Happy Father's Day. This is on. Just a silly video. Yeah, ushers. Look at how good looking our ushers are today. Come on down, ushers, on this Father's Day. Love it. As you know, we like to give as an act of worship when we in the baskets come down. This is not a second offering. Uh, this is just for those who uh didn't come forward, didn't know to come forward. So we generally pass the plates as well. Um, so but we are thankful that you're here on this Father's Day, and uh uh what a great uh time of worship we've already had. And uh we're gonna break into the word. I want to begin in Malachi chapter four, and so you could go ahead and turn there. Um I do want to say just one one other quick thing. Uh Clint is uh our youth group is heading, it's getting close, it's getting it's gonna be here before you know it. And so uh I think there's a few little expenses like for the for the camp itself that Clint is needing some help with. Uh if you would like to uh bless that situation, you can see him and he can give you any details on all that. But if if that's something that the Lord leads you to do, uh that would be uh wonderful as well. I know it takes a he does a great job. Clint is uh he wears a lot of hats and uh he's so good at what he does that um the IMA wanted him to lead the IMA youth camp. So uh it's pretty awesome uh for him to do that. And so if you if that hello. So if that's something that the Lord uh places on your heart, see Clint, and uh it would definitely be a blessing. So great to be here. I'm so glad to be here today. Um we're like I said, we're gonna start in Malachi. I love that video. I've watched that thing several times when Clint showed it to me earlier in the week. And today was the first time I noticed that he had those killer new balance shoes uh that he popped up on the uh thing. There's so much I noticed the second and third and fourth times I watched that. I love uh, you know, and it's just like being a dad. There's a time that we can be funny and silly and say those funny, silly things, and then there's also the times when we need to be real. Amen. And, you know, there's a uh tough love is a is a real thing, and and sometimes that tough love means, you know, can't go to that party, can't do that thing. And it seems like sometimes uh dads, we can get a bad rap is as the one who has to do the hard, maybe have some of the hard conversations and and different things. But there's a time to be funny, a time to be serious, and uh, you know, pour into our children. We're responsible to truly pour into our kids. And I know uh as I look around and I see your faces, I see so many good dads that I know just do that and pour into your your your children and your families, and and uh I'm just blessed to stand up here today and in in front of you. I've got three awesome daughters myself. I totally can relate to that one there toward the end with the wedding when they were talking about that and giving away and who gives this woman to be married to this man, and I had to walk that out uh this year, uh uh uh you know on Valentine's Day. And I remember I went to work out at the uh gym that morning, and because I was such a nervous wreck about you know walking her down and then doing the ceremony, and uh I was just on the treadmill, believe it or not, and all of a sudden I was just rehearsing what I was gonna say, and I just had a nervous breakdown at B Fit just on the treadmill by myself, just just practicing what I was gonna say. And and uh so fortunately when I got here I had gotten it all out of my system, I think, but it was ended up being a beautiful ceremony. But those are those things that just if you uh have ever done that, you just you'll never forget it uh ever in a million years. It's impossible. So um, but yeah, here we are. We're gonna find ourselves in Malachi chapter four. We're gonna start there, we're gonna jump around a little bit today, uh, and then we're gonna bring it back around. So Malachi chapter four, beginning in verse five, it says, Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers. When I read that scripture and when I see that scripture, it really is just an incredible reminder of the importance of the relationship between fathers and children. And this message today is it's Father's Day, so it's to fathers, but this message is also to all of us because all of our relationship with the Lord is important. Uh other versions of the scripture, the same exact scripture says the parents will turn the hearts of their parents to their children and to the uh children to their parents. Uh but when I see this scripture, it not only speaks to the importance in my life of that relationship, but it also uh speaks to the fact that those relationships are important to God. Amen. And so our relationship with our kids, our relationship with our parents, it's important. And those things mean something uh to God. Now listen, I and I I say this, you know, it's it's there's so many conversations that we have, like on forgiveness and different things. And I always say, you know, about forgiveness is you never preach on forgiveness but without saying what forgiveness is not. Amen. Because we, you know, if you've ever been in a trauma or a situation, you know, and I'm not sure why I'm going down this road, I'm qualifying what I'm about to say, uh, but I don't ever preach on forgiveness without saying