Lakewood Bible Study | Erik Luchetta and Jeremy Marrone

((music playing)) Hey, Jeremy. I'm glad we're back. Me, too. You know, these uh times together are always so enriching and enlightening. And so, tonight though, we're going to talk about um a phrase, something that Jesus said as he hung on the cross. He said, "It is finished." Explain, you know, to us what does that mean when Jesus said, "It is finished."

That's a good question. Well, I'm going to I'm going to kick off tonight by asking you a question. Oh, okay. [laughter] And the question simply is this. What did Jesus accomplish on the cross and through his resurrection? What was done? Okay. With that, yeah. Um I'd say several things.

One, obviously, uh the forgiveness of sins. You know, by his death and resurrection, our sins are forgiven. We have a relationship with God. I would say also though that the New Testament focuses a lot on how in the death and resurrection of Jesus, evil has been defeated. That the death and resurrection of Jesus is the death blow to death itself and to the sin that causes death.

So the cross is ultimately Jesus dealing with sin and death, dealing with evil and in his resurrection, it is the ultimate overcoming of those things. That's good. So you would say the work of Jesus is to unify heaven and earth by defeating the power of evil through his death and resurrection so that God can properly rule like through human beings who have been redeemed.

Yeah. I would say that's uh yeah very much so that in his death and resurrection heaven's will God's will in heaven is being done now on the earth. Yeah. So really the death and resurrection of Jesus is a takeover. It's God doing doing battle against evil, defeating it and then beginning to establish his rule on the earth on in in the earth as it is in heaven.

So yeah, I think I think that a lot of the in addition to the forgiveness of sins, the cross is ultimately the launching of heaven's will on earth for the purpose of heaven and earth being united or reflecting one another. So yes, I think very much that's what the cross ultimately accomplishes.

When sin entered the world in Genesis 3, what happened to the creation? It fell into disrepair, chaos. I would say it it became disjointed from heaven in in corrupted corrupted in in Eden. The perfect will of God was being done. Well, now because Adam and Eve are kicked out of Eden and now the ground itself is producing thorns and thistles and working again the earth itself is working against humanity, right?

So that um ultimately sin caused heaven and earth to stop reflecting one another. Yeah. Which was God's intention. And I think that's what I want to discuss tonight when we talk about this question. What is what does it mean that Jesus said in John 19, it is finished.

I want to read it. I want to go to John chapter 19 first because I I think as human [clears throat] beings I think all of us whether we're followers of Jesus or not all human beings would agree something has gone wrong in the earth. This is not the way things should be.

And the reason I know that is because I hear human beings say words like ought. Yeah. Yeah. The way things are or the way something is versus the way it should be. We use that language all the time as human beings. That is a reflection of the fact that we believe something has gone horribly wrong and it shouldn't be like this.

We see injustice, we go, "That shouldn't be like that." We see murder, it shouldn't be like that. We see death, it shouldn't be like that. We see disease, we're like, "Something is wrong." [clears throat] And so, what I I want to talk about tonight is not just Yes, 100%. the forgiveness of sins and the salvation of human beings, redemption of human beings through the cross and the resurrection of Jesus.

But really what I want to focus on tonight is I want to focus on the fact that the death and resurrection of Jesus was a cosmic salvation. Yeah. The the death and resurrection of Jesus inaugurated a new creation. There was a creation and this is really the the overarching plot of the Bible is creation, new creation.

The subplot is Adam, Israel, you know, through Abraham's family, Jesus, the kingdom, eternal life. Um, but the plot of the Bible is creation, new creation. And I really want to talk about it is finished being a phrase not only the payment for sin, which I hear a lot of preachers preach, and that's absolutely true, but it's not the only thing.

Mhm. Really, salvation is the idea that all of creation is being reborn. All of creation is being renewed. All of creation is being restored in the person and through the person of Jesus, his death and resurrection. And I I want to show this in John 19:30. It says this when he had he's on Jesus is on the cross and it says when he had received the drink Jesus said it is finished.

Now in the garden of Gethsemane Jesus prayed to the father and said if there be any other way than I have to drink this cup please if there be any other way. Mhm. But nonetheless, not my will, but your will be done because he was going to have to drink the cup of evil, corruption, sin, and it was going to have to be destroyed in him.

