Speaker 1: We're going to be in Galatians, chapter 6, this morning, and one of the things I really love and appreciate about FCC is that we are a multi-generational church.
Speaker 1: We have younger people and we have more experienced people and everywhere in between, right, some of y'all were you're wondering yeah, more experience, you just have more experience than some other people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing's about when you talk to somebody that maybe is in a little different generation is sometimes they use different words and lingo to communicate.
Speaker 1: Have you ever talked to those of you that maybe are a little more experienced?
Speaker 1: You ever talk to somebody a little less experienced and they say something and you're like what did they just say?
Speaker 1: Here's one, here's one, here's one that's mid.
Speaker 1: Can somebody in the younger generation, can somebody tell me what is that's mid?
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Somebody tell me Subpar, what's that Subpar?
Speaker 1: Subpar, right, it's kind of average, kind of mediocre, right, it's not great, it's not like the best restaurant, but it's not like McDonald's either.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's mid.
Speaker 1: Here's another one.
Speaker 1: I just lost some of the experienced people.
Speaker 1: It's just, it's mid.
Speaker 1: Here's another one.
Speaker 1: I just lost some of the experienced people.
Speaker 1: Here's another one.
Speaker 1: No cap, okay, some more of you.
Speaker 1: Okay, somebody tell the rest of us in the room what does no cap mean?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 1: No open bottle.
Speaker 1: Somebody said open bottle.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, some of y'all had some open bottles on July 4th.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: No cap.
Speaker 1: No cap means I'm not joking, like I'm serious.
Speaker 1: No cap, you know like seriously.
Speaker 1: There's different phrases that different generations say and talk to and there can be generation gaps.
Speaker 1: But there's one thing that kind of all of us understand.
Speaker 1: It's like this universally understood kind of principle.
Speaker 1: Truth is that if somebody writes something through text or email and it's in all caps, you're shouting, you're emphasizing it.
Speaker 1: So, for example, if I texted you or somebody texted you and it said I really like that, normal it would mean something, but in all caps it's I really like that Now.
Speaker 1: Now I just let some of you know that you just that do caps in all of your emails and all of your texting.
Speaker 1: You're yelling at people.
Speaker 1: Please stop.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: We go to a place in Galatians, chapter 6, where Paul uses all caps.
Speaker 1: He uses large letters to emphasize what he's about to say.
Speaker 1: In verse 11, he says look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my own handwriting Now large letters.
Speaker 1: Why is he writing large letters?
Speaker 1: Well, he just spent five chapters talked to them about all these kinds of things and he's kind of nearing the end Like this, is it?
Speaker 1: This book's about to come to a conclusion and Paul says hey, hey, hey, hey, this is important.
Speaker 1: Don't discard it, don't fall asleep.
Speaker 1: This isn't just a random book Like.
Speaker 1: This is important.
Speaker 1: He says those who want to make a good impression in the flesh all caps those who are overly concerned with their reputations and their image and looking good, those people are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised, but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross.
Speaker 1: Christ, these people aren't even real followers of Christ.
Speaker 1: They aren't willing to make sacrifices for the faith.
Speaker 1: They aren't willing to be persecuted for the cross.
Speaker 1: For even the circumcised, the people he's talking about, they don't keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.
Speaker 1: Have you ever experienced somebody that told you to do something but they weren't willing to do it themselves?
Speaker 1: Hypocrites.
Speaker 1: That's what he's saying here.
Speaker 1: He's saying these people right here, they're saying you need to do this, but these people, they're not willing to do it themselves.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 1: They're not willing to do it themselves.
Speaker 1: And then we get to this really key verse as we wrap up the book of Galatians.
Speaker 1: It's really important.
Speaker 1: It really kind of summarizes the book of Galatians, he says but as for me, I will never boast about anything except the what's the next word, except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of churchy sounding?
Speaker 1: I will never.
Speaker 1: I'm only going to boast in the cross, like don't we boast in our accomplishments or what we've achieved, or what we have or who we know or how many fathers we have, both in the cross.
Speaker 1: This actually might be the most life-giving truth you'll ever experience in your life, and I'm going to explain why in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: He says the world's been crucified.
Speaker 1: To me through the cross and I to the world.
Speaker 1: For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing.
Speaker 1: What matters instead is a new creation.
Speaker 1: Now, paul's audience here is these Jewish people, and for him to say circumcision, uncircumcision, means nothing.
