Waiting On God | James 5:7-12 | Mitchell Johnson

This week at Ambassador Church, guest speaker Mitchell Johnson walks through the beginning of James chapter 5 and the Christian's call to wait on the Lord.

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Welcome to the Ambassador Church Podcast, a church in the city for the city, on Milwaukee's east side. We pray this message meets you where you are, challenges your faith, and draws you closer to Jesus.

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Y'all, how y'all doing this morning? Good, good. Okay, y'all. It's so great to be here in Milwaukee. Um, I've never been here before. Um, and so probably even before like I got here, I wouldn't have been able to tell you really where Milwaukee was on the map. Um, I've been in Louisiana and Texas most of my life. Um, and y'all, God is doing some crazy things here. So, first off, shout out to Jarrett and all of the team out of Ambassador. Uh, y'all, will y'all give it up for Jared? Like, he's such an incredible lead pastor. Um, y'all, in this church planning journey, like I've turned to Jared for like questions, and he's given me help. He's given me all the resources. Uh, I keep telling him one day he's gonna be coaching church planners because he's basically coaching me. Um, and so y'all have such a gift in Jared and Trisha and just the team that they are. Um, so bro, thank you so much for having me here. Um, and just like he said, my name is Mitchell Johnson. Uh, just a little bit about me. Um, I'm originally from New Orleans, and so I moved from New Orleans to Texas when I was 12 because of Hurricane Katrina. Um, my family was actually trapped for four days. That is a like total nother story. If you want to ask me if you have a few hours of time, I will definitely tell it to you. Um, and then moved to Texas and I went to Texas Tech for college. Anybody heard of Texas Tech? Wreck'em, come on. Um, yeah, it it doesn't make a lot of sense why I'm in Austin and now uh trying to reach college students like that are Longhorns, if you think about it. Uh but honestly, Longhorns really need Jesus. So that's why uh that's why we chose to plant there. Um I spent several years on staff doing college ministry in Austin, Texas. And so my wife and I have actually been there for seven years. So we get to build on a foundation of ministry that we've already been engaging in. Um and we get to plant this church, and it's called the Way Church. Um and here's a little picture of my family on the side, just so you could see them. They were not able to be here. We have a little son named Trey who's about to be 17 months. Um, but uh he wakes up and acts like he's late for an appointment. And so I don't know if he's 17 months, 17 years old. Um, but uh I met my wife Hannah doing college ministry at the University of Texas. Uh, she did a ministry called Athletes in Action, and uh her job was to reach um and baptize and make disciples of college athletes at UT. Um, and so we're really excited to be planting this church called The Way Church. We're launching this fall. So y'all are like a year ahead of where we are going to be at this point. Um, and so thank y'all so much because y'all are special, especially to me being here this weekend, because the amount of faith and patience that it takes to be a part of a new church and a church plant and doing something as crazy um as starting a new church in Milwaukee, y'all, it's a noble task. So thank you for saying yes to this. Y'all and y'all are an encouragement to me and my family. Um, and yeah, grateful to be here with you guys. And so if you have a Bible, go ahead and turn to James chapter five. And we're also gonna have some of the verses on the screen, and that's where we're uh gonna be in this morning as we are in the second to the last sermon in the series on James, which is the longest series that you guys have been in. Um and I was talking to Jared, and we were like, you could probably be in this series for a lot longer because there's so much to unpack here. Um, and this morning, there's gonna be a few different concepts that we're gonna be talking about in the book of James. But just to give uh some of us a reminder, uh James is the half-brother of Jesus. I mean, what a standard to live up to. Uh, he's a half-brother of Jesus, he's a full Mary, uh full son of Mary and Joseph. And this portion of the letter is actually written to Christians who are oppressed. And it comes right after James rebukes these um unrepentant, rich oppressors. And James tells these believers to wait on God in the midst of their suffering. And that's so much easier said than done. To wait on God in the midst of suffering. And the Holy Spirit, through James, wants to speak into this season of redemptive history, which I call the messy middle. Like it's between when Jesus left and sent the Holy Spirit to us and the point where Jesus is coming back. It seems like we're in a bit of a mess right now with the Holy Spirit. Um, and so I call that the messy middle. And the Holy Spirit wants to speak through James into this season of history where we're waiting on Jesus' return. And waiting on Jesus in this broken, busted up world is incredibly hard. Amen. Like y'all can say amen to that, right? It is so hard to wait on the Lord. And when I think of waiting, I think