When Now Invades the Future

You're living in someone else's answer to prayer right now. The inheritance somebody left. The sacrifice somebody made. The well somebody dug. You didn't earn it — you just showed up and started drawing from it. And here's the question that should keep you up at night: What are you digging for somebody who hasn't shown up yet?

Every choice you make right now is quietly invading someone's future. That's not a concept. That's a reality. And it raises a pretty important question: What are you paying the price for today that future generations will still be drawing from?

In this episode, we dig into John 4 and the story of the woman at the well — a tired Savior, a broken woman, and a well dug nearly 2,000 years before that moment by a man named Jacob who had no idea what God was setting up. Jacob just had a need. God had a legacy in mind.

We're not just talking about buying land or putting up a building. We're talking about doing the kind of hard work — the hand-dug, no-guarantees, nobody-pats-you-on-the-back kind of work — so that people who haven't even been born yet can encounter Jesus in a real and life-changing way.

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And so this is just for me building right into uh my message today. You can go to John chapter four if you want to. It's the heart of why we're willing to take a step and make a shot at buying a piece of property. It's why we're doing what we're doing, because the reality is when now invades the future is the title of this message, that every moment right now is shaping a future moment of our lives and for somebody else's life. We don't always think about that. The world kind of just gets us to focus on this moment. But the reality is everything that we do now is shaping the future some way. We just bought a piece of property in a home about a year ago, and somebody had drilled a well on that piece of property long before we got there. Works great for me because now I don't have to pay to water my garden or water my horse. I can just leverage that. I didn't dig it. I did, I guess you could say I paid for it because I bought the land and property, but it wasn't something that I put in the work to do, but I am benefiting from the work that somebody else did. And the reality is, like a lot of us, this church sits here today. Why? Because somebody was willing to pay it ahead so that we could benefit now. That every action in our life now has a future consequence. If you don't believe me, eat Andy's for a month straight and see what happens to your body in a month. Right? I mean, every action now, eventually, there's there's consequences that come, and they're either the ones we want or we don't want. Why? Because every moment, every action in this moment is shaping a future moment for all of us. It is the reality that God has called us to. And so for some of us, the reality is we are in a good financial place because we had parents or grandparents who saved up an inheritance and positioned us to be better than we would have been financially on our own. If any of you guys have some of those, you can kick them my way. I would love to help you spend some of that money somehow, some way. If we have kids that are driving, I don't know about you, but there was a season in our life where our two kids drove nicer vehicles than my wife and I did. Why? Because we paid it forward for them to end up getting ahead beyond me. My first vehicle, I'd give anything to get it back now. A 1982 Chevy half ton, the old square bodies. It was brown, so it was nicknamed the turd. I'm sorry for the language. I mean, it just it was what it was. It was the best truck in the world, but man, I paid $2,500 for it. I mean, my kids were driving cars with Apple CarPlay and air conditioning and cruise control and all these things. I'm like, what is that, man? I still had to, you know, crank a window down and push the triangle wedge out if I wanted AC in my truck. We get it, that there are moments that we set up other people to experience things better than we did. Because every moment now is an opportunity to shape a future moment. That's what legacy is when we talk about being legacy builders is one of our core values. If you've been reading the Bible plain with us that we're going through Proverbs 13, 22, we read this. It says, good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren. But sinner's wealth passes on to the godly. The reality is there is an inheritance that we're leaving that's so much more than money. Like we often just think about inheritance in terms of money. But we are shaping an inheritance of faith for our kids and for our grandkids. Like to me, that scripture is so much more than am I saving up enough money in a retirement plan or an inheritance to give to my kids one day? I mean, I hate to break your heart, but statistics tell us that most kids that get an inheritance blow through it really fast and it disappears. It's just the stats, it's the truth. Because they didn't work for it, they didn't earn it, it came way too easy and they don't know what to do with it in that moment. But man, we have an opportunity to build an inheritance that's way better than any financial inheritance that we can pass on. It's an eternal inheritance of faith as we shape another generation. And so, why do we want to buy a piece of property and build a building on it one day? I'm not doing that to make our life easier so we don't have to get here at 645 to set up and tear down every week. That is a byproduct of that. Praise God, I will celebrate the day when it happens, but we are doing that because my hope is, and we're gonna see in John 4 in just a little bit, that we want to leave an inheritance, that we want to create a space where generations can experience Jesus. And if we do that right, there's a reality that one day I won't be here anymore. I