Speaker 1: This is a shock to these people, because he is devaluing something that they think is so key and so important.
Speaker 1: Paul says nah, that's not really that important.
Speaker 1: What matters is that you're a new creation in Christ.
Speaker 1: What matters is that your faith is in Christ.
Speaker 1: You're a new creation that God's done a work of transformation in you.
Speaker 1: That's what matters, and may peace come to all those who follow this standard.
Speaker 1: What's the standard?
Speaker 1: Well, just a couple verses earlier he said the standard, not boasting in anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus.
Speaker 1: That's the standard.
Speaker 1: And he says peace will come to those who follow this standard and mercy even to the Israel of God.
Speaker 1: In the Old Testament, the chosen people of God were only the Jews.
Speaker 1: But all of us that have turned from our sin and put our faith in Christ and what he's done for us, we are the chosen people of God.
Speaker 1: We have been given mercy from God.
Speaker 1: So from now on, verse 17,.
Speaker 1: Let no one cause me trouble, don't cause me trouble, because I bear in my body the marks of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Paul had been persecuted for his faith.
Speaker 1: Paul had been whipped and beaten.
Speaker 1: His body you could see the marks Jesus.
Speaker 1: He lived his life to make Jesus known.
Speaker 1: So, brothers and sisters, verse 18, the grace of our Lord, jesus Christ, be with your spirit.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: We've been in Galatians the last few months and this is the last section of verses, this is the last message and I'm going to say for some of you guys that really like outlines, how many of you are like outline people?
Speaker 1: You like the outlines?
Speaker 1: Okay, you guys are not going to like this one, because we're not going to have like two or three or four points.
Speaker 1: There's only one point, and there's really only one point of the entire book of Galatians, and it's this Followers of Jesus should boast in the cross alone.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 1: But why, I mean why, would we boast in an instrument of extreme brutality and torture?
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense on the surface, but the cross is the only way that we can receive salvation.
Speaker 1: Without the cross, there's no forgiveness of sins.
Speaker 1: Now, what a lot of us like to think is we like to think that we're good people, don't we like I'm a pretty good person.
Speaker 1: You're like I'm in church on a sunday morning, right, and what we do is we base our goodness and how we see our goodness on people that maybe aren't quite as good as us, right?
Speaker 1: So I'm good.
Speaker 1: But what's the standard for goodness?
Speaker 1: Him, her, the kidnappers, the people in prison, right?
Speaker 1: Let me just kind of show you like this there's a joke, it's an old joke, it shows this like modern thinking or whatever about this.
Speaker 1: As far as good, bad, all this.
Speaker 1: Okay, now something.
Speaker 1: You need to brace yourself for this joke.
Speaker 1: I did filter it through some people, so we're good.
Speaker 1: Here's the joke.
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: You're sweating more than a prostitute in church.
Speaker 1: She never heard that one.
Speaker 1: Actually, the joke is, instead of a prostitute, it uses another word about it and uses that one, you know.
Speaker 1: So here's the joke.
Speaker 1: Here's the joke.
Speaker 1: Okay, hang with me.
Speaker 1: The joke is you got somebody out on the street doing immoral, bad things and they come in to church, they come into the room with good, holy upright people and they hear somebody talking on stage, singing on stage.
Speaker 1: That's good, holy upright, and they're sweating because they don't belong, because they're very nervous, because these people are good and that person is bad, so they're sweating.
Speaker 1: That's the joke.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing the cross declares that, apart from Jesus, all of us are bad.
Speaker 1: The cross shows us that we aren't good people in need of improvement.
Speaker 1: We are all sinful people in need of a savior.
Speaker 1: That's what it shows.
Speaker 1: It shows that we all need a savior.
Speaker 1: In fact, in Romans, chapter 3, it says there is no one righteous, not even one that includes your grandma, that includes your kid that you think is perfect, right?
Speaker 1: There's no one righteous, not even one, and apart from Jesus, we're all sinners before a holy God.
Speaker 1: So what the cross is is Jesus dying in our place.
Speaker 1: Jesus dying in our place, jesus dying in our place.
Speaker 1: So it's more than like a cool emblem that's worn in a fashionable way, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like oh, I like that cross necklace, I want to get that one, you know, or earrings, or man, I'm thinking about getting tattered up.
Speaker 1: Oh, crosses are cool, let me just put one on my.
Speaker 1: Oh, let me put one on my bicep.
Speaker 1: I've been working out right.
Speaker 1: It's more than that.
