Pastor Jamie Robinson: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Cavalry Callback, a podcast where we take a deeper dive into the weekly sermon at Calvary Evangelical Free Church in Rochester, Minnesota. My name is Jamie Robinson. I’m your host this week. And joining me today is Pastor Kyle Bushre, who is back in the pulpit Sunday preaching a sermon called God Is Greater Than Our Heart, based on 1 John 3:19 – 24 in our current series, walk in the light. Kyle, how are you doing?
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah, good. It was good to be back. Good to be back preaching again. I love it when the preaching team leads because I love hearing other voices here at Calvary. But yeah, it’s good to be back preaching.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah, yeah. Josh was preaching last week for us.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: You’re back again this week.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah. And that was, I think you probably mentioned I haven’t had a chance to listen last week, but you probably mentioned Josh’s last time. Did you guys mention that Josh will be moving to…
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Well, it was Brian last week so…
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Oh it was Brian last week. Oh, okay.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: I don’t know if he covered that or not.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: I’m not sure either. But yeah, it’s going to be tough to lose Josh off the preaching team, but we wish him the best on that.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yes. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Well, Chewy made it into your sermon this week.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Oh yeah. Chewy, my good old dog, the illustrator of scripture. That Chewy Bushre.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: It just came to you in a flash, I guess, as you were sat there having your evening meal.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: It… Actually, it’s funny about that is I thought about it in advance. Um, I was prepping and writing and realized that my dog would be the perfect… What he does, this behavior, that he has to be the perfect illustration. Uh, and then, um, I’m sitting there eating with my family and I just kind of slip my phone out. And we don’t usually have phones at the dinner table, but I sort of slipped my phone out and started taking pictures. And my family’s like, what are you doing? And I said, I am illustrating the Bible. And my son got it immediately. Oh, okay. As soon as I started taking pictures, he looked over at what the dog was doing and he goes, oh, dad, I get it. Oh, he’s like, I’m still walking in the light. See I’m still, i’m still walking in the light. Even as he gets further and further away.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: I’ve got one paw in the bed.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Exactly. I was like, man, you nailed it. That’s exactly what we’re doing here.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Growing up in a pastor’s household. Yeah.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah. Right. Everything’s a gospel illustration when you grow up in the pastor’s house.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Well, we love Chewy. He’s a great dog. He’s a fun dog to have around.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yes. Actually, yeah. Listeners, you should know that Jamie and I are dog sitters for each other. And so we are, we are well aware, our families are well aware of each other’s dog.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: And so Chewy and Lizzy get together. I don’t know, a year, every year at least. Yep. Yeah. Every once in a while.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: We’ll have to make sure now that when we eat at the table, we do the same thing. We need to have some consistency there and make sure we send him to his bed…
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: When we eat. Because we don’t do that.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah. See if it works. I don’t know if it will work at your house. It might not because he may… You may not be enough of an authority. Um, I know for a fact that I am not enough of an authority for Lizzie. That is right. There’s no question, Lizzie. Lizzie wants nothing to do with me, so she just runs away whenever I come near her.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. It’s not just you. It’s really any strange man that she hasn’t really got to know that. Well. Yeah, yeah.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: It hurts my feelings to call me strange, but yeah okay…
