Easter Sunday - Jesus Says Series

You don't have to go down the dead end road. Jesus is the way, truth, and the life. Following his leading will make traveling the road of life easier.  

On this Easter episode, we wrap up our Jesus Says series as Pastor Jon reminds us that the toll has been paid with the name of Jesus. Regrets and religion don't stand a chance when we recalculate our lives and follow Jesus. 

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But today, we're wrapping up our series called Jesus Says. For the last couple of weeks, we've been going through the words of Jesus, trying to learn what He's teaching us. And why I'm really excited for God's word today. So if you are new to us, the way we operate is we go straight into the Bible. Because how many of you know you don't need my opinion, you need God's revelation. And if you can get God's revelation, so many things in your life can change. So I want you to go to John chapter 14. John chapter 14, if you got your Bible, uh, if you're new to reading scripture, it's in the second half of the, it's in what's called the New Testament. Uh, it was written by one of Jesus' best friends, the Apostle John. So John chapter 14. Um, and Jesus is speaking to his disciples, which are like the group of guys that he gathered and connected and was teaching, uh, he spent the most of his time with. John says this, uh, John chapter 14, Jesus talking, he says this, don't let your hearts be troubled. Can we just take a second and pause right there and say that this is an age and a season of trouble? This is a season where there is confusions, there's destruction, there's worry about the future, and Jesus is looking at them, and I believe is looking through the lens of time at you, and Jesus is telling you today, don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my father's home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I'm going to prepare a place for you when everything is ready? Somebody say ready. When everything is ready, I will come and get you. Don't you wish Jesus was ready already? I wish he was ready. So that you'll always be with me where I am and you know the way where I'm going. No, we don't know, Lord, Thomas said. Now, I would never recommend if Jesus is talking to interrupt Jesus. But I'm not gonna lie, Thomas is helping me out here because he's like, like, you ever have you ever hear somebody talk and you're like, I don't know what he was just talking about, but everybody's nodding, going, just nod, just just nod. And Thomas is like, no, he's talking about some important stuff. I need to know which way this is. So Thomas interrupts and says, Jesus, I have no idea what you're talking about. We have no idea where you are going. So, how can we know the way? Jesus told him, I am the way, I am the truth, and I am the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. If you had already known me, you would know who my father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. Aren't you glad that because of Jesus we can know who God is? Today, for the next few minutes that we have together, we're gonna be sharing from this subject. Jesus says, I am the way. I am the way. Can we pray together? Our Father who is in heaven, holy is your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, forgive us our sins as we forgive those who see sin against us. Lead us, Jesus. Not into temptation. Deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. And God's people said, Amen. I am the way. You know, when I was getting ready for this, I kept thinking about my wife and I when we moved into our community. Uh, I've been married to Kia now for almost 10 years, y'all. Uh y'all pray for her and y'all thank God for me. Uh, because I'm just thinking, like, she's had 10 years of putting up with me, and I've gotten 10 years of having her, and I thank God for that. Amen. Uh, she's just so been wonderful. One of the differences between me and my wife is my wife is amazing at directions. Like, you could throw her out of a helicopter in the middle of a forest, and she will be at your house in one to two business days. Like, don't give her a compass, don't give her a map, don't give her nothing. She will figure it out and she will come for you. If you did the same thing to me, y'all, I forget helicopter. I'm gonna need directions from here to my car after the service. Like, I your boy does not know which way it is. So when we moved to Dinwidd County and we had to go places and we were going to the courthouse and to uh go see a schools and all this stuff, like every single time I'm having to plug in the GPS, y'all. I'm talking, Kia would sit me at the kitchen table, go to go to Roman school, you come out of the parking lot, you make a left, and then you go until you see the school. And I would go, I'm plugging into the GPS. And I love using the GPS. I love that it helps me know where to go. I love that I don't have to worry about if I missed it or if I but there's one word on my GPS that I always hate when it happens because your boy is a music listener. Any music listeners in the car? Like you, you, you want Kia singing up here, you do not want me singing up here, but I promise you there is a musical happening in my car every time I'm driving. There is a worship service happening and it's going good. But the problem with having a worship service when you're driving is sometimes you miss your turn. Uh, and then I hear what are my least favorite words when