The How of Holiness

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Huxley, I mean, how in the world are you gonna do words and drum and dab your mother's tears? Yep. You're gonna need you're gonna need a lot and console your father. You're gonna there's really a lot of weight on your shoulders. So River, that was so great.

Thank you for leading us and worship you and Jacob. And the song that we sang just before we were done, Oh Come to the Altar, I was like, this is like, the song was amazing. And I was like, wow, people are actually responding. They're on their knees. And no, it was just a coffee spill being taken care of.

But, yeah, yeah, what would we do without the LAC family? I'm going to do this so I can do I'll hand it to you. Thank you, sir. Okay, guys. Last week, we started a conversation that we called an invitation to holiness.

And with the verse that we read in from let let's go to first Thessalonians just really quickly. I'll put that verse on the screen so you can see where we were last week. First Thessalonians chapter four verse seven. You don't necessarily need to turn there, but I would like to reference that. Is that not up there?

First Thessalonians four seven. Okay. Well, it was last week. It was on there, and it says this, God has called us to live holy lives to God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. And what we talked about last week was this idea that people oftentimes read that verse and have an expectation in their mind or in their heart that it's almost like a threat.

Like, well, if you call yourself a Christian, if you go to church, if you have a bible, if you read your bible, you're called to holiness, and that means that there is this weird demand that God has on our lives for holiness. Now, I do not want to ease your feet back from the fires of the standards that God has for us. That's not what I'm doing, but we psych ourselves out, is what I'm trying to say. You have been called to holiness, and it's almost like dad threatening the kids before he leaves for the evening, and you better not. And there's this fear, but what we talked about last week is this word called.

It does mean to to call and to proclaim, but it also means that there's an invitation. Last week's encouragement from OPB here was that we would shift our mindset from having this weird demand put on us, but instead embrace the invitation. You have been called. You have been invited into holiness. And the analogy that made a lot of sense in my mind last week about this invitation to holiness.

Why would God invite us into something that he also hasn't fully prepared and made ready for us? And the example that I gave that made a lot of sense in my mind last week was imagine if I call all of you, invite you over to my house to pet Biggs and have a barbecue in the backyard. And you all show up, but the lights are off in the house. Biggs is out trampling around, like, in the hills, and I'm doing a project in the garage. You guys show up like, hey.

We're here for the barbecue. And I'm like, oh, yeah. If you wanna pull the meat out, I think it's, in the freezer. You're gonna have to thaw it out. And, yeah, the house is a wreck.

If you just wouldn't mind cleaning out the oh, the plates are in the like, you'd be like, that's a really weird invitation because it doesn't seem like you're ready or even want me to come to your house. And when we look at first Thessalonians four seven, you've been called to holiness. Number one, there's an invitation there. Number two, there is an equipping. He's not going to invite us into something that is either difficult or impossible for us.

It doesn't mean that we're not going to have any sweat in the game, but as I got done with our conversation last week, I began to think about the practicality of being invited into holiness. One of the things that our leadership team talks about all the time is, what is the Monday morning application? You can hear a great inspiring message, and you do every week, right? Nod your head. Jacob, the contrarian.

I love him. But what about Monday morning? How can this, and how does this impact my life on Monday? How do I apply this? How do I walk in this?

How do I grab ahold of this? And so that leads us to today's conversation. So if you have your Bible with you this morning, now we can officially turn to Matthew chapter 11. We're gonna look at just a couple of verses. Matthew chapter 11 verse 28 through 30.

And I happen to have it right here, so why don't I read it? Unless somebody's really dying to read it. Excited to read. I shouldn't say you're dying to read it, but, who would be excited to read just those two verses? You've read it before.

Joy has the mic that she can run around in the room this morning. It's gonna be challenging to get in and out, but, Jacob says he's got it right here. Matthew eleven twenty eight through 30.

Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Okay. There have been volumes of books and incredible sermons much better than I could ever preach unpacking this passage. And the the surface level of this passage is Jesus is talking about being burdened down by a heavy weight. And he says, the weight that you're carrying around of your sin and always trying to play catch up and make up to be a good person for how you've messed up and how you've biffed it, like, that's a really heavy weight. He's also talking about the weight of religious obligation that the Jews of those days were under.