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. That’s that’s what’s going on in her mind, I think. Who knows, who knows.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Chewy is the opposite. He’ll go to anybody. He’s like, oh, you want me to get in your van? Sure. I’ll get in your van. He’ll go anywhere.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. That was fun to see him anyway. So this, this passage, this piece that we had on Sunday. The big picture, I guess, is, um, you know, John’s talking about condemnation of our hearts. If our hearts condemn us, if our hearts don’t condemn us. And you really drew out the theme of heart resistance, which is, uh, yeah, really, uh, a great take on this passage I think about the resistance of our hearts, resistance of following God’s will or obeying his word. Um, I wondered if we could just start by defining our terms a bit. You know, when the Bible is referring to heart. You know what is it referring to? It’s not the organ that pumps the blood around the body obviously, I think everyone knows that. But just explain a little bit about what our heart is.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah. So the heart, the heart for the first century, um, is not the organ, but it is also, it is also not the emotions. And this is, um, this is where we often get things wrong. We think about, you know, is my heart, we talk about my heart being misled or is my heart moving me? We talk about in our culture, we’re saying, are our emotions fooling us? Um, but interestingly, the organ that would be, uh, tied to the emotions for a first century, uh, Middle Eastern person would be the guts. That your emotions are your, that actually come from your guts and your heart is actually a stand in for your will and your.. So what motivates you? Uh, what drives you? That would be the heart. And it would be tied very closely to the mind. And my, my thoughts, um, quickly as my thoughts move my will, your mind works with your heart in that way. So, um, so when we’re told not to be misled, not to have our hearts misled, or to harden our hearts against God, or when we feel condemnation in our heart, we’re talking about, uh, the feeling that our sin has caused us to move willfully in a direction away from God. So it’s not just I have emotions. You might have emotions tied to that. You may feel bad, but that’s not exactly what the heart is for a first century person for us.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Almost that seat of our deeper desire, the thing that motivates us to do certain things or to think certain ways or to perform certain actions, it’s that deep down drive in us that motivation.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yes, yes. And that should be shaped, of course your mind and your heart should be tied together tightly and are tied together tightly. What you think usually is what causes you to move in a direction, one direction or another. And so both of those need to be washed by scripture, right? They need to come into a biblical worldview. And then what follows is your emotions. So as your heart and your mind are transformed…Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, Paul says, right? As those things are transformed, then what happens is that you’re, you start to emote the way that the Bible would have you emote. So now you start to delight in, as I talked about on Sunday, you start to delight in the things that God delights in, and you’re excited about the things that God’s excited about as opposed to, um, someone who is passionate about worldly things and then driven by their desires, their, uh, um, emotions, uh, for that make them happy with worldly things. That’s what’s got to be changed. Um, and we fall into a problem with this a little bit when we say, um, I want to pursue God, but I just don’t feel it, you know? Or I, it doesn’t feel like the right thing to do to me or I’m moving with my feelings, but I’m trying to be godly in, in my feelings. You’re actually trying to drive something that needs to be changed first. It needs to be changed by your heart first. Once your heart’s changed. Once your will changes. Once your ideas about God change, your mind changes. Then your emotions will follow, right?
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. Yeah. Such a good way to look at it. And of course, we’re used to living in the world where people around us don’t see our hearts. They, they can’t. It’s invisible to those around us. And some people, I mean, we have the expression, you know, people wear their hearts on their sleeves. Some people open themselves up more than others in certain situations. But on the whole, it’s harder. And, you know, this, this passage was a great reminder to me that God does see everything. There’s no place to hide if he sees everything in our hearts. Um, Jeremiah 17 I, the Lord, search the heart and test the mind to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. There’s a scripture that it reminded me of um, which is both scary, but also I think there’s some reassurance there as well that God does see the nature of our hearts. Um, and I think it changes how we approach him in worship and in Bible study and in prayer when we know there’s no place to hide. And so we can come openly to him asking him to, to change our hearts from within, knowing that he sees that.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah, there’s a very, as I was preparing this week, there was very much, the story of Jonah was very much in my mind as I was looking at this because I’m thinking, uh, God knows everything. Jonah knew that and he ran right? He was trying to hide from God. And I often feel like that is how many of us deal with our sin. We think, we’re going to try to hide something from God? He’ll not be able to see this aspect of me, or he’ll ignore that, or he’ll.. He’s too busy to really care about this particular aspect of my sin. And it’s important to be reminded that God knows everything. Because think about this. Imagine you were able to hide something from God. Imagine that was possible that you could have this sort of area of your life where you are, um, your heart condemns you, but God doesn’t really know about that, and it’s sort of off to the side and you think it’s fine. And so you think God thinks it’s fine. And let’s just say he doesn’t know. What happens when he discovers it? What happens in the Day of Judgment when he goes, whoa, oh, I didn’t know this was happening. Right? That would be, first of all, that would be a not on mission God. Right. So we’d have a flawed God himself, right? But then what do you do with that sin? What is done with that at judgment? No, the beauty of what the Bible describes is that God does know me deep down and in Christ, all of my sin is covered by him. But at the same time, that means all of me must be submitted to him.