WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:03.480 God made us different, but He didn't make one better than the other. 00:00:05.460 --> 00:00:09.520 This is the LifeSpring One Year Bible Rewind, coming to you from Riverside, California. 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.320 I'm Steve Webb, your OG Godcaster podcasting since 2004. 00:00:15.100 --> 00:00:18.500 This is the daily podcast where we read the entire Bible together in a year. 00:00:18.620 --> 00:00:19.660 I'm really glad you're here. 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:20.100 Welcome. 00:00:20.520 --> 00:00:24.600 You can always find all the LifeSpring Media shows at lifespringmedia.com. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:27.040 Today is A.A. Milne's birthday. 00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:31.220 Winnie the Pooh doesn't know what to do. 00:00:31.620 --> 00:00:34.780 Got a honey jar stuck on his nose. 00:00:36.620 --> 00:00:39.240 And since Milne is the author of Winnie the Pooh, 00:00:39.380 --> 00:00:42.380 it's officially known, at least among the many Winnie fans, 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:43.860 as Winnie the Pooh Day. 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:48.240 Although I have to say that I'm kind of bummed that we missed Eeyore Day on January 8th. 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:50.320 Of course, he'd probably say something like, 00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:54.540 Missed it, did you? Happens. Things usually do. 00:00:55.460 --> 00:00:57.380 He's my favorite character in those stories. 00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:03.120 How about you? Who's your favorite? Well, it's also Epistle Sunday. We'll read 1 Corinthians 11 and 12. 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.960 And then on this date in church history, we'll follow my comments on the reading and we'll have 00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:12.840 a prayer. Let's begin. Our gracious and loving Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. We 00:01:13.020 --> 00:01:18.600 thank you for bringing us together here today. And God, we ask that you would teach us, that you would 00:01:18.610 --> 00:01:22.780 give us something that we can take with us. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:27.040 1 Corinthians chapter 11 00:01:28.020 --> 00:01:31.020 Follow my example just like I follow Christ's. 00:01:31.780 --> 00:01:34.500 I praise you because you remember all my instructions, 00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:38.560 and you hold on to the traditions exactly as I handed them on to you. 00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:42.660 Now I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:47.160 and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:52.220 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered shames his head. 00:01:52.940 --> 00:01:57.680 Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head. 00:01:58.230 --> 00:02:00.600 It is the same thing as having her head shaved. 00:02:01.180 --> 00:02:05.260 If a woman doesn't cover her head, then she should have her hair cut off. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.520 If it is disgraceful for a woman to have short hair or to be shaved, 00:02:09.929 --> 00:02:11.500 then she should keep her head covered. 00:02:12.380 --> 00:02:16.740 A man shouldn't have his head covered because he is the image and glory of God, 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:18.680 but the woman is man's glory. 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:23.160 Man didn't have his origin from woman, but woman from man. 00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:28.360 And man wasn't created for the sake of the woman, but the woman for the sake of the man. 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:33.680 Because of this, a woman should have authority over her head because of the angels. 00:02:34.460 --> 00:02:40.440 However, woman isn't independent from man, and man isn't independent from woman in the Lord. 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:44.960 As woman came from man, so also man comes from woman. 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:47.120 But everything comes from God. 00:02:48.180 --> 00:02:52.600 Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.120 Doesn't nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him? 00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:04.440 But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? This is because her long hair is given to her 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:09.420 for a covering. But if someone wants to argue about this, we don't have such a custom, 00:03:09.980 --> 00:03:15.280 nor do God's churches. Now, I don't praise you as I give the following instruction, 00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:21.300 because when you meet together, it does more harm than good. First of all, when you meet together 00:03:21.380 --> 00:03:27.360 as a church, I hear that there are some divisions among you, and I partly believe it. It's necessary 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:32.800 that there are groups among you to make it clear who is genuine. So when you get together in one 00:03:32.980 --> 00:03:39.220 place, it isn't to eat the Lord's meal. Each of you goes ahead and eats a private meal. One person 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:45.500 goes hungry, while another is drunk. Don't you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:51.340 on God's churches and humiliate those who have nothing. What can I say to you? Will I praise you? 