Yeah. I love the way one of our favorite theologians, in Wright, says it. He lured evil and sin onto himself so that it could be broken in him. Yeah. So that new creation could come. So that the creation itself, Romans 8 says that creation itself groans to be remade.

Yeah. So that he could do that. Not just the salvation of human beings, which is true. Yeah. But the salvation of all of his order, his created order, which is what cosmos means, order. And so when it says Jesus had drunk the cup, when he received the drink, they gave him the sour wine.

This is a this is a quote from Psalm 69:31. Jesus said, "It is finished." And with that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. It is finished. Well, the question is, what is finished? And I want to focus on the fact that Jesus death and resurrection was the destroying of of the powers of the world, the destroying of evil, and it is the salvation not only of human beings, but of all of God's created order.

Um, but it is finished is a really powerful phrase that ties Jesus on the cross to Genesis chapter 1 and two. Really important passage that it ties Jesus to. And so um, human beings were um, fractured in our humanity. And and the way that it happens a lot of times is is when we worship the created things, when we give power to dark, I guess as one theologian says it, dark forces in the world, we worship them.

They they rule over us. We give them power that they shouldn't have. And so what God's desire is through Jesus that human beings would be that have been enslaved to sin because we worship uh power and we worship money and we worship and Jesus [clears throat] said it. You can't worship both God and money, right?

But when we worship these things, there are dark forces. There are dark powers behind these things that are working to rule over human beings who were only supposed to be ruled over by God and then we were supposed to rule over his creation. But it has gone wrong because human beings were fractured through um the fact that we have worshiped these things that have dark powers behind them and we've subjugated ourselves under them.

So all of creation has become fractured because of that. And so we see that not only Jesus on the cross defeating the power of evil, restoring and redeeming humanity whom he wants to rule through in the earth. That's his kingdom, his desire, his will, his project has only been ever been ruling through humans.

And he's not abandoned that. He still wants to do that. But not only does it mean the salvation and redemption of humans, but the salvation and cosmic redemption of all of God's creation. And we're going to see that in Genesis chapter 1. God created the world in six days.

And then it says he came to rest. And this is a really important phrase that has that that has ties to John 19 where Jesus says, "It is finished." In Genesis chapter 1, God creates the world in six days. And then the Bible says on the seventh day he rests, which doesn't mean like he's pooped and he needs a nap.

Right. Right. Um it it just simply means God ceases from creating. He ceases from the work he was doing. So he was finished. He was finished. At the end of Genesis chapter 1, it leads into verse 31. It leads into Genesis 2:es 1-3, which is actually the end of chapter 1, if you want to say it.

Um, it's really the end of chapter 1, but it says this in verse one of Genesis 2. And anybody listening or following along, you can read it as I read. Thus, the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. That could be a whole teaching in itself.

But they were completed. Verse two, by the seventh day, God had finished the work he had been doing. So on the seventh day he rested from all his work. This is a really important um sentence right here. God finished the work he had been [clears throat] doing. On the seventh day he rested.

So he finished the work and then he rested because we're going to come back to that in John. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. Consecrated it. Set it apart because on it he rested from the work of creating that he had done. and he came to dwell in his creation with human beings.

And then we see in Genesis the rest of Genesis 2 where God begins to work with Adam in the garden. But this phrase, God had finished the work he had been doing and on the seventh day he rested. This is the original creation. This is the original created order that God was ruling over.

He made mankind, put them in this created order and said, "You keep it and keep it holy." But God had finished the work and that had handed it to human beings to continue ordering his good world. [gasps] But here's the thing. On the third page of the Bible, we see that creation is corrupted.

As you were explaining a minute ago, it's create it's corrupted. It's disjointed. it's fractured and heaven and earth do not mirror one another which was God's desire from the beginning right and he dwelling with mankind in this heaven and earth uh unity [clears throat] and so you start to see the world become corrupted you start to see murder and death and all kinds of horrible things violence in the earth all the way through to Genesis 11 the first 11 chapters of Genesis really describe the rest of the whole Bible.

Honestly, it describes the lens by which we can read the rest of the Bible because human humanity just spirals into evil and corruption and death and murder and violence and disease and I mean all kinds of stuff. And so when Jesus comes, his desire is to not only restore humanity, but to restore all of his creation and to restore it back to the place that it is.