of some trivial things. Like I think of my mom, and she is literally the slowest driver I've ever met in my life. And I don't know if y'all have ever been to Texas, uh, but maybe if you've been even in Iowa or wherever, there's this like long interstate called I-35, and it is the worst place in the world. Um, and whenever my mom gets on I-35, man, she might be pulled over because she's going too slow. And anytime when I was younger, we'd go on a drive for more than 20 minutes. I asked, wow, are we there yet? Are we there yet? Basically, like that old school movie. Um, and uh I was such an impatient person. I still am naturally an impatient person. Um, and I'm willing to bet that most of you guys are too, even when it comes to small things. And there's these everyday kind of like things where we wait on uh not just like in lines, but also like most of us are waiting for gas prices to get a little bit lower. Uh, most of us are waiting to buy things like our first home. Most of us are waiting on something, right? Um, now what happens when the things that we're waiting on are not coming and our circumstances are getting a bit more uncomfortable? Like, there was a year when I was younger where my mom went to prison for a year. And in the beginning, my family couldn't bring themselves to actually tell me what was going on, and I didn't know where she was. And I'd wait for her every single day to come home. I was about nine, ten years old. And I remember waiting on her, and it became nearly unbearable as time went on. Because this was my mom we're talking about. The person who's loved me, raised me, and cared for me. And it was really hard to wait for her to get back home. Maybe some of you guys are waiting for similar hard things, uncomfortable things like waiting on a job, waiting for healing, physical healing, waiting for some good news in the midst of our broken, fallen world. And many of us are in a season of waiting right now in James' original audience. They were facing a lot of oppression, a lot of poverty, a lot of loss. This letter was also written to people in the thick of the messy middle like us. And so if we flip back to chapter one, James opens this whole letter with this. He says, Count it all joy when you face trials of various kinds. Count it all joy when you face trials of various kinds. And our culture sometimes tells us that because if we subscribe to Jesus, life should be free of hardship and full of prosperity. Your life should be easy now that you are a part of God's people. But James says right out the gate that you can count it all joy, not if you meet trials of various kinds, but when you meet trials of various kinds. Like they are coming and they are various. And yet, James says, whatever it is, you can take it. You can go through it with joy, and it will make you a steadfast person. And so, how does this work? James gives us four things to really look at when it comes to patience, but here's really our big idea waiting is not wasted if it's in Christ. Your waiting is not wasted if it's in Christ, because God is forming something in you while you wait. And actually, I have three points, not four. Uh here's how James is gonna show us that's one, patience is purposeful. Two, your patience can be proven. And three, patience points to a person. So let's hop in verse seven. Patience is purposeful, point one. And James says in verse seven, therefore, brothers and sisters, be patient until the Lord's coming. And so right out the gate he says, Remember that Jesus is coming back. He might not be here right now, but he is coming back. And then he says, See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts because the Lord's coming is near. And so he talks about the fact that Jesus is coming back and reminds us of that truth that should always be in front of us, that this world is temporary, that Jesus is coming back to make all things new. And then he goes from talking about his ri big brother Jesus coming back to talking about farming. How many of you guys grew up on a farm? It's not me. Most of y'all didn't. Um and so uh, but here's what I've learned about farmers uh being in West Texas for a little bit, where there's a lot of farmers. Uh, farmers understand how patience will produce produce. Like, your patience, if you're patient with the Lord, like it's gonna produce like actual fruit, actual things that are needed to sustain us. So it's gonna actually produce produce. See what I did there. There are some of the most people, uh, most patient people in the world, these farmers. Um, they are men, they are women who uh are not frazzled by traffic, they can wait in a line and not pull their phone out. Like they are very patient people. You can find whatever grade seed you want if you're a farmer. And you can find the best soil, you can have the largest field, you can have the best tools, but they realize that you cannot buy enough stock in the world to become God and make it rain. So they have no control over that. Farmers know this truth. So the farmer has to wait. But they know that their waiting is not in vain because eventually God will bring rain and he's gonna produce the growth. And the farmer waits with purpose because he knows his patience will lead to production. And now, here's this thing that hurts us when we try to be patient, when we're