Speaker 1: The cross is Jesus dying the death that we all deserve, and the cross says that none of us are strong enough, moral enough, righteous enough.
Speaker 1: This is why Jesus died, and Jesus was the perfect sacrifice that fully satisfied the holy requirements of God.
Speaker 1: So when we put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ, we are forgiven, we are righteous, we are accepted and we now have an eternal home in heaven.
Speaker 1: And this friends Now have an eternal home in heaven.
Speaker 1: And this, friends, this changes everything.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 1: It has a massive, massive implications for your life.
Speaker 1: This means that you never have to worry that God will reject you he won't.
Speaker 1: This means you never have to worry that God will turn you he won't.
Speaker 1: This means you never have to worry that God will turn his back on you.
Speaker 1: You did that.
Speaker 1: You never have to do something to earn God's favor.
Speaker 1: Paul says in Corinthians for every one of God's promises is what's that word is yes In him.
Speaker 1: Yes, i's.
Speaker 1: That word Is yes in him.
Speaker 1: Yes, I like that word, don't you?
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't like the word no, I like the word yes.
Speaker 1: It's yes in him.
Speaker 1: The cross shows that you don't have to prove yourself.
Speaker 1: You don't have to raise your hand, but you ever try to prove yourself to somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, she's honest, right.
Speaker 1: You don't have to prove yourself to somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, she's honest, right.
Speaker 1: You have to prove yourself.
Speaker 1: You know why?
Speaker 1: Because the cross is that your righteousness is not in what you do, but it's in what Christ has done for you, and when you put your faith in him, his righteousness is transferred onto you.
Speaker 1: So I don't have to prove myself.
Speaker 1: So let's go a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: This means that I can admit when I'm wrong, because I don't always have to be right.
Speaker 1: This means I can apologize, because my righteousness is not in what I do, but it's in Christ.
Speaker 1: This means that I don't have to live my life weighed down by guilt and shame.
Speaker 1: This is what the cross declares you are forgiven.
Speaker 1: Look at what the Bible says in Colossians, chapter two.
Speaker 1: He made you alive with him.
Speaker 1: This is Christ.
Speaker 1: And what did he do he?
Speaker 1: What did he do?
Speaker 1: He forgave us most of our trespasses, most of them.
Speaker 1: That really big thing over there that you did that nobody knows about, he didn't.
Speaker 1: Is that what it says, guys?
Speaker 1: No, it says he forgave you of all, All means, all, all, yes, all All your trespasses.
Speaker 1: He erased the obligation of debt with the certificate of debt, with the obligation that was against us and opposed to us, and is taking it away by nailing it to the.
Speaker 1: What did he?
Speaker 1: Nail it to the cross?
Speaker 1: I mean, the cross really changes everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about this.
Speaker 1: It changes how you view your hardships.
Speaker 1: If you experience hardships in your life, you might be in one right now.
Speaker 1: Let's think through the cross for a second.
Speaker 1: Okay, at the cross, we see a horrible thing happening, a truly perfect and sinless person dying, and we see and in that horrible thing we also see something beautiful come from that.
Speaker 1: We see a way for all of mankind to be saved and forgiven.
Speaker 1: You know what this shows that something terrible, something good can come from that terrible thing.
Speaker 1: You know what it shows that something that feels like a death, god could bring about a resurrection.
Speaker 1: This shows that there could be injustice in your life that you have experienced.
Speaker 1: That is terrible, but mercy can flow from and because of that injustice.
Speaker 1: That victory we just sang about it, that victory can come from an apparent defeat.
Speaker 1: Everybody thought, oh, jesus is done.
Speaker 1: It's a defeat.
Speaker 1: Like lights are out, it's over.
Speaker 1: This whole Jesus movement thing is squashed.
Speaker 1: It's all over, guys.
Speaker 1: Things were just getting started because the resurrection was coming, but before there was ever a resurrection, there first was a death.
Speaker 1: This is what the cross shows.
Speaker 1: There's a song that we sing every now and again.
Speaker 1: It's called I'm singing in the victory and it goes like this I'm singing in the victory, the victory of the cross.
Speaker 1: I'm resting in the shadow of your redeeming love.
Speaker 1: I'm standing on the promise, the promise of new life, Because I am yours forever and, jesus, you are mine.
Speaker 1: When I've forgotten the fullness of your grace, yes, I'll remember Calvary.
Speaker 1: That's the cross, where Jesus died, where you took my place.