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:57.160 No, I don't praise you in this. I received a tradition from the Lord, which I also handed 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:03.640 on to you. On the night on which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread. After giving thanks, 00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:09.160 he broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you. Do this to remember me. 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:15.480 He did the same thing with the cup after they had eaten, saying, This cup is the new covenant in 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:21.799 My blood. Every time you drink it, do this to remember Me. Every time you eat this bread and 00:04:21.940 --> 00:04:27.620 drink this cup, you broadcast the death of the Lord until He comes. This is why those who eat 00:04:27.620 --> 00:04:31.720 the bread or drink the cup of the Lord inappropriately will be guilty of the Lord's 00:04:31.880 --> 00:04:37.740 body and blood. Each individual should test himself or herself and eat from the bread and 00:04:37.900 --> 00:04:43.620 drink from the cup in that way. Those who eat and drink without correctly understanding the body 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:49.680 are eating and drinking their own judgment. Because of this, many of you are weak and sick, 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:56.180 and quite a few have died. But if we had judged ourselves, we wouldn't be judged. However, 00:04:56.660 --> 00:05:01.320 we are disciplined by the Lord when we are judged, so that we won't be judged and condemned along 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:06.960 with the whole world. For these reasons, my brothers and sisters, when you get together to eat, 00:05:07.380 --> 00:05:12.919 wait for each other. If some of you are hungry, they should eat at home, so that getting together 00:05:12.940 --> 00:05:18.760 doesn't lead to judgment. I will give directions about the other things when I come. 1 Corinthians 00:05:19.150 --> 00:05:25.160 chapter 12. Brothers and sisters, I don't want you to be ignorant about spiritual gifts. 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:31.140 You know that when you were Gentiles, you were often misled by false gods that can't even speak. 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:37.420 So I want to make it clear to you that no one says, Jesus is cursed, when speaking by God's 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:45.120 Spirit, and no one can say, Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit. There are different spiritual 00:05:45.420 --> 00:05:49.880 gifts, but the same Spirit, and there are different ministries, and the same Lord, 00:05:50.470 --> 00:05:55.120 and there are different activities, but the same God who produces all of them and everyone. 00:05:56.420 --> 00:06:00.200 A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good. 00:06:01.070 --> 00:06:06.200 A word of wisdom is given by the Spirit to one person, a word of knowledge to another according 00:06:06.220 --> 00:06:13.000 to the same Spirit, faith to still another by the same Spirit, gifts of healing to another in the 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:19.780 one Spirit, performance of miracles to another, prophecy to another, the ability to tell spirits 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.600 apart to another, different kinds of tongues to another, and the interpretation of the tongues 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:32.180 to another. All these things are produced by the one and same Spirit who gives what He wants 00:06:32.200 --> 00:06:38.780 to each person. Christ is just like the human body. A body is a unit and has many parts, 00:06:39.580 --> 00:06:43.520 and all the parts of the body are one body, even though there are many. 00:06:44.780 --> 00:06:50.800 We were all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jew or Greek or slave or free, 00:06:51.420 --> 00:06:57.200 and we all were given one Spirit to drink. Certainly the body isn't one part, but many. 00:06:58.060 --> 00:07:01.740 If the foot says, I'm not part of the body because I'm not a hand, 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.300 does that mean it's not part of the body? 00:07:05.340 --> 00:07:08.980 If the ear says, I'm not a part of the body because I'm not an eye, 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.480 does that mean it's not part of the body? 00:07:12.760 --> 00:07:15.660 If the whole body were an eye, what would happen to the hearing? 