All the dietary laws and all the commandments, and you could do this and you can't do that and if you do do that, you have to do it this way but only on this day and you have to stand on your left foot looking at the full moon but whatever you do, don't sneeze because like the amount of religious burden that was on the Jews of those days was unbearable. But Jesus, what I love about Jesus. He says, I offer to you a different way of being right with me. It's not yoke free, but it is a different type of yoke. You guys know what a yoke is, right?

Not what you scramble up for breakfast, but a way of joining agricultural livestock together so they can plow the field. A big heavy wooden beam across their shoulders so they can pull a plow or a cart. Right? A yoke. Yes.

Yeah. Alright. You guys are smart. He says, come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Can you hear the invitation of Jesus in that verse? Think of this verse and put it on the desktop, open it up on the desktop of your mind, and then open up Matthew chapter 20 or Matthew 11, the passage that we're reading, open that up on the desktop of your mind. Look at first Thessalonians four seven that you are called to be holy. But then, look at the same verse that's open on the desktop of your mind and hear the invitation from Jesus. Take my yoke upon you.

Let me teach you because I'm humble at heart and gentle, and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy to bear, and the burdens I give you is light. Oh, man. That would be that would be really interesting. Called to holiness, like that seems like a pretty high standard. But then you have Jesus saying, the burden I give you is light.

How do you reconcile those two seemingly different phrases? Well, that's part of what we're going to talk about today. Also, as a tidbit, you've heard that an entire, like a rabbi's, his the entire locus of his teaching, the entire body of his teaching was considered a yoke. And for anybody that went to that synagogue or followed that rabbi, or if you were a disciple of that rabbi, you adopted all of the all of those rabbi's teachings, how he did things, his interpretation of the law, that was called a yoke. And so somebody, some person would say, oh, I'm under rabbi so and so's yoke.

So Jesus is also, if you were a astute listening Jew in that time, when you heard Jesus say, take my yoke upon you, you'd be like, oh, he's kind of doing like some rabbi stuff here. So this leads us to the question, how do we walk in this holiness? And that's what we're gonna spend most of our time talking about this morning. By way of just quick review, at the end of our conversation last week, I've we said this, religion demands outward adherence. Jesus invites us into relationship that evokes inward holiness.

Religion I think I have it up. Religion demands outward adherence. Jesus invites us into relationship that evokes inward holiness. If you're taking notes this morning, you can write at the top of your notes the title of the conversation that we're gonna have, the how of holiness. And this is where I wanna get really practical.

If God invites us into holiness and remember what we said about holiness holiness last week. Our definition of holiness is simply set apart. If I have 100 penguins and I want to make one penguin consecrated, I simply separate him from the 99 other penguins. Why penguins, you ask? I don't know.

That was just the animal that popped into my mind for this particular analogy. To make something holy is to set it aside, to separate it from the common, from the ordinary, from the normal, and then setting it aside, all you've done is just distinguish it. But if you set it aside and then dedicate that thing, penguin, in my most recent analogy, unto a special purpose. It can only be used for a special purpose. That's what's called making it holy.

So we talked about called. We talked about holy. What I want us to talk about today is this idea of how do we walk in greater holiness. How do we receive the invitation? Instead of just, okay, I'm called to be holy, and we try to make up things and try to quote be a good person.

There's so many good people that have entirely missed the mark. If we're trying to be a good person because we're a Christian, are we trying to be a good person to win the Lord's favor? Or are we trying to move in greater measures of holiness because we're just simply responding to the invitation of the lord. So, that's where that that's where we're going. So, today, really simple.

We're going to talk about three practical ways we can move towards holiness. Three practical ways we can move towards holiness. And I'm sure when we're done with these three, you could probably add three more, and then add three more, and then multiply that by three, and add three. And so there are many ways that we can, as AW Tozer would say, pursue holiness. But today, we're just gonna talk about just three.

Okay? So if you're ready for the first one, say I'm ready. Alright. Let's look at Proverbs chapter 27 verse seven, and I'll put it up here on the screen. Proverbs chapter 27 verse seven says this, a person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.

So when you read that passage, I'd love to hear from you what is the speaker or the writer of this proverb? What are they trying to get at? You can either be practical surface level or you can take this verse a little deeper. When you read this verse, let's say that you're sitting at, Pearl Street Bagel with somebody that's never read the bible, doesn't know the lord, but they have a bible and they've just read props they've just read proverbs twenty seven seven, and then they say, what does this mean? How would you answer?

What do you think?

