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Been with us in this series. We’re just two lessons into this series. Today is the second message we’re focusing, honing in just on one verse in the Bible. It comes in Isaiah chapter nine and verse six. Isaiah is the first prophetic book that comes within the Old Testament for us as, as believers. And so when we come to the book of Isaiah, his his passages are rich for understanding, particularly for for the Christian life. Isaiah chapter seven is a significant verse. It has a significant verse related to the to the Messiah. Isaiah chapter six is a beautiful verse that people often refer to, the calling that people place upon, or that God puts upon people calling them into this world as as messengers for him. It’s Isaiah’s call as a prophet in Isaiah chapter six. Isaiah chapter 14 has to do with Satan. If you’re interested in reading about the fall of Satan, there you go for your holiday season. You can go read about that. Isaiah 53. Many people used to accuse the book of Isaiah as having been written after the coming of Jesus, because the descriptions of Isaiah 53 of Jesus dying on the cross is so unbelievable that someone could could describe it in such detail. Before Jesus came that many people believed that I had to have been written after the time of Jesus. And the interesting thing about that passage in chapter 53 is that Isaiah is writing this before the crucifixion even exists.
And so when you read that passage of Scripture, it is incredible in the prophetic detail that Isaiah brings into the Bible as it relates to Jesus. Isaiah and the chapters in the 40s all through the 40s. Isaiah discusses for us the importance of understanding the the singularity of God. There is but one God, and that’s all there’s ever been, and that’s all there ever will be. As they are given that pronouncement to the nation of Israel as they’re getting ready to be conquered by coming nations who are worshipping false gods, Isaiah is reminding the nation of Israel, but that there is only one God for them ever to praise and worship with their lives. And Isaiah. Chapter nine becomes important for us as believers as well because it deals with the coming of the Messiah. Israel is at a place in their lives where the northern kingdom is about to be conquered by Assyria. This is previous to 722 BC, and with 150 years after the northern Kingdom of Israel is conquered. He often called Ephraim in the Bible. Then the southern Kingdom of Israel will be conquered. Often referred to as the Kingdom of Judah. Isaiah comes along during this time period when the north is about to go through destruction and the south is about to witness it, and he reminds them of the hope of the promise that they have in the Messiah who is to come.
Rather than trusting in other world powers, rather than trusting in other people in other nations, God has called them to be faithful to him. And Isaiah chapter seven. He begins this discussion in prophetically proclaiming for the people what the coming of this Messiah will look like, and he just blows them all away in chapter seven and verse 14 by saying, A virgin will conceive and give birth. That just doesn’t happen. And he begins to conclude the idea of the coming of this Messiah in chapter nine. And he gets to the end of this conclusion and he starts to describe for us these words, pictures that that create images within our mind of what this Messiah will represent for all people and all nations. And so he says in verse six, for a child is born to us, coming from the nation of Israel. The US is the covenant people of Israel. It’s the promised line through which the Messiah would come, who would rule on the throne of David. It says, from to us a child is born. And then he says, A son will be given, pointing to the the deity of who Jesus was. Not only is he born from humanity, but he’s given of God coming from a virgin. And so it goes on and says, and the government will rest upon his shoulders, and his name will be. It’s as if Isaiah comes to this place and he’s saying, I’ve described what this Messiah will look like for you for the last couple of chapters, but let me just hit these powerful words for you to think about.
He is wonderful, counselor. Is mighty God. He is everlasting. Father. He is the Prince of Peace. Isaiah gets very specific when creating these ideas of what the Messiah would be for the people to identify him upon his arrival. And the phrase that we focus on this morning, we looked at last week is wonderful, counselor. But what does it mean when Isaiah begins to use the word for Jesus as mighty God? Throughout the Bible you will see proclaimed the the deity of who Jesus is. And and when Isaiah goes on in verse seven, he then begins to explain, there will be no end to the increase of his government or of peace on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. Meaning. When we talk about Mighty God and Mighty God gives his promises to you. The power of this God is such that those promises will forever be fulfilled in Jesus. When you read about this Messiah. Isaiah identifies them as God. All of scripture talks about Him as God. Hebrews 13 eight says, he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Colossians 115 calls him the image of the invisible God.