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: And so go before God boldly with those things where you’re hardened in heart toward him. Um, repent of the most difficult things in your life. Bear them before him. Um, because it’s in that, that we have real hope and peace and joy, knowing that we won’t stand in judgment someday before the Lord because Jesus’ sacrifice has covered these sins. Um, I find that to be a very freeing truth that God knows me completely.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: That’s right. Yeah. That’s great. You talked about, um. Well, you said, I’ve got the quote here. So you said, for the true Christian, the resistance won’t last. It won’t last. It’ll be there for a time, but then will fade away. The hardness of our hearts will break. And that’s because the Holy Spirit will conform us to obedience. Just taking the other side for a moment, doesn’t that sound a little harsh that the Holy Spirit is going to conform us to his will? Isn’t he overriding us when he’s doing that? How does that work?
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Is he overriding us when he does that? Uh, no. Uh, in a sense, it is not that, um, he’s not overriding us he’s transforming us. So any transformation is overriding. Anytime you take a lump of clay and make it into a pot, you are overriding the clay, right? You are making the clay into what you want it to be. So when the Holy Spirit does his work in us, he doesn’t, uh, he is overriding our wills, but he’s doing it by changing our will. So we see it as a change of heart and mind. But it is the Spirit’s work in us. God is more powerful than us. God will complete his work in us. This is Paul’s message to the Philippians. He will complete a good work in you. He will not stop his work in us. Right? Uh, so we, he is the potter, we are the clay. And he is making us new. So I, you know, if you want to talk about, um, you know, God overriding our wills, I know people desperately want to maintain this idea that they have a free will that cannot be touched by God.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: God cannot violate their will in any way, shape or form. Uh, but I’ll tell you if, that would mean that your salvation is on you. God has provided a way, but no, no actual transformation of heart, and what you have to do is transform your own heart. And that is not what the scriptures describe at all. The scriptures describe God going, finding his lost sheep, calling them by name, bringing them into his fold, bringing, adopting us into his family, uh, by his power, by his strength. Um, and we want that. And as he changes your heart, you grow to want that. So I don’t get hung up on, um, whether God would violate our free will. As I once heard John Piper say, we don’t need free will, we need wills that are free, set free. We need wills set free. We need, we need wills unbounded by the sin that has chained us down. Um, you know, untethered, set free so that we can worship God the way we were designed to be. And if that’s God overriding my free will. Thank you, Lord, that you did it for me.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah, yeah. And let’s face it, we probably come to God in prayer regularly asking for him to do that anyway, to override us and do his work in us.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah, I think it was earlier this week we were in a meeting and you had mentioned that that you’d read somewhere about, um, I’m trying to remember where it was that you read about it or heard about it, but the idea that, you know, every single person that’s ever prayed that God would transform the heart of a friend of theirs is asking God to override their will and change their will, and make their will conformed to the desire to please the Lord and everything. Yeah, that’s what salvation is.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: We were discussing desiring God.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: That’s right. That’s what it was.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. Excuse me. J. I. Packer’s book, Evangelism..Sovereignty…
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: That’s it. Yeah, I think that’s on the first page he makes that point.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah, that’s a good point.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. So we have this, um, this gap. You mentioned this gap, our new identity as creations in Christ versus where our current spiritual maturity level, um, and resistance comes out of that gap. The here and not yet the kind of where we where we know we are positionally versus where we are in reality. How does that kind of resistance manifest itself in that gap where we are, where we want to be?