trying to wait in hard circumstances, and it's this idol called control. Control. And it's a popular idol of our day. Here's the thing about control it's really a mirage. You don't actually have control, you don't. Like I'm in the middle of church planning right now, and Hannah and I have a vision. We even have a great team, and we have a date that we're hoping to start this church and meet every single week. But every single week, right now, God is reminding us that we are not in charge, that our plans can change. Sometimes God sees our plans, and the Bible says he literally laughs at them because he's really in control. Our timelines can shift, people come and people go. We just had to send a couple of our friends because one of our friends got a great new job in Atlanta, and we're like, man, that's awesome. But also, like, why? We envision like this whole future of planting this church with you guys, with our kids, like hanging out together. And God keeps teaching us the same lesson that the farmer already knows. You do the faithful work and you trust God to bring the rain and produce the growth. James is saying that good things come to those who wait on the Lord. And patience establishes our hearts, it grounds us in the gospel, and it humbles us and reminds us that it is God who is in charge, not us. And it's anchored by this reminder that the Lord will return. James says this twice in those couple of verses. The Lord will return. And now James is gonna show us what impatience looks like in the midst of our suffering and trials, and what steadfastness looks like side by side. So, uh, verse nine, and we're gonna go to point two, which is patience is proven. Patience is proven. So he gives us some warnings here. Verse nine, he says, brothers and sisters, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door. So let's break that down for a second. When life got hard here, the recipients of this letter started turning on one another. I don't know how much you know trashy TV you guys may watch. Over the past couple of years, uh, my wife has tricked me into uh watching uh The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. It's like one of those things, don't judge me, covered by the blood. Uh it's one of those things where like I kind of walk back and forth, and we got some friends in the living room, and I'm making dinner, I'm doing my thing, and I'm like, why are y'all watching this? And then all of a sudden, like I stop at one point, I'm like, wait, watch you do that. And then I start getting into the show, right? And uh usually the most interesting parts of those shows is when people turn on one another, right? It's like a sight to see. Um, and this is what was happening in probably a totally different way, uh, with the people that James was writing to. It's one of the clearest signs of impatience in hard times. We take it out on the people closest to us because we cannot control our circumstances. We're like, what can we control? Maybe other people, maybe our homes, maybe our friends. It's the easiest thing in the world to aim our frustration, our anger, and our bitterness at one another. But at the end of the day, it does nothing to heal us. It's just another symptom of this mirage of control. Your gossip, your complaining, your slander does not heal you. Your building walls between friends will not heal you because it's like this old saying, hurt people just hurt people. And what you're doing is continuing this cycle of pain because your pain cannot be relieved by everything you're trying to control. And then at the end of this section, James also brings in this idea of swearing or swearing by an oath. So we're gonna hop down to verse 12 real quick because I feel like these two are really connected. And James kind of hops around a little bit uh in uh this passage. And so verse 12 he says, Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth, or with any other oath, but let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no, so that you won't fall under judgment. So notice the progression here. Don't retaliate, don't complain, and above all, don't swear oaths. And each one of these is a sin that comes from the mouth that overflows from a heart of impatience. And each one gets more dangerous. Yes, complaining turns your frustration on your community, and oath swearing takes it a little bit further. And now I wanted to spend a little bit of time here because a lot of times we can read passages like this, and we're just like, okay, I don't really struggle with some of those things. Um, so I'm gonna break this down and maybe it will be helpful for you. Now, James isn't talking about formal vows or taking oaths like a marriage covenant or in a courtroom. Uh he's echoing what his big brother Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount. And he's addressing something more every day. When we're pressured, suffering people do with their words, or when we're pressured, what suffering people do with their words when they're running out of patience actually matters. And so practically, this can look like, um, and I've seen it in my own life, my myself do this when we are making rash vows. We say things like, God, I swear if you get me out of this, right? If you get me out of this, I'll never sin again. I swear. If you get me out of this, I'll never