Built thru Vision

Heat. Heat. Well, good morning, Cross Church Phoenix. How are you? Good, good. I am Pastor DJ and the pastor here of Cross Church Phoenix. And if I haven't met you yet, if you're new here, welcome. Uh, come find me afterwards. I'd love to chat with you. Um, at this time I want to invite you to open your Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 2. Nehemiah chapter 2. And if you don't have a Bible, um, we have some in the seat back in front of you and you can use that and make it your own. You can keep it. It's our gift to you and we will gladly I will gladly we will gladly replace it. Uh but we would I I my desire is for you to handle and hold God's word yourself. And I often say, you know, don't take my word for it, right? Test it against the scriptures and you have them for you. And we are blessed to have the scriptures in our own language. Um and uh we pray for the work of Bible translation around the world. Um and uh thank those who do the who labor in that. But open your Bibles. Nehemiah chapter 2. and we're going to begin at verse 9. So, we left off last week in verse 8. So, we'll pick up right where we left off at uh verse 9. Give you a chance to to get there. One of my favorite Old Testament Bible stories is in Joshua chapter 5. In Joshua chapter 5, he and the Israelites are near Jericho and they're preparing to conquer it. However, before Joshua engages Jericho, he has a special encounter himself. He looks up and he sees a man standing before him with a drawn sword. Joshua, who could blame him? He sees the man and immediately asks him, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?" Can't blame him. If you saw a man standing before you with a drawn sword, you and I would want to know whose side he's on as well, right? The man answers Joshua, "No." "No." "Are you on our side or their side?" Joshua asks. And he says, "No, neither." Joshua, I'm not on your side and I'm not on your enemy's side. And the man proceeds to tell Joshua, "I am the commander of the army of the Lord. I am commander of Yahweh, the Lord's army." Immediately Joshua knew he was in the presence of God, falls on his face, and worships him. And of course, the commander of the Lord's army says, "Take off your sandals from your feet." like he told Moses, "For the place where you are standing is holy." I think sometimes we can get caught up trying to figure out whose side God is on, right? God, are you on our side? Surely you're on my side. You're on our side. And God says, "Look, Joshua, you're my servant. You're the leader of my people." he was at the time. But then God tells him, "I'm not on your side or on the adversar's side cuz God's on his own side." God says, "I'm on my side." Even though Joshua, you're my guy right now. You're my servant. You succeeded Moses. And I'm telling you, be strong and courageous as you go conquer the promised land. But guess what? I'm not on your side. And I'm not on the adversary side. I'm on my own side. Neither, God says. Right? We would expect him to say, "Of course, Josh, I'm on your side because you're my guy right now." And God says, "I'm on my own side because I am the Lord. He's Yahweh." So, the question isn't, is God on my side? The question is, am I on God's side? And what I love about Nehemiah, some people are like, "What does this have to do with Nehemiah?" Let me draw it in. What I love about Nehemiah is he's a man on God's side. He knows the scriptures. If you've been with us the last few weeks or watched online, you would know that he knows Leviticus. He knows Deuteronomy. He knows what God's word says about their situation. He knows the scriptures. He knows what God has called his people to do. Right? If you know Ezra, he wants his temple to be rebuilt. Right? go build the temple, second temple. And he uses the prophet Haggi to rebuke them because they were building their own houses and neglecting God's house. Well, not only does God want the temple rebuilt, he also wants Jerusalem as a city to be rebuilt. And he's using Nehemiah to get it done. Why? Because the people have not only neglected to rebuild the temple, they've neglected to rebuild the walls and the gates of Jerusalem. Now, remember, they haven't they didn't just get there a month or two ago, or even like a year or so ago. They've been there approximately a hundred years. Wave One went back with that dude named Zerubbable that I told you you can name your kid after, you know, if you like. It's awesome name. Love it. And then there was another second wave that went about 13 years before this with our guy Ezra and they've neglected. He's trying to do his own reforms, right? And meets opposition, but ultimately the city remains in ruins. The walls and gates remain destroyed and Nehemiah is convicted over it. And as we come to chapter 2:9, we see Nehemiah's vision is simple. fulfill God's vision. Nehemiah is not rallying people around his own madeup vision. He's rallying people around what? God's vision or we could say mission, right? Let's go do what God told us to do. Nehemiah is not like, "Hey, I know it's tough in Jerusalem. How about y'all come over to Susa? I live in the palace. I've got connections. We'll go do some cool stuff over here." No. Nehemiah knows it cannot happen that way. Why? Because it must be Jerusalem. The