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CAZ:  Good evening, whether you 
are here in Keswick other parts
of the UK or around the world, 
welcome to our celebration.  We
hope you have had a great day.  
Whether you tuned in this
morning to our Bible reading 
listening to the interview with 
Jo
Jackson on hope or grief, or 
whether you are enjoying your 
time,
we hope you have had a great 
day, about you Martin?
MARTIN:  We had a lovely day, a 
walk around the lake enjoying
the incredible scenery in the 
Lake District.  That is not
important, what is important we 
want to know what you have
within doing, we want to see 
your pictures and hear your
comments, please send them in.  
We have had a whole flurry
today, here is a few of the 
comments we have received today.
Here we go.  Here is a family 
from Carlisle that are watching
together and saying God has 
spoken to us through our 
fellowship
with Keswick over the last 21 
years.
CAZ:  These are saying, we are 
watching from Norfolk, so sad we
can't be there but good to be 
sharing with other Christians 
all
over the world.
MARTIN:  This might be the 
furthest away, enjoying the live
stream from Peru, in this the 
world's longest lockdown, 
extended
to 4th September.  I am so 
sorry.
CAZ:  And finally this family 
said our kids loving watching
Keswick for kids, whilst we are 
on holidays in Keswick.
MARTIN:  Send them in, we want 
to see what you are up to,
activities you are doing, we 
want to see the view from 
wherever
you are staying or living or 
even your culinary masterpieces,
send them in we want to create 
that sense of fellowship as we
watch and participate together. 
Let me pray as we begin our
evening.  Father we heaven we 
want to thank you for this new
day, we thank you your mercies 
are new each morning, thank you
if what we have enjoyed.  As we 
come to your word and hear of
the living hope of the 
inheritance for us that will 
never spoil
or perish or fade.  Thrill our 
hearts anew with that, speak to
us, would we meet with you 
afresh.  Father would you 
encourage
us, would you equip us?  What 
would you do all these things in
the precious name of our Lord 
Jesus amen.
CAZ:  Amen, well in a world ant 
at a time where doubt, fear
disappointment can set in, is it
the fantastic to be able to
meet together virtually and to 
remind ourself of the theme,
hope.  Romans 8 Verse 37 says in
all these things we are more
than conquerors, we are 
eternally loved by our Father 
and we
will sing about that everlasting
love that has won our hearts
now with EMU.
MARTIN:  We have just sung these
words haven't we?  For no
height, no depth, no life, no 
death, no power on earth can 
ever
take us from your love.  That is
an amazing truth of which we
need to be reminded often and we
will hear about it again this
evening.  Each evening we are 
hearing different stories of 
God's
amazing work across the globe, 
here is Tim Chester with our 
next
interviews. 
TIM:  Tim here, Chair of Keswick
Ministries, I am talking with
missionaries serving in a Muslim
country, for security reasons
we can't show her face and 
someone else is voicing her 
words,
but that is a real and recent 
interview of someone working for
Christ on the front line.  I 
wonder if you can begin tell us 
a
little bit about yourself and 
the ministry in which you are
involved.
We are a church planting team 
working among unreached people
groups, we are with an 
organisation and there are a mix
of
nationalities, we operate a 
local charity, focusing on 
education
and agriculture, we have to do 
work like this to help us stay 
in
the countries, serve Muslims and
building trust within the
community.  There are already a 
small number of first generation
followers in each people group, 
but no organised national church
yet, some meet in small-groups, 
others are isolated.  Disciple
ship is challenging, pressure 
from unbelieving family members
and neighbours and violence if 
someone is open about their
faith.  Some have been 
reconciled and some are secret 
believers,
the spiritual battle is intense.
We have a vision to see
networks of Jesus centred 
fellowships among the people 
groups,
we work to share the good news 
to our friendship, in our
projects and on-line, we have 
freedom to sell the word of God 
in
different languages and show 
films of a life of Christ.  Our
students and neighbours know we 
are followers of Jesus.  They
are interested and open to 
discuss, they will try and 
persuade
us to follow their way, so we 
have an open door to ask 
questions
and preach Christ crucified.
TIM:  Give us a feel of what a 
typical day is like for you?
I usually get up around 6 when 
it is cooler, because I am 
single
I can have my breakfast with 
Jesus.  Since moving overseas 
and
taking on leadership of the team
I need those times in the word
and prayer to sustain me and to 
fuel ministry.  Love for people,
love for God, sensing the 
spirit's leading for me and the 
team. 
