All right, how many of you have been blessed by the service already?
Yeah, I have too.
That worship was powerful, and I'm grateful to the choir and our musicians and Jared for
leading us to the throne of God already this morning.
Let's go to the Gospel of Luke chapter 9 and verse 23 if we can.
Is this any better?
It's not working.
It's weird.
Can you all hear me okay?
I'm not sure what's working.
Sorry.
Luke chapter 9 and verse 23.
We're continuing in our series this morning on be a disciple.
Be a disciple.
Last Sunday, we talked about choosing the Jesus way.
Choosing the Jesus way.
Back during Pioneer Union, our choir blessed us on Sunday morning and again at the Power
and Praise event at the Cowboy Church with the song entitled, The Jesus Way.
We talked about that last Sunday morning, choosing the Jesus way.
What does that look like?
Our takeaway was commit to the Jesus way and watch God transform you into becoming his disciple.
So all of our sermons are available on our YouTube channel at FBC Henrietta on YouTube.
So you can get caught up if you'd ever like to do that.
But that is our challenge from last Sunday.
Watch God transform you into becoming his disciple by choosing the Jesus way.
If you wouldn't mind, if you're there in Luke chapter 9 with us, would you mind joining me in standing
as we read this opening text, Luke chapter 9 and verse 23.
Let's read down through verse 25 together and it's on the screen as well.
Then he said to them all,
God, I pray that you would teach us this life transforming lesson from your words that you spoke to your disciples.
I pray that it would change us from the inside out, that we would give you the glory for it.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
You may be seated.
Thank you for standing.
The title this morning is Living in Denial.
Living in Denial.
Now, I want to go back to Luke chapter 9 and verse 23 so you know what kind of denial we're talking about.
He said, if anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself.
Just so we're clear, Mark Twain said denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
We're not talking about the kind of denial you might be thinking of, okay?
We're not talking about denial river either.
We're talking about denying ourselves.
I want to pivot and go a place that you probably didn't wake up and your mind wandered to this place this morning.
I want to go to the concept of asceticism.
Did anybody start thinking about asceticism when you woke up this morning?
Just me?
Okay.
Only me because I had been studying for this passage.
So that was the only reason.
I want to talk to you about Simeon the Elder.
All right?
Simeon the Elder was a monk from Aleppo, Syria.
He was a stylite.
A stylite is someone who believes that physical suffering is necessary to be right with God.
An ascetic, a stylite is a form of an ascetic.
Someone who ascribes to asceticism.
So an ascetic is someone who is characterized by or suggests the practice of severe self-discipline
and abstaining from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
So it's someone who takes self-denial to the extreme, usually for the reasons of faith.
This is an early painting of Simeon the Elder.
Simeon the Elder became a monk, like we said, only over in Syria.
He joined a monastery in Aleppo.
And his views and his ideas were so extreme, they kicked him out of his monastery.
How extreme do you have to be to get kicked out of a monastery?
Because they think you're too strict, you're too rigid.
He moved to a tiny little hut.
But people wouldn't leave him alone in his hut.
So he built a nine-foot pillar and a little three-by-three-foot platform on top of the pillar
and refused to come down.
Problem was, people would still come talk to him on top of his nine-foot pillar
and they would seek his wisdom and his advice
because they thought this guy must have found the better way.
We've got to come find out how he's cracked the code to this higher way of life.
See what I said, this higher way of life?
Problem was, he was still too accessible to people for his liking.
So he kept building his pillar higher and higher until it was 50 feet high.
And he stayed on that pillar, true story, for 37 years until he died.
And you don't want to know what physical condition he was in when he died.
This guy took self-denial to another level.
Did anybody get that?
Thank you.
It just wasn't that funny, was it?
I thought it was pretty funny, personally.
He took self-denial to a level 50 feet high, all right?
Sorry for another bad joke.
The most ironic thing is this guy was trying to get closer to God.
He was trying to set himself apart.
In reality, by his own writings and teaching,
he was trying to deny himself.
But the irony in it is that he was living in actual denial.
Because he was denying the actual fact.
He was completely oblivious to the fact that God calls us not to self-absorption,
not to isolation.
He calls us not to lift ourselves up on a pedestal,
not to ignore the world around us,
but to come down from our self-erected high place,
to deny our inner pride and self-righteous attitude,
and to follow Jesus himself as he leads us on mission
among those all around us who need him so desperately.
