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Are You Faithful Works? | Minor Prophets
What does it cost to follow God's command when it breaks your heart? The story of Hosea provides a raw, unflinching look at what happens when God asks the unthinkable — to marry a woman who would repeatedly betray him as a living metaphor of Israel's unfaithfulness to God.
Hosea, the first of the minor prophets, ministered for 60 years to the northern kingdom of Israel during a time when prosperity masked spiritual decay. As the nation cycled through six kings in just 20 years and mixed pagan worship practices with devotion to God, the Lord called Hosea to embody His heartbreak through a marriage destined for pain. Hosea's three children received names that proclaimed coming judgment: Jezreel ("God scatters"), Lo-Ruhamah ("no mercy"), and Lo-Ammi ("not my people").
The most powerful aspect of this ancient story isn't the betrayal but the redemption. When Gomer eventually left Hosea, God commanded him to buy her back—redeeming her for half the price of a common slave. This extraordinary act mirrors God's persistent love for us despite our spiritual adultery.
This story confronts us with uncomfortable questions: How have we been unfaithful to God? What "mixture" have we allowed into our lives—beliefs, practices, or priorities that contradict our professed faith? We may not bow before carved idols, but we often compartmentalize our faith while serving modern gods of wealth, pleasure, and status.
Yet Hosea's ultimate message isn't condemnation but restoration. When asked what message should conclude this sermon, God's answer was beautifully simple: "Tell them I love them." Despite seeing every secret sin and public failure, God continues to choose us, redeem us, and love us with a passion that will chase us down.
Whether you're exploring faith for the first time or have walked with God for decades, this message invites you to experience the transformative power of a love that refuses to give up on you. Join us in discovering what it means to be fully known, completely forgiven, and unconditionally loved.
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Hey, fam, what's up? It's your boy, hosea. Back at it again. You know I gotta keep it real with y'all and today's a heavy one.
Speaker 1:God's been speaking to me, guys, and honestly it ain't always easy to hear. He's comparing our relationship with Him to my relationship with my wife, gomer. Gomer, beautiful woman, full of life, but she's got a wandering heart. You know she seeks validation in places that don't offer true love. It hurts, guys, it really does. You pour your heart into someone, you offer them everything and they turn away.
Speaker 1:And God, he says that's exactly what we're doing to him. He is faithful, the one who provides, who loves unconditionally. And we, his people, are running after other things, things like wealth, power, fleeting pleasures, idols that can't love us back. He sees our hearts turning away, chasing after these empty things, just like Gomer, and it breaks his heart. But here's the thing that's hitting me hard, fam.
Speaker 1:Even with all the hurt, all the betrayal, god's love. It doesn't stop, it's relentless. He tells me to go to Gomer to love her, even though she's strayed, to redeem her, to show her the kind of love that never gives up. Can you even imagine that? Loving someone who has hurt you so deeply? That's the kind of love God has for us. It's not about condemnation, it's about us turning back to Him, the only one who can truly satisfy. So what am I going to do? I'm going to follow God's instructions, no matter how hard it seems, because if His love is this persistent, this unwavering, then maybe, just maybe, there's hope for Gomer and there's definitely hope for us. Let's encourage each other. We're all in this together. Peace out, fam, and remember real love never gives up.
Speaker 2:Man. I'm so grateful for the gift of AI being able to show us in a visual way what it must have been like for some of these guys that we'll never physically see on this side of heaven. But I have a question for you. How many of you have ever been asked to do something that you didn't want to do? Whether it was when you were a child and somebody you know, your parents said clean your room or, in my case, go pull weeds, and I thought don't you know how much time that'll take. Or as a student, when your teacher gave you an assignment or an essay and you go. Don't you know how long that's going to take, what that's going to do to my free time. Maybe it was at your job, when your employer asked you to do something that was tough or that you just didn't want to do, and you go. Don't you know how hard that'll be. That's going to take a lot. Maybe it's been from God, where he asks you to do something that you don't want to do. I know that he's asked me to do things and I kind of stop and I say, lord, don't you know what that's going to cost me? That may cost me something financially. That may cost my social standing, and I don't know if that cost is worth it. You see, today we're going to be talking about a prophet that God asked him to do, something that could cost his social standing and cost him a lot relationally and in his heart.