And you and I use this phrase all the time, to to do justice, to make what is wrong right again. And that's what God has called us to do in the earth. But really, his plan is to set right the things that have gone wrong in his creation.

And we see this in Ephesians 1:es 7-10 with this cosmic salvation, if you want to call it that, the cosmic salvation. Verse 7 of Ephesians 1, Paul says this, in him, this is in Christ, we have redemption through his blood, the for the forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace.

That is because of God's grace that he lavished on us. He poured it out on us with all wisdom and understanding. He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure. I know you've explained that many times before. The mystery of his will.

We don't have time to get into that right now. Which he purposed in Christ. And here's the thing, verse 10. to put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. So I would say and I want to hear your thoughts.

I would say that the restoration or the healing of God's created order, the salvation of his cosmos is the idea that heaven and earth have come back together. When we see heaven and earth come back together, we know that the cosmos has been redeemed. Yeah. I I think that's exactly what's the the like you said before, it's the story of the Bible, creation to new creation.

Yes. And I don't see it being any other way. Particularly because in the Old Testament, the hope that was held out in the Old Testament was that God would redeem this entire world and God's people would live in it forever, free from sin, sickness, and death, and that God would dwell with them forever throughout the earth.

And so when we talk about the verse that you were ju that you just quoted there in Ephesians, um we're talking about heaven and earth coming back together again the way it was in the garden. Yes. Adam and Eve walked with God. Like literally walked and talked with God.

There was nothing between them. That's right. And Eden itself was a perfect reflection of heaven. And God's called that very good. And like we always say, whatever God calls very good, he's committed to until the very end. And so Jesus is actually making that very good Eden project come alive again.

That the earth itself will be redeemed. That humanity will live in it forever with God because sin and death will be gone. The earth, it's here's what's the amazing thing is in the end, the earth will be a place fully able for God to live in. Yep. And we shouldn't be surprised by that.

He lived in a temple in the Old Testament. Well, now he's going to live not in a temple. He's going to live throughout all of his creation with human beings. And my point in saying all that is this. When Adam and Eve sinned and his original desire was to live in the earth with humanity, when Adam and Eve sinned, God didn't say, "Wow, I had a great plan.

I really wanted to live with human beings in the earth, but they sinned. I guess I'm gonna have to come up with You guys ruined this whole thing. Yeah, this I I this was my plan. I guess I'm going to have to come up with a plan B.

Maybe they'll just live forever with me in heaven and I'll crumble up the earth and just throw it in the garbage can. No. When God saw Adam and Eve sin, he immediately went to work to bring justice to redeem his creation so that the Eden project could be launched again so that humanity can be the sword of humanity.

And when we look at it this way, we can say this is why Jesus is called the second and last Adam. Yes, he is the true human being that's going to bring about God's true plan. Not just for humanity, but for all of creation for God to have a dwelling place where heaven and earth come together or are united like in the verse in Ephesians that you just read.

And I and I think we've been we've been talking up to this point about the first two chapters of the Bible being the six days of creation and the seventh day God rested. Now on the first six days of creation there was a morning and there was an evening.

Mhm. [clears throat] And and there was a there was a a completedness of those days. But it never says the seventh day there was a morning and evening. Right? The seventh day was left open as we move along from Genesis 2 to the rest of the scriptures, the rest of the Bible.

It's the first six days, morning and evening. Seventh day was open. Now, what does that have to do with it is finished. Jesus says it is finished because his work on the cross, the the beatings, the scourging, pouring out of his blood is the redemption, the destroying of evil.

His resurrection is the destroying of death. His ascension is the restoration of human beings to our proper status as orderbringers, justice bringingers in the earth. M [clears throat] and what I want to say is Jesus is inaugurating the new creation. And I'll show us here here what he's doing in this moment where God finished his work.

That word finished is really important. He finished his work in Genesis 2 1-3 and then he rested. And I want to show the connection now between that and John 19. So if you're if you're watching or listening, if you want to go to John chapter 19:30, when he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished."

Now later on in this chapter, the very last verse, verse 42 of John 19, it says, verse 41 and 42, it says, "At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden, a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid." Verse 42.

