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Sunday 5/10/26 | How Far Are You Willing To Go Part 1 | Jonathan Dodd
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Today I'm going to share with you a an idea that kind of I c I stumbled upon and uh I titled this How Far Are You Willing to Go? It's the story, it's gonna be based off of the story of Elijah and Elisha, uh, two Old Testament prophets. And when I first started down this, and I've always wondered this, if y'all ever wondered this, y'all may not be like me, why did God pick two guys with almost the same name to be prophets following each other to keep everybody confused about who did what and when? I mean, why couldn't one of them be called something else? Reuben, Stephen, something. I mean, come on, Elijah and Elisha. It's almost other same name. And I remember being a kid thinking, why did you do that, God? Because that don't make no sense. And I never heard an answer back from him, so uh I don't guess it was my place to say that. But uh anyway, I've always wondered that. But I got to studying this, and you find that in 1 Kings 20, um Elijah is told by God to pick Elisha to be his successor. And uh we'll talk a little bit about that while we're going through this. Uh that's in 1 Kings 20. And then uh he's told he's told there that, hey, this guy named Elisha is going to replace you as the prophet in uh in Israel. And so at that point, you could say Elisha's future has been determined, correct? He's been picked. He's the guy, he's the one. So so he's gonna be the next prophet. So Elijah goes to where he is, he's at his father's house, and he's plowing with some ox in there, and he he uh anoints him or picks him to be the next prophet. And that that's uh we'll get to that eventually in our story, but uh in 2 Kings, we actually see where Elijah is taken up in a whirlwind with chariots of fire and all that. Kind of sounds spectacular. Uh and that's where really where Elisha begins his purpose. He's picked over here in 1 Kings 20, but he gets into his purpose in 2 Kings 2. Okay? So I found that that whole process was interesting the past couple of weeks. I heard a guy speak about it. I took it and ran with it and uh dug into it a little bit. And the process of him becoming the assistant to being the prophet is what we're gonna spend a lot of time on. And I and I believe there's a lot we can learn from that. So that's where we're gonna be today, and it's probably gonna spill over to next week, like I said, because I got a bunch to talk about. So let's let's read this together. I'll be in the New Living Translation, 2 Kings 2. It'll be on the screen. Uh it's a lot, but we've got to set the stage, okay? So just bear with me. It says, When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal, and Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to Bethel. Pause right there. I find it's interesting through this whole thing that they know Elijah is going to be taken up in a whirlwind, but there's never any like discussion about how's that gonna work or why, and all that stuff. And it's just because it says that when he's about to be taken up, they know it. And if you as you read this, they every place they go to in this, the prophets in that town go, hey, he's about to be taken up, you know that, right? And Elisha's like, yeah, shut up, don't talk about it. Okay. Uh so they're head, they're traveling from Gilgal, it says, and we're going to Bethel, and Elijah tells him to stay right there. But Elisha replies, As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you. So they went down to Bethel together. Then if you skip to verse 4, it says, Then Elisha, they'd gotten to Bethel, then Elijah says to Elisha, Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to Jericho. But Elisha replied again, As surely as the Lord lives and yourself live, I will never leave you. So they went on together to Jericho. If you skip to verse 6, we get to Jericho. Then Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to the Jordan River. But again Elisha replied, Surely as the Lord lives and yourself live, I will never leave you. So they went on together. And it says in verse 7, fifty men from the group of prophets also went and watched from a distance as Elijah and Elisha stopped beside the Jordan River. Then Elijah folded his cloak together and struck the water with it, and the water divided, and the two of them went across on dry ground. When they came to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Tell me what I can do for you before I am taken away. And Elisha replied, Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit and become your successor. And Elijah replies, You have asked for a difficult thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, then you will get your request, but if not, then you won't. And it says, As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a chair of fire appeared, drawn by horses of fire. It drove between the two of them, separating them, and Elijah was carried off by a whirlwind into heaven. Elijah didn't die. He didn't die, he got just taken up. And Elijah saw Elisha saw it and cried out, My father, my father, I see chariots and charioters of fire. And as they disappeared