Thank you for that this evening. I pray that you would open our minds and our hearts to learn from you this evening as you speak through John. Your name is Pray. Amen.
All right. Well, hey, listen, open up your Bible. It's the name of my chapter 10. I'm sure most of you guys this earlier, but I want to show it to this to you again.
I picked this up at Life Way. Really cool. It's called the scripture journal. They got them in every New Testament book.
And so if you're working through a particular book for your devotion or something like that, this would be a great thing to pick up. I think they're like three to five dollars depending on the book that you're doing. And it's got a script for them on one side, lines on the other. It's just really neat.
I just wanted to have all this pray and I'm going to start using it. Don't I just share that info along with you. But hey, me and my chapter 10, we've been in the book of Nehemiah for a few weeks now. And we only have I think two more weeks left.
Okay. So we're nearing the end of this Old Testament book. I hope you if you have enjoyed it. I know that I have and seeing a lot of someone who's been struggling to not only with the Lord's calling his life, but a man who is who's struggling with that, seeing God provide for him and then seeing how he is building this beautiful community of believers and taking care of both the physical elements of the community, the poverty and developing the social kind of aspect of the community and then seeing him build the spiritual community, which is where we're at now.
He took a turn back in chapter eight to really focus on the spiritual aspects of the community. And he's going to continue doing that in our in our in our text today and our text. I'm just going to point it out really briefly. He he mentions a bunch of names in the beginning of chapter 10.
We're going to skip those names on the talk about them, but we're actually going to skip. So when we do go to the text, you're going to want to jump down to I believe 28. Okay, so we're going to skip all those those big numbers, all those big names. But here's here's the deal.
Here's the main point and the focus of tonight we're going to see from me and my chapter 10. And it's this, here's a question. What does it really mean to be a people who are set apart in the context of culture? That's the question we're going to answer.
All right. What does it mean to really be a people who are set apart in the context of culture? And that question right here really has two two statements in it. One of the first question of the asset is what does it mean to really be set apart?
What does it mean to be a people who are distinct? And the second question that's in that encompassing kind of main question is what is a relationship between followers of Jesus and the world? So Nehemiah is wrestling with these this question. The people have responded to God already.
They want to follow him, but they're feeling the pressure of a non-Judeic culture. Right. They are supposed to be God's people who are shining God's glory to the world so that they would be attracted attractive so that neighboring countries would say, wow, look at how they live. Look how amazing it is.
But slowly culture, non-Judeic culture for Nehemiah was pushing in on them. And so they started asking questions like, how do we love you in a culture that's non-Judeic? Right for us to be non-Christian. That's the parallel.
How do we follow you in a secular society in a society that doesn't hold to Judeo-Christian values? How do I engage with culture without compromising my beliefs? How do I engage with culture that simultaneously interacts with society but also shows the beauty of Jesus to society? These are the questions that they're asking.
And so at the very beginning in chapter 10 with those list of names that we're going to kind of skip over, the thing that we get from that is this. These were the leaders of the day and they did one thing in that beginning part of chapter 10 and is that they covenanted together, they made a commitment to God to set themselves apart to what we call consecrate themselves. And so they set themselves apart by saying, here's what we want to do. Here's how we want to look different than the rest of the world.
This is how we want to make ourselves distinct as followers of Jesus. And so the leaders of that day took upon themselves to do that. They did not want to look like people who had no hope. They didn't want to look like people who had no passion and no love for God.
Remember, Nehemiah is now building us back into the people. He's building the zeal back for worshiping God. He's building back their security and who God is. And they don't want to lose that.
And so now they're talking to themselves, okay, how do we make sure we separate ourselves? And so they're struggling with this question. How do we be distinct in the world? But how do we not totally separate ourselves from the world?
Yesterday I was on my way home from the airport. Excuse me. Sorry, I'm sick. So I'm not a cough a lot probably.
I was on my way from the airport and I was reminded about our call to be distinct. So I got to the airport, which is normally very empty. It's a regional airport. So I normally just like walk straight through security.
But when I got there, I realized that apparently there was a student convention in town of 30,000 students. They were all trying to get out of the same airport at the same time. Their line for security was like 300 people deep and then it was unbelievable. I mean it was wrapped around the whole entire airport and it was unreal.
