Communion

7/12/26 Park Service. 

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We'll go ahead and start the the service. If you if you want to listen to these, um some of the past ones, if if you go to uh like podcasts and just type in the park services, you should find it um on just regular podcasts. But um it's kind of cool. I mean, I've uh uh this many usually comes about, and uh I looked the other day and like exactly 100 people had listened to the park service, and one of them was from Brazil, one of them was from the United Kingdom. I'm like, how are these people even know? You know, so I have no idea. The Lord's amazing is all I can say. Um, I don't know, the Lord's been doing so much in my life. A couple months ago, um, I started keeping this little notebook and of just prayers, you know, because you know if you if I saw somebody random and they're like, pray for me, I'm like, well, let's do it right here, pray, you know. And and you know, then I kind of feel like, you know, well, like I'm off the hook, you know, I don't even think about it anymore. So I've been really trying to write down prayers, and at least once a week, I was doing it once a day till this book got to about 70 or 80 things to pray for. And now I just try to pray through it once a week, and you know, sometimes the Lord prompts me to to text somebody and say I'm praying for you, and I'm it's I'm blown away at how many times they say, like, oh, that was just right at the right time, you know. It was it was just perfect, like you have no idea how much that um that meant to me. And uh, and we got somebody here last week, guys. Last week I was as distraught as I've ever been over anything. And like, you know, I told you guys always, like, oh well, is anybody coming today? And there they come, always. And so last week, you know, I was really struggling whether I should even be doing this, you know, preaching at all. And um, I just laid a fleece out before the Lord and said, All right, Lord, today will be the day that nobody shows up at the park. Um, if you know, if you don't want me to preach, let nobody show up, and I'll drop it, Lord. I'll just live for you, I'll do the best I can. I don't have to be this outfront person if you don't want me to be. And um I had so quickly said amen and got a text that said, we're gonna be a few minutes late, but we're coming. And I'm like, there's just no way of that kind of timing. And she told me last week that she was about to send it and said, Ah, he don't need to know that. He don't care. We'll just show up. And then again, he said it, and he sent it at the she sent it at the perfect time. That is just little details to me that blows me away. And I want you to listen to this. The when I wrote my prayer down for you, there's the first line. I pray for her and her family. Lord, keep speaking to her heart. That's the first thing. And I've been praying for you. I don't know when I wrote that down. You're number 61 out of about 80 something, you know. Um, but I do know number 22 in here says, Lord, teach me to pray. Really pray. You know, because before that, yeah, I'll say a prayer, Lord, help this and this, and do this and this, and please this and this. But guys, I don't know. I'm just learning that prayer is just about getting in his presence and just hanging out there as long as you can. And I think that's what we do when we come here. We just we just want to get in his presence. I don't know what it is about this open air stuff, but this feels so much better than the closed door stuff. I have no idea. It's just amazing. And you know, I teach school too. Teaching math is like the hardest thing I do because the kids are forced to come, all right? Or that's at least the way they feel about it. Well, I'm made to be, I have to be here, and it's like, wow, you know, and you just uh e even if it was just preaching, if somebody's like, you're gonna go down there and you're gonna sit here and listen to this guy, you're gonna be like, when is this over? You know, like but when we come here, like you guys chose to come. You guys saw a sign, you guys saw something and say, Man, I want to go and hang out with God's people, and it's different group every time. I just love it here. Even when I go to a church building, how many of you know, there's very few people, especially in the south, that are seeking God, like, oh God, will you show up? Now that happens, but for the most of the time, it's people showing up out of habit. That's just what we do on Sunday, that's just what we've always done. So there's something to having this heart of prayer, or this heart of wanting to go get in the presence of the Lord, and um, I don't know, that's just what I love about this stuff. So um, I was like, Lord, what do you want me to play? And I didn't know what I was gonna play. So right before I got here, this song just kept uh just ringing through my head. Uh I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning back, and I know I'm talking way more than I normally do here, but I know in the South, especially, so many people believe. Yeah, I believe. Yeah, I said some prayer when I was 12 years old, you know, and I believe I'm saved, but it's like, when did you decide to follow him? You know, like when did you when