00:00: Today is Palm Sunday.
00:04: Growing up, if you would have asked me, what does that mean?
00:06: What is Palm Sunday?
00:07: I wouldn't have been able to answer you.
00:08: I didn't grow up going to church.
00:09: I didn't know what Palm Sunday was.
00:12: But what it is, as I've came to learn, is it's a remembrance.
00:17: It's a celebration of the Sunday before Jesus' crucifixion, the Sunday before His resurrection, when Jesus and His disciples entered into Jerusalem in a kingly procession where Jesus was received gladly by the people of Jerusalem as the king arrived in the capital city.
00:41: And it's called Palm Sunday in particular because as the crowds welcomed Jesus' arrival, they laid palm branches down on the road before Him.
00:50: Priscilla, can you show us what a palm branch looks like?
00:54: Is she still here?
00:55: Oh.
00:57: Mama Priscilla.
00:58: Woo-hoo!
00:59: Right?
00:59: Sample palm branches, right?
01:01: So the idea was essentially what we would call today the red carpet treatment.
01:07: They were honoring Him by laying these things down on the road as He walked over.
01:13: I want to read to you from John chapter 12, John the Apostle's account of that very happening.
01:20: John 12, verses 12 to 16.
01:22: The next day, the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
01:28: So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him crying out, Hosanna!
01:33: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.
01:38: And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Zion.
01:44: Behold, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt.
01:48: His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and had been done to Him.
02:01: So, Jesus rides a donkey into the capital city of Jerusalem.
02:07: That was not standard practice.
02:10: What it was, was the fulfillment of an Old Testament prophecy that was preparing God's people to recognize the King sent by God when He arrived.
02:21: It was using symbolism that represented the King coming in peace, right?
02:27: You don't ride a donkey if you're going into battle, right?
02:31: That's not a war horse.
02:32: That's a peaceable animal.
02:34: And so, He rides in, symbolically in fulfillment of this Old Testament prophecy from hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years prior.
02:44: And the crowd ate it up.
02:46: They loved Him.
02:48: They welcomed with open arms Jesus as their King.
02:52: They shouted His praise, and they essentially made three claims about Him as they cheered His entry.
02:59: That He could save them, that He represented God, and that He was King of Israel.
03:06: Now, where am I pulling that from?
03:08: Hosanna.
03:09: That's the first part of it.
03:10: They shout out Hosanna.
03:12: The word Hosanna comes from the Old Testament.
03:14: It's a Hebrew Old Testament word, and it's essentially a plea for rescue.
03:19: It's like calling out, save me, or save us, rescue us, please.
03:26: So they're essentially seeing Jesus coming.
03:28: They're like, we need your help.
03:30: We need your rescue.
03:31: Please do that for us.
03:33: Then they say that He represents God.
03:37: They say, blessed is He.
03:39: They praise Him as blessed.
03:40: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
03:43: He comes representing the Lord.
03:45: He comes representing God.
03:47: After His three years of itinerant traveling, preaching, and teaching, and miracles, a lot of folks have come to the recognition, this is no ordinary guy.
03:55: This guy is somehow empowered by God, supported by God.
04:00: He's doing God's work.
04:01: This guy represents God.
04:05: And finally, they affirmed Him as the King of Israel.
04:09: Not just that He's blessed because He comes in the name of the Lord, but that He is the King of Israel.
04:15: What does that mean?
04:16: The King of Israel.
04:17: We don't have a modern equivalent in the United States today because in the U.S.
04:20: we don't do kings.
04:21: We have presidents and Congress and so on.
04:25: But beyond that, what did it mean for Jesus to be King of Israel?
04:31: You see, Israel has more than one meaning.
04:33: Israel can refer to a nation, a country, that existed in the Old Testament era where God's chosen people were gathered together as a nation.
04:43: But by the time Jesus shows up, they're not an independent nation anymore.
04:47: Rome has conquered the region and is ruling over them and so they're more like a region of the Roman country or the Roman empire.
04:56: They're not an independent nation and so if they were talking about that sense, they'd be saying something like, you're the king of our country as soon as you kick out the Romans and let us be a country again.