So I give them mine. The guy was traveling with that TSA pre-check. It took him 45 minutes to get to the TSC pre-checkers. Tells you how many people were at this airport.
It took me a little bit longer than that. But I give them mine and I just, you know, we had the time so I just started talking with the gentleman next to me. We talked about how I went half in mine. We talked about how both our sons were actually born on the same day, which is crazy.
You're an everything. It's not just them. They're the exact same age. We talked about how we grew up maybe 100 miles from each other in western New York, which is pretty neat.
We talked about how the Buffalo Bills are going to win the Super Bowl this year. It's fantasy, but we love it. Then we talked about our families, our children, what we do, yada yada. In about 40 minutes into our combo, he mentioned that a year ago, they also do the same week that they were not here.
It's crazy. He mentioned that about a year ago they lost their daughter after she was born until heart defect. You can tell when he was describing this, you can tell he was still healing from this and the emotions were starting to brew. He told me, I've been to counseling and they said to me that the phrase I need to tell myself is, this stuff just happens.
As I was listening to him, I decided how there's no hope in that statement. In that statement, there's no hope for the future, nor is there healing or peace in the present for him. When all you're doing in a tragic situation is saying to yourself, well, these things just happen. There's no peace that can happen in that type of answer.
When I was reading in mine and I was talking to him, I thought to myself, what would I do or what would a follower Jesus do if they were in his situation? I thought about 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel, David's son dies at a young age and when he hears of the news, the first thing that he does is he actually goes to the temple to worship God. He's really unique.
He goes to the temple to worship God. Why? Because he knows that when a tragic situation comes, that's where he can find his hope, peace and his joy, even no matter what is going on. That's where he can find understanding in a world that doesn't have understanding.
The next thing that David does in 2 Samuel is that he actually goes and asks his friends to feed him. He goes to his friends for encouragement and support. Then what you see is him then go to his wife. You see him counsel and love and comfort his wife.
When we sat there talking, I just said, you know what is interesting? I remind you of a story in David. I shared with him these things from David's life. I said, as followers of Jesus, we have a hope.
The greatest counsel that I can give to you in this time is go to Jesus. Go to God for peace and comfort and support and understanding. Seek out your friends and tell them that you need encouragement and your family needs support. Then they need to be there for your wife and make sure that she is comforted and that she's okay.
He looked at me a lot better than just saying, you know, this is just the way life goes. There's a reason why we're distinct. We're distinct in life so that the world can see the glory of Jesus and the beauty of who Jesus is. That's our call.
With this text, let's look at how we be distinct, let's look at how we can speak, how we can respond, and how we can vow together to be different. Less than verse 28. The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple service and all who have separated themselves from the people's of the land to the law of God. Their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, join with their brothers, their nobles and entrance to.
That's a really long sentence. Into a curse and a note to walk in God's law that was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to observe and to do all the commandments of the Lord, our Lord, and His rules and statutes. Now, this is extremely long verse by way guys. I'm grateful for English because if you look at some of the sentences in the Bible, they're like paragraphs long.
I knew how to write their sentences. Well, here, in this one sentence, there's two main ideas that are being presented. It is that the rest of the people, right? The leaders already come and instituted us.
Now, the rest of the people want to do two things. They want to separate themselves. They want to look different than the rest of the world. And they want to observe and do all the commands, the Lord, our Lord, and His rules and statutes.
They want to do all the commands of God. So here's the first point of being distinct. We need to follow the law of Christ. We need to follow the law of Christ.
We got to remember that this is the Old Testament. So they would be thinking here when they say law, they would be thinking about Moses' first five books, right? The Pentateuch. They would be thinking about the law.
And this ranges from everything from how do we worship God, rightly, to how do we interact with each other, how do we eat, so that we are glorifying God and not being unclean. There's all different types of laws in this first five books. But that's what they would have been thinking about. Now, as followers of Jesus, we have a law that we follow.
And to be honest with you, a fulfillment of that law. And so Jesus talks about this. And this is what Jesus says in Matthew 22 when he talks about the law. One of them, and next, we're in the law, testing them with the question teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law.