Speaker 2:And so today we're continuing our series on prophets, the minor prophets. So far we've heard several voices. We've heard about Micah and Obadiah, joel and Nahum, and those were some great messages and I'm very thankful that I've gotten to hear those. And today this one's kind of a challenging one. Well, all of the minor prophets are challenging because prophets in general were the messenger right, and there's a reason we have the saying don't shoot the messenger right, Because when they bring a message, it's not necessarily something you're excited to hear. See, the priests, as Pastor Celeste mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the priests were the ones who would talk to God on behalf of the people, but the prophets were the one who would come and talk to the people on behalf of God. And I don't know about you, but sometimes I've been known to be a knucklehead from time to time. And when that happens time to time, and when that happens somebody has to speak into me, and usually that's been Pastor Rich, pastor Jay, anybody who's at the pulpit here at Cornerstone.
Speaker 2:And so as we dive into Hosea today, I want to give you just a little bit of background on who he was. So he was actually the first of the minor prophets and so while there were several of them, he was the one who's listed first in the old writings. He was a prophet for about 60 years. Could you imagine being the messenger for 60 years, bringing bad news for 60 years? That could cost your social standing. When you come into town people go, oh no, there he is again, and they probably turn and go the other way. Right, but his name? It meant salvation.
Speaker 2:He prophesied mainly to the northern kingdom of Israel, at a time where the kingdom of Israel was split. But see, the northern kingdom was a rich kingdom. They had a lot of stuff going on for them, but as a result of their prosperity they had fallen into this place of moral decay and greed, and that, of course, grieved the heart of God. So during Hosea's time, israel had six different kings over 20 years. That's a lot when you consider that we had one queen in England who was. She reigned for a long time, but to have six kings in 20 years. Four of them were assassinated and one was forcefully removed. Four of them were assassinated and one was forcefully removed.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine that in today's world, that kind of change in power that quickly? You see, at this time the Israelites had identified the Lord with Baal, the Canaanite god of nature, and they had given in into visiting shrine prostitutes and they were mixing a lot of the Canaanite beliefs with their worship of the Lord, and so they were worshiping him in a way that he had explicitly told them not to do. But they were doing it anyway, and they didn't really see anything wrong with it, because they were trying to play both sides of the fence, like if we worship God this way, just a it anyway, and they didn't really see anything wrong with it, because they were trying to play both sides of the fence, like if we worship God this way, just a little bit, and we worship this, then we're covered on all of our sides, right, but we're just going to claim that we are only following the one. So God was pretty angry at everything that was going on, and so he decided to use Hosea's life as a picture of his feelings towards Israel. So the question I have for you today is are you faithful? Now you may think, yeah, absolutely, because I haven't cheated on my wife or my husband, I haven't done this or that. But are you faithful? We're going to go into that a little bit today, what it means to be faithful to the Lord, and by using an example of somebody who wasn't faithful.
Speaker 2:See in Hosea 1, verse 2,. It said when the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her. It said the chapters of Hosea are what's called a similitude. It's kind of like a simile or a metaphor of how God felt. I read through this because Hosea is one of the doom prophets. He talks about the doom coming to Israel, that they were going to be led away by the Assyrians, and so to read this and to know that God put this guy, hosea, in this position of heartbreak was really hard for me.
Speaker 2:You see, as people watched Hosea's life, they were able to make the comparisons and draw the similarities between how Israel was treating God and how Gomer was treating Hosea, and I want to say that to us. We are a representation of, of our relationship with God and how God feels about the world, and so it's very important that we live out a life willing for people to watch us and see us go through our struggles and our trials, but also our victories. So Gomer, gomer was the wife of Hosea. Now there's some debate as to whether or not Gomer was already promiscuous or as to whether or not it really depends on the versions that you read, the translations whether or not she was already promiscuous or if she was going to become promiscuous, if God was preparing his heart for what his wife was going to be like. See, she represented Israel's wavering faithfulness to the Lord because she was married to Hosea, but she also stepped out on him quite a bit. See, they had three children, gomer and Hosea.
