The sermon discusses the glory of Jesus in Luke 9, focusing on the transfiguration and how Jesus' glory is revealed not only in his appearance but also in his acts of compassion and teaching. It highlights the account of Jesus healing a tormented son, emphasizing the father's desperation and the disciples' inability to cast out the demon. Jesus' response to the faithless and perverse generation underscores humanity's unbelief and corruption. The sermon also contrasts Jesus' first coming in humility, to die for sinners, with his second coming in glory. Jesus repeatedly teaches about his impending betrayal to prepare his disciples, planting seeds that would bear fruit after his resurrection. The sermon calls for recognition of Jesus' glory in his acts and encourages desperate parents to turn to Jesus in prayer.

The title of my message today is more of Jesus's glory the last passage in Luke chapter 9 in that passage Jesus was transfigured before Jesus excuse me, Jesus was transfigured before Peter, James, and John, and his face shone like the sun and his garment was white and glistening, just drawing from other gospel texts relating the same events whiter than any launderer could launder it. And Mike made the connection to Revelation chapter one. You see Jesus appearing this way in Revelation chapter one. The whole point is that in the incarnation, in Jesus leaving heaven and taking on human flesh to be a substitute for sinners, So much of his glory, which is natural to him, which is part of his being, his essence was veiled in the incarnation. So for a few moments on the Mount of Transfiguration, the veil is peeled back just a little so you can see Jesus as what he's actually like in his glory.

But Jesus is in his glory in our text too. There's no face shining like the sun and there's no garments white and glistening. But in our text, he's delivering a tormented son. And so his glory appears in his delivering the tormented son. And his glory appears also ironically in his teaching the twelve disciples that he's about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

He's talking about his death and he's actually talking about his greatest work. So is Jesus in his glory? As his face shines like the sun, you better believe it. But is Jesus in his glory as he's destroying the works of the devil and revealing that he's going to be the great savior of mankind, you better believe it. So his glory was on display in last week's text or our previous text and his glory is on display in this week's text too.

God, I come to you as we begin the time of preaching, pleading with you that you would help me as I speak, but also that you would help my friends, my brothers, my sisters as they're listening that all that you intended by giving us the truths of this text would be pressed on us, that they would build us up and be an encouragement to us. I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, well let's look at this text. Hopefully your Bibles are still open to Luke chapter 9.

I'm going to reread. We'll start with verses 37 through 40. We'll divide this text into three different parts, starting with Luke chapter 9 verses 37 through 40. Follow along as I reread this text. Now it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him.

Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, Teacher, I implore you, look on my son, for he is my only child. And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. And it convulses him, so that he foams at the mouth and it departs from him with great difficulty bruising him. So I implored your disciples to cast it out, but they could not. In these verses we have the cry of a desperate father.

Cry of a desperate father on behalf of his son. Before I get started I should note that you find a very similar account in Matthew chapter 19 and a very similar account in Mark chapter 9. In Matthew 19 it's eight verses, in Mark 9 it's 16 verses, Here in Luke 9 it's only six verses. So the account of the same history in three different gospels and this is the shortest one. Mark 9 is by far the most with 16 verses and we only have six verses here recounting this.

So, a warning, you're going to get to the end and have an impulse that says, he didn't preach on Mark chapter 9. That's true. There are very interesting things and very important things in Mark chapter 9 that I'm not going to talk about today because it's not part of my text. I'm preaching Luke chapter 9. So if we ever preach through Mark, then I'll preach through Mark chapter 9.

I'll be folding in a few points, but there are some important points from those texts that I won't touch on because I want to hammer home the things that are actually in our text in Luke chapter 9. Okay, it's the next day, the Previous day, Jesus, Peter, James, and John had been on the mountain and he was transformed before them and they actually got to be part of seeing Jesus talk with Moses and Elijah about his upcoming death. Now it's the next day, Jesus, Peter, James, and John have come down from the mountain. And as they come down from the mountain, there is a multitude with the rest of his disciples. We've been seeing this over and over again as we work through chapters in Luke, where Jesus is or is going to be multitudes gather, crowds gather because of the things that he's been doing and the things that he's been teaching.

