[Originally preached 25 May, 2003]
Revelation 6.1-17; 8.1
This morning we enter a new section of John’s epistle to the seven churches. This morning we take a look at Jesus opening the seven seals of the scroll. When we started out our series in Revelation the symbolism wasn’t all that difficult to understand. But as we have moved through the book, the symbolism has been getting a bit more intricate. We’ll see some of that today. As we continue on, I’m sure that we’ll come upon some symbols that will be quite challenging. But we need to remember that we aren’t going to understand all of Revelation. There will be some parts that we may have to skip over and other parts that we are just going to get wrong. But that is true of every book of the Bible that we study. And yet, because of the ministry of the Spirit, we’ll be sufficiently close enough to getting it right to hear God’s voice. Then, the next time you go through Revelation you’ll be able to build on what you have understood and you’ll hear more from God. We need to remember the goal. The goal is not to understand Revelation. The goal is to hear from God so that we might live faithfully. And, God willing, that’s exactly what we’ll do this morning.
Let’s begin by seeing the passage before us in terms of the big picture. Where does this fit historically? Is it about the past? Or maybe about the future? There are clues. Consider the sixth seal. At the opening of this seal creation is shaken and even undone.
The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Revelation 6:14
Then we hear from some people after the opening of this seal.
Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" Revelation 6:15-17
What is being pictured here? What we have here is the end. What we have here is the final day of this world, the day when Jesus returns. That would mean that the silence at the opening of the seventh seal is the beginning of the age to come. And, as we’ll see later, that fits well. So, we now have one end of the vision nailed down. That leaves the other end. When does the opening of the seals begin? How much time before the end does the opening of seals one through five cover? This is where the question, ‘To whom was this epistle written?’ becomes so important. It makes a big difference that we recognize that John wrote this to the seven churches of Asia Minor. Just as 1 Corinthians was written, first of all, to the first century church at Corinth, Revelation was written, first of all, to those seven churches. In both cases, if we are going to understand properly what was written, then we need to see how each letter spoke to its original audience. The vision of the seals was written to aid those first century Christians in Asia Minor. The vision speaks to their situation first. The seals go back to their time. The opening of the seals includes the first century.
There’s a second thing to notice here. The opening of the seals follows right after Jesus is installed as Lord over all. The throne room scene depicts Jesus’ ascending to the right hand of the Father. The opening of the seals is the very next thing. Right after He is installed as the King, Jesus begins to put God’s plan into action.
For these reasons, we need to see that the opening of the seals covers from the ascension of Christ to His second coming and the inauguration of the age to come. Now, in saying that I am not suggesting to you that what we have here is a list of particular events that are part of God’s plan. The point of the vision is not to give the details of the time between Jesus’ two comings. What good would that be? Rather, the point of the vision is to give the tenor of the times. The point of the vision is to give you a feel for what is to be like. The important question for the Church between the comings is not, ‘What events are going to occur?’ The important question for the Church is, ‘What is it be like to live as a Christian between the two comings?’ The opening of the seals is a description of what life is like in this age. It answers the critical question, ‘What should we as Christians expect of this life?’ Now, the answer to that question is helpful. It’s helpful because it enables us to prepare. Now, that’s the big picture. I think that we’re ready to look at some of the particulars each seal.
With the opening of the first seal we meet the first of the famous ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’. This one came out, ‘conquering and to conquer’. Now, we don’t really need to make this complicated. This first seal is about the wars of conquest, nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom. One attacks the other in order to capture it and own it.
Then, there is the second seal and the second horseman. This one ‘was permitted to take peace from the earth’. At first glance it may sound very much like the first horseman. Yet, the mission of the second doesn’t result in wars between nations. Rather, it results in conflict between individuals. This conflict is so severe that it even includes the slaughter of one person by the other. This lack of peace may show as large-scale conflict, like rioting in the streets. But it can also reveal itself on a much smaller scale, like the feud between neighbors about shoveling a sidewalk in the winter.