Speaker 1: The cross is what we boast in.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 1: We don't boast in our morals, we don't boast in our political parties.
Speaker 1: We don't boast in that.
Speaker 1: We boast in the cross.
Speaker 1: There's this really fascinating psychological experiment that was done a couple years ago that shows the implications of the cross and the implications of living in the reality of the cross.
Speaker 1: They did something at Dartmouth University called the SCAR experiment.
Speaker 1: Has anybody ever heard of the SCAR experiment?
Speaker 1: The SCAR experiment and what they did is they took 10 people and they put them in separate rooms and they explained to these people that the purpose of this study was to see how people would respond to them and in those mirrorless cubicles rooms that those different people sat in very high quality makeup to put a gruesome scar on every person's face.
Speaker 1: They then took a little mirror and showed the person the gruesome scar that was on their face.
Speaker 1: They were then told that they wanted to do a few finishing touches on the scar and they wanted to make sure that the scar wouldn't smear.
Speaker 1: So they needed to do a few things.
Speaker 1: So they did some things with the scar and, unbeknownst to the volunteers that were sitting there is they were actually wiping the scar away, they were removing the makeup, they were removing the scar.
Speaker 1: They instructed the volunteers to leave the rooms and observe and notice how people responded to them, how people talked to them, how people noticed them, if people noticing them and those people left the room fully believing that they had a gruesome scar on their face, when in reality they had no scar on their face, and they went out and they mingled with people and they interacted and after some time they came back and they all had the same report People were unusually mean to us.
Speaker 1: Because we had this scar on our face, people were less kind and people were continually staring at the scar that they had on their face, but the scar wasn't even there.
Speaker 1: They just believed that it was.
Speaker 1: Now some of us live our lives with some scars that, because of the cross, aren't actually there.
Speaker 1: Some of us live with a scar that we're less than.
Speaker 1: Some of us live with the scar that we are unloved and not worthy of love.
Speaker 1: Some of us live with the scar of guilt and condemnation.
Speaker 1: We live with the scar of somebody telling us that we're a mistake, so we think that we are a mistake.
Speaker 1: We live with the scar of somebody telling us that we're a mistake.
Speaker 1: So we think that we are a mistake.
Speaker 1: We live with the scar of thinking that our value is in what we do or what we have or where we live.
Speaker 1: But the cross says those things are not true.
Speaker 1: The cross says you are not less than.
Speaker 1: The cross says you are loved.
Speaker 1: The cross says you are forgiven.
Speaker 1: The cross says you are not a mistake.
Speaker 1: The cross says you are forgiven.
Speaker 1: The cross says I have purpose for you.
Speaker 1: And what we often do is we live out of what we believe about ourselves, whether it's true or not.
Speaker 1: Our activity in life flows from our identity and a lot of us in this world, like we've been programmed to define ourselves in terms of our careers or our mistakes, or our family, or our possessions or our accomplishments or our scars.
Speaker 1: And, friend, I want you to listen to me very, very carefully, because this has the power to literally change your life.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that may describe you, but only the cross has the power to define you.
Speaker 1: Paul was a man that experienced all kinds of things in his life and this is what he said.
Speaker 1: Those things may describe me, but what's my boasting and where's my identity?
Speaker 1: And it's in the cross alone.
Speaker 1: And Paul was a man that had so much more reason to boast and all these other things.
Speaker 1: Man, he had himself together.
Speaker 1: Man, he could stand in front of a crowd and woo a crowd.
Speaker 1: He was articulate, he was a leader, he was a writer, he was intellectual, he had the degrees behind his name, he knew people.
Speaker 1: And this is what Paul says.
Speaker 1: Paul says none of that matters.
Speaker 1: What matters is the cross.
Speaker 1: I could say it this way I think this is part of the reason why the cross is what he boasted in is because Christianity gives emotional satisfaction and stability that nothing else can.
Speaker 1: Now, some of you have never thought about this before.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to think about something.
Speaker 1: Okay, we live in a secular world with a secular worldview and mindset.
Speaker 1: Right, our kids are taught this in the schools and universities.
Speaker 1: We hear this, it's in the shows that we watch, it's in the air that we breathe.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if we buy fully into a secularistic mindset really is an atheistic worldview.
Speaker 1: This is what it says you are an accident.
Speaker 1: You have no purpose in your life.
Speaker 1: You're nothing more than evolved biological matter.
Speaker 1: You have no purpose.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you guys, emotionally, how does that make you feel?