Oh, go ahead. I think of appetite initially, and just this simple idea that if you are full, you've filled up you don't have an appetite for anything more. And then I would apply it to our lives as far as bandwidth goes. If we're filling our lives with a bunch of busyness and things, then then when there is opportunity for the holy in this in this regard, it's it's not as sweet or as appealing. We don't really have that appetite for it because we're already full.

Yes. I love to eat out at the bird. I love the wings. I love the burgers. I love the mashed potatoes.

I love their chips, but I really love their chocolate peanut butter pie. But here's the problem. I never get the chocolate peanut butter pie because I always fill up on wings and burgers and the chips like, oh, it's just so good, and then I'm stuffed. And then sometimes when I'm out with folks, they're like, oh, you wanna get a slice of chocolate peanut butter pie? And chocolate and peanut butter happen to be my two favoritest sweet treats, but I'm just always so full.

That's what this verse is saying. A person who is full refuses honey. Honey's good. Right? Honey's tasty.

Honey's sweet, but if you're full, you're full. And then this is a great balanced statement because on the other side of the comma is the balance to the first part of this statement. But even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry. You know what the best, like if you ever are out in the back country for a long time, more than like two or three meals, and it's night four of the trip, and you sit down for dinner after whatever you've been doing all day. You know what the very best seasoning for your backcountry food is, right?

Salt, if you happen to have it, but hunger. Have you ever been just starving out in the backcountry, and you're like, this is the best food ever. And then there's like a little thought in your brain that's like, if mom were to make this at home, I'd be like, I was camping recently, and we got some steaks, and we put steaks on the grill that got really crispy. And then the only other things that we had to go with it were we got a tub of guacamole and a tub of salsa. So it was like steaks and then some salsa and then some guacamole.

If you went to a restaurant and that was served to you, you'd be like, what did happen? But out there in the backcountry, oh, it just tasted so good. Even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry. So in Joy's explanation, it's pretty plain to see that he's not talking just about food. But when we fill our lives with so many other things, our appetite decreases.

And so if we're talking about three practical ways we can pursue holiness or move towards holiness, if you write this first down, underneath this verse, you can write the takeaway. Make room for him. Make room for him. Here's what many people do, especially in this town with all of our crazy summer busy schedules. We're like, oh, we we maybe miss our quiet time, or or we miss going to church.

We miss connecting with other brothers and sisters in the Lord, and we're like, okay. I've got all this going on. We gotta get out of the house early today for whatever reason. I'll just I'll I'll add it in. You know, lord, I'm following you.

Remember? Pursuing holiness. Here I come. But we try to fit in room for him after we've put everything else in our lives. And this proverb proves true.

And so how can we pursue holiness? Just make room for him. Implied is you might need to deny yourself some things, some pursuits, some time, some sleep so that you can make room for him. Remember. Remember.

It's an open invitation from the Lord, our calling to be holy. Thoughts or questions about that? And if this seems like super mega basic, maybe it's because I need it the most. Number two. Turn to Romans chapter 12, verse two.

I'll put it up here on the screen. So I had decided let me ask you a diagnostic feedback question. Let me ask you a feedback question. I could have led with the principle and then given you the verse, but I wanted to lead with the verse first. Is that alright?

Alright. And I'm trying to establish superiority and preeminence by, like, let's put the word before Brian's little point. That's why I'm doing that. Thanks, Brian. Hey, just letting you know.

Romans twelve two. Don't copy that patterns and behavior of this world. Excuse me. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let god transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn god's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Now most people in the room this morning will will not have to shut their ears. Only one person will have to shut their ears in the room when I read to you this same verse from the Passion translation. Jacob hates the Passion translation. Now listen. Why do I why am I and don't worry.

I'm gonna go from the passion translation to the message. Why do I sometimes go to the message or the passage pass passion translation or maybe some other version? Why do I do that? Oh, what do you think? Yes.

If we just, like, this verse, Romans twelve two, do not be conformed any longer to the patterns of this world, but instead be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We all have that one memorized, right? Good Christians? It's a very, it's a very foundation stone verse. And so as soon as it comes up on the screen, your brain is like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that one.

I know that one. And then you go on to the next thing or you're in your mind or thoughts of little Timothy and what is Timothy doing today scurrying along the fence post. And if you don't know who Timothy is, good for you. Good for you. Let me read this same verse to you.

Don't look him up. Just save it for after church. Let me read this this verse to you from the passion translation. Okay? So same verse.