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:19.960 And if the whole body were an ear, what would happen to the sense of smell? 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:26.300 But as it is, God has placed each one of the parts in the body just like He wanted. 00:07:27.060 --> 00:07:31.080 If all were one and the same body part, what would happen to the body? 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.000 But as it is, there are many parts but one body. 00:07:35.840 --> 00:07:38.460 So the eye can't say to the hand, I don't need you, 00:07:38.980 --> 00:07:42.640 or in turn, the head can't say to the feet, I don't need you. 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:48.480 Instead, the parts of the body that people think are the weakest are the most necessary. 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.600 The parts of the body that we think are less honorable are the ones we honor the most. 00:07:54.520 --> 00:07:58.400 The private parts of our body that aren't presentable are the ones that are given the 00:07:58.540 --> 00:08:04.120 most dignity. The parts of our body that are presentable don't need this. But God has put 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:09.560 the body together, giving great honor to the part with less honor, so that there won't be division 00:08:09.640 --> 00:08:15.080 in the body, and so the parts might have mutual concern for each other. If one part suffers, 00:08:15.640 --> 00:08:21.260 all the parts suffer with it. If one part gets the glory, all the parts celebrate with it. 00:08:21.820 --> 00:08:24.540 You are the body of Christ and parts of each other. 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:32.599 In the church, God has appointed first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, 00:08:33.300 --> 00:08:38.419 then gifts of healing, the ability to help others, leadership skills, different kinds 00:08:38.419 --> 00:08:38.880 of tongues. 00:08:40.020 --> 00:08:41.320 All aren't apostles, are they? 00:08:42.020 --> 00:08:43.320 All aren't prophets, are they? 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:45.460 All aren't teachers, are they? 00:08:46.060 --> 00:08:47.860 All don't perform miracles, do they? 00:08:48.500 --> 00:08:50.480 All don't have gifts of healing, do they? 00:08:51.180 --> 00:08:53.620 All don't speak in different tongues, do they? 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:55.880 All don't interpret, do they? 00:08:56.900 --> 00:09:02.220 Use your ambition to try to get the greater gifts, and I'm going to show you an even better way. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.260 Well, beloved, I've got thoughts on chapters 11 and 12 today. 00:09:07.880 --> 00:09:09.400 Let's talk about chapter 11 first. 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.360 I'll address what he wrote about men and women and head coverings for women. 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:18.099 But first, I think it's most beneficial before we get into this discussion that we look at what 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:23.400 Paul said near the end of his talk on the subject of men and women. In verse 11 he said, 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:28.740 Woman isn't independent from man, and man isn't independent from woman in the Lord. 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:35.180 As woman came from man, so also man comes from woman, but everything comes from God. 00:09:36.060 --> 00:09:40.700 It looks to me as if Paul is giving equal respect to both sexes in this, wouldn't you agree? 00:09:41.230 --> 00:09:45.140 There are other places in his letters where that attitude comes through as well. 00:09:45.620 --> 00:09:52.240 Some have made the charge that Paul didn't like or respect women, but I don't see that when I look at the totality of his writings. 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:55.380 The difficulty lies in cultural bias. 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:04.320 Today, the women's equality movement that began in earnest in the 1960s tries to make the assertion that there are no differences between men and women. 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:06.080 Of course, that isn't true. 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:10.220 God made us different, but He didn't make one better than the other. 00:10:10.810 --> 00:10:11.960 He just made them different. 00:10:12.920 --> 00:10:15.260 And this is what Paul is saying in chapter 11. 