Because it was the Jewish day of preparation, and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus to rest there. So God finished his work in Genesis 2 1-3 and rested. Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished." And then John notes, "And he was laid to rest." Yeah.

John is making a very clear literary decision to inform us that Jesus was picking up the work that God had been doing in Genesis where God was creating the the the cosmos, the order of creation in Genesis 1 and 2. Jesus is picking up and renewing that work.

Yeah. Because the original creation had been corrupted. It had been disjointed. So you've got to make it new. Jesus came to make the cosmos, the order, the creation new. And so he's saying in effect, I have finished my work just as the father finished his work and was and came to rest.

I have finished my work and then John says, and he was laid to rest. Now, how do we know that Jesus is the new creation or he is inaugurating through himself through his death and resurrection the new creation? Well, if you notice in the first two chapters of Genesis, you have the six days of creation.

On the seventh day, he rested. So, that's a full week. But it never says the seventh day was finished. It never says the seventh day was completed. It was open. But then if you go to and I want to read this John 20 the very next verse after it says and Jesus was laid to rest.

John 20:1 early on the first day of the new week of what new week? Early on the first day of the new week. What is John communicating to us? Now, we could say this is just like the normal earthly time of a new week, but I think John is going a little deeper here.

He's saying Jesus is the beginning of a new creation week. Yeah. Which means Jesus is launching a new creation. He brought the seventh day of the corrupted creation to completion and is launching the new creation in which God's rule would be established in the earth. He would he would inaugurate it.

It hasn't been fully consummated. Hasn't been fully seen and experienced, but he initiated it. He inaugurated it through his death and resurrection. So in verse one of John 20, early on the first day of the new week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance and she realized it was empty.

Death was empty. Mhm. It was relieved of its duty in Jesus. Right. Right. And so where we see God doing his work of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis and then coming to rest, Jesus finished the work that his father gave him to do. that Jesus came to not only redeem and restore and bring redemption to humanity but all of the order of the cosmos all of creation and that's why we can say Jesus is the new creation that's why Paul writes in [clears throat] 2 Corinthians 5 17 if you are in Christ and sometimes it's translated you are a new creature but really the language there is better fit to say you are particip participating in new creation.

You know, say that again because I think that's um that's a tricky part because it we are told and rightfully so. We told we're told we are new creation which is true. It is true. But what you're really what you're saying is that that we are actually belonging to the new creation like what's talked about in the prophetic writings of the Old Testament that there is creation but that it will be reborn.

The earth itself will be repaired not just human beings but everything within it. And then that's the world that we inherit a heaven and earth together. But you're saying that to say that we are new creation is more than just talking about us individually. It's talking about the future age where everything is ultimately set right, but that we're already participating in it now in the present.

So there's a future fullness of new creation. Sin and death are gone, right? But we're already beginning to participate in that. I know that um it get it does get a little tricky there. I remember um years ago kind of teaching along these lines where it talks about, you know, if any man is in Christ, a lot of the translations say he is a new creation.

I don't I don't think that's wrong to say that. I think that's 100% true. But in the original language, it's not so clear, right? In the original language, Paul says, "If any man is in Christ, new creation." And sometimes, you know, Bible scholars look at that and go, "If any man is in Christ, new creation."

Yeah. It's very abrupt. It's it's abrupt. And it seems though as if what's ultimately being said is that if any man is in Christ, they are participating in the new creation now in advance of its full arrival when sin and death are gone throughout the whole earth. In other words, God will redeem creation from sin.

He's already redeemed us from sin, right? And so we are participating now in the life of the future right now in the present in anticipation of its full arrival. And when we saw sin come to the world in Genesis 3, we saw death, we saw sickness, we saw disease, we saw war, we saw violence, we saw all the horrible things, all the horrible evil that we see in the world.

And God wants to make it right. And he made it right through Jesus. And uh but Jesus is inaugurating and launching something that will fully come in the future ahead of us. Um but but we we even see it now in the gospels. Jesus is healing. He's delivering.

He's you know, you have people who are who are possessed um in a man walking around um in a in a graveyard who's possessed and Jesus delivers him. And there's a there's an understanding there that this is the new creation. This is the kingdom of God breaking in in and through the life of Jesus.

But really through his death and resurrection, it is it is finished means that the work that Jesus came to do was completed through his death and resurrection in launching and inaugurating the new creation. which means that God wants us to fully see and experience the new uh in the here and now.