It's not up on the screen. Or do I have it on the screen? Oh, let's throw it up there. Here it is from the passion translation. Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think.

This will empower you to discern God's will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes. Just love how they take this is not a even though it says passion translation, I'll give you I'll give you I'll give you that. It's not a translation. It's a transliteration to take the meaning of the scripture, not the words of the scripture. So, yes, I'll give you that.

Alright. How about from the message? Same verse from the message. So here's what I want you to do. God helping you.

Take your everyday ordinary life. You're sleeping, you're eating, you're going to work, you're walking around life, and place it before God as an offering. Embrace what god does for you is the embracing what god does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on god.

You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, god brings the best out of you, develops well formed maturity in you. Fix your attention on god. You'll be changed from the inside out.

Readily recognize what he wants from you and quickly respond to it. So this brings us to our second point. If we're going to receive the invitation to pursue holiness, if the first thing that I do is make room for him, if we just eliminate some things, we've kind of created a vacuum. We gotta fill the vacuum. So number two is you must renew your mind with his word.

How else? How else are we expected to respond what he wants from us if we don't have his word buried deep in our heart. Now, can god whisper to us? Can god speak to us in that still small voice, that inward place in our heart? Yes.

Of course. A 100%. But guess what? He's probably whispering to you. Read your Bible.

Oh, yes. Sorry. Yeah, maybe he was a little creepy. Let me try that again. No.

That was really creepy, God. Oh, what a day. Timothy, help. Renew your mind with His word. So if you've made time, if you've made room for him, if it ever feels like, ugh, reading my bible, it feels kind of vapid.

It feels kind of bland. I don't really get anything out of it. If I spend five minutes with, like, a worship album on, then I'm kinda like, if your prayer time seems like your prayers are just bouncing off this thing, not really going anywhere, it might be because you don't have an appetite for the lord. You might not have an appetite for the lord if your your life is so full of other stuff. You gotta make room.

But if you just make room, all you've done is create a vacuum. You must fill the vacuum. Or as Isaac says, the vacuum. You have to fill that with what? God's word.

He'll speak to you. He'll whisper to you while you're reading it, and then here's what is the amazing thing. One of the amazing things about God's word is you'll read something, and maybe it's in in right in the middle of a bunch of other things that you're reading. But as soon as you read that, it's like a seed that gets planted in your heart that then God can water and germinate and cause to grow and have his word come bubbling up in your heart, in your recollection, while you're sitting in chemistry class, while you're at a team meeting thinking of brainstorming ideas, when you're in the midst of parenting, as you're going along the way, God's word can come bubbling up into your life and into your heart, allowing you to draw upon the nutrition that you have ingested. Maybe you're just thinking, but I feel like maybe you have a contribution.

Did you have something to say? Okay. Just thinking. Okay. So number one, we have to make room for him.

Number two, we have to renew our minds with his word. Number three, turn to first Corinthians nine twenty seven. This verse will preach at FCA all day long. And I love FCA. First Corinthians nine twenty seven.

I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others, I might be disqualified. The translation that that I memorized when I was I don't know how old, but it says, I beat my body and make it my slave. Woah. So intense.

Plug your ears. Let me read this from the passion translation, Jacob. I think I have it up here on the Passion Translation. But I train like a champion athlete. I subdue my body and get it under my control so that after preaching the good news to others, I myself won't be disqualified.

So if number one, we have to make room for him, number two, we feed and feast and chew on his word, bury it deep into our heart so that it can transform our mind and our life. Well, then the third thing is we need to be consistent at it, and I said it this way. We need to embrace suffering. Pat your neighbor on the shoulder and say, embrace suffering. That sounded so Catholic.

Now pass the peace. Everybody's whispering this riff. Peace be with you. Embrace suffering. Now, let me leave that up here for a moment, Hux.

I'd like to get some more feedback from you, and this is going to be a scale of one to 10 question that I'm going to ask you, and you can answer with your hands. Okay? So I both hands, or at least one hand, ready to answer this question. When I say embrace suffering, in terms of pursuing holiness in your relationship with the Lord, 10 would be a, oh, yeah, like that resonates with me so strong. Like, I love that.

One being, I don't like that. Where would you be? And you can answer honestly. Well, yeah, okay. All right, all right.

