The Spirit and the Word | 1 Corinthians 2
Brian Hedges | May 25, 2025
I want to invite you to turn in Scripture to 1 Corinthians 2. In a few moments I’m going to read this entire chapter to us, just sixteen verses.
But I want to begin this morning on a serious note with a call to some personal self-examination. Right as we begin, I want to ask you two questions and encourage you to rate yourself on a scale of one to ten and answer each question, one being low, ten being high. You might even jot this down on your notes. Just jot down where you are in each one of these questions. I think our answers will help reveal the need for this particular chapter from God’s word and the emphasis in the message this morning.
(1) Question number one: On a scale of one to ten, how much evidence of the Spirit’s work do you find in your life? How much evidence of the Spirit’s grace do you find in your life? If you want to put some definition on that, think of the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. On a scale of one to ten, how present are those aspects of the Spirit’s work, those results of the Spirit’s work and grace in your own heart?
(2) Then question number two, also on a scale of one to 10: What is the depth and the quality of your devotional life and of your personal communion and fellowship with God, as measured by time in your devotional life, time in the word, enjoyment of the Lord in Scripture, and in prayer?
My guess is that for most of us, the way in which we rate ourselves in the first question will also be reflected in the second question, because there is a very close connection between the work of the Spirit and the ministry of the Word. To whatever degree we are filled with the Spirit, to that degree we also will be people who are devoted to the Scriptures and spending much time in the Word of God. If there is a big gap between those two numbers in your answer, it might reflect a lack of understanding of how the Bible actually talks about the work of the Spirit and how the Spirit works in and through the word.
This morning, I want to talk about the Spirit and the word. This is, I think, about the fifth sermon in our series on the Holy Spirit. We’ve considered how the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of the Son, and there is this unbreakable bond between the Son and the Spirit. The Spirit is given to the church by Jesus Christ, the ascended and exalted Lord. We’ve considered the work of the Spirit in salvation; he is the author of regeneration or new birth, he’s the one who brings us out of spiritual death, death and sin, and brings us into new life and hope in Jesus Christ. We’ve considered how the Spirit is active in the Christian life. He is the one who fills us and who leads and guides us and reproduces the character of Christ in us, the fruit of the Spirit, and we are called to walk in the Spirit.
Last week, we talked about the Spirit’s role in giving us assurance of our salvation, the Spirit bearing witness with our spirits that we are the children of God, and how as the children of God he leads us in the path of holiness and the Spirit working in us to help us put sin to death and set our minds on the things of the Spirit.
Today, I just want to focus exclusively on this aspect of the Spirit’s work, the Spirit and the word. I want to do that, first of all, by reading to you 1 Corinthians 2—and we’re going to read this entire chapter—and then we’re going to look at a number of other passages of Scripture as well.
Now just a heads up, I’m going to cover a lot of verses this morning; they’re not all going to be on the screen. You can jot them down if you’re taking notes, but if not, you can come back and find the transcript in just about a week. All of this will be online. You don’t have to write everything down this morning. Don’t fret what you don’t see on screen. Just listen, and let’s listen prayerfully and ask God to use the word this morning to take us deeper with him.
First Corinthians 2—as I read the passage, I want you to try to notice two things in the passage. Notice all of the different phrases that are used to describe the gospel or the word of God. There’s lots of different language that Paul uses in this passage, but all of it refers to the proclamation of the gospel and basic aspects of the gospel. Then notice also the emphasis in this chapter on the ministry of the Spirit.
“And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. [Right there you have the heart of the gospel. This is what Paul preached: Christ and his cross.] And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
“Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written,
‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him’—
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ‘For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.”
This is God’s Word.
I want you to see this morning that there is a vital connection between the word and the Spirit. The Spirit and the word belong together. That’s really the first point. That’s the main thrust of the message. And then in point two, I want to look at implications of this word and Spirit connection, and then we’ll end with point three and application for us today.
1. The Vital Connection between the Spirit and the Word
So first of all, there is a vital connection between the Spirit and the word. Let me, first of all, just show you this in 1 Corinthians 2, and then really quickly in some other passages of Scripture.
Many of us probably already believe this, but I want to ground us in this. I want you to be convinced, and I want you to see it, and see it not just generally, but see it in detail with some concrete examples, because this is very important for us as we think about our own spiritual growth, we think about our need for the Spirit and the relationship between the Spirit of God and the word of God in our lives.