I'm driving anywhere and I have the GPS on, recalculating. Because how many of you know, like, especially in Dimwitty or wherever you're going, recalculating isn't just like, oh, take the next turn. It's like, no, go 17 miles because that's where the next road is. And cancel your lunch plans because you're not gonna make it. Like, just, I hope you have enough gas in your car, because if not, you're gonna like, like, recalculating is one of my least favorite words to hear, especially when I'm like, forget doing the county. When I'm someplace like Northern Virginia or DC for some reason, and you miss your exit, and you're trying to figure out which way it is, and you're just you're asking God to just come and like take pick up your car and take you to wherever you need to go. Recalculating is terrible when I'm in the car, but how many of you know recalculating is even worse when you hear it in life? When I'm looking around and I'm trying to figure out where God wants me to go, what God wants me to do, the direction that I'm supposed to live in, and I cannot find the way where I'm going. Do you know that that's worse when it happens to you in life? When you're trying to figure out, man, how to step away from an addiction that's been crippling you for years and you feel trapped in it and you don't know a way out, and you're struggling, and you're trying to make it your own way, and you feel lost, and it just feels like you are in a consistent recalculating mode. When you're trying to work out your relationships, whether you're single or married, and you're trying to get yourself in a healthy place, and it just feels like every 30 minutes we are just recalculating. When you're trying to get your finances healthy and you're tired of being broke as a joke, and every single 30 minutes, you feel like a new bill comes in, and you just keep recalculating. Y'all, can I just take a second? This isn't even in the sermon. Can I take a second and complain to the medical industry about medical bills for a second? Like a little while ago, I had like an emergency like surgery thing, and it was crazy, I almost died, no big deal. Y'all don't need to hear about that. And it was my first time ever having like a long hospital stay. And when I came out of the hospital, they gave they gave me a bill, and I was like, this ain't too bad. Like, like I was there for a week. It was like, okay, this is about like a good hotel stay. How many of y'all know they keep adding to the bill as the weeks keep coming? I was like, when I go to a restaurant and I eat, I get one bill. You don't give me a bill at the restaurant and then send me another bill at my house, and then send me another bill at work. Like, but there must be recalculating everything too. We're recalculating, but here's what I'm grateful for. Here's what we get to celebrate on this wonderful uh Easter weekend, this resurrection day, while you and I were lost, while you and I were recalculating, while you and I were still figuring out, we have a God who did not stay where he was. He came from heaven to earth, he stepped into your life and mine, he stepped into our mess, he stepped into our tests, he stepped into our issues, he stepped into our brokenness, he stepped into our life and changed our lives for eternity. Man, when you and I were hitting every stop sign along the road, like y'all ever be driving sometimes and you're just you just feel like you're hitting every red light. Doesn't life sometimes feel that way? Can I tell you, if you are tired of red lights, if you are tired of stopping, you better put your faith in the one that makes a way. He says in his scripture that he is the way, he is the truth, he is the life. If you're looking for a green light in any situation, Jesus is the green light you have been looking for. Can I get an amen today? And recalculating. But here's the issue with recalculating, because it's not just that we hit a stop sign. Here's why it's important that you recalculate, because if we're not careful, what happens to us is after a while we hit a dead end. And after a while you look at it and you go, My future is not brighter than my yesterday. You go, the issues that are facing me are gonna lead to my end. And today we get to celebrate that Jesus has not left us at our dead end. Today we get to celebrate that he did not leave us because it says this in Luke chapter 19, verse 10, for the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost. Well, John, who's lost? Can I tell you? Lost isn't about whether you go to a church or not a church. All of us are lost. A preacher I heard say this one time there are no good people in heaven, there are only forgiven people. Can I tell you? If you're walking around, you're wondering, am I lost or am I found? Do I need to join this church to find Jesus? Do I need to join this church to can I tell you it's not about this church, it's about his church. It's not about this preacher, it's about that pastor. It's not about, it's not about what you wear, it's about who you become through Jesus. And we're all walking around with a dead end sign, trying to find our way, we're trying to find our way in relationships, we're trying to find our way in life, we're trying to find our way in health, we're trying to find our way in community, we're trying to find our way in faith and in following Jesus. We're trying to find our way out of addiction, out of dysfunction, out of hurt, out of brokenness, out of abuse. And how often so