So this teacher here in Matthew, I think I'll be on the screen. I think I have it. He's someone who is an expert in this Pentateuch in Old Testament law. And he says, Jesus, you know, what's the greatest commandment?
And Jesus says in verse 37, Mother and Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, excuse me, with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law, look at this, all the law and prophets hang on these two commandments.
If you've ever wondered why New Testament Christians don't need to follow Old Testament laws, the reason is because Jesus has fulfilled them in himself. So the reason we don't need to sacrifice sheep anymore for the forgiveness of our sins is because Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice. Matthew 5, Jesus says that I have, that Matthew 5, it says, you have heard it said that I say to you, and then he says, I've come to complete that full law. So the reason why we don't need to follow the Old Testament laws is because they are a pointer to Jesus and the true law, which is loving God with all our heart and letting our neighbor as ourselves.
So we and I know that following God's law is going to set them apart in the world. And we know as followers of Jesus that when we follow Christ's law to love God with all our hearts and our minds and to love others as ourselves, that we should be distinct in the world. John 3, 2, 3, 5, it's common, it says by this, people will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. I love this because he uses the term love.
People will know you on how you love one another. Same word used in the Matthew passage where he says follow my commandments, love God, love others. All the same type of word is encompassed in using these three things. The way you love one another, the way you love God, the way you love your neighbor.
These are the ways that people will know that you are distinct, that you follow Jesus. And so he and Maya understands this in his culture that they are supposed to be distinct by following God's law. Today we need to be distinct as his church. We need to be distinct by love, by our love for God, by our love for our neighbor, by our love for others.
That's what he is calling us to do. He can get deeper in the New Testament because then he says you're not only supposed to love your neighbor, you're actually supposed to love your enemy as well. The second thing here is that we need to have a healthy understanding of our relationship with non-Christian culture. Because remember he says you need to separate yourselves, you need to be distinct on one hand, what does it mean to be distinct?
Well, it means the love of all people and loving God with all the heart. How does that pan out? We're in this non-Christian culture. That's the second question here.
We have to have this healthy understanding. How do God's people interact with society? How do they live their faith out in the world? Look out to other story in the Maya.
We will not give our daughters to the people of the land or take their daughters for our sons. If the people of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath on the whole day. So he has two commands here. Don't marry outside of faith and don't buy stuff on the Sabbath.
So he gives us two examples of how he is trying to separate or how he's trying to interact with culture. Now, we have to remember because when it be good and studier at the Bible, we're going to have to look at the meaning of the Old Testament and then look at it in the light of the New Testament. That's what I mean by that. The Maya wrote this to a specific people in his day to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
But because we know that Jesus came to fulfill the law and he has fulfilled it, that we get to look back on this text and say, how does Jesus sacrifice on the cross and his fulfillment of this? How does that influence the way we read this text? And it will become clear more with the second one than the first one because the New Testament talks about both these things and it's pretty agreeable. But that's what I put in the first command here.
And it's not to marry someone outside of faith. Over and over again in the Old Testament, the people have got married people that were not Jews, that were outside of faith. And except for a handful of people like Ruth and Laiha, for example, marrying people outside of faith actually caused the greatest plight for the Israelites. So what they did was they started to marry people from other cultures and it started to pollute the worship of Yahweh, the one true God.
So they started using other rituals, they started worshiping other gods. In some seasons of their life, they would even forget God altogether and pursue other idols and these other gods. So bad when we get to Jeremiah and Hosea, that they describe the Israelites as a wife who sleeps with another man and comes home to her husband to give him the leftovers. That's how bad it is.
That's how shameful and sickening their idolatry was and it all stems back to them marrying into other faiths. And it's because Nehemiah knows something here in his day and it's this that marrying someone who does not have a genuine relationship with God puts you in a position where you're more likely to compromise on your convictions from scripture. So they were marrying people from other faiths and it started to bring what we call secretism in. So they said, well, I worship Yahweh that way, why can't we worship all that way or Bill?
Why can't we worship him that way? And so you started seeing households that were supposed to worship Yahweh, so we're shipping all these multiple gods and idols. And so Nehemiah knows this and he tells his people, do not do this. This is important for your spiritual faith not to do this.