will be in heaven, living my best life ever. And if we do this right, hopefully you're gonna be there with me. And should the Lord tarry, there's gonna be generations that we've never met still meeting in that space, experiencing Jesus too. That's why we want that. That's why we believe God has called us to this moment. That we want to be a place where marriages can be built healthy and strong and whole because the world is doing everything it can to destroy them. We wanna be a space where parents can learn how to parent our kids and raise up a godly inheritance of faith in our children and grandchildren. I've said this from the get-go. Don't measure how well I've done by whether my kids follow Jesus. Measure how well I've done by whether my grandkids follow Jesus. That is the true measurement of success. Because if I did that right, then that means I taught my children how to reproduce their faith, and they will teach their children how to reproduce that same faith. And so this is why we feel called to do what we're called to do. And we want to look at John 4. It's this moment, maybe you've heard the story of the woman at the well. She had an encounter with Jesus, and there was this moment where she experienced Jesus that I think models the space that we hope to create in the church that we're going to build. And so, John 4, starting in verse 4, Jesus was on a journey, all right? And so we're kind of picking up with him and his boys on their way on a journey. It says John 4, 4, that he had to go through Samaria on the way. And eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sikar near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired from a long walk, sat wearily beside the well at noontime. If you ever wonder if life was hard for Jesus, he was tired from a long walk and kind of weary. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, Please give me a drink. He was alone at that time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food, and the woman was surprised, for Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritans. And she said to Jesus, You're a Jew and I'm a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink? There's this moment for Jesus. There's this moment for this woman potentially. It's noontime. It says Jesus was tired. Anyone ever show up to church and you still just feel a little bit tired? It's alright. I've been up since four. That there are moments where life, if we're just honest, like Jesus, maybe like that woman, says that he was just weary and set down. Like you ever have a moment where life has just kind of left you feeling like I'm a little tired and a little weary. It was probably noontime. There's a good shot where they were at, the sun's beating down on them. It's hot, it's hard. And for us, we want to create this safe space where real people can experience Jesus. Where people who may be tired in this life can have a moment to come sit down and experience what it's like to be refreshed by Him. People that are weary from the things that are happening in this life can have a moment to sit down and find rest in Him. And in order to do that, we have to be real and we have to be honest with people and create a safe space where we can just acknowledge life is hard. Sometimes life is hard, whether we like it or not, because we're suffering the consequences of our own bad decisions. You don't have to raise your hands, but I'm good at that, right? I make dumb choices. I realize sometimes I'm reaping the things that I've sowed that I didn't really want to enjoy now, but I am. And there are other times where I'm making the right choices and doing what I feel God has called me to do. And guess what? Life is still hard too. Anyone else ever feel like that? Like, man, God, I'm trying to do the right thing, and it seems like it's getting hard. And in this moment, here's Jesus with this woman. They're having the same moment. God is following where Jesus is following where God has led him to go. And yet in this moment, he's tired, he's weary, he's doing what he's supposed to, and yet we have this moment where he has an encounter with somebody. And for us, we want to build a space where it doesn't matter where you're coming from in life. You can be lost and far from him. You can feel like the least that doesn't belong here. You can feel like somebody who's just left over and left out in society. I don't care where you come from. My hope is that when you come here, you can experience Jesus and find the rest and the hope and the strength that you need in him. That whatever your story is, I don't care what Friday night brought for you or Saturday night brought for you, I'm glad you're here today. And my prayer is today you experience what you need to find the strength to get up tomorrow and follow him. That's why we need to create spaces where those that are hurting and tired and weary can come experience what Jesus had. To follow those words where Jesus said, all who are weary and heavy laden can carry their burdens to him and find rest for their souls. And when we create this, the reality is sometimes it's going to surprise people. Because Jesus was hanging out with a Samaritan woman. If you don't understand what that is like, picture today's political spectrum. Pick the person on the farthest side of the left that you can imagine in your mind. Pick the other person on the farthest side of the right of the political spectrum that you can imagine, and then sit them together at this well to have a conversation. That's what this moment was like. They hated each other. They did not get along. They did not just kind of have a little bit of tension, like they hated each other. And yet Jesus sits down to talk to somebody that the world has told him he's supposed to hate. And he wants you, and he's seeking you. So much so that he's created this space and place so that you