have you read this book, the Bible, and and seen and saw something that's like so contrary to what you want to do, you know, like love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you? No, thank you. Like, how about letting me get back at my enemies? I don't get mad, I get even. You know, like we've heard stupid stuff like that, but you know, you really ask God to get you to the point where, like, man, when somebody does me wrong, I want to pray for them. I want you to change them. I want you to do in their heart and mine like you do. Man, that is following Jesus. But for some reason in America, we're all just like, oh, well, I'm gonna keep my ways and what I want to do, add Jesus to my life, and when I die, I get to go to heaven. I'm not sure it works like that. I think you follow Jesus. You know, he he didn't go around saying, Hey, accept me into your heart. He said, Follow me. And some people did, and some people didn't. How about that poor rich guy that walked away sadly? Man, he had the chance to be the 13th disciple, you know, like it might have been 13, but he was like, No, he walked away sad because he had great wealth, and you think, well, what good's that wealth doing him now, you know? Don't none go with me, still I will follow. Don't none go with me, still I will follow, don't none go with me, still I will follow, no turning back, no turning back, no world behind me, the cross before me, the world behind me, the cross before me, the world behind me, the cross before me, no turning back, no turning back will you decide now to follow Jesus? Will you decide now to follow Jesus? Will you decide now to follow Jesus? No turn in bed, don't turn in back one more time. Sing it with me. I have decided to follow Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back. And Lord, that is my prayer for everybody here. I really don't think anybody would be here right now in this place in this opportunity if they haven't at some point decided to follow you. And Lord, I just pray for each one of us, myself included, Lord, that we will keep following you, that Lord, when we read things in the Bible that make us uncomfortable and we don't really want to do those things, that Lord, we'll just do them anyway. And Lord, I I know that in in my own life, it seems like when I follow you the short term, I feel like, oh, why did why did that even happen? Or why did God ask me to do that? Lord, I doubt and all this kind of stuff in the short term. But in the long term, in the long run, I can always look back and say, You are doing a great work right there. I didn't understand it, I didn't think it was working, but I look back, Lord, and you have worked all things for my good. There's no one like you, Lord. I pray that everybody here will decide to follow you. I mean, really follow you and put the world behind them and only look at the cross and follow you, Lord. There's no one like you. And I ask that you bless uh the rest of this service in Jesus' name. Amen. Um so I've been I've been doing this this thing called a hundred days of communion. I don't even know why I came up with a hundred. Um, but I think because I I went online and I bought like a hundred of these little little cups and said, all right, well, I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a hundred of these. And um, you know, the very first one I did it, I started on my birthday, the day I turned 51, and I just wrote down general communion. Like, Lord, I'm just doing this in general. Whatever you want to do in my life through this, will you do it? Okay, so as I speak on all this, you know, for one, I want you to think about what the Lord's saying to your heart and mind as we just sit out here and talk about God, talk about the Bible. We read Jesus' words and we think about communion and like what it what it means in our own hearts, minds, and lives and everything. But uh, I go through and for some reason the Lord's giving me like a different word each day, like to deal with, you know. So, like 625, the day after my birthday, I wrote down the word greed, and and I guess you know, I was just thinking about money, and now that I'm close to retirement, and all I'm worried about is am I gonna have enough to pay my bills and all that, you know? And the Lord's like, Do you believe that I got you or not? You know, what are you really putting your trust in? I mean, like, man, he has really been like, okay, preacher man, this is what's in your heart, you know, are you gonna deal with it? Are you gonna just gonna be like, oh, well, well, everybody in America needs to worry about money? You gotta pay your bill. Like, we could excuse whatever we do in our lives absolutely away. We could come up with some excuse and find some other person that says they're a Christian that absolutely agrees with us, right? You know, like we could, but when you get into this word and he asks you, what are you really trusting in? Me or my bank or your bank account? My bank account, Lord, if I'm honest, I'm trusting in that. Will you help me? Will you will you like kill this greed in my life? And then I take communion, you know, and ask God to deal with it, you know. Day three was the armor of God, you know. God had had revealed to me that, like, man, we gotta put on our