Christ Above It All - Pastor Denny Rodney Duron

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“Christ Above It All"

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How many of y'all are ready for the Word of God this morning? You ready to get in the Bible? Come on, let's do this. Bow your head and let's pray together. God, we love you. God, we thank you for everything that you're doing. Thank you that you're worthy of it all. And God, we thank you for the move of God that happened at this motion conference with our students. God, thank you for this excitement and love that they're bringing back. And God, we want to experience you today in every day of our life. So transform us with your word today. Help us to have a great time in your presence. God, we love you. And we lift your name on high. And everybody said, Amen and amen. Hey, turn around, give a couple people high fives. You know the drill. Say hello to a couple people. You can be seated. Man, I love you, dude. Amen. You look good. Man, what a great day to be in the house of God. How many of you love just coming to the house of God and worshiping and being together? It's nothing like being in community. Last week, my dad, Pastor Denny, he preached an unbelievable message titled, He Is I Am. And he said, you know, Jesus, he's not just a list of attributes. No, he is those attributes. And because Jesus is love, now we are love. Because he is righteous, he has made us righteous. Because he is faithful, I can be faithful in my life. Because he is holy, we are made holy. Everything we become begins with understanding who our Jesus is. Put your hands together for Pastor Denny right now. If you missed that, go back and listen to it. It'll change your life. And what's amazing is that's where we're gonna be the next few weeks. Right here. And we're starting a brand new series, and it's in the book of Colossians. Everyone say Colossians. We're in the book of Colossians, and you can follow along actually on some devotions. If you take this QR code, there's some different, you know, um devotionals you can follow along with. Read Colossians, we'll be in this. Um, I don't know if you've ever done this, but you know, I don't know if you've ever been sucked into an infomercial or, you know, a social media ad, and it looked just so awesome that you ended up buying it. And then when it got to your house, it was nothing like what you thought was on the screen. Like that really cool, you know, dresser. It was a DIY, and it's like you ordered it and it gets in, it's like 2,000 pieces. And the little picture's like this big. How are you gonna put the whole thing together with one little picture? It's in different languages by the end. You're cursing life. It's nothing like what the picture was. It's not fair. I actually fell into this lately. Um, I was looking at this ad, and the ad was, it just sucked me in. Um, this ad was this like sour candy, this sour fruit candy that was all natural and it looked so good. The guy that was like eating it and showing it, and everyone else, I wanted to like reach in the screen and I wanted to eat it. Like I wanted it right then. So I ordered it. And when it came in, I was so excited. I like gathered the family around. I was like, this is gonna be amazing. And I opened it up and I put it in my mouth, and I was like, uh-huh, uh-huh. And I tried to give it to them, they're like spitting it out. I give it to the dog, the dog's like spitting it out. Like no one wants it, it's not anything like what it looked like. It was totally different. Can I tell you, Jesus Christ is the exact opposite. The closer you get to Jesus, the greater he becomes. The more time you spend with Jesus, the more magnificent Jesus becomes in your life. The deeper you go with Jesus, the more you realize he's got wisdom, he's got understanding, and there's ever-loving fulfillment like nothing else. Jesus is so great. And honestly, that's what Colossians is all about. Colossians is written by the apostle Paul, and he's telling us, he's telling us Christ is above everything. I want to stop and actually give you a quick infomercial really quickly. Um, we actually have trips here at our church that you can go on. So we have a trip coming up, and it's the footsteps of Paul. We're going to Greece. We're taking a group to Greece. So what'll happen is you'll be on a three-day cruise and then go to Rome, all the places that he taught, and so amazing things. Take this QR code if you want to go with 40 or 50 people from the church to Greece. And the other trip is honestly my favorite trip. It's the snow skiing trip. So, so next year we're going to Winter Park, Colorado. And it'll be a group of, you know, church members. Mandy Gordon is putting all this together, and it's just a lot of fun. Join a trip, infomercial over. Let's get into the word. Here we go. So, Paul, he writes this letter of Colossians. So he writes it to this church, Colisei. He's never even been to this church before. And it was founded by a man by the name of Epaphras, and this church is growing. This church is getting big. Good things are happening, miracles are happening, but then something bad starts to happen. There's false teachers in this church. And they're teaching this. They're saying, Jesus is not enough. You need Jesus plus this set of rules. You need Jesus plus this specific schedule. You need Jesus plus all these other things. And here's the thing: that's what the enemy does. The enemy doesn't