Colossians two nine says, in the fullness of Jesus deity dwells. John one one in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. John 20 after his resurrection. In verse 28, Thomas comes before Jesus, and he professes with his mouth, my Lord and my God. Jesus is mighty God. Israel is in a position in this passage where their hope is waning from the God who has called them, because their faithfulness in him has been lost. God tells them as they pursue him, he will bless them. As they leave him, they will be cursed. And the nation of Israel is falling back from following after him. And now the temptation comes for them as they see their own present circumstances and situations to start, rather than looking to God for trust, to look at other nations for their stronghold and strength as a nation that’s beginning to crumble. And as a nation looking to those other nations, they begin to look to their gods as well. And here Isaiah speaks into their life in the midst of the turmoil that they’re facing and says, remember? He is mighty God. When you read throughout Scripture and the identity of who Jesus is, Scripture alone proclaims that Jesus is God alone. It’s interesting that some people have even come throughout Scripture and tried to twist the idea of what it means that there is only one God.
Matter of fact, if you were to look in Psalm 82 today, some people even take Psalm 82 and say, well, Jesus is called God, but the Bible talks about multiple gods. Matter of fact, 82 of Psalm in verse one it says, And God sets before the council of the God’s. They take the term and the phrase that that is used in the Book of Psalms to declare that there are more than one God. The idea of the passage you could even use to promote it with an ignorance to what the passage is proclaiming. In the Old Testament, the common phrase for who God was, or the identity of God was the word Elohim. The word Elohim can be translated into Scripture into several forms of the word. If the word Elohim could be used as the singular referring to one God, the word Elohim can be used in the plural, referring to many gods. It depends on the context, but the word Elohim, in addition to that, can be used to refer to anyone of any authority or power. In the New Testament. In John ten, it’s used in reference to judges or rulers on the earth, the elohim’s. The interesting thing about Psalm 82, when you read about the identity of these gods that Jesus is coming before in the Grand Council, in those verses, in verse six it says, and these elohims, these judges or rulers are going to die like men.
They aren’t gods at all. Isaiah, recognizing the temptation of Israel to worship multiple gods, even says within Psalms 43 and verse ten, before me there was no God formed, and there will be none after me. Isaiah 44 and verse six, he says this there is no God besides me. Isaiah proclaiming Jesus as mighty God in Isaiah nine six, because he is God alone, and besides him there is no other. I love the phrase that Isaiah tags in front of the idea of God. When people say the word God. You ever look that up in the dictionary? How do you even define that? If I tell you this morning, define God in my mind. Just blows up, I don’t. Ah. Well, how much time you got? So this is if Isaiah to this point gets specific. When I’m talking about God, I want you to understand what aspect of God I’m referring to. In your situation. He’s mighty God. Israel. You’re feeling the pressure in your life to succumb to temptations that are around you because you don’t see how God can intervene in this circumstance, but I want you to know that he is mighty God. I looked this up in the Hebrew. What does mighty mean? I mean, that’s important. I mean, Isaiah sang Mighty God, and he’s drawing our attention particularly to this aspect of God. But listen to this. Your Bible could also translate it this way. He could be called in the Hebrew.
It’s the same word. He could be referred to as warrior God, or as champion God or chief God. Could you think about that? I serve mighty warrior champion, chief God, right. Incredible. It makes me start. I want to break out in a queen song. Buddy, you’re a boy making big noise, shouting industry. You know we are the champions. That’s what he’s saying to Israel. It’s mighty God. In your life. Intervening for you. I don’t know if we have copyrights to play that on our online, so cut that out if if not necessary. Um. I was reading the story last night of of this this guy writing. He was writing in a journal about a trip to Nairobi. Nairobi. Nairobi. Excuse me. Africa. He was talking about this group of Christians that had had gotten together, and they found out in Nairobi that the average family lives on less than a dollar a day. And they wanted to do something about it. And so they they sent money to this area of the world, and they decided that what they’re going to do is get all these slum children living on the streets, and they were going to bring them in to this orphanage, and they’re going to educate them. They’re going to care for them. They’re going to spiritually provide for them. They’re going to physically provide for them, and they’re just going to love on them. They’re going to find someone to take care of them that really cares about them.
