Losing Focus and Faithfulness

but if we aren't careful we can undermine a local church what does that look like today we need to guard against and churches have fallen to is creating a church that is personality driven it's about the preaching of God's word not about the person who is preaching it every time people will come up to me and say that was a great job you preach great I'm like it was a great text because I know I didn't preach that good it is about God's word and we have a church and a culture built on that but today before we get to there right this morning we're continuing on in our series through the book of Corinthians so if you have your Bible you have your phone you got notes go ahead and open to 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and as you're flipping there let me kind of just give you catch you up to speed or just kind of recap if you have been in the room of kind of what we've seen to this point this letter of First Corinthians was written by the Apostle Paul a man who started churches and started the church at Corinth and it's written to these people who are still in that church and and really in a city that was like ancient Day Las Vegas and it was a city that was obsessed with immoralities was obsessed by pursuing wealth and P obsessed with pursuing all the wrong things and and so far we've seen and then throughout this book we've told you this theme that kind of comes up in this book over and over again is that a fractured World requires a faithful and focused church and you look in 2025 is our world is pretty fractured and broken when we see the moving scale of what is moral and what is immoral of what is acceptable today was not acceptable years ago and the world changes their mind back and forth constantly but God's truth does not change when we look at our world from kind of a a look from mental health our world is more anxious more depressed than it has ever been before and in for even for us personally it can be so easy for us to pursue the wrong things try to find happiness and success and all the wrong things instead of focusing on God and why we say all this is we have a broken World in front of us and what it requires is a church and local churches across our city and Beyond who are focused on the right things who are faithful to the right God and as Paul kind of unpacked this in the first two chapters and over these last three weeks we talked about what does that type of church look like and from there we kind of three Church culture principles that we unpacked and in this is kind of gives us our cultural Initiative for 2025 is what is Cross Church going to be about what kind of church are we going to look like and here's our initiative we unpacked over the past three weeks that we know we are a focused and faithful church when we produce hungry humble inhospitable Christians we we broke apart those last three kind of um areas the last three weeks that when we talk about being hungry we want to be spiritually hungry we don't want people just say yeah I check my church box I show up to church every now and then yeah like Jesus me and him we're homies but we don't hang out that much like that's not what being spiritually hungry looks like instead it looks like pursuing him on Sunday morning and one people are like Well church is more than Sunday yes but it's also not less than that is coming here consistently is engaging with the church family and letting that hunger then eek out into our Bible groups and then into our lives from there we talk about radically humbl and what that means is stop seeing things the successes of your life the the wins of your life the talents you have in your life those aren't things that you did but it's really only by the grace of God that we have them and when we shift our mindset we start living our hands less closed fisted and more open-handed knowing everything we have is a gift from God and last week I think we unpacked the hardest ones of these in Suburbia Christianity that's what we are guys all right and in this is being comfortably hospitable and we talked about adopting and in the end of chapter 2 Paul talks about the mind of Christ is what we have in in Luke 7:34 it says the son of man Jesus he came eating and drinking you looking at the life of Jesus he ate with Sinners and Saints and strangers all the time and one of the ways we kind of want to measure this at our church and is in our lobby you see this big old sign that says uncomfortably hospitable and we said we want to have 7 34 meals a month we have about 700 to 800 adults who show up every week at Cross church and in 7:34 it's just the Baptist thing to do to take that out of verse right Luke 7:34 it's just perfect U but 734 meals every single one we want to host people in our homes or buy people's meal outside of this place and then when you come back here's what you get to do you get to grab this little pingpong ball you get to write your name and your date on it drop it in the bucket and I told our staff when we're going to do this this is going to be a huge success or an utter failure there's not going to be anywhere in between all right literally the measuring stick is seethrough so in July if there's 10 balls in there we're in trouble all right so we got to do this out but here's why I say all this and Don you can have that ping pong ball because it's really hard in my pocket um but here's why we say all this is I don't know about you but I don't want to be a church that is the opposite of those things I I want to be a part of a church that is hungry and is humble and is hospitable that's the church I want to bring my family to that's the church I want to be a family with that's the church I want to Pastor because I don't know about you but I want to be a part of a church that is content a church that is just okay with the way things are a a church that is prideful and arrogant a church that is unwelcoming and you're like duh I don't