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O Come - Israel Houghton

Agnus Dei - Michael W. Smith

In Tenderness - W. Spencer Walton

Amen, Amen - Sojourn Music

Son Of Suffering - Matt Redman

Jesus, What A Friend - Tasha Cobbs Leanord

Today's Music & Liturgy

Angels we have heard on high

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains

Gloria
In excelsis Deo

Gloria, gloria, gloria
In excelsis Deo

Shepherds why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King

See Him in a manger laid
Whom the choirs of angels praise
Mary Joseph lend your aid
While our hearts in love we raise

Agnus Dei

Alleluia
Alleluia, for the Lord God Almighty reigns
Alleluia
Alleluia, for the Lord God Almighty reigns
Alleluia

Holy, holy, are you Lord God Almighty
Worthy is the Lamb, worthy is the Lamb

Amen

Worthy is the Lamb, worthy is the Lamb

Worthy is the Lamb

In Tenderness

In tenderness He sought me
So weak and sick with sin
And on His shoulder brought me
Into His flock again

While angels in His presence sang
Until the courts of heaven rang
Oh the love that sought me
Oh the blood that bought me

Wondrous grace
That brought me home to God

He called this needy sinner
He spoke His words of life
He whispered to assure me
I found thee, thou art Mine

I never heard a sweeter voice
It made my aching heart rejoice
His grace I’ll daily ponder
And tell of His great love

Yet deeper, brighter, purer
I’ll know these things above
It seems as if eternal days
Are far too short to sing His praise

Wondrous grace
That brought me home

Wondrous grace
That brought me home to God

Oh the love that sought me
Oh the blood that bought me

Wondrous grace
That brought me home to God

Wondrous grace
That brought me home

Amen, Amen

Let every creature rise and bring
Their grateful praises to our King
Angels descend with songs again
And earth repeats a loud amen

Amen amen
Amen amen
I found my life
I found my life in Him
Amen amen

I found my life
I found my life in Him
Amen amen

Peace like a river from His throne
Will flow to nations yet unknown
His word a light where all hope is dim
And all tribes unite to cry amen

And in this Child we'll find our rest
And all the meek and lowly blessed
An Infant tongue could sing the hymn
Of hallelujah and amen

And in this Child we'll find our rest
And all the meek and lowly blessed
His Word a light where all hope is dim
And the tribes unite to cry “amen”

Son of Suffering

Oh the perfect Son of God
In all His innocence
Here walking in the dirt
with you and me

He knows what living is
He’s acquainted with our grief
A man of sorrows
Son of suffering

Some imagine You
Are distant and removed
But You chased us down
In merciful pursuit

To the sinner You were grace
And the broken You embraced
And in the end
the proof is in Your wounds
Yes in the end
The proof is in Your wounds

Blood and tears
How can it be
That there’s a God who weeps
There’s a God who bleeds
Oh praise the One
Who would reach for me
Hallelujah
to the Son of suffering

Your cross, my freedom
Your stripes, my healing
All praise King Jesus
Glory to God in Heaven
Your blood, still speaking
Your love still reaching
All praise King Jesus
Glory to God forever

Glory to God forever

Jesus, What a Friend

What a friend we have in Jesus
What a friend we have in Him
Ever faithful to the end
Jesus what a friend

Never failing
Never fading
Oh Your love remains
Forever loyal
My Savior
Jesus what a friend

Jesus what a friend

Who am I
That You would call me friend?

You are closer than the air that I breathe
You are stronger than the grip of my sin
Oh what a friend
Oh what a friend

You are closer than the air that I breathe
You are stronger than the grip of my sin

Oh what a friend
Oh what a friend

A Kingdom for the Empty-Handed

Jamaal Williams

9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:
10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people—greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’
13 “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
14 I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
15 People were bringing infants to him so that he might touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16 Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
17 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

–Luke 18:9-17

Big Idea: The kingdom belongs to the empty-handed, not the impressive.

1. Two Men in Prayer: Self-Trust vs. Mercy (Luke 18:9-14)

Self-trust replaces dependence on God with confidence in performance.
Religious résumés turn prayer into comparison instead of communion.
Mercy is received only when self-justification is surrendered.

2. Two postures toward Jesus: Access and Dependence (Luke 18:15-17)

Kingdom is received, not achieved.
Jesus welcomes the weak and dependent because the kingdom belongs to those who cannot earn it.
The kingdom is not achieved through strength but received through childlike trust.

3. Application

Louisville doesn’t need more opinions; it needs empty hands. Come to Jesus with need, not noise, honesty not hype. Because the kingdom belongs to the empty-handed.