So in 1 Corinthians 2:10, Paul says, “These things God has revealed to us through his Spirit.” God has revealed something through the Spirit. What is it that God has revealed?
We look at this chapter and we look at the variety of ways that Paul describes the gospel, the message that he proclaimed, the word of God and the truth of God, we get an answer to that question. For example, in verses 1-2, Paul talks about proclaiming to you the testimony of God. He says, “I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” The testimony of God is the gospel that he proclaimed, and at the heart of the gospel was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Then in verses 6-7 he calls this the wisdom of God. He says we do impart a wisdom, but it’s not the wisdom of this age, it is the secret and hidden wisdom of God. “We impart this to you.” And again, it is the wisdom that is really revealed in the cross of Jesus Christ—Christ crucified for us, who is the wisdom of God and the power of God (1 Corinthians 1).
Then he goes on to talk about how God has revealed “what no eye has seen nor ear heard nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” That’s a quotation from the Old Testament. He says God has revealed these things to us through his Spirit. He has revealed the plan of God, the plan that God decreed, the plan that was prophesied in the Old Testament Scriptures. It’s now been revealed, and it’s been revealed through the Spirit, revealed to us.
Verse 11 talks about the thoughts of God. No one can comprehend the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Again, it’s been now revealed to us, and then in 12-13 he says, “We impart this in words taught not by human wisdom but words taught by the Spirit.” So the words of God. He says that we interpret spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. So the truth of God, spiritual truth.
You see the many phrases—testimony of God, wisdom of God, the thoughts of God, the words of God, the testimony and the proclamation of the gospel of God—this is what has been revealed by the Spirit. There is a vital connection, an unbreakable bond, an inseparable link between the Spirit of God and the word of God. It’s very clear here in 1 Corinthians 2.
Now, let me show you this also in a few other passages of Scripture, just quickly. Second Peter 1:21 says, “For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” This is telling us how Scripture was given. Men spoke from God, not devising this on their own, but as they were carried along by the Spirit of God. In fact, we often talk about the inspiration of the Scriptures. We draw that from the old King James Version of 2 Timothy 3:16, but literally what it says is that every word of God is breathed out by God. There’s a little play on words there, because both in Hebrew and in Greek the word for “breath” or “wind” is also the word for “spirit.” So these are literally the Spirit-breathed words of God. The Spirit is the source of the Scriptures, the Word of God, the divine source working through human authors, but giving us the very words of God, so that we can say that when the Bible speaks, God speaks; when the Scriptures speak, the Spirit speaks.
That’s why the author to the Hebrews, when he was quoting the Old Testament Scriptures, Psalm 95, quoting this in Hebrews 3:7, begins the quotation in this way: “As the Holy Spirit says.”
Take the ministry of Jesus Christ. The very first sermon that Jesus preached is recorded in Luke 4. He was in the synagogue of Capernaum, and there’s a reading from Isaiah, the prophet Isaiah, Jesus reading this passage. This is what it says.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”
Jesus says, “This prophecy, this word is fulfilled today.” It is a prophecy that the Spirit of God would be upon the Son of God as he proclaims the gospel of God.
In John 6:63 Jesus says, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.”
Then, in that great upper room discourse in John 14-16, Jesus, sharing with his disciples the night before he would be crucified, tells them that another comforter is going to come, another one like himself, an advocate, the paraclete, the one who will come alongside them, and he calls him the Spirit of truth, and he says he’s going to lead you into all truth.
Then you have Paul’s words in many places—Galatians 3, when he’s confronting the Galatian church for their departure from the gospel. He calls them out in verses 1-2; he says, “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.” Now, they hadn’t actually seen Jesus crucified. They weren’t there in Jerusalem when it happened. This is years later. But he says, “Before your eyes he was publicly portrayed as crucified.” How did that happen? It was through the proclamation of the gospel. Through the preaching of the word, Christ is portrayed as crucified. Then in verse two he says this: “Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?” There it is again. There’s the connection. You receive the Spirit by hearing with faith the gospel, the word of God.
Or take that familiar passage in Ephesians 6 on the Christian’s armor. Do you remember what the sixth piece of armor is? Paul says, “Take up the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
All of those passages, and many more, show us that there is this vital connection between the Spirit and the word.
Let me show you this in just one other way. You see it also in the parallels in Scripture between passages that describe the results or the fruits or the work of the Spirit and other passages that attribute the same results, same fruit, same work to the word of God.