can find him. How do I know that? Because Jesus did it for me. I'm not up here because I've got it all together. I'm up here because, man, I'm I'm jacked up, and he's the only one who can save me. And he's changed my life, and I'm just so in love with him that I want to share him with as many people as I can so they can experience the same hope that I found in him. And in order to do that, we got to create safe spaces. And sometimes people won't understand. Religious people will criticize why do we need another church? Cool. Criticize away. I'm gonna keep doing what God's called me to do. There are gonna be moments where people outside of the church are gonna struggle to want to come in because man, you're sharing grace and truth, and that's kind of uncomfortable in today's world. It is. People won't understand why. I've had people ask, why a cowboy church? Why wouldn't you just keep it safe and make it easier for other people to find? Because this is what God's called me to do, and I don't live in boxes, I live outside of them. We can do what makes sense to us, or we can just simply surrender to Jesus and do what makes sense to him. And my invitation to you today is that we create a space where we can just learn to come to him and trust him and surrender it all to him and create a space that's safe enough for us to do that. Let's keep going. John 4, I'm gonna skip through some chunks. If you want some homework this week, you go read John chapter 4, because if I preached it all, we're gonna be here for about an hour and a half, all right? And I'll get angry, you'll get mad at me, and it'll be a really bad experience for everybody, okay? And so Jesus has this moment where the woman and him are going back and forth, she's trying to deflect. And so Jesus, in this moment, in this conversation with her, John 4, 16, Jesus says this to her, Go get your husband. Pretty bold statement. Jesus told her, She said, I don't have a husband, the woman replied. And Jesus said to her, You're right. You don't have a husband, for you've had five husbands, and you aren't even married to the man you're living with now. You certainly spoke the truth. Somewhere I want to create a space. It's built into the core value of who we are, where we can be uncomfortably real because we need to have uncomfortable conversations in the world we live in. I feel like I've grown up in church my entire life. And one space the church has failed is we're not willing to step into the uncomfortable spaces of society. We're told what we're supposed to talk about and what we're not supposed to talk about, and stay in the safe line somewhere in between. But Jesus, if we're gonna follow him, stepped right into a space that was very uncomfortable. He calls out this woman's sin. Obviously, somebody's recording this story, so he calls out this woman's sin in front of other people, and we're still reading about it 2,000 years later. And so, how do we reconcile that with a Jesus that we're told we're supposed to live or the way we're supposed to act? We create these awkward moments because Jesus stepped into awkward spaces and awkward conversations, and he didn't just allow sin to exist around him and not have that conversation. He spoke truth into the moment, and yet he was fully grace at the same time, and so whether we like it or not, sometimes the most graceful thing we can do is tell somebody the truth. In today's world, that is not the picture we often paint, but that is the picture Jesus painted. See, we use this phrase and it grates against me just a little bit. So hear me. I'll tell you why though. We use this phrase, man, we just we just gotta give grace, just gotta give some grace. What does that mean? Like define that for me. Because I think oftentimes when somebody tells me that, what they're really saying is that's a little too hard for me to do. So justify me not measuring up to Jesus' standard because it's too much for me. I think that's what we mean when we meet some grace. And Jesus didn't do that in this moment. Jesus, in fact, stepped into the awkward conversation, called out what was sin, spoke truth into the situation, and then invited somebody to step up to the expectation that he had, not lowered the bar to justify actions in our life that don't measure up. And so if I want to be a person who gives grace, we have to share truth and invite people in the spaces where we don't measure up to surrender these things to Jesus and let him empower us to live the way he's called us to live. We just talked about it in our Holy Spirit series. One of the things the Spirit does is empowers us to live for Jesus. We don't have to lower the bar to follow Jesus. We have to recognize I can't measure up and I need you to help me to measure up, and then you give me everything I need through the power of your Holy Spirit to live the life that you've called me to live. That's what it means to give grace from a biblical perspective as I read through scripture. But we live in a culture that doesn't want to call out sin. That we live in a world, to be quite honest with you, and and this is how I know we live in a world that values opinions more than truth. If it's not true, then Facebook wouldn't exist. If it's not true, then the reality is like we don't even know what to believe anymore of what we see it on social media because AI has gotten so crazy. Some of y'all thought I shaved my beard. Like, there's a snowball's chance I'm gonna shave this thing at this point. How did you do that? AI created something that's not real and made it look real. I had somebody just the other day, we were at a funeral, they were like, Oh, I thought for sure you shave that thing. I had somebody ask me, How'd you grow back so fast? If I could grow that thing back that fast, I'd figure out how to grow the rest of it back fast. I mean, come on. Yes. We live in a world that doesn't just