The third horseman may need a bit more explaining. Most of our translations try to update the measure referred to and have us read, ‘quart’, though they leave the unit of money, a denarius. But that doesn’t do enough. What you need to understand is that a denarius is a how much a working man earns in a day and the unit of measure referred to is enough food to feed a person for one day. So, what the voice is saying is, ‘A day’s wage for a day’s food.’ That’s if you buy wheat. But what if that working man had a family to feed? In that case, he’d buy the inferior grain, the barley, so that there would be enough for three to eat. But what about paying for a place to live and some clothing and the other necessities of life? This horseman is about economic struggle. It’s not a famine. We know that because there’s still plenty of oil and wine. But it’s hard feeding and clothing a family. It’s the hardship of trying to stretch a little bit a long way. Now, it’s possible that the reference to the oil and wine is a reference to the ease of the wealthy. Oil and wine might refer to the more expensive foods that are available in abundance but available only to those with the money to buy them. That might be included. But in any event, this horseman brings the economic struggle just to survive.
Now, we’re up to the fourth horseman, Death, and Hades who follows after him. This is an apt pair, especially if you remember that Hades is not hell, the place of judgment. Hades is the place of the dead. And so, Death strikes and that person is taken away to Hades. The color of the horse is also apt. It is the color of a corpse. What we have here isn’t just death but violent death. This horseman brings death by sword, which includes death in warfare, death by famine, which is starvation, death by pestilence, that is disease, especially epidemic disease, and death by wild beasts, being attacked and eaten. This is violent death. Notice the limitation, ‘one-fourth of the earth’. This doesn’t mean that one-fourth of the earth’s population will die at one certain time. Rather, it means that as we look at the whole span of time between the comings of Christ, a sizable number of people will die violently.
Here we have the tenor of what life is like until Jesus returns. This isn’t the total story. There are no details of history. But this tells us what we need to know. This gives us a feel for life in the world. The point of this vision is that life is hard. We are confronted with wars, strife, economic struggle and violent death. And that’s true not just of the Christians, it’s hard for everyone. For both the Church and the world, life is hard.
When we get to the opening of the fifth seal a distinction is made. The fifth seal applies only to the Church. This seal is about the martyrs of the faith. You'll remember how Jesus said to the church at Smyrna, ‘Be faithful until death’. Well, these did exactly that. They died for their faith. They offered up their blood as a willing sacrifice on the altar. Martyrdom is a part of this life. And that’s hard, too. What makes it worse is that the injustice that led to the slaughter of faithful Christians seems to flourish unabated. The martyrs cry out, ‘How long?’ How long will this go on? This is not a cry for vengeance. They see this wrong being committed, the murder of innocents. They cry out that it be righted, that justice be upheld, that the killing stop. Their souls cry. And what is the answer?
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been. Revelation 6:11
‘You need to wait a bit longer for justice. You need to wait until all the martyrs are slaughtered.’ The Church is being told that justice will come. But before it does, there will be many more who will die. This too is a part of this life.
Then, there is the sixth seal. I already touched on that but let me point out one or two other things. John is describing what Jesus elsewhere calls the ‘regeneration’ [Matthew 19]. The old order will go. The cosmos will be changed. And everything will be brand new. At the same time, there will be justice. I might be pushing things here a bit, but Revelation is a book of symbols. It’s interesting to note that there a seven categories of people listed: kings, great ones, generals, rich, powerful and all the slave and free. Seven is a significant number in this book. Elsewhere it points to a sense of completion, a sense of including everything. If I’m right, then the point is that all who have rebelled against God and the Lamb will be judged on the last day. None will escape. There will be justice.