what it's not, because sometimes we've been we, you know, we can go through some really hard stuff, and it can be difficult, right? There can be times when it's just difficult to forgive, and and we feel like someone's getting let off the hook or there's no consequences, and it's none of those things. Forgiveness are is none of those things. And and I'm always, you know, when I preach today on Father's Day, and and um not everybody's been blessed to have a good relationship with a father. And so I always say this because I want to remind us that even when we if we didn't have a fleshly uh great father, that we have a father in heaven who loves us. Amen. And he loves you, he loves you so much that he was willing to send his own son to the earth to live a fleshly life to be, you know, fully human, also fully God. But he came and he walked on the earth to feel the emotions that we feel, to experience so many of the same things that we experience because he loved you so much. Amen. And so I know that not all of us are blessed. It's just like Christmas, and sometimes holidays can be hard and they can be difficult because we all experience life differently. But I always wanted to remind you that we have a good, good Father. Amen. And he is in heaven and he can't wait to see you. It just reminds me, uh, Pastor Ruby this morning in the early service when she was talking, talk began to speak about Luke chapter 15 and the uh the story of the prodigal son and and how God, and I just say God because that's what it's representing, that God was out front. I always picture this farmhouse. I I really I can picture my grandparents' house in Pennsylvania, uh, is what comes to mind. It's an old farmhouse with a long lane with the silos and the cows and all of that. And I just picture my I can see my grandfather just standing there on the porch. But I it's it think of the Lord, he's standing there on the porch and he's just waiting for you to round the corner and start heading his way. And as soon as you do, that father, what did the father do in the story? He took off running and he was on his way to hug and to restore. And so that's our father in heaven, amen. He's a good, good father, and he's just waiting for you to just make a move. And as soon as you do, he's gonna come running and he's gonna put a coat on you and a ring on your finger. He's gonna get you all cleaned up and there's gonna be a party. Amen. That's all free stuff, not a word of it in my notes. All right, now we'll start with my notes. All right. So here we are, we're in Malachi, and Malachi takes place about a hundred years after the exile. And so uh there's some things going on as we walk through the book of Malachi, uh, the one of which being there's this back and forth between the people and God. And so the Lord He says to the people, and you can kind of see yourself and your relationship with your kids. You know, if you have children, you there's phases that happen. And when they're little and they look at you and they then they think you're a hero, and you can do no wrong. And you know, and we're young too, so we kind of feel that way too. We still have that Superman complex a little bit, and we think nothing's ever gonna happen to us, and then you wake up one day and you start walking like this for your first 10 steps, and your wife says, What's what'd you do? And I was like, I don't know, I slept. That's it. Just that's all I did was sleep, and I'm sore from sleeping. But there's these phases, and so you have the little kids and they look at you, and you're just they think you're the best. You can do no wrong. And then some then there's this age that comes, and then all of a sudden, you went from being the smartest person that can do no wrong to the dumbest person that can do no right, right? It's just like, and if you've got kids in that phase, you're just like, you know what I'm talking about. It's like you can't say anything right, you can't tell them anything, it's just they know better than you. I remember when Lexi was a teenager and she thought we were psycho because we had life 360 and we knew where she was all at all the time. And she's like, you guys are the only parents, you guys are crazy. You're the only parents that do this. And I'm like, no, we're not. And I don't care if that makes us crazy, call me crazy because I want to know where you are every minute of every day. Unfortunately, I still have her on life 360, and I still worry sick, and she's 27. So we gotta, I gotta, I gotta like mark her off of life 360 or something. But probably not gonna happen. But then you have that phase, amen? And so you're smart, and then you're dumb, and then finally at some point, when they normally around, I think for my for my kids, around 20-ish, 19, 20, in that age range, then you start being smart again. Right? And then they they look up again at you again and and they're like, hey, and they want advice, or they want you to come over and fix something. You know, I I had I was talking to a friend of mine this morning, and his daughter's getting ready to get married, and uh she doesn't live in their home, she has her own home, and he said uh he just had to slap in the face this week because uh he was always been the fixer. So when something broke at his daughter's house, then they would she would call him and he would go and fix it. And she said, now all of a sudden