want to be a part of that church either but here's the problem that no one sits down and says like man I want to be a grinch I want to not be friendly I want to be arrogant and think all about myself but no church sets out like that either but if we're not careful slowly we can drift into those mentalities and Paul today in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 he starts to unpack for us of how kind of the Corinthian Church drifted into some of the wrong ways and then losing their focus and losing their faithfulness in not being the type of church that God calls us to be and in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 we're going to see this morning of signs that a church has lost its focus has lost its faithfulness and you see in this here's kind of these warning signs Mark a shift in the text of the first two chapters Paul's going to really give us kind of the foundation and he showed us this is what this church looks like when in chapter 3 he's saying hey I've heard these reports about your church and you guys are getting it wrong here's some correction that needs to take place and as he starts to address some of these problems evident in this church in Corinth we see it pict up in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 starting in verse 1 he says this for my part brothers and sisters I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh as babies in Christ he says I give you milk to drink not solid food since you were not ready for it in fact you are still not ready that hurts he says because you are still worldly for since there is envy and strife among you you uh you are not not you you are not worldly and behaving are you not I'm sorry worldly and behaving like mere humans here here's the first warning sign that we see in 1 Corinthians Chapter 3 of Are We drifting in the wrong direction are we moving are we losing our focus in our faithfulness and here's the first thing we see is that spiritual growth has stagnated as Paul gets into this this is the third time in this letter in First Corinthians that Paul uses this phrase brothers and sisters he he first uses it in verse 26 of chapter 1 he says brothers and sisters consider your calling he's saying brothers and sisters remember that Jesus called you to a life that is different than the life you had before and he uses it again in Chapter 2 ver one he says when I came to you brothers and sisters he says I did not come with Brilliance and and he points to how hey remember the fact that I did not save you but Jesus did and here he uses it in verse 1 of three he says for my part brothers and sisters I am not able to speak to you he says hey you need to grow up cuz you're spiritually little children and you can't even understand what I want to say to you cuz you are so immature and you're so backwards in where your faith should be that's a little harsh but if you if you remember when we started this in in chapter one Paul he doesn't even say he's a servant of Christ he doesn't say he's a friend of theirs he says I'm an apostle there's this kind of air of authority because there's some corrective measures that need to take here but here's what's important as we we start to get into this first half of it is he saying there's some stuff in their life that they cannot understand and he Compares this to being like little children who cannot eat real food now as I was kind of thinking through this text and praying through it I was like this is actually this is an easy one for me because I can see this vividly my my youngest daughter Alice is 10 months old and and she's starting to eat table food okay and that's always a fun where she's not just eating milk anymore and she's eating our food and we're like giving her stuff and when she's picky we're like you're a baby just eat it right all right you can't even say no right out there but but here's what we do is we like when we're like okay we want to give her something else we Google can a baby eat blank right and then it tells you the months that a baby can eat that it's amazing like right a baby can eat shredded chicken at this month and this month and and my question is like those of you who grew up before Google what did you do all right just like give it to the baby hope they don't choke and then like oh pull that out of their mouth all right I can't eat that they're they're about to die all right um Google's amazing all right that's all I can say but like Paul it's almost like he's doing the same thing with Jesus I don't think he Googled it he just prayed with it with Jesus he's like hey are they spiritually mature enough to take this concept and Jesus answered back and he said no so Paul instead of like telling him that nicely he just like I consulted with God you're spiritually immature you can't handle this grow up and as Paul writes this to the church just kind of gives them this gut punch of you need to grow up in order to grasp these concept he's telling them there's a spiritual immaturity in their life now you may like okay what what does that practically look like what what is spiritual immaturity like we can say that but how do we Define that well I think some of the practical ways this is and and what Paul is going to get into a little bit spiritual immaturity can be something as simple as not quitting a sin and he's going to get more into this in life and and we all have this where there's this pet sin in our life that kind of creeps back up and back up and back up in maturity is saying I got to give this to God I got to put Partners around me I got to pray through this I got to build consensus around this that this is something that needs to stop in my life I need to put a plan in place to eradicate it it's can be immaturity is not doing that IM spiritual immaturity can be not forgiving a brother or sister it can be something that not confronting someone in the right way right when you post uh have a post on social media I think they