You’ll have noticed that the description of the seventh seal doesn’t immediately follow the description of the sixth seal. There’s an interlude. This is a pattern that the seven trumpets and the seven bowls follow as well. There is something being described in the interlude that we’ll need to include in our understanding of the seven seals. We’re going to have to wait, though, until the next time for that. When we do get to the seventh seal, it’s just silence. What does that mean? Here’s one possibility. The silence is the response of the redeemed to the judgment unleashed in the opening of the sixth seal. It is the silence of awe. The saints will have seen God’s judgment in action, the wrath of the Lamb vented without any restraint upon those who dwell upon the earth. And it will be tremendous. Habakkuk says something like this. In the context of God’s judgment he writes,
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. Habakkuk 2:20
Nothing in our experience will prepare us for the day when Christ will bring down His rod upon those who have rejected Him all these centuries. We will be shocked into silence.
Now, what shall we do with all of this? How can it help us? Remember the goal is not to understand Revelation. The goal is to hear God and live faithfully. Our text helps in the area of expectations. Our expectations are so very important. When your expectations match reality you’ll be able to handle what this life dishes out. But when your expectations are off, you will have problems. It’s critical that our expectations be in keeping with what is real. Our text has told us what to expect in this life: wars, strife, economic struggles, violent deaths. Then there’s the call to martyrdom. Is this what we expect to experience? It may be that these things will not touch us directly. But surely they will affect us in some way. Are you ready for that?
What happens when someone works for and expects a happy life but actually experiences something very different? Have you ever heard a sickly retired person say, with a bit of an edge to his voice, ‘So, these are my golden years, huh?’ Have you ever met someone who is really bitter and angry all the time? Did you ever wonder why he’s like that? In one way or other, life hasn’t turned out how he thought it would. His expectations weren’t met. There are lots more people whose lives are just flat. They’re not bitter. They aren’t angry. They’re just flat. They are disappointed with life. And that colors all that they do, and all that they feel. Their expectations weren’t met. And so there’s nothing in life worth getting excited over. Why is it that more and more of the ‘successful’ folks of our world, those who thought that they had achieved a ‘happily ever after life’ – why are they more and more giving themselves to drugs and alcohol and other dangerous things? We thought we understood such behavior when it was the lower classes. But why these others? It’s an escape. Life is harder than what they were expecting. It’s too hard. They need to get away from it all if they are going to make it.
The point of the text is simply this. Don’t be fooled like so many are. Life is hard. And it will always be hard – until the Lord returns. Make sure that your expectations are accurate.
But this is where the Gospel makes such a difference. In saying that life is hard I am not saying that life is bleak. There is a huge difference there. Life is not bleak, at least not for the Christian. We can rejoice! For us there is every reason for joy, even though life is hard. We can rejoice because of Jesus. Remember that the four horsemen and all the rest are under the control of our Lord. He is the one who opens the seals and set the plan of God in motion. These do His bidding. And so, we know that whatever hardship comes our way, it comes to us from the wise and loving hand of our Savior. The hardships of life are not accidental things out of the blue. They are part of His plan. And they are put into that plan for our good.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
What a precious passage for saints dealing with this life! It holds such hope! It gives reason for great joy. With that passage, you need to meditate on this one. Listen carefully. It’s as if Paul were respond to the difficulties of the first five seals of our text.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39
Do you see what your protection is? Don’t believe the world’s myths. Believe the Scriptures. Life here is hard. Don’t expect it to be a bed of roses. Help your children in this also. They are in the process of building their life expectations right now. Make sure your expectations and theirs are in line with reality, in line with the Scriptures. Then, the next time life comes crashing in on you, focus on what the real battle is. The key issue for you in those times is this. Are you able to say, ‘Even this is part of God’s good plan for my life. I can rejoice even now, not because something hard has happened to me, but because I know that Jesus loves me and that He is up to something good’? And the only way that you will be able to honestly say those words is if the theme of your life is, ‘Jesus, I love you. I trust you. I want to live for you. Give me the grace to do all of this.’ If that is your prayer, then you will find that though life is hard, there will be joy. The Spirit will give you more than enough grace. You will rejoice. And your life will shine.