Paul then talks about this in letter of Christ commands in the New Testament and says, don't be yoked together with unbelievers, the second Corinthians. And here's why he says this, because marriage is not about two people with the same morals coming together. It's about two people who have Jesus working in their life coming together. See if it was just about morals, having the same morals, I bet you can find non-Christians who have pretty stand up values.
Some people, though not Christians, might even think better out in society. They might be more loving and more caring. But promise is not a matter of marriage, is not a matter of having the same morals, it's about having the same Christ uniting you in your life. So think about this for a second and we'll move on.
I want to, if you have questions about this, we did the relationship series. You can go back and listen to that series on more depth. But as they do through this and why Nehemiah is so concerned about this, and I started thinking, when we hear this as Christians, we understand it from our side of the point of view, but just think about it from the other person's perspective. They're in a relationship with you, and if you really believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven, and they are constantly praying for them to know Jesus, every time they come to church with you, they're, I would think they're looking at you, like waiting to see if you have a tear coming out of your eye.
I know you're always looking at them like, making sure like, is this the day they're going to go? What pressure to put on a non-Christian, right? That you're dating, like we are constantly wondering if they're going to give their life to Jesus. So I just started thinking from the other perspective, like there's a lot of pressure.
And so what that can do, it can point some people in a relationship and they may make a false profession in Jesus because they're wanting to please you. Is that what you really want? So it's really not different of them. I don't know about that before, but here's some other things from our standpoint.
Your standards will be different. Your morals will be different on many issues, most likely. And you're going to have to sit through that. That's going to be a lot of complicated mess.
And it may even take you away from scripture and what God says that he longs for your new life. Marriage is supposed to be a reflection of God's glory, working in our life, and it's supposed to be a representation of the gospel, but Jesus has done. And you can't do that if both of you are not following Jesus. And then you've got to think about your children.
Our house that with two parents who have two fundamentally different views on such an important issue is going to cause confusion. And if you believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven, don't you want your future children, your future legacy to have the best environment for that nurturing to grow, for that spiritual growth to happen? So you need to think about those things. And so when Nehemiah says, don't do this, New Testament matches up with it.
Right? New Testament says, yeah, when Nehemiah said, don't do it, because it's not going to be spiritually beneficial for you, Nehemiah. And the second thing is the Sabbath. He says, okay, don't buy stuff on the Sabbath.
So when Nehemiah is doing here, sharing with the people that they need a time where they weren't focused on their physical wants and needs, but they're focused on their spiritual needs. And for then it worked itself out as a day in their calendar, technically it would be Saturday. It worked out themselves to Saturday. What they would do this, what they would specifically, remember this is Old Testament, they would have to go to the temple to worship God because that's where his spirit dwelt.
So they would have to set a full day aside to make sure that they didn't do anything, that they would set aside to go feed themselves spiritually and they would have to go travel to a temple. Jesus talked about the Sabbath. Matthew 12, they don't have the scripture for you. It's pretty long.
But first they're picking grain and the Pharisees get angry at them because they're picking grain and they say, why are you doing this on the Sabbath? And Jesus says, it's okay because I'm hungry. Don't you remember David? He did it.
You're your greatest king? He ate on the Sabbath. It's all right. And then they get angry at him because he was a blind man on the Sabbath.
And he's like, are you seriously getting angry at me for doing good on the Sabbath? And then he asks them, if you're cheap or you're in on the phone to a ditch on the Sabbath, will you leave them there to the next day to their demise? And so when he starts to unfold, like he did in the Matthew in a similar amount, how they had taken certain laws from God and they had misinterpreted them and were causing more strife in people's lives and they actually needed to have. And so Nehemiah gets to this point, it's not yet tainted and it says, listen, it's about just making time in our lives to be spiritually fed.
It's not about not doing good or not going to target on a Sunday. It's about that. It's not about that. It is about just sending time aside for us to spiritually grow.
Now they had it on Saturday. Traditionally in America, it's been on Sunday. But the beauty of it is it's not tied down to a specific space or time. That's why we get to meet on the evenings and you get to sleep in on Sunday mornings, right?
Like this is why we get to do it wherever we are. Because the principle that's there is that we need to focus on God and make sure that we're not just physically feeding us. And here's how I know this is a fact because if we believe what the Pharisees believe, there's a specific place that you have to go to to worship God, then we would constantly need to be in Sabbath because the Spirit now dwells inside of us, right? The Holy Spirit dwells inside of the believers.