So they did that. And after about a year of supporting this ministry, those families that came together decided, you know what, let’s go to Nairobi. And all of us meet the kids that we’ve been supporting on an individual basis. And so all the families flew over to Nairobi, and they all brought gifts for these kids. And and they’re giving them these presents, and they’re seeing the kids for the first time. And they said when they came to visit them that there were there was a concern because there was an election that day. And the last time Nairobi had an election, there was a mass chaos that broke out and people were being killed in the streets. And so they were worried they weren’t going to be able to see the kids. And and they said that the people caring for this facility combed the streets. There’s 80,000 people in Nairobi until they found all these kids because they were sent into hiding, and they brought them to this place so the families could meet them. And the gentlemen writing the story said, and for me, I thought this was going to be a surreal, just a supernatural, just a moment in my life. I was always going to look back on it and just rejoice over. And he said that this all these kids came in and the last one to come in was his little girl, and her name was Virginia, and she was six years old.
I started giving her gifts and they were hugging on her, he and his wife loving her. And then he said as as he started to to love on this little girl, he couldn’t take his attention away from a continued problem he saw. And that was this little girl didn’t have any teeth. It all fallen out. And this man started to get frustrated. He said, I should have been able to appreciate this moment because I’ve been supporting this kid and this kid doesn’t doesn’t even have teeth. Now, do I appreciate this moment? And so he said he ran after the director immediately and started just in frustration, arguing about this situation, wanting to do something about it. And he said, and the man came to him and said, we just started this ministry a year ago before we found this little girl. She was so malnourished she was barely holding on to life. The reason she has nothing to to chew with is because she went through through that experience and her teeth fell out and the man said, you know, I’m I’m not I can’t even deal with this. What can we do about it? He said, well, next week we have a dentist coming. And he said, I don’t care what it costs or what I have to do. Whatever it takes that this girl can just have teeth.
I’m. I’ll pay it. Just make sure it happens. And the man said in that day. The idea of God’s love changed for me. There’s a verse in Matthew chapter 25. It talks about Matthew 25 is about the tribulation period, and particularly a suffering of the nation of Israel. And it says this. It says, um. At one point it says when Israel is suffering, it says, I was I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was naked and you clothed me. I was in jail and you visited me. I was sick and you helped me. It’s talking about loving Israel the way Jesus would love Israel and loving Israel as if Israel was Jesus. He said. Previous to that, if you ever asked me what it meant that God loved me and that we care for people, it would be this, that there are these people in need. And I would picture these nuns coming to help them, and they would nicely put something on. And you know what? No, no shame to nuns. I mean, they smile and they’re nice, right? Um. But he said, but then after I left Nairobi, I got a different picture of God’s love. God’s love is both. Both. Come, come for us. And God’s love is also furious for us. The way that God talks about his might in this passage is a fury for the nation of Israel.
It’s the same love that this man carried for this girl in Nairobi. Whatever it takes, whatever your need, you need to understand that I’m just not God. But I am champion, warrior, mighty God coming for you because I am furious with the love that you need in this world. Huh? You know what? I like thinking about Israel in this situation. Do you know what this verse says about man? Nothing. And that’s the point. Has nothing to do with what it says about man in there trusted. It has to do with God and what he’s doing for them. I mean, if you look at this verse and you’re receiving it in the moment that these people are are reading it, this is the most liberating thought that could ever enter into their mind. God, I don’t I don’t know how things are going to go. I’m warrior God. God, I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring. I am a champion for you. Huh? Mighty God is liberating to these people. God doesn’t need Superman. God isn’t looking for people with incredible charisma and large talents in this world to follow after him. God. God doesn’t even need you. There’s nothing that you’re ever going to do that impresses him. But do you know what he wants? You want your faithfulness. He wants your trust. He’s bringing this passage to the nation of Israel. So the nation of Israel and all their concern and all their anxiety and all their worry will just look at it and say, God, I feel like I’m trying so hard.
