I know that my redeemer lives

I want to talk about that living redeemer that we have. So prepare your spirit this afternoon. If you do not know that redeemer, I want to challenge you to consider him as your redeemer too, as your Lord and savior Christ Jesus. I want to go to chapter 19 of Job. Let's start with verse 23. And Job says here:

“…Who would now that my words were written – he did not know that his words were actually going to be written, written in this marvelous book that is the Book of Job – who would that they would be written in a book and with an iron chisel and with lead they were carved in stone forever. – And here is the essential part of the sermon – I know that my redeemer lives – Glory to the Lord. say amen I know that my redeemer lives. – and finally it will rise above the dust and after discarding this my skin, in my flesh I will see God, whom I will see for myself and my eyes will see it and no other. – And he adds this somewhat mysterious phrase – Even though my heart fails within me.”

Father, we bless your wonderful word, we bless the principles it contains, we bless every declaration that has been given in this holy place on this day. The beautiful praise that we have had, the prayers, the celebration of the resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ, your beautiful people who gather here on this day, from all our communities, Lord, reflecting the excellence that you have given us as your people, Father, for the diversity that has been seen in this place, Asia, Africa and Latin America and Spain and all the countries of the earth in a sense represented in this assemblage that we have here today, Lord. And we thank you for your creation represented in your church on this day.

And now we ask that your word resonate clearly in the hearts of those of us who are here, Lord, for the glory of your name, in the name of Jesus we ask it. Amen and amen. This week I usually take Handel's Messiah, I don't know how many have heard that marvelous piece, it is one of the greatest pieces of sublime music in all of history. Handel wrote that piece of music made up of many different musical segments in 18th century England. Handel was German but he was transported to England and most of his life he wrote many librettos and a lot of opera and God touched him to write this wonderful musical ensemble that I highly recommend that you listen to for cultural enrichment but above all spiritual.

And Handel's Messiah contains a portion that for me is the most beautiful and moving of all, which speaks precisely… it is a piece of music where a soprano declares “I know that my redeemer lives,” and she does so in an extraordinary way. And listening to that piece this week it became clear to me as never before how mysterious and powerful the content of this text from which that piece of music was taken, from Job, where he says, "I know that my redeemer lives and will finally rise." on the dust and after discarding this my skin, in my flesh I will see God.”

And so I set out this week to explore that passage and thought, although it is a difficult passage to present in all its complexity, I am going to make a point of using it as the basis for my sermon this afternoon. And I want this to be like a poem dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ and his resurrection and that all of us can affirm these words of Job, a man who knew suffering like no other man possibly, that's why it's in writing.

Job after a prosperous, blessed life, God had given him children, had given him prestige, social influence, great wealth, all the things a man could wish for, he found himself involved in a controversy between God and Satan. Satan, when God tells him, look at my son Job, you are not ashamed how he serves me. He was a pious man, a God fearing man. and Satan said to him, as he is our accuser, yes, that is true, he serves you because you have given him all these blessings, all this wealth, all this glory, but take those things away to see if he really blesses you.

And God's sense of honor got involved in this and the Lord said, okay, take this away from him, then take that away from him, and Job was losing everything that he had held dear and had until he was left utterly destitute and the last What touched him was his own body and his body was filled with sores and festering things and terrible pain and discomfort, all his children died in an accident one day, his money was all gone. And this man spent years and this is what the Book of Job describes, wrestling with God and asking him, Lord, why has this happened to me? If I have served you, I have been faithful to you, I have lived a just life, I have done everything that was on my part.

And to top it off, his friends came, in quotes, well-intentioned and brothers, let's be very careful many times with the advice we offer to people who are suffering. Never tell anyone, look, this is happening to you because God is touching you for some reason because you did this, because you did that. Even if you think so, be very careful. These friends came to Job and began to tell him that it was because he had some hidden sin and that is why God... not understanding all the mystery behind Job's situation, that it was a controversy and that Job was like the main link of the honor of God and it was necessary to see if he was going to remain faithful within everything.

And within his great confusion, his great sense of loss, of pain, of suffering, of physical agony, these words sprouted from him, which precisely because of such a painful and terrible background have a much more valuable, more powerful meaning, "I I know that my redeemer lives.”