spiritual armor. And because the previous day, some little nothing happened to me, thank goodness I don't even remember it now, but some little insult happened, and I just carry it around and let it ruin my day. And I'm like, why in the world did I even care, Lord? Like, how could something so simple? Can I not take anything, you know? And um Ephesians 6, man, put on the belt of truth, man. At your core is this word, the truth of your life. Put on the breastplate of righteousness. How about you just put on the armor right here and cover your heart with righteousness and realize that I give you righteousness through what I did on the cross. You know, how about you do that? Your feet, man, are shod with the gospel everywhere you go. You carry me with you. You know, you're praying for people, you're taking my word with you. And then here was the one that really got me the helmet of salvation. I know God. You know, like I played baseball, you know, like uh, and I've been hit in the head without a helmet, and I've been hitting the head with a helmet. When I've got a helmet on, I'm like, throw it at it, man. I'm like, ain't that wild? It didn't even hurt me. But when I don't have a helmet on, you get a big old knot, you get a big old headache. You're like, that that hurts. And I just thought of that little simple thing. If in the morning I will get up and say, put on the helmet of salvation. And then when something, if that little thing had been said to me and I had on the helmet, I would have been like, and I'd have walked on, right? But because I didn't have it on, that little insult hurt me. I could go through each one of these. One of them dealt with my attitude, one of them dealt with generosity, the sovereignty of God, souls. But um, I do, I'm gonna go ahead and do this. I'm gonna do this a little bit out of order, but um I wrote a little song, you know, because instead of just saying, and this will um I do have a CD if somebody wants of the stuff that uh I've written before, but I'm trying to write up write new material so I can do another CD. Um, it took me like 20 years to get my first one out, so the second one should be out by the time I turn 70. Um, but uh instead of just saying Lloyd, put on the belt of truth, put on the blessed breastplate rights. I wrote a little song um that I I keep my guitar near my car and I just try to play it real quick. Uh I try to play it real slow, but sometimes I'll play it real quick. Um, but it goes like this I put on the honor God. I put on the honor God, I put on the belt of truth, I put on the breastplate righteousness, I put on the almond God, I put on the almond God, my feet is shot with the gospel, my helmet of salvation is on, I knew behind the shield of faith. I put on the God, I put on the God, I take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God use it by my enemies, I put on me on God, I put on the moon, and it's just a little simple song like that to do that, and um, I'll tell you why I'm really glad I saw that word and thought to do that because this morning I'm like, well, I won't play it, I'll play it up there, and I almost forgot, you know. So um just these little things, man, that that really help you learn to um to follow God. I'll tell you a story that I was reminded of um not too long ago. Um, but I mean back when I first became a follower of Jesus, you know, like I mean, not a whole lot changed behaviorally in my life. And you know, I was just trying to to read the Bible, maybe read a little devotional. I might would spend five minutes with the Lord and then just rush off and live, you know, how I wanted to. I'm not saying he wasn't working and all that, but but there was one day particularly I was reading um the love chapter of the Bible, right? And I read the whole thing, and I was trying to like, well, what did I get out of that? Love is patient. That was all I can remember after out of reading 1 Corinthians 13. And um, I was like, love is patient. And then I put my name in there. I was like, Adam is not patient, like not even close, you know. Like, you know, when I have to wait for like self-checkout at Walmart, like that I'm I'm sitting there like I'm waiting in line to work for Walmart. You know, like where is the break room? I'm gonna go hang out in there with the employees, you know. But that's just me, okay? Like that's just me, you know, just being aggravated. But I remember saying, Lord, help me to be patient, okay? And so I just rushed through my life, just rushed and rushed, you know, and I I was taught through the school day, couldn't wait for the bell to ring, couldn't wait to get out, whatever. And I got out of work that day, and I jumped in my car, and I mean, I couldn't wait to get home, okay? And for whatever reason, that's all I can say is this is the Lord. Um, I was pumping about 60 and a 35, you know, and I first thought, man, if I was to get pulled over, that's reckless driving, man. You know, like you're gonna have a big old six-point violation here in a happy mind. Then the words hit me from that morning. Love is patience. You know, and and I I don't even know what made me do it, but I slammed on the brakes. I mean, and I got the car down to about 25 or 30 miles an hour. Almost immediately, there were two kids going mock two