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Well, I think I do think it, um, it lies in that for a, for a Christian who’s learning scriptures, it lies in that enormous chasm between the head and the heart, between what we know to be true about what God has called us to be and our will, our desire, our willingness to be that. And yeah, it, it generally crops up in this, um, in this space where, um, you know, it’s, I just find it easier to fall back into an old pattern because it’s hard to change. It’s hard to think differently. It’s hard to capture every thought and bring it into submission to God’s Word. Um, and yet that doesn’t mean that, uh, you know, that that it’s impossible. And it certainly doesn’t mean, uh, you know, that the scriptures are going to go away because I’m going to study the scriptures. I want to know God’s word. I want it to conform me. There’s this weird, I want to do the right thing. And yet, as Paul says in Romans seven, right, there’s this, there’s this fleshliness that still has this old pattern that resides in me, that causes me to do the very thing that I do not want to do. And I think the more you grow in Christ, the more you grow in Scripture, the more you experience the delight of living in conformity to God’s instruction, the less you will want to live in that old pattern, because that old pattern will become abhorrent to you.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: It’ll become, it’ll take, it’ll rob you of your joy instead of giving you your joy. You know, for a sinner, especially one who’s lived a long period of time apart from God, they’ve found a lot of joy and a lot of things that that are worldly and fleeting and ultimately lead to death. And it is hard to break yourself of the joyfulness and the the fleeting happiness that you found in those things. Um, and yet, uh, as you grow in Christ, increasingly what happens is you come to despise those sins. They take, they’re the thief. They take away from your joy. And so the gap closes, right, as we get closer and closer to Christ likeness, we become more like Jesus. The gap lessens. But it does feel like there’s always some bit of worldliness that’s sneaking in there that I think will continue to sneak into our lives until we’re completely with Jesus in eternity someday. I don’t think we experience a complete closure of that gap between Christ likeness and our maturity until eternity. Yeah. Um, but um, but closing the gap is, is the Christian life.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Mhm. Yeah. I loved as well the way that you drew out, um, other religions and secular worldviews. This, this was such a good point. I had to go back and listen to it a couple times to really just let that sink in about, you know, other other religions offer us plenty of gods, plenty of solutions out there, potentially. Um, but none of them give us confidence and assurance and then secular worldviews, that kind of the opposite end of religion offer us philosophies and different worldviews that we can base our life on. But they’re all defined by man and all defined by us. And then we’re in control and we can move the goalposts and we can set the conditions. And so we can have full assurance that, yeah, we’re living exactly the way that we should be because we’ve defined it but there’s no God.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: There’s no God.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: And Christianity is the only place where those two come together.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: That’s right, that’s right.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: So good.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah. And and I think it’s important, i mean, if I’d had more time to be able to really just expound on that, i think it’s important to point out that even in the secular worldviews, there is a type of god. There’s there are idols within that. They just happen to be the ones that are self-made and, uh, that please the individual, especially in our culture. So, uh, you know, you’re still serving, but you’re serving yourself. And the thing about secular worldviews is, uh, and self worship in that sense is, uh, no matter where I am, that’s where I’m supposed to be. So you talk about confidence, right? Well, you know, I was in this period of my life and I, you know, I thought this way and now I’m in a new period of my life and I think this way and I’m right in both places.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. There’s no different. There’s no, there’s no right or wrong.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And, and, um, and yeah, the only wrong would be that if you told me that that wasn’t true, if you somehow violated my, um, my autonomy, then therefore I, you know, that would be wrong. That’s the only, that’s the biggest sin of our.. That’s the biggest cultural sin of our day, is to tell anybody that they’re wrong about who they are or where they’re at, or what their behavior is, or any of those things.