That's what a disciple is.
It's not Simeon the Elder.
It's not asceticism.
It's not being a stylite.
It's not lifting ourselves up.
That's what denying self actually looks like.
In trying to deny himself,
he actually prioritized himself above everyone else.
So when Jesus calls us to deny ourselves,
we have to be very careful to look at what he actually means.
I found a very accurate,
I believe,
I believe description at what Jesus actually means from the Bible teacher,
Kylie Dunn.
She wrote this,
Jesus does not have broad generic ideas about self-denial.
He has something very specific in mind.
From Luke's writing and elsewhere in scripture,
components of self-denial start to take shape.
Self-denial is not about you,
but it's submission to a very particular person.
Because of that person,
when properly motivated,
self-denial is not asceticism.
That's why I wanted to give you that definition a minute ago.
It's not asceticism.
It's not Simeon the Elder.
It's not being a stylite.
It's not this extreme form of rejecting all indulgences
and lifting yourself up and being a hermit.
It's not any of that.
It's worship.
It's worship of Jesus Christ himself.
That is self-denial.
So let's go back to the word of God.
Colossians chapter 2 and verse 8.
Would you turn with me over to Colossians chapter 2 and verse 8?
We're going to look at Colossians 2 and verse 8.
Then we're going to skip down to verse 16
and read down through the end of the chapter
and into chapter 3.
Colossians 2 and verse 8.
Be careful that no one takes you captive
through philosophy and empty deceit
based on human tradition,
based on the elements of the world
rather than Christ.
Let's read that again.
Be careful that no one takes you captive
through philosophy,
through empty deceit,
based on human tradition.
Did you catch that?
Based on the elements of the world
rather than Christ.
So what's the lesson here?
Human tradition rarely comes from God.
Simeon's tradition here
became something that became a tradition.
It's still actually practiced today.
In modern day Turkey,
there's a guy on a pillar,
there's a monk on a pillar
who's been up there for,
I want to say 12 years.
You'd have to fact check me on that.
But he's trying to be the modern day Simeon.
He's over there right now.
You can go visit Turkey if you want
and go see him up on his pillar.
It's a tradition still alive today.
He thinks he's closer to God
because he's being a stylite.
That's a tradition that's nowhere commanded in the Bible.
It's not getting him one ounce closer to God.
He's actually disobeying God's commands
rather than obeying something
that God commanded his people to do.
So human tradition rarely gets us closer to God.
Now that's an extreme example,
but let's bring it a little bit closer to home.
Are there things that we have incorporated into our lives
that feel like maybe that's something that came from God,
but when we break them down,
it really never came from God.
And it might actually be leading us
a little bit further from God
than closer to God.
Or it might be distracting us
from what God actually wants for us
rather than helping us accomplish the mission
that God actually has for us.
Let's look at our home lives.
Are there things that have become
so important to us in our home lives,
we can't think of our life without them,
but they're actually keeping us
from the best that God has for us and our families?
How about our church?
Are there things that have become so important
that we're used to seeing in our church,
but it's keeping us from the best?
That God has for our church
and accomplishing the mission that he has for our church.
The questions that we've got to ask,
tradition not only doesn't always come from God,
rarely comes from God,
sometimes it can keep us from the best
that God has for us.
Matthew 15, verses six through nine,
Jesus was, man, really laying it down for him,
and he said, you cancel the word of God
for the sake of your own tradition.
He was calling out the Pharisees.
And he said, you cancel the word of God
for the sake of your own tradition,
you hypocrites.
Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you,
for he wrote,
these people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship is a farce,
for they teach man-made ideas
as commands from God.
They teach man-made ideas
as commands from God.
Now y'all, I'm all about learning
from the culture around us.
I'm all about,
you know, Jesus used a donkey
and made it talk.
You know, Jesus quoted different people.
Paul quoted different people.
On Mars Hill, Paul quoted philosophers
that had nothing to do with God.
It absolutely stood counter
to what God believed.
But, you cannot quote those man-made ideas
as commands from God.
You can't have a man say something
and then put it in the mouth of Jesus.
You can't come up with an idea
and then force it on people
as though it came from God.
That's what the Pharisees tried to do.
And then enforced those rules on people.
And then legislated their commands
as though they came from God.
That's what Jesus called out.
He said,
you honor me with your lips,
but your hearts are so far from me.
