God, having a bride by predestination before the

foundation of the world destined to be holy and pure and blameless, came into the

world as the God-man was crucified, dead, buried alive and he has purified

her for himself and beyond all the mysteries of Genesis 2.24 has made himself one

flesh with her, one body so that they might enjoy each other forever and ever and

ever. So this afternoon, guys, treat her well. There's another example of a modest

house with a mild deep foundation built under it. Romans 14, the vegans and the

meat lovers in Rome are quarreling. That's what Romans 14 is about. And so Paul

builds a little house and the house goes like this, get along and stop judging each

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