So we can't get away from Him. So we would have to be in Sabbath all the time. That's how I know that Jesus is saying here, this and the Holy Spirit is living inside of you. You should be in constant state of worshiping Him.
But in your week day, in your weekends, right? It's some time you need to spend some time just focusing on God. And to be honest with you, when I start to read scripture more and I start to see Jesus and how He relates with His disciples, they're Sabbath that they had together. You know, well sometimes it looked like a gathering like this where we worshiped God.
It was more than intimate setting. And it normally happened more than once a week. So the principle there for us and for me and my is that if you want to separate yourself from culture, you not only need to follow God's law, but you do need to practice the Sabbath into your life. And so that might be somebody, one of your friends, say, you want to go to a movie tonight?
And you might have to say, sorry, I've devoted this time to work on my spiritual need in you. What a way that would promote Jesus to your friends. That you're willing to give up a movie in order to spend time with Jesus. See, that's the point here.
So I'm giving up time for God from other people and other needs so that they see His value in your life. And that's the idea here behind Sabbath. And listen, I won't check for that. I get upset with them that they're sometimes closed on Sundays, right?
But it's no doubt that when people look at you for that they do wonder, man, how can you close yourself on Sundays and still make a profit in our culture? I think it is a great stand to take, but we can take it into our own lives and say, man, we can do this on a practical individual level with our friends and practice the Sabbath in our lives. But while there are specific things here with marriage and with Sabbath, I want to address the bigger issue, the bigger talk about Christ and culture. I want to get Richard Niebirch a classic book.
This is in every seminary, every course when you talk about how Christ and culture come together. What's the relationship between the church and culture? This is the book that we go to. And basically he describes five different types of positions that the church can have.
Two of them are going to be extremes, and they're going to be found in the middle. And I want to walk us through them. And then I want to share with you, it's the last one, by the way, on why I think that is the best position for a church to take. And also we just function with it as a church, and the healthy churches function this way, even if they don't have a position.
But this is what pastors think when they're planting churches. What is our church's role? How do we want to function in society when we meet culture? So the first stance in his book is Christ against culture.
Christ against culture occupies one of the extremes of the continuum. And these are people who really believe that culture is irreparably corrected by sin. So what they do is they withdraw from society and avoid it as much as possible. These will be like back in the day, like aesthetic communities who would go hide out in the mountains.
They don't want to have anything to do with society. One of the modern examples, if you've ever seen M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, what they do in that movie is they surround themselves in this commune, right? And then they separate themselves from the outside world that they believe is corrupted, right?
That is evil. And they want to practice this pure type of form of community because they don't want the outside world coming in. That's the first one. They hide themselves away.
And there's a number of problems with this one. One being that at the core, it practically believes that the greatest of evil actually lays outside of ourselves. They think that if you can just hide away, and you can all have the same morals and values, that sin will be alleviated in culture. They're trying to create a culture where sin is absent.
On one hand it's commendable, but on the other hand it's wrong because scripture tells us that the greatest evil lays inside of ourselves, not on the outside world. And so they're operating from a false foundation and so they hide themselves away. The second which is on the opposite side of the continuum is Christ of culture. Basically these are people who believe that Christ's opinion changes with culture.
That culture is never at odds with Christ's commands. And so this would look like modern day debates or arguments about major issues like abortion. They would say that Christ has no problem with abortion and babies being killed in the womb. And so this is the opposite extreme.
There's nothing there that's there. Christ is okay with it. The Bible is okay with it. As soon as the opposite side those are just embraced all of culture.
On one hand they're hiding away, on the other hand they're just embracing it all and saying everything is great. Everything is perfect. Everything is good. And so what I've done here is I've given you a word to kind of allow you to remind yourself for each one.
So Christ against culture they're hidden, right? They hide themselves away. And Christ of culture is relevance. They want to be relevant, so relevant to the culture that they're willing to compromise on Christian values and Biblical values.
Then we have Christ above culture. This was mainly seen in the Reformation with the Roman Catholics. They believe that the best way to influence culture is to have dominance over the culture. So you have what?