call it vague posting when you're actually like slamming someone but you won't name them or tag them in there like our world does that all the time especially on Son's Twitter I'm just going to say it's a really toxic place um but we're going to get Jimmy Butler and going to fix everything anyway uh but it's like when you're all of a sudden not confronting someone in the right right way in said you're anonymously attacking them or you're attacking them through someone else there're show spiritual immaturity in that and you see Paul's addressing this and part of the spiritual immaturity is shown as he continues in verse four and he says this for whenever someone says I belong to Paul and another says I belong to apollis are you not acting like mere humans he uses that phrase again what then is Apollos what is Paul they are servants through whom you believed and each has the role the Lord has given he says I planted apollis water but God gave the growth so that no one neither the one who plants or the one who Waters is anything but only God who gives the growth now he who plants and he who waters are one and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor for we are God's co-workers you are God's field God's Building here's a second warning sign we see as first we said that're we're not have our right Focus not have our right faithfulness when NE at the church level or individually that the growth has stagnated but the second thing we see is when spiritual credit has been misplaced you see there is a lack of spiritual growth in the lives of the Corinthian Church and I believe it's directly related to who they were looking to in order to grow in their faith that they were dependent upon Paul they were dependent upon apollis to grow in their faith rather than doing the hard work themselves of looking to Jesus and it got so bad that it went from them looking to these men to grow like a mentor type relationship to then looking to these men for something that they couldn't provide almost like an idol and Paul actually he he says this in in verse four he says I belong to Paul I belong to Apollos he he's telling him like you have made an idol out of us and he goes far to say the absurdity of this is just crazy that you would say that and then he almost dehumanizes himself and his friend apollis in verse 5 by these questions he asked what then is apollis what is Paul now think about that for a second he doesn't say who is apollis who is Paul but it's like this deep philosophical question like what is Paul right you ever say that about yourself like what is Andrew not who is Andrew I know who Andrew is right he's an annoying guy that talks fast and probably drives everyone crazy but what is Andrew I don't know how to answer that kind of makes me think of when I'm driving in the car and um full disclosure probably need to ask repentance a lot of times when I'm driving in the car with my kids I have one airpod in listening to a podcast or an audio book um or I'm listening on sports radio but here's the thing is they make that really hard to do cuz they ask me so many questions all right we're like driving they're like what is Joe Max like it's the street like why like that cuz that's the street so people know where they are what is joax like well what does that mean like I have no idea why did they name it that I don't know um why like why don't I know or why did they do that I'm confused and they're just like just why and I'm like and then I ask them questions and they just ask me more questions it doesn't work I'm like okay I I don't even know the answer to it and Paul here he's like hey he like gets them he's like asking this complication he's like what and me he's like what am I as Paul what is Paul as he's like what are we he says we're just servants and he tells him right there he's like we're servants who play a part of the growing process and then he uses this illustration of our spiritual growth of the illustration of a plant and now think about this for a second if you're a gardener and I actually got some gardening experience the crazy thing is you can grow uh you can Garden in Phoenix year round okay most people don't realize that but we don't have Frost here which is a nice thing but we do have 120° weather so it's a little bounds on both ways but at our Phoenix campus we actually started a community garden and I learned a lot about gardening and still don't know how to garden um but it was fun but but as we did that here's what I realized is as a gardener you can do everything right and something still does not grow you plant the seeds you water you make sure it has the right amount of light you make sure it gets pollinated but here's the thing you can't make the sun come up the right amount of times right you can't make the earth spin you can't make the sun rise and set you can't make sure there's not too much cloud cover or not enough you can't make the process of photosynthesis take place you can't make sure something's pollinated you can put insects there but they got to decide whether they actually want to pollinate that plant or not you can't be like do it bee right and yell at the Bee or the butterfly like there's so much that's out of your control and Paul is saying hey hey we're here to plant we're here to water we're here to do the work but God gives the growth and listen to verse 9 again as he says this he says for we are God's co-workers you are God's field God's Building you see this this is an important ecclesiology of how the church works and that's a big word of saying like church structure and and Theological concepts of the church and here's what Paul is saying is pastors and leaders do not make a church grow you hear that I've got a lot of church growth conferences and I get really tired at conferences I'm not going to lie about half a day through and I'm like I'm going to go take a lot of naps and not come to the rest of it right uh but he's like it's he's like