life feels like we're hitting a dead end. Jesus, I believe, gives us the opportunity to do this crazy thing, which is you turn around. If life has you going towards a dead end, you need to be willing to turn around. And here's the thing: if you may go, John, I don't have the power to turn around, I don't have the energy to turn around, I don't even know where I should go. Can I tell you that's the grace and the power of the gospel? He came to turn around us around when we could not even turn ourselves around. He came to give us a new direction when we were lacking our own direction, he came to give us a vision for a new life when we didn't have vision for a new life. But you can't just turn around, you got to also turn towards Jesus. See, Acts 4 and 11 says this, for Jesus is the one referred to in the scriptures where it says, the stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. See, in Jesus' life, he walked around giving hope to people, healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons, feeding the hungry, helping the poor. And people still looked at him and said, Jesus, I know I need to turn around, but I'd rather go my own way. Jesus, I know you're inviting me into a relationship with you, but I'd rather do my own thing. And can I tell you, it's not just turning around that you need to do, you need to merge into what God is doing for your life. Some of y'all are terrible at obeying this sign. Is this a sermon or like a DMV presentation? Like, like, is he sponsored by VDOT or something? Like, what's happening? How does what do you get them signed? Like, you need to you need to merge. And some of y'all, some of y'all, some of y'all need to go back to school and learn how to merge. Okay, apparently some of y'all are really amening that point. Uh, when I was uh 15, 60, my dad and I, I lived in South Florida at the time, my dad and I were going to an appointment. Uh, and when we were going to this appointment, it was in Miami. And if you've never been to Miami, in the early morning, there's a lot of traffic. And so we hit like a long, straightaway mile, and there's just like traffic, and we recognize, oh man, this traffic's trying to get into an exit. So we're we're good Christian, God-loving people. And so we get in our little line and we're getting ready and we stay, it's like 15, 20 minutes, and we're just, you know, bumper to bumper traffic, and we're just we're talking. Uh, and my dad, I guess, must not have been having a good day because at the very last minute, this one guy shows up trying to get in our lane. Y'all, the look on my daddy's face. Like, I was like, I'm like, I'm I'm training to be a pastor at this time. I'm like, you know, dad, let's let's be charitable. The love of God covers a multitude of sins. And you know, it says in the Bible that if somebody slaps you on one side, you give him the other. So let's just turn the other cheek. But my dad must have left his salvation in the other car that day. Because my dad looked at that guy, looked at his car, and said, Bring it on. And I'm there realizing I am in danger for my life. Because if the guy hits our car, I'm going into the curb. And this is Miami, so there's water everywhere, and there's alligators everywhere. I'm starting to pray. I'm like, Jesus, just in case I wasn't saved before, let's just do it one more time. We try to merge our way with God's way. And you know what that's called? And we would never think about it this way, but that's called religion. Religion is what happens when I'm starting to step into what God wants for me, and I try to bring my own effort, my own hurt, my own uh uh strength, my own power, my own energy, the things I can I tell you, that's why some of you today were like, okay, I want to give my life to Jesus. I want to I want to connect and grow in faith, but first I need to stop cussing. When I stop cussing, then I can follow Jesus. When I stop drinking, then I can follow Jesus. When I stop cheating, then I can follow Jesus. When I stop and fill in the blink with whatever it is, when I dress up right, when I get the right car, when I get the right promotion, when we stop being mad at each other, can I tell you the grace of God does not wait for you to change to apply to your life. The grace of God is what gives you the power to change your life. If you're waiting to get it right before you can merge into what God is doing, you're gonna be waiting forever because you were never strong enough, you were never good enough, you are never tough enough. You need to be able to merge and say, I'm gonna let go of my religion. Let go of my religion. Romans 3 and 23 says this for all have sinned. Somebody say, Oh, all means you, all means me, all means the neighbor you like, all means the neighbor you don't like, all means the coworker, all means your boss, all means your favorite employer or employee, all means your favorite child that you love, and I know they're your grandchild, and they can do no wrong and they're perfect, but on behalf of the parents in the room, to all the grandparents, them kids are sinners and you need to quit spoiling them. You are helping them sin for all, including them. I know they're cute, but they're sinners too. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Amen. I appreciate that. That's and so here's what I know, here's what I know, here's what I know. The only the other thing that keeps us from yielding to God is the regrets that we have. The mistakes we've made, the the hurt we've experienced, the hurts that have sometimes we think not just, oh, well, let me go and get it right. We don't think let me go and get it right. We think I'll never be right. I'll never be good enough. And so we stay in our lane until we get to the very end, and we never step into what God has for us. We never step into the plans and purposes He has for our life, we never step into the calling that He has for us, we never merge into the God into the plan that God has for us because we are waiting. And here's the re here's the reason why we do it because we don't want to yield to Jesus. Can we take a second and talk about roundabouts real fast? Back to the yet. Amen. Thank you, my brother. You knew this is public service announcement, y'all. Like my wife and I lived in Colonial Heights when they put that roundabout in, and y'all, the number of people, let's just take a pop quiz before I help you out. When you show up at a roundabout, you are supposed to turn. The number of y'all that were doubting what the right answer to that is is concerning to me. When you get to a roundabout, you're supposed to turn right. We're supposed to yield to the person coming to our left and go to the right. You're supposed to go to the right, supposed to not go to the left, like I've seen some people do. You're supposed to go to the right. Uh, here's what I know about us. Sometimes we don't want to yield to Jesus. Sometimes we're walking through our life and we want our way, not God's way. We want our will, not God's will. We want our purpose, not God's purpose. Here's what I think we believe. We think that our way is better than God's way. We would never say it out loud, we'd never talk about it, we never post it. But if God is asking you to do something, we all sometimes believe, man, the way that God is, the life that God is inviting me to is not the best life for me. Can I tell you today, the life that God is inviting you to, if you would yield to him, is one of life of is one of the greatest lives that you can have. It's full of purpose, full of hope, full of grace, full of power. Jesus wants to give you that kind of life if you would yield to him. That's why in Proverbs 14 and 12 it says this there is a way that seems right to the man, but in the end it leads to death. Some of us in areas of our lives, God is coming in and he's saying, Let's go this way. And y'all keep trying to turn left on the roundabout of your life. And God wants you to go with him the way that he's called you to go. So here's my question for you today. Where do you need to say yes to God? What area, what space, what place do you need to say yes to God? Where's an area that you've been looking and going, I'd rather make the left, Jesus. I'd rather go my own way, do my own thing. Can I tell you his way is better, his way is greater? He is the way, the truth, and the life for you today. Here's some ways I would suggest you do. Number one, I don't I would encourage you to say yes to the way of God. My wife loves uh giving me directions. She is good at them, and so that is wonderful and a blessing. See, she thought I was gonna make a joke and make fun of her right there, but I'm not. I'm in trouble, let me keep moving the sermon along. Uh my wife gives me great directions. One time we were coming out of the courthouse, we're there for a public event, and um she literally was like, Hey, make a left. So I'm I'm on this road. There's a road right here on a T. There's no other option, it's left or right. She says, Hey, make a left, that'll take us home. And I'm in the car looking at her, and I say, Go which way again? Uh here's what I want to tell you today. Uh, directions don't matter if we don't take them. I can preach every sermon I can. God can give you every revelation you're asking for. We can show you the way as much. God can keep there showing up and saying, Go this way. If you don't take the direction, then you can't expect the blessing. If you don't go God's way, then you can't expect God's provision. If you're not following after the vision of God, then you can't expect God to show up and rescue you because you made your bed, so now you got a line in it. Can I tell you, I'm grateful that our God is a rescuer, but sometimes we're in trouble not because of the devil, but because of us. And God is always giving us directions through his word, direction through his people, directions through his presence, directions to the Holy Spirit. But he can give you all the direction in the world you want. If you don't follow his ways, you're not gonna get his blessing. Directions don't matter if we don't take them. You gotta say yes to the way of God. The second thing you gotta do is you gotta say yes to the truth of God. You gotta say yes to the truth of God. Can I tell you Jesus died and rose again? That is a truth, but that truth has implications. We see some people think, man, like I can, yeah, it's nice. Maybe Jesus was around. Can I tell you, if Jesus Christ lived, if Jesus Christ died, if Jesus Christ rose again, uh it changes all of our lives. That truth isn't just a truth that you can go, man, I just I'm grateful that that happened. Good for Jesus, he rose again. Can I tell you if that is the truth of the scripture and God is inviting you into that reality because he lived, you can live. Because he rose, you can rise. Because he has victory, you can have victory. And some of us are living from defeat because we do not believe the truth of God. Some of