But it’s always somebody else.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For for absolutely certain. That’s right. So yeah, it’s a, it’s an interesting thing. I love the fact that Scripture is the answer to all of this. Uh, it’s a fantastic, the gospel is the answer to the longings and the problems we see in the world. Right? World religions that can’t give us confidence, secular worldviews that give us confidence, but without a relationship with the God that we all know, deep down is there, the creator, the intelligent designer, the one who made this and gives life purpose and meaning and value. You can tell yourself all the time that your life has purpose and meaning and value, but you’re going to not be able to point outside of yourself to find that. And eventually that self-talk comes crashing down when it doesn’t work, when you don’t… I mean, we’ve got a mental health crisis in this country. People. You think we shouldn’t have it because everybody’s being told that you’re just perfect and great exactly the way you are. Over and over and over again. And deep down, we all know that that’s not true. And there is an answer for that. The gospel is the answer for that. The antidote to this self-worship. Um, but, uh, but people need to hear it. And they need to receive it. And then they have this wonderful thing where they get to have the confidence they long for, but they get to have that confidence before the God who is there. And that is the beauty, that is one of the beautiful things of the gospel.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. So that assurance, that confidence, this is a big part of this passage, this part of the scripture that we’re in. Just can you summarize what John is trying to get at here with confidence and assurance before God because of our hearts, because of the condition, because of God seeing, seeing into our hearts, because of where we stand positionally with him. What’s he trying to say in summary in this passage.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah, yeah. So beloved, if our, this is verse 21, 3:21, beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God. And then he goes on to explain what the that life of confidence will look like. You know, whatever we ask, we will receive from him. Um, you know, but he says you’re beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God. What has to be removed from our hearts is condemnation. For the Christian, that’s not talking about final condemnation. Here he’s talking about the wrestling with the resistance in our hearts. Right? And when we when we repent and we trust once again in the gospel, uh, we stand confident before the Lord. That’s really the cycle. You know, I, I trust in Jesus, i fall back into sin, i’m resistant to God, god penetrates my heart with his word, by His Spirit, I then repent again, I stand again before, confident before God. Why? Because the gospel is still true. Because Jesus has still paid the price for my sin. Now, going back to before a person follows Jesus, the condemnation of their heart is final condemnation. And the beauty of the gospel is you’re not going to be able to overcome that through any of your own effort. Uh, you’re not going to be able to, uh, you’re not going to be able to stand before God in any confidence with your sins still on you.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: But the beauty of the gospel is that Jesus has taken, he’s taken away that condemnation because he received the condemnation. He went to the cross and took condemnation from God. The wrath of God was on Christ on the cross, and the full weight of God’s condemnation of our sin was there paid for. It was fully exhausted in Jesus. And Jesus died because death is the payment for sin. And then three days later, he overcame death because only Jesus can do that. And he showed that we will then be those who in Christ overcome death as well. That’s the confidence. That’s the level of confidence that John wants us to have, that we have full assurance that nothing in this world, neither life nor depth, nor anything, principalities, powers, nothing in all creation. Now, I’m quoting Paul here, but John means the same thing. We are fully confident that nothing will separate us from God’s love. We are fully in his family and now we can live out of that confidence, right? That’s the confidence that motivates us to address our sin boldly.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: That’s the confidence that calls us to do incredible things for the Lord, like sharing the gospel boldly with our friends and neighbors. It’s the sort of confidence that will send you to unreached people groups around the world where it’s dangerous to go, but you go. Because you go, you know what? This short life, this fleeting life is nothing compared to the eternity that’s waiting for me. There’s a there’s a weight of glory that’s waiting for me beyond all comparison. And I’m looking to that and I have confidence. I know I’m going to be there.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah, yeah. It allows us to step in boldly into living, living out the Christian life, to step into not just observing the gospel, not just knowing about it intellectually, but, but making that, making those sacrifices for others. And again, you drew this out in the sermon. I mean, you said, look, God doesn’t want us to sacrifice just for us to, to be sad or depressed or down. He’s, he’s calling us to be a sacrificial, loving people because the more that we enter into that, the more that we live positionally in the gospel, the more we understand him because he is the ultimate sacrificial giver who gave everything for us. And as we give out to others, we start to experience ourselves and we get to know him and see him and trust him all because of that.