miss church again. I promise I'll be back. I'll be serving you, I'll sign up for safe families, and I'll do kids' ministry, I'll do everything, I promise. Or it can look like invoking God to validate your complaints. Like, I swear to God, this isn't fair. Like, I swear to God, God knows I'm right. And you're using God's authority to back up the very complaining that James is telling us to stop. Then it can look like manipulating with dramatic language. I promise on everything. Or I swear on my life. And it escalates speech to try to control people or situations rather than trusting God for the outcome. And then it can look like making careless commitments made out of frustration, swearing you'll never speak to that person who hurt you ever again. Swearing that you're never gonna step foot into church ever again because God did not answer a prayer. Declarations made in the heat of the moment that you wouldn't make with a clear head is what James is talking about. And the thread connecting all of it again is control. We can't use God's name like this credit card to force a result. He's saying no, you already know what to do. You wait on the Lord's return. Wait on the Lord. The alternative is what James says. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. And it's a call to the kind of integrity that flows from steadfastness. Right? A person grounded in the gospel doesn't need dramatic oaths to prop up their word. No, it's their character shaped by patient faith. That will speak for itself. That'll speak for itself. So since our complaining and our swearing doesn't heal us, they have this direct connection to us needing to remember the good news of Jesus Christ, which is the gospel. Because a lot of times we forget that Jesus is the ultimate judge. That's also what James is saying in this text. It says that Jesus, Judge Jesus, that would be a crazy reality show, Judge Jesus, is standing at the door with his hand on the doorknob, ready to make all things right. Like he will return. Christ is bringing the justice that you want and grave. So we must wait on the justice of God. But James doesn't just warn us, he gives us a couple examples from the Old Testament to follow in the midst of our waiting. I love it how so many times in the New Testament, uh the authors of Scripture will quote other scriptures to make their point about Jesus. And that's what he does here. In verse 10, he says, Brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord's name as an example of suffering and patience. See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You've heard of Job's endurance and have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about. The Lord is compassionate and merciful. So he talks about two different people prophets and Job. So a prophet's job was to speak on behalf of God, usually to a king or to a nation, and it was a culturally radical thing to do. And the recipients of uh this letter would have respected the prophets as heroes. There were heroes who had a really hard life doing really hard things and waiting on God to bring justice, but they never got to see practically the justice that God would bring. So the author of Hebrews has a place where he describes the trials that the prophets endured. And he said that they were tortured, they were mocked, they were flogged, they were chained, they were imprisoned, they were sawn in two, they were stoned, and they wandered in deserts and caves, people of whom the world was not worthy. The prophets suffered and died while being obedient to the Lord. And they knew that there would be a day that was coming in the future where they God would bring and send a redeemer to save them. James reinforces this point. Your pain and your trials are not unnatural. The prophets before you had the same things going on. And they did not even know who Judge Jesus would be. And then James zooms in on one character named Job. Job. And Job has a whole book in a Bible about him. And Job was this holy man who lost everything. He lost everything. And he lost his lifestyle, his family, his health. He had various trials, literally. But he held his faith. And that might be insane for the people around you to actually hold on to your faith when everything sucks. Right? Even his wife said, Curse God and die. Why would you continue to wait and serve the Lord while we've lost all these things? But Job replied, Shall we receive good from God and shall we not receive evil? And says, in all of this, Job did not sin with his lips. Like Job's heart still knew that God would eventually redeem and save him. And then we see this later on in the book of Job. In Job 19, verses 25 through 27, he says this, and it's foreshadowing the Redeemer that we have in Jesus. He says, For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold and not another. Job doesn't fight back or try to get even with God because of his circumstances. He doesn't complain, he doesn't swear oaths. No, he waits on God. He waits on God. And James uses Job to show us the purpose of every trial as a Christian, is that we would see the Lord more clearly. This is how I think about it sometimes. God is this big and beautiful and glorious like picture, like always in front of me. But a lot of times, whether it be in trials or just because of my own sin, I put things in front of