she's not calling him anymore. She'll say like something broke, and he's like, Oh, do you need me to come over? She's like, No, no, Matthew took care of it, and he's like, What? He's like, I was already loading my tools up and putting them in the truck. But she already had the problem fixed. But there's this back and forth, and the same thing is going on here. The Lord says to the people, he says that he loves you. I love, he's like, I love my people. And then the people's reply is this, How have you shown us love? And then the Lord says, later on, he says, You despise uh, why do you despise me and defile my temple? And the people say, How are we despising you? That's the teenage years right there. They're they're just messing your house up. And then you say, Hey, I love you. And they're like, What? No, you don't. You don't love me. You want to just know where I'm at all the time. All right. Finally, the Lord says, You've turned against me and your families. There's this situation going on where the the fathers are just they've they're just leaving their families and they're just not doing right. And the people reply to him with disdain and they again question God. There's this back and forth between God and the people. And I think we can have the same kind of things going on in our lives where we look at God and things are going great, and we just want to take all the credit and we think that God didn't really do anything in that situation. I did it, I worked hard, I did this, and we don't give God the credit that he deserves. And then there's other situations and times when it's exactly the opposite, when we're not doing right, and then all of a sudden bad stuff happens in our life, and then we look at God and we're like, Why did you do this? And then we're blaming the Lord in those situations, and it's this back and forth that we have. And there's a group of people uh there, and they're corrupt, they're neglecting the temple, and they're not honoring God. And that brings me to my sermon topic today on Father's Day. It's tithing. I'm just kidding. I'm just joking. That's what's happening in this book. That's what's happening in Malachi is it's they're they're neglecting the temple, they're not paying their tithe, they're not being obedient, there's all this going on. Thank you, Kendra, so for laughing. I'm standing up here dying. I've learned I'm not a comedian. I think I'm a comedian. When you practice and you write messages, you think you're funny. And then you come up here and stand in front of you guys and you realize leave that one to Julie. Just leave that to her. Let her do those things. Uh, the the hobo mom. Let her let hobo mom hobo. All right, here we go. Uh, not preaching on tithing. Um, but I do kind of want to relate that, the story in Malachi to our walk and how we walk this out. Because we can find ourselves in the same situation. Maybe it's not tithing, it was tithing for them, but for us, what is it? It's about sacrifice, it's about doing the things that we need to do in our own lives. God is telling them that they have to turn back to him, he's telling them uh what they must do, they must give, and that's what he has to do. He's what is he telling us? He's telling us that we have to sacrifice part of our lives, and it's really our whole lives. I said part, it's our entire life needs to be dedicated to him, and it's it's about our sacrifice and our obedience uh to him. It really reminds me of the story in Matthew chapter 19, uh, the rich young ruler. It begins in verse 16. And he says, And behold, a man came up to him, saying, Teacher, what good deeds must I do to have eternal life? And he said to him, Why do you ask me what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments. And he said to him, Which ones? And Jesus said, You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness. Honor your father and mother, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself. And the young man said to him, All these I have kept, what do I still lack? And Jesus said to him, If you would be perfect, go and sell your possess all that you possess, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come follow me. And when the young man heard this, he went away sorrowful, for he was a man of great possessions. So we have we have this young man who has everything that you could possibly want. Uh on top of that, the scripture tells us that he's a good man. We know he's a good man, he's doing his best to keep the commandments. Uh, I would probably argue that perhaps he is a good man, but maybe he's a religious man. He is intent on doing what is right by keeping the law, but he doesn't have a relationship uh with God, with the Father. And so when he's told what he must do, it says that he's sorrowful because he doesn't want to sacrifice those things in his life. And I really think we have to ask ourselves the same question is what is it in our lives that we're not willing to give up? What are we not willing to sacrifice? This this guy was a good guy. He he was thinking to himself, he's like, Well, I don't murder, I uh don't commit adultery, I'm not stealing, I don't I don't bear false witness. I honor my father and my mother, I love my neighbor. Uh but what is it that I he had to sacrifice? It was all the stuff uh that he had. He and he didn't want to do that. Now it says he went off and he was sorrowful. Now