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: That’s right. Yeah. My gospel understanding will be deficient until I’m living in that way. Yeah. That’s just that’s how God has designed this world. I mean, Jesus told us that you’re going to experience the same thing I did. Yeah. You know, take heart. I’ve overcome the world. You can go. You can go at it as well. You’re going to be, you’re going to do great things because of my spirit within you. The helpers coming. He’s going to make, he’s going to give you all the words to say. He’s going to lead you through this life. You’re going to you’re going to do great.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah. Yeah. Great reminder to be incarnational in our living and our love for others. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, prayer. You kind of finished with a call to prayer. Um, you know, prayer is, is work. This is such a, such a different view of prayer. This is something that I, I realized perhaps for the first time, um, if I rewind in my life, maybe 15 years ago. Um, Kate and I were living as part of a Christian community in the UK, Lee Abbey. And, uh, part of that routine of daily life is prayer. So we would gather every morning at 745 as a community to pray and again at 2 p.m. to pray. And we did this every day. Um, and it was just this kind of a habit of life to come together and to pray. And it was about a year in that I suddenly realized and had the revelation that prayer isn’t just about coming to the Lord and giving our requests and our petitions and asking him to do things. That’s that’s part of it, definitely. Yeah. Um, but bigger and deeper than that prayer is actually a way that God uses. He uses prayer to conform us to his will and his purposes. Um, and that was a huge breakthrough in my own prayer life, realizing that, and then approaching prayer in a different way, knowing God, you’re doing a work in me to align me to who you are. You may not answer every prayer. You may answer prayers differently to how I want them to be answered. But this is what’s going on when I’m praying, and that’s why it’s so important.
Pastor Kyle Bushre: Yeah. Yeah. Um, and it’s hard. It’s hard to go into the Lord in prayer on an area of your life where you are beginning to feel the conviction of being resistant and resistant to His Word. You need to change. You know you need to change. And I am going to, Lord, I am going to pray and I’m going to keep praying about this. I’m going to keep praying for your will to become my will to, that your approach to my sin would be my approach to my sin. And, um, and I’m not going to, I’m not going to stop until I, until I see change, until I see transformation. And I’m going to keep coming back to you repenting. And I’m going to keep going and asking forgiveness from people I sin against. And I’m going to address it when, when the sin comes out of me, I’m going to stop it and I’m going to pray in that moment. Lord, this is what, this is where I’m struggling and working through prayer, through conversation with the Lord in conjunction with his spiritual conviction within you, um, you can change. You will overcome. Um, we’re promised this. Yeah. And so that’s why I called our church to hard, the hard work of heart work through prayer. Uh, because people want, people want to change. People are always asking, how can I, you know, become more like Jesus? Why am I struggling with this? I’m like, well, this is how you have to approach it. The discipline of staying in tune with the Holy Spirit’s work in your life through prayer.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Yeah, yeah. I got this book here, Valley of Vision, which, uh, some of you listening may have as well. It’s such a great…
Pastor Kyle Bushre: It’s a fantastic book.
Pastor Jamie Robinson: Book of Puritan prayers. And there’s a, there’s a prayer in here. I won’t read it all, but I’ll just read this section here. It’s called Living by Prayer and it says this. This is the prayer. Let me know that the work of prayer is to bring my will to thine, and that without it is folly to pray. When I try to bring thy will to mine, it is to command Christ to be above him wiser than he. This is my sin and pride. I can only succeed when I pray according to thy precept and promise, and to be done with it as it pleases thee, according to thy sovereign will. Mhm. It’s just a great prayer to, um, to come to the Lord in prayer. We can come with confidence. We can come with assurance. We can come knowing that he he sees our hearts. He knows our hearts. We can ask him to change our heart in that prayer. But the actual praying itself is part of, of the work that’s doing that. Yeah. That’s great. Kyle, thank you again for a great message. And, uh, we will see you next time. Thanks for joining us on the Calvary Callback. We hope this time was an encouragement to you, whether you’re part of our Calvary family or if you’re just listening from somewhere else in the world, we invite you to join us in our mission to pursue passion for Christ and compassion for people. We’ll see you next time on the Callback.