Yeah. In anticipation of its full arrival, but in the here and now, healing, salvation, deliverance, being justified, being rescued, being forgiven, being redeemed, being uh rebuilt. Jesus rebuilds. I mean, he restores relationships and he forgives. And and so um many times I've heard pastors preach this and they and they talk about it in a way that it's like okay I I love using this this word Jesus is our propitiation.

He's a payment for a bill that we had. That is not untrue. That is very true. Right? And it is central to the gospel that God redeems humanity through the forgiveness of sins through the defeat of evil. Our lives are renewed and we are participating in new creation or we could say in effect that we are like new creatures.

But it's so much bigger bigger than that. Yeah. That what Jesus was doing was not just the payment for sin which is true. It was also the renewal of creation. It was it was launching a new creation week in which we are participating because the old had been corrupted.

And so it is finished is a loaded phrase right in the gospels. And when we read it, I want us to think everything has been made new. This inaugurated kingdom, this power that has gone out to all of God's created order. Something I I like the way in writes it.

Something happened on that Sunday that people could not explain, right? But in effect, they knew something had happened, right? Something had broken the power of evil. Something had broken the power of sin. Something had something was different in which all of the world was being was being affected now.

And so for us, I want us to think about that when we hear that phrase, it is finished, is something has happened maybe that we can't fully explain, maybe that the Bible is trying to communicate to us, but that we experience in real life. And and here's the thing, going back to what I said earlier, all human human beings know that something has gone wrong.

Mhm. And the question is, how is it made right? Yeah. And does and does God care to make it right? Exactly. Or did God come up with a plan B? Right. Did does God so love the world that he's going to ultimate and not just human beings, but the entire world?

Human beings obviously the central piece, but I think he looks at all of his creation and human beings in it and says, "This is very good. This is my will. This is a place where I can dwell on earth like in heaven. And like you what what you and I are really saying is this.

God so loved the world that he's committed to setting it right. Right? We call that the Bible calls that new creation. But what the gospel is announcing is that before God sets everything right in the world, he sets us right first. Yes. We are the set people now in anticipation in advance of the rest of creation being set free where sin and death and evil is gone and the earth itself comes into its full flourishing where it where the flourishing of the earth is so great that it reflects the flourishing of heaven.

So again I think what we're really talking about is this and this is what the gospel is getting through. Yes, God was faithful to his promise to redeem the earth and he's doing it by first redeeming human beings who put their faith in Jesus. Those people are set right in advance of the rest of creation being set right.

That's right. And so I think that you know just you know one thing just to you know kind of clear everything up. One thing that you and I aren't saying is that heaven has no place that uh because you know sometimes when you talk this way somebody will go well don't doesn't Eric and Jeremy believe that you go to heaven when you die.

No of course if you die right now you go to be with the Lord. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Heaven is a reality. Heaven is a reality and and it's a place you go to immediately upon death to go to be with with God and with you know your loved ones before you.

However, the Bible ends with heaven coming to the earth to redeem the earth and to establish humanity back in the earth where heaven and earth are together. So to answer the question, Eric, are you saying, you know, we we don't live forever in heaven? Well, actually, we do live forever in heaven.

The question is, where is heaven going to be? Heaven is going to be on the earth. Heaven and earth will be together. We though are set right now in advance of the full heaven coming to earth. Heaven has come to us. Heaven God himself abides in us. But one day what's true about God being in us will be throughout creation.

And this is how the book of Revelation ends. The ultimate hope is God's dwelling with human beings throughout the whole earth where the abundance of heaven flows into the earth and heaven and earth perfectly reflect one another. Yeah. In Genesis 1 and 2, God uh forms his creation and then he fills his creation.

Days 1, 2, and three are spaces that he creates, right? And then days four, five, and six, he fills those spaces. In the same way, when God finished his work of the original creation, he formed and then filled a world that he would come and dwell in. Well, Jesus finished his work and formed and filled a new people.

That's the filling of the spirit. Yeah. He's he is in effect through his death and resurrection, he is like you said redeeming humanity, forming and filling a new people who will bring what is right on the earth in advance for everything being set right. And so it is finished.