temple must be rebuilt there so proper worship can continue. The walls and the gates must be put up. So Jerusalem is not the laughingtock of the nations anymore. It has to be Jerusalem cuz God said so. It's where he said his name where he placed where his name would dwell. Yes, the nations are to worship. I get we get that. But the center for worshiping the worship of the Lord is at Jerusalem in the temple. Nehemiah can't just go find a plot of land in Susa, right? Hey guys, um, I got this field over here in Susa. Let's build that up. Call the Israelites and say, 'Hey, come live over here, guys. It's got to be Jerusalem cuz that's where God intended the center of his worship to be. God has not recommended Jerusalem be rebuilt. He's commanded it. He literally facilitated, right, directing the king's heart in getting Cyrus and others to start to send them back. Nehemiah's not on his own mission. He's on God's mission. As New Testament believers, God has given us his mission and vision as well. And I love the simplicity of our mission here at Cross Church. Three words, make Jesus known. Right? That's what we're all about is making Jesus. It's the great commission summed up. Go make disciples of all nations. Who you going to tell them about if you're going to make disciples? Jesus Christ. Those are who we're to make disciples of, right? Baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. And teach them everything who commanded I. Jesus speaking right. Teach them everything I Jesus have commanded you. And lo, who will be with you till the end of the age? Jesus. Lo, I will be with you until the end of the age. That's how Matthew 28 closes with the great commission. It's about making Jesus known by the power of the Holy Spirit, of course, and the Trinity is involved in this. But that's God's vision for his church now. As it began, as it started 2,000 years ago, it hasn't changed. And so, the question that we have is, how do we go about fulfilling our God-given vision at Cross Church? And I I believe Nehemiah spells it out right here for us in the remainder of chapter 2. But before we get into it, let's pray. Father, we thank you for this morning. We thank you for your word. I pray that you would speak your word to your people this morning and not DJs. God, I pray that you would uh convict us where we need it or perhaps encouragement to continue doing what you're do what you've called us to do. Lord, you know the hearts of your people. I don't. But I pray that you would use your word to wash over them, to guide them, that by the power of the Holy Spirit, we would not be just hearers of the word only, but doers also in Jesus name. Amen. Let's start verses 9 through 11. So Nehemiah says, I went to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates and gave them the king's letters. Remember Artic Xerxes Ga gave him some letters to help him along the way. The king had also sent officers of the infantry and cavalry with me. So he's not alone on this journey. He's going with a whole uh group of people. When San Balot the Horonite and Tovia the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to pursue the prosperity of the Israelites, how dare they? They were greatly displeased. Verse 11. after I arrived in Jerusalem and had been there three days. Now, I'm stopping right there for a reason. It might sound like an awkward place to stop, especially in the CSB. Um, but if you have a different translation, it might read it slightly differently, but the first step in fulfilling our God-given vision is simple. Show up. Right? Show up. So we could summarize Nehemiah to this point by saying he was broken over Jerusalem. He sought the Lord. He got per permission and provision by the king to leave. Right? He not only got permission, but he's like, "Hey, I need timber to do all this stuff. And by the way, I'm going to need a house to live in." Right? And so he's got all this provision, permission to leave and go help Jerusalem. What's left? Go do it. Right. Somebody in 9:00 a.m. service was like, "Just do it." I was like, "Yes, exactly." Um, Nike was on to something, I guess. But literally, he needs to go and do it, right? Nehemiah, get this, he knew what to do. He knew when to do it. He knew where to do it. He knew why to do it. He knew how he's going to do it. and he knew who's going to help him do it, right? But he still physically has to get up and go do it. And if you remember, he has to travel 800 miles from Susa, the palace or the citadel there further northeast um and uh in that region in Persia. He has to travel 800 miles just to start working. It's work just to travel that far in a world without modern transportation. Right? Nehemiah does a lot of work just so he can get to the point where he could do more work. An 800 mile trip is just the beginning. But as verse 11 tells us, Nehemiah showed up. He arrived. Boots on the ground in Jerusalem, right? He's not barking commands from Susa. He's not barking commands from the palace. He showed up in the flesh in Jerusalem. I think a lot of times we pray, right? Nehemiah prayed for about four months and we pray, "Lord, use me. Use me." But we don't show up when opportunities are given. We we have outreach opportunities on the last Sunday of every month to go over to Deer Valley Park in the