I do a lot of admin in my Home 
Office, aka my bedroom.  I might
go to government offices, get, 
do bills, organise team 
meetings,
recruit new members, get funding
and keep in touch with personal
and ministry supporters, we are 
all learning local languages, I
spend new members helping with 
that or with my own language
lessons.  Before lockdown we 
were involved in our projects at
the school or libraries, English
classes or drop in centres,
where we can discuss problems or
the whole message of the
gospel.  We have events to show 
films, share testimonies and
have discussion, I couldn't 
believe the openness the first 
time
we watched the film together and
then had discussion with
students.
Tried to host local friends 
together in our homes, we might 
have
lunch or snacks or tea, or might
visit together in the afternoon
or evening, and some are 
involved in other teams projects
we
have several meetings during the
week, as a team or like minded
workers for fellowship and 
planning.  Time off for me is 
usually
hibernating at home, not 
answering the door or spending 
time
with friends who are easy to be 
with.  We live in a developing
country, so there isn't that 
much to do and not much natural
duty, we will explore or go 
around a wealthy neighbourhood 
where
they have water to grow grass 
and flowers,.
TIM:  Tell us about the impact 
of the Co-vid 19 pandemic and 
how
that is affecting you?
It was a huge challenge.  Daily 
wages to survive and beggars eat
the left overs from restaurants 
and get small change.  For the
small body of believers there 
are already many barriers for
gathering together and this 
added another, most do not wi-fi
and
mobile data is expensive so 
meeting on-line is not possible.
Many are unemployed or day 
laborers, some struggled.  We 
were
able to help with food, medicine
and prayer and rent.  We were
grateful to receive funding for 
our English centred project. 
Without student fees we couldn't
meet costs, some have left.  I
have had high hopes for a time 
of increased prayer and
equipping, so much to be 
thankful for but I found it 
draining to
trying to make decisions and not
having access to my life giving
activities and friendships.  
Praise God not many people have
died from the virus and symptoms
mild.  There are many more dead
lay diseases here that people 
are afraid of.
TIM:  What encouraging signs of 
life and hope you are seeing?
We praise God some persevered, 
some experienced break throughs
in disciple ship.  One gave in 
to family pressure to go back to
his own religion, has 
recommitted.  Some of our 
contacts have
been engaging with social media 
posts of Bible verses or
questions, and workers have 
spent much timesharing truth and
discipling on-line, the mosques 
were closed, we prayed that Lord
would bring the worshipers to 
repenters.  Some said it was the
worst ever not being able to 
visit family, one said she wants
to
leave the family religion, but 
is afraid of what the family 
will
do, another man, learning from 
another Jesus  follower.  
Another
old man, remembers the stories 
shared with him 40 years ago and
wants peace with God before he 
dies, a devout lady allowed a
worker to share with her.  God 
is at work.
TIM:  Finally, give us 2 or 3 
pointers of how we can pray for
you and your ministry?
Please pray for local believers 
to walk in the spirit not in the
flesh, on not to give up meeting
together but encourage each
other daily, pray for unity 
among all believers here, 
foreign
workers and local family, 
forgiveness to be given and 
receive
and pride to be put to death.  
Power from the Holy Spirit to
testify and power to endure 
suffering for the gospel.  For
unbelieving family members to 
come to Christ, some commit to
pray daily for, contact, us for 
prayer news.  Pray for Christian
workers like us to get refresh 
this summer before our projects
start-up in September.  That our
souls would truly find rest in
the Lord and we would hope in 
him, nothing else.  Pray for 
love
for those we minister to, we 
feel called for these people, 
but
it is not easy to embrace 
another culture and to die to 
our own
ways of doing things.  Pray for 
those who are seeking right now,
to find life and hope in the 
Lord Jesus and family in His
people.  Pray for that young 
lady I mentioned and the man who
wants to teach his brothers.  We
need to build capacity in our
team, pray for the Lord to 
provide workers for this harvest
field, who love God and love 
Muslims and could be helpful 
here.
TIM:  Let me pray right now.  