Suddenly, somebody cries out from the midst of the multitude. So it's probably noisy anyway, crowds usually are, but above the noise of the crowd is a single voice crying out from the midst of the multitude. So everyone is there for Jesus, that's why the crowd, but one man is going to make sure that he gains the attention of Jesus. At all costs, one man is going to get the attention of Jesus. And so he cries out.

And this desperate father cries out about a son that is his only child who is tormented by a demon that seizes this only son making the son cry out the NASB translates it scream he makes the son scream So there's nothing wrong with cry out. But the NASB translation is very dramatic. It makes this son scream and it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth. This is how the Father describes what happens to his only son. In Mark chapter 9, the Father says that his son has a mute spirit and as you work through Mark chapter 9, Jesus ends up saying, rebuking this deaf and mute spirit.

So we have it on Jesus's authority that this is a deaf and mute spirit. Luke doesn't mention that, but Mark does. So now you have to imagine this. The general effect of this unclean spirit is that it renders this son unable to talk. That's what it means that he was a mute spirit.

You would only call it a mute spirit because the general effect is he makes this son unable to talk. But during these episodes, the normal silence is broken by the son screaming. So nothing, nothing, nothing, mute, mute, mute, and then this happens and he's screaming and being convulsed and foaming at the mouth. Matthew Henry says this, many a time his shrieks had pierced the heart of his tender father. And I think that must have been true many, many times.

The silence, his son almost never talks, almost never makes a sound. But the silence is broken by the streaks of this tormented son. So this is the picture that the father is painting for us about the life of his only son. The father says when this happens, the demon departs from him with great difficulty and leaves him bruised. The Greek literally means to break in pieces, to tread down, to crush.

So the son is harmed in a way that you would describe it this way, to break in pieces to tread down to crush. It leaves him bruised. It's a very dramatic Greek word. In Mark 9, the Father says that from childhood the demon has often thrown this only son both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. So this this demon is homicidal, okay, has sought to destroy this son from from childhood.

This means that the son is no longer a child but going back into his childhood throughout his childhood often the this this demon has thrown this boy this son into the water and into the fire. Now think of the life you have to live now. You have to know what's going on and you have to pay close attention when you're near water Because this demon will throw this son into the water to destroy him. That's what is said in Mark chapter nine. Or this demon will throw this son into the fire.

They heat with fire. They cook with fire. So the life that they've been living is a hyper vigilant life around water and fire because of what has happened often over and over throughout the history of this only son. So make no mistake this is a very desperate father and a greatly tormented son. Verse 40, the Father says that he had already implored Jesus' disciples to cast out the demon.

He had heard they can cast out demons. The chapter begins with Jesus sending them out to cast out demons and to heal. He came having heard that they can do this. He already implored them to do this and They were not able. They could not.

At this point, just go back to the first verse of the chapter, Luke chapter 9 verse 1, then he, Jesus, called his twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. So the chapter opens with Jesus giving them authority over all demons. Uh-oh, what's happening now? So today's text seems very clear to me that the disciples have not encountered this before, not encountered a demon that when they come against it in Jesus' name, that nothing happens. So this is the cry of a desperate father for his son who was an only child.

And by the way, in Luke chapter 7, With the widow of the city Nain, he raised her son from the dead and he was an only child son. In Luke chapter 8, Jairus's daughter who was raised from the dead is an only child daughter. So our gospel writer Luke is very sensitive to the plight of these parents of only children. None of the other gospel writers ever mentioned that fact, but here three times, Luke chapter seven, Luke chapter eight, Luke chapter nine, we encounter a parent of an only child in a desperate situation and Luke notes this is the only child that this parent has. Verses 41 and 42, Continuing through the text.

Then Jesus answered and said, "'O faithless and perverse generation, "'how long shall I be with you and bear with you? "'Bring your son here.' And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father. So verses 37 through 40 were the cry of a desperate father. Here in verses 41 and 42, we have the response of a willing savior.

Desperate Father, now willing Savior. So Jesus describes that generation, Jesus describes the generation in which he's living, the whole of humanity when he had taken on flesh and was dwelling among us. How does he describe that generation? Two words, faithless and perverse. Jesus says that the whole of humanity during the time when he was on earth was faithless and perverse.