Can we, brethren, when we find ourselves in places of loss say that and still praise the Lord? I ask the Lord to help me in my own life if there is a moment of loss or trial that I might have the strength to say, Father, I kiss your hand and bless you and I know that you live. I know that you are real, I know that you are faithful.

Job was saying this from the very guts. And I'm not sure he meant everything he was saying, but he declared it by faith anyhow. And I see in this mysterious passage a series of elements that are very important that we have clear in our hearts and that if we do not have it, then we need to come before God and how to adjust our faith and adjust our confession.

And I want to invite you to take a spiritual journey through your life and ask yourself if you can say these things that Job is declaring here. and I want to go to the main point of his statement, the word redeemer. Because that is a very important word because... remember something else before saying this, that Job is the oldest book in the entire Bible, although it is about halfway through the Old Testament, it is the book that was the first book written in all writing. Moreover, it is the oldest book and story in the entire Bible.

Some scripture commentators say that this book was written about 1500 years before Jesus Christ and that it is a mysterious book because it is not known where it came from or who wrote it. If it was known who wrote it, at least it could be dated, but it is not. At least many hundreds of years before Christ came into the world and he exercised all his redemptive and salvific function, Job is saying these words and I believe that to a large extent without understanding everything he was saying.

I believe that Job entered a prophetic trance and began to declare things that had to do with his personal situation, certainly, and it was an affirmation of faith that he was making of his condition, but in reality the Holy Spirit was directing Job because God knew that this drama that was exposed in this book would serve as a foundation for the comfort of countless souls throughout the history of humanity and for many of us reading this book has brought comfort. Wow, if Job did it I can do it too. If Job kept his faith in the midst of something that totally denied God's faithfulness, so can I.

The Lord was preparing a book that seemed to be for that moment but it was for all eternity. And that reminds us of something, brothers, that we are living witnesses and that what we go through in our lives is exposed, we don't know who, but how we pass the tests of life, how we live, how we testify to the things we say, sometimes they have resonances for all of existence, and there are impacts that we don't even realize for eternity.

And Job is declaring in this book, "I know that my redeemer lives." The word redeemer is a word that today in the 21st century we Christians after having read the letters of Paul and the Gospels and knowing the drama of Jesus Christ on the cross, his substitutionary salvation for us, his death on the cross, his righteousness, imputed to us through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross of which we sing so eloquently this afternoon, we understand what the word redeemer means, but Job understood none of these things.

Job did not know that he was actually preaching a small Gospel in 3 or 4 sentences and that he was doing a catechism that we also have to be able to confess this afternoon and if there is a piece, this catechism is like a clock, it is a watch that each piece is meshed with the other and if one piece doesn't work the others won't work either. So it is important that you understand in your spirit the different elements that make up Job's statement.

And the first word that Job uses, the main word is that, redeemer. I know that my redeemer lives. And that word that we translate into redeeming Spanish is a word that is loaded with meaning in the original Hebrew in which the Old Testament was written. We have translated it into Spanish redeemer, in English it translates redeemer, but that word that Job used was a word that was widely understood in his world because the goel, that is the original word that Job used, I know that my goel lives. The goel was a character that we sometimes see in the pages of the Old Testament, for example in the case of Boosz when he redeemed Ruth and brought her offspring. Because Ruth's husband dies without issue and Boaz marries Ruth to redeem his kinsman's issue in a sense. And by marrying her and giving her children and kindred then he allows the lineage of that relative to continue and his name to go on.

The goel was a character like Boaz who played a redemptive and helpful role in a family crisis. He was like a patriarch in a sense that he served as a lawyer, he served as a defender of the rights of some family member. He was a respected, powerful character, sometimes he could play the role of an avenger of justice for any offense received by the family. He represented someone in the court of the tribe or the community, he stood next to someone in the family when he was in trouble and in need, and I hope that you are already seeing this idea of Jesus in his role as paracletes, of helper, who stands beside us, who represents us, who will one day represent us in the heavenly court and who will plead for us before the heavenly Father.

So, all these ideas of the goel like this character who defends our cause and who represents us before a court, and who stands in substitution of our weakness, of our weakness, what we cannot do, he does it in favor of us. . That is what Christ does. The Lord supplies everything that you and I cannot supply before the court of God. None of us, says the Bible, can be saved by his own righteousness. No one can come before God no matter how good he is, no matter how well he behaves, no matter how much charity he does, no matter how good a citizen he is, no matter how good a father he is, no matter how hard-working he is, no matter how well behaved he is. , no one can come before the throne of eternal judgment one day and say, here I am, I have nothing to repent of. Let me in for my own justice.