from sight, Elisha tore his clothes in distress. Elisha picked up Elijah's cloak, which had fallen when he had taken when it was taken up, and Elisha returned to the bank of the Jordan River, and he struck the water with Elijah's coat and cried out, Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah? Then the river divided, and Elisha went across. Crazy story. Insane story. Chariots of fire, whirlwinds, hitting the water with your jacket, and water splitting. And I think it's funny because I know most of us, and I know most of us kind of grew up in church, and we've heard this story probably a dozen times. And it's real easy to just take this story and sit it over there in the supernatural science fiction category of your brain and never really think much about it and go, yeah. Y'all, some dude got caught up in a tornado that had chariots of fire somehow involved in it. I don't really understand that part either. And he didn't die. He just got taken up into heaven. That's crazy. That's insane. Before he did that, he he took his jacket and he struck the river and it dried up. And then his successor did the same thing about 20 minutes later. I don't know if it's 20 minutes. I made that part up. But uh he did it again. That's just some crazy stuff. That's like Star Wars stuff, right? Like the stuff you just, yeah, whatever, yeah, whatever. But this really happened. And I think it's real easy to stay in that rut that we all get in sometimes when we read the Bible, that this crazy stuff actually happened. And that's the God we serve who does some crazy stuff. And I think we discount things in our lives sometimes thinking he can't do it, but that's not what we're here to talk about. And actually, we're not going to spend time right today on the insane chariots of fire whirlwind part. We're going to talk more about this journey they're on. This journey, this tour of Israel they go on, as I called it. Uh they go on before Elijah is taken up. And I thought it was funny that Elijah keeps on giving Elisha the out to not go. And that's kind of where the title of this whole thing comes from is how far are you willing to go? Because Elisha had multiple opportunities to go. Okay, I'll stay right here. That's cool. You don't really want me to go. You've asked me that twice now, and I guess I'll just stay right here. Uh but he was given that opportunity. Now, y'all know me. Y'all have heard me speak before. I'm a firm believer that everything in the Bible is there for a reason, that all scripture is God breathed and is useful for making me a better disciple. Everything, including this worldwide or this Israel tour that they go on to all these random cities, okay? That's gotta be there for a reason. God didn't put that in my Bible just to be a geography lesson so I can review all the places that have been mentioned in the Old Testament. It's there for a reason. And that's where we're gonna camp out on this and learn from that. Because they were in the process of leaving Gilgal, it says. And they went to Bethel, and then from Bethel they went to Jericho, and then from Jericho they went to the Jordan River. Now, if you're like me, you're like, where are those at on a map? Because I gotta know. Are they on the way? No. Here's our map, and I'm sorry it's fuzzy. You're gonna feel like your your eyes have been dilated at the eye doctor. I did the best I could with that. It really made sense, though the map did. If you notice, you got the Dead Sea right there. The Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea. That's that little blue line going down into it. You with me? What's right beside the Jordan River? Gilgal. They're leaving Gilgal, knowing that Elijah is gonna be taken up in a whirlwind at the Jordan River, but they're not headed to the Jordan River. That doesn't make any sense at all. There's their compass messed up? I don't know. No, God was leading them. And it says they're going to Bethel first, right? You gotta pass by Jericho to get to Bethel. That's if the roads go that way. I'm not sure where the roads went then. I don't know. But to me, it's on the way. So we go all the way to Bethel to turn around to come to Jericho, to stay there for a minute, and then go back to where we just left a couple days ago to the Jordan River. Not very efficient, is it? Guess what? God's not always efficient, is he? He's plenty, he's sufficient, but he's not efficient, okay? I think this whole journey demonstrates the journey in our lives of reaching our purpose, our promise of what God has told us we're going to be, what's going to happen in our lives. I believe that this whole journey is like a symbol of that, and that's what we're going to break down, and there's importance in all these cities. These four cities that the Jordan River is not really a city, but it's a location. These four locations that they visit are all significantly important in the history of Israel. They're almost like checkpoints. At many of them, there's memorials built there. Okay? Because the Israelites wanted to remember what happened to them there. So that's where we're going to spend our time is breaking down these locations and finding out what it means for us. What it means for us and how that fits into our journey to