For example, new birth. We talked a few weeks ago about the necessity of being born again. You remember what Jesus said in John 3:5. He said to Nicodemus, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” To be born again is to be born of the Spirit.
But listen to how Peter describes this in 1 Peter 1:23: “Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God…” So, are you born again through the Spirit of God or through the word of God? The answer is yes.
Or take sanctification. That’s a big theological word; it means to be set apart for God, and it refers to that definitive moment when at salvation we are set apart for God, we are made God’s, we belong to Him. Then it also often refers to this ongoing process of becoming more holy, becoming more like God, set apart from sin and becoming more righteous, just as Jesus Christ is righteous. In 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Paul says, “God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.”
But then in John 17:17, when Jesus is praying the night before his crucifixion, he says to his Father, “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.” Sanctification is by the Spirit. Sanctification is through the truth.
Here’s one more: freedom. Who of us does not want more freedom in our lives? And not just freedom in a political sense, but we want internal freedom. We want spiritual and emotional freedom. We want freedom from desires that enslave us, freedom from compulsive desire, freedom from addiction. I mean, we’re living in a mental health crisis in our day right now, because people are driven by these demons and by these dark desires and by addiction and all kinds of problems. They’re not free, but people want freedom. You want freedom. How do you get freedom? Second Corinthians 3:17: “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” But Jesus says, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
There is a vital connection between the Spirit and the word, so that to be born again and to be sanctified and to be free and to grow spiritually—all of these things happen through the agency of the Spirit of God, through the instrumentality of the word of God. That’s the point of the sermon this morning.
2. The Implications of This Spirit/Word Connection
What are the implications of this? Second point. I want to share three with you, and I think these can be helpful for us as we try to be discerning, as we think about spirituality, as we think about spiritual growth, as we think about our own church life together and our desire for God and desire for fullness of the Spirit—three implications.
(1) Number one, we could call this the test of authenticity. So, not every work that has the label “spiritual” is actually from God. Did you know this? Not everything that flies under the banner of Christianity is actually from God. There is such a thing in the world as false teaching; there is false spirituality. There are counterfeits to the genuine work of God.
This has always been true. It was true in the Old Testament, with the false prophets and the warnings of false prophets and shepherds who would lead people astray. It’s true in the New Testament, as the apostles, and even Jesus himself before them, warn about false teachers and false prophets and wolves who will come in among you and who will lead you astray. And it’s true today.
So, when we are trying to evaluate what’s happening that’s called spiritual experience, we need to know how to test it. I mean, for example, probably thirty years ago or so, there was a revival—something that was called a revival, but it was called the laughing revival, because in this revival, people would just break out in hysterical and uncontrollable laughter. There was a revival where people were saying that they received the Holy Spirit and then they were barking like dogs.
How do you evaluate something like that? Is that from the Spirit? Is it not from the Spirit? How do you evaluate?
This is how you evaluate as you look at this word/Spirit connection—and the word actually tells us how to evaluate—here’s another passage for you. You can read this one, 1 John 4:1-6. I mean, this is before the end of the first century, and John is warning about the false teaching that’s going to come in. And he says, verse one,
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.”
So here’s the touchstone right here. It’s the gospel! He’s taking them back to the apostolic proclamation that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, that Jesus Christ is the incarnate Son of God. In John’s day, there are people who are beginning to deny this. They were denying that Jesus really came in real, human flesh—it just kind of seemed like human flesh. It was the old heresy of docetism, and he was warning against this. Then in verse four:
“Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us [meaning the apostles]; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”
Again, the touchstone is the received and infallible apostolic word given by the Spirit of truth.
Listen, in every great movement of God, every great awakening, every revival in history, it seems that there are always things on the fringes, there are always things on the margins that are concerning in some ways, because Satan is always out to counterfeit the work of God.
This was true in the Great Awakening, in the 1730s and ’40s, in the American colonies. It seemed that there was a genuine work of the Spirit of God, where people were convicted of their sins, they were repenting of sin, they were turning to faith in Christ; there was a new spiritual hunger. This was happening, but at the same time, there were all kinds of strange phenomena. There were some people who were going into trances, there was all kinds of emotion and sensation, and even stranger things than that; and this caused many people to criticize the revival.
That’s one reason why Jonathan Edwards, that great theologian of colonial America—the New England Puritan Jonathan Edwards writes a series of books analyzing the revival, analyzing the great awakening, and evaluating it, and he’s trying to help people discern, Is this really from God or is this not from God?