What does that mean? It is yes the redemption through the forgiveness of sin by the payment of sin 100%. But it's also the new creation. This language of new creation is the original creation week became corrupted and it needed to be remade. It needed to be made new.

And we know that um we can read the scriptures and I and and we can almost what's the word? We can al identify with that because we see things in our own lives that we go this is wrong and it should be remade. This got messed up and it should be remade.

Every time I go in my girls' room after a night of fun with their friends and there's stuff everywhere and their bed's not made and there's toys and I mean it just, you know, there's food wrappers and and I go, "All right, let's clean it up and put it back in order because you walk in and you go, "Something has gone wrong."

Like a tornado has hit my girl's room. And I think we can see in the world those things. And so God had a plan. Here's the thing. Jesus in the passion story, it was not some unforeseen disaster. His death and resurrection was not some unplanned horrible situation. Rather, it was actually ordained by God.

And all these events w with, by the way, Jesus full knowledge and participation. All these events are the completion of a divine design by God. He designed and launched the original creation. Jesus came and finished the work of launching a new creation. And that's why in Revelation 21:5, John uh John the Revelator, the one who wrote um or or pinned the book of Revelation said this.

And and he who sits on the throne said, this is Jesus who's now on the throne. Behold, I am making all things new. And he said, write this down. He told John, "Write this down, for these words are faithful and true. Jesus is making all things new." There was a young lady that came to one of our services years ago at Lakewood and she came to the front um in the altar and I got a chance to pray with her and she came up.

She was 18 years old and pregnant, big pregnant. And she said, "I'm 18 years old. I'm 8 months pregnant. My boyfriend walked away. My parents disowned me. I have no money and nowhere to go. And then she looked at me with tears in her eyes and she said, "Is there mercy for me?"

And I just thought, "Oh, like I I wanted to I wanted to just break down with her in that moment." But prayed over her. And here's the thing. I think in some way all of us could probably identify with that moment. Something has gone wrong. I've committed done dumb things.

I've committed sin. I've There's a brokenness in us as humans that we go something has gone wrong. And and we know that there's a way that it can be made right. And through Jesus, his finished work on the cross when he said it is finished, his finished work on the cross is that redeeming.

It is that making new. And so I just want to say for anybody out there who's watching or listening to this right now, no matter where your life is right now, no matter what has happened to you, no matter what you've done, there is a renewal in Jesus.

There is a new creation that has burst forth. It is not fully it is not fully um uh what's the word? It has not fully arrived, but it is on its way. And so my prayer would be for anybody out there um and I I actually want to end in prayer tonight.

Um, for anybody out there who has felt like you need something new, there there's a there's something that's gone wrong. Sickness in your family, a death in the family, and you need you need a new perspective. You've grieved. The Bible says we don't grieve like those who have no hope.

And so I I would pray for anybody who just needs a hope renewal tonight. If somebody needs a renewal in their marriage, if somebody needs a renewal in their relationship with their children, if somebody needs a renewal in their in their job, my prayer tonight would be that we would see that Jesus is the launch of something new.

We can't fully explain it, but the Bible does a great job of helping us understand that something has been made new through Jesus. And so, um, let me pray for us real quick. I think that's a great way, let me just say, I think that was just a great explanation of what it is finished means.

So yeah, close us out and close out the broadcast. Father, I thank you for every person watching and listening. Um I pray that you would remind us that you are making all things new and that we have not been left to ourselves. Even in a world where we see corruption, evil, sin, we see things that are broken.

Even in our own lives, we know that the one who makes all things new is watching over our lives. He you that you live and dwell inside of us. And so, Father, right now, I pray for anybody out there through the person of Jesus, his finished work on the cross, his blood, his resurrection, that you would make things new in our lives.

Maybe a sickness, maybe financial issues, maybe a restoration of a relationship with children or a spouse or a friend. Father, I pray that you would renew our mental strength. if somebody's struggling in their mental health that you would renew our hope in this world that you have come to launch something new that you have not left us to ourselves and you have not abandoned this project but you have come to relaunch and make it new.

And so tonight as we as we end, we thank you for the hope that we have in Jesus through his shed blood, the forgiveness of sins, the redemption of all things, and the restoration of your order in creation. And father, we'll give you all the glory, and we're thankful for it in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen. Thank you. That was awesome. Thank you.