Speaker 2:In Hosea 1, 3, and 4, it says so he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore a son, and the Lord said to him Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. In Hosea 1.6, it says she conceived and bore a daughter, and the Lord said to call him a daughter and said to call her, call her name no mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel to forgive them at all. When she had weaned no mercy. She conceived and bore a son and the Lord said call his name, not my people, for you are not my people and I am not your God. Could you imagine if that's what your name means?
Speaker 2:Now, I don't know if you've put much stock into the meaning of names, but we do as a family. My name, for instance, angus, means unique strength, and so we named each of our children very specifically, because every time you say their name, you're speaking that over them, right? Just what happens to a child. If you call them stupid all the time or worthless, they begin to act that way, and so our names are incredibly important.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine being named not my people, knowing that it meant that God was no longer owning your people? It's pretty harsh, it's pretty real. I mean that God would have him name his son and daughter, these things because he wanted to speak to the nation of Israel and he wanted them to understand what his heart was towards these people. And his heart was this way because he was brokenhearted, because if you look back at history, you see everything that God's brought them through. He delivered them out of Egypt, he provided for them in the desert, he kept performing miracle after miracle and doing these amazing things for them, and they treated him like this. For those of you who are married, think of how you would feel being with that one person all of the time and then knowing that they're stepping out on you.
Speaker 2:But imagine that millions of times, over and over again, with each of the people man, the more I've just thought about this, this dynamic between Hosea and Gomer and Israel and the Lord, it just it breaks my heart. See, because Hosea, he didn't really have a choice. He couldn't lock her up. You know, like Peter the pumpkin eater, where he locked her in a pumpkin and there he kept her very well, right. I mean, it would be so much easier if you just lock them away and you go. You're mine and nobody else's.
Speaker 2:But see, god doesn't want that sort of a relationship with us. He doesn't want a robotic slave relationship. He wants us to freely love him, and he wanted that for Hosea too. But he knew what Gomer was going to be like, and so Hosea's message to Israel was not a comfortable one. It wasn't one that everybody went oh awesome, come here, hosea, talk to us more about what God has to say to us. Right, he was talking about a coming judgment where the Israelites were going to be conquered by the Assyrians and led out into exile. Their home was not going to be conquered by the Assyrians and led out into exile. Their home was not going to be their home. But despite their spiritual adultery, god still loved them, just as Hosea loved Gomer. God's heart broke for Israel. God's heart broke for Israel. Now, I don't know exactly what changed his heart, or if it was just that he was in a fit of rage and he was just angry at what was going on, but ultimately the Lord loved Israel. Maybe it's that he just remembered all of the things that he had done and the reasons he had done it, and all the good times, not the bad, but ultimately he loved Israel.
Speaker 2:You see, hosea, like God could have brought about all kinds of destruction on Hosea, or I mean on Gomer. You see, with her stepping out, with her being promiscuous and becoming a woman of prostitution, that was grounds for divorce, and back in those days there was a lot of things that could come from an unfaithful spouse. They could be publicly accused and that would bring shame on them and the family. That shame would be the same as being unclean, and we know a lot of the stories about how the unclean people were traded in the Old Testament. They had to walk around and announce that they were unclean. Well, these people may not have had to walk around saying shame, shame. Everybody would know. And when you walk through town, people would probably part ways because they didn't want any of your shame to get on them. It'd be hard to do business, it'd be hard to do life, because nobody wanted to touch the unclean, nobody wanted to have any dealings with the unclean. It would also require separation from the community. Imagine if you had to live on the outskirts of Buckeye and you weren't allowed to come into town. That's a hot mess. She could also be stoned.