my vision of how beautiful and big God is. And a lot of times God will let and allow trials to happen to us because he wants us to be connected to him. He wants to take away the things that are separating you and him because he cares more about a relationship with you than your comfort. God loves you and wants that relationship with you. And Job, even right here, says, My Redeemer will live, he will save me. And there is nothing special about the prophets or Job. It's not like they had a different type of faith. No, we have the same spirit as Christians that raised Jesus from the dead. And so we have the same type of hope. We have the same type of faith, even in a greater way. So there was nothing special about them, but there is something special about God. There's not something special about the prophets or Job, no, but there is something special about Jesus that we need to see. Because while our trials are various and are ever-changing, Jesus never changes. He never changes. The author C.S. Lewis says that pain is God's megaphone. Pain is God's megaphone. And what he's saying with that is that God uses trials and suffering and patience to get our attention, to show us that he is compassionate and merciful. And we are people who quickly forget God, we quickly forget about the gospel, we forget that God is good, but God, as a gracious father, is willing to break down any barrier to get to your heart. He wants you to remember that while you're not in control, he is. And he is the safest place you can be. And that takes us to point three. Patience points to Jesus. Patience points to Jesus. And this is the good news, what we call the gospel that we talk about and get hype about and we worship for all the time. God uses all of his resources to send his son, Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is this embodiment of God's mercy and compassion. He's God's only son. He sends him to do what we can never do in our complaining, in our impatience, in our unrighteousness, in our control. And Jesus suffers way more than the prophets, way more than Job, way more than all of us in this room. He suffers and dies so that we could be saved and have a relationship with God. He dies because of our sin. He took our place, and yet he rises from the grave, defeating Satan, sin, and death. And he rises from the grave. He's never going to be put in the grave again. And looking at Jesus and keeping our eyes on Jesus will remind us that our trials will soon come to an end. I love how Peter says that these are light momentary afflictions that we face. They're momentary because there will be a day where we are in front of Jesus, He's wiping every tear from our eyes. There's going to be no more cancer, no more pain, no more sickness, no more death, and we will get to be with our Redeemer forever and ever and ever. Amen. There is a day that is coming, so therefore we should keep our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. And this same Redeemer promises you that every act of patience and obedience in your trials, in your suffering, every cheek turned, every kind act in the middle of your hard times, it is all worth it. Isaiah 40, maybe some of you guys know this because of remember the titans. Isaiah 40 says that they who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. See, many of us will do all that we can to avoid suffering. We'll even avoid God so we don't have to think about suffering. But you cannot avoid suffering. Remember, it's not if the trials come, they will come. If you're not in one right now, one is coming for you. And that's hard. I'm sorry about that. But the beautiful thing about Jesus is that, and this is why he's so appealing to every demographic, every background, is like your good morals can't grant you a painless life. And that's hard. That's tough. And your power or money can't actually buy you a painless life. It's only by faith in Jesus that you will have the Holy Spirit to help you endure this life and ultimately be delivered. You will be delivered. See, when my mom was locked up, I waited on her for a very long time. And I didn't know Jesus when I was at this age, and so it was really hard. It felt really hopeless. And it wasn't my strength that made 10-year-old me patient. No, it was me thinking about my mom walking through those doors. It was me knowing that I don't see her right now, and I don't know when she's coming back, but I know one day she's gonna put her hand on that doorknob, and I'm gonna see a turn, and that door's gonna open, and it's gonna be my mom. It wasn't about my strength that made that uh young me patient. It was the object of my hope. It was the object of my patience, it was the end goal of my patience. Your waiting has an expiration date, y'all. Your waiting has an expiration date. There is a day coming when faith will become sight. And that the judge at the door is not just coming with justice, but he's coming to rescue you and bring you home. Jesus is going to meet us when all of this is over with even more excitement when we finally go home with him. And there's this Dutch Christian watchmaker and resistance leader named Corey Tinboom. She has a crazy story, if you've ever heard of it. With her family, she saved hundreds of Jewish people and resistance workers from the Nazis during World War II. And she made