Hello, I'm Steve Alesi, and I want to welcome you to another episode of the Family Business Podcasts with the Alesssies, where we discuss family because family is everybody's business. Now, what we usually do during our episodes is talk about things that we cannot discuss on Sunday. Today's going to be a little different. You see, we've already recorded a bunch of episodes for season one, and it's been great. And I can't thank you for being a part of it. Uh, you've been faithful in listening, downloading, as well as sending us uh questions that Mary and I and our family have been able to talk about. Well, right now we're in the middle of a break between season one and season two, and I'm excited about season two. Let me tell you, we've already started. We're planning, strategizing. We've got some great times and segments and uh good wisdom we're gonna be offering up for our season two. It's gonna be even better than season one, so make sure you subscribe and are ready for the downloads and the notifications when they release. But today we're gonna do something a little different. You see, we have been looking at uh what we could talk about outside of Sundays, but I'm gonna take you into the Sunday side of our business uh where we do our deal, where we speak, we share a message from our platform for our great church family. And it's a wonderful time, by the way, to just enrich your own life every time you're in that particular environment. Well, since we talk so much about Generation One, which is the leadership of our work, which is myself and Mary, uh, we also talk about the next gen that comes up behind us. You got the senior gen, the next gen. The next gen are our kids. And Christopher is one of those that is sharing in what we do on Sundays. And today you're gonna be hearing from him. Get ready because he has a great word right in line with the guide to the good life. He's got something great in a message that talks about altars and wells. Let's go join him.
SPEAKER_01So today's message comes from Proverbs 22, verse 28. And it says this do not move the ancient landmarks that your fathers have set. The wisdom giver is writing a message to his son, and he says, Son, do not move the ancient landmarks that your fathers have set. While we continue this series, a guide to the good life, the title of this particular sermon is Who Moved My Cheese? Who moved my cheese? Can we pray together? Father, we thank you so much for your church and even more for your word. We know you've got a word for us today, so speak as we're ready to listen. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen. Is anybody familiar with the book, Who Moved My Cheese? Well, 30 million people are familiar with it because 30 million people have purchased the little book on leadership and business. The book has a plot and a premise. The basic premise and plot of the book is about two mice that live in this maze. And you learn so much about leadership looking at two mice in a maze. The first part of the story is day one. The two mice are going around the maze and they find cheese. They celebrate, they eat, they consume, and they get ready for the next day. They wake up the next morning, but they have different methods for how they want to spend their day. You see, the first mouse, and I keep wanting to be sure I don't say rat, because that's way nastier, but the first mouse says, let's go back to where we found it yesterday. But the second one says, no. There's a whole maze. Who knows where the cheese could be today? And so they decide to split. And let me tell you, that little piece of wisdom right there has saved families. You do what you want to do, I'll do what I want to do. I think Disney's only enjoyable when a large family says, hey, you go do what you want to do, we'll do what we want to do, because I want those chicken tenders and you want something else. So they split. The first mouse goes right back to where he found it yesterday only to find no cheese. While the other goes throughout the maze and discovers it somewhere else. Day three, the same continues. The guy goes back to the place he found it originally, and so on and so forth. That's the plot of the book. But the premise of the book is you can't always search for success where you found it yesterday. You've got to always be trying new, fresh things. And that leadership premise, that piece of truth, has really made a lot of businesses what they are. So many reviews of this book are from CEOs who took this principle and applied it to their business. But I started thinking about the who moved my cheese principle. And while it has characteristics of truth, I discover it to be significantly faulty. I discovered it, I discovered that it actually contradicts itself. It tells you you cannot search for cheese for success in the same place you found it yesterday. So I'm supposed to go throughout the the maze of life and try a new place to find success. And then the very next day, I'm supposed to wake up and try something new to find success. But by operating in the same principle two days in a row, I have now contradicted the principle. Because technically, to wake up on day two and to try something new is to operate in the principle, but that means I've operated in the principle two days in a row, which means I've gone back to what I did yesterday to find success. So maybe physically I did something different, but metaphysically I did the same thing. You see, the only way to actually apply the principle in its fullest is to use it on day one and then abandon it. Who moved my cheese apparently is good for one day. But this is where we learn something. That while something may have characteristics of truth, it does not make it truth entirely. You're only supposed to apply a portion of it or apply it to