in the left lane, coming around the curb, and they barely missed my car and like went on, you know. And I mean, I pulled over. I'm feeling the Lord right now, just remembering what that felt like. And I'm like, I pulled over and I just started crying. I just started sobbing, and I'm like, Lord, with three words reading the Bible this morning, you just saved my life. I couldn't believe it. I was just like, like, like blown away. And that led me into this little thing of even like driving for the Lord, you know, like we even, you know, I'm I'm a bus driver, so you know, at first, you know, I was like everybody else, just try to hurry and hurry and hurry. But one day I thought, you know, I just want to, I was I was taking like a team real, real early in the morning. Like they were going on a long game, like three hours away, maybe to Columbia. And uh, it was Columbia, and they were all getting on there and they were just asleep. And I don't know why I prayed this, but I was like, Lord, really help me give these guys a smooth ride. And um, you know, I started like I was driving, I stayed at, I stayed at the speed limit when uh I saw that traffic was slowed down. I mean, I just let off the gas and I took a quarter of a mile to slow down, you know? And it really changed the way that I drive in general. And like I can't I look back and I'm like, how in the world did I just rush here and rush here and go, and I gotta get here and I gotta get out of my way, and why are they going so slow, you know? To man, just enjoy it, just enjoy the ride. And like, I heard this story one time of this guy. Um, he was talking about his son, who was like the best weight boarder or whatever skier kind of thing that he knew. He was like the best. I mean, could do all of it. Well, he took his son one day. Was real young and he he got up and he was holding him. And the kid was just like, get me out of here! Like, no, terrible. And they just stopped, and the kid got back in the boat, okay? And the kid's grandpa, you know, the it was the you know, grandpa whose son was skiing, who was holding his grandson. The grandpa said, Do you know what? Like, your dad is the best skier I've ever seen. Your dad is the strongest person I've ever known, you know, like and he tells him stories of like when he had really big strength or what he could bench press and stuff like that. He said, I just want you to know there's no way that he'll let you go. There's no way that when you're out there, he said, Would you try it again? He said, Yeah. And then um the kid went back out. And this time, because of the trust he had in his dad, he was out there that time going, Yeah, this is so fun, you know. And you, I mean, y'all can see the application before I even say it. How in the world do I go through life sometimes like, well, I hope this doesn't happen, or I hope this one, or this is so bad, and oh my gosh, look what could happen. To man, I am God's. Like, he is mine, he made it so that I slammed on the brakes just before I lost my life. He has got me. There's no one like him, and if I really believed that, man, wouldn't I be so much happier? Wouldn't I enjoy life? Wouldn't I just enjoy the presence of God? And that's what we want, and I think that's what this whole communion thing is about, is like Lord, and I'm getting way ahead of myself, okay? Let me let me pause right there, and I just want to to read some stuff to you out of the Bible, and here's another great thing that's come out of this. I've only been at it for 18 days, this whole communion thing, but I've memorized everywhere that communion is taken in the Bible, okay? Now, um, I at first I went to Matthew 26, 26, and that's where I just kept staying there, and then I got to thinking, well, is there any other place? And I looked it up, uh, Mark 14, 22, and I was like, wow, there's communion again, you know, and I did that for a couple of days. I said, Well, I wonder if there's anywhere else, and then like Luke 22, there it is again. I did that for a couple of days, and I'm like, Is there is there another place? Looked it up, Acts chapter 11. There's another place communion is, and I was like, Well, does John have one? And he actually gives everything around the communion, but he doesn't actually do the this is my bread and this is the uh my body broken for you. He does he doesn't do uh any of that, but he gives great details surrounding it. I think he was the last one to write his gospel, so he probably said, Well, the other three covered that, you know. So I got this. I don't I don't I don't know. Um, but anyway, I just want to read a little bit. Uh the gospels all pretty much say the same thing, but I do want to encourage you this week to read them and uh just kind of see a little bit of the subtle differences, but I'm just kind of gonna tell you some of the the main differences. Um, so I'll I'll do Matthew 26, 26. Um, all right, so and here's what I really love. There was one day that I opened up the little cup, and when I opened it, it just kind of sprayed, and I got two little like grape juice marks right here, but when I see them, I love them, you know, like it reminds me of the blood, you know, like it reminds me that it's right there, and like how can something that random mean so much to