Faithless literally means without belief. So the NASB and the NIV render it unbelieving, both faithless and unbelieving are perfect translations of that word. And perverse literally means to turn aside from the right path, corrupt. So both perverse and corrupt, some of the translations use corrupt are both perfect translations of that Greek word. So that generation, all of humanity, the whole of humanity during Jesus's life was faithless or unbelieving and perverse or corrupt.

That describes everyone alive. That's the generation. Jesus's use of generation was not to teach that we can expect other generations that are fundamentally different. That's not so, oh look at that lousy generation. Better things are to come.

That's not why he's saying that. We're waiting for that generation of humanity that is faith-filled and not corrupt. You're gonna wait forever. Jesus is simply using that word to say that that describes everyone alive. It's the whole generation.

It's all of humanity. How can it be that this exists in a world that God created good? How can it be that this, what's this? A boy that has been so dominated by a demonic presence that since he was small, since he was young, he was often thrown into the water and into the fire, that he would be convulsed and become rigid, that he couldn't talk, that he couldn't hear. This is a deaf and mute spirit.

That his body would literally be broken by these episodes. How could it be that this exists when we read in Genesis 1 that God created the world very good. How did we get here? This is the explanation. Unbelief and corruption.

In short, we did this. We, Adam and Eve brought this into this world, and we've happily perpetuated it. Meaning, we didn't continue it against our will We continued it as an expression of our will. Unbelief and corruption. Now, we keep hitting these texts where Jesus is encountering what sin is brought into the world and we have a frame of reference for all of it don't we might have seen something exactly like this but we've seen plenty of pain in the world haven't we Are we a stranger to pain in life, to awful things happening in the world?

So, in a way, we come to a text like this, and this is just the world as we know Sin in every life. Pain in every life. Tears in every life. Death in every life. But this is not the perspective of the Son of God, because the worlds were made through Him.

He was there when He made it very good. So this is not just the world as Jesus knows it. We did this. He made the world very good. We made the world a place where something like is in our text can happen.

The world wasn't created to be this way. And the world to come isn't going to be this way. For Jesus, this condition was something to be endured for a finite period of time until he would set everything right in this world of unbelief and corruption through grace and judgment. As you just know, This is where history is headed. History is headed to a place where Jesus sets it all right.

He deals with all the unbelief and all the corruption and all the effects of it through grace and judgment. Through one or the other, it will all be made right. Jesus says, how long will I have to endure this? How long will I have to put up with unbelief and corruption because that was the state of his generation and that is the state of our generation. Jesus says to the Father, bring your son here.

Is this demon going to go quietly? Not on your life. This demon who has had his way in the life of this son and in the life of this family for year after year, almost undoubtedly more than a decade, is not going quietly. While the sun was still coming, the demon throws him down and convulses him. Listen to the description from Mark chapter 9.

So this is Mark chapter 9 verses 25 through 27. Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit saying to it, deaf and dumb spirit I command you come out of him and enter him no more. Then the Spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly and came out of him. And he became as one dead so that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose.

This demon is not going to go quietly. He convulses him. It's such a violent act that when he's done, that boy looks dead and people are saying he's dead he just died but Jesus takes him by the hand and lifts him up and Luke says gives him back to his father. Jesus set free this only son. He was completely in bondage and Jesus set him free.

And he healed him. And he gave him back to his father. In Mark chapter nine, this long version of the account, Mark chapter nine, all this is in response to the father saying, have compassion on us. Just know, this is an act of mighty power, but it is an act of compassion. The Father asks for compassion and Jesus acts in compassion.

Jesus exerts his mighty power in an act of compassion. So which is it? Is Jesus putting up with an unbelieving and corrupt generation or is Jesus having compassion? You've heard this said many times, two things can be true at once. Jesus is putting up with a generation of unbelief and corruption and he is acting in compassion.

How do you think you got saved? You think you figured it out? Think you solved the puzzle? Or do you think that Jesus reached into a life of sin and a rebellion and in an act of compassion exerted his power to save you and raise you spiritually from the dead. That's what happened.