Speaker 2:If Hosea wanted to, he could have claimed her life because of it, and the Lord was going to claim the lives of Israel. But instead Hosea was commanded by God to redeem her and bring her back. Hosea was commanded by God to redeem her and bring her back, and this illustrated God's forgiveness and his love for Israel. In Hosea 3.1,. It says and the Lord said to me Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though, they turn to other gods and love cakes and raisins. So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and a homer of lethic of barley and I said to her you must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore or belong to another man, so I will also be to you. He redeemed her for half the price of a slave. A slave was worth 30 shekels. What this shows is the depreciation that happens as a result of that unfaithfulness, that he didn't even have to pay full price for her because she was now considered worthless, but still he went and he redeemed her 3.5,. It says Afterward, the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord, their God, and David, their king.
Speaker 2:Being in such a pit, knowing what you fully deserve, and then having somebody come and love you just the same that's Hosea's message to us is that it sounds a lot like today, right? We've as a nation, sometimes as individuals, we've wandered pretty far away from the Lord. We live in a very prosperous country that now openly denies the Lord. We were once thought to be a Christian nation, and I believe we still are, but Christians are just a little too quiet about it. You see, we live in a world of distractions and unfaithfulness, like then. Today we've got a lot of mixture in our relationship with God. We bring a lot of things into our relationship with God that have absolutely no business being there, and if you're confused as to what that is, come talk to us, we'll tell you. But there's a lot of mixture that we see in today's world where we think, ah, it's okay, god doesn't really mind if I listen to this or if I do that or if I include this into my life.
Speaker 2:Pastor Jay talked about it shortly after we got back from Nepal that the things that we bring into our homes, that we see as mere decoration, are really idols to other gods and we think, just because it's a decoration, that's okay, that we can have it in our home. That's mixture. Those are things that have no business being in our homes and in our lives, because it sends mixed messages, not only to us and our spirit and to the Lord, but to the people who see us, who are watching us, and if they see that mixture in us, they think that it's okay. And then that mixture goes second generation, third generation that mixture in us, they think that it's okay. And then that mixture goes second generation, third generation, and then the lines get so blurred that we end up exactly where Israel was Not even knowing that there was mixture Sacrificing to the God of the harvest. See, god loves us even where unlovablevable.
Speaker 2:Anybody here been unlovable before? I know I have a lot and as I was preparing for this message, I really started to think I wonder if Annie would have married me If the Lord had given her a message ahead of time, given her a warning of the things that I would be, the things that I would do. Now. I've never physically stepped out on her, but I definitely have lied a lot because of stuff that was in me and I've shared a lot of my testimony. So I won't go into all of that, but there have been times that I've been unfaithful for my commitment to her, in which she still have been with me, which she still have said yes when I asked her to marry if she knew the stuff that was coming ahead. Now we've had a great marriage. We've had a lot of really good times, but I know that I brought a lot of pain into her life too. Her not so much, but would she have said yes. And so it's kind of hard that in our relationship I would have been the Gomer and her the Hosea.
Speaker 2:But I'll also tell you that, as a result of her, loving me despite my brokenness has been one of the reasons that I've been able to come and that I can speak to you now. See, it's just like this picture that we use all the time here, walking with Jesus. When I first started coming to a cornerstone, I would have been in the picture way, way back in the background, way back. Now I'm a little bit closer. But, see, the reason we use this picture is because it illustrates that none of us have arrived. We're all still in process, and I'm so thankful that my wife has loved me during this process, that my church wife has loved me during this process, that my church family has loved me during this process and, mostly, that God has been faithful to me, that he's continued to bring me forward, that he didn't leave me where I started.
Speaker 2:See, because the goal for us here is to just be more like Jesus and as we do, that unfaithfulness, all of those other things that have been in our lives, those begin to slowly pass away, sometimes some things faster than others. But it's so important that, as we try to be more like Jesus, that we allow those old things to die and go away. And, for me, one of the things that has helped so much in my growth is our connect groups, where we connect, grow and serve, because coming to service on Sunday is great, but for me I needed a lot more. I needed to be with people, to be able to ask questions and to be able to show me, just through their examples, how to live, because that is really where so much of my growth happened, because I didn't grow up in this, so I didn't see a lot of the examples that I now try to set. And the only reason I know how to set those examples is because of the men and women sitting right next to you, the people who are also willing to be in these groups and help to shave off some of the rough parts.
Speaker 2:So my question to you is have you been unfaithful? Have you been unfaithful? How have you been unfaithful? Because the reality is, at some point in our life we've been unfaithful to the Lord to varying degrees. For some of us hopefully that you have grown up in this and it's just been some minor offenses that you can take care of easily. But I know that for a lot of us there have been some major offenses that the Lord could absolutely claim his rights and bring spiritual death upon us.
Speaker 2:Hosea 6.1 says this Come and let us return to the Lord, for he has torn us, that he may heal us. He struck us down and he will bind us up. And 6.6 says For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Sacrifice the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. What God really wants is a life lived out in meaningful change. He's not mad at you if all the bad stuff doesn't go away like this, because if you spent 30, 40 years, 20 years, whatever it is building up these lives, building up these offenses between you and the Lord, it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to go away overnight, because we have to learn new patterns, we have to form new ruts, new positive ruts in our life. But we need to experience a foundational shift in our attitudes and behaviors, and what I love is that here we've got a really easy way, or a real simple way, of understanding that it's love God, make disciples and reach the world.
Speaker 2:That was not my default setting when I first arrived here. It was all about me. But see, now I see the need for loving other people, and that love for other people comes because of my love for God and that love that he has for me. Hosea 14.4 says I will heal their apostasy. I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. See, when we turn from our sin and we turn back to God, he stands ready to forgive us. Not only that, but he wants to forgive us. He wants to forgive us so much he was willing to potentially ruin this other guy's life for you. He told this other guy to go have a really hard life so that you could read about it and see that, no matter what you do, he still loves you.
Speaker 2:So as I was preparing this message, man, like I said, I had a really tough time getting started and ultimately just saying Lord, what would you have me say to your people? Because I could bring a message of condemnation like Hosea did, calling you out on all your stuff. Hopefully you'd still be my friends afterwards? Maybe not, but I asked the Lord and it was so funny because the answer came so quick. I said, lord, at the end of this message, by the end of this time, that I have to speak. What would you have them to understand? And he said, very simply tell them, I love them. It was that simple, it wasn't this drawn out theological thing. He said tell them, I love them.
Speaker 2:And so today I want to tell you the Lord loves you, no matter what you've done, where you've been, how you've acted, the Lord loves you. Take a second and let that sink in, because here in a moment we're going to go into the altar time and the altar will be open for you to really reflect on how much the Lord loves you despite your actions, how much the Lord loves you despite your actions. You know, it's kind of like in the movies how you know we don't start a movie at the very end when Frodo throws the ring into the fire, right, the reason that movie is so you get just so excited with the characters is because you've seen the struggle, you've seen all the hardship that these characters have gone through. You see, the Lord has seen all of your struggles. He's seen all the things that you've done, in secret or in public, in the things that you thought you got away with. But he's seen it all and he still chooses to love you.
Speaker 2:Man, when I think about my actions, when I think about all the things that I've done, and I think about the fact, when I think about all the things that I have done and I think about the fact that he still loves me, when I have felt utterly unlovable at times and it's very easy for us to get down on ourselves and go. Nobody could love me. You have no clue the things that I've done, and I don't unless you share them. But the Lord does, and despite all of that, he chooses to love you unconditionally and with a passion that will chase you down. And if the Lord could, he would just grab you by the shoulders and go I don't care what you've done, listen to me, I love you. It's just such a powerful thought to me. Hosea 2.23 says and I will sow for her myself in the land, and I will have mercy on no mercy, and I will say to not my people, you are my people, and he shall say you are my God.
Speaker 2:See, but all of this doesn't come about just by accident. It comes about with intentionality. What we have to do is we have to recognize where we're at. Don't get down on yourself for it, because you're not the only one, but you have to recognize, you have to take stock and you have to see. Well, this is where I'm at and you could sit there and pout about it or you could do something about it.
Speaker 2:And for those of us who are believers, it looks like this have you embraced Jesus? For those of you who are believers, it looks like this have you embraced Jesus? For those of you who have not embraced Jesus, this is what it looks like. The first step is just embracing Jesus. So I'm going to ask the worship team if they would come and I'm going to ask that you would all stand. I'm going to ask this question to you have you embraced Jesus? Are you still on the outs? Are you still stuck in some sort of a situation? And you recognize you've never been forgiven of it?
Speaker 2:See Romans 10, verses 9 and 10 says it like this because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved, for with the heart one believes and is justified.
Speaker 2:And with the mouth one confesses and is saved justified.
Speaker 2:And with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For all of us who are believers, we've all prayed this prayer before. That basically just acknowledges you know what? I've been in a place, lord, I've been away from you. I don't know that I could call you friend, I don't know that you really do love me. And this prayer that we're going to pray, I'm going to ask all the believers if you would pray with us. But if that's you and you're here and you recognize you know what I have never come into relationship with Jesus. I'm going to ask that you just raise your hand so I can see it, so that I know who we're praying for, and then you can put it back down. We're'm going to ask that you just raise your hand so I can see it, so that I know who we're praying for, and then you can put it back down. We're not going to embarrass you, but if you recognize you're not in right standing with the Lord, that you need that relationship, you need that forgiveness, just raise your hand.
Speaker 3:Thank you, Lord.
Speaker 2:Thank you, lord. I'm just going to ask that you all would repeat after me Lord, thank you for loving me, thank you for sending Jesus. I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins. I believe he rose again. Forgive me of my sin. I surrender my life to you. In Christ's name, we pray Amen.
Speaker 2:Friends, if that's you, we rejoice and we celebrate with you today and back here. If you receive Christ for the first time, we have some resources for you that will help you get started on this journey. Come and walk with us, trying to be more like Jesus and for the rest of us, as we get ready to open this altar. Like I said before, take some time, go back through your history and, whether you've repented of it or not, bring that to the Lord. If you haven't repented, this is a good time to come and say Lord, I've been doing something that I shouldn't be and it separates me from you and am so sorry. Thank you for loving me. And if it's something that you have brought to the lord before and you've been forgiven of it, now's the time to come and bring that offering of thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:Say lord, thank you for continuing to love me, even though I didn't deserve it to love me, even though I didn't deserve it. And, lord, let this remembrance keep me on the righteous path. Let this remembrance of the things that I had done in the past and the way that you loved me through it keep me, because I love you. Have it to keep me from going back to old ways or starting new destructive patterns in my life. Back to old ways or starting new destructive patterns in my life.
Speaker 2:So, lord, I just thank you for this opportunity to speak this message today. Lord, I thank you that you are willing to challenge this man so that we could be challenged but know the freedom that you offer and the love that you bring. God, I just pray that, as we open this altar, that you would help us to bring those things that need to be cut out of our lives. Help us to deal with them, let it not be a shameful thing, lord, and help us, god, to celebrate those things that you've loved us through. We praise you and we thank you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Speaker 3:In two weeks we are having the Baptist School Mercy House event. It is going to be huge this year. It's going to actually be at the elementary school there in the area. So we need you. We, as a church, we need to show up and we need to help and do everything we can for the community. So go on the app, sign up. We need different positions for you to fill. Also, we need donations so you can go on there and see a list of things. But we really want to supply for the community and their back to school for these kids. So be a part.
Speaker 4:Before we go, we want to pray this blessing over us. The Lord bless you and keep you. Lord, make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. Lord, lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Lord, I pray a blessing upon your church, your people, lord, that you empower us by your spirit to live your love out to those around us. I pray all this in the powerful name that is Jesus Christ. Amen, amen, know this, we love you very much here at Cornerstone. God bless you and have a great week.