The Bible says that it is not by our own righteousness but by the righteousness of Jesus Christ. He says, not by works, so that no one can boast. All of us, no matter who we are, are in deficit, we are weak, we are deficient before the court of God. Only through our goel, our redeemer, Christ Jesus, we can come before the throne of God. and one day we will all have to come, one day each of us will have, says the Bible, to give an account of what we have done, be it good or bad, and we will need a goel, we will need a redeemer, Christ Jesus to advocate for us , that he stands in front of us and that the Father does not see us but sees Christ Jesus before us and sees us through the righteousness of his Son Jesus Christ.

Job did not understand these things, but he was saying them as if in a prophetic trance, as there were on other occasions, through scripture one sees many passages where characters from the Bible spoke of things that would happen hundreds of years later and that were then could understand what was meant. Like the case, for example, of the blood that was painted on the lintel of the doors of the Hebrews before leaving Egypt. The Bible says that God was going to destroy all the firstborn of the Egyptians but He ordered that in all Jewish houses the blood of a lamb be put around the door and when the angel of death passed by to touch the life of all those firstborn of that country that had rebelled against God, seeing the blood on the lintel passed by. And that is the meaning of the word passover, in fact, pasah, which means pass by.

So, no one understood what he was doing, but after centuries we understand that the blood of the paschal lamb, which is Christ Jesus, is the one that washes us from all sin. And so the Bible was putting before a symbol of something that would happen centuries later, that we now understand perfectly.

When Job is saying redeemer, he is saying I need and I know that I have a redeemer, I have someone who can plead my cause. Because? Because he was being accused by his friends of having sins and that is why God was condemning him, that is why he was suffering, well-intentioned but foolish friends who did not understand what was behind Job's suffering, all the glorious drama that there was.

But Job said, no, I know... when his wife tells him, curse God and die. He says, no, I know that my redeemer lives, I know that he is with me. I have a redeemer, I have a lawyer, I have someone who pleads for my cause and who will show sooner or later that I am just and that I do not deserve this situation.

And so we have to see Jesus as our redeemer. Do you know Christ as your lawyer? Do you know him as the one who will represent you one day when you have to appear before the throne of God? that then he will convert the throne of judgment into a throne of grace for all those who believe in him. You need to acknowledge Jesus as your redeemer.

The second thing Job says, I know. There is a statement of great certainty. We have to confess with our mouth that Christ is our redeemer. And I believe that Job had an anguish in his heart and that is why at the end he says, although my heart fails within me. How many times have we said something, although we don't fully feel it, but we say it because it is God's truth, we say it confessing with our own, things that sometimes we are not sure but when we say them they become reality.

Confessing Christ as Lord and Savior is never going to be something you say, I believe one hundred percent certainty, there will always be some doubt, what I would call biological doubt. There are times when our biology is going to betray us and the Christian life is going to be a life of struggles, of difficulties and sometimes the devil is going to tell us as Job's wife said, hey, stop believing in those hoaxes.

However, we have to confess that Jesus Christ is our savior, we have to say, I know that Christ is my redeemer. Are we willing to confess with our mouth? The Bible says that you have to confess Christ as Lord and savior, you have to confess him before men. The Lord once said, whoever confesses me before men I will confess before my Father who is in heaven. Whoever denies me before men I will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Do you know why we evangelicals put so much emphasis on people confessing Jesus as Lord and savior? That is why, it is because there is something when you declare as Job did, I know that he is my redeemer. It's like you sign something in the spirit world, with our mouth we declare something. It is like when in those electronic transactions they tell us, check this little mark here, meaning that you sign.

When a man or a woman declares something with their mouth, they are putting their will, their emotions, their personality, their entire being behind them. And we have to reach that point that we say before others, I know that Christ is my savior and my redeemer and I receive it that way.

Are we clear on that? All of us who are here, have we confessed Jesus as our Lord and savior? And if you haven't done it, I want to invite you to start moving your spirit in that direction right now and at the end of this time I don't want anyone to leave here without being clear that they have a redeemer who is Christ Jesus. And that you have confessed it, and that you leave safely, that you do not come to a service like this so beautiful simply out of habit or inertia or because someone invited you and you did not want to snub him. Leave this place having signed a pact with Christ Jesus.