afternoon and and you can show up to that if the Lord leads you. We have our garden day clean up this Saturday. You could show up to that. We've got Thanksgiving for any who want to join. And then um especially for those who have nowhere to go Thanksgiving, we're offering Thanksgiving here at the church. You can come if you would like. We've got exciting new things in the new year as well. We're going to be working on a more intentional evangelism team that will provide not only opportunities to serve, but training for that activity in the community. For what purpose? To help us to go make Jesus known. We're also going to be more intentional in some men's and women's ministries to encourage disciplehip among women men and disciplehip among women. But it's not it's not just some of the things we have coming up. We have ongoing opportunities like the nursery, the preschool, right? The kids ministry. We have people who come here before everyone else. Well, maybe not before the worship team. They're here practicing, too. We have people who come early in the morning to clean the church. What does it look like for you to show up? Because you can't do everything, right? None of us can. I want I don't want you to hear me say, "So now you guys have to show up to every little thing the church does." It's not what I'm saying. I have to learn that, too, because I can get caught up in feeling like I need to be everywhere all the time. I struggle with this myself. It'll be different for each of us, right? Not everyone can go walk in the park. We understand that. Or not everyone can go clean the garden. But you know what? Everyone can pray. You could pray. For some of us, showing up in prayer for our church is where it's at. Amen. Please pray for us. But this wasn't an overnight trip for Nehemiah, right? It took him, he was praying for like four to five months and then it took him like four to five months just to get to the point where he could start the work God had for him. He took time. He prayed over it. But he showed up. By the time he is broken over Jerusalem to the time he shows up is like eight or nine months later, he's there. What does that look like for us? Now, before we read verses 12-15, I have um an image I'd like to uh put up to kind of help us see this visually. Do we have that? I was hoping it would be easier to see, but it might not be. Um but you can come chat with me after or uh I can show you where I got it. Um but this is basically Nehemiah's Jerusalem, right? In the time of Nehemiah, a basic layout of Jerusalem. You can kind of see how it runs. And let me read uh verses 12 to 15. He says, 'I got up at night and took a few men with me. I didn't tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal I took was the one I was riding. Interesting. I went out at night through the valley gate toward the serpent's well and the dung gate. and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. I went on to the fountain gate and the king's pool, but further down it became too narrow for my animal to go through. So I went up at night by way of the valley and inspected the wall. Then heading back, I entered through the valley gate and returned. So if it's hard to see, it's okay. Um but basically the valley gate is this southwestern side we would say on the left he goes out and basically works his way down south and around. Now there's some confusion as to whether or not he went around the whole city or if he went about halfway back up and then went back in. Um I personally think he went around the whole city. Um but that's my opinion. But he goes out on the southwestern side, circles the city, goes back in. Um, and I'll talk more about this image next week. It'll come into play more in chapter 3. But the bottom line is this. The first point of showing up leads to the second sacrifice time and energy praying about what God would have you do. Nehemiah spent the night while everyone's in bed. He's up assessing the damage and seeing the needs. And we read, right, God had laid this on his heart and he sacrificed his own time and energy to go survey what's going on. Now, none of us, at least, I hope, are going to show up in the middle of the night here to Cross Church to inspect our walls and doors. Um, they're okay. They're they're good. Our walls are good, at least um for now. And our doors are solid. Um, you don't need to show up and inspect them. um they're okay. But what does this look like for us? Well, it starts with showing up, right? Being part of the body of Christ, being present, being around, then seek God as to what he would have you get involved in. So, we don't have walls and gates to build right now, at least. We might in the future, but we do have a lot of needs, not only at this church, but in the community. Will you and I take the time to reflect and say, you know, I can't do everything, but I can do this thing or I can do that thing. Nehemiah, as we talked about before, he prayed for four months, then spent about another four months traveling, then went out in the middle of the night to see what needed to be done. It's sacrifice a lot of time and energy. Will we seek the Lord in the same way? look around and see what we can do for our church and our community. And then not just here in North Phoenix, but if we think outside