That worship is a farce.
That is not worship.
You're not denying yourself.
You're lifting yourself up
so far above me.
You're not my disciples.
So when he calls you to be a disciple,
he's calling you to deny yourself.
We're starting up a Sunday school class.
Can't really call it a Sunday school class,
I guess,
but it's a class that will meet
for a period of Sundays
during the Sunday school hour,
but it's a discipleship class is what it is.
For new believers,
we've had a lot of baptisms recently.
It's a discipleship class
that'll meet up,
meet during the Sunday school hour
for just a few weeks
called Starting Points.
And it's for some of our new believers
or people who maybe just never got discipled.
Maybe were saved,
maybe were baptized,
maybe recently joined the church
and just never went through
those foundational level steps
toward being a disciple and follower of Jesus.
We're starting that up
in just a couple of weeks.
And that is going to be
one of the key elements of that class
is what Jesus says about being a disciple.
And one of the key elements is denying yourself.
It's saying,
I don't run my life anymore.
Jesus runs my life now.
Because on the outside,
you can follow one of two paths.
This isn't in my notes,
but this is free here, okay?
There's two paths you can follow
to be a Christian or a church person.
You can say,
I'm going to look like I am on the outside
and then I'm just going to live
like everybody else does
the rest of the time.
Or you can say,
I'm going to let Jesus take over my life
and even though I'm going to be imperfect
and I'm going to fail a lot,
God's going to transform me
from the inside out.
So it's going to be from the outside
or it's going to be from the inside.
The majority of people sitting in church
will follow the first path.
They're going to let God change their outside.
They're not going to give Him much access
to the inside.
The choice you have to make
is are you going to be part of that one
or are you going to let God change the inside?
And that's what I'm going to talk about
with the discipleship class.
Are you going to be part of the group
that's going to let God change the inside?
That's what Jesus is challenging us here
in Matthew.
So let's get back to Colossians 2.
Colossians 2.
First, human tradition rarely comes from God.
Second, rules cannot conquer sin.
Rules cannot conquer sin.
Back in Colossians 2.
Let's look down at verse 16.
Verse 16.
Therefore, don't let anyone judge you
in regard to food and drink
or in the matter of a festival
or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
These were all controversies back then.
These are a shadow of what was to come.
The substance is Christ.
See what he's calling you here?
He's not using these words lightly.
He's saying shadow and substance.
This stuff isn't real.
It's not important.
The substance, the real thing, is Jesus.
Let no one condemn you
by delighting in ascetic practices.
There's that word again.
That's why I gave you all the definition
at the beginning
because we were going to be using it, okay?
Okay.
Ascetic practices and the worship of angels
claiming access to a visionary realm.
Such people are inflated by empty notions
of their unspiritual mind.
You ever met anybody who was inflated
by empty notions of their unspiritual mind?
It's really harsh language, isn't it?
Say, man, Christians are just supposed
to be nice all the time.
Well, that's true,
except Jesus was pretty hardcore over there,
and Paul's kind of rude here.
Man, he's calling them
inflated by empty notions
of their unspiritual mind.
He doesn't hold on to the head
from whom the whole body,
nourished and held together
by its ligaments and tendons,
grows with growth from God.
If you're not holding on to the head,
where are you going?
Well, you're not part of the body anymore.
If Jesus is the head
and you become disattached from the head,
you're on your own.
Where are you wandering off to?
The mind, the thinking,
isn't going to control you anymore.
You're off on your own.
If you died with Christ,
verse 20,
to the elements of this world,
why do you live
as if you still belong to the world?
Why do you submit to regulations?
Wow.
Why do you submit yourself
to regulations?
Such as, quote-unquote,
don't handle, don't taste,
don't touch,
verse 22.
All these regulations refer
to what is destined to perish
by being used up.
These are human commands
and doctrines.
These were made for the law.
When the law controlled you,
when you were subject to the law,
when you belonged to Satan,
when you belonged to sin,
this is what controlled you.
Verse 23.
Although these have a reputation
for wisdom,
by promoting,
what do they promote?
Self-made religion.
False humility.
And severe treatment of the body,
otherwise known as asceticism.
They are not of any value
in curbing self-indulgence.
They won't help you
with self-denial.
These laws,
these regulations
will fail every time
because you won't keep them.
Time and time again,
we see in the Bible
people don't keep the laws.