Father we pray that you would
strengthen and encourage the 
believers in these Muslim
countries, that they might 
remain faithful to you, fill 
them in
the our power of your spirit, 
pray for those work in those
areas, they would be refreshed 
and find rest in Christ, to
sustain their ministry.  We pray
for those who are seeking, we
pray for those stories we have 
heard of people who want to 
share
their faith with family and 
friends and Father we pray in 
all
these situations, you name might
be proclaimed and people would
find life in Jesus name.  We ask
these things in His name. 
Amen.
CAZ:  It is incredibly moving to
hear of brothers and sisters
for whom faith could cost them 
anything, we heard in the
interview for a project called 
reach across, today's people
group - let's take a moment to 
pray for them.
Father we thank you, everyone is
known to you, you have a heart
nor 
people across every tribe and 
tongues.  We want to pray for
the missionaries, please give 
them gospel success, make people
come to know you, keep any 
converts safe by your Holy 
Spirit and
may they be able to share the 
gospel themselves.  In Jesus
precious name amen.
MARTIN:  Amen, well in a few 
moments we will hear some book
recommendations for this evening
from Jonathan Carswell then
hear another information film.  
We saw it this morning, we are
playing it again this evening an
update on the Derwent Project,
the refurbishment of the Pencil 
Factory, we are standing in, a
project many of you have been 
hearing about and praying for 
and
supporting for the last few 
years and so thankful to you for
that.  But before we, before we 
do either of those things, we
will have a song from Steph 
Macleod from a song called let 
me
know your heart.
STEPH:  Hi today I am going to 
be singing a song, let me know
your heart.  About celebrating 
everything that Jesus has done
for us, lifting up his name in 
praise and asking him to bless 
us
to let us know his heart as he 
reveals himself in us.
JONATHAN:  Jesus is in the 
business of transforming lives I
hope
you know what it is to have your
live changed by trusting in
Jesus.  Out of the black shadows
is a remarkable story of a run
away called Stephen.  He was in 
Africa, and came from a broken
family.  Which was very messy, 
which led to him running away 
and
joining again who were involved 
in all sorts of illegal
activities.  One day he was sent
by the leader of the gang to
blow up a Christian meeting with
his bomb in his backpack,
Stephen goes to the meeting.  
Fully intending to maim and
murder.  But as he approaches he
listens to what the preacher
has to say and, I think you can 
guess where this story is going.
The story depicts how Jesus 
transforms Stephens life.  It is
a
page turner, I encourage you to 
get it.  Excited to see how God
changes lives, he does it 
dramatically, plainly and simply
as
well.  When Jesus changes a 
life, that isn't the end, he 
then
calls us to live for him day by 
day and in the book Hope Reborn,
the outline of what is to live 
for Jesus is given for us,
walking us through what the 
Christian life looks like, if 
you
are a new Christian or your life
is stale, this encourages you
to spur you on to keep living 
for the Lord Jesus, Jesus 
changes
lives as you will be discover in
Stephen's book, in Hope Reborn,
the change of life doesn't 
happen in one decision, but a 
daily
dogged process of living for 
Jesus.  Get these two books for 
9
quid it is a real deal and I 
hope this will encourage you and
inspire you as you live for 
Jesus.
For 145 years Keswick Ministries
- inspiring Christians, a few
years back the Trustees passed a
vision of what we now know is
the Derwent Project, the aim to 
transform the site.  The whole
council was union  unanimous 
this was God's time.  We raised
money to purchase the site.  We 
had so many answers.  We weren't
sure of the details now then, 
but encouraging to me to see how
the vision is becoming the 
reality today.  I am really 
excited
that even last year, children 
and youth were able to start to
use part of the Pencil Factory 
and for their programme.  What 
an
answer to prayer.
Our vision for the Derwent 
Project was to create a new home
which would bring together 
Christians from across the
generations to hear God's word 
on one integrated site.  We 
hoped
it would also be available for 
year round teaching and training
and serve churches in Cumbria 
and the north and be a base for
operations for the staff team.  
Hoped it would be a venue for
the international members of the
Keswick Fellowship as well as a
place to serve the community.  
Fantastic to begin to see all of
that happen.  I can't wait to 
see the site packed next summer,
with Christians of all ages and 
walks of life, to celebrate the
God given vision, to hear God's 
word, to become like God's son
and to serve God's mission.