just, you know, battle Jesus. The enemy wants to bring other things to get close to Jesus, where Jesus gets caught in the shuffle. And we all do this. We say, we need Jesus, plus success really means a lot to me. I got to chase success. We need Jesus, but I've got to have that relationship. And before long, well, there's other things that'll equal to Jesus. And Jesus is just one other thing in our life. But Paul in Colossians, he combats this and he says this. He says, Jesus does not need anything added to him. Jesus is more than enough. Christ above all. Say that with me. Christ above all. And that's what we're getting into today. Next week, we start 21 days of prayer and fasting. So twice a year, we do 21 days of prayer and fasting to reassure ourselves Christ is above all. We want to put him first. And in Colossians, well, Paul starts with prayer and ends with prayer. And we're going to get into prayer. But listen, before we learn how to pray, we got to know who we're praying to. And we're praying to the one that is above everything. And that's why Paul, when he starts this letter, he doesn't start with like a bunch of situations. He starts by painting a picture of who Jesus is. And he's saying this when your view and the picture of Jesus, when it changes, everything else in your life changes. So there's two words that you have to know in this teaching. So I'll just define them for you. The first is supremacy. So supremacy, the supremacy of Christ, it means there's no one above him. Come on, somebody. There's no one beside him, no one equal to him. He's not the first among many. No, he's above it all. He's Lord and He's Savior. He's above every power, authority, kingdom, problem, fear, circumstance. He's above it all. Revelation, it says this on his robe and his thigh, it's written, He's the King of Kings. Come on, somebody. He is supreme. He's above it all. Here's the second word sufficiency. Sufficiency. So the sufficiency of Christ, it means Jesus is completely enough. You get that? He doesn't need anything added to him. You don't need Jesus plus religion, Jesus plus performance. You are made complete in Jesus. So if we serve really a truly supreme savior that's completely sufficient, I'm here to tell you today that God can take care of whatever you're facing. Can I get a big amen? So let's get into what Paul says. Colossians 1.15. Turn there with me. Colossians 1.15. Here's what Paul says. Paul says, Jesus, the Son, is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all, everyone say all, all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. For God was pleased to have all the fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood shed on the cross. So he's making no qualms about it. There's no one above Jesus. And now he gets into the sufficiency because he is I am. This is what you are. Here's what Paul says. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior, but now he has reconciled you to Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation. If you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant of God. Let me get a big amen. So Paul wants us to see something. Paul wants us to see Jesus for who Jesus really is. We got to see him for who he really is. He is supreme. And when our view of Jesus changes, well, everything else changes. You know, that's why, like I said, Paul didn't start with circumstances. He didn't hear three steps to fix your marriage, three steps to take away the fear and the anxiety of your life, three steps to be successful. No. He goes straight to how big our God is. Because when God becomes big in our eyes, our faith, it begins to grow. So let's recap what he says. This is what Paul says. He is the image of the invisible God. How many of you ever said, I wish I could just see God? I wish I could just see Jesus. Well, how many of you in this room have have experienced the love of Jesus? Jesus is transformed you because this is what this is what Jesus says. He says, Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. So Jesus, he's not a little representative or God's assistant. He is God in the flesh. So if you've experienced Jesus, you've experienced Almighty God. And then Paul says this for by him all things were created. So it's pretty extreme, but this is what we believe. We believe everything the galaxies, the oceans, the mountains, the stars, every atom and heartbeat, sunrise, it all exists because of Jesus. And then he goes on and says this. He says, He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. So let's just stay here for a moment. This is so good. The same God that holds the universe together, holds your life together. But yet we question God so many times. God, how am I gonna make it through this next week? God, how's my how's my life gonna survive? My marriage, my kids, Lord, how's this gonna happen? I just I I I want to encourage you today. Can I encourage you? Here's your encouraging moment that there's never been a time in G in heaven where Jesus has looked down and said, Oh man, I didn't see that coming. What in the world? There's never been a time where Jesus said, Everybody, come here, emergency meeting. There's something happening in Shreeport. I don't know what to do. We gotta figure it out. No, friends, the same one that holds the universe together holds Shreeport together, holds your life together, holds your future together. But yet, we spend so much more time thinking about our problems. We spend so much time thinking about our