05:10: Israel could also be a reference to a people group that was supposed to be oriented around God, dedicated to living and serving the one true God.
05:21: Israel is frequently a reference to God's people.
05:26: I think that's the sense in which Jesus was to be embraced.
05:34: Calling Jesus king of Israel could mean king of this nation once you kick the Romans out or it could mean king of God's people.
05:40: I think most of the people cheering him on that day probably meant the former.
05:44: Yay!
05:45: Political, military guy who's going to change things for us.
05:49: But I know that's not what Jesus meant.
05:52: He meant I'm going to do something of spiritual significance for the people of God.
06:01: To this day Christians recognize Jesus as king.
06:06: But we don't usually call Jesus simply king.
06:08: We often refer to him as the king of kings.
06:11: Right?
06:11: We've got it on our banner here.
06:13: Why?
06:14: Because God's word, the final book of the Bible, describes Jesus as the king of kings meaning he is the king over all other kings.
06:21: Every earthly authority, every earthly ruler is subject to Jesus' supreme, sovereign, unqualified authority.
06:32: Revelation 17:14 describes Jesus' enemies' opposition to Jesus and says, they will make war on the lamb and the lamb will conquer them for he is lord of lords and king of kings and those who are with him are called and chosen and faithful.
06:54: So at this final book closing on to the very end of God's word, it tells us of Jesus.
07:00: He is the lord of lords, the king of kings.
07:02: There is no one equal to or above him in authority in all the earth.
07:07: But did you notice that same verse twice referred to Jesus as the lamb?
07:15: What a strange way to honor a ruler calling him a lamb.
07:21: A lamb is basically a young, immature sheep.
07:26: And being called a sheep is not the most complimentary of descriptions, right?
07:31: You might call somebody a lion, right?
07:33: They're powerful, they're strong, but nobody's like, oh, I'm a sheep.
07:38: What praise, right?
07:40: Sheep are dumb.
07:42: They're stupid.
07:43: They're needy.
07:45: They're helpless, right?
07:47: Sheep is not a complimentary term typically.
07:51: And yet Jesus in God's word is called the lamb.
07:57: Jesus is king, yes, but he's also the lamb.
08:01: And these two realities come together just as they do in Revelation 17:14, that one verse, if we go back to John's gospel where we read about the Palm Sunday entrance into Jerusalem, we rewind in the book of John, the apostle John's account of Jesus, back to the very first chapter, John chapter one.
08:19: We find John telling us from the outset of his story that Jesus is both king and lamb.
08:26: If we go to John chapter one, verse 49, we find the encounter of Nathanael meeting Jesus, their first engagement, their first interaction.
08:34: And Nathanael is wowed.
08:37: And after this interaction, verse 49, Nathanael answered him, Jesus, Rabbi, you are the son of God.
08:45: You are the king of Israel.
08:47: Nathanael, who would become one of the apostles, recognized right away, this is no ordinary guy.
08:53: This is the king of God's people.
08:59: John wants us to know that straight out of the gate as he's telling us about Jesus, right there in chapter one.
09:04: But rewind just a little earlier back to verse 29.
09:08: This is part of the passage where John the Baptist, sent by God to prepare people for Jesus' arrival on scene, identifies Jesus to the crowds.
09:19: We see in verse 29, the next day, he, John the Baptist, saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
09:32: Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
09:36: Now, if someone, you, me, were to go out on a street corner in Green Bay and say about someone, Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
09:46: You know what people would think?
09:49: Call the police.
09:50: This guy's a nut job.
09:51: Right?
09:52: That wouldn't have significant, clear meaning to people in our society today.
09:58: The only people around us today that would understand what we were talking about would be people versed in Scripture.
10:05: People who have studied the Bible.
10:07: Because otherwise, that doesn't make any sense.
10:08: What do you mean he's the Lamb of God?
10:11: Why would you describe a person as Lamb let alone of God?
10:13: And what does that have to do with taking away the sins of the world?
10:18: But John wasn't talking to Green Bay residents.
10:22: He was in the land of Israel talking to a Jewish audience.