value opinions, it actually elevates and rewards opinions over truth. If we're gonna give grace, then we we have to lesser lessen the value of our opinion and elevate the value of his truth in our life. That's what it means to give grace. We live in a world that believes in toxic empathy. That that you shouldn't judge me, and that if I don't accept you, I don't love you. That's not a truth, just so we're clear. That's a fabrication and a lie from the enemy that the world has created to create toxic empathy so you and I feel guilty to not be able to speak the truth and grace of God to people who need to hear it. Just so we're clear. Because if I love somebody, hear me. I will always step into an uncomfortable conversation with anybody I have to. Because I love you too much to let you believe a lie. And if you haven't figured out, scripture reminds us, Jesus said Satan has come to kill, steal, and destroy. If I allow you to believe a lie, I'm allowing you to believe a thing that Satan has intended to kill, steal, and destroy your soul. And if I love you, I will step in with all the love and grace I can to tell you the truth. Why? Because Jesus said, I have come that you may have life and you may have it abundantly. And that is what I want for you. And so we have to create a space of uncomfortable conversations because we need these moments of somebody giving me the grace of the truth so that I can respond to it in my life. That's the invitation that Jesus is beginning to offer to us. And so we want to create those spaces. And so, as Jesus is going on, we're going to skip to verse 31 here. Uh, the the him and the lady have this conversation. She realizes, man, this guy really might be the Messiah. So she runs to town to tell everybody about Jesus and they're coming out to meet him. And so we pick up the story here because the disciples just made it back with some food for Jesus. Let's pretend it's Saturday. They went to Chick-fil-A to get Jesus God's chicken, okay? So that he didn't get hangry at the well with this woman. Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, Rabbi, eat something. And Jesus replied, I have a kind of food you know nothing about. Like they're probably thinking, Man, did you Uber eat in something while we were gone? Like, like, did you get on your phone, Jesus? Like, how did you find something to eat out here? I'm just putting in Jason's version if it was today's world. It's not there, I promise. Did somebody bring you some food while we're gone? The disciples asked each other. And then Jesus explained, My nourishment comes from doing the will of God who sent me and from finishing his work. You know the saying four months between planting and harvest, but I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe with harvest. There are nine people getting baptized today. Wake up and look around. The fields are ripe with harvest. The problem is not that the harvest isn't there. The problem is there's too many of us not willing to go in and do the work that He's called us to do to bring in a harvest. The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike? You know the saying, one plants and another harvests, and it's true. I sent you to harvest where you did not plant, and others have already done the work, and you will get together the harvest. There's this moment between Jesus and his disciples now that show us one more thing that we should do in every space that we create as a church. And we want to create a space for building spiritually mature followers of Jesus. Catch what Jesus said here in just a moment. But we've said this from the get-go that I want to invest in followers. Why? Because Jesus didn't call us to save people. Hear me out before you want to stone me. Because this is what everybody says. Jesus called us to build disciples. And salvation is a step in the discipleship process, not the outcome. And so so many times in the church world, we love to get somebody saved. We even love to get them baptized. But the real work is creating groups and spaces and places where people come together to grow in God's word so that they can be mature followers of Jesus. That is the invitation from Jesus in this moment. That's what he's telling us in this moment. Jesus said, My nourishment comes from doing the will of God. That's what he said in this moment. And so Jesus is reminding us that his goal isn't for Jesus or for God to serve him, but spiritual maturity is actually in Jesus serving God's will. And if Jesus came to surrender and serve God, then I don't think there's one of us in this room that is above the purpose of surrendering our life to serve God and serve others. You want to take a step of maturity in your life, surrender to serving somebody else besides yourself. News flash. This church doesn't exist, so you can simply consume from it. Now I recognize we all come in different spaces and places and seasons of life. And some of you that are young in faith, man, my hope is that you just come and consume for a little bit and grow. But somewhere. What spiritual maturity looks like is I quit coming to church to get something and I start coming to church to give something. Because that's what Jesus did. And so I'm always gonna push the envelope and push you to get involved somewhere. Not because I need another volunteer somewhere to fill a hole, because we have been given a purpose. And there are kids right now in kids' church getting discipled and growing in their faith because somebody said, I didn't come today to get, I came today to give so that another generation can grow in Jesus and experience him. Somebody got up and showed up here at 6:45 this morning and set all of this up so you could walk in the doors and they're gonna stick around when this is over and tear it all back down. Why? So that you can experience Jesus, but it's because somebody decided I didn't just come