situations, so much more time thinking about what we're going through rather than thinking about how big our God is. And Paul flips that on its head. Paul says, Don't start with the problems, start with Jesus. Because when we start with Jesus, well, our problems become smaller. There's a man by the name of Isaiah in the Bible. Isaiah went to the temple one day, and when he left the temple, he was encouraged after he left. He was not encouraged because he heard an amazing song. He wasn't encouraged because a great message was preached. He was encouraged because of what he saw. What vision he had. Isaiah writes this He says, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up. He had a vision. Before he ever got his assignment, he got a vision of who his God is. And we need a fresh vision. We got to have a fresh vision of who our God is, where he's sitting, where he's ruling from. He's above everything because when that happens, friends, fear and anxiety begins to shrink. Addiction and the things we're going through, it gets smaller. That mountain you face, you can face it not because it disappears, but you understand who controls everything. And I'll tell you this as a pastor, what I see a lot is people think that what they're going through is the defining nature of their life. Whatever the biggest struggle they're in, that is what defines them. So they think their biggest problem is their marriage or finances or their depression, addiction. Can I tell you God sees you and God cares about that and he's with you? But here's how we have to be careful. Because beneath these struggles is a deeper issue. We have allowed something else to become bigger than Jesus. It's dangerous. Because listen to me, whatever is biggest in your mind will usually become the master of your life. It'll dictate where you're going. So fear's biggest. Well, fear is going to be leading you where you're going. Well, success, success is biggest. Well, you're going to let God be second rate to whatever it takes you to climb that ladder. If if acceptance of people is biggest, good luck with that. Because you're going to be exhausted chasing the approval of all the people. And guess what? When you get it, it's not fulfilling anyway. I was talking to my friend the other day, and we both have kids that are in uh baseball. They're around eight, nine years old. And my friend he said, all these travel ball little league dads, um, they just care about their kid being on the best team. And he said, last year, he said, I was on that best team. He said, We won everything. We won the tournaments, got all the rings, and he said, it's not that big of a deal. He said, It's a little league travel ball. And he said, it began to take over our life. Little league travel baseball, he said, it was dictating where they went, dictated their schedule, dictated their family time, dictated their finances. And he said, I got to the point I said, baseball's not my leader. Almighty God's my leader. He said, God's number one and my family's priority. They still do baseball, but he does it on his own terms. And what I'm telling you is this is even good things that go above Almighty God will end up leading you in your life. But whenever you place God number one, everything else finds its proper place. Everything changes when your view of Jesus, when it changes, okay, at our church, we have four pillars. Everything we can do in the kingdom of God can be found in these four pillars. Repeat after me, exalt Jesus. Love each other, build his church, serve humanity. Everything we do as Christians in the kingdom can be found in these four pillars. But what is first? Exalt Jesus is first very intentionally, because without exalting Jesus being first, everything else crumbles. How do we make him number one? Well, we exalt him in everything that we do. It's gotta be first. So when you wake up in the morning, your first thought can't be, oh, this problem is so big. Your first thought needs to be, My God is so big. My God can do anything. Your first thought can't be, How am I gonna make it through this day? Your first thought is, how is my God gonna show up throughout this day? How is God gonna get me through this day? What miracles is my God gonna do? First, God's gotta be first in our schedule. Yes, in our schedule. You don't just fit God into your schedule. No, you have your time with God, then everything else is scheduled around that. It's gotta be first. God's gotta be first in our decisions. Yes, our decisions. Say, well, I have I've got common sense. I've I've got, you know, the way that I know that it, let me tell you, your common sense is going to fail you. You've got to ask Almighty God, God, what do you have for me? God, what direction do you want me to take? Gotta be first in our decisions. He's got to be first in our relationships. Yes. First in our relationships, even the most intimate ones. I was talking to a friend the other day, and they said when they got married, they had other relationships before this. But when they got married, them and their spouse, well, they made a promise to each other, and they said, Jesus will always be number one, and we will be second to each other. Jesus has to be number one. We will be second. Now, they are celebrating 18 years of marriage, and they account it to this one principle Jesus is one. And I want you to think about it like a triangle because Jesus Is here at the top, and the relationship is down here at the bottom. As you get closer and closer to Jesus, you get closer and closer to each other. Jesus number one. Jesus has got to be first in your finances and in your money. Yes. Why is that? Well, your money represents who you are better than anything else in your entire life. Represents your time, your talent, and your treasure. We believe this. We believe the tithe, it belongs to Almighty God, meaning the first 10% of any increase belongs to God. Why? Does God need my money? No, God doesn't need your money. He's got the cattle on a thousand hills. But it shows money is not dictating my life. Money is not leading me. Even my money is surrendered to Almighty God. First in everything, first in your life. That's exalting the name of Jesus. Because this is what you've got to hinge on. Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you. First, Jesus, then everything else is covered. Your family's covered. Your finances are covered. Your health is covered. Why? Because your view of Jesus changes. That is who God is. And I love what Paul's doing here because Paul paints this amazing picture of who our God is. But he doesn't just do that. And he wants us to trust that what God has done is completely enough. He shows us in verse 21. This is what he says. He says, and you who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds. How many of you remember when you were down and out before you received Jesus? Before you had the hope of Jesus? How many of you were saved by the grace of Jesus? You're glad he didn't leave you there, but he picked you up. That's what verse 22 is. It's what he says. He has now reconciled you to his body of flesh by his death in order to present you holy and blameless above reproach before him. It doesn't say you reconciled yourself to Jesus. You made up for your past. No, he reconciled you. And because he is, I am. So we serve a savior, a supreme savior, and he has a self sufficient, a complete salvation. So we have eternal life. We have salvation in him. And that is what sufficiency means. I want to tell you this Jesus doesn't need your help for your salvation. No, it is complete. And I want us to celebrate the cross was enough. Can I get an amen? The blood was enough. Can I get an amen? Come on, Jesus is enough. Put your hands together for Jesus right now. He's enough. He's enough. But we get stuck in this as Christians. We think I had a really bad past, done some really bad things. I'm gonna spend the rest of my life making up for those things so I can make it up to God. Friends, that's not the gospel. Okay, that's not what Paul's saying. Paul is the best example of this because Paul had the worst past of all. Paul killed Christians for his living, and then the love of Jesus met him on the road of Damascus, and he spent the rest of his life not making up for what he did, but living in the love of Jesus Christ. So I just said it straight for you right here. We don't obey in order to get the love of Christ. We obey from the love of Christ. He loved us first. We don't serve because, man, if I just serve, maybe I'll become a child of God. No, we serve because we are children of God. Today is serve team, fair Sunday, and every Sunday we're able to put Sundays on because we have groups all over the church making Sundays happen. Our servant leaders. Put your hands together for our servant leaders. They're amazing. Come on, we can do better than that. Put your hands together for them. They're amazing. Amazing. Thank you for what you do. Today, Serve Team Fair, you have the opportunity to join a team. It's not so you can be accepted. You're already accepted. You're welcome. But it'll transform your life. We want you to join the worship, the greeting. We have something special. We want to bolster our production team. So here's the thing: we want more sound guys. So if you've ever ran sound in a church or if you ran sound at events or anything, come sign up today. And you say, why? So I can be accepted? No. We do this because we're children of God. Think about we're worshiping. Whenever you worship, you don't stand and lift your hands. God, if I just worship good enough. God, will you see me? God, will you accept me? No, we lift our hands and say, God, thank you that you loved me at my worst. God, thank you that you picked me up when I was down and out. Thank you that I'm a child of Almighty God. Do you understand the difference? We're not trying to add to this. It's the sufficiency of what Christ has already done. And you gotta be careful because the enemy is gonna come in, and the enemy is gonna kind of just give you lies in your in your life. The enemy is gonna try to come on, give you some whispers of saying you're you're not good enough. What you did isn't enough, you're too broken, you failed too many times, you've gone too far. Friends, when was it ever about us being good enough? It's all about what Christ has already done. And because he is, I am forgiven, I am redeemed, I am accepted, I am complete in him. Everything I need is found in Jesus. If you believe everything you need is found in Jesus, give him some praise right now. Come on. Everything we need is found in Jesus. I'm gonna invite the worship team up. I'm closing right now. I love the story of David and Goliath. It's a great picture, honestly, of what I'm talking about today because David stepped on a battlefield, this little small shepherd boy against a big giant, this killing machine. And everyone around, all they saw was the natural. So everyone only saw that guy's