Revelation 6.1-17; 8.1
This morning we enter a new section of John’s epistle to the seven churches. This morning we take a look at Jesus opening the seven seals of the scroll. When we started out our series in Revelation the symbolism wasn’t all that difficult to understand. But as we have moved through the book, the symbolism has been getting a bit more intricate. We’ll see some of that today. As we continue on, I’m sure that we’ll come upon some symbols that will be quite challenging. But we need to remember that we aren’t going to understand all of Revelation. There will be some parts that we may have to skip over and other parts that we are just going to get wrong. But that is true of every book of the Bible that we study. And yet, because of the ministry of the Spirit, we’ll be sufficiently close enough to getting it right to hear God’s voice. Then, the next time you go through Revelation you’ll be able to build on what you have understood and you’ll hear more from God. We need to remember the goal. The goal is not to understand Revelation. The goal is to hear from God so that we might live faithfully. And, God willing, that’s exactly what we’ll do this morning.
Let’s begin by seeing the passage before us in terms of the big picture. Where does this fit historically? Is it about the past? Or maybe about the future? There are clues. Consider the sixth seal. At the opening of this seal creation is shaken and even undone.
The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Revelation 6:14
Then we hear from some people after the opening of this seal.
Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" Revelation 6:15-17
What is being pictured here? What we have here is the end. What we have here is the final day of this world, the day when Jesus returns. That would mean that the silence at the opening of the seventh seal is the beginning of the age to come. And, as we’ll see later, that fits well. So, we now have one end of the vision nailed down. That leaves the other end. When does the opening of the seals begin? How much time before the end does the opening of seals one through five cover? This is where the question, ‘To whom was this epistle written?’ becomes so important. It makes a big difference that we recognize that John wrote this to the seven churches of Asia Minor. Just as 1 Corinthians was written, first of all, to the first century church at Corinth, Revelation was written, first of all, to those seven churches. In both cases, if we are going to understand properly what was written, then we need to see how each letter spoke to its original audience. The vision of the seals was written to aid those first century Christians in Asia Minor. The vision speaks to their situation first. The seals go back to their time. The opening of the seals includes the first century.
There’s a second thing to notice here. The opening of the seals follows right after Jesus is installed as Lord over all. The throne room scene depicts Jesus’ ascending to the right hand of the Father. The opening of the seals is the very next thing. Right after He is installed as the King, Jesus begins to put God’s plan into action.
For these reasons, we need to see that the opening of the seals covers from the ascension of Christ to His second coming and the inauguration of the age to come. Now, in saying that I am not suggesting to you that what we have here is a list of particular events that are part of God’s plan. The point of the vision is not to give the details of the time between Jesus’ two comings. What good would that be? Rather, the point of the vision is to give the tenor of the times. The point of the vision is to give you a feel for what is to be like. The important question for the Church between the comings is not, ‘What events are going to occur?’ The important question for the Church is, ‘What is it be like to live as a Christian between the two comings?’ The opening of the seals is a description of what life is like in this age. It answers the critical question, ‘What should we as Christians expect of this life?’ Now, the answer to that question is helpful. It’s helpful because it enables us to prepare. Now, that’s the big picture. I think that we’re ready to look at some of the particulars each seal.
With the opening of the first seal we meet the first of the famous ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’. This one came out, ‘conquering and to conquer’. Now, we don’t really need to make this complicated. This first seal is about the wars of conquest, nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom. One attacks the other in order to capture it and own it.
Then, there is the second seal and the second horseman. This one ‘was permitted to take peace from the earth’. At first glance it may sound very much like the first horseman. Yet, the mission of the second doesn’t result in wars between nations. Rather, it results in conflict between individuals. This conflict is so severe that it even includes the slaughter of one person by the other. This lack of peace may show as large-scale conflict, like rioting in the streets. But it can also reveal itself on a much smaller scale, like the feud between neighbors about shoveling a sidewalk in the winter.