pastors and leaders do not make a church grow here's what he says is they simply throw seed they simply plant water and let me see or water plants and I would say some are better at that than others but the reason churches grow the reason Cross Church has grown is not not because of leadership it's because of God's sovereignty let's make this personal for a second okay is the reason Cross Church is where is as not because of Pastor Jackie or Pastor Chad or any of the Pastors in leadership before them it's not even because of our Elder Council all them are Faithful Servants who have done the work but the reason people's lives are changed the reason this building is more full is because of God and God alone and here's the deal I firmly believe we're on the cusp of something more that this room is going to grow larger and Tighter is this church is going to grow our city is growing there are more lost people every day we're going to continue to make Jesus known in a grand way and as this room gets more full as people's lives get more deepened as our living rooms become more full and uncomfortable as Heaven becomes more crowded it is not because of all the great ideas we had is because God and God Alone is respons responsible for it all and Paul is getting into this church drilling into their heads that we need to do the work but we need to trust that God brings the growth and here when we step back and we look at these nine verses for a second we see this church has stopped growing spiritually and probably numerically they're extremely immature and it flows from either over crediting or over blaming other people for their situation instead of T taking responsibility for it so the question becomes is how can they turn this around how can we if we're struggling with growing spiritually in our lives how can we kind of course correct how can we make sure we're going the right direction well Paul in kind of the second half of this chapter gives us a few steps to reclaim focus and faithfulness and in these steps he kind of starts in verse 10 and he says this he says according to God's grace I just love that again we're God's co-workers God we are the ones sharing the gospel throwing the seed living out the Great Commission but how does the growth happen it happens according to God's grace that according to your power your wit your will you're smart according to God's grace he says that was given to me he says I have laid a foundation as a skilled master builder and another build on it but each one is to be careful how he builds on it for no one can any foundation other than what has been laid down that Foundation is Jesus Christ if anyone Builds on the foundation with gold silver costly stone wood hay or straw each one's work will become obvious for the day will disclose it because it will be revealed by fire the fire will test the quality of each one's work and if anyone's work that he has built survives he will receive a reward if everyone's work anyone's work is burned up he will experience l but he himself will be saved but only as Through Fire don't you yourselves know that you are God's Temple and that the spirit of God lives in you if anyone destroys God's Temple God will destroy him for God's Temple is Holy and that is what you are here as Paul gets into the second half of this chapter and he kind of shows us these steps to how do we make sure we're on the right path or to course correct if we need to course correct the first thing he kind of shows us and points to us is we need to revisit the foundation that we were built upon you see Paul calls them to come back to where it all started and the First Foundation that was laid for the church and then he reveals what that Foundation was and he says he even laid the foundation at the church of Corinth because he started that church but he says the foundation that was laid it all points to that Foundation being Jesus Christ but but it kind of ask the question of what is that mean what does it mean that Jesus is our foundation cuz he then says you can lay other things on top of that you can lay gold silver costly Stones wood hair straw on Jesus he says those aren't the right things to lay on it but he says you can lay that like what does it mean that Jesus is our foundation as the church well I think kind of for clarity and kind of a little background on this uh we need to go back to Matthew chapter 16 um starting in verse 15 and Jesus is talking to his disciples here and he asks them he says who do people say I am and they they give them different answers of some Old Testament characters but then Jesus turns us around in verse 15 says but you he asked them who do you say that I am Simon Peter answered he says you are the Messiah the Son of the Living God Jesus responded blessed are you Simon son of Jonah because Flesh and Blood did not reveal this to you but my Father in heaven and I also say that to you that you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church in the gates of Hades will not overpower it you see Jesus here in Matthew he kind of gives a two-fold response to this and he said first Peter would be the lead apostle that would give birth to the first church if you go to the book of Acts Jes or Peter preaches at Pentecost 3,000 people are saved that's like the greatest sermon ever right and then all of a sudden the first church ever in Jerusalem it started that would lead to every other Church throughout history and and the second part of this though is that the lasting Foundation set for the church that continues to today is the answer of Peter that Jesus is the Messiah the Son of God now if you come from different backgrounds and kind of a little clarification here is Catholics for example would argue that Peter as The Rock as the foundation as Jesus points to here established him as the first pope and then they would argue the continual kind of foundation of Pope ship would be passed down of the true church Church the Catholic