Speaker 1: Secularistic worldview Secularistic worldview says that your worth in your life is determined by what you have, what you do.
Speaker 1: Your identity is determined by what you look like, by your sexuality, and there's all this pressure on you to form some type of identity that is supposed to be strong enough to hold the weight of your existence and it's, straight up, emotionally overwhelming and emotionally exhausting.
Speaker 1: Personally, I think, while we're in this crazy, terrible mental health crisis right now in our country and it's serious and it's real I think one of the reasons why is because we are burdening people with carrying the weight of their own identity and we were not designed and we don't have the mental or emotional capacity to be able to carry such a weight.
Speaker 1: So what we do is we collapse under this pressure and then what we do is we go in our gosh elementary schools now and middle schools and we're like your identity is your sexuality, what are you?
Speaker 1: And we're putting all this pressure on people and we're living in this pressure.
Speaker 1: We have this on ourselves of saying I need to form my identity, I need to find my identity.
Speaker 1: So what we do is we try something that doesn't work out very well, so then we go to this thing that doesn't work out very well.
Speaker 1: We go to this thing and then what happens is it's a recipe for burnout and stress and we're just overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Consider this If you are what you do, you'll always have to do more to maintain your value.
Speaker 1: You'll never be able to rest.
Speaker 1: If you are what other people say about you, you'll always have to please people and you'll always have to make sure people are happy.
Speaker 1: And you're going to feel up and down based on what people think about you, and if that person, if they think something else about you, they're haters, I don't like them.
Speaker 1: If you are what you have, you'll always have enough.
Speaker 1: You'll always want another zero on your bank account, another zero on your 401k.
Speaker 1: You'll always want to live somewhere bigger, better, drive something newer, faster, nicer.
Speaker 1: It's never ending.
Speaker 1: But think about Christianity.
Speaker 1: Think about this emotionally, guys.
Speaker 1: Emotionally.
Speaker 1: This is what the cross declares you were created on purpose and for a purpose.
Speaker 1: You are loved unconditionally.
Speaker 1: You are secure and cannot be taken out of the Father's hand.
Speaker 1: You are so significant yes, you that the creator of the world gave his only son to die for you.
Speaker 1: That's how significant you are.
Speaker 1: The creator of the world sent his Holy Spirit into you to empower you and gift you, and you are a gifted person.
Speaker 1: You are a fully forgiven person.
Speaker 1: You can stand before God because of the righteousness of Christ on your life.
Speaker 1: You are freed from all these things that enslave you.
Speaker 1: This is what the cross declares.
Speaker 1: Now think about what this does to you emotionally.
Speaker 1: It gives stability, it gives satisfaction.
Speaker 1: It gives satisfaction.
Speaker 1: We sing songs about the cross.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just straight overwhelming to my soul because of the emotional stability and security that the cross brings.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we understand a lot of us understand the gospel on an intellectual level.
Speaker 1: It's the death, it's the burial, it's the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: But for some of us it needs to get out of our head and into our heart and we need to feel it Like for real, like that's why I really think worship music is so important, because it makes truth come alive in our hearts.
Speaker 1: That's what it does.
Speaker 1: Like man, I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we can just sing these powerful songs and just stand there or sit there Like holy cow, like worship needs to erupt out of our hearts, like we have a risen Savior, like the goodness of God is flowing after us.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, man.
Speaker 1: I got to wrap this up.
Speaker 1: But even if you don't believe in Christianity, you want the emotional stability and satisfaction that it will provide you and, whether you realize it or not, this is what you're going to do.
Speaker 1: You're going to spend your life seeking to have or to earn what the cross, what Christianity, freely gives.
Speaker 1: You're going to Identity, meaning, purpose, love.
Speaker 1: You're going to spend your life looking for those things or trying to get more of it when the cross says here it is.
Speaker 1: This is why Paul says I boast in the cross alone.
Speaker 1: This is why I loved the baptism, some of the baptism testimonies that we had last week of people just sharing how God has worked in their life.
Speaker 1: I loved hearing 6, 8, and 8 give his testimony.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that awesome.
Speaker 1: He gave a powerful testimony.
Speaker 1: God just opened his eyes to.
Speaker 1: Opened his eyes to like see Christianity, like to see the cross, like he's seeing this.
Speaker 1: And you know what it causes us to do.
Speaker 1: When we boast in the cross alone, it changes how we live.
Speaker 1: It causes us to want to serve God.