The third horseman may need a bit more explaining. Most of our translations try to update the measure referred to and have us read, ‘quart’, though they leave the unit of money, a denarius. But that doesn’t do enough. What you need to understand is that a denarius is a how much a working man earns in a day and the unit of measure referred to is enough food to feed a person for one day. So, what the voice is saying is, ‘A day’s wage for a day’s food.’ That’s if you buy wheat. But what if that working man had a family to feed? In that case, he’d buy the inferior grain, the barley, so that there would be enough for three to eat. But what about paying for a place to live and some clothing and the other necessities of life? This horseman is about economic struggle. It’s not a famine. We know that because there’s still plenty of oil and wine. But it’s hard feeding and clothing a family. It’s the hardship of trying to stretch a little bit a long way. Now, it’s possible that the reference to the oil and wine is a reference to the ease of the wealthy. Oil and wine might refer to the more expensive foods that are available in abundance but available only to those with the money to buy them. That might be included. But in any event, this horseman brings the economic struggle just to survive.
Now, we’re up to the fourth horseman, Death, and Hades who follows after him. This is an apt pair, especially if you remember that Hades is not hell, the place of judgment. Hades is the place of the dead. And so, Death strikes and that person is taken away to Hades. The color of the horse is also apt. It is the color of a corpse. What we have here isn’t just death but violent death. This horseman brings death by sword, which includes death in warfare, death by famine, which is starvation, death by pestilence, that is disease, especially epidemic disease, and death by wild beasts, being attacked and eaten. This is violent death. Notice the limitation, ‘one-fourth of the earth’. This doesn’t mean that one-fourth of the earth’s population will die at one certain time. Rather, it means that as we look at the whole span of time between the comings of Christ, a sizable number of people will die violently.
Here we have the tenor of what life is like until Jesus returns. This isn’t the total story. There are no details of history. But this tells us what we need to know. This gives us a feel for life in the world. The point of this vision is that life is hard. We are confronted with wars, strife, economic struggle and violent death. And that’s true not just of the Christians, it’s hard for everyone. For both the Church and the world, life is hard.
When we get to the opening of the fifth seal a distinction is made. The fifth seal applies only to the Church. This seal is about the martyrs of the faith. You'll remember how Jesus said to the church at Smyrna, ‘Be faithful until death’. Well, these did exactly that. They died for their faith. They offered up their blood as a willing sacrifice on the altar. Martyrdom is a part of this life. And that’s hard, too. What makes it worse is that the injustice that led to the slaughter of faithful Christians seems to flourish unabated. The martyrs cry out, ‘How long?’ How long will this go on? This is not a cry for vengeance. They see this wrong being committed, the murder of innocents. They cry out that it be righted, that justice be upheld, that the killing stop. Their souls cry. And what is the answer?
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been. Revelation 6:11
‘You need to wait a bit longer for justice. You need to wait until all the martyrs are slaughtered.’ The Church is being told that justice will come. But before it does, there will be many more who will die. This too is a part of this life.
Then, there is the sixth seal. I already touched on that but let me point out one or two other things. John is describing what Jesus elsewhere calls the ‘regeneration’ [Matthew 19]. The old order will go. The cosmos will be changed. And everything will be brand new. At the same time, there will be justice. I might be pushing things here a bit, but Revelation is a book of symbols. It’s interesting to note that there a seven categories of people listed: kings, great ones, generals, rich, powerful and all the slave and free. Seven is a significant number in this book. Elsewhere it points to a sense of completion, a sense of including everything. If I’m right, then the point is that all who have rebelled against God and the Lamb will be judged on the last day. None will escape. There will be justice.