Interesting. So for those of you watching the livestream, I will now say every person in the room their name and their number. No, no, no. So it's kind of across the board, and I think it has less to do with you being a Christian, and perhaps a little bit more to do with just your natural personality. That's not a zing on you at all.

By default, I am like, I hate suffering. I love the easy road. I like to take the shortcuts. I like to take, like, the fast track, you know, and chutes and ladders. I always like to take the chutes.

I don't like the ladders. Was that a proper use of that analogy? I don't know. On Candyland, I like to, like, zoop zoop ahead. Alright.

Alright? I don't like suffering. The invitation to pursue holiness requires suffering. But this is what may help you swallow this pill. Not all suffering is punitive.

You need to separate in your mind that if you're suffering or if it's hard, that somehow you're being punished, and that could be the case. There could be a form of suffering that is the result of chastisement or discipline from the Lord or just natural consequences for what you've done. There's no escaping that. But I think that many Christians, especially this generation of Christians in America and in many parts of the world, not all parts of the world. If you're following Jesus, there is this idea, this disassociation from suffering.

I want to follow Jesus, but I don't want to suffer. And that is not what Jesus said. You have to take up your cross and follow me. That is not what the early church, how they thought and how they lived. Stephen the martyr and the martyrs of the early church, martyrs suffering not in a punitive way, but all the way until laying their lives down unto death.

In the persecuted church around the world, really us Christians here most for the most part in The United States that we think, I wanna follow Jesus, but I don't wanna suffer. If you were to say that statement to the early church in the book of Acts, they they could not comprehend it. There is an invitation to holiness, but pursuit of holiness requires suffering. I beat my body and make it my slave. When you deny yourself, it's a form of suffering.

What I want to do is sleep in this morning an extra hour. It costs you something to get up early, to get into God's word, and to make time for him. That is a form of suffering and if the early church were to hear me, be like, really? That was the example of suffering you gave? Wow.

But we gotta take baby steps. So, this week, as you go throughout the the rest of your week, think about these three things. Are you making room for him? I wanna pursue holiness, but are you making room for him? Number one.

Number two, are you burying his word deep in your heart? And then number three, what's your temperature gauge on being willing to embrace suffering? And while you share them, I'll invite Jacob.

You touched on it a little bit, but will you define suffering? Just give a definition for that. Then maybe specifically in the context of us here in America.

That's a really good question. Hudson, would you go back to one Corinthians? I discipline my body. So motivation is a feeling. Well, I feel really motivated to work out today.

Discipline is a choice. And when you choose, when you make a choice contrary to what your feelings want, that is a form of denying yourself and denying yourself is a form of suffering. So, discipline. It's where it's where the word disciple comes from. That Jesus invited us to.

So, suffering, one aspect of suffering looks like denying yourself. One aspect of suffering means forgiving people who have wronged you that they might not even like know about. They've wronged you. You have forgiven them. Even though they would never ask or even if they would never apologize.

So, being able to let burdens go, that's a form of suffering. The Bible says, vengeance is mine declares the lord and so, he keeps track of those things. I'll suffer now and I know that you will make it right for me. Imagine going to the gym. Imagine going to the gym and lifting weights and lifting weights and having your muscles be sore, getting calluses, pull up after pull up after pull up and you you rip your hands on the bar, but you never get stronger.

Oh, gosh. Terrible. Suffering is this idea of I'm going to pay the price now knowing that it's going to come back around later in the future. So maybe a synonym in terms of pursuit of holiness, a synonym for suffering could be investing. And I think it's really important to know, and I'll say this one more time before we're out of here.

Not all suffering is punitive. Maybe you go through a difficult season and you're really suffering. Well, I didn't discipline. I didn't train. Not like I didn't ask for this.

But when you bear up under the weight, you're not being punished. God is refining your character. Joy.

One other aspect of suffering I keep thinking about is the idea of fire and how our God is an all consuming fire. And when fire gets involved, anything that is, well, flammable, but unnecessary gets burned up. If we're talking about purifying gold or something, that fire is what burns out the impurities. And going back to point one of making room, maybe sometimes suffering is like that fire where it's burning up the extra things that are in your life, are consuming your appetite, that are consuming your attention in order to make room. So I think a part of defining suffering is looking at what's happening in your life and what's being sacrificed in that suffering.

Is that something that is actually making room to prioritize time with God, or is that something that is, you know, like you said, a natural consequence of an action or just the attack? There's there's different versions. But a lot of times, because it's uncomfortable for us, we think, oh, well, then this can't be from God. But maybe that uncomfortability is is making room for more of God.