I wish this was a situation where I wish there was more of the story because we don't really know what happened to that man. I I wish I knew the rest of the story, the Paul Harvey of that story, because it's quick for us to think, okay, he went away, he was sorrowful, and that's a bad deal. But I, you know, I still have a hope that this man figured it out. Amen. That he went away and processed and thought about what it was that God that Jesus was really asking him to do, and that he came back and then did what he needed to do. I'm just a guy of hope, a guy of hope and grace. And so I like to think about those kind of things. I I I want to see that guy in heaven someday and think, yeah, he did what was right. He he figured out what he needed to sacrifice and he did uh just that. You know, I know a guy, he's a friend of mine, started coming to church here and and uh we got to know each other, and we so we sat down and we were talking one day, and he, you know, he when he first started coming here, he was really only coming here because his wife came here and his kids came here and and he just you know he wanted to be with them. And I was like, that's you know, that's fine. I started coming here because I wanted to date Julie. So here I am, I'm the pastor, so who knows uh what the Lord's got for you. Uh but here's this guy, and and he's he's starting to figure it out a little bit and reading his Bible a little bit and coming to uh different events, uh sometimes even when the kids weren't here, and and his and his wife, and and he was really trying to really understand what this was all about because he just grew up without any kind of relationship at all uh with the Lord. And I remember sitting sitting down with him one day and we really started to talk uh about life and what he really needed to do uh to get this right, to accept Jesus and stuff. And he he was super honest with me. He just looked at me and he said, You know, I really I I'm really starting to, you know, think that I I want to do, like really make a commitment to this. He's like, But if I have to change this in my life and that in my life, he's like, I just don't think I can. I don't think I want to. And man, it made me so sad when he said that, you know, became I just continue to talk to him. So I'm still friends with him. We still still talk to him all the time. Uh and he he's just still in that stagnant place because there's just certain things in his life that he just doesn't want to let go of. That he enjoys those things of the world more than he thinks the what he'll get in return from Jesus. It just really reminds me in Proverbs chapter 16. It tells that it's bet that it's better to control our soul than to conquer a city. Right? There's a lot that we can do and a lot we can earn and have in this life, but what about our soul? Isn't that more important? Our soul is so much important, it's so much more important. It's it's great to have stuff, it's great to have, you know, we're blessed with you know, jobs and and and things and you know, and boats and toys. I don't have a boat, but just stuff like that. We can buy our toys and have all those things. But when those things get in the way of our relationship with God, then they're a problem. Right? And so we have to truly look at our at our lives and at our hearts and and and evaluate what's going on in our lives because we can't allow anything. Amen. We can't allow anything to get in the way of our relationship with the Lord. I'm gonna tell you a story today. It happened on February 23rd of 155 A.D. It was like something straight out of a gladiator movie. Uh, there was a man by the name of Polycarp, and Polycarp was dragged into a Roman Coliseum. He was a disciple of John, he was the bishop of the Church of Smyrna, and he had been hunted down. But he remembered the words of his friend and mentor John. John had said, Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Be faithful even to the point of death. And while he was facing his own death in the Colosseum that day, the crowd was chanting, Release the lions. And Polycarp heard a voice from heaven that was yelling above the crowds, Be strong, Polycarp, play the man. Just a few days prior to that, a bounty hunters had searched for Polycarp and they had finally found him. And instead of running and hiding, Polycarp did something that just boggled their minds. He prepared them a meal. His own bounty hunters. He prepared them a meal. And probably because of that act of grace on his part, they gave him back something. He he had one request and he said, Would you allow me to pray for one hour? And so they did. And then after two hours of praying, many of the people had uh that had come to hunt him down repented of their sin. Now that didn't stop them from fulfilling their mission, and so they did take him to the Colosseum. And as he entered the Colosseum, the leaders yelled out for him to declare, swear by the genius of Caesar. But he denied their request. And they yelled at over and over, Swear by the genius of Caesar and release, and we will release you to deny your Christ. But Polycarp had a different answer for them. And this is what he said. He said, Eighty-six years I have served him, and he has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my king who saved me? And with that they took him to the center of the ring, and they announced Polycarp has