Together we have reached so many
milestones, and all through the
generous donations of Keswick 
Ministries supporters.  Yet 
there
is still some way to go, so what
you consider partnering with
us, helping us to reach our goal
as soon as possible.  Please
consider making a one off 
donation of  50 or  100 your 
donation
will help us to provide the 
remaining wind does, as well as 
the
heating and hot wart needed for 
groups to use the rooms, we need
a new staircase to open up upper
rooms for groups and grow more
training courses.  Finally your 
donations will help us for a new
elevator that will ensure 
disabled access throughout the
building and you can give on a 
monthly basis, which helps us
greatly as we can plan ahead for
easily and strategically.
One thing that excites me is 
working with young leaders, as 
part
of the youth team.  Good to see 
them coming along and investing
in these kids realised they can 
do it and they can play their
part in making lives changed.  
They go home equipped with new
gifts and skills they can use 
back in the home churches. 
Derwent Project has such 
potential to touch so many more 
lives
and for some that might mean 
following in the footsteps of 
Amy
Carmichael and be like them 
taking the gospel to thousands
abroad.  The opportunities are 
endless.
MARTIN:  So here we are, this is
it.  I can tell you it is
tremendously exciting to see how
far the project has come over
the last few years.  But we have
still got a little way to go
yet.  We are so grateful to you 
for your interest, for your
prayers, for your support and 
maybe you can consider whether 
you
can help us financially to help 
us get the project over the
line.  We would love you to join
us, God willing, we will be
here on this site next summer, 
we would love for you to get 
your
accommodation booked or into the
camp site and see the amazing
answers to prayer that we have 
seen during this project.
I will hand over to Alanna who 
will introduce our next song 
this
evening.
ALANNA:  We know there is much 
suffering in this life but 
praise
God we are not without assurance
and hope.  Our loving Father is
close and he holds us close.  He
will hold us until that final
day and we will see him 
face-to-face.  Let's sing 
together.
CAZ:  Andrea Fairfield is 
Redding  reading for us, we 
asked her what does
youth and children's work mean 
for you?
ANDREA:  I have been asked what 
does it mean for me?  My
children have built up positive 
strong memories of a vibrant
Christian experience at Keswick,
each week they have heard the
gospel message so clearly and 
explainedded with such 
enthusiasm. 
Many leaders given up their time
to be there, my children have
made friends with other 
Christian families, loved the 
creative
things that go on, I have had 
great conversations waiting in 
the
queue to pick up the kids.
CAZ:  Andy Prime is going to 
speak to us, before Andrea reads
and Andy brings us the word from
1 Peter, let's pray.  Father we
thank you for the opportunity to
hear from your word this
evening, Lord you know each and 
everyone of us, you know our
hearts desires, our heartaches 
and what our hearts truly need,
Lord more of you, to know you 
more and to know what you have
done for us more.  So Lord we 
pray that our hearts would be
filled with faith this evening, 
may we receive your word as it
truly is, the living word of 
eternal life.  As we look away 
from
ourselves, may we fix our eyes 
on Jesus and in all things
heavenly Father may your name be
honoured.  Amen.
MARTIN:  Amen.
ANDREA:  I am reading from first
Peter Chapter 1 verses 3 to 5
and Verses 22 to 25.  (On 
screen)
ANDY:  Okay 20 minutes I want to
use for a wee thought
experiment.  Imagine right now, 
the start of our 20 minutes you
compose an email into your 
contacts list, post a status, 
tweet
to your followers and Pingit and
to your family.  This is the
message, I believe in the God 
creator of everything, I believe
in God's authority on 
everything, I believe in hell a 
deserved
destiny, I believe in Jesus, the
only one able to safe anyone
because of those things, I 
believe that the Bible's 
teaching on
gender, sexuality, marriage and 
family are not just right, but
they are good.  That is it.  
That is the tweet.  That is the
email, that is the post.  Now 
how do you feel as your finger
hovers over the send button?  
Hitting that could feel a little
bit like dropping a grenade.  
Imagine you post it, then you 
put
your phone away for the rest of 
that time.  What notifications
do you reckon you will have back
when you check in?  Now if all
you have got fan mail, amen, 
then no non-Christian friends, 
if
you throw that into the public 
square in the UK, you will be
thrown to the lion's den of 
social media, hated by people 
who
call you a hater or use the 
language of 1 Peter 1 Verse 2, 
you
will feel like an exile.  That 
is who Peter is writing to.  To
the homeless and to the hated or
to use the language of later
on, Chapter 4 Verse 4.  They 
will heap abuse on you.  