Yes. Especially, especially, I mean, they literally call it comfort food. Like, there's a reason why it's called comfort food. Comfort food is not typically nutritious. But when we deny ourselves those things, when we embrace suffering, Like you said, it's like inviting God's refining fire burn up all the wood, hay, and straw in my life.

I think maybe I'm praying but I just haven't closed my eyes yet. Lord Jesus, help us. I I can't pray this prayer over anyone this morning against their will but for those who would be willing and say in their heart, amen. God, I ask that you would send your refiners fire through their life. That the invitation to holiness is is allowing your fire, the passion of your life, and your passion of your desire for us to burn through every area of our life.

That things that are not of you or things where we've been distracted or been burdened with. That we would bring them before you and that you would consume them. Even if it hurts. So, take just a moment and let the lord whisper to your heart about this invitation to holiness Thank you. Thank you.

In in just a moment, I'm going invite Colson up. He's going to walk us through offering announcements to share with us this morning but one little thought that I had in praying is maybe, just maybe, road to walk along of holiness was never intended for you to walk alone. That's a rhetorical statement. The the obvious answer is no. You're not meant to walk the road of holiness alone.

Grab a girlfriend. Grab a boyfriend. Your men's Bible study group. Your FCA huddle group. Your Ascend group.

If you're a student in high school, coworkers, guys, women, whatever and say, let's walk down this road together. Here's what I feel like the lord is inviting me to lay on the altar. And then your friend will be right there with you and as you have that thing, whatever it is in your hand and you're ready to lay it on the altar but your grip grip is a

little tight, then your friends right there to go and then

just shake it out of your hand. Look how good you did. But lord, just come fill our lives. We love you, Jesus. Colson, will you come and share with us offering and announcements?

Well, I'm not sure there's anybody here this morning that has not heard the offering and announcements spiel before but here at Tribe, we worship the Lord three separate ways through worship, message, learning about him, and teaching from pastor Brian and also from our offering. It's awesome to see a room like this with people that are listening and attentive even if it's just two rows right here. I love it. We're so thankful that you guys are here today. I'm just gonna pray for the offering really quick.

And then I'll give us some exciting announcements, maybe exciting, maybe a little. Woah. Jesus, thank you so much for this space where we get to meet, whether it's four people or 40. We are just happy to be in your presence, learning more about you, singing music that glorifies you, whatever else that we do on a Sunday morning. We pray that our tithes and offerings go to you and are used for your will and for the greater will of tribe Jackson Hall.

Watch over us and keep your hands wrapped around us as we make big moves in our life as

a church

family. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for the rain and the beautiful days that we've been having. Keep us safe this week as we adventure and explore and whatever else that we're going to do.

Announcements, well, if you don't know, it might be a shock but this is the second to last Sunday ever in the TMC which means that next week is the last week ever of the TMC. I think most of the people in this room probably already knew that but if you didn't, craziness. We will be doing outdoor August. So all of August, we will be at Powderhorn Park unless something else happens and we can't, but you will know. But at least the first week of August will be at Powderhorn, and you can assume the consequent the the whatever else weeks subsequent.

Thank you. And after outdoor August, we will be beginning services September 1. Is it really September 1 on a Sunday? Great. Okay, first week of September, we'll be having night services at First Baptist Church right across the street from my house.

So, it's pretty convenient for me. So, those are big announcements you guys. Thanks for being here and we'll see you next time. At our last week, party week at the TMC where we tear it down.

We are not going to burn it down. But we gotta we gotta get the TMC ready. I told you that we're going to be listing the TMC and so if we have outdoor services that allows us to stage the TMC to make it more appealing for a buyer and so, it's really hard to go from a church, an office space, and kitman space into living and work space and then back and forth every week. So, we're just going to burn the ships, not the TMC, and make the commitment to having outdoor service for the month of August. That's why we're doing that.

So, stand up. Let me pray for you. Lord Jesus, as Colson said, thank you for the rain this week. It has been so hot and so dry. Lord, thank you for your goodness towards us.

Give us a great week. Jesus, we tell you, we love you. I command a blessing over each and every person here this morning. We love you, Jesus. We pray these things in Jesus name, the strong son of god.

Everybody said, amen. I love you. Have a great week. You got this.