a portion, but you're not supposed to accept it as gospel, as full truth. This is why it's really important to recognize the difference between things that have the characteristics of truth and things that are truth in and of themselves. Because the who moved my cheese principle, while it has characteristics of truth, cannot actually be applied without contradicting it. In the same way, there's a principle that people are trying to operate in today and they don't even realize that the only way to actually apply it is to forsake it. And it's the progressivism that our society is trying to take place in today. I'm not just speaking political, please. I am speaking to those that believe our society should progress. Now, it's very hard on the surface to disagree with that. We need to be progressing. Agreed? If something could progress, it should. If the way we treat each other can progress, it should. If the way that we govern ourselves should be progressed, it absolutely should. But here's what you find when you suddenly get married, move into your own house, and no longer have dad to pay for handyman around the house. When you have a screwdriver, eventually the nail stops. And you can't keep screwing, or you're going to break through the very thing you're trying to fix. And in the same way, a society that adopts progressivism will continue to move on to the next thing to progress, move on to the next thing to progress, move on to the next thing to progress until the only thing that needs to be progressed is the principle of progressivism. It eventually will become the snake that eats itself, and this is no surprise, because we found in a world that has so much at its fingertips, this social media world where we are supposed to be able to be more social than ever, we find we're more divided than ever. And in a world that is supposed to be taking race relations seriously, we find that we're actually more broken in that area. That's because progressivism says that everything should be progressed. But the hard part about it is it's so difficult to define, and these days, people continue to allow others to define it. For instance, progressivism really believes that those who have been hurt by the way things have been should tell us their story so we can progress. So we sit and we listen to those who have been hurt. But the next day we wake up and find somebody from a different country has been hurt even more. And now we ask that person, hey, tell us how we could progress. But then the very next day we find somebody who's been even more hurt than that, and so we ask them, how should we progress? Before you know it, you've abandoned the first person and the second person, all in hopes of this third person. This is happening at major corporations right now, like ESPN, as they had a great lady who seemed to rise in the ranks and she was doing amazing. And then when 2020 hit and that woke culture started to take over, she was right there with it, supporting ESPN, supporting wokeism, pulling people down because they weren't fully on point. Because the weird thing about wokeism is no one is woke enough, apparently. And so here she is, she's behind this whole push because she's a she's a woman, and women have not been treated right by society, and she's an example of pushing through all of that, only to about a month ago, have her own words released via audio as she was coming against the company for taking a job from her to give it to somebody who was more of a victim than her. And she starts to say, you know, if you want to make up for your your bad past of diversity, don't come at me because I'm a woman. And this is where the corporation has a hard time because they're saying, How do we please this progressive culture because it's progressing and there's no end in sight? Everybody's always behind the eight ball because we actually look at the whole landscape and says it all needs to be changed. There's no, okay, we need to focus on this. Instead of having months where we celebrate things, we should have months where we work on things. I wish somebody would step up and go, okay, it's June. This month we're working on loving our neighbor. Because it's hard to know what are we progressing towards this week? What am I doing today? If you follow yesterday's rules, today somebody will shame you for it. Even though they set the rules yesterday. Progressivism really doesn't work, and while there are things that need to be addressed, we have to recognize that some things must remain the same in order for others to progress. I find it so interesting that Solomon even feels the need to write the verse that we read at the beginning. I'm really confused as to why Tide, the company, needs to make sure that all of its products have a warning label that says, do not consume. Why does a Tide Pod have to say, do not consume this? Not make sure your child doesn't consume it. It says, do not consume. I would think that a lot of people would look at detergent and think, you know what, that's not food. But they have to put the warning label there because some people have the tendency to just do it. In the same way, if there's a proverb written, it's because people have a tendency to do the opposite of the proverb written. So when Solomon, which I want to be very clear, if you read Psalms and then you read Proverbs, you get a completely different demeanor about the author. That's because David, the grandfather, the father of Solomon, was writing, sometimes on the run, sometimes with his hands written up. But it was a diary throughout his life of the songs that he had written. But Solomon did not write Proverbs through his life. In fact, he was given wisdom. He completely forsook wisdom, and then at the end of his life, when he realized it was almost too late, he