Mainstream
Christianty is a back water 
culture, Jesus was clear on 
this,
follow leader and you will be 
hated by the world.  If you 
become
a Christian, it will make your 
life harder, increasingly today,
the invitation is not the 
invitation to join a country 
club, but
to enter concentration camp, you
can go, isn't Keswick meant to
be about hope?  This lad not get
the memo?  This hatred towards
Christians is why Peter pens a 
letter rammed with hope for
Christians, that is what he pins
the letter, I have written to
you testifying this is the true 
grace of God stand fast in it. 
He gets it, he is going to be 
massively tempting for 
Christians
to slip back in and drift with 
the flow.  That is why he has 
got
to write to you and me, "stand 
fast" standing fast in the heat
takes heaps of hope, Peter knows
this, hope will be the
difference between caving into a
slave girl in the hearing of a
Jerusalem cock religion or 
standing 
cocerel, hope made him stand 
fast
where once he slipped.  Hope 
must transform us, this hope 
needs
to be huge, here is the hope.  
One Peter Chapter 1 Verse 3. 
Praise be to the God and father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his
great mercy, he is given us new 
birth into a living hope.  Here
is what he is saying the ant 
dote, the corrective to you
pandering to the world is 
praising God for the hope he has
given
you in Jesus.  The way to stand 
fast and not slip back, is to
marvel at the massiveness of the
mercy of God.  As he works
through it the reason for the 
praising, the greatness and the
mercy the content of the gift is
summed up in this picture new
birth.  Peter milks that in 
Verse 3 and 23 for him the 
phrase,
new birth becomes like a womb, 
all of our hope in Jesus is
contained and comes from this 
womb of new birth.  But to get
that we need to appreciate our 
first birth, our old birth and
Peter helps us
with that.  One Peter 1 Verse 
18.  For you know,
that it wasn't with perishable 
things such as silver and gold
you were redeemed from, - here 
it is - the empty way of life,
handed down from you from your 
ancestors but with the precious
blood of Christ.  Here is the 
inheritance that is handed down
between generations of humanity.
It is an 
inheritance of
emptiness, as soon as I was - I 
was emptying out into - from an
earthly perspective, some will 
inherit a fortune and some will
inherit debt but all of us get 
handed down this empty way of
life.  And it is empty partly 
because it is so temporary,
everything perishes spoils and 
fades.  Peter goes, what is life
like?  Life is like a flower 
Peter says, and you might hear 
that
and go, that is nice, I am a 
flower, I must be beautiful and
pretty and smell gorgeous, 
flower is to say you will wither
and
die.  Aren't flowers so 
romantic.  You are probably 
going there,
who is this miserable Scott gone
from hate to death.  This is
why, it is from this emptiness 
that my forefathers handed down
to me, my heavenly Father lifts 
me out of it through what?  The
gift of new birth.  It is a 
perfect image for Peter to do, 
he
nicks it from Jesus, John 
Chapter 3.  But it is perfect 
because
it shows first the massiveness 
of mercy.  Now, careful here it
is not a pleasant place in your 
head to go to think about the
moment of your own conception, 
so we are not going to dwell
there but to say, it was not 
something that we produced but 
it
was something that produced us. 
All right just as emptiness can
produce fullness, withering 
death can't produce imperishable
life.  So too a child can't 
birth themselves.  God's mercy 
to us
though in gifting us new birth 
is therefore not something we
produce ourselves, it is 
something God gives to us, it is
something that comes in his 
electing mercy.  Hope comes from
God.  My first, my physical 
birth, birthed by my earthly 
mother,
but my spiritual birth, I am 
birthed by my heavenly Father.  
My
first birth, sees me sharing the
likeness of my blood family,
stained by the guilt of 
disobedience.  My new birth from
my
heavily Father sees my ... my 
first birth, enslaves me to
inheritance of emptiness, my new
birth redeems me to inheritance
of imper you shallable 
unspoilable unfading life, my 
first bit,
propels me to towards a grave.  
My new birth propels me to live
in hope.  Through an empty 
grave.  You see we praise God 
because
our hope comes from him.  
Because that new birth magnifies
the
massiveness of his mercy.  