00:10:15.800 --> 00:10:19.980 Men and women have different roles. One is not better than the other, but they're different, 00:10:20.370 --> 00:10:26.240 and that's a good thing. Remember back in Genesis when God said that it was not good for man to be 00:10:26.420 --> 00:10:32.540 alone, so He made a woman for the man. Men and women complement each other. They complete one 00:10:32.760 --> 00:10:37.540 another. And then, after God looked at what He had made, He said something that He did not say 00:10:37.570 --> 00:10:42.640 when He completed the previous elements of creation. At those times He looked at what He had made, 00:10:42.660 --> 00:10:49.220 and he said, It is good. But when he had finished creating man and woman, he said, It is very good. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:55.520 We should remember that neither men nor women are to abuse their positions, just as Jesus did not 00:10:55.740 --> 00:11:00.840 abuse his position. Jesus, as God, has the right to do as he wishes with his creation, 00:11:01.520 --> 00:11:06.700 and what he chooses to do is to love us. And this is how we should treat each other. 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.300 So Paul laid out the different roles of the sexes in the Corinthian church. 00:11:12.060 --> 00:11:18.700 Men had a role. Women had a role. There should be order in church, not chaos. That was his basic 00:11:19.020 --> 00:11:24.780 message. But what was happening in Corinth was not order. And Paul's answer was that if the sexes 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:30.100 adhered to their proper roles, there would be order. And if they treated each other as Jesus 00:11:30.260 --> 00:11:36.880 treats us, there would be love. So let's move on now to the issue of covering the head and hair 00:11:36.920 --> 00:11:41.480 length. To us, today, the whole discussion seems kind of foreign to us, doesn't it? 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:46.820 In today's American culture, especially among Protestants, we don't make a big deal out of 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:52.520 head coverings in church or hair length for either male or female. So, based on 1 Corinthians 11, 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:59.500 are we mistaken? Is it really important to God? Let's take a look. As is usually the case when 00:11:59.740 --> 00:12:04.660 studying the Scripture, the first thing we should consider is context—what's happening in the scene. 00:12:05.020 --> 00:12:12.680 The recurring theme in verses 13-16 is order, or the hierarchy of authority. Paul says in verse 3, 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:18.160 Now I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, 00:12:18.540 --> 00:12:23.880 and the head of Christ is God. Now, in the Corinthian culture, a woman who wore a head 00:12:24.040 --> 00:12:28.880 covering was showing her submission to the authority of her husband, and consequently her 00:12:28.900 --> 00:12:35.380 submission to God. Lest we take umbrage at this concept, consider that submission does not mean 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:41.120 that we're implying that one who submits is less than the one who's being submitted to. 00:12:41.900 --> 00:12:48.480 Do you doubt that? Well, consider this. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are 00:12:48.680 --> 00:12:55.460 equal parts of the one united triune God, are they not? Yet the Son submits to the Father, 00:12:55.980 --> 00:13:02.400 and the Spirit to the Son. They are equal, yet there is an order. The relationship of the husband 00:13:02.430 --> 00:13:08.100 and the wife is a picture of this relationship. In the Corinthian culture, a woman's long hair 00:13:08.100 --> 00:13:13.380 and the covering of her head was an outward show of her agreement with the God-established order. 00:13:14.140 --> 00:13:20.640 A man's short hair and lack of head covering was the same. Now, we know that what God considers 00:13:20.660 --> 00:13:26.480 important is the condition of the heart, right? Yes, what we do is important because our actions 00:13:26.740 --> 00:13:32.020 often flow from our heart, but in our culture, where head covering and hair length has little 00:13:32.060 --> 00:13:37.920 or nothing to do with our marital status, God doesn't care about hair and covers, but He most 00:13:38.220 --> 00:13:42.660 certainly cares about our submission to His authority and the order He set out for husbands 00:13:42.760 --> 00:13:49.960 and wives. Christ is in submission to the Father. The husband is in submission to Christ. The wife 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:55.680 is in submission to the husband. No one has his or her thumb on the other. This is a love 00:13:55.980 --> 00:14:03.140 relationship with respect and reverence. I deeply love the lovely Lady Leanne, and I'd give my life 00:14:03.140 --> 00:14:09.840 for her, just as Christ gave Himself for me. I don't lord it over her. Her well-being is my most 00:14:10.040 --> 00:14:15.980 important priority, other than serving and loving God. She responds to the love I show her by 