here to get something from this place. I came here to give back to God and surrender my life to Him. We have this problem in church. I call it baby bird syndrome. Hear me. If you've been coming to church or recently saved in the last year or two of your life, and you're just here consuming as much as you can. Cool. If you've been in church for 20, 30, 40, 50 years, and you're just consuming and not contributing, I love you. It's time to grow up. What are you talking about? That's what Jesus said. Man, my nourishment. There's something that happens spiritually when I choose to use my life to serve God and other people instead of waiting for him to serve me. You're like, ah, listen, here's what it would look like. Imagine I go out to lunch today with my wife, and we go to the Mexican restaurant, Centralia. Toyo Texano, baby. Trying to watch the carbs as much as I can. Just give me the protein, right? And I slide my plate over to my wife, and she starts chewing it up for me, and then spitting it back out on the plate. And then you see her slide that plate back over to me, and I just start scooping it up so I don't have to chew, so I can just swallow. I'm leaving the restaurant, y'all. I'm out. I won't die in a dash, but I'm done eating, man. You can I'll pay the bill, I'm done. Put it in a box. But the reality is there's some of us that have been in church 20, 30, 40 years, and you do it every week. You wait for me to chew up the Bible for you and spit it out so you can eat it. Instead of getting up, opening up the word of God and learning it for yourself and growing so you could feed somebody else. Whoa, you got a little awkward there. I know. You're welcome. It's the truth. It's like somewhere we just have to acknowledge where we are and then decide. And some people say, Oh, the Bible's so hard to understand. Like, I just don't get some of this stuff. I don't believe it. Because I could tell you my horse was sick and how many shots of something should I give them, and you could ramble it off really fast and tell me exactly what to inject my horse with and make them feel better. If you can figure, if you can tell me the stats of Patrick Mahomes and why he's better the last 10 years than anybody else, you can learn what the Bible has to say and how to apply it to your life. You just don't want to. Well, you don't know me. Listen. You can keep making excuses or you can make progress, but you can't make both. We got a baby bird syndrome problem in today's world. And so here's what I can tell you, man. I'm not raising a bunch of baby birds. I don't mind to start there. But somewhere you're gonna learn how to feed yourself and get out of the nest and fly. That's why we say what we say. I say it all the time. I'm here to do three things. Feed the sheep, starve the goats, shoot the wolves. Pastor, you can't talk like that. Cool. This might not be the church for you then. What do you mean, feed the sheep? The people that genuinely want to follow Jesus and allow him to transform their life and learn to live for him, those are the sheep. I'm gonna feed them all day long. I'm not gonna waste my time on the goats that want to pretend to follow Jesus but don't really want to surrender their life to him. And if the wolves want to come in to destroy what he's trying to build here, it's hunting season. I got a license and I'm willing to go hunting. Because I am the shepherd of this flock, and one of my jobs is to feed my sheep. Starve the ones that want to play games with God and run off the wolves. And I will do it all day, every day. If it makes me the bad guy, cool, I'll be the bad guy in somebody's story so that you don't have to be susceptible to the enemy destroying what God is trying to build in your life. I will always push you to grow. I will always push you to step up. I will always invite you into these moments to experience what Jesus has for you. And probably in this moment, one of the most important things that we miss, we actually missed all the way back at the beginning of John 4. I want to go back and read it again. I don't know how many times I've read this story, and I'll be honest with you, up until a couple months ago, the light bulb never came on for me. I want to go back and take you back a little bit to a spot that we missed at the beginning of this story, John 4, 5 and 6. Says that eventually he, Jesus, came to the Samaritan village of Sychar near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired from that long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. You're like, I don't even, what's the big deal about that? Because here's what happened, and here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna create a space where we will never fully see the benefit from it. Like if you don't understand this story, there's significance here. If you don't know who Jacob is, it was Abraham. If you read the Old Testament, he's kind of a big deal. Isaac and Jacob. Abraham's grandson Jacob dug this well. This well that Jesus is sitting at with this woman. Now, to get a little bit bigger of the picture, catch this. That well was dug over 1800 years before this moment. Jacob just dug a well because he needed water. He was trusting God as he dug that well. If you understood how they dug wells back then, they hand-dug a hole in the ground until they hit water. This well was probably originally dug almost 100 feet deep. I'm claustrophobic. We're dying without water. I'm not getting down in a hole 100 feet in the ground. I'm sorry. An MRI tube is bad enough for me. I can't imagine 100 feet in a hole somewhere. But somebody put in the work to crawl in a hole and dig this space that 1800 years later became the space where a woman who needed Jesus had an encounter with him. My prayer, my heart is that as some of us give and sacrifice financially to buy that land or build a building one day, that we're digging