The only alternative is to say no, or say yes or say no. If you don't say yes, you're saying no. and if you say yes you are not saying no. so I invite you in the name of the Lord right now to put your 'I know', that conviction within you, and then let the Lord guide you.

He knows that there are people who have a little bit of doubt and are struggling in their hearts, there are others that still not everything is fixed in their lives, they have a romantic relationship that they know is not from God or they have some practice in their lives that is not what God wants, or they're still in some kind of addiction to something, or whatever, and they say, no, I can't confess Christ as my Lord and savior. He knows that what God wants is for you to start where you are and that from there he will take you little by little to where he wants to take you. But you have to start.

Do not let the devil deceive you by saying, not yet... because the day you have things well prepared and arranged then you no longer need Jesus. If you are a sinner, welcome to the club, that is where God needs you to start a work of transformation in your life. If you are a sinner you are more than qualified to accept Christ as your Lord and savior.

When I look at the passages of scripture I see that the Lord found himself time and again... look at Sack, a sinner... Sack had not repented, he had not confessed Jesus as Lord and savior, but the Lord told him, Looting, today I want to enter your house and I want to sit in your house. And there the Lord began a work in Plunder until Plunder was led to confess Jesus Christ as Lord and savior.

The Samaritan woman alike. They were all people who were not yet ready but by accepting Christ within themselves and in their homes, then the Lord was able to work on them and take them where He had to take them. Begin by confessing Jesus as your Lord and savior and he will take you where you need to go then.

Job says, I know that my redeemer lives, my redeemer. By saying 'my' he is personalizing that saving function of Christ Jesus. It is not a generic savior, it is a personal savior, which is what Job needed at that moment.

Each one of us who is here this afternoon can say with complete certainty or at least with spiritual certainty that Christ is your personal savior, your personal Lord? You know you can't depend on your mom being evangelical, or your granny being a Sunday school teacher, or wearing a white dress and mantilla to church. Someone has said that God does not have grandchildren, he only has children. There are no grandchildren in the Kingdom of God, there are children. There are people who have personally confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Christ has to be your Lord. You have to make a deal with him. You have to invite it into your heart. We have to have a personal, individual relationship with Jesus Christ and we have to walk each day hand in hand and we have to go on a path where Christ becomes real in our lives.

It is not the church, many people rely on the church and come to the church and take cover under the cover of the mother church. But the Bible says that it is each one of us individually that has to accept Christ as Lord and savior. The Lord says, I am at the door and knock, if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me.

All the people that the Lord reached portrayed in the scripture reached them individually and many times asked them, do you believe that I am? Do you think I can do this? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and personal savior? Do not lean on the church. Do not rely on a general confession. Have you accepted the Lord? Has the Lord seen that moment when your soul moved inside and went to him and said, Lord, come into my life? Have you personally invited him into your heart? Have you started a daily relationship with Christ? Where then he's going to start talking to you, he's going to start dealing with you, he's going to start reconfiguring your brain, your neurons, he's going to impart new habits to you, he's going to teach you his word and you're going to then go through a trajectory of gradual sanctification, where God will renew you from day to day.

That is what God calls us. He calls us to transform our minds through the daily renewal of our hearts. Job said, I know that my redeemer lives. And that word 'lives' is a word that suffers a lot of impoverishment when it enters Spanish and even in English as well, because Hebrew is much more complex in its implications.

When Job says in the original Hebrew "my redeemer lives" the word he uses, all the commentators I have read, is a word that refers not to any type of living being but to God, divinity, that is, we could say when Job says I know that my redeemer lives, he is saying, I know that my redeemer is the living one, he is alive as God is alive.

If you want me to give you an illustration because this is a very important point, in the book of Genesis, you remember the story of Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, when Hagar finds herself abandoned in the desert and she and her son are About to die, God sees her, says the Bible, and rescues her and makes some promises about her son Ishmael. God found her in a well and the Bible says that Hagar gave that well a name, the well of the living being who sees me. And in many words, it is hard for you to fall into the hands of the living God, says the Bible.