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:22.360 respecting and loving me in the same way. We're equal partners, and at the same time, there is 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:28.420 the order that God laid out. And not surprisingly, it seems to be working. We love each other more 00:14:28.520 --> 00:14:33.880 today than the day we got married nearly 32 years ago, which, by the way, we'll be celebrating that 00:14:34.040 --> 00:14:39.740 32nd anniversary this coming New Year's Eve. You'll hear more about that later. The point is, every 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:45.120 year our bond is stronger in every way possible. And if she were here right now, she'd tell you the 00:14:45.140 --> 00:14:50.880 same thing. So no, God doesn't care today in our culture what is on your head. He cares about your 00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:57.100 submission to Him. That's it. Now, in chapter 12, Paul is addressing another issue that's bringing 00:14:57.190 --> 00:15:02.900 this argumentative Corinthian church another cause for divisions. And unfortunately, the division of 00:15:02.900 --> 00:15:08.980 a church over disagreements about spiritual gifts doesn't end with them. When I was a teenager, 00:15:09.090 --> 00:15:13.320 I gave my heart to the Lord when I was attending a very traditional Southern Baptist church. 00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:18.540 I loved the people there, and I loved the pastor, but I don't remember ever hearing a word about 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:23.660 spiritual gifts. And when I first got married and moved away from home, I began attending a 00:15:23.710 --> 00:15:28.680 little community church in the city of Mammoth Lakes, California. Now, this church had just 00:15:28.940 --> 00:15:34.200 undergone a split over disagreements about spiritual gifts. I had no idea what they were 00:15:34.330 --> 00:15:39.380 even talking about. But the new pastor, who had been brought in to replace the pastor who left, 00:15:39.900 --> 00:15:45.220 preached a series of sermons about the various gifts of the Spirit. And he did such a great job, 00:15:45.660 --> 00:15:50.700 backed up by scriptures like 1 Corinthians 12, that my own theology on the subject was shaped 00:15:51.040 --> 00:15:56.740 then and hasn't changed a lot over the ensuing years. In a nutshell, Paul taught the Corinthians 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:03.100 that the Holy Spirit gives gifts to different people as He chooses. They all have value, 00:16:03.580 --> 00:16:09.000 just as each part of the body has value. He taught them that it's silly to argue about what 00:16:09.020 --> 00:16:14.340 part of the body is better, and it's silly to fight over what gift is better. Paul's analogy 00:16:14.520 --> 00:16:20.500 of the church being like a human body is a good one. Each part has a purpose. When one part hurts, 00:16:20.710 --> 00:16:27.120 the whole body hurts. The foot is as much a part of the body as the ear. When you separate a part 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:33.040 of the body from the body, it cannot continue to live, and the body suffers. So we shouldn't value 00:16:33.190 --> 00:16:38.940 one gift over the other. We should just ask God to give us whatever gift it is He wants us to have. 00:16:39.380 --> 00:16:45.040 and then celebrate that. What do you think? We'll begin the book of Exodus tomorrow with 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:49.640 the reading of the first four chapters. Here's the verse of the day. 00:16:52.420 --> 00:16:58.940 The verse of the day is 1 Corinthians 12, 27. You are the body of Christ and parts of each other. 00:17:01.420 --> 00:17:03.640 What do you think? What do you think? 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Your church deserves your support. 00:18:28.820 --> 00:18:29.780 What about this show? 00:18:30.860 --> 00:18:32.780 Listen to this boostagram that came in this morning. 00:18:33.180 --> 00:18:40.480 He says, Jamie the Trucker, the OG show number boostagrammer with a 42,639 sat boostagram. 00:18:41.260 --> 00:18:45.420 He continues, this is the sum of all the Sunday shows so far for season three, 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.280 even taking into account the fact that we had two show number 11s this season. 00:18:50.040 --> 00:18:50.460 We did? 00:18:51.040 --> 00:18:52.440 I'll have to double check on that. 00:18:53.260 --> 00:18:56.380 If Jamie says it, it must be true, but I'm going to have to see what happened there. 00:18:56.390 --> 00:18:57.260 I don't remember that. 00:18:57.600 --> 00:18:57.820 Could be. 00:18:58.180 --> 00:19:01.540 Anyway, he continues, and prays that I finally got this thing working. 00:19:02.360 --> 00:19:03.640 Yes, praise for that. 00:19:04.140 --> 00:19:08.120 He's talking about getting the boosts to go through properly. 00:19:08.340 --> 00:19:09.620 Anyway, absolutely, Jamie. 00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:11.500 I'm so glad that you got it working, too. 