And God is saying back, well, just stop trying and just trust in me in the circumstance. Stop looking to yourself and start just following after me. That’s all I’ve ever asked is just for your faithfulness and just for your trust. Just stand back and look at what I’m going to do. It’s liberating. It says to us as people, regardless of what happens to you in your life. Everything. By the power of this Messiah. Everything will be okay. He’s got a furious love presented in the might that he brings. In addition to that, I would say this passage says to us that. Mighty God means he’s able to clean up the mess. Israel is about to go through a mess that they caused, and in addition to that, other people brought upon them. It’s a sin that began by their fleeing from the Lord. And and then in addition to that, other powers were brought in to discipline them. And if you’ve ever read the Old Testament, I don’t know about you but me. When I go through that, I’m like, man, that’s messy. God, what just happened? That’s so messy. I mean, it’s God saying to the people, listen, follow me. And when you don’t look, it’s it’s messy. My love for you is so great that when you follow after me, I’m concerned with your well-being in this world.
And apart from me. It’s messy. And the Bible talks about that in multiple ways. It’s it’s in the essence of what it is that messiness is sin. In the Bible, there’s sin of omission and sin of commission, sins that we commit and and sins that we don’t even realize that we’re doing. They’re sins that we do directly, and they’re sins that affect us indirectly. They’re sins that curse the earth, and they’re sins that affect our life. Every day we’re reminded of it. Life is messy regardless if you sin or not. We all will. Today the Bible says if you don’t in first John, then we lie. If we have not sinned, we. If we say that we have not sinned, we lie. That’s what first John says. But also in addition to our own personal lives and the faults that we bring in the sin that in this world we’re reminded of it. All of creation groans. There is death. There is suffering. And there is mighty God to answer. Life apart from God is messy. When you read the Old Testament, in particular, the book of Leviticus uses that in in the idea of messiness, in the worship of, of God. God gives three laws to Israel. He gives the ceremonial law for worship, he gives the civil law, and he gives the governmental law. And in the ceremonial law of worship, it comes in the book of Leviticus.
And when you read the book of Leviticus, 27 chapters are in that book, and 91 times within that book the word uncleanness is mentioned. And the purpose of uncleanness is, is to present to the nation of Israel what the sin curse on the world had brought before them, to remind them of their separation from God and their need from a messiah to come and save them from this uncleanness and messiness. That’s not the way that things were intended to be. I mean, listen to this. If if you had some strange discharge from your body, you were considered unclean. It was a reminder of of the curse that was upon creation. If you had some sort of sickness, depending on what it was, you could be considered unclean. If you had some sort of disease, you could be considered unclean. If you touched something dead, you were considered unclean. If if someone unclean touched you, then the one who was cleaned is considered unclean. According to the Bible, it was a reminder to people of the curse of sin. The Bible even gets to reproductive organs and and how certain aspects of that make it unclean. It makes me uncomfortable every time I read it. But if you if you look at Leviticus, Leviticus makes me feel like a middle school boy. I can’t can’t talk about things without blushing sometimes. But 11 and 31 it says, whoever talking about dead things, whoever touches them when they are dead, becomes unclean until evening.
God is using this for the nation of Israel to say, look, here’s death. Here’s what’s not natural, here’s what’s not a part of me. This should not exist, but does because of sin. I am the Messiah, mighty warrior God who is coming to defeat it and proving it through resurrection of the grave. And so we use Leviticus to identify to the nation of Israel, where there was a chasm between us and God and what God intended for us in our lives. I mean even says this, the only reason I’m bringing these two verses up is going to be relevant in a minute. Okay. He says this verse 22, whoever is talking about a woman on her, on her menstrual cycle says this. Whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. So it’s an awkward verse, right? I would encourage men not to practice this. Okay, honey. Notice a little mood change today. Don’t sit on my favorite chair. Right. That’s not. That’s not going to go well. I heard a I heard a guy who wrote a book. It was called Living Biblically in a year. And he decided he’s going to he’s going to live exactly how the Old Testament said. And he was a Jew in New York, and he tried this on his wife, and it ended up with him sleeping on the roof.