us are walking around, we're feeling defeated, we're feeling broken, we're feeling hurt. We're walking around thinking that life has beat us up, but we are following a risen and victorious Savior. Can I tell you, here's the great thing about team Jesus? You can get on a team that you know is gonna win the Super Bowl from day one. You don't have to try out, you don't have to do anything. You just gotta say yes to the invitation. Jesus is gonna carry you to your victory. All you gotta do is say yes to the jersey. We gotta be willing to say yes to the truth of God. God, I believe what you said about me. God, I believe what you say about sin. God, I believe what you say about my future. God, I believe what you say about eternity. God, I believe what you say about our community. God, I believe what you say about your word. God, I believe. You gotta say yes to the truth of God. And you also have to, last but not least, say yes to life with God. Psalm 16 says this I will bless the Lord who guides me. Even at night, my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. How many of you remember today that we are not alone? I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is glad and I rejoice. My body rests in safety. For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave. You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever. Life with Jesus is full of joy, life with Jesus is full of hope, life with Jesus is full of peace. I won't lie to you today and say life of Jesus does not have trouble, but when you are with the one that has Overcome all trouble. When you are with the one that has overcome death, when you are with the one that has overcome sin, that has overcome disease, that has overcome brokenness, that has overcome everything. Can I tell you, when I'm riding with Jesus, there ain't a lot that can ride against me. That's the truth and the goodness of Jesus. Y'all okay if I show you one last sign? One last sign, I promise. One last sign. If anybody needed to take a DMV test, if you got your teenager, this is a great sermon. Like made them rewash, like just before they they did you. So so we started the sermon by saying we have to sob, then we have to turn around, then we have to emerge, and we gotta do all those things, merge your life with Jesus. But I I wouldn't be a good preacher if I didn't tell you the whole truth. Somebody say the whole truth. Because I don't want to be the kind of preacher that just goes, hey, let me just tell you, like, just turn around. Because here's the truth. When you start following after Jesus, when you try, when you try to turn your life and you try to go God's way, you can't just merge into it. The truth is not this sign, not this sign, not this sign, not this sign, and I where's this sign? Where's that sign? I got like 17 signs back here. Y'all got too many signs, okay? This is this is this is this sign. You know what sign this is? This is my least favorite sign, y'all. When I'm driving somewhere and I'm having a good time, and my wife and I are on a road trip and I'm flirting with her, and I'm like, hey girl, how you doing? She's like, hey boy, how you doing? I'm like, hey, y'all. I told y'all y'all had to pray for her. Um she's gotta y'all only have to deal with this an hour and a half every week, weekend. She's gotta deal with me 24-7. Praise God. It's a it's a toll road sign. This is my least favorite sign because you're you're riding along, you're having a good time, and now you're telling me I need to pay you to keep going on the road. And and now they've switched like all these automatic little things that that like which is kind of convenient. So like you drive through it and you get, which is worse, because then it's like three weeks later and you get a bill you didn't expect, which is just terrible. But back in my day, we used to use this thing called cash. If if you're like 13 and under, ask your grandmother after service what cash is. Uh, we used to have like presidents' faces on pieces of paper and on uh these little pieces of metal called coins and stuff. Some of y'all, like some of y'all are laughing, you're like, ha ha, that's a joke. But there are legit some 11 and 12 year olds that are staring at me going, really following after Jesus the toll road. See, to heaven is freely given, but heaven is not free. Healing is freely given, but healing is not free. Hope is freely given, but hope is not free. Can I tell you? Can you imagine showing up at the toll booth of heaven? And they look at you and they go, sir, you need to pay the toll before we lift up so you can go. And you ask, What's what's the price? Like, what do I do? Like, is it and you can give them anything you got. You can open up your bank account and they'll look at you and say, That's not good enough. You can look at them and say, Let me pull out my resume, and they look at you and say, That's not good enough. You can pull up your trophies of every single football game you ever won. That time you won fantasy football and you're really excited about it. That, like, whatever you want to pull, it they'll look at you and say, Sir, that's ma'am, that's not good enough. See, the price to get into heaven is a perfect life. It means you've you've never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever done anything. Ever, ever, ever wrong. Like, well, Pastor, I'm I'm pretty perfect. Well, now I know you're lying, so you get to that booth and you go, I can't, I can't get in. Like, I thought