This whole text is here to prove to us that Jesus can do that and does do that. And So many of us here in the room would say, I'm living proof of that. I can see how I was dead in sins and transgressions. And Jesus reached into all that rebellion. I wasn't looking for him.

He came looking for me and reached into all that rebellion and exerted his power in an act of compassion. So that is the response of the willing Savior. Jesus who is putting up with a generation, another generation of unbelief and corruption, but also acting in compassion to set the prisoner free. Final three verses, 43 through 45, follow along as I read it. And they were all amazed at the majesty of God.

But while everyone marveled at all the things which Jesus did, He said to His disciples, "'Let these words sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men. But they did not understand this saying and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying. In these final verses, we have a warning from the willing Savior. There are a multitude of people in our text who witnessed all that happened.

What is their response? They were all amazed at the majesty of God. Good for them, that's the right response. How could you draw any other conclusion than, this is the hand of God. This is not something that a normal man does.

So they could see what Jesus was doing was the hand of God at work. I'm not saying that they had a clear Christology, a clear doctrine of Christ that said that Jesus was God, but they knew enough to say, no man can do this. If a man does this, it's really God doing it. But, But while everyone marveled at all that Jesus had been doing and was doing, Jesus says this to his disciples, let these words Sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of man. Listen to this and let these words stay in your ears.

The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of man. Why did Jesus say this to his disciples? Because there is a first coming and there is a second coming. And though the first coming has some foreshadowing of the second coming, it is not the second coming. Now, let me unpack all that.

I know that makes very little sense. So let me explain it. What is the first coming? It is Jesus leaving his eternal glory in heaven and coming in humility, taking on the form of a bond servant, pulling from the language of Philippians 2, coming in humility to die as a criminal. Why?

To take the place of criminals. That is the first coming. What is the second coming? It hasn't happened yet, but it is going to happen. He is going to come back and there's going to be a trumpet sound and a legions of angels.

And he's coming in glory the first time in humility, the second time in glory, the first time in humility, the second time in glory, the first time in humility, the second time as a vanquishing conquering king to judge and then reign. Jesus in our text is here the first time coming in humility to die as a criminal in the place of criminals. But even so we have things like this text, which gives you a little foretaste of what it will be like when the King comes and none of his glory is veiled. So there's a little of that. J.C.

Ryle says this, the throne of David, says a great divine, did so fill their eyes that they could not see the cross. That's exactly what's happening in this text. They're thinking, he's the Messiah. That was Peter's admission in this chapter. You are the Christ.

Jesus says, don't tell anyone. They're thinking, he's the Christ. He's here. Victory. Jesus in our text is saying, not so fast.

Don't confuse the first coming in humility to die as a criminal with the second coming in glory to conquer and reign. Just because we have these glimpses where the veil gets pulled back a little bit so you see a glimpse of the glory doesn't mean this is the second coming. The throne of David did so fill their eyes that they could not see the cross. This is the third instance of Jesus saying this in this chapter. Look back, Luke 9 verses 21 and 22.

So This is our same chapter, verses 21 and 22. And he strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one. This is right after Peter says, you are the Christ. Saying, the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised the third day." I don't know how you summarize the sufferings and death and resurrection in clearer language than that but they're thinking oh what can he mean when he says I must die what could it mean I look at verse 30 and behold two men talked with him, talked with Jesus who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his decease which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. So Peter, James, and John had heard Jesus discuss his impending death with Moses and Elijah.

Now this, and this won't be the last of it, and the language gets increasingly clear and increasingly comprehensive. All the way in chapter 18, so we're in chapter 9, double the chapters, all the way in chapter 18, Jesus is going to be speaking even more clearly, more comprehensively, and the text is still going to say they didn't understand at all. So Jesus teaches this in our text. Did the disciples understand it? No, not at all.

And they were afraid to ask about it. Then was Jesus saying these things repeatedly a failure? No, not at all. We play checkers, he plays 4D chess. What does that mean?

Well, it's hard to find a much simpler game than checkers. There's only a couple of rules and you don't have many options. Chess is played on the same board but has a lot more rules and almost an infinite number of options. But they even chess is only 2D chess. So 3D chess would be to add board on top of board so that now it's not just forward and back and side to side, but it's also up and down that you can move.