So so I’m just telling you guys, not not applicable. Okay. Just write that right here beside the verse in the Bible for you when you read this, don’t don’t apply it. But but the point is, is that God it says in Genesis three, when when the curse happens that women will have pain. Where in child? What bearing? Right? It’s a reminder. As a reminder of the curse. Some reminder to us of the separation. Get this in the Bible. It even tells us in Leviticus chapter 13 and verse 45, I can’t even imagine doing this. But there’s a leper in this passage, and this is what it tells them to do. Ask for the leper who has the infection. His clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover his mustache. God doesn’t like mustaches, I don’t know and cry, unclean, unclean! I mean, could you imagine that? Like I’m. I’ve got a disease. Stay back. I’m unclean just walking around. Something’s wrong with me. I’m crazy today. Stay away. I’m unclean. But God, God is using that to teach the nation of Israel something about him. I want to be specific in saying this. In teaching Israel about their need for him. God never stops loving them. God never stops caring about them. When Jesus comes on the scene in the New Testament. I mean, you look at the people Jesus hung out with.
It was the outcasts of society. People were pulling off the tops of roofs in houses that were packed just to lower their friends down, to get near Jesus. When you made a dinner party. I mean, when you’re throwing the party of parties, the first person on the guest list was Jesus. The grace that Jesus brought into this world just confounded people. They couldn’t even begin to understand the love that he just communicated in this world. People followed him by by the masses because of his grace. Leviticus was never meant to communicate to us that God doesn’t care. The God doesn’t love you. But simply to show you how much you were in need of him. My Messiah. As a champion messiah. God in the book of Leviticus is showing us sin’s effect because we as people are really good at pretending everything’s okay and we can just deal with it later. Ah, let’s just push it off. And God writes the book of Leviticus and says, no, let’s let’s talk about it right now. All the uncleanness reminded us. That mighty God would come to redeem us from it. When you read in the book of Mark in chapter five. I think some of you have seen this story with me before. There is a story about death, and there is a story about a woman who was bleeding. Leviticus. We just read those verses, didn’t we? You touch something dead.
You’re unclean. If a woman sits somewhere that she’s on her menstrual cycle and you touch her, you’re unclean. There’s a story in the book of Leviticus, excuse me, Mark, in chapter five, and it talks about both. And it says this in verse 22 one, one of the synagogue officials named Jairus came up and on seeing him fell at his feet talking about Jesus, and implored him earnestly, saying, my little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her so that she will get well and live. And he went off with him, and a large crowd was following him and pressing in on him. And you read this passage and you say, hold on a second. If Jesus touches this little girl and she’s sick. Jesus is unclean. If Jesus touches this little girl and she dies. Jesus is unclean. The story goes on from there. And it says this a woman who had a hemorrhage for 12 years and had endured much at the hands of many physicians and had spent all that she had, was not helped at all, but rather grown worse. And you can imagine this, right? We talked about this God’s mighty or he’s not this lady in this situation. She’s been trusting in all these different circumstances to help her and heal her, and she just can’t find the solution for her life. Verse 27 and after hearing about Jesus, she came up to the crowd behind him.
And touched his cloak. For, she thought if I just touch his garments. I will, I will get well. Wait a minute. What this lady is supposed to do. It’s supposed to run through the streets and say she’s unclean. I mean, could you imagine living this kind of life that’s being described in this passage of Scripture, based on what Leviticus says, the most lonely, isolated, no friend person in this world would be this lady. Well, if I get near you, I’m unclean. In about ten feet away and we’ll have a discussion. Right? And now it tells us in that story that she has the audacity to walk into this moment and touch Jesus. And if she did? Would it be unclean? Why in the world would this lady touch him? Why would this lady risk touching Jesus, knowing the expense to the person through which she communicates? Can you share a thought? Maybe it’s because she understood within scripture that Jesus was the Messiah, and the Bible said he was mighty. When you read in the Bible the very last chapter in the book of Malachi, it’s the very last book of the Bible, the, the, the last book written in history before the New Testament begins is the book of Malachi. And then there’s 400 years silence and and the last chapter of that book, it says something about the Messiah. It says this in verse two of chapter four.
But for you who fear my name, the Son of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. I cant help but think that this lady in her life, in situation of loneliness, the only thing she kept looking for was the Messiah who would come and redeem Israel and heal the land. And shes looking at the Messiah and shes hearing him come and shes saying to herself, its not that I shouldn’t touch the Messiah, it’s that if I don’t, there is too much to lose by not going to Jesus. He is mighty God. And his wings are wings of healing. And the beautiful part of the story. Is that Jesus, in this passage of Scripture shares that. What makes life important for us as people is not what you belong to. But rather who you belong to. For the nation of Israel, rather than trusting in in other nations and other gods. It’s not about trusting in what it’s about who. When you read the story in the following verse, after Jesus finds out this lady touches her, watch this, it says, and immediately the flow of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Immediately Jesus, perceiving himself that the power proceeding from him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd, said, who touched my garments? And he looked around to see the woman who had done this.