They can't.
And you're no exception.
And the minute you start thinking you do,
like the rich young ruler
who came to Jesus,
I kept the law every day
since I was a kid.
And Jesus quickly shows him,
you missed the whole point of it.
Give up all you have.
Sell it and give the money to the poor.
Well, I can't do that.
Well, you missed the whole point of it.
You're never gonna measure up.
You're never gonna be good enough.
That's the whole point.
The whole point is
God is so much greater than we are.
You're never going to be good enough.
So then quit trying to do
this self-promoting religion.
Quit trying to do this man-made,
I gotta keep the law
and I gotta be good
and I gotta keep all the regulations
and I gotta do it myself.
Fall into the arms of grace.
Thank God that he's a God of love
and compassion
and he's willing to forgive you
and let you start again
every day with him.
And then treat others that way.
And quit holding yourself
and everybody around you
to a standard that you can never meet.
That's what I gotta remind myself of every day.
And that's what I gotta remind you of every Sunday.
So, rules can't conquer sin.
Sin will conquer rules every time.
But Jesus can conquer sin.
And Jesus can conquer the rules.
He conquered the law.
He instituted it
and then he conquered it.
Joel 2 verse 12.
Let's get back here.
Sorry, I jumped ahead.
Romans 8 first.
Romans 8, here we go.
What the law could not do
since it was weakened by the flesh,
God did.
Man, I love that verse.
One of my favorite in Romans 8.
And that's like saying,
which one of your kids do you like the best?
I like them all, right?
But Romans 8 verse 3,
just one of the best
in an amazing chapter.
What the law could not do,
God did.
God did it.
The rules couldn't do it,
but God did it.
So quit trusting the rules
to make life better for you.
Trust God.
Y'all.
Colossians chapter 3.
Back at it now.
We finished chapter 2.
Let's jump into chapter 3.
So if you have been raised with Christ,
seek the things above.
So now we've proven
that the law,
the rules,
the regulations
can't fix it for you.
They can't make your life better.
You have to rely on Jesus.
When problems come,
when your flesh fails you,
when your kids' flesh fail you,
when your wife's flesh fail you,
when your husband's addictions
and problems and lust fail you,
you can't run back to the rules
and say,
why didn't you keep him
on the straight and narrow?
You must run to Jesus.
Now we turn to Colossians 3,
and it says,
so if you have been raised with Christ,
seek the things above,
where Christ is seated
at the right hand of God.
Set your mind on things above,
not on earthly things.
For you died,
and your life is now hidden
with Christ in God.
When Christ,
who is your life,
appears,
then you also will appear
with him in glory.
Therefore,
put to death
what belongs
to your earthly nature,
sexual immorality,
impurity,
lust,
evil desire,
greed,
which is actually idolatry.
all these things
that the law,
the rules,
the regulations
tried to control
and couldn't,
Jesus can help you
put them to death.
Because of these things,
God's wrath is coming
on the disobedient,
those that are still
under the law.
You once walked
in these things
when you were living in them,
but now,
put them away.
put away all the following,
anger,
wrath,
malice,
slander,
filthy language
from your mouth.
Now we're getting
out of that
immoral area
and getting into
the anger area.
How about this one,
verse 9,
do not lie
to one another
since you've put off
the old self
with its practices
and have put on
the new self.
You're being renewed
in knowledge
according to the image
of your creator.
In Christ,
there is not
Jew nor Greek.
There is no more
circumcision and uncircumcision,
barbarian,
Scythian,
slave and free,
all the dividing lines
that separate us
from one another,
but now Christ is all
and in all.
Verse 12,
therefore,
as God's chosen ones,
holy and dearly loved,
here's what you put on.
You put all this stuff on,
but you gotta put,
I'm sorry,
you put all this stuff off,
but you gotta put
something on instead.
Okay?
That's a tale
as old as time.
You don't just stop something,
you start something
in its place.
Alcoholics Anonymous
and whatever other
addiction recovery program
will always tell you
you don't just try
to stop doing something,
you have to start
something in its place
or eventually
you'll go back
to what you were doing
before, right?
So instead,
this is what you put on.
You put on compassion,
kindness,
humility,
gentleness,
and patience,
bearing with one another,
forgiving one another.
Y'all,
some of you,
that is not in your nature.
You're not naturally
the kind of person
who bears with one another.