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:12.320 Thank you so much. 00:19:12.800 --> 00:19:13.920 God bless you, my brother. 00:19:14.520 --> 00:19:18.120 You can boost using a podcasting 2.0 compliant podcast app. 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.400 You can find one of those at podcastapps.com. 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.640 Or to learn more about Value for Value and donating, go right here. 00:19:26.360 --> 00:19:28.400 Lifespringmedia.com slash support. 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:29.380 Do it now. 00:19:34.860 --> 00:19:37.860 On this date in church history, January 18th. 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.640 First, in 1815, Constantine von Tischendorf was born in Germany. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:47.700 He would go on to become one of the most important biblical scholars of the 19th century. 00:19:48.260 --> 00:19:53.040 His life's work focused on locating and preserving ancient manuscripts of the New Testament. 00:19:53.560 --> 00:19:58.419 Most famously, his discover of the Codex Sinaiticus provided scholars with one of the earliest 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:04.260 and most complete copies of the New Testament ever found. That discovery reshaped modern Bible 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:10.060 translation and deepened confidence in the reliability of the biblical text passed down 00:20:10.220 --> 00:20:16.960 through the centuries. And then, on January 18, 1830, in the South Pacific, a young Tongan chief 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:22.839 named Tufuahau was baptized by Christian missionaries. He would later become King George 00:20:22.900 --> 00:20:28.440 Tupo I, the founder of the modern kingdom of Tonga. His conversion was not only personal. 00:20:28.830 --> 00:20:33.560 It marked a turning point for the islands as Christianity became deeply woven into Tonga's 00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:39.480 national identity, legal system, and culture, shaping a Christian monarchy that still exists today. 00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:47.980 We don't have any prayer requests today, so let's just pray. Our Heavenly Father, 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:54.300 You are holy, you are good, you are righteous, you are just, you are merciful, and we worship you. 00:20:54.860 --> 00:20:57.420 We praise you because you are worthy of our praise. 00:20:58.220 --> 00:21:01.580 We ask that your will would be done here on earth as it is in heaven. 00:21:02.520 --> 00:21:06.960 Forgive us our failures and help us to forgive those who have hurt us and who have wronged us. 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:09.700 I pray for the Lifespring family, Lord. 00:21:10.500 --> 00:21:14.460 Thank you for bringing them here, and I pray that what they hear on the show is from you 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:16.840 and that they are helped by being here. 00:21:17.500 --> 00:21:20.320 I pray for those that are sick and who need financial help, 00:21:20.980 --> 00:21:22.300 and those who are hurting emotionally. 00:21:22.900 --> 00:21:23.560 Comfort them, Lord. 00:21:24.220 --> 00:21:25.600 I pray this in Jesus' name. 00:21:26.270 --> 00:21:26.400 Amen. 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:28.720 When you send in your prayer requests, 00:21:28.870 --> 00:21:30.680 I'll pray for you in my daily prayer time, 00:21:30.790 --> 00:21:33.420 and I'll pray for you on the show so that we can all agree together 00:21:33.940 --> 00:21:35.800 as we take our requests to God. 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:40.500 If you enjoy the show, tell someone. 00:21:50.260 --> 00:21:52.200 Beloved, remember that no gift is wasted, 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:53.820 no role is unimportant, 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:55.900 and no believer stands alone. 00:21:56.500 --> 00:21:57.920 In Christ, we are one body, 00:21:58.300 --> 00:22:00.680 called to serve, love, and grow together. 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:03.760 Until tomorrow, may the Lord guard your heart, 00:22:04.080 --> 00:22:04.840 shape your desires, 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:06.580 draw you closer to Himself, 00:22:07.300 --> 00:22:08.700 and may God bless you richly. 00:22:09.080 --> 00:22:10.560 Thanks for spending this time with me. 00:22:10.840 --> 00:22:11.820 My name is Steve Webb. 00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:12.720 Bye. 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:20.000 All the programs in the Lifespring Media family are made possible by your value-for-value support. 00:22:20.580 --> 00:22:21.080 Thank you. 00:22:23.060 --> 00:22:30.520 The Lifespring One Year Bible Rewind is a Lifespring Media production hosted by Steve Webb, the OG Godcaster since 2004.