Church still stay but I believe that Paul here in 1 Corinthians actually pushing back against that he says no no no the foundation didn't continued to be Peter he started that first church in Jerusalem but the ultimate Foundation of every church is that Jesus alone is our foundation you see he's building this argument that no leader is the foundation of the church and the reason no leader is the foundation of the church is because as he said we don't belong to them but also no temporary work is the foundation either as I was thinking about this and thinking of the context this was built in uh it kind of you're this is read in ancient Corinth which would be in the midst of the ancient Roman Empire and as I thought I kind of started thinking about history and things that were built and great things that maybe like blew up for a while but then eventually deteriorated and were destroyed it made me think about the Roman Empire and then I decided I have a fun conversation with AI about the Roman Empire all right if you ever talk to AI when you're bored it's really entertaining I guess right just ask it questions just be like a kid if you just keep asking why they keep giving you answers unlike your you know parents do right but I asked it I was like what was the foundation of the Roman Empire okay and you can agree or disagree but this is AI so it's probably smarter than all of us or or just steals everyone smarter ideas but here's what it says it was built on it says the Roman EMB Foundation was on sophisticated legal systems Advanced engineering and infrastructure like it's roads that we still see parts of today it's organized military and its mer Merra government systems and then I asked as we chatted and talked about our families and our life a little bit longer but I said over time how did the Roman Empire fail what foundations did they put on top of that and and this is not Chad gbt was actually a different one this is their answer they said that what destroyed it and undermined it was political corruption unstable leadership Reliance on slave labor who ended up revolting and then overexpanded beyond their means you see what started so strong in that Empire was eventually undermined by the foundations Foundation foundations that was laid on top of it and here's the thing within the church is churches have the right foundation churches have the foundation of Jesus Christ the question becomes are we laying more Jesus on top or are we laying other stuff and here's the thing here's here's the good news is is ultimately Jesus's church will continue but if we aren't careful we can undermine a local church what do I mean well here are some things I think that today we can see practically of like what does that look like to put a different foundation on top as Paul mentions like this gold silver and and this was just imagery they weren't literally laying gold on top of the church like if you want to lay gold on that altar we'll spend that every day and plant more churches all right but that's not what he's saying he's like metaphorically we're laying this other stuff that is not Jesus on it what does that look like today well one of the things the first thing I think think of that we need to guard against and churches have fallen to is creating a church that is personality driven one of the things I love about Cross church and I've been with cross church almost 10 years now and started our campus in Phoenix but when I came over here to surprise which was a big transition okay of kind of coming and preaching behind Jackie as he kind of leads our Network and I get to preach more full-time and I get to lead our staff and make initiatives in our church that when I came here this transition has gone pretty smoothly let me tell you our attendance hasn't dipped greatly our giving has not dipped at all like you guys have been faithful and amazing and you know why because Jackie never made this church about himself he preached God's word and one of our foundations is we talk about being a Biblical church and we preach expositionally through books of the Bible just like this and is about the preaching of God's word not about the person who was preaching it okay every times people will come up to me and say that was that was a great job you preach great I'm like it was a great text because I know I didn't preach that good right and this is I always deflect because I'm like it is never about me it is about God's word and we have a church and a culture built on that and why this is important is because we've seen churches when they're personality driven it's too dependent on a person on a man and guess what those people are fallen and broken just like us so when they have moral failures when there's issues in their life when it comes exposed all of a sudden people's Faith crumbles with it as the church crumbles because it's a personality-driven church rather than a gospel book driven church we also see this in the form of the Prosperity Gospel and you might hear you're like oh don't worry I don't listen to Joel ostein or something like that you're like I don't I don't kind of cave into that but we can do it in our own lives is we almost come to the Bible like a self-help book be like man my finances are on a wreck my my marriage is wreck my kids are wreck be like I'm going to come to church I'm going to read the Bible every now and then and I want it to fix me right away cuz my life is so messed up God can fix you God maybe will fix you but it's not like going to be flipping a switch overnight and all of a sudden you're going to go from poor broken and messed up to Rich successful and your life looks great but when we use God almost like this I will get all of a sudden he'll fix everything it doesn't work we often see this in churches when we over focus on performance oriented worship worship is one of the most controversial things in a church right it can be great it can be terrible and it can be somewhere