sat down in his book and started to write letters to his son. That's why when you read Proverbs, you read an urgency for his son to get it. So with the urgent father, who seems like he's messed it up, he looks to his son and says, Son, don't move the ancient landmarks that your father have said. This is interesting to me because you have to play this all the way through. He knew there would be a day where Solomon was not around, but his son was. And he wanted his son to still have his words on the days where the son didn't have dad around. And so he urgently pleads with his son. When I'm not around, do not move the ancient landmarks. He doesn't say, you know, be careful here, be careful there. He says, Leave the landmarks where they're at. Now I know these days that seems political, but I'm not talking about statues. I'm not even talking about buildings. Because there were two different types, from what I can study, two different types of landmarks in the Bible. Two different things that I believe Solomon would have been referencing when he wrote to his son. The first we find in John chapter 4, 1 through 6. It says this: when Jesus heard that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John, although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples did, he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sikar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, wearied from his journey, was sitting beside the well. The first that I think you and I should look at, the first landmark that we're not supposed to touch are wells. Now, what's a well? A well is, believe it or not, what they would have used to get water before running water. I know it's crazy to think that there were societies before living water, but there were. When Abraham decided to leave everything his father knew, he was going into land that had never been taken care of before. That means that he would have had to initiate a practice with his family. We have to search for water before we can settle. And if we can't find water, we can't settle here. It's the Middle East. There was a lot of land at that point that had not been settled. In fact, I mean Abraham's only a couple of generations away from Adam and Eve. There's not many people on the planet. So as he's walking through, they have to find water in order to be sustained. It's what allowed them to wash their clothes, it's what allowed them to bathe, it allowed them to cook, it allowed them to drink. If you watch the chosen, there's a great little clip of Jacob and his sons building a well. But building a well started with digging. And it's funny because there's a guy who knows the area and it's just a desert. And he says, You're not gonna find water here. But Jacob and his sons, they keep working hard because they know if they can't find water, they can't settle there. So they have to keep going. They have to work, they have to work to find water. And when they finally do, boom, when they find water, you know what it means? It means that this place can provide for us. It means that I can have a future here, it means that I can take care of all of my needs here. It means I could I could have children and they will survive here even when I'm not around. And when they discovered wells, they started to build cities around wells because they realize we can't survive without water. So a well is synonymous of the the areas in life that we've worked hard to find sustenance, we've worked hard to find what works. Generations before us have put the time in discovering what works and what doesn't. And Solomon says, don't move the well. And if you ask me, this is the definition of marriage. Marriage is a well. Marriage is where you know when you get married, when God brings the right person into your life, and you shack up together for the rest of your life before God, man, and the government, that's something that's supposed to complete you. That's something that's supposed to bring sustenance to you when you don't have it. It's something that's supposed to help you continue your legacy. It's water. It's what's supposed to help you get your identity to the point where when somebody now asks me, how's your family? They kind of mean Rochelle. And when we have kids, they're going to mean, but they're definitely gonna mean that. And I'll have to say, Do you mean my parents and siblings? Or do you mean my family? Because it changes. Marriage continues to push everything forward. Without it, children fall apart, they're broken. So marriage is a well, but sons have a tendency to want to move wells, and so there's a fight years ago to redefine marriage, to say no, it should be between whoever and whoever. And while that may have characteristics of truth, where we do want to have a, you know, live and let live. Don't stomp on me, I won't stomp on you. We forget that yes, while God's not necessarily asking for a religious oligarchy, we have to remember that our children will grow up in a world without us. And if we remove all of the hard work that we put in to discovering what a healthy marriage looks like, what could actually sustain them? What can actually propel them? If we remove it, we send our children into a land not knowing where they can find sustenance. You see, this is interesting. There's a particular uh scholar, he's a psychologist, he's written many books, he's really one of the leading people speaking out on just life and how we should be doing life. He's not a Christian, but I bought his most recent book, and the first chapter is The Value of Church. His first book is The Value of Church. You know why? He says, because an individual isolated to themselves has way too many decisions to make, way too many things to figure out. How should I present myself to society? How should I talk to people? How