of North Phoenix and get into the bigger picture, surveying needs of our state and country. For example, before I came to Cross Church, I didn't realize how serious this was, but more churches are dying and closing down than I personally had ever realized before. And we're able to keep one of those gospel lights on in Mayor, Arizona because of our the generosity of the church and financial stewardship of the church. We're about church revitalization and raising up leaders to go keep gospel lights on. But I'll tell you, you can't always keep every gospel light on. Sometimes those go out. We're talking boarded up, closed down churches who had like six or seven people left and they can't pay the bills, right? And they just it just it went the gospel light went went out and it becomes an apartment complex or something instead of a church. When we look at the needs that are bigger and beyond us here, it really brings it all into perspective. And so, yeah, it might not take all night of us surveying walls literally here, but what does it take what does it mean for us to take time to pray? Maybe you're up in the middle of the night and you can't sleep. Pray about what God would have you do. Pray about how God would have you get involved. Let's read verses 16 um to 18. So the officials, Nehemiah says, did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews, priests, nobles, officials, or the rest of those who would be doing the work. So I said to them, you see the trouble we are in. Note that we Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned. Come, let's rebuild Jerusalem's wall so that we will no longer be a disgrace. I told them how the gracious hand of my God had been on me and what the king had said to me. They said, "Let's start rebuilding." And their hands were strengthened to do this good work. So, the next thing I want us to see is simply this. build up others to engage in the same God-given vision. I love how practical this gets for us. Nehemiah tells the Jewish leadership, "Look, we got to do something about this. You can see the trouble we're in." Notice Nehemiah doesn't say the trouble you're in. I'm good. I've got a palace to go back to later on. I'm good. I'm the king's cup bearer. I live in luxury. Y'all got a problem and y'all need to fix yourselves. He says that's not what he says. He says we are in trouble. We don't want our city to be a disgrace. He's only been there three days. But he is he is including himself. We are in trouble. Our city is a disgrace. But God's gracious hand has been on me. Let's go get to work. Let's start doing this. And they and they do. They're like, "All right. Yeah, we should. And for us here, it's let's go get to work making Jesus known. However that looks for you. If you're at work sharing the gospel with a co-orker or a friend, it's making Jesus known. If you tell children about Jesus on Sunday morning, it's making Jesus known. going to the park and interacting with people intentionally, right, with the intent to share the gospel with them with with with a God- centered uh conversation. It's making Jesus known. And and we as a church, me as a pastor, I don't want to just say what we're going to do and never do it. Often times there can be a disconnect, right, between what we say we're going to do and what we actually do. Right? We don't want to just the Bible says, right? Don't be hearers of the word, but be doers, hearers only, but be doers of the word also. Let's also not be sayers, but doers also, right? And my job as a pastor is to equip the church, right? We build each other up to be bought into the same God-given vision. like my job is spelled out in Ephesians 4 11-12. Paul says this to Ephesus and to us. He says, "And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds, and the teachers. For what reason? What's the point of those to equip the saints for the work of ministry for building up the body of Christ? It doesn't say the pastor or or these others, right? It doesn't say the pastor or anyone else is the only one who does all the ministry. And trust me, I need to hear this myself because I feel like I'm failing if I'm not at like every church thing. Like I I struggle with this, too. I'm right there with you. Um, but so I need to hear this. But my job is to equip you to do it. To provide opportunities to be trained up to do what God has called you to do as I do what God has called me to do. And we work together on this. We build each other up and rally around the mission of making Jesus known. Nehemiah is not about to do this project by himself. I I love my I love verse uh 16 where he says the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing for I had not yet told the Jews priests nobles officials and then get this read it closely or the rest of those who would be doing the work. He hasn't told them yet. He's like these guys got a lot of work to do and I'm going to make them work. They don't even know it yet. It's the middle of the night. These guys don't have a clue but they got work to do. They're going to do the work. He's going to do it with them, right? But he's like, "And the rest of those who would be doing the work." He's encouraging others to get on board. He's not a lone ranger doing this by himself. He's saying, "Let's us, right? The the we uses. Let's let's