in between and one of the things that we strive for and me and Josh and just give you kind of some encouragement when we pick a when we have our text and when we talk about what are we going to sing we say what in that theologically points to what we're talking about so we are reinforcing the message of the Gospel rather than just singing Whatever on Klo or Spotify top playlists cuz because we can do that for a while but there's no heart there's no soul there's no true outpouring of the spirit of we're getting more into the here into it and the last thing I'll kind of mention and there's many more that we can do of something that we are have to be careful not to lay on top of the church is when we have doctrinal compromise you see our world can't make up their minds morality changes every single day that what was once acceptable is not what was not acceptable is now acceptable and it changes over time but God's word does not change and some of the Temptation can be when culture all is saying is this is what we believe now we don't all of a sudden rewrite God's word to make sure it matches with culture but we stand with what God's word says and here's what I love is all those things if we're not careful when we lay those type of Foundations on top of the foundation of Christ it can chip away at a local church it can even destroy a local church but what Paul tells us in this section is that eventually it'll all be burned away that all those false layers that we put on top of Jesus every single one of them will be burned away in the grand Church the big sea church will go forward because Jesus Christ will remain no matter what which leads to the very final part of this passage in verse 18 and Paul says this let no one deceive himself If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age let him become a fool so that he can become wise for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God since it is written he catches the wise in their craftiness and again the Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are feudal verse 21 so let no one boast in human leaders for everything is yours whether Paul or paus or sephus or the word world or life or death or things present or things to come everything is yours and you belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God here's our last point we see in our second part of how do we make sure we're we're kind of course correcting and make sure we're on the right track of being a focused and faithful church is we need to reconnect with the Savior that we belong to you see as Paul closes out this chapter he references this theme of foolishness and wisdom that he had laid out before in the first two and when he reconnects with these he also adds in other themes of not boasting in Christ which he's already talked about but then he adds on this third theme and this complexity of he says this little phrase for everything is yours and it feels a little odd not a left field it's almost like he's talking to God but he's not talking to God he's still talking to the church at Corinth and talking to us today now it it begs the question like how is everything theirs how is everything the churches it almost made me think a little bit is last Sunday it kind of marked this uh weird little kind of area where last Sunday was the final um funeral where we had in a 2 and 1/2 week stress we had six funerals at our church that we preached and we kind of helped lead and be a part of and in that time I mean six funerals these are from our community people from our church as I'm like sitting through those and I'm helping lead those and I'm preaching those funerals it made me think how when you die everything you have goes to your family in some capacity either it goes to the family that is by birth CU you didn't designate it or you put in your will or your trust to designate to the family you really like okay but you pass on everything to them and when Paul is writing this and he's writing to the church and he says everything is yours he's talking to the church which is made up of the Sons and Daughters of God that because Jesus died on the cross for our sins because he rose again to defeat our sins cuz when we confess him as Lord no longer are we marked by our own sin no longer are we stuck in our own life no longer is any of that matters instead we are in the adopted family of God and everything that is God we get to partake in which spoil alert is literally everything in the entire universe so when Paul is closing this he's saying hey you belong to this guy you belong to that guy you're hung up on all the wrong things he's like but church we belong to Jesus and Jesus alone but the question becomes for us is do we live lives that actually show that does your life show to the people around you that you belong to Jesus or do you belong to your job to your family to your money to your sin do we live lives as Paul has laid out that are spiritually hungry that are radically humble that are uncomfortably hospitable loving the people around us and coming just as Jesus came eating and drinking with people because he loves them because he's doing life with them and it's changed our worlds do we live lives that show that we believe belong to him in just a minute as we close out our service before our last song in time of worship we're going to baptize baptized three in the first service we have another two we're going to baptize now but as we baptize what we are saying is they're making a public declaration with their church family that no longer they do they belong to their sin but they belong to Jesus and if you don't belong to him and if you don't belong to the God man who came down here who lived a perfect life who died on a cross in your place for your sin and raised again to defeat those sins this morning I pray that God moves in your heart that God moves in your mind in your life and you can leave here saying I belong to Jesus and Jesus alone [Music]