10:25: And in that era, the Jewish people were people steeped in the Old Testament Scriptures.
10:33: They had the literal temple in the capital city of Jerusalem where they went regularly.
10:39: And every day, there were sacrifices offered for various purposes.
10:43: And every year, there was a special Passover sacrifice offered.
10:48: They were immersed in that.
10:51: They were accustomed to the idea that God required the death of animals in accordance with God's Old Testament, Old Covenant commands because sacrifice was necessary for sinful people to be in relationship to God.
11:10: And the most important of those sacrifices had to do with something the Bible calls atonement.
11:17: Atonement is one of those Bible words that we don't tend to be super familiar with.
11:21: One way I've heard it described is at-one-ment.
11:26: You break it down and put some hyphens in there.
11:28: The idea is that atonement is what is necessary to make you at-one with God, to restore that broken relationship.
11:35: Instead of being separated into two, you have a coming together, a unity created.
11:41: In the Old Testament, the word atonement literally meant covering.
11:47: Well, what is that about?
11:49: People sin.
11:50: They disobey God.
11:52: They resist God.
11:52: They rebel against God.
11:53: They do wrong.
11:55: Have you ever met anybody that doesn't describe?
12:00: That's everybody, right?
12:01: And so God looks at us and as God, he understands us and sees us perfectly and he says, that's wrong.
12:07: That's not okay.
12:08: I see that rebellion, that resistance, that evil, the mistreatment of God and mistreatment of other people and I'm not okay with that.
12:15: Atonement meant a sacrifice that covered over that failure, that sin so that when God would look at his people, he wouldn't see the sin.
12:25: But over time, God's people recognized we need more than for the sin to be there and yet be covered.
12:30: We need the sin to be taken away.
12:33: And so over time, the word came to shift from just a covering of sin to the taking away of sin.
12:41: Here's an analogy for you.
12:43: You're at home.
12:46: You've got an area rug and things are a little messy because, you know, life happens and whatever but you got some folks coming over.
12:53: You're like, I gotta clean up.
12:55: And you can find the broom but you can't find the dustpan.
12:58: You're like, oh no.
12:59: So you sweep up all the stuff and then you pull back the rug and you kind of tuck it under the rug, right?
13:04: Put the rug down and you're like, okay, it looks good.
13:06: They're not gonna see it and think anything negative about me, right?
13:09: That's the covering sense of atonement.
13:12: But really what you need is to get rid of all that dust and dirt and debris.
13:16: Instead of just hiding it under the rug, you need to sweep it in a dustpan and get it out of there.
13:21: That's the newer, more full meaning of atonement.
13:26: Getting rid of it.
13:28: We sang about this this morning.
13:29: We sang the Lamb of God in my place, your blood poured out, my sin erased.
13:37: It's not just scribbled over and covered up.
13:40: It's erased.
13:41: It's gone.
13:44: The Lamb of God who takes away, not simply covers up, the sins of the world.
13:51: Well, how can that be?
13:52: In the Old Testament, the Lamb had to be killed, right?
13:55: We sang the Lamb of God in my place, your blood poured out.
14:01: How could Jesus be the Lamb of God?
14:02: Well, he has to die.
14:05: Jesus had to die, have his blood shed, that his life ended in order for sin to be taken away.
14:15: We say sin all the time.
14:16: What do we mean by sin?
14:19: Every failure of a moral category, every harsh word, every selfish action, every judgmental thought, every instance of cheating, every abuse of drugs or alcohol, every bit of nastiness towards others, every coarse joke, every detail of our lives that is not the lived out confidence in God, faith in God, that we ought to have.
14:45: It's every bit of resistance in our lives, every bit of rebellion in our lives against God and God's ways.
14:52: It's every time we say, I'm going to be my own boss.
14:55: I'm going to do things my way, right?
14:58: That is what sin is.
15:00: It's when we say yes to something other than God and no to God.
15:06: All of us have that.
15:09: So what of it?
15:11: Well, Romans 6.23 tells us, the wages of sin is death.
15:16: When we do that, we earn the death penalty.
15:20: But there's a way of dealing with that.