me? Because at first I was like, oh no, I just got this on my Bible, you know, like I can't believe that I should have been more careful, and now as I look at it every day, I'm like, oh, there's the blood, there's the blood, you know. But it says um all of the gospels, the context, right before they take communion, they're talking about Judas and how he betrayed Jesus. Okay, and at first I just kind of looked at that as a detail, but now before I take the communion, I think of how many times I've sold him out. Because we're you know, we're like for 30 pieces of silver, I can't believe Judas did that. But when I really examined my own Christian walk, how many times have I sold him out? And for way less. When I first became a Christian, man, I was like, I was I was like all in on this thing, you know. And they told me, they said, Boy, you gotta tell somebody. I want you to tell somebody. So the first thing, the first person I told was my friend at school right in the parking lot. He was the first person I saw, and I was like, Man, I got saved yesterday. I just and you know, they just said I needed to tell somebody, and I just want to tell you. And I told the wrong person, because here's what he said. Yeah, I've done that before too. I'm just gonna let you know it won't last. I'm like, what do you mean? He said, Yeah, it feels good for a couple of days, but you'll go back and do the same stupid stuff you did before. And I was like, Well, no way, you know, it was just that little seed that he planted. I mean, like, the devil, I don't know, you know how all this works, okay? Um, and sure enough, I don't know, lunchtime, I was with my friends, and I said some sort of cuss word or something, and I was like, Well, he's right. I just went straight back, you know. I'm you know, and of course the devil did what the devil does in my mind. Well, ain't no way you're a Christian because they don't talk like that, they don't do this, and just beat myself up, man. And it put me on this road of doubt, you know. Like, I wish I had known Philippians 4 13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, and maybe I would have said, okay, Lord, I'm not where I need to be, and this is a growing process. Uh, but I guess at the time I thought salvation was the finish line, but salvation is the starting point of your marathon of the rest of your life, of the rest of your of your days. And you know, I you know, Judas, uh, you think about you sold him out for 30 pieces of silver, and I just think, man, I've sold him out for so much less. You know, I'd I'd go to church, I'd be consistent, and then I would get me a girlfriend or something, and boy, she wanted to go hiking on Sunday. Well, let's go do that. I'd just put God right on the back burner, you know. For a girl, I don't even remember her name now, you know. Um, it soon as I got me a job. I guarantee you, if I'd told my boss, really want to go to church on Sunday, I love the Lord, you know, can I come in or can I leave and come back? I know he would have said yeah. I didn't even ask. I, you know, gotta make money. I put church on the back burner for $4.25 an hour. That's gotta be way less than 30 pieces of silver, you know. I've sold him out for way less. And I think of that when I read this because I'm so thankful, guys. Y'all do know that Judas, I think Judas did the right thing after he sold Jesus out. He absolutely did the right thing. He went to a priest and he said, I've sinned. Here's the money back. I I please help. And what did they do? We don't care what you do. We don't care. Get out of here. And he threw the money down and he left and he killed himself. Guys, I would like to think if Judas had come to me, at least me thinking what I think right now, I would have said, dude, God will forgive you. He'll forgive you. Let's let's ask him to forgive you right now. Let's make things right. Say you're sorry, repent, turn. Because Peter did the same thing, right? He he said, I don't know that man. And the third time he did it, it says he said it with a cuss word, like with an oath. He like, cuz he's blank blank. I don't know that guy. And he left sorrowful, and we know that he thought he was done. I'm so bad that there's no way I can come back to Jesus. But what did what did Jesus do? Do you love me? You know I love you. And I'm not gonna get into the details, but he's Jesus is saying, Do you agape me? Do you unconditionally love me? And Peter is saying, I only phileo you, your brotherly love. I have like affection for you, but you know I don't unconditionally love you. And Jesus says it again, do you unconditionally love me? Jesus, I only have affection for you. You know I don't unconditionally love you. Then Jesus, when he says it the third time, says, Do you phileo me? Do you have affection for me? And he says, You know my heart. You know that's where my devotion is. You know that's where I am right now. I'm not where I need to be. I'm just right here. And you know what Jesus says? Follow me right there. I'll get you to the agape. We know that he got him to the agape, right? I think when you read uh Jewish history or like Fox's book of martyrs, they told Peter, You got to get out of here. You gotta get out, they're gonna kill you, they're gonna crucify you. And Peter was