should I listen? What should I eat? What should I drink? What should I wear? Where should I work? Where should I go to school? What should I believe? At what point should I do this? At what point should I do that? And when you leave them unto themselves, they have hundreds of millions of decisions to make about life completely by themselves. And then he says, but when you walk into the church lobby, community tells you, hey, that doesn't work. Hey, I've already tried that, doesn't work. Community is, and and and and the well is the 70-year-old woman who looks at the 12-year-old girl and goes, That attitude better go. Because I've tried it. There's no water there. And community already starts to answer all of those questions, so it says, We've already got all this figured out. All you need to focus on is like this two or three decisions. Community establishes wells, and then we tell the younger generation about the wells that we've established. Did you notice what's so interesting? When you read the book of the first six verses of the book of John, chapter four, it says that Jacob gave the land to his son Joseph, and Jacob's well was there. That means that Jacob's generation did the work to find the well, and then gave the next generation land with a well. Here's what happens if we remove the wells. We give our kids land with no wells. My grandfather used to, I guess, fake issues with his car. He suddenly was like, towards the end of his life, he suddenly started saying, My car is just breaking down all the time. One of the reasons for that is because where he would take his car in to get service is right here by the church. And he knew my work schedule. And so he'd say, Oh, Chris, I'm so sorry. My car is getting fixed. Can you come take me to breakfast? And sure enough, I'd go, I'd pick him up, I'd say, Dad, Papa needs me. He goes, Go do your thing. So I'd go pick up Papa and we would go. And you know what Papa would tell me? He would point to what I would see, and he would tell me what was there before me. He would constantly say, You know, I remember when this used to be nothing, there was nothing here. He would come and he would tell me, you know, before this restaurant was this restaurant, and before that restaurant was this bank, and before that bank was this gas station. He would come and tell me what was there before I was. Now this did something amazing. Number one, it brought significant perspective to my life. Because it proved to me that not only was there something before me, but there was life before me. And if you find out, if you've already noticed, kids have a propensity to believe that the main character of every story and everything revolves around them. So when I found out that before Flanagans there was whatever, and before Sunset Place there was a bakery, when he would tell me all of that, you know what that would bring to me? Perspective that I am not the brightest star in the galaxy, and this movie is not my movie. Do you know what happens if we remove landmarks? We raise a generation that thinks they're the brightest stars in the galaxy. We cannot move wells. In fact, we should be working very hard to make sure we give our kids land with a well on it. You know, we've worked hard to discover how do you succeed in life. Even ungodly psychologists and therapists will tell you that the way to succeed in life, just by sheer statistics, is the following. When one man and one woman come together, betroth themselves to each other, and hold off having a child until they're already married. They also say that when you get a degree in school at a college, that shoots your chances of succeeding by significant margin. They aren't even godly. And they're telling us that they when they look at the landscape, that's where the well seems to be. They say, hey, this is where you gotta find it. One man, one woman. Wait until you're married to have a kid, which to us actually reads wait until you're married to have sex, and then get your degree, or get your degree, find the person. But either way, it's all gotta be a part of the equation. But we live in a generation and a society, we struggle because we want to move everything. And you know what happened to me when I graduated college when I didn't want to, but my dad forced me, and he said, There's one thing you're gonna do, you're gonna graduate. If I have to pull you along that that stage and you're kicking and screaming, I don't care. You're gonna do it because me forcing you is gonna be your gift. Do you know what happens when I stand on this platform as a young man and say, I've graduated college? No one in the room thinks his daddy gave him something. And if we start telling a generation, you know what, yeah, you're not good at school, you don't really need it. We're robbing them of walking in the confidence of what they've accomplished. We can't move the well because then they walk into this world and have no idea where to find water. The other we also can find by looking at Jacob's life. The first is a well. But when you look at Genesis chapter 28, we see the other landmark. We're not supposed to move. Genesis chapter 28, verse 16 says this. Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place. And I did not know it. He was afraid and said, How awesome is this place? This is none other than the very house of God. This is the gate of heaven. So early in the morning, Jacob took the stone that he put under his head and set it up for a pillar. We know from study that years later God sent him back to this exact place to find that pillar. Thank God nobody moved it. He found that pillar and he built an altar. The second type of landmarks we can't move are altars. Because Jacob walks into a desert, arrives at the furthest place that he could walk, grabs a stone. It's it's it's a portion of life where there's nothing. He had nothing but a stone. He grabs that stone, puts his head on it, and is awakened to discover it's the house of God. It's the place where heaven and earth touch. It's the place where you can find God, where heaven is open to you. He had no idea. You know how I know that? Because he said, Wow, I had no idea. Altars tell our children where they can find God. Altars tell the next generation, don't seek, look and find. It's right here. But when we start to move altars, our kids don't know where to find God. And this to me is synonymous of a parent that knows God. I heard recently somebody who matters make a statement in a podcast that said, you know, by six and seven years old, I'd ask my children, what is God saying to you? And I would want them to tell me, because I didn't want them to think I was the voice of God in their life. And while that sounds good, and while it has the characteristics of truth, that is not truth. Because when God is telling his people how to continue society, he instructs parents to teach on who God is. That means, guess how they found out about God? It was through the parents. We cannot separate God from the parental role. We can't ever make it seem like God's gonna tell you something different, little kid, than what he's gonna tell me. It doesn't work. In fact, Samuel, who grew up in the in the tabernacle at 13 when God started calling him, he didn't know it was God. And he went to Eli and said, Have you called me? And Eli said, No, go back to bed. And the second time, Eli, come on, man, stop waking me up. And he's like, I'm not. The third time he goes, Ooh, that's God. I find this so awesome because guess who God sounded like to a 13-year-old boy? He sounded like Eli. You know what's crazy about Eli? Eli was not a good parent. At the end of his life, when he tried to put his sons in his place, the people rejected him because his sons were evil. But guess who took his place? Samuel. You know what that tells me? You don't have to be a good parent to represent God. You wouldn't have to figure it out and have everything good before you can say, kid, you're seven. But guess what? God's not gonna tell you something different than he tells me. God doesn't break his system, he doesn't step aside what he said yesterday. Parents need to be actively involved in the life of their children. Actively. All three of the older siblings of the Alesses would be living somewhere crazy if it wasn't for Pastor Steve and Mary getting in their face and saying, no. Not well, what is God telling you, sweetie? He said, no. I wanted to live in Lakeland, Florida. My sisters got it more right than me. Stephanie thought the biggest church in America was the place for her. Lauren thought Hawaii was the place for her. I picked Lakeland. And our parents looked at us and said, I know you think that what's that's what God is saying. I know you think that's what's right, but it's not. And you know what that helped us actually do? It helped us discern the voice of God. And now that I'm 30, my dad comes and says, What is God telling you? Except that he doesn't. He's like, hey, I'm still around. It's not about what God's telling you. We better be on the same page here, bud. Because if not, someone's not listening to God. And let's just be honest: 60 years of experience, 30. You lose. And I'm thankful for it. Because I as a son, hold on. I as a son know when I wake up to play the game, I know the boundaries and I know the rules. I know where the well is, I know where the altar is. And as I'm closing my message, here's the whole here's why we cannot remove the landmarks. Here's why we cannot allow the world to tell us how we should be treating one another. Like godless people somehow know how we should treat God's people. Letting them lead us on how races should be intermingling, letting them lead us on how we should treat the genders, letting them tell us how these words should be defined. Here's why we can't let that happen. When you look at what we've already read in John chapter 4, this moment around a well, that introduction is actually the woman at the well. The reason that Jesus had to go through Samaria and had to end up at this well, it's because the woman at the well was there. Now, guess what? That little point just completely preached my whole message to you. You know why? Guess what happened? When there was a well, not only was a woman in need, did she know where to go, but when Jesus needed water, he knew where to go. Because of Jacob's work, Jesus benefited. My gosh. But this is my biggest fear about letting a generation be raised where we say, you know what? You tell me who you are. You're four, but tell me, what type of hormones should I pump inside of you because that's going to somehow make you match what you're feeling right now? You know what scares me about a world that tells 18-year-olds, you're an adult. Date who you want, marry who you want. I'm not giving you my opinion until you ask for it. Nah, you don't gotta go to school. If that's not you, don't do it. You know what scares me about that? About raising kids with no wells and no altars? It's the story of the woman at the well. Because we completely misjudged this woman. Yes, she had five husbands, but there's something interesting, and somehow my my book turned, but when the woman in verse 7 came to Samaria, I'm just gonna skim through it, Jesus said, Give me a drink. But in verse 9, the Samaritan woman says, How is it that you, a Jew, are asking me? Now, this woman not only knew her stuff, but was enforcing the law. So she was not an idiot. She was like, Uh, I know how things work, I know about the altars, I know about the wells. You're not supposed to talk to me. Jesus said, If you knew, and if you can put this