So add the complexity, add the rules, add the options. But that's only 3D chess. 4D chess would be to add multiple cubes. I've read about this online this morning and I don't even understand the description of 4D chess honestly. I don't even understand.

I don't I don't even understand the description. I hate 2D chess because of how complex it is. I can imagine 3D chess, I don't even understand the description of 4D chess. So we're playing checkers, but God is acting with a degree of knowledge of everything and how it relates to each other that He is a thousand moves ahead, okay, even in terms of the greatest complexity. Jesus was planting seeds so he says this and he says this and he says this it's three times in this chapter and they don't understand it but it's not a failure.

His teaching isn't a failure because he is planting seeds that would produce fruit after his death and resurrection. He knows exactly that they're not going to understand it. He knows exactly that they're going to need it and win after his death and resurrection Listen to John 12 verse 16 John 12 verse 16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that they had done these things to him. So, In John chapter 12, more of the same. They don't understand.

But John, who's here in our chapter in Luke, just came down after seeing Jesus transfigured, puts that in his gospel that they didn't understand at that time but when he was glorified then they remembered and understood these things. The disciples had to be able to know with 100% confidence without a shadow of a doubt that Jesus' death was the plan, not a derailing of the plan. Do you understand how critical that is to understanding what the mission of these men would be after Jesus' death. They had to know with 100% confidence that the cross was the plan, not a derailing of the plan. Because it's going to seem to everyone else like the Cross is a derailing of the plan and Jesus is planting these seeds.

It's going to bear the fruit. So they'll say no, no, no, no This was the plan Okay, this is his his first coming in humility to die as a criminal because criminals need someone who will stand in their place and pay their debts. So that is the warning from the willing Savior. Guys, don't get comfortable with the honor. He does something wonderful, something amazing, something that no one's seen anyone ever do before and they're marveling and saying, this is the hand of God and Jesus is saying don't get comfortable with the honor.

I'm not here this time for the honor. Okay that's coming all the honor is going to go to him but he didn't come the first time for the honor He came the first time to die for sinners. Applications I'll give you four. Application number one, see Jesus in his glory. You mean with his face shining like the Sun, speaking to Moses and Elijah.

Okay, but I'll take him setting the prisoner free and destroying the works of the devil and rolling back all of the effects of the curse for his people. Give me that glory. It is amazing to see what he might look like, be like when all the Veiling that happened in the incarnation is pulled away and then we can see him in his eternal glory. I don't deny that that's going to be amazing, but I'm a sinner. I'll take him setting the prisoner free and destroying the works of the devil and rolling back the curse for sinners like me.

Jesus' glory is on display as much in that as it is in the other. It's on display, I think, more in that than it is in the other. That's number one, see Jesus in his glory. Number two, it's a question with an obvious answer. I don't even answer it, It's that obvious.

Where should desperate parents go? You know any desperate parents? Are you a desperate parent? Where should you go? J.C.

Ryle, tell us where the desperate parents should go. He says this, we have first in these verses an example of what a parent should do when he is troubled about his children. There are many Christian fathers and mothers at this day who are just as miserable about their children as the men of whom we are reading. As the man of whom we are reading. Now what should a father or mother do in a case like this?

They should do as the man before us did. They should go to Jesus in prayer and cry to him about their child. They should spread before that merciful Savior the tale of their sorrows and entreat him to help them. Listen to this. The child of many prayers shall seldom be cast away.

God's time of conversion may not be ours. He may think it fit to prove our faith by keeping us long waiting, but so long as a child lives and a parent prays, we have no right to despair about that child's soul. I'm gonna reread that last sentence. So long as a child lives and a parent prays, we have no right to despair about that child's soul. I'm gonna reread that last sentence.

So long as a child lives and a parent prays, we have no right to despair about that child's soul. Amen. Amen. Young people, does Jesus care about you or are you going to have to age into that? Meaning, he'll care about me when I become more consequential in the world's eyes, when I grow up and enter into a phase that's more noticed by others.

Will he help you? Come to these texts. You don't have to age into Jesus helping you, Jesus saving you, Jesus caring about you. Okay, these texts are telling you, He already cares about you. He will help you.

He will save you. That's number two. Where should desperate parents go? Number three. Understand your generation.