15:23: Hebrews 9.22 tells us, without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
15:28: And that's true in the Old Testament era.
15:30: All the forgiveness stuff, you had to kill various animals in a certain way and offer it as a sacrifice to God for your sin to be covered up.
15:37: But ultimately, Jesus shed his own blood, offered himself as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, so that by his death, the wages of our sin would be paid for.
15:49: Does that make sense?
15:51: He substituted himself, the Lamb of God, in my place.
15:57: He died, and it counts for us.
15:59: He rose to life, and that also can count for us.
16:03: Jesus did die as Lamb of God, and he did it on the cross.
16:07: Why did he die on the cross?
16:11: There's a lot of biblical answers you could give to that.
16:15: Factually, the Roman ruler, Pontius Pilate, gave in to the mob's demands that he be sentenced to death by crucifixion.
16:25: He tried to resist it.
16:27: He said, hey, he doesn't deserve this.
16:28: It's not appropriate.
16:29: It's not just.
16:30: But the religious leaders egged on the mob.
16:34: The mob demanded it, and Pilate gave in and sentenced him to death.
16:38: John 19, verses 19 through 22 tell us, Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.
16:47: It read, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
16:52: Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin and in Greek.
17:01: So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, do not write the King of the Jews, but rather, this man said, I am King of the Jews.
17:09: Pilate answered, what I have written, I have written.
17:12: Picture this.
17:13: Jesus is nailed to the cross.
17:16: He's dying slowly of asphyxiation, of suffocation.
17:21: In a public setting, he is literally dying as the Lamb of God in order to take away the sins of the world.
17:27: And at that same moment, there's a label on the cross, in three languages saying, this is the King of the Jewish people.
17:36: This is the King.
17:39: So everyone can read and understand what's going on.
17:43: We see at the cross, Jesus' identity of the Lamb of God, and Jesus' identity as the King of God's people, colliding.
17:52: That's what Palm Sunday leads to.
17:58: It leads to the King who is the Lamb.
18:02: The Lamb who is the King.
18:04: When Jesus was hanging there, the religious leaders mocked Him.
18:11: They thought they'd finally defeated their enemy, the one that had vexed them for three years.
18:18: And they mocked Him.
18:21: Matthew 27, verses 41 and 42 tell us, so the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked Him saying, He saved others.
18:29: He cannot save Himself.
18:31: He is the King of Israel.
18:32: Let Him come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.
18:36: That disturbs me to no end.
18:39: First of all, even if Jesus were a bad person dying on the cross, which He wasn't, that's just nasty to treat somebody like that while they're in the midst of dying.
18:50: That is not honoring to God.
18:52: Secondly, Jesus had indeed saved people in countless ways.
18:56: He'd saved them from various disabilities, demonic possession.
19:00: He'd even raised multiple people from death to life.
19:04: And the religious leadership knew that.
19:06: They'd seen it.
19:08: He had frustrated them to no end.
19:10: We don't like what He's saying, but He keeps doing these amazing miracles.
19:12: And in this one, they're like, yeah, He did great, amazing things.
19:16: But ha ha, we finally got Him.
19:18: He can't save Himself from this.
19:21: If He were really powerful, He'd just get down off that cross.
19:30: Jesus could not save Himself from the cross, not because He was nailed up to it and couldn't get down, but because God purposed for Him to be the Lamb of God as well as the King of Israel.
19:44: And He could not be the Lamb of God if He avoided giving His life for the people of God.
19:53: He had to allow Himself to be slaughtered in order to save His people.
19:59: Not just Jewish people, but people of every tribe and tongue and nation the world over.
20:03: Hence, take away the sins of the world.
20:07: Not just the Jewish people.
20:09: The King is the Lamb.
20:11: The Lamb is the King.
20:13: And those identities collide at the cross.
20:16: We sing songs here at Faith Chapel, as Christians do around the world.
20:20: Songs with the word Hosanna in them.
20:24: I told you that the word means something like save us or rescue us.
20:28: It's a plea.
20:28: It's a cry for help.
20:30: But that's not what we mean when we sing it.
20:34: Because like atonement, which started off as covering and came to mean taking away sin, so also Hosanna starts with one meaning and evolves into another meaning.