they were you told me this is the line, like I was going towards a dead end, I'm turning towards the life. So, how so how do I get how do I get in? Like, this is this is a toll road, and here's here's here's the the message of Jesus. He paid a price we could not pay by living a life you and I could never live. Dying a death he didn't deserve, but you and I deserved, and rising from the grave with all power, with all authority, giving us all hope today. Some of you today, you might feel like I I can't afford to get in. Well, I got good news for you. That's what the gospel is, is the toll's been paid. Some of you are here and you're you're working, you're on the edge, you're on the outside, you're thinking, Man, I just once I'm good enough, once I'm smart enough, and don't you know what I did? Can I tell you if you have religion or regrets in your past, the toll's been paid. If you're filled with regret, if you're trying to figure out your vision for your life, your new direction, can I tell you the toll's been paid? Here, here's here's the toll. You don't have to pay the price. You just have to know the name. You don't have to, you don't have to sacrifice your life because he sacrificed his life on your behalf. You don't have to lay down your blood because he gave his blood. You don't have to. He did what you and I can't. To give you and I what we never deserve. You don't have to pay the price, you just have to know the name. In a few moments, I'm gonna invite us to stand and I'd love for us to take a second, as we always do after every service, to respond to the gospel and the message that was shared. And there's two people that I think Jesus might be speaking to you today. One group is you've been walking around and you felt like there's a toll road sign between you and God your whole life. You felt like there was something stopping you from coming in, that there was a price that you had to pay, there was a password that you had to have, there was a something you needed to change. And can I tell you, today is the day of salvation? His name is Jesus. He offers it freely. You don't have to go tomorrow and get it better and figure it out. You can start trusting in Jesus today. I want to give you an opportunity to do that in a few moments. I don't want it to be something that you do because the music sounds good and you're feeling an emotional high. I want this to be a decision that you make to say, you know what? I'm gonna turn around from my old way. And I'm gonna follow after the one who paid the toll for me. There are also others of us here today. You've said yes to Jesus, but you're struggling to say yes to his calling. Struggling to say yes to his hope, you're struggling to say yes to his purpose, you're struggling to live out the way, the truth, and the life that Jesus has for you. And I love Resurrection Day because I believe today God wants to resurrect some dreams. God wants to resurrect some purposes, God wants to resurrect some hope. God wants to give you a new life today. Vision, will you stand to your feet with me as we wrap up today's service? I just want to be able to know who I'm praying for as the prayer team comes forward. And do me a favor. With that, would you bow your head, close your eyes? I'm not doing that so that anything. I just want to give some people a moment of reflection and privacy. I just want to know who I'm praying with today. And I want to be praying for you if you say today is my day of salvation. I want to go all in with Jesus. I I want to believe that he's paid the toll for me. And I want to follow after him. And with every head bowed, every eye closed, I just want to know who those people are, just so I can pray for you. I'm not gonna embarrass you, I'm not gonna hunt you down or nothing like that. I just want to know that I'm praying with you. So on the count of three, I just want you to lift up your hand. I believe God has been speaking to you, and we want to pray with you that God would begin this journey new with you. So on the count of three, one, it's not a price that you had to pay. Two, he paid the price for you. He did it so that you could have new life. One, two, three. I want to see your hand if that's you today. See those hands? I see those hands. See those hands to my left and to my right. I see you today. You can put your hand down. Hey, Vision Church, there were a number of hands that raised them. Can we celebrate with what got with them today? That's next step into salvation. Our prayer team is gonna be up here, whether you're looking to have somebody, whether you have a need or you want to seal that prayer. And then I want to pray for all of us. As we say yes to Jesus, I believe he never turns you away. And he's gonna say yes to a new purpose, a new calling, a new life. Can I pray for you today, Vision? Jesus, we love you. Thank you so much for today. Thank you for the opportunity to step into your presence, to step into your word. God, as we step into singing this last song together, as we lift up the name that is above every name. God, we know that when we lift up your name, your presence comes down. So, God, I thank you for those who chose today to step into salvation, those who gave their lives to you. Father, I pray that you would speak to them right now. You would anoint them by your presence, by your spirit. May they never be the same. And God, would you fill us with your life as we lift up the name that is above every name? Jesus. Let's sing together.