One of his great books was The Distinguishing Marks of the Work of the Spirit of God. He essentially says in this book that the tears and the crying and the emotion and all the emotional experiences—all this stuff doesn’t really tell you either way whether it’s from God or not from God. But there are ways in which you can discern whether it’s from God. He says if it raises our esteem of Jesus Christ, if it works against the interest of Satan’s kingdom and sin, if it draws our hearts off from the world, if it leads us to a greater love for God and for other people, if it leads us into humility. And then here’s one of the signs he says, the one of the distinguishing marks: if it leads to a greater regard for the word of God. He says, and I quote,
“The Spirit that operates in such a manner as to cause in men a greater regard to the Holy Scriptures and establishes them more in their truth and divinity is certainly the Spirit of God.”
This is the test. This is how you know whether it’s really the Spirit at work or not. Does it conform to the word of God?
I think we can say without any hesitation whatsoever that the Spirit of God will never, ever lead us in a way that goes contrary to the Scriptures. He will never lead us in a way that departs from the word of God. There’s always this vital connection, because this is his word. It is the Spirit’s word.
(2) Now, that leads us, secondly, to some distortions to watch for. When we are experiencing things in the spiritual realm, there are distortions to watch for. I’ve already mentioned some of these—claims of the Spirit that neglect the word of God. So, emotionalism and strange phenomena and things that you don’t really find anywhere in Scripture, things that are not leading into a greater love for God, a greater reverence for God, a greater reverence for the Scriptures, and deeper obedience and transformation in people’s lives. If that’s not happening, it’s not the Spirit. It may be a different spirit, but it’s not the Holy Spirit, it’s not the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God is always going to work in a way that conforms to the word of God.
But friends, for most of us, the danger’s probably on the opposite extreme. There’s another distortion, and that is an allegiance to the Bible in a theoretical way, to the neglect of the power of the Holy Spirit. Let me just state it carefully: we can never have too much Bible. We can never have too much of the Scripture. But there is such a thing as dead and dry orthodoxy, where we hold to the form of sound words but we deny the power.
Even when we do this, what’s happening is we are holding to parts of Scripture, but in a way that leads to distortion, because we’re not actually holding to everything that the Bible says, because the Bible holds out for us the work and the ministry of the Spirit in all of its transforming power and effects. And if we are neglecting that, no matter how orthodox our creed, we are missing something. So we need not just the word, we need also the Spirit. The balance is both. It’s both word and Spirit. The balance is not fifty percent word and fifty percent Spirit, it is all of God’s word and all that God’s Spirit does.
You might illustrate it in this way. If you just think about our basic need as human beings—and I’ve used the illustration many times—we are something like blind people who are locked in a dark cave, and in order to see, we need two things. We need light and we need sight. We need somebody to open up the cave so that the light shines in. That is an external light, external to us.
But listen, if a blind person is in broad daylight, and they’re completely blind, if they don’t have the faculty of sight, they’re still not going to see. That’s why Paul says here in 1 Corinthians 2 that “the natural person does not welcome the things of the Spirit of God,” for they’re spiritually discerned. They’re foolishness to him. He can’t understand them; they’re spiritually discerned! But the spiritual person receives these things. The spiritual person has the mind of Christ. Why? Because the spiritual person has the Spirit.
You and I need both. We need the light of God’s revelation in the Scriptures, the light of the word of God, but we also need spiritual sight. We need a faculty. We need something internally done in our hearts and lives that makes these things not only clear to us and understandable to us, but makes these things beautiful to us, irresistibly attractive to us, that we see that this is good. This is beautiful. This is what I want. Our desires have to be transformed so that we welcome the things of the Spirit of God. We need spiritual sight.
3. The Application for Us Today
So what’s the application for us today? I think I can state it in two exhortations. Number one, be devoted to the Scriptures; and number two, be dependent on the Spirit. Devotion to the Scriptures, dependence on the Spirit. Those two things go together.
What would that look like? What would it look like for us to be a church where these two things are really present in their fullness? I want you to try to imagine it with me for a minute. Imagine also for your personal life. It would mean that we have minds that are engaged and informed with the whole teaching of the word of God, and at the same time, we have hearts on fire for God. Minds informed, hearts inflamed.