This idea of alive, of experience, is the word that Job uses here to refer to his redeemer. He says, I know that my redeemer is the living one, he is the living God. Its alive. He is a God who embodies life. And what do we celebrate on resurrection Sunday? A living Christ. We say, I know that our redeemer lives. And that is what we have declared this afternoon. We have a redeemer who lives, he is alive we declare.

And that is something so important that we have to understand. If Christ did not rise again, says the Bible, we are the worst in the world, we are worthy of mercy, because then Jesus becomes simply another martyr who died and like Buddha, like everyone else, like Muhammad and all the other religious transformers died. Christianity is the only religion that dares to say that its savior is alive.

And that is what we celebrate on Easter Sunday. No one, no other religion dares to say this. Through the centuries many great brains have set out to refute the resurrection. One of the last to do so was a well-known journalist here in the United States, a man of great renown in journalism, and when his wife converted his world fell apart, because he was an atheist. And he, wanting to save her from that deception that Christianity was, according to him, and with all his journalistic skills, he proposed to carry out an investigation as if it were... because his type of journalism was legal journalism, he supervised courts and made legal reports for his newspaper, one of the great newspapers in the United States.

And he says that he spent a year or so investigating all the different areas that could affect the resurrection and the life and existence of Jesus Christ. He researched medicine, all the accounts of the crucifixion and death and the church's claims that Christ had risen, his existence. He made an exhaustive study as only a journalist of his renown and his intellectual capacity could do. And he set out to find out so that if there was anything that could prove that the resurrection of Jesus was a lie, he set out to find it. And you know what? He ended up accepting Christ as his Lord and savior and today he is one of the renowned pastors of this nation and in fact a movie has just come out, which I recommend you see, unfortunately it is not in all theaters and it is called The Case for Christ. The journalist is Lee Strobel and he wrote that book, which is one of the books that has sold the most copies in recent years, millions and millions of copies have been sold of his book where he recounts how he was dragged from his atheism to a conviction of that Jesus Christ was truly risen.

One of the very important things is this, brothers, if you do not believe that Jesus is redeemer, you have failed in your faith. If you don't believe he's your redeemer, you're also missing an important piece. If you are not clear in your conviction and have not confessed with your mouth that he is your redeemer, you are missing something. And if you can't believe he's alive today, you're missing something very important. I call you in the name of Jesus to confess the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We cannot be bona fide Christians if we cannot confess that Jesus Christ is alive, that our redeemer lives. And that is what we do on this Sunday. And the last piece that I want to leave with us this afternoon and make sure that we are all clear on this and if you are not clear, I want us to comb this congregation today and we are going to ask the Holy Spirit that no one leaves here without having done that confession. And I ask that everyone be calm, our children, let's take them and we're going to have a quiet moment so that all of us can make a very clear consideration.

Our hujieres brothers, please help us in this. The last thing that Job declares is when he says, and at last he will rise above the dust and after discarding this my skin in my flesh I will see God. the Holy Spirit without Job understanding 1500 years before the coming of the doctrine of the resurrection, the doctrine of the last judgment, the doctrine of the end times, of the end of the world, led Job to make a very powerful statement that we also have to do.

And it is that one day all this that we know will end. The museums with all their wonderful works of art, those beautiful paintings, those statues are going to melt like hot lead, the great buildings on Wall Street and Paris and Germany are going to fall, they are going to collapse like a castle. of cards, the great airplanes, the great constructions of the world, the great ships, says that the elements are going to be melted before giving birth to a new creation.

One day all the nations of the world will acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord. All the things of this world, all the vanities of this world are going to pass away, he says, and finally at the end of time he will rise above the dust, and again, in the original Hebrew what he says is rather, he will stand on the earth, on the dust of the earth, at the end of the world, at the end of days, the Lord will stand on the earth, the Lord will establish his dominion, his sovereignty, his power over the dust of the land.

The Bible says that one day the Lord will descend with the voice of the archangel, with a trumpet, and will stand on the Mount of Olives, and the Bible says that the Mount of Olives will split in two under the weight of His dominion and a great valley below it. And the Lord will affirm that all the kingdoms of the earth belong to him alone and he will be the Lord of Lords recognized by all the nations of the earth and then the Lord will hand over the kingdom to his heavenly Father and say, it has been handed over to me to me and now I give it to you so that God may be in everyone, over everyone and for everything. Hallelujah!