But the woman, fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell before him, and told him the whole truth. Can I tell you? There’s nothing more powerful in a person’s life than when they come to Jesus. And Jesus transforms that life. And then you just take that moment to share what God has done. That’s all she does here. And look what Jesus says. This woman walks into this, this discussion, this situation, this this scenario of her life having been an outcast, having no one who cared for her, no one who looked after her, everyone distant from her, not having a friend in the world. And look at the first comment that Jesus makes. And he said to her. Daughter. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed of your afflictions. It’s not what you belong to. But rather who you belong to. Meaning with Jesus. It doesn’t matter who you were, but now in Christ, it matters who you are through him. Regardless of the separation that exists between us and God, no matter how messy it may look, Jesus is a champion and Jesus is pursuing us. I love how the story ends. Not only is Jesus healed this woman. But the Bible goes on and tells us and he shows up and heals this little girl. It says in verse 3035 and while he was still speaking, they came from the house of the synagogue official saying, your daughter has died.
Why trouble the teacher any more? But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, said to the synagogue official, do not be afraid any longer, only believe. Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, Talitha kum, which translates mean, little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was 12 years old, and immediately they were completely astounded. The reason the story tells the rest of the story and fits. This hemorrhaging woman in the middle of it is to say this Jesus’s power is this great, that not only can he touch one person unclean and be okay, but he’s got enough power to go around. Some of us look at God and we say this. You know, their circumstance is so bad that you know, what am I? What am I going to bring to God? I mean, God does. God doesn’t need to be bothered by me. And what this passage of Scripture is saying to us is people. Yes, some people’s situation may be difficult, but God wants to intervene in any situation. And and God’s desire is that you know and grow and love and, and come to know him. It’s not about, you know, I don’t want to bother him, but. But to understand it will cost you too much not to come to him.
And that Jesus scares. He is mighty to overcome. He is, according to Isaiah six, the only one that can carry the government on his shoulders. He is mighty over the unclean as he is mighty to overcome sin. He is mighty to overcome death and resurrect our broken bodies. He is mighty to overcome the suffering of the outcast and call you his own. Our belief isn’t in a system. But in a person. And he who calls you. It’s mighty. Bible has given us this promise in Christ that in coming to him. Jesus spiritually makes us new. The Bible tells two stories about the coming of Jesus. The first coming of Jesus is to spiritually bring us back to life. Ephesians chapter two and verse one says, we are dead before him spiritually. But if we trust in him, he brings us to life. Ephesians 289 for by grace are you saved through faith? It’s not of, not of, not of yourselves, but of God. Lest any man should boast. It’s about him. Bible tells us in the first coming of Christ that what he does is awaken all mankind to spiritual life in him. That those who put their faith in him will come to life. And the promise then becomes at his second coming. Then he takes all brokenness and all shame and all despair physically in this world that we’re encountering. And he makes all things new. Because he is mighty God.
We consider our need for mighty God. We cannot refuse to go to him. Because it will cost us too much to stay. If he is mighty to supply. What what you think about this, this holiday season? If Jesus is called mighty, if he is a champion, if if he is a warrior, if he is mighty God in your life, what what should that look like in your worship? If he is able, if he is liberating, if he is a warrior and he calls you you his own and you belong to him, what type of worship does that bring? And hearing Isaiah declare, he is wonderful, counselor. He is Mighty God, he is Everlasting Father, he is Prince of Peace, and he is coming for you. Worship. To me. I don’t know, I feel like going crazy. Just to celebrate. As you take the story of this lady who just comes before Jesus, broken and empty, and just comes before him and and she’s just stopped fighting and she’s just been liberated by Christ, and Christ has set her free, and she just hears the words of his voice. You. You are my daughter. Could you imagine? Jesus. No one’s ever loved me like that. No one’s ever cared for me like that. And you, you are calling me your own. Whatever you bring. God, you, you are champion in my book and you are mighty in my worship. My worship will praise.