20:44: It starts off meaning save us, a cry for help, and it becomes a praise.
20:50: He has saved us.
20:51: We are saved.
20:53: I'm going to guess.
20:56: I haven't talked to the shipments about that, but they've named one of their daughters Hosanna.
21:00: And I don't believe that they did so because they're hoping that God will save them.
21:05: Like, we really need help, God.
21:06: Please find a way to save us.
21:08: But rather, they named her that in celebration of the salvation that God has already provided.
21:15: And I see heads nodding.
21:16: Either that's what they meant, or now that's what they meant, one way or the other.
21:23: The prayer turned to praise.
21:24: Exactly.
21:26: Exactly.
21:26: Here's a picture.
21:29: People are shipwrecked on a desert island.
21:33: They're dying.
21:34: There's not enough resources in this island to sustain them.
21:37: And they see a ship passing by in the distance, and they begin shouting and waving their hands and jumping up and down there crying, Save us!
21:45: Save us!
21:46: Rescue us!
21:48: Right?
21:48: They're asking for something.
21:50: And then they see the ship turn, and it then angles right for them and begins heading for them.
21:57: And they switch.
21:58: They're no longer saying, Save us!
21:59: They're saying, We're saved!
22:01: We're saved!
22:03: That's what Hosanna is doing.
22:04: Saying, Not now that we need it, but we've got it provided for us.
22:09: Here's the thing, though.
22:14: We need to be willing to receive that salvation.
22:18: When John tells us that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, he does not mean that every single man, woman, and child on planet Earth has had their sins forgiven.
22:33: He means that's available to every man, woman, and child on Earth.
22:37: But that gift has to be received.
22:41: How do you do that?
22:42: We receive gifts at birthdays and Christmas and so on.
22:45: Somebody puts it in our hands, and we unwrap the paper.
22:48: But you can't do that with a spiritual gift.
22:51: How does that take place?
22:52: Well, the answer is faith.
22:56: Trust.
22:57: It's not just a mental affirmation.
22:59: It's a way of saying, I'm relying on this.
23:02: The gift of God's saving must be received by faith.
23:08: We must trust God that what Jesus did for us in dying in our place as the Lamb of God, in fact, is all that is necessary to take away our sin.
23:19: I don't need what Jesus did for me, and then a little bit of what I do for me, and mix them together, and that is enough in God's sight.
23:28: In fact, that's downright insulting to God.
23:30: Because if we have that mentality that Jesus plus some of what I do mix together and that adds up to enough, you're insulting Jesus by saying what Jesus did was not enough.
23:41: Don't come to God and say, your son did pretty good.
23:44: He got things started, and I finished it off good and right.
23:47: No, you don't want to go there.
23:50: Jesus paid it all.
23:53: He did everything needed, and we simply trust him to have done everything needed for us.
23:58: The apostle John wrote about Jesus as the Lamb of God and about Jesus as King of the Jews.
24:04: And then at the end, towards the very end of his account of Jesus, John chapter 20, verses 30 and 31, he tells us why he's bothered to write this down at all.
24:13: He says, now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book.
24:19: But these are written John chapter 20, verses 30 and 31, so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing, you may have life in his name.
24:32: John's telling us, I wrote down the selected things I wrote down, ultimately, so that you would believe in Jesus, have faith in Jesus, rely on Jesus, and by doing that, you'll have life.
24:44: You'll have eternal life.
24:45: You'll be joined to Jesus.
24:47: Your sins will be forgiven.
24:48: You'll get to live forever with God because death has already been dealt with on your behalf.
24:55: We're meant to believe, to trust, to rely on.
25:01: Let me ask you this morning, do you believe in Jesus?
25:06: Because that is how you receive the gift that Jesus offers.
25:09: If you don't have trust in Jesus, Jesus' blood is not taking away your sins.
25:18: And you need that.
25:19: Going to church isn't going to cut it.
25:22: Getting baptized isn't going to cut it.
25:24: No amount of good efforts or best intentions is going to cut it.
25:30: Have you trusted yourself to Jesus?