verse on the screen, it's verse 10. Jesus said, A, if you knew A, the gift of God, and then B, who it is that's asking you. He makes a difference between the two. He didn't say, man, if you knew who you were talking to. He said, A, if you knew God's gift, and B, if you knew he who is offering you God's gift. You know what that says to me? That says to me, number one, the gift of God is the well. If you knew how God wants to sustain you, but who it is is the altar. If you knew that in this moment you're speaking to the well and the altar and the altar, you're speaking to both of them, you'd be asking me. After hearing that, this woman who probably grew up with no real spiritual well and no real spiritual altar, you know what she says to him? Verse 11 Sir, you have nothing to draw with. You know how many people are born into a world and they look at Jesus and think he has nothing to offer? If we raise a generation without wells and altars, they will look at Jesus and think he has nothing to offer me. He continues. Everyone who drinks of this water again, but whoever drinks of the water I give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up to eternal life. There are so many people that think four, five, six, seven-year-olds have a well of water on the inside of them, and we gotta listen to it so we know how to guide them. Jesus says, uh-uh, I put a well in you. When you have an interaction with me, that's when you have a well, and that well will feed you forever. Not identity, not gender, not that. That doesn't spring up from a well, it springs up from God. That springs up from an interaction with Jesus, not society, not TikTok. We live in a day and age where social media apps are making commercials and pumping it out on Nickelodeon of trans and all this other stuff. Telling your kids to try and be different. That's the message. And if we let that go on, we will look at a woman who's like, ah, verse uh 19. Oh, sir, I think you're a prophet. We'll raise a generation of kids that look at Jesus and just think he's a prophet, but they'll completely miss the God part of it all. There were many good prophets, but we don't ever put our faith in a prophet. There's only one God, and he's the only one we can put our faith in. You see, church family, right here, we we see what could happen if we do not introduce our children to Jesus, if we do not raise them around altars, if we do not raise them around wells, what's gonna happen is A, they'll think Jesus has nothing, or all he has to offer is the gifts of a prophet. But that's when Jesus gets involved and he says, Oh, woman, you better listen to me. The hour is coming where now true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. Then the woman said, Ah, I know the Messiah is coming and he'll explain everything. This woman looked at the face of God and said, I'm taking by what's behind door number two. She looked at the face of God and is like, I think the Messiah will come. Here he had come, and she couldn't even recognize it. It took an interaction with Jesus where he knew what only he could know that made up for this woman's life without wells and altars. And so I ask you, what type of child do you want? What type of next generation do we want? A Joseph generation that was raised in a land with a well their father gave them, or a woman who needs a face-to-face interaction to make up for her past of five husbands and a sixth living boyfriend. The choice is yours. We don't have to move the ancient landmarks of our fathers. We can leave them. In fact, we should work hard to make sure that we give our kids land with a well and an altar in it. So they know where to draw their sustenance from, and they know where to find God. Don't believe the lie that they'll figure it out on their own. It'll take them five husbands and a living boyfriend to finally come to where they have nothing. Or you'll get Joseph, who's got the coat of many colors, who can interpret dreams. Y'all, the choice is ours. What kind of generation do we want coming next? I believe we want a Joseph generation. I believe we want a Joseph generation. So let's fight to maintain our altars and our wells. Amen. Were you guys blessed today? Yeah, let's stand and pray together. Let's stand and pray together. Pray with me. Father God, we thank you so much for your word, your wells, and your altars. You've written a whole book to help us know where to find you. You've built a house here and drawn people with your spirit so we know where to find you. Father, I pray you would now help us leave with marching orders. How do we preserve the altars and the wells so our children know where to find you? So our next generation knows where to find you. Holy Spirit, speak to every single person in the room, parent or not, because we're parenting a generation together. And we promise to do our best to raise a generation that honors you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen. Thank you, Metro. Thanks for listening to the Family Business Podcast with the Alesssias. We appreciate you listening and learning with us as we just shared more about the Family Business. You know, I bet there's someone you know who can use this kind of advice, encouragement. So make sure to share this episode with them and their family because let's face it, family is everyone's business. If you want to be a part of our family, subscribe to the show right now on your favorite app and make sure to download the episodes so you can hear them at any time. Oh, and one more thing one of the best ways to help us spread the word about the family business with the Alesssies is by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts or your favorite app. So help us out, write a review, and join us next time at the Family Business Podcast with the Alessis.