go do what God has called us to do and rebuild this place." And for us here at Cross Church, it's let's go do we go do what God has called us to do in making Jesus known. Supporting new churches. That is our part in this. Seek the Lord. See how you can get involved. Let's read uh verses 19 to 20. Wrap this up. So when Sandalot the Horonite Tobaya the Ammonite official and they pick up another one, Gisham the Arab heard about this, they mocked and despised us and said, "What is this you're doing? Are you rebelling against the king?" I gave them this reply. The God of the heavens is the one who will grant us success. We his servants will start building but you have no right or no share right or historic claim in Jerusalem. So the last thing I want us to see is is this stand up to opposition with confidence in God. Not confidence in yourself, confidence in God. If you look back at verse 10, uh Nehemiah experienced opposition right when he showed up. And then now we see it uh he faces it again here at the end of chapter 2. And these three guys will show up as antagonists later as well. And I could spend a whole bunch of time telling you why they're opposed, but the bottom line is this. They don't want Jerusalem rebuilt. Um, even though he has approval and support of the king, he's not rebelling, right? Are you rebelling against the king? He's like, "No, I have letters. We're good." So, he's not rebelling against the king. He has the king's support. They don't want Jerusalem re rebuilt because of their own insecurities, if I could put it that way. rebuilding Jerusalem is uncomfortable for them because they don't want the Israelites to a rebel because they could or b they just want they want to maintain their power and control and then what comes with that the financial benefits that go with it. Right? So they are obviously they have a lot going for them and Jerusalem is in shambles and they kind of have this control over that. They don't want to lose any of that. So, they resort to ridicule. And I like what Alistister Beg once said about about uh ridicule. He said, quote, "Ridicle is the weapon of those who have no other." End quote. I like that. Ridicule is the weapon of those who have no other. Someone's ridiculing you, it usually means that uh they don't really have much to say at all. Um but here's the thing. Here's what we must know. If we're going to do God's work, we can expect opposition, right? And we see in Nehemiah, God's hand is at work. He's orchestrated the kings to write letters to let his people go back because the the Babylonian captivity is over. He is orchestrating all of this. And check it out, there's opposition to it. It's not like God removed every single person who would ever get in Nehemiah's way or Ezra's way for that matter. If you read Ezra, God's like, I got I'm going to do I want you guys to do this, do this, do this, do this. And you know, as opposition comes, they just stand confident in God. What does Nehemiah do? The God of the heavens will give us success. Done. Right? Nothing more needs to be said. We're going to work. You're not part of this. Nehemiah encounters opposition within days of being there and is ridiculed. We can expect opposition to the work of making Jesus known as well. People will not always respond positively to the gospel. The Bible itself is offensive. The gospel message is offensive. how you're addressing people's sin, right? It is a direct assault on the person's sin. You have sinned. You have fall short of the glory of God. You need forgiveness of sin. Many people don't think that way or they don't they think that they're fine because hey, they haven't killed anyone. For some reason, it always goes to that, right? Like, I haven't killed I'm a good person. Why? I haven't killed anyone. So, it's like, you know, as if like, well, if you stole from them, it's fine. You're still good. But as long as you didn't kill anyone, you're good. Like, but the Bible's like, "No one is good." No, not one. Not one. It's offensive though sometimes when we tell people you're not okay outside of Christ. It's offensive. And we will experience opposition. We might, maybe you've experienced this. I don't know. Maybe you've been I've been ridiculed and mocked for my belief in Jesus Christ. We can expect opposition, but what is our response if we are mocked and despised? I don't think it's all that different from Nehemiah's. I mean, maybe a little bit, but basically, we're on the mission of the God of the heavens as well. And God will grant success. We are God's servants. We make Jesus known. Remember what Paul said in Corinthians. We just came out of 1 and 2 Corinthians. He said, "I planted, Apollos watered." But who gave the growth? Not Paul and Apollos. God did. Right? God gives the growth. And so all we do, all cross church does is plant and water, right? We plant in water. Plant in water. Plant in water. We don't save anybody. God does. We don't sanctify anybody. God does. But we plant in water. Why? Cuz we're commanded to, right? because that's what God tells us to do. We are called to do the work of the ministry to edify and build each other up along the way as God works in our lives. We've been given a command, right? Many New Testament commands and we can't disobey those commands because of the attributes