Perfect picture for that.  But 
it is
also a perfect picture second 
because it shows the totalness 
of
the transformation.  So it comes
from the Father, but what is it
into Verse 3?  It is into living
hope.  Now our birth is the
most fundamentally 
transformative moment in our 
lives it doesn't
get more momentous than unborn 
to born, it is inrepeatable. 
That is the picture for what 
Peter has, it is a 
transformation
as a Christian, as momentous as 
birth, not justed adding of a
hobby, the renewal of the hope, 
from emptiness to -
it comes
from an ever lasting Father, but
comes into Verse 3 through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ 
from the dead.
Here is the scoop, at the 
resurrection Jesus tomb becomes 
a
womb.  A womb that produces new 
life.  After the pronouncement
of his death and his crucifixion
came announcement of life in
resurrection, this is the 
transformation that the risen 
Jesus
achieves.  The empty tomb means 
death is not the end, the empty
tomb means that the first view, 
the empty you, the withering
you, doesn't need to be the last
you.  If you are not a
Christian maybe you have become 
resigned to emptiness.  Later on
in Chapter 4 Peter makes a 
connection, Jesus who brought 
life
from death makes him the one who
will judge the living and the
dead.  If you think about those 
things, his resurrection and his
final judgment removes emptiness
from our existence, gives
meaning to everything.  There is
a seriousness to that, in that,
it brings the sweetness in it.  
In Jesus life isn't empty, death
doesn't render anything vanity. 
His life after death can
produce life after death in you.
You become something you
weren't before, full of 
everlasting life.  Full of never
dying. 
That is the transformation.  New
birth.  From everlasting Father
through the ever living son, 
creating our new you a living 
with
hope you.  You would praise God 
because we are not what we once
were.  By the way, if you are a 
Christian, that change in you
that gives you heavy hope is the
same change that will invite
hatred.  One Peter Chapter 4 how
real is this, Verse 3.  For
you, (on screen)
It is the change that has 
happened in you, that invites 
the crit
of you.  If all Jesus had to 
offer you was for this life, 
then
it is not worth standing up for 
him at school.  Not worth living
for him in the office or making 
him known everywhere, because it
will make the whole of your life
a whole lot harder but, but if
his resurrection does transform 
emptiness to hope and temporary
to eternity, it changes the way 
you look at suffering for Jesus.
Look at the way Peter looks at 
this, Chapter 1 Verse 6.  In all
of this you greatly rejoice, 
though, now for a little while. 
You may have had to suffer grief
in all kinds of trials.  If you
lose sight of the living hope 
and then suffering for being a
Christian will feel like 
forever.  And it won't be worth 
it. 
But if you stand fast in this 
living hope, suffering for being
a
Christian will feel just like a 
little while.  Totally worth it.
So when you are suffering for 
being a Christian, the living 
hope
transforms suffering to a little
while.  You will need that. 
But we need it too when we catch
ourselves envying the world,
when standing fast is 
excruciating, sliding back 
appeals because
it looks easy.  You need to stop
though and ask yourself the
question, what am I envying?  We
are envying emptiness.  When
you walk away from Jesus, you 
are walking away to nothing. 
Chapter 1 Verse 7.  Your faith 
is a greater worth than gold. 
Stand fast.  The resurrection is
not a dream.  The tomb is
empty.  Your hope can be full.  
New birth, the perfect picture
for the massiveness of God's 
mercy and the totalness of the
transformation, but third, new 
birth is the kind of womb that
shows the hope of all.  Peter 
has called this group of
Christians exiles, again batting
for Jesus led to a scattering,
they have fled home and become 
homeless.  So from one angle you
can read that word exile as a 
dreary word, speaks of their 
past
suffering but for Peter that 
word is like a fresh lick of 
paint,
it is not a word that speaks of 
lack of earthly hope, but their
hope of an eternal home.  They 
have lost 
everything when that he
had to flee their home, they 
lost land and possessions and 
lost
everything that compares for 
their faith.  But in following
Jesus, they have gained an 
inheritance one they can never 
perish
for their faith.  Again, think 
of Peter who is writing this.  
He
had left everything, he has left
his living when he walked away
from his nets, are left his 
home, in time he was going to 
lose
his wife.  Murdered for 
following and preaching Jesus.  