find our purpose. Because I think everybody in here, we always, we've probably been praying our entire lives. God, show me my purpose. Why am I here? What am I doing? What's this all about? And I don't care how old you are or how young you are, it's the same thing. You keep on wanting that. You keep on wanting, well, what why are we even here? What am I doing? So that I think that this will help us find that purpose in our lives. So we're going to start with Gilgal, because that's where they start, that's where they're leaving from. And I believe Gilgal represents our separation from our old life. It's our separation from our old life. It's the first, the first time Gilgal is mentioned is after the Israelites crossed the Jordan from the wilderness into the promised land. That's the first stop they make. They set up a camp there. It's almost like it's uh the entrance to the promised land, you could say. And uh two major things happen there. Two major things. Uh first, as the Israelites are crossing the Jordan River, Jacob, God tells Jacob to make a memorial out of some stones there. And he sends one man from each tribe back into the middle of the Jordan River. They have to go where they've come across, they gotta go back out there and pick up a rock and bring it back across and make a pile of rocks. And uh so that they build this memorial for a specific reason. Here it is in Joshua, where they're talking about it in Joshua 4. It says, We will use these stones to build a memorial, and in the future our children will ask you, What do these stones mean? And then you can tell them, they remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the Lord's covenant went across. These stones will stand as memorial among the people of Israel forever. They built this so that they could be reminded and their children would ask questions. There's a whole lesson in that. What are we passing on to our children? Have we built memorials in our lives to say this is when God did this for us? That we point back to? Do we have, do we all go out to dinner on a certain night of the year that to remember, hey, this is when God healed your dad, your mom, whoever. I think we should do that. They did it in the Old Testament. And it was, and the sole reason for that pile of rocks was so that you could tell your kids about what happened. Because they weren't there, they didn't see it. And and I just think that's important. But so they set up this place, and we don't know that it's called Gilgal yet. It's about to be called that. It's a place of remembrance of where God had brought them from. Now, the second most important thing, or the second important thing that happened here at Gilgal was the circumcision. And God tells Joshua to circumcise the generation of men that were born in the wilderness. There's a whole generation of guys that were born in the wilderness. They were there for 40 years, and they are not circumcised, so therefore they're not under the covenant of Abraham. So what happens here is God reestablishes that covenant with these men. And we see it right here in Joshua 5. So Joshua circumcised their sons, those who had grown up to take their fathers' places, for they had not been circumcised on the way to the promised land. And after all the males had been circumcised, they rested in the camp until they were healed. And all the guys said, Praise God. Glad they got a minute. Then the Lord said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt. So that place has been called Gilgal to this day. They could not enter into the promised land until they were circumcised. It was not their land. They weren't in the promise, right? Because the whole covenant was, I'm going to give this land to you, Abraham. And they were as good as Gentiles, I guess you could say, in that aspect, because they were not in that covenant. So they had to be circumcised, they had to be separated from their past to enter into this new relationship with God. And the name Gilgal, I love this, it means rolled away. And that's what he says. He says, I'm rolling away the shame of Egypt. This, in case you're not catching on, this is a picture of our salvation. This is a snapshot or a symbolism of our salvation. As a matter of fact, Paul talks a lot about this. In Colossians 2, he says, when you came to Christ, you were circumcised, and that's in quotation Marks, but not by physical procedures. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision and cut away your sinful nature. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized, and with him you were raised to a new life, because you trusted the mighty power of God who raised Christ from the dead. And he goes on in 2 Corinthians, and he says, This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone and the new life has begun. Our salvation is equivalent to the Old Testament circumcision. When we are saved and baptized, we are in a new covenant with God. The same way in the Old Testament, when that procedure took place, and it's this covenant with, once we enter into this covenant with God, our old life is over, done, dead, as Paul says in some places. You are dead to your old life. The old person is dead, no longer existing. You are a new creation. And you're in this new covenant with God, you're in this new relationship. And this is the first step into finding our purpose. I believe that without a relationship with Jesus Christ, your purpose in life is going to be incomplete. We are made in God's image, and to me that means that we're made, we're predestined for something, I guess you could say. And unless we enter into that covenant relationship with Christ, we're never going to reach our full potential. Do people find their purpose without Christ? Yeah, they do. But how much more could it be if they were in that relationship? How much more effective could they be? How much more power and impact could they have in other people's lives by using their God-given talent? And Sarah talked about it Sunday. How many talented people are out there that do not have the Holy Spirit working in them? And all it is is talent. It's great. It's really good. But the anointing is not there because they never entered into a relationship to begin with to receive the anointing. So you have to have this separation from our old life. And that's what Gilgal represents there for us is Gilgal is that separation. And Elijah had to do it, Elisha had to do it, and me and you have got to do it. The children of Israel had to do it. It's just all that part of dying to your old life and accepting this new life in Christ. So there's our first step is separation. This just makes sense to everyone. Okay, good. I want to make sure I'm on the right page. Because you're already quiet. And that's okay. The second city we mention is Bethel. And we all know what Bethel means if you've been in church. I gotta get a drink of water in just a second. Bethel means God's presence. House of God is actually what it means. Beth means house, and Ethel means God, so house of God. So they're leaving Gilgal, it says, and they're headed to Bethel when all this starts. And here it is in 2 Kings, he says, Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to Bethel. He says, No, I'm not gonna stay here. Surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I'm going with you. So they went together. Bethel's first mentioned. In the Bible in Genesis 28. And it's when Jacob has the dream and an encounter with God of Jacob's ladder. He's on his way to Haran for a couple reasons. He's running from his brother, who he severely ticked off by stealing a birthright. And his dad doesn't want him to marry any Canaanite women. So he sends them to his family's uh where they're staying in Haran, where he can basically marry a cousin. We're not going to get into how Walker County that is, but uh uh that's what they were doing back then. Um he's headed to go pick out his future wife, and we all know that story. He picks Rebecca, he thinks he gets Leah instead, and then he has to work seven more years for Rebecca. Um but that's where he's headed when he has this experience with God. Um he falls asleep that night, and uh I think a Pastor Harve preached about this a couple weeks ago, and he has this vision of this ladder going up into heaven, and there's angels coming up and down the ladder, right? And uh he he and God spoke to him while he's having that dream, and he tells him three things. He promises him three things. He promises he's gonna be with him. I'll be with you, Jacob. I'll protect you, Jacob, and I will never leave you, Jacob. What I found interesting is this is the first time Jacob has an encounter with God for himself. He was raised in Isaac's house. Uh he he he was raised in that family, but he had never, and he was a deceiver, remember? He was a big liar. He's the one that made, you know, got stole the birthright. And here he is, he's he's having this first encounter with God at this place that he calls Bethel. And let's pick that up. It's right here in Genesis 28. It says the next morning Jacob got up very early. This is after the dream of the latter, and he looked, took the stone where he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial. There's another memorial. Isn't that funny? Um he set it upright and he poured olive oil over it, and he named that place Bethel, which means house of God, although it was previously named Luz. Better name, isn't it? And then Jacob made this vow if God will indeed be with me and protect me on this journey, and he will provide with me food and clothing, I will return safely to my father's home, and the Lord will certainly be my God. You see how in that scripture Lord is in all caps? When they translated the King James and then everything else that came after it, every time the word Jehovah was used, that's what they did was Lord in all caps. And you can go back and check this, looking at it like a Greek or a Hebrew reference, and it's always Jehovah right there. So what he's actually saying is Jehovah will be my God, not Allah, not somebody else, Jehovah will be my God. That just has a lot more because it be reading God, the Lord is my God. Yeah, the Lord is God. Yeah, so what, buddy? But when you read it in that context that Jehovah will be, the person I just had an interaction with here at this place I'm gonna call Bethel now, that's going to be my God because he promised me these things, and if he comes through on those promises, I will come back here