It would mean that there is due attention given both to doctrine and to devotion, to truth and to love, to theology and to worship. All of these things come together! It would mean that we’re not the “Spirit people” and the “worship people” and the “prayer people” on one half of the church, and the theology people, the academics, the book readers on the other half of church. It would mean that all of us are fully engaged, loving God with heart and soul and mind and strength, and we are passionate about opening this book and studying it together, and we are also reverent as we approach God in prayer, and we are joyful as we lift our hearts up in worship to God. People of the book, people of the Spirit.
So think of this personally. What would this look like in your life as an individual believer? Go back to how you rated yourself in those first two questions. Are you lacking in the fruit of the Spirit in your life? Are you not seeing the depth of transformed character that you want? Do you want to grow in these areas?
I want to grow in these areas. I see things that need to change in my life. How’s that going to happen? It’s not going to happen by neglecting the Bible. It’s only going to happen by going deeper in God’s word and in prayer.
So we need to know the word, to read the word, to meditate on the word, to hear the word, to hide the word of God in our hearts. We need to set our minds on the things of the Spirit by setting our minds on spiritual reality as it is revealed to us in the word of God. Devotion to the Scriptures—a rich devotional life, not a passable devotional life, not two or three minutes reading Our Daily Bread in the morning, and then you move on and don’t think about God the rest of the day. That's not it. It’s not that. It’s something more than that.
I know time is an issue. I get it. I know the obstacles, the hindrances that we face; but the biggest hindrance of all, the biggest obstacle of all, is we have hard hearts. We don’t want this! If you want this, you will carve out time for this. If you want to know God and if you want to know his word, you can find time.
But it’s not just that, it’s also dependence on the Spirit, as we in desperation, knowing that we cannot change ourselves, we cannot help ourselves, we cannot fix ourselves, we call out for God to do the work that only he can do.
We express that through prayer. We express that as we trust in him, as we keep in step with him, as we pursue him, as we seek to know him.
As a church, it would mean that in our worship in our life together that we are not content with anything less than the full proclamation of the word of God and adherence to the word of God, but we’re also looking for this to be not in word only, but also in the Holy Spirit and in power and in much conviction (1 Thessalonians 1). With Paul, we are saying that our speech and our message are not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, because it’s only as the Spirit of God attends and comes with and through and works by the word of God—it’s only then that we will experience genuine spiritual life, genuine transformation, sanctification, and the freedom that Christ has promised to us.
John Stott, a great theologian, one time said,
“Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.”
So brothers and sisters, let’s be devoted to the Scriptures, let’s be dependent on the Spirit, and let’s cry out to God in prayer for his Spirit to work. Let’s pray in the Spirit. Let’s pray for the Spirit. We’re going to do that briefly now together, and then the work of the Spirit in and through prayer will also be our focus next Sunday. Let’s pray together.
Gracious, merciful God, you know us better than we know ourselves. You know the profound spiritual need that is true in all of our lives, a need that only your power, the power of your Spirit can meet, a need that is addressed through your holy word. We pray that you would give us these two things together in great measure: a devotion to the Scriptures and a dependence on your Spirit—two things that belong together that maybe some of us have separated in our lives. We ask you, Lord, to give us a deeper hunger to know you, a deeper hunger for your word, a deeper hunger for the power, the presence, and the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. We ask you, Lord, to work in us what is pleasing in your sight, to work in us to will and to work for your good pleasure, to produce in us what we cannot manufacture on our own.
We pray, Lord, that there would be a fresh outpouring of your power and your Spirit on our church, and that it would be evident in not only our worship together corporately, but it would be evident in our personal lives and in our relationships as we grow in greater love, in greater joy, in greater peace, in greater freedom from the things that enslave us. Oh, God, have mercy on us! Bring about the transformation we need, and fill us with your Spirit, that we could be the people, the vehicle, through which you can work to point people to Christ, to bring another awakening to this community, to the people around us, to families and friends who do not know Jesus. Lord, may the power of the Spirit be so evident in our lives that it is unmistakable and it causes people to ask, “What’s different? Where do they get that?”
So, Lord, we depend on you this morning, and we pray for your work. As we come now to the Lord’s table, we ask you by your Spirit to meet with us as we reflect on what Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, has done for us in his death on the cross for our sins. May our hearts be both humbled and also deeply joyful as we reflect on what Christ has done. We pray all of this in Jesus’ name and for his sake, amen.
Brian G. Hedges