in trouble. There's a big old giant right there. But David he saw something totally different, and you can tell by what he says. He walked on the battlefield, and David looked at the giant and he said, You might fight with sword and spear, and they're pretty big, like that's pretty impressive. But I fight in the name of the Lord my God. In other words, I fight with the one that's above everything. I fight with the one that's that's in control of it all. Actually, Goliath, he created the ground that we're standing on right now. Actually, created these trees and the sky, those birds and the dogs you want to feed me to? He created those as well. And guess what? He created you. And if the one above you says that you're gonna fall, you will fall. And that giant, he had victory over the giant. And I'm telling you, get your eyes off of the giants in your life that you can see and get your eyes up on the God that is above everything. Get your eyes on the God that has completed it all. Get your eyes on the Jesus that's more than enough because He'll take you places you could never dream. And I'm not here to tell you, act like, man, just your peace comes from just act like nothing's wrong. Like, just don't think about it. No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying your peace is remembering that Christ is greater than any problem that you will ever face. Better than any problem you'll ever face. There's a lot of fear right now, just with the provision, God providing for people, just just needs. Can I tell you this? That God will provide for you. That God will meet your needs right where you are. That God says this, I will meet your needs according to my riches and glory. Do you believe it? Because that's what God says. God can put your marriage back together. He can. God can bring your children back home. God can heal your body. Do we believe what it says in this word right here? Do we truly believe? Do we? Because if we believe, then we believe that what Jesus did is true and what Jesus did is pretty extreme. Do you believe it? Do you believe that Jesus died a complete death on the cross and he defeated death, hell, and the grave? He got up out of a borrowed tomb and he completed everything. Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Because if you believe it, then that's what Paul's saying. Paul's pointing everything, he's pointing it all back to the sufficiency. It's completed on the cross. Jesus completed it on the cross. The blood of Jesus covers all. So we can rest assured in his peace. He's going to take care of you. The cross, it was completed. So here's your question. What are you adding to Jesus? What are you adding to Jesus? Maybe it's approval, maybe it's success, relationships, maybe it's you think your ideals are better than his. Paul said that all things were created by Jesus and for Jesus. So that means your life isn't even ultimately about you. Your family is not even ultimately about you. Your kids, it's not ultimately about you, your opportunity, your success, your talents. It's not about you, it's about Jesus, and it's always been about Jesus. So today, let's stop saying, God, I want you to be part of my story. It's not your story, it's the honor and the privilege of being a part of the greatest story ever told. It's Jesus' story. And we get to be his sons and his daughters. Get your eyes up on the one that's in control of it all, and he's finished it all. Stand to your feet right now, and I'm gonna give you some next steps. This next week, when you find yourself saying, if I could just have that, I'd be okay. If I just could have could have had a little bit more of this, everything would be all right. Stop. Stop in the middle of it and get your eyes up on Jesus and say this. Jesus, you are more than enough. Say that with me. Jesus, you are more than enough. Again, Jesus, you are more than enough. This next week, when fear and anxiety, when it grips you, you don't know what to do, and you're paralyzed, stop. Get your eyes up on the one that's in control of it all. Come on, say it with me. Jesus, you are more than enough. This next week, whenever you find yourself wondering how you can make it tomorrow, I'm confused, I don't know what to do. Stop and get your eyes up on the one that's in control of it all. Say it with me. Come on. Jesus, you are more than enough. This next week, when anger grips your spirit and you're trying to rise up and you think you need more of this and you've been forgotten, stop and remember the one that's made you his child, the one that loved you before you even could love him back. And say it with me. Come on, Jesus, you are more than enough. Christ above all, he's gotta be number one and it'll transform everything. Yes, there's great little steps in the Bible and what we can do, and there's great principles, but the very first thing is get a new picture of Jesus and it changes everything in our life. So, how many of you in this place, you want to make Jesus number one in your life above everything else? Raise your hand right now. You say, I want to declare he's above it all. I believe what he's done is sufficient and he is in control. Raise your hand. You say, I don't want anything. You say, I don't want anything close to my God. Today I want to make a declaration by coming down to the front. If you raised your hand, I think we can walk to the front for a savior that created it all, that has the universe in his control. Come on, come down to the front, and I