and he will be my God. There's now a relationship, a connection. The dream is like symbolic of this connection between heaven and earth. And it's what it's showing, Jacob, is you're not the deceiver. You were born. If you enter in this relationship, you are now going to be connected to God. You're connected to God. God has chosen you, Jacob, for a specific purpose. Your name's gonna be changed later on, dude. You were chosen for a specific purpose to be the father of this nation, and there's now a connection between you and God. You have a relationship. When you experience the presence of God in your life, your life changes. We know that because we go to a Pentecostal church, right? We know that. There's some people out there that go to church every Sunday and they've never experienced the presence of God, though. They have separated, they've left Gilgal, they've separated from their old life and they're miserable. They're miserable, they're trying to make things on their own, but they've never experienced a true presence of God moment. And I believe the only way your life purpose is going to be met is to have that presence of God in your life. In John chapter 1, verse 51, Jesus is calling Nathaniel to be a disciple. And Nathaniel uh comes to him, and if you if you want to go down a rabbit hole, I highly recommend this. Um study the calling of Nathaniel because there's so much Old Testament stuff in there that Jesus says to him that just will blow your mind. I mean, I don't have time to go into it, but it's some crazy stuff that he says to Nathaniel that you can tell Nathaniel was a guy who knew the scripture. He knew the Torah because Jesus starts throwing stuff at him and it starts blowing his mind. And one of those is this. He does a throwback to this Jacob's ladder right here. He says, I tell you the truth, you will you will all see heaven open up, and the angels of God going up and down on the Son of Man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth. So Jesus is saying to him, I was that ladder. I was that ladder. That Jacob saw, the angels, the connection between heaven and earth was not just a ladder. It was me, Nathaniel. The thing you've been reading about in the Old Testament is standing right here in front of you, carrying on a conversation with you, and I'm telling you, you ain't seen nothing yet. You're about to see some really amazing things because I am the connection to God. Without Jesus, we cannot be in relationship with the Heavenly Father. You know, and I'm gonna go ahead and say this, as we've been talking about Holy Spirit here for the past two weeks. Without the sacrifice Jesus made for us, we could never enter into a relationship with God. Without accepting that free gift, we can never be baptized, filled, whatever you want to say, in the Holy Spirit. That is the presence of God. I said this a couple of nights on a Wednesday night. The Holy Spirit is the person of God that we interact with here on earth. God the Father is on his throne. Jesus is his right hand. The Holy Spirit is on earth. That's why Jesus told the disciples, it's better if I go away. Because I'm one guy and I can be in one room, and that's it. The Holy Spirit can be here today. He can be in every church operating up and down 78 Highway today, all over the world, all at the same time, because he's a spirit. He's not a man, like Jesus was in man form. So without that relationship with Jesus, accepting that free gift of salvation, we will never enter into the presence of God, I believe, that is required for us to fully meet our purpose in life. It is that indwelling Holy Spirit that we receive and the baptism of that spirit where we, as I can't remember who, was it Tim McGill last week, was talking about the cup of water. I was thinking about that this week. If you weren't here, I'll give you the rundown. If you take a glass of water and you dump it in a bigger container of water, it fills up that glass, right? And if you take that glass and turn it upside down in that container and start bringing it up out of the bucket, the water will stay in that glass as long as it is connected. There's the ladder right there. As it's connected to the bucket of water, it stays in it. But the minute you disconnect, all the water comes out. And I believe that's vital for us to be able to fulfill our purpose in Christ as we wander through life trying to figure this whole thing out while we're here. This brief however many years you get here, uh the impact you can make. Um questions, comments? Y'all got nothing to say? Come on.
unknownYeah. We're bonding.
SPEAKER_00That's true. That's true. Uh that that's where the title comes from is how far are you willing to go? He had every opportunity so far along this path to go, I just stay right here. He could have stayed in the presence of God. A lot of people do. You know, their whole relationship with God is based off of an experience, a religious experience they had one time 30 years ago. And they're just camping out right there, hoping it happens again. You know, uh, but but it's that that's not the purpose of that. The feeling of the Holy Spirit is to empower you to go do other things and to get out into the world and do that. Um you can ask anything.