You’ll have noticed that the description of the seventh seal doesn’t immediately follow the description of the sixth seal. There’s an interlude. This is a pattern that the seven trumpets and the seven bowls follow as well. There is something being described in the interlude that we’ll need to include in our understanding of the seven seals. We’re going to have to wait, though, until the next time for that. When we do get to the seventh seal, it’s just silence. What does that mean? Here’s one possibility. The silence is the response of the redeemed to the judgment unleashed in the opening of the sixth seal. It is the silence of awe. The saints will have seen God’s judgment in action, the wrath of the Lamb vented without any restraint upon those who dwell upon the earth. And it will be tremendous. Habakkuk says something like this. In the context of God’s judgment he writes,
But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him. Habakkuk 2:20
Nothing in our experience will prepare us for the day when Christ will bring down His rod upon those who have rejected Him all these centuries. We will be shocked into silence.
Now, what shall we do with all of this? How can it help us? Remember the goal is not to understand Revelation. The goal is to hear God and live faithfully. Our text helps in the area of expectations. Our expectations are so very important. When your expectations match reality you’ll be able to handle what this life dishes out. But when your expectations are off, you will have problems. It’s critical that our expectations be in keeping with what is real. Our text has told us what to expect in this life: wars, strife, economic struggles, violent deaths. Then there’s the call to martyrdom. Is this what we expect to experience? It may be that these things will not touch us directly. But surely they will affect us in some way. Are you ready for that?
What happens when someone works for and expects a happy life but actually experiences something very different? Have you ever heard a sickly retired person say, with a bit of an edge to his voice, ‘So, these are my golden years, huh?’ Have you ever met someone who is really bitter and angry all the time? Did you ever wonder why he’s like that? In one way or other, life hasn’t turned out how he thought it would. His expectations weren’t met. There are lots more people whose lives are just flat. They’re not bitter. They aren’t angry. They’re just flat. They are disappointed with life. And that colors all that they do, and all that they feel. Their expectations weren’t met. And so there’s nothing in life worth getting excited over. Why is it that more and more of the ‘successful’ folks of our world, those who thought that they had achieved a ‘happily ever after life’ – why are they more and more giving themselves to drugs and alcohol and other dangerous things? We thought we understood such behavior when it was the lower classes. But why these others? It’s an escape. Life is harder than what they were expecting. It’s too hard. They need to get away from it all if they are going to make it.
The point of the text is simply this. Don’t be fooled like so many are. Life is hard. And it will always be hard – until the Lord returns. Make sure that your expectations are accurate.
But this is where the Gospel makes such a difference. In saying that life is hard I am not saying that life is bleak. There is a huge difference there. Life is not bleak, at least not for the Christian. We can rejoice! For us there is every reason for joy, even though life is hard. We can rejoice because of Jesus. Remember that the four horsemen and all the rest are under the control of our Lord. He is the one who opens the seals and set the plan of God in motion. These do His bidding. And so, we know that whatever hardship comes our way, it comes to us from the wise and loving hand of our Savior. The hardships of life are not accidental things out of the blue. They are part of His plan. And they are put into that plan for our good.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
What a precious passage for saints dealing with this life! It holds such hope! It gives reason for great joy. With that passage, you need to meditate on this one. Listen carefully. It’s as if Paul were respond to the difficulties of the first five seals of our text.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39
Do you see what your protection is? Don’t believe the world’s myths. Believe the Scriptures. Life here is hard. Don’t expect it to be a bed of roses. Help your children in this also. They are in the process of building their life expectations right now. Make sure your expectations and theirs are in line with reality, in line with the Scriptures. Then, the next time life comes crashing in on you, focus on what the real battle is. The key issue for you in those times is this. Are you able to say, ‘Even this is part of God’s good plan for my life. I can rejoice even now, not because something hard has happened to me, but because I know that Jesus loves me and that He is up to something good’? And the only way that you will be able to honestly say those words is if the theme of your life is, ‘Jesus, I love you. I trust you. I want to live for you. Give me the grace to do all of this.’ If that is your prayer, then you will find that though life is hard, there will be joy. The Spirit will give you more than enough grace. You will rejoice. And your life will shine.
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