Speaker 1: It causes us to want to gather on a Sunday morning like this.
Speaker 1: It causes us to want to serve one another.
Speaker 1: It causes us to want to serve in the church.
Speaker 1: It caused us to want to serve one another.
Speaker 1: It caused us to want to serve in the church.
Speaker 1: It caused us to want to give up our financial resources.
Speaker 1: It caused us to be willing to step out of our comfort zone, even though the comfort zone's really comfortable.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because the cross gives us what we need.
Speaker 1: It's the cross.
Speaker 1: So I want to close with three questions this morning, and we'll be done.
Speaker 1: Here's my first question is this have you trusted in Jesus alone for your salvation?
Speaker 1: Have you trusted in Jesus, what Jesus has done on the cross for your salvation?
Speaker 1: Have you realized that before a holy God, you are a sinner, but Jesus died in your place?
Speaker 1: And if you have never done this, but would you be willing to turn from everything else and put your faith in Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior?
Speaker 1: Here's my second question what do you boast in?
Speaker 1: Is it your career?
Speaker 1: Is it your smarts?
Speaker 1: Is it your family?
Speaker 1: Paul says listen, if you boast in anything else, you don't understand the implications of the gospel.
Speaker 1: Like the cross, like he's done it for you, of the gospel.
Speaker 1: Like the cross, like he's done it for you, like, where are you finding your meaning?
Speaker 1: Where are you finding your worth?
Speaker 1: Like it's in the cross, it's in the goodness of God, it's what he's done for us.
Speaker 1: Then my last question is this Is what would your life look like if you only boasted in the cross and Christ?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you liberated, peaceful, restful, meaningful, because it was the cross that showed the goodness of God, that gave us identity, that gave us worth.
Speaker 1: And let's be people that boast in Him alone.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to pull an audible this morning.
Speaker 1: We don't ever pull audibles here.
Speaker 1: That's all I want us to do.
Speaker 1: Guys, can we sing a song?
Speaker 1: We don't ever pull audibles here.
Speaker 1: That's all I want us to do.
Speaker 1: Guys, can we sing a song?
Speaker 1: We sang a song.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all are kind of freaking out.
Speaker 1: What are we doing right now?
Speaker 1: Can we sing that song?
Speaker 1: The Goodness of God.
Speaker 1: This is what I want us to do.
Speaker 1: You guys can figure out how y'all gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We didn't tell y'all this was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: This is what I want us to do.
Speaker 1: I want us to sing about the goodness of God that we see in the cross.
Speaker 1: I want us to sing about this and I want us to man, like, don't worry about what's going on around us.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about like, like, let's just sing about the goodness of God.
Speaker 1: Let's all stand to our feet.
Speaker 1: These guys are going to lead us.
Speaker 1: We're not going to be here for much longer, but can we just respond to this message by letting worship come from our heart?
Speaker 1: Guys in the back, can you guys figure it out?
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to figure that out on there on the screen and they'll figure that out.
Speaker 1: There's people that are available for prayer if you would like to pray.
Speaker 1: But let's just sing this song and then I'll wrap it up with a word of prayer.
Speaker 1: Let's pray, guys.
Speaker 2: I love you, lord.
Speaker 2: Oh, your mercy never fails.
Speaker 2: All my days I've been held in your hand.
Speaker 2: The moment that I wake up, until I lay my head and I will sing of the goodness of God.
Speaker 2: All my life, all my life, you have been faith.
Speaker 2: It's all my life, you have been so, so good, with every breath that I am made, and I will sing of the goodness of God.
Speaker 2: Let's just sing that.
Speaker 2: Your goodness is running after me.
Speaker 2: It's running after me.
Speaker 2: Your goodness is running after me.
Speaker 2: It's running after me.
Speaker 2: With my life laid down, I'm surrendered.
Speaker 2: Now I give you everything.
Speaker 2: Your goodness is running after me.
Speaker 2: It's running after me.
Speaker 2: Oh, your goodness.
Speaker 2: Your goodness is running after me out.
Speaker 2: It's running after me all my days.
Speaker 2: Your goodness is running out.
Speaker 2: It's running after me.
Speaker 2: With my life laid down surrender.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 2: I give you everything.
Speaker 2: Your goodness is running out.
Speaker 2: It's running after me.
Speaker 2: All my life, all my life, you have been faithful.
Speaker 2: All my life you have been so good, with every breath that I am in, and I will sing of the goodness of God.