leaving, and he it says he saw a vision of Jesus. And he said, Lord, what are you doing here? He said, I've come to be crucified again. And he said, What? And then Jesus disappeared, and Peter willfully turned around and said, Let's do it. Let's do it. He said, But you know what? Don't do it the same way you did, my Lord. I'm not worthy to die like that. Will you put the cross upside down and let me die like that? He willfully turned around. He got to agape, but it was okay that he followed him at his level, and it's okay for us to be honest about stuff like that. I think that's what communion is about. Okay, now I'm gonna skip a lot of stuff because I'm doing a lot more rambling than I normally do, okay? Uh, but let's go to Acts chapter 11. And this one is uh uh Paul the apostle, he's the one talking to the church at the Corinthians, and um he's talking about the communion, and he's really talking about how he does not like the way they're doing communion. Okay, so let me finally make it to 1 Corinthians, chapter 11. All right, here's what it says in the following directives, I have no praise for you. Okay, he's like, All right, I might have been saying some good stuff before, but I am not praising you for this. I have no praise, I have no good thing to say about you for this. Your meetings do more harm than good. In the first place, I hear when you come together as a church, there's divisions among you, and to some extent, I believe it, and that convicts me right there. You know, I I almost hate that we have denominations, okay? Because what does a denominator do? That's the number that you divide into the top number, okay? So we've taken Lord's people, right, and already made divisions, and so many treat communion different, so many treat baptism different, so many try, I mean, like, I don't know. We have all these divisions, okay, which is not good, okay. No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God's approval. So there is a good difference, okay? When you come together, it's not the Lord's Supper you eat, for as you eat, each of you goes ahead without waiting for anybody else. One remains hungry, another gets drunk. Don't you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? Certainly not. So somehow in Corinth, they turned, you know, the breaking of the bread and the wine into a full-blown potluck and said, Oh, we're having the Lord's Supper. And people, some people would just go and just gorge themselves and didn't even care if there was somebody left, somebody something left over. The more important people would eat first, and they would they would forsake the poorer people who were coming in and just wanting to participate. He did not like that. So here's what Paul says I received from the Lord what I passed on to you. This is what I taught you. The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way, uh after supper, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me. He just brings it all back to this simple concept. Let's do it like Jesus told us how to do it, okay? For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Okay. And here's where I wanted to, I was getting ahead of myself a while ago. Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. Okay? And that's what I want us to end this um this little sermon service with today, is I brought some of my little communion cups. And guys, just before we do it, listen, I I don't know, you know, how how you guys have done it in the past. I do want to encourage you to take uh a set of days that you come up with between you and God, and I want you to do this in your house, okay? I want you to do this personally, do this with your family. Um, I'm gonna tell you something amazing that happened. And there was a lady that was really bad, sick, having to go for these infusions at the doctor and stuff like that, and you know, she was severely dehydrated, couldn't keep anything down, lost, I mean, like 20, 30 pounds, because I mean, I mean it was it was it was getting really bad. And I said, Hey, you mind if I come pray for you? And uh this was just last week, guys, and the Lord clearly is like take you, take you some communion cups and go have communion with her, and I was like, Oh, that'll be weird, there's no way, you know. And I and I got to the end of my driveway, and the Lord said again, are you gonna you're gonna do what I say or or or not? Reverse, back off, you know, run in there and grab it. And I'm gonna tell you guys, it was super powerful. And when I prayed, I'm like, all right, Lord, she can't keep any uh food down, and she's dehydrated. I brought her like a sandwich. We did this communion. I prayed she could keep stuff down, and you know what? That very night she did. She was able to keep stuff down, her veins fattened up, they were able to give her infusions a little better, and things are hopefully now on the road to recovery. But what if my idiot self? Oh no, no, no, that's too uncomfortable for me. What? What's wrong with you? You know, have you decided to follow Jesus or not? Okay, so I'm gonna turn this off and then we're just gonna do uh communion together. And if you are listening to this through podcast, get you some juice, get you some crackers, do whatever you need to do, read 1 Corinthians 11 and take communion.