25:34: Hearing about Jesus and being like, yeah, he's the one that saves, but not actually trusting in him is like falling overboard off a ship.
25:42: And you cry out, save me!
25:47: Hosanna!
25:48: And they throw you a life preserver ring.
25:51: Right?
25:52: And you're like, that's great, look at that, that can save me.
25:55: But you refuse to get in the middle of it.
25:57: You refuse to put it around you.
25:59: A life preserver ring next to you, not around you, doesn't save.
26:04: Or how about this picture?
26:06: You're in the pool.
26:08: You're drowning.
26:09: Maybe you can't swim.
26:10: Maybe you've been swimming so long that you're just too tired and you can't keep going.
26:14: And the lifeguard jumps in and swims out to you.
26:17: What is the warning that people being trained for lifeguarding get about that?
26:22: They say, the people will tend to try to pull you down.
26:26: They'll panic.
26:27: And they'll try to push the lifeguard down in order to push themselves up.
26:31: How does that work out for both parties?
26:34: Bad, right?
26:35: The one being saved has to surrender and submit to the lifeguard and trust that the lifeguard will actually get them to shore and save them.
26:47: Right?
26:48: If the drowning person doesn't submit and doesn't trust, saving doesn't happen.
26:55: Have you surrendered to the lifeguard?
27:00: Or even worse yet, have you stopped swimming away from Him?
27:05: Some of us go to church and we keep swimming away from Jesus.
27:09: We keep choosing our own things.
27:10: We keep saying, no, yeah, I'll go to church, but I'm not going to change the way I live.
27:14: I'm not going to actually start doing what the Savior wants me to do.
27:20: Mark 1, verse 15 tells us very, very simply what we need to do.
27:26: Repent and believe the gospel.
27:32: You see, you can't have a saving faith in Jesus.
27:34: You can't trust Him in the way you're called to without repenting.
27:38: Because repenting is a turning away from your own way.
27:41: It's a turning away from sin and saying, I don't want to live the wrong way anymore.
27:45: I want to live the way that God says to live.
27:48: That's the only way that you can turn to God in trust.
27:53: Right?
27:53: If you say, Jesus, I trust you, but I think everything you tell me to do is obnoxious and wrong, you're not trusting Him.
28:02: Repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin.
28:08: Have you surrendered your life to Jesus?
28:13: That's a one-time and an all-the-time call on us.
28:18: We're called to continually do that.
28:20: We say here at Faith Chapel that our mission is for every believer to become, make mature, and multiply fully surrendered disciples of Jesus Christ.
28:30: And it's hard to let go of control, isn't it?
28:33: I'm in the process of teaching my third of four children to drive.
28:39: He's fine.
28:40: He's doing good.
28:41: But man, being in the passenger seat is hard.
28:45: Right?
28:45: All the parents that have taught kids to drive, can I get an amen on that?
28:48: Right?
28:49: Yeah, they're doing fine, but I prefer if I'm in control because I don't know what this guy's going to do.
28:55: Right?
28:57: Y'all can feel free to harass William during the potluck about that.
29:01: He's fine.
29:01: He's doing fine.
29:04: But we need to relinquish control and embrace Jesus in faith and repentance.
29:14: If you haven't done that, I don't care how long you've been going to church.
29:18: I don't care what rituals or ordinances or sacraments you've partaken in.
29:25: You're in trouble with God.
29:28: Don't leave this building this morning without talking to me or one of the elders to get that figured out and to get that right.
29:37: Because Jesus is the King of God's people and the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world and He offers Himself to you as that.
29:46: Take Him up on it.
29:48: Let's pray.
29:50: Father, we worship You this morning not simply because of who You are and Your perfection and Your goodness and Your wisdom and Your power but we worship You because of Your grace to us in Jesus Christ.
30:08: We worship You for sending Your Son to be the King that we need and to be the Lamb who died in our place to take away our sin.
30:19: Convict every one of us here if we need it.
30:25: Either to submit to Jesus for the first time in repentant faith or to submit to Him afresh.
30:32: as our King and as our saving one.
30:37: We pray these things in Jesus' name.
30:39: Amen.