confessed himself to be a Christian. The Polycarp has confessed himself to be a Christian. The Polycarp has confessed himself to be a Christian. And that's when the crowd began to yell, Release the lions. But the leaders of that day had a different idea. They decided it would be death by fire. And so as they lit the fire, Polycarp prayed one last prayer. And he said, I bless you, Lord, because you have thought me worthy of this day and this hour to be numbered among your martyrs in the cup of our Christ. And as the flames continued to rage around him, they did not consume him. And instead of the smell of burning flesh, there was the smell, the beautiful smell of frankincense that filled the Colosseum. And so using a spear, the executioner stabbed him through the flames, and Polycarp bled out, but not before he remembered John's words, be faithful, even to the point of death. And he died fearlessly and faithfully, uh, the way that he had lived, and the way that he died forever changed the lives of many, many people who witnessed both. He died just as the voice from heaven had commanded Be strong, Polycarp, play the man. You know, I I just read that and it just makes me think. Think the way that we live, and I know I've been preaching on this quite often, but the way that we live our life out is important. Amen. The way that you walk this out, especially if you profess to be a Christian, if you profess to be a follower of Christ, the way that you act in here is important. The way you act out there is more important. Because it's easy for us to come and dedicate an hour of our lives to coming into this house and singing and worshiping some songs and then hearing a message and then go out. Right? And I Clinton and I've been talking about this, and I've got to get the signs made that I want to put on the doors when you leave that says, prepare yourself because you're about to enter the mission field. Because the mission field is everywhere out there. You don't have to go to Haiti. You can go to Haiti. I love going to Haiti. I've been there 13 times. I love going to Haiti. I look forward to going back to Haiti. But the mission field is not only in Haiti or Romania. When Pastor Caba will be here next week, and I can't wait for him to be here as well. The mission field is right outside these doors. It's the mission field is when you go to lunch. The mission field is when you get in your home. The mission field is at your school and your workplace. The mission field is everywhere that you go. When you go shopping, when you're getting ready to park your car, everywhere is the mission field. And so we need to act that way when we're out there and not just in here. Because it's easy to do it in here. It's hard to do it out there sometimes when someone might be yelling at you for something silly or it just life is happening. But we have to play the man and live fearlessly and faithfully, even to the point of death, just like Polycarp did. Our lives are about sacrifice. Amen? It's about sacrificing the things of our lives. It's about really sacrificing our whole life. And I think Romans chapter 12 uh spells it out just absolutely perfectly. I'm not even going to try to re-word what it says. I'm just going to read Romans chapter 12 to you. It says, I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you you may discern what is what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think yourself think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function. So they so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them, if prophecy in proportion to our faith, if service in our serving, the one who teaches in his teaching, and the one who exhorts in his exhortation, the one who contributes in generosity, the one who leads with zeal, the one who acts who does acts of mercy with cheerfulness. Let love be genuine, abhor what is evil, hold fast to what is good, love one another with brotherly affection. I love this one. Outdo one another in showing honor. Man, isn't that a great way to live? To out try to outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful uh in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer, contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Love in harmony uh with one another, do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight, repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God. For it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay I will repay, says the Lord. To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. For by doing you will heap burning coals on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. I mean, I could I could go, we could break down that for weeks. But I think Romans chapter 12, it really truly spells out exactly how we are to walk this thing out. And I and I would encourage you to read it from time to time just as a reminder of the walk that God is truly calling us to walk. But remember that last part. Vengeance is mine, I will I will repay. You know, we we like to quote that, especially if we're mad at somebody. And I know I've preached on this. If we're mad at somebody, we're like, okay, he says vengeance is mine, but man, I'm just praying for some heaping coals. Right? Am I the only person in this place that's ever thought that? Right? Heaping and burning coals on their head. Well, here's the problem is we don't really know what