of God. Like let let me explain this. We believe and I affirm God is completely sovereign. Sovereign and in control, right? Absolutely 100%. What do what does that lead some people to do? Therefore, I will not evangelize because God is in control. And so, whoever's going to get saved will get saved because God will see to it. Nuggets of truth in that, right? But you can't disobey. You you can't use an attribute of God to disobey a commandment of God. Does this make sense? So why people like why why would you evangelize if you believe in the sovereignty of God because I'm commanded to yes God is in charge and he'll save who's going to save 110%. But I'm also told to go make disciples of all nations and baptize them in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit and teach them everything. Right? We could say the same thing about sanctification. God will teach them everything. DJ should be fired. Why preach? Why preach? God will teach them everything they need to know. Yeah, God does teach and uses his Holy Spirit to work in the lives of people, but we don't say, "But so we're going to cancel Bible studies, preaching, disciplehip, and all this stuff because no, we do it. We do these things and we grow each other because we're commanded to." And it's all submitted to the to the Lord of heaven, to the God of heavens who does ultimately does do everything because he gives us the air we breathe to make disciples, right? Bottom line is this. Our closing thought, God has given us his mission, his vision, whatever word you want to use. Will we show up and do our part to fulfill the great commission by making Jesus known in North Phoenix? Nehemiah's God-given vision says, "Let's go." Right? Though his critics say no, right? And for us, our God-given vision says, "Let's go." Though our critics will say, "No, we will have our critics. We have our work cut out for us. We will be mocked and despised." But it doesn't change the mission, right? We have lost people to reach in our community. Does God know what will happen with them? Yes. Does that mean that we ignore them? No. people who are on their way to eternal separation from God and we can't we shouldn't let them go without hearing the gospel. And alongside that we can look at lost people around the state where gospel lights are going out. And we have the opportunity as we train up pastors, train up leaders, send them to dying churches to keep gospel lights on through prayer, disciplehip, giving. All of these things are part of this. Where has God called you? What has God called you to do? There are many ways to get involved with God's mission and vision for his church. And we do our best to provide those outlets here at Cross Church, all across Cross Church. But what does it look like for you to join in the mission in the vision? I'm going to invite uh the worship team of the band to come back up as I close in prayer. Um and I want to invite first of all I don't assume anyone's salvation who's here right plus we have uh visitors and those who are joining us for the first time. If you do not know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, today is the day of salvation. Right? The Bible says, "Don't put it off for tomorrow. You're not guaranteed tomorrow. Today is the day to come to Christ." That would be your first step. That would be your first step is to come to Christ and know him as your personal Lord and Savior. Turn your life over to Jesus Christ. Step number one. And then step number two, get involved with the church, right? And so maybe you're here and you don't know Christ. You know what you need to do. And I would love for you to come find me afterwards and we'll talk about what it means to know Christ as your savior. But maybe you've been a Christian for a while or you've been around cross church for a while and you're like, "Well, I just kind of show up Sundays, do my thing, leave." Um, I would challenge. Maybe you're work you you work on Saturday so you can't come to the garden day. That's fine. I'm not trying to tell you you can't. But what can what are other things that you can do to be on mission for Christ to be active and involved in the church? Let's pray. Father, we thank you for your word and we thank you just simply for who you are. You are completely sovereign in control and you are as Nehemiah's favorite description of you is simply the God of the heavens. You are God. We are not. And God only you ultimately can impress upon the hearts of your people what they need you to do. I don't know what you have for them. you do. I pray God that you would work in the lives of your people as we come together and work together to make Jesus known in our community to make disciples to baptize disciples of Jesus Christ and to teach them everything and then to send them out. It's really not that different from your model. God, I pray that we would be men and women who are about making Jesus known, about loving you, about worshiping you rightly and about being bold to do hard things for Christ. We will experience opposition, but God, will we show up? Will we pray about getting involved? Will we build each other up? And will we stand up in the face of opposition? I pray that you would help us to do just that in Jesus name. Amen. Let's stand as we sing um our last song.