It is unbelieving and it is corrupt. Our generation is like Jesus' generation. It is unbelieving and corrupt. Peter on the day of Pentecost, as he was preaching on the day of Pentecost, in Acts chapter two, says this, be saved from this perverse generation. So we actually have the message.

Peter has given us the message. We are in an unbelieving and perverse generation. And we've been given the perfect message for it. Be saved from it. Jesus will save you from it.

Out of the unbelief, out of the corruption, there is hope for you. Jesus will save you. So we have a message for all who are alive. Unbelieving and corrupt describes everyone in their natural condition, everyone as they were born, unbelieving and corrupt. We have a message for them.

And understanding that all of humanity is unbelieving and corrupt strips away a naive view that makes you vulnerable. Understanding your generation, we're among unbelieving corrupt people, strips away a naive view of the world and what people are like and what we can expect from people that makes you vulnerable If you have that naive view and don't understand the generation that you're in, you're vulnerable. So don't be jaded. The jaded view is, I'm in an unbelieving and corrupt generation. There's nothing to be done.

We're just marking time till we get to heaven. No, we've actually been given the saving message and the privilege to deliver it to people who were born just like we were born, unbelieving and corrupt. But also don't be vulnerable. Know what you can expect from an unbelieving and perverse generation. And I should say this, The unbelieving and corrupt generation is the problem.

Don't expect it to give you the solution. The faithless and perverse generation is the problem, but they're offering you the solutions. You're not gonna get the solutions from them. They have a prescription for you. Go to the pharmacy.

This will make it all better. They have man centered counsel for you. Pro tips to navigate through the sin and mess. These things are powerless to get to the fundamental problems that we're facing in this world. The problems came from them, the solutions are not coming from them.

Jason Jason said that there's never any value in this or that. I'm pretty close to it. Try me. All I can tell you is I've lived long enough to see how often the solutions offered by the unbelieving and corrupt generation are actually worse than the problems that they're saying they solve. So that much I know.

Do any of these things ever help? I'm sure some of these things sometimes help, but I know that I've lived long enough to see the cure be worse than the disease 100 times. They scare me to death. Here's what doesn't scare me to death, Jesus. Jesus doesn't scare me to death.

Number four, remember Baruch. I'll spell it for you. You don't know how to spell it or most people do not spell it if somebody had said remember Baruch to me I wouldn't have known how to spell it, but I remembered this guy in the Bible bar uch bar uch remember Baruch He's this character that shows up very rarely, only in one book of the Bible. It's Jeremiah. And his job in Jeremiah is to write down Jeremiah's prophecies.

And because Jeremiah is so often in jail for speaking the Word of God. He gets thrown in jail. He's so often in jail that it's Baruch's job to take the written prophecies to people because Jeremiah can't go there because he's in jail. And Baruch in Jeremiah 45 is discouraged and so Jeremiah actually has a prophecy from the Lord for Baruch, his scribe. Here's what it is, Jeremiah 45 verse 5.

God says this to Baruch. Do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh, says the Lord. But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go." Baruch was the object of contempt because he was helping God's prophet.

And he's discouraged and God says, do you want great things for yourself? This is a time of adversity. Don't seek the great things for yourself. You'll not receive those things, but in the end it will be well for you. In the end it will be well for you.

So you might receive honor in this life. You might come into a season of being honored and being appreciated, but Baruch would counsel you, don't bet on it. Don't bet on it. Play the long game. Bet that even if God brings us into a time of adversity, where we, where contempt is poured on us because we're trying to be faithful to God and his word in this world.

Do you think we're coming into a time like that? It seems like it, that we're coming into a time where people who are really trying to be faithful to God, contempt is being poured on them like never before. God says, don't worry, The future is great. The future is great for you. God, thank you for being so realistic with us about what we see in the world.

What your word says is exactly what we find in this world. Where else can we get truth like this? We match up your word to the world and we find that it fits perfectly and yet it gives us the solutions. It doesn't just describe the problems to us accurately, but it also tells us where to go to be healed. Thank you that Jesus has come and the work that he has done has made a way for us to be at peace with you.

Better than that to become sons and daughters. Thank you.