unknownWhen you talk about you know the uh the Holy Spirit, and I've always thought what you just said, but you really did make it pretty clear. I mean, I just like the Holy Spirit. So a lot of times in my prayers, I find myself talking to the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yes. There's a little guilt going on, wait a minute, that's supposed to be in Jesus' name. So can you clarify that for us a second? Yeah, I believe, and and I'm basing this off of scripture, of course, and a good book you should read called The Holy Spirit. It's by John Bevere. I'm teaching it on Wednesday nights, and uh it's really good. Uh but in that book, he he says, yeah, you you can pray to the Holy Spirit. That's fine. Because it's God. I mean, the Holy Spirit is God, Jesus is God, the Father is God, but they're not each other. They're not each other, but they're all God. Okay? And it's it's it's a really hard thing to explain. I used water the other Wednesday night, and then the more I think about it, that's just not good enough. That way that steam, water, and ice are all H2O, but they're different. I heard another good example, and this may help you, this week. Um, make sure I get all this. Yes. Your brain, is it you? Yeah, it's me. Is it all of you? No. It's not all of you. Your body, is it you? Yeah, it's you. Is it all of you? No. No. What about your your spirit or your your uh your um conscience or your your uh your soul, I guess you could say your soul. Is that you? Yeah, that's you. But it's not all of you. All three of those three of those things are you, but in themselves they're separate things or separate beings, I guess you could say. And that was a pretty good example of the Holy, the triune God there. Yeah, Nick. Yeah.
unknownUm, you know, I think a lot of people in a bad moment call out to a God and believe in a God. But when you take it once that further time of need, you're gonna Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
unknownWhy? Because I believe the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00It's the Holy Spirit, right.
unknownIt's part of that truth.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
unknownAnd I think a lot of times uh that God hears from a lot of people at bad times. When you take it to the next level, like I believe that's the Holy Spirit help me right now and I need it.
SPEAKER_00It's all about that relationship, Nick. If you got that relationship with the Heavenly Father, you can call on any person of the Godhead, and that person of the Godhead will respond. Um, but it's funny how a lot of people in this world consider the Holy Spirit extra, like almost like icing on the cake, where I'm beginning to look in my life as the Holy Spirit is vital in Jonathan's life, or I can't do what I'm supposed to do, and I'm gonna wind up in the ditch somewhere. Okay, uh, he's vital for me, and if I don't spend time with the Holy Spirit, it's all showing up. And and it it ain't good when it shows up that way. Did you have something, Jamie?
unknownI think we're just saying you shouldn't remember this.
SPEAKER_00Do you really want it? And I think that's that's where we're headed with this whole discussion. And I think we're gonna stop here today. I know it's a little bit early, but I don't want to get into Jericho because there's a lot there. And uh that'll make you come back next week, too. Um but but the whole the whole thing, it's it's a choice, Jamie. It's a choice. We have the choice, you have the choice to accept Christ. You have a choice to accept the presence of Christ, the presence of God in your life. And as you see, you're gonna have the pre- you're gonna have the choice to go to Jericho or say, no, I want to stay back here where it's safe. And then you're gonna have the choice to cross the Jordan River, too. And it's a choice there. So the whole thing is choices. And the question we all need to ask ourselves is are we camped out in a certain area and refuse to follow because we're comfortable there? We're comfortable because, you know, God took away all my sins. It's great. I have a new life. That's great. Have you experienced the presence of God? I'm kind of afraid of that. What are you afraid of? He changed your life. What's he gonna do to you? Bad. And uh, so yeah, I think that that's an important step there. So uh uh, yeah, it's a choice. It's a choice. It's everything's a choice. We are we are created with free will. You know, I think that there's a lot of people out there that think this whole thing's been decided for us, and and uh we have no input into that, and I think a lot has been predetermined for you, yes, but you still have free will whether or not to walk into that. And uh it's up to us to take that step of faith. So you think also that was part of the testing to say, to see if you would stay.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. We read in that first thing, and we're I'm kind of getting ahead of myself. Fifty prophets went with them to watch him cross the Jordan River. They didn't go down there. I don't want to be sitting there watching. I want to be down there doing, you know. Uh so yeah, it's a choice. It's a big choice. And that I think that's a lot of this was him putting the ball in Elisha's hand and going, are you willing to go on? Are you willing to go on? Are you willing to go on? Jimmy, do you have something?
unknownYeah, I want to say uh I didn't want to get to one of the weird next week, but Jericho Rebel now nation trial uh you got to go to bevel before we do it.
SPEAKER_00Don't get in my notes, Jimmy. Stay out of there, man. They won't come back next week now. You're exactly right. You're exactly right. Uh I'm gonna pray for us, and I know it's Mother's Day, and uh uh we probably got people coming in. We can get out there a little bit earlier today. But yeah, we'll pick up and we'll go to Jericho next week and uh uh and see what else we got there, okay?
unknownLet's pray together.