You're the kind of person
who wants to pick a fight.
That's your old flesh.
Put it off
and let God help you
put on
something new
and different.
God can do that
through you.
You can't.
Your spouse can't
make that change in you.
But God can.
Now if you believe
God can do anything,
then He can make
a change in you.
Trust me,
He's made a change
in me.
And He can make
a change in you.
If anyone has a grievance
against one another,
we forgive one another
just as the Lord
has forgiven us.
So we also
are to forgive.
Verse 14,
Above all,
put on love,
which is the perfect
bond of unity.
And let the peace
of Christ,
to which you are also
called in one body,
rule your hearts
and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ
dwell richly among you
in all wisdom,
teaching and admonishing
one another
through psalms,
hymns,
and spiritual songs,
singing to God
with gratitude
in our hearts.
Man, we had some of that
this morning,
didn't we?
And whatever you do,
in word or deed,
do everything
in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God
the Father
through Him.
Now,
here's the last one.
Godly self-denial
transforms us
from the inside out.
Talked about it last week,
how choosing the Jesus way
will transform us.
Well, that happens
through godly self-denial.
Godly self-denial
is not saying,
well, I'm going to give up
cokes for a year
and I'm going to deny myself that.
Now, maybe,
maybe your doctor
thinks you ought to give up
cokes for a year.
Maybe your waistline
thinks you ought to give up
cokes for a year.
Right?
But God is not
in the scripture
saying,
you have to give up
cokes for a year
or you're not going to be
close to me.
That's not what
godly self-denial
is about.
Godly self-denial
is what we just read
in Colossians chapter 3.
That is how it transforms us
from the inside,
not from the outside.
The inside change
will change the outside.
Us Christians
have got it backwards
so much
that if we change
the outside,
eventually the inside
will catch up.
It doesn't happen.
It's a lie.
The truth is,
eventually,
the outside
will fail
because the inside
is rotten.
Godly self-denial
must begin
on the inside.
We deny
our flesh
because
Jesus
has shown us
so much love,
we fall in love
with Him.
When you love someone,
you're happy
to give something up
for them.
When you're in love
with someone,
you're happy
to say,
you know what?
I love you so much,
I'll do what you need.
I'll do what's better
for you.
That's where
transformation comes.
Now we're going to go to Joel
and we'll be done.
The Lord says,
turn to me now
while there is time.
Give me your hearts.
Come with fasting,
weeping,
and mourning.
Don't tear your clothing
and your grief,
but tear your hearts
instead.
Y'all,
this is such
a powerful concept here.
Don't miss it.
This is the last thing
we're going to read
before we're done.
Please don't miss this.
Do you see
the last sentence here?
Don't tear your clothing
in your grief.
Tear your hearts
instead.
Talk back to me
for a minute.
What do you think
he means by that?
When they would mourn,
they would tear their clothes.
And it was a regular practice.
It was something
they regularly did.
Why do you think
he's telling them
not to do it?
Superficial.
Don't let this be
like every other time.
Let it be meaningful.
Let it be real change.
Let it be change
on the inside,
not the outside.
Maybe they were
doing it for show.
They would tear their clothes
when somebody would die.
They would have their,
in certain cultures,
you go down to New Orleans,
anybody ever
been down to New Orleans,
Louisiana,
for a funeral?
Seen the wailers
walk through the streets?
If you have a real
New Orleans funeral,
you'll see people
walking down
through the streets
of the French Quarter,
and you have the people
that are wailing.
Like literally,
they'll be,
whoo,
oh,
I mean,
it's a thing.
It is a cultural thing.
And I'm not mocking it
at all.
It is just a part
of their culture.
You're just not used to it
if you see it.
You know,
it's different.
Sometimes you can hire
some wailers
if you don't have people
that are equipped
to do that.
That's a little weird
to me,
but whatever.
But back then,
yeah,
definitely a similar thing.
You know,
they would have
their wailers.
So,
yeah,
I mean,
people are wailing
in their grief
and tearing their clothing,
and it's an outward show.
Maybe sometimes
it was sincere.
Maybe it wasn't.
But the prophet
is saying from the Lord,
don't tear your clothing
in your grief.
Tear your hearts
this time.
Let it be on the inside.
And that's what he says before.
Turn to me now
while there's still time.
Give me your hearts.
That's what Jesus
is always saying to us.
We'll give him our tithes.