it by looking to Jesus. By looking to Jesus, like she faced some impossible odds here, right? And I just literally thought about this quote in this story when I was sitting there, so I don't have it on the screen. I'm sorry. But she said this really good word that I hope that maybe you guys will write down and remember in your hearts. Like, how do you make it in the midst of this type of pain and suffering in this type of hardship where you're hiding people from the Nazis? And she wrote this. She said, if you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at God, you'll be at rest. I'm gonna say that again. If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God, you'll be at rest. So, Ambassador Family, what does all of this truth mean for us this week? Well, I have two things I want you to consider. First, where are you trying to control the rain? Where are you trying to control the rain in your life? What outcome are you kind of white knuckling right now that God has not given you authority over? Maybe it's a relationship or a job or a timeline, maybe it's something even really incredibly hard that maybe you need prayer from a pastor or one of the team members here about. But where are you trying to control the rain? Maybe it's showing up in the promises you are making, maybe it's overcommitting or over-declaring or leveraging God's name to prop up your frustrations or your plans. But remember, the farmer does the faithful work and trusts that God will bring the growth. That God will bring the production. So let your yes be yes and your no be no. We don't need to overperform to get God's attention, y'all. That's not how we get into the kingdom. That's not how we're even sustained in the kingdom. No, God loves you because he loves his son. And it's because of what his son has done that you are made righteous and that you are saved. And it's because of what his son has done that you will be delivered. So, where do you need to release your grip this week? And second, who are you complaining against? Maybe in your heart, as life squeezes you, who is catching the overflow of that? Is it a roommate or a parent or a spouse, a friend, maybe even a leader here at this church? And James says that impatience under trial tends to turn outward. We tend to take out our lack of control and our frustration about that on other people. But let that not be so here at this church. That's something that we can take a step today as we worship, we can repent over. And we can ask God to change our hearts towards the people that we're hard-hearted against. We can ask God to free us from this mirage of control that we're trying to get. So if your suffering has made you bitter towards someone in this room or in your life, would you just bring that to the Lord and actually give that to him and repent of that this morning? And this whole passage comes down to this you are not in control. But the one who is is so good. Jesus is so good, y'all. And he's close. James says that the judge is standing at the door, and that's meant to be this idea that we don't know when he's coming back, but he's close. And not only that, he doesn't want to be close to you as if he's standing on the other side of this room behind the door, but he wants to be close to you right now. And maybe there's some of you in this room who don't have that relationship with the Lord, and you're like, man, like how do I actually endure my suffering or your trials? Y'all, Jesus wants to be in a relationship with you. He wants to give you his spirit so that you can endure as he did going to the cross. And he wants to deliver you and bring you back home. God is not far off and indifferent to your pain, no. He's given you something to help you sustain in the suffering and the patience, and it's his son Jesus Christ. And it's not about your trials or the waiting. No, remember, strength comes from the object of your waiting, who you're waiting on. And this is why we worship to see Jesus as more big and more beautiful in the midst of our suffering and trials in the messy middle.

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Let's pray, Father. Thank you for meeting us. But you want to. God, you sent your one and only son, Jesus, to live the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Not because we were good enough, not because we're church people, but because, God, we were desperate and had no hope apart from you saving us. God, just like you delivered us from our sin and from Satan and from death, God, you will deliver us from this broken, busted up world. God, will you help us to lean into you? And even as we remember who you are and what your son Jesus has done for us while we worship and as we take communion, God, will you help us to lean in? Not just know it in our heads, but also our hearts. Will you help us to live it out with our hands? God, would this church be a church that waits on the Lord? Would we wait on the Lord, Father?

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Amen.

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Thanks for listening to the Ambassador Church Podcast. To learn more, visit ambassadormke.org or follow us on Instagram at Ambassador MKE. And if you're in the Milwaukee area, we'd love to see you this Sunday at 10 a.m. at 2308 East Bellevue Place. Grace and peace.