And you know what? We will be there to celebrate with Christ for eternity. And that is what Job declares here. Job says, after he discards my skin, my body, after I have died, after the worms have eaten my body, that is what he says in the original Hebrew, much more graphic than what is here, I in my flesh I have to see God.

How many here in this place believe that we are going to be resurrected together with Christ Jesus? Can you truly confess with your mouth? Because that is what ultimately, brothers, comforts us, affirms us, strengthens us, that hope that we have. He knows that this is the last card that the Christian plays. We can say to the Lord, Father, heal me, if we are sick, we can say, Lord, get me out of this predicament I am in and maybe God will get you out, maybe he won't. Lord, help me out of this predicament of any thing, but the last card we play for ourselves is that if we die for him we die, if we live for him we live, whether we die or live we belong to the Lord. Hallelujah!

We're all going to have to die unless it's not that generation that will be here when Christ comes. We are all going to suffer. What comforts me in this world is knowing that the toils and sufferings of this world are nothing compared to the glory that awaits us in the heavenly homeland. And for you to have that comfort in your heart, brother, you have to truly believe that you are going to see God in your flesh. You are not going to see it through a video, no, with my eyes, says Job, which I will see for myself and my eyes will see it and not another. Hallelujah!

You know that your body is fleeting, your body is failed, you can leave at 20, 30 or 80 or 100, but the wonderful thing for a child of God is that our existence is not conditioned by how many years we spend on earth, but that we have eternal life and that one day we will see God face to face and that on that day all tears will be wiped from our eyes, all complaints will be silenced and we live in this world and we live the toils and the discomforts and annoyances and sufferings of this world as Job lived it, at that moment he was full of sores and ailments, but he said, even if my body falls apart, I know that I will see it with my eyes, with my body it will I will see.

Oh my brother, my sister, I hope that this afternoon you can also be sure that your life, your body, your eternal existence are in the hands of God and that if you leave here right now when you leave for that door, no one can steal what God has given you, which is your eternal salvation, the salvation of your body.

I want us to lower our heads this afternoon and while we listen to the adoration for a minute, I invite you to the greatest privilege that a man or a woman can have and that is to consider if you are clear regarding the claims of the Lord. The Lord stands before you right now and he divides himself into hundreds of places in this space and he stands in his royal robes before you right now and knocks on the door of your heart, he knocks at your will, at your feelings and he says, can I come in? Can I enter as your personal savior? Can I come in as your redeemer? Can you enter as the guarantor of your eternal life? Can I enter as the one who is your justice the day you have to come before the throne of judgment? And only you have the handle on the other side of the door that can open the door for the Lord because he is not going to force it. That door is you who has to open it.

And I invite you now in the name of Jesus to open the door. Visualize yourself opening the door, if you have not done it before, you take that door by hand, put it on the handle, on the other side is the luminous person of Jesus Christ and he is waiting for you to open the door for him and to tell him Say, Lord, come into my house. Walk through all the rooms of my house, walk inside my will, inside my emotions, my body, my memories and memories, my appetites, my dreams, my projects and plans, my human relationships, my profession, all the rooms of my house, Lord, I invite you to walk through them and put your flag on each of them and I receive you, I recognize you, I accept you, I confess you as my living redeemer, my personal redeemer, my savior.

And if you have done that act this afternoon, if you have carried it out, I want to invite you to raise your hand this afternoon right now, raise your hand and invite Jesus before your congregation, before your community to be your Lord. and savior. All those who want to confess Jesus for the first time, if you have not done it before, I invite you to raise your hand high, do not be afraid, do not be ashamed, confess Jesus.

God bless you, my sister. God bless you. God bless you, my brother. I know that God is doing a beautiful work in your life. God bless those hands up. Brother, do not be afraid, what a precious day where you can say, I know that my redeemer lives. God bless you. Get those hands up. I know there are many hands. I believe that we are going to have a harvest this afternoon like never before, we confess it in the name of the Lord. Raise your hand. Up there too. If anyone sees someone raise their hand, come closer, open the door for the Lord, take the handle and open the door and say, Lord, come in. Have dinner with me, I want to have dinner with you. I receive you, I confess you, my living redeemer. I know that one day I will see you in eternity. You are my god. You are my Lord, my savior.