the scripture's really trying to tell us. We think we're truly trying to heap coals, but when you're when you are really reading that, you study that out, what you're really doing is you are blessing them. That's the call. In those hard moments when stuff's not going right, and you're mad at somebody and they're mad at you. Man, this word that I love, this roadmap of our life, is telling me that I need to bless them. And that can be hard to do sometimes. That can be tough love. Some people are hard to love, right? It can be tough to love them, but I'm called to love them nonetheless. Amen. So we can heap some coals, but we're heaping some blessings. It's about sacrifice. That would be a sacrifice in those situations. That's a sacrifice for us to do because we don't want to do it. So we have to humble ourselves in those moments and then do what we're truly called to do. I want to jump back to Malachi as I begin to close here today. As we go back. And while there was a group of people that we talked about earlier that would question God and kind of had some disdain for the Lord, there was another group of people who honored the Lord and they revered him. And this is what the Lord had to say to those folks here in uh Malachi chapter four. It says, For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oxen, when all the arrogant and all the evil doers will be su will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. Verse 2 But for you who fear my name, the Son of Righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings, you shall go out leaping like calves from a stall, and you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet. For on that day when I act, says the Lord of hosts, remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes, the rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. So it's telling us, what is it telling us we have to do? We have to receive Jesus into our hearts. And that's my invitation to you today. To get this thing right, we have to receive Jesus into our hearts. We have to follow his laws, and they're all summed up into love God and love your neighbor. Amen. And so when we're doing that, then we're doing it right. And then it goes on to say, Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of that the Lord comes. And then when we do that, when we get this thing right, when we're walking it out right, and we've accepted him into our heart, and we're doing the best that we can to walk out the commandments of the Lord uh each and every day. He says he will send his prophet Elijah before the great and awesome day that the Lord comes in verse six, and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Could you stand with me today? The first thing I would like to do, if you are a daddy, if you're a father, I want to ask you to come down to the altar. Don't be shy. I love when the dads that have to get up and say look at their kids and say, I'm going down there, you better be good. Greg, I'm I think I'm gonna I'm good. I'm good, Greg. I'm gonna ask you, and it's not something I we always do, but I'm gonna ask you to point your hands toward these all these dads. Aren't we appreciative of them? Aren't we thankful? Look at all the men of our church that they love the Lord. Amen. We're here today to celebrate you, and we're thankful uh for you. I totally related with that uh video when it the guys, two guys had the world's best dad cup. And if I see someone that has like a world's best dad shirt or something on, it kind of irritates me a little bit. Like how they get the shirt. You said I was the one. Let's pray. I want to ask you to point your hands toward these men down here. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you. I thank you, God, that we have all these men in the house today that have come today on this Father's Day, and we honor them, Lord, and we are so thankful that for them, God. I pray, Lord, that as we leave today, that they don't hesitate to reach out to their kiddos and just tell them they love them. Maybe a bad joke first, but then we get to the real point, and that's to tell them that we love them, Lord. And while we're thankful for these men in this house today, God, I am thankful for every single person in this house today, God, who showed up today to honor you and to and to love on you and to worship you, Lord. But God, we are just so thankful that we have a God and a Father in heaven who loves us, who loved us so much that you were willing to send your own son to this earth to walk out uh a fleshly life, to learn how we feel, the emotions we feel, all the stuff that we walk through in this world, God. But you are willing to send your son to this earth to die so that we might have life. And so we just give you all the praise and all the glory. Again, thank you for all the men in this house today, maybe any of those that are watching online, Lord. I'm thankful for my Father, Lord, uh, this day. I'm thank you for Pastor Rick, who's been a dad to me for so many years, Lord. I'm thankful. And we just give you all the praise and all the glory. And I pray, God, just for a special blow blessing over each and every one of the men that are standing before me today. We honor you and we love you. And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I pray you have an awesome day today. Thank you for being here. Uh just go hug hug somebody that you know.