a well that we will never benefit from fully. I mean, we'll benefit, like we're going to get to experience of it, but a hundred years from now, I ain't gonna be here. Pretty good shot, none of us are. And should the Lord tarry and the earth still be here, my prayer is that it is a spiritual well for the people of our community that are still benefiting from the work we did. That we will never see the full ramifications of this moment. Yes, I'm in asking you to essentially sacrifice and give and serve and pray and bleed and do whatever it takes for something you don't even fully understand what God wants to do through this thing. That is the invitation for every church everywhere, and every church that ends up missing what God's trying to do is because we stop seeing the mission of building something that outlives us, and we start trying to build something that suits us. Jacob dug a well. Jesus and his boys benefited, and a woman who had no space and place to have an encounter with Jesus found a place at this well that Jacob dug 1800 years ago, that he sacrificed for, that he swept for, that he bled for. God has so much more in store than we realize if we're willing to trust him. That we are going to be a church that creates spaces where we do things that will outlive us. That we will never build it on what do I want or what do you want. We will build it on what is best for his kingdom and what will outlive our time here on earth. That is my prayer that we will give and create a space where generations of kids will one day come and experience Jesus and build a legacy of faith because you gave. So, my question to you today is just this reality. What work is God calling us to do that we will never benefit from? And are you willing to do it? Like, this is countercultural into everything that I ever hear anybody in this world say. Like, we're just told, look out for you, do what's best for me. And I'm essentially asking us to build a space that we may never fully benefit from or understand. And what is God calling me to do to help do that? Why? Let me tell you why. I believe this moment is gonna happen one day, and 10,000 years from now, I pray it happens between one of us in this room, and you come find me because we're all in heaven together. Somebody's gonna walk up to you or me. They're gonna say, Are you? Are you Jason Mark? Yeah, who are you? Your great, great, great grandson. You never met me because the way you lived your life, and the way you poured into your kids, my great, great-granddad, and my granddad, I and my dad, and I'm here because you sowed in an inheritance that this is the reality, this is the game we're playing for. This is why I say all the time this is not just good versus bad, this is life versus death, this is eternal life versus eternal death, and everything we do right now has ramifications in the future one day, a future that we can't even wrap our minds around because the thought of being around somewhere 10,000 years from now, we can't even fathom, and yet it's going to be a reality one day. We can stand all across this place. If you know anything about Indian history, I heard this story the other day and I thought it was great. It says this if you know the Lakota Indians, they had this thing, it's the way they still live to this day. In fact, I was listening to somebody interview one of them because they were wanting to build um uh the the AI super centers. I'm sorry, my mind's going blank, sorry. On their place, yeah, and they were talking about why they didn't want to, and and their reason is based on this because they believe in the idea of seven generations, they believe their generation is responsible for that generation and the next six to come, and they won't make a decision on what's best for me, they will make decisions based on what is best so that seven generations from me, I'm still looking out for them. That's what we're called to do. I'm asking you today, how can we be the space of seven generations to look ahead and build something that's going to outlive all of us, outlast us and make an impact seven generations from now. I've got some friends on the prayer team that are gonna come forward, and here would be my invitation to you today. We're gonna get ready to close, but I want to take a moment as as Katie leads us in worship here. Maybe you're here today and you're just you're going through something and you need somebody to pray with you. Here would be my invitation. Let them pray with you. This might be the moment where God decides to move in your life and this thing that you're carrying and start to build a legacy that outlists outlasts your life. It might become the miracle moment when he begins to change or transform or move miraculously in your situation. And you're gonna get to tell your kids and your grandkids, I remember a day when and God did this. As KD leads us in worship, if that's you, if you need prayer for anything at all, I want to invite you, man, step out, do the uncomfortable thing. It's okay. Nobody's judging you, and the ones that are don't matter. Yes, I just said that. It's okay. And if you're here and you're just like, man, worshiping in this moment, man, my question to you is is what is Jesus inviting me to do and invest my life in that's gonna outlive me? That's what I'm that's all I'm asking. I'm not here to tell you what to do. He'll speak, but live your life for something bigger than this moment. Live your life bigger than just an inheritance that you can give to somebody. Live your life for a spiritual inheritance that you can pass on. Live your life for an eternal inheritance one day that you'll pay ahead of you. And whatever that is, man, I would encourage you to take a moment here from God. Let him speak to your heart as we worship. If you need prayer, come down and let him work on your heart and in your life today with my friends.