He
likely had very little when he 
died.  But, because of the gift
of new birth from his heavenly 
Father, he was being kept for 
his
Father's inheritance, his hope 
in life and death the new birth
that gives living hope, was the 
hope of home.  It is a great new
hymn.  Be still and remember the
worst that can come but
shortens our journey and hastens
us home.  You see being in
exile as a Christian is not to 
be homeless; it is to be 
hopeful. 
Away from home but they are 
going home.  But this world 
maybe a
concentration camp for 
Christians but Christ is going 
to bring
them to a celestial city.  The 
empty tomb in Jesus resurrection
is not just a womb that gives 
birth to new live and a 
Christian,
promises us restoration of all 
things, our hope of home is kept
for us, but heaven is not that 
home.  Home will be the new 
life,
in new bodies, given in the new 
creation when Christ is
revealed.  You see our new birth
is coupled to the new creation,
our born again is warranted to 
him coming again.  So we praise
God, that he will bring us safe 
home.  New birth, the
massiveness of mercy, new birth,
the totalness of the
transformation and new birth the
hope of home.
So 20 minutes, are up, give our 
take.  You pick up your phone. 
You check the notifications, 
maybe unfriended, maybe heap of
abuse, maybe unfollowed, maybe 
lost your job, maybe removed 
from
What's App groups, ridiculed, 
dismissed as a radical and maybe
worse.  I know you have got 2 
options.  You can consider the
heat and the hate too much.  You
can slide back into the
easiness of drifting down to 
mainstream emptiness.  The
calculation there is the grave 
is the end, the resurrection is 
a
myth and the fading glory of 
this world is all there is.  Or 
-
you can stand fast.  By setting 
your gaze on all the reasons to
praise God, crave mercy, live in
hope, risen Jesus, unfading -
the calculation there is that 
the empty tomb is that womb, the
gifts of new birth and that this
word of God endures forever. 
So as we close let me read to 
you verses from 1 Peter Chapter 
5. 
So be alert.  Of sober mind.  
Your enemy the devil prowls 
around
looking for someone to devour.  
Resist them.  Standing firm in
the faith because you know the 
family of believers throughout
the world is undergoing the same
kind of sufferings.  And the
grace the God of all grace, who 
called you to his eternal glory
in Christ after you have 
suffered a little while, will 
himself
restore you and make you strong,
firm, and steadfast.  To him be
the power forever and ever.  
Amen.
MARTIN:  Wow!  Well thanks Andy,
thank God for you Andy, for
really powerful word to us this 
evening.  I wonder if any of
that particularly resonated with
you?  Maybe the sense of the
emptiness, of our world and all 
that it has to offer.  I hope
you heard Andy's encouragements 
to stand fast, to fix your eyes
on that living hope which can 
never perish spoil or fade and
Andy encouraged us to marvel at 
the massiveness of God's mercy
and love and that is what we are
going to do as we sing amazing
love, how can it be that that 
thou my God shouldst die for me.
Galatians Paul 20, Paul says I 
have been crucified with Christ,
- the life I live in the body, 
in faith by the Son of God, ...
engaged himself for me, let's 
stand and sing that truth to one
another.
CAZ:  Well thank you so much for
joining us this evening we hope
it has been a real encouragement
to you, do keep sending us your
comments and photos of where you
are and what up up to, lovely
to hear from you.
MARTIN:  Tune in again tomorrow 
at 9:00 a.m. If you would like
to join with others, praying for
international affairs,
9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. for 
Christopher on Psalm 4 and then 
into
seminars, programmes for 
children and youth and Count 
Everyone
In 12 clock too.  We will be 
back here tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. 
As
always all of the talks that you
are hearing are available on
our YouTube channel and can also
be downloaded via podcast apps,
if you would like anyone to pray
for you, confidentially, we
have a dedicated prayer team set
up.  Maybe something you have
heard or tonight you would like 
to walk away from the emptyiness
of this world and walk into 
Christ, get in touch via email,
prayer@keswickministries.org 
where you can see the prayer 
page
on our Virtually Keswick 
Convention website.
CAZ:  Let's pray together as we 
close.
Praise be to the God and Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, in his
great mercy he has given us new 
birth into a living hope, Lord
we thank and praise you for this
truth.  Ask us to hold
unswervingly to it, particularly
when the Christian life is
tough, knowing that you are 
faithful.  In your precious name
amen.
Well good night and God bless 
and we look forward to seeing 
you
tomorrow.