We'll give him
our attendance on Sundays sometimes.
We'll give him
our membership.
We'll give him
lots of different things
before we give him
our hearts.
We hold back our hearts.
We guard him
very closely.
And all he really wants
is our hearts.
God bless you.
He wants us.
Because he can do
so much
better
than we're doing.
He can do so much
with our families.
He can do so much good
through us.
You underestimate
the power
that God can do
through you.
the good
that God can accomplish
through you.
You give him
your heart.
So I ask you
would you give God
your heart
today?
The Jesus way
is a way
of transformation
from the inside
out.
Our takeaway
this morning
is to deny yourself
and that starts
on the inside
as God
transforms you
into becoming
his disciple.
Would you pray
with me?
God I pray
that we would be
a people
who give you
our hearts.
That we would
tear our hearts
on the inside.
That you would
convict me.
that you would
convict the men
in this room
to man up,
to step up,
to take the lead.
Say family,
we're going to
follow Jesus.
We're going to
choose the Jesus
way.
over sports,
over work,
over politics,
over money,
over comfort.
We are going
to choose Jesus.
Over tradition,
over reputation,
whatever idols
might be standing
in our way,
we're going
to deny
ourselves.
We're going
to choose
the Jesus
way.
God,
I call on
the women
in this room.
So many
times,
you've used
women to
stand up
and take
the lead.
And I call
on women
to
be women
of God
and if
that's
your will,
let them
say,
God,
make me
a woman
of faith
to be
a godly
mother,
a godly
wife,
a godly
single
woman who
would say,
I will
choose the
Jesus way.
I will
keep myself
pure.
I'll keep
myself right.
I'll be
an example
of
what a
holy woman
of faith
would look
like.
and I
will
choose
the
Jesus
way
above
all
else.
God,
I
give
you
my
heart.
I
pray for
the
teenagers
and for
the
children
in this
room.
They
are
growing
up
in an
age
when
the
outside
world
is
continually
coming
after
them,
trying
to get
their
attention,
trying
to pull
them
away
from
the
Jesus
way,
from
being
God's
disciple.
I
pray that
they
would
listen
to
the
voices
in
this
church,
in
godly
families,
in
their
youth
group,
in
their
Sunday
school
classes,
in
their
lives,
that
would
say,
don't
listen
to
that.
You
choose
the
Jesus
way.
You
listen
to
the
Lord
Jesus
in
your
life.
That
they
would
come
to
faith
in
you
at
an
early
age,
that
they
would
follow
you
in
baptism,
that
they
would
publicly
name
your
name
and
choose
to
be
your
disciple.
That
we
would
rally
around
them
as
a
church
and
lift
them
up
in
prayer
and
participate
in
their
discipleship
journey.
Thank
you for
what you're
doing in
our
church.
We
ask
you
to
multiply
it,
continue
to
bless
it and
move
it
forward.
Church,
right
now,
with our
heads
bowed,
I ask
it every
Sunday,
I'm
going to
ask
this
question,
is there
anybody
here
who
needs
to
give
your
life
to
Jesus
for
the
first
time?
Say,
I'm
going to
turn
from my
sin
and turn
to
Jesus.
I
believe
that
I'm
a
sinner
and
that
Jesus
died
on
the
cross
for
me.
He
rose
from
the
dead
and
I
want
to
ask
him
forgive
me
of
my
sins
and
become
my
Savior
today.
Would
you
slip
your
hand
up
if
that's
you?
Say,
I'd like
to do
that
today
before
I
leave.
Thank
you.
What
about
the
rest
of
you?
Is
there
someone
who
says,
God
convicted
me
about
something
this
morning
and
I
need
prayer?
Would
you
slip
your
hand
up
and
I'll
pray
for
you?
Anybody?
I
need
prayer.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
God,
you
just
move
in
the
hearts
this
morning.
Church,
if
there's
anybody
who
needs
to
come
down
in
front
and
pray
with
me,
I'm
here
and
available
for
that.
Jared's
going
to
lead
us
in
a
song.
If
you'd
like
to
stand
and
sing,
you're
welcome
to.
If
you'd
like
to
keep
your
seat
and
pray,
that's
up
to
you.
We're
just
going
to
have
a
couple
of
minutes
where
God
has
the
liberty
and
freedom
to
move
in
our
hearts.
Let's
enter
into
that
now.