Christian hierarchy, right? Christians should be the rulers of the land and should impose. This is how it translates today. Should impose all Christian laws on the world.
And they win. I don't think it's a bad thing to support Christian values and Christian laws, right? Christian morals in the land. But they are win, right?
They would consider a win if their law just passes. And so here's how it works out. Let's just take this again. This issue of abortion.
If they can pass a law that bans all of the abortion in the United States, that's their win. And that is not okay. Because when they pass that law, they sit back and they say, guess what? We've won.
And yet there are mothers who are in the counseling because they need to give up their babies. There's going to be children who need to have loving homes. There's going to be greater foster care system for the children who aren't able to be placed automatically into families' homes. There's a whole slew of things that happen after that that the church needs to take care of.
That is not a win if women still need counseling and still need help and if babies are not being loved. That is not a win. But they would say this Christ of culture, above culture, would say that's the win. Complete dominance.
And I don't think that's the way that Christ calls us to handle culture. Then we have Christ and culture in paradox. The easiest way to describe this is indifference. They recognize that the world is evil and they just kind of throw up their hands and say, you know what?
Like, we just feed into the background. We play the victim sometimes when bad things happen. But they're just really indifferent. They don't really concern themselves.
They're not going to go to the far aspect of hiding themselves away. They still live among cultures. They just don't care. And frankly, you don't see Jesus doing that in scripture.
You don't see Jesus not caring for the orphan in the widow and bad decisions made by the government. You see Him making political statements about loving specific people who need it. They're in contrary to the government. We're contrary to certain things.
So you don't see Him being indifferent to culture. You see Him being engaged in culture, which is why I think the last one is the best one. I've called it Christ transforming the culture and the world there is commissioned. See in scripture what we see is Christ building into the culture, loving it by the way He lived His life and transforming people's lives for the better.
That's what Christ calls all of His followers to do. It calls all of us to live in a way that by our lives it transforms the culture because Jesus is working through us. The way we interact with culture and change culture for good is not through public law and it's not done just to keep us safe in the enemy. It's done by a long time to personally work in our lives.
Therefore I've rovers, we never get over turned, which I pray it does. The church needs to be there to take care of these babies. The church needs to be there to give counseling to mothers and to families. The church needs to be there to be there for foster families and foster support.
The room for the transformers of culture through Christ is when every baby is loved and in a loving home and every woman is taken care of. See that's the difference between just throwing it up to public policy and then being an opposite. I'm an opposite of being a transformer. We just don't throw it up and say, I hope this happens.
No, we say by the way we live our lives we hope to transform culture. And until the law changes and it's still in effect, guess what we're going to do? The same thing. We're going to let these women that go through this process.
We're going to have counseling for them. We're going to take care of the orphans, take care of the widows and all these other people who can't take care of themselves. We don't need a law to keep us from allowing Christ to work in society. And so that's why I believe it's the right one.
What is the great commission if not a call to be a transformers of the world? See, you sometimes see the great commission only about sharing the gospel. There's so much more than that. It's about sharing the gospel, but it's also about transforming the culture where the gospel lands.
And that's what he's calling us to do. He's calling us to transform the culture around us. Johnny 12 says, I'm the light of the world, followed up with that whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Then a Matthew, he puts this all together.
He says, you are now the light of the world. We are the town built on a hill that cannot be hidden. We are the transforming power as Christ works through us in culture. And we are supposed to do what Matthew tells us to be a light of the world, a town, a city built on a hill.
We are supposed to shine and transform the darkness that's around us. Nehemiah knows this in his day and he says, listen, how are we going to do this? Right, guess what's that question? The very beginning, the very beginning, the very beginning, the very beginning, the main point.
What does it really mean to be a people who are set apart in the context of culture? It means to be a people who are distinct. They follow God's law of Christ, love who God, love who others. And they also, not only follow in the law of Christ, but they had this understanding that following the law of Christ and being in the world should cause this transformation in the world at the same time.
That's how we answer that question. We are people who want to be transformers in the world by following Jesus' law, by loving others and loving him and allowing him to work in our life. And Nehemiah knows that and that's what he's teaching us tonight. So let's go ahead and pray.
More, we just thank you. Thank you. Thank you.