want us to pray together. If that's you, I want to make Jesus number one. Let's declare this together. And as you walk, we're not just walking down for the sake of walking down. We're declaring there's nothing above my God. There's nothing above my God. When you get down here, I want you to get your eyes up. You can like look up at the rafters for all I care, but get your eyes up right now. Everybody, get your eyes up, and I want you to see Jesus sitting on the throne. I want you to see Almighty God above it all. Get your eyes up right now. And everyone, repeat after me, Jesus, you're more than enough. God, we thank you today. Lord, we thank you that you're more than enough. I thank you for every man, woman, and child in this room. Lord, we believe in you. We declare it that you are above everything. You created everything. And God, we want you to be new in our life. Forgive us for putting things over you. Forgive us for even making our problems bigger than you. In the name of Jesus, help us to put you first. Help us to make you big every single day. I pray that the problems and situations that my friends are facing, they will begin to shrink. They will begin to dissolve, that you will do miracles just in the fact that we have a new picture of who you are. You're greater than everything. And we thank you for what you've done. God, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins. Thank you for completing it on the cross, defeating death, hell, and the grave. And because you've done it, Lord, help us to stop striving in the name of Jesus and our own strength. Help us to trust that you have finished it once and for all. So this week, God, I pray that we make you real. Come on, focus on God. This is your moment. Get your eyes up on the creator of the universe. This is your moment. Focus. God, we love you and we praise your name. Now, right now, I just want you to lift your hands. Lift your hands. Get your eyes up and now close your eyes. Close your eyes. And I want you to have a moment with Jesus. God, we love you. God, we know that you're in control. God, I pray for the needs in this room that you will meet them. But first and foremost, God, we give you this day. Come on, stay shut away with God right now. I'm gonna ask my dad to come and to close out service. But right now is your moment. Come on, stay shut away with God. Thank you, Jesus. Come on, dad.

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I want everybody, I want you just to lift your hands. Everyone, just lift your hands. Hallelujah. And I want you just to allow the realization of that message from God to fill your life. He plus nothing else. He is, therefore we are. Amen. And you have been robbed of what God wants to do for you because you have felt unworthy. Because I, you know, I I love what Weston said when he stood here and he said, he said, I never felt good enough. Well, that's the whole point of this message. This message is yes, you're being made holy, but you are absolutely 100% righteous because he gave you that righteousness. You lift your hands right now, and I want you right now just to behold him and love him and wait on him. Sometimes we get in a hurry to rush away from this place, and this is that one moment during the week where we gather unto the Lord. This is such a valuable, priceless moment in his presence. Lift your hands right now and just bless him and just thank him that he is number one in your life. Even if it doesn't feel like it, he is number one in your life and he is in control. He is the one who's gonna see you through because he's already paid the price. Just lift your hands and say, Lord God, I know that you are number one in the whole universe. You're number one. So you absolutely are number one in my life. I declare you in control of my life. I declare you in control of my future. Lord, we bless you. We give you glory. Oh, hallelujah. Lord, let this message burn in us. Lord, I feel like my life will never be the same because of this morning. Lord God, I'm gonna walk away from this place, understanding as never before, you are worthy of it all. You are in control, you are preeminent. Lord, we give you glory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Bless the name of the Lord. Now, I'm gonna bless you. And as you leave this place and as you greet each other, I told the I told the worshipers, I just told Nathaniel, the worshipers, I just said, I want y'all sing something hot when they leave. I want you to go out here with a little fire, amen. Just some something you'll you'll go sing in the car when you get in the car. You'll be singing it. All right? But right now I want to bless you because this is gonna mean more to you than it's ever meant. May the God of Jacob protect you from all harm. Say he's more than enough. May the Lord answer you when you're in distress. Say he's number one. May He send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion. I want you to say, I don't need anybody else. May He remember all your best sacrifices and accept all your best offerings. Say He's number one in my finances. May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. Say He is my plan. May He no, and yes, we will shout for joy over your victory. Lift up our banners in the name